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Evaluation of Water Retentive Pavement as Mitigation Strategy for Urban Heat Island Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Cortes, Aiza;Shimadera, Hikari;Matsuo, Tomohito;Kondo, Akira
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.179-189
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    • 2016
  • Here we evaluated the effect of using water retentive pavement or WRP made from fly ash as material for main street in a real city block. We coupled computational fluid dynamics and pavement transport (CFD-PT) model to examine energy balance in the building canopies and ground surface. Two cases of 24 h unsteady analysis were simulated: case 1 where asphalt was used as the pavement material of all ground surfaces and case 2 where WRP was used as main street material. We aim to (1) predict diurnal variation in air temperature, wind speed, ground surface temperature and water content; and (2) compare ground surface energy fluxes. Using the coupled CFD-PT model it was proven that WRP as pavement material for main street can cause a decrease in ground surface temperature. The most significant decrease occurred at 1200 JST when solar radiation was most intense, surface temperature decreased by $13.8^{\circ}C$. This surface temperature decrease also led to cooling of air temperature at 1.5 m above street surface. During this time, air temperature in case 2 decreased by $0.28^{\circ}C$. As the radiation weakens from 1600 JST to 2000 JST, evaporative cooling had also been minimal. Shadow effect, higher albedo and lower thermal conductivity of WRP also contributed to surface temperature decrease. The cooling of ground surface eventually led to air temperature decrease. The degree of air temperature decrease was proportional to the surface temperature decrease. In terms of energy balance, WRP caused a maximum increase in latent heat flux by up to $255W/m^2$ and a decrease in sensible heat flux by up to $465W/m^2$.

Material Budgets in the Nakdong River Estuary with Simple Box Model (낙동강 하구해역에서의 단순 박스모델에 의한 물질수지)

  • Hong Suk-Jin;Lee Dae-In;Kim Dong-Myung;Park Chung-Kil
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2000
  • Budgets of fresh water, salt, DIN and DIP in the Nakdong river estuary were estimated in order to clarify the characteristics of material cycling and fluxes of nutrients with a simple box model. Freshwater inflow into this system was approximately 1.1E+10m³/y, water exchange was 3.3E+10m³/y and water residence time was 2.03 day assumed with salinity between estuary and adjacent ocean. Nutrients loadings were 3.2E+09mol DIN/y3.7×10³, 2.7E+07mo1 DIP/y, respectively. net ecosystem metabolism was 2.4E+07mo1 C/y. Although the Nakdong river discharge was the main source of nutrients but Jang-rim sewage treatment plant effluent take parts of 16% of nitrogen and 10.2% of phosphorus loadings.

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Downward particle flux in the eastern Bransfield Strait, Antarctica

  • Kim, Dongseon;Kim, Dong-Yup;Jeonghee Shim;Kang, Young-Chul;Kim, Taerim
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2003
  • A time-series sediment trap was deployed at a depth of 1034 m in the eastern Bransfield Strait from December 25, 1998 to December 24, 1999. Particle fluxes showed large seasonal variation; about 99% of the annual total mass flux (49 g m/sup -2/) was collected during the austral summer and fall (January-March). Settling particles consisted primarily of biogenic silica, organic carbon, calcium carbonate, and lithogenic material. Biogenic silica and lithogenic material predominated settling particles, comprising 36% and 30% of the total mass flux, respectively, followed by organic carbon, 11% and calcium carbonate, merely 0.6%. The annual organic carbon flux was 5.4 g C m/sup -2/ at 1000 m in the eastern Bransfield Strait, which is greater than the central Strait flux. The relatively lower flux of organic carbon in the central Bransfield Strait may be caused by a stronger surface current in this region. Organic carbon flux estimates in the eastern Bransfield Strait are the highest in the Southern Ocean, perhaps because of the fast sinking of fecal pellets, which leads to less decomposition of organic material in the water column. Approximately 5.8% of the organic carbon produced on the surface in the eastern Bransfield Strait is exported down to 1000 m; this percentage exceeds the maximum EF/sub 1000/ values observed in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The eastern Bransfield Strait appears to be the most important site of organic carbon export to the deep sea in the Southern Ocean.

Basic Study on the Recycling of a Waste MgO-C Refractory Material as a Flux for EAF Steelmaking (전기로 폐 MgO-C계 내화재의 제강원료 활용 가능성 연구)

  • Wang, Jei-Pil;Kim, Hang-Goo;Go, Min-Seok;Lee, Dong-Hun
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2021
  • In EAF steelmaking industries, MgO content in slag increases due to the addition of dolomite flux to protect refractory lines of furnaces and improve the desulfurization capability of slag. In addition, coal powder is injected in the molten steel bath to increase the energy efficiency of the process. In this regard, the utilization of waste MgO-C refractory material as a flux was examined because it has high amounts of MgO (>70%) and graphite carbon (>10%). A series of experiments were carried out using industrial EAF slag with added light burnt dolomite and waste MgO refractory material from a Korean steel company. The results for the addition of the two fluxes were similar in terms of slag basicity; therefore, it is expected that waste MgO-C refractory material can successfully replace dolomite flux. In addition, when the waste MgO-C refractory material was added as flux, slag foaming phenomenon was demonstrated because of the reaction between the graphite from the refractory material and iron oxides in the slag.

