• 농업과학연구
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.829-844
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• 2020

A vacuum metering device for garlic seeds was developed, and its metering performance was tested according to the design factors. Three design factors were as follows: suction surface diameter (Edge), suction surface curvature (Type), and guide height (Guide). The suction surface curvature represents the distance between the center of the grooved suction plate and the bottom of suction plate. The metering rate and multiple metering rate were analyzed as the metering performance of the developed device with two varieties of garlic seeds: Namhae (warm region-adapted garlic) and Uiseong (cold region-adapted garlic). The best metering performance for the Namhae seeds were found with the following conditions: An Edge, Guide and Type of 40, 4, and 35 mm, respectively. In the case of the Uiseong seeds, the best conditions were as follows: An Edge, Guide and Type of 35, 4, and 30 mm, respectively. The guide height was found to be the most influential design factor on the metering performance of the metering rate and multiple rate for both Namhae seeds and Uiseong seeds. Additionally, the interaction between the area of the suction surface and the curvature of the suction surface had some effects on the multiple rate for the Uiseong seeds. It was concluded that the guide height should be 4 mm or higher so that more than 90% of the metering rate could be achieved for the tested garlic seeds with the developed metering device.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2010

도시고속도로 연결로 접속부 교통혼잡을 해결하기 위한 가장 대표적인 전략은 램프미터링 전략이다. 램프미터링 이란 고속도로의 유입램프에서 램프유입량을 조절하는 것을 말하며, 램프교통량을 제한함으로써 고속도로의 흐름을 정상 교통류로 유지시키는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서는 램프미터링 기법중에서 고정식 미터링 방식을 기초로 하여, 동일한 미터링율이 본선에 진입할 때 차량진입방식(단일차량, 차량군)에 따라 본선 교통류에 미치는 영향을 비교분석하고 평가하고자 한다. 연결로 차량의 진입방식별 본선 교통류의 효과를 살펴본 결과, 동일한 미터링율에서 한 주기에 많은 연결로 차량들이 진입하는 다중차량진입방식이 본선교통류의 속도, 밀도, 지체 측면에서 불리한 것으로 분석되었고, 또한 교통와해가 조기에 발생하여 합류용량도 감소시키고 정체로 전이되어 낮은 속도를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과들은 본선 교통량수준이 높을수록 연결로 진입방식에 따른 미터링 전략이 매우 중요하다는 것을 의미한다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2001

An impact-type seed-metering device was developed for the planting of rice-pellets. In this study, new design of pellet-metering device focused on simplicity and precision seeding for the planting of rice-seed pellets. In addition of seed-metering device, several devices were also developed such as seed-guiding device, seed-supplying tube and furrow opener for precision pellet planting. Field test was conducted to estimate the planting performance of the developed metering device. As a cam rotates, the impact bar of the metering device pushes a rice-seed pellet so that the seed can be discharged from the seed-supplying tube in the impact-type seed-metering device. Results of the tests showed that mean seeding spacing was 12cm at the traveling speed of 1.0m/s, corresponding to a target spacing for planting of rice-seed pellets. Also, both miss-seeded rate and damaged-seed rate were less than 2.0%, indicating acceptable levels for the precision planting. The developed mechanism of the impact-type metering device can be directly applied to the design of metering devices for the precision pellet planting of other crops.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2004

Objective of the study was to develop a garlic clove metering device. The metering device consisted of a drum, a bucket and a bucket cover. A garlic clove simulator was designed to simulate motions of garlic cloves in the metering device. Simulation was performed using a multibody dynamic analysis program, RecurDyn version 5.1. Physical properties of garlic cloves such as mass and center of gravity were determined using 3D CAD modeler, IDEAS version 10.0. In order to compare the results of the simulation with actual movement of a garlic, movement of garlic clove was photographed by a high speed camera. A prototype metering device was built and tested under various metering speeds and metering guide angles. At the 12 rpm metering speed, rate of single-clove-discharge was $90.0\%$ and missing rate $1.3\%$ at $5^{\circ}$.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.525-534
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• 2001

Garlic clove planting is one of the most laborious operations in Korean farming. The garlic planting has been done manually; therefore, it requires tremendous amounts of human labor resulting in the increase of production cost. This problem necessitated the development of a garlic clove metering device fur the planter. The device was fabricated to meter a single garlic clove with a scooping bucket(29mm in diameter and 8mm in depth) designed after the image of clove's bottom shape. The lift angle of the metering plate and the magnitude of vibration were also affected the metering performance. The angle clove metering rates ranged 95.4~96.7% with the missing rate of 0.0~1.3% at the 80~85 degrees of the tilt angle and vibration level 2(1.985 m/s$^2$).

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2019

램프미터링은 고속도로로 진입하는 차량들을 제어함으로써 고속도로 본선의 정체를 줄이는 교통운영기법으로, 국외에서는 많이 사용되고 있으며 우리나라도 외곽순환도로 7개소에서 운영중이다. 램프미터링은 본선 정체를 줄이는 장점이 있는 반면 단점도 존재하는데, 램프 출구에서 차량들이 신호를 받고 대기하기 때문에 대기행렬이 발생하고 차량이 많은 시간대는 램프 대기행렬이 인접 도로에 까지 영향을 미치게 된다. 따라서 이를 해결하기 위해 공간적으로 여유가 있는 램프는 진입 수요를 많이 제어하고 공간적으로 여유가 없는 곳은 진입 수요를 적게 제어하도록 램프미터링 알고리즘을 개선하였다. 이를 평가하기 위해 통합평가지수(Combined Index)를 사용하였고 평가 결과 형평성과 효율성을 동시에 만족하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1997년도 동계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.255-262
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• 1997

A low-cost and precise metering device, which is suitable to automatic mixing of nutrient-solution for hydroponic culture, was developed for small-scale growers. The metering device was composed of three parts those were supply pumps, metering cylinders and venturi tube. Those parts were controlled by personal computer with time-based odoff control method. To verify the performance of the developed metering device, the relationship between operating time and discharge was examined and the accuracy of the developed metering device was compared with commercial metering pumps. The results of this study are as follows. 1. The correlation coefficient between the flow rate and operating time was 0.9999, and the linear regression equation computed was y=21.759x, where y is the discharge(g) and x is the operating time(s). 2. The developed device has greater accuracy than commercial metering pumps in terms of the full-scale error. Calculated errors for the developed metering device and two commercial pump were $\pm$0.3 %, $\pm$2.45 % and $\pm$1.38 % respectively. 3. Above results show developed metering device is a useful tool for nutrient-solution control system.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.365-372
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• 1998

This study was carried out to develop a nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system, which used a low-cost metering device instead of expensive metering pumps and a fuzzy logic controller. A low cost and precise overflow-type metering device was developed and evaluated by testing the flow discharge for the automatic nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system for snail-scale hydroponic sewers. The fuzzy logic controllers, which could predict and meet the desired values of EC and supply rate of nutrient solution were developed and verified by simulation and experiment. this fuzzy logic controller, whose algorithm consists of four crisp inputs, two crisp outputs and nine rules, was developed to predict the desired value of EC and supply rate of nutrient solution and two crisp inputs, one crisp output and nine rules used to control EC to the desired values. The nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system showed satisfactory EC control performance with the maximum overshooting of 0.035 mS/cm and the maximum settling time of 15 minutes in case of increasing 0.7 mS/cm. also, the accuracy of the overflow-type metering device in terms of the full-scale error was 2.29% when using solenoid valve only and 0.2% when using solenoid valve and flow control valve together.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.692-698
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• 2022

With the expansion of domestic hydrogen fuelling station infrastructure, it is necessary to secure reliability among hydrogen traders, and for this, technology to accurately measure hydrogen is important. In this study, 4 types of hydrogen trading volume calculation models (model 1-4) were presented to improve the accuracy of the hydrogen trading volume. In order to obtain the reference value of model 4, and experiment was conducted using a flow rate measurement equipment, and the error rate of the calculated value for each model was compared and analyzed. As a result, model 1 had the lowest metering accuracy, model 2 had the second highest metering accuracy and model 3 had the highest metering accuracy until a certain point. But after the point, model 2 had the highest metering accuracy and model 3 had the second metering accuracy.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제26권2_2호
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• pp.307-313
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• 2023

This study conducts the flow analysis on the basis of the impeller RPM of water metering valve. The software used for the flow analysis is STAR-CCM+. In terms of the structure of the metering valve, it has an impeller installed inside, and a metering chamber has inlet and outlet holes. The flow analysis on the water metering valve drew the following conclusions: Regarding the flow field in the valve, the impeller had the highest velocity distribution, and complex flow field was generated in the metering chamber. In particular, since the path between the inlet and outlet holes in the metering chamber and the valve body was narrow, there was a section that had flow field interference. The flow rate and flow coefficient distribution according to the impeller RPM were on the linear increase. Given that, it showed the feature of the valve used for water metering on the basis of the impeller RPM.