Calculation of Suspended Sediment Flux from ADP (ADP를 이용한 부유사 이동량의 산출)

  • 오병철;추용식;정병순
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.222-231
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    • 2002
  • The ADP is an advanced piece of oceanographic equipment that measures water speed and direction profiles from the acoustic Doppler principle. In recent years, the strength of the acoustic backscatter obtained from ADP has been used to measure vertically suspended sediment concentration(SSC) profiles. In this study, an ADP was installed in coastal waters near Yumsan, on the west coast of Korea, and flow and sediment data were gathered simultaneously. SSC concentrations were calculated from the acoustic backscatter strengths adjusted by using calibrated acoustic coefficients. The observed SSC profiles were compared with analytical solutions and showed good agreement. Simultaneously, the suspended material fluxes were analyzed in detail. ADP was very useful for measuring the vertically distributed suspended sediment concentrations and flow velocity profiles.

Heat Transfer Analysis of Bakery Machine (제과제빵기계의 열전달 해석)

  • Lee, Jong-Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.4405-4410
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    • 2012
  • This research aims to do heat transfer analysis on multi-functional dough conditioner. The dough conditioner is a key bakery machine for the maturation of dough which is raw material of bakery and also it's amount of used has been increased. Solidworks which is one of automatic design programs is applied to design in order to manufacture the multi-functional dough conditioner, and ANSYS which is a three dimensional finite element analysis code is used for the heat transfer analysis. Inside temperatures and heat fluxes are obtained as the results of heat transfer analysis and the results are contributed significantly in manufacturing the multi-functional dough conditioner.

Comparative Studies of Heat Transfer Coefficients for Rocket Nozzle (로켓 노즐의 열전달계수 비교 연구)

  • Hahm, Hee-Cheol;Kang, Yoon-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2012
  • The goal of heat transfer studies is the accurate prediction of temperature and heat flux distribution on material boundaries. To this purpose, general-purpose computational fluid dynamics(CFD) code is used : FLUENT. Mass fluxes and pressure ratio are calculated for two types of nozzle. The comparative studies reveal that the computational results are in agreement with the experimental data. Also, heat transfer coefficients from FLUENT for one type of nozzle are very similar and agree well with the experimental data in the diverging part of the nozzle, but the calculated results are large in the converging part. The heat transfer coefficients from Bartz equation are over-predicted. We can consider various reasons for these differences, i.e., laminarization by the highly accelerated flow in the nozzle, turbulent flow model and grid generation.

Metabolic Flux Analysis of Beijerinckia indica for PS-7 Production

  • Wu Jian-Rong;Son Jeong Hwa;Seo Hyo-Jin;Kim Ki-Hong;Nam Yoon-Kwon;Lee Jin-Woo;Kim Sung-Koo
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2005
  • In order to investigate central metabolic changes in Beijerinckia indica, cells were grown on different carbon sources and intracellular flux distributions were studied under varying concentrations of nitrogen. Metabolic fluxes were estimated by combining material balances with extracellular substrate uptake rate, biomass formation rate, and exopolysaccharide (EPS) accumulation rate. Thirty-one metabolic reactions and 30 intracellular metabolites were considered for the flux analysis. The results revealed that most of the carbon source was directed into the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, followed by the recycling of triose-3-phosphate back to Hexose­6-phosphate. The pentose phosphate pathway was operated at a minimal level to supply the precursors for biomass formation. The different metabolic behaviors under varying nitrogen concentrations were observed with flux analysis.

Carotenoid Pigments from Suspended and Sinking Particulate Matter in Prydz Bay, Antarctica

  • Noh, Il
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1357-1371
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    • 2011
  • Suspended and sinking particles were collected during ODP Leg 119 to the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Field work was carried out at four sampling sites in Prydz Bay. Two of these sites were located in the Outer Bay, and two in the Inner Bay. At the four locations, a total of ten deployments of a sediment trap array were made. The concentrations of carotenoids both in suspended and sinking particulate matter in Prydz Bay were analyzed using HPLC. Fucoxanthin was the dominant carotenoid pigments both in suspended and sinking particles. The present study also indicates that 19'-hexanoyoxyfucoxanthin-containing prymesiophytes (Phaeocystis spp.) was abundant in the study area. The flux rates of carotenoids were generally highest at 50 m, and approximately double the flux rates at deeper horizons, however, at Inner Bay sites, the mean flux rates of carotenoids were greatest at 200 m, and 3 times greater than that of 50 m. Such anomalous high fluxes at 200 m imply that grazers were locally abundant between 100 m and 200 m at these sites close to land, and this hypothesis is supported by visual evidence of lots of fecal pellets in the 200 m trap. Integrates standing stocks versus sinking pigments data support that particulate material in Prydz Bay was not recycled rapidly.

Experimental Verification of Induction Phenomenon on Telecommunication Lines by Applying Its Occurrence Mechanisms Using an Artificial ELF Source Generator

  • Lee, Sang-Mu;Gimm, Yoon-Myoung;Eun, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.276-281
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, an electromagnetic induction on a telecommunication line by the distribution line of a power provision system or a feeder line of an electrified railway system has been verified through experiments. The basic cause of induction occurrence by these practical power provision systems is the returning current through the earth. This principle has been confirmed by the experiments documented in this paper which implemented these mechanisms to incur an induction. Experimental methods were used to produce the returning current through the earth. The experiment to find a relationship between inducing strength and the distance between the two phase lines in a power provision line has also been included to confirm that, when the distance is enlarged, the induction effect increases as the cross-nullification effect of magnetic fluxes decreases. An experiment for the existence of a shielding effect by another conduction length material has been addedas a protection measure against the induction.