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Startup of Microbial Electrolysis Cells with different mixing ratio of Anaerobic Digested Sludge and Buffer solution (혐기성소화 슬러지 비율에 따른 미생물전기분해전지의 식종 특성)

  • Song, Geunwuk;Baek, Yunjeong;Seo, Hwijin;Jang, Hae-Nam;Chung, Jae Woo;Lee, Myoung-Eun;Ahn, Yongtae
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2019
  • In this study, the influence of anaerobic digested sludge and 50 mM PBS (phosphate buffer solution) mixing ratio (1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1:6, 1:7) on hydrogen production and inoculation period were examined. MECs were operated in fed-batch mode with an applied voltage of 0.9 V. As a result, in the 1:1 mixing ratio reactor, 9.8-20.9 mL of hydrogen was produced with the highest hydrogen content of 66.8-79.6%. Hydrogen gas production and power density increased from after 12 days of inoculation for the 1:1 mixing ratio reactor. In case of 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 mixing ratio reactor, the hydrogen gas production was 3.7-7.1 mL and the hydrogen gas content was 5.8-65.8%. The hydrogen gas yield in 1:5, 1:6 and 1:7 ratio reactors, was 0.50-0.69 mL and hydrogen content range was 1.8-7.1%. The mixing ratio was found to be suitable for hydrogen production and inoculation period by mixing ratio up to 1:4.

Optimal Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for Microcontroller-based Microfluidic Manipulation in Biochip System

  • Chung, Yung-Chiang;Wen, Bor-Jiunn
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.196-201
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    • 2004
  • In biometric and biomedical applications, a special transporting mechanism must be designed for the ${\mu}$TAS (micro total analysis system) to move samples and reagents through the microchannels that connect the unit procedure components in the system. An important issue for this miniaturization and integration is microfluid management technique, i.e., microfluid transportation, metering, and mixing. In view of this, this study presents an optimal fuzzy sliding-mode control (OFSMC) design based on the 8051 microprocessor and implementation of a complete microfluidic manipulated system implementation of biochip system with a pneumatic pumping actuator, a feedback-signal photodiodes and flowmeter. The new microfluid management technique successfully improved the efficiency of molecular biology reaction by increasing the velocity of the target nucleic acid molecules, which increases the effective collision into the probe molecules as the target molecules flow back and forth. Therefore, this hybridization chip was able to increase hybridization signal 6-fold and reduce non-specific target-probe binding and background noises within 30 minutes, as compared to conventional hybridization methods, which may take from 4 hours to overnight. In addition, the new technique was also used in DNA extraction. When serum existed in the fluid, the extraction efficiency of immobilized beads with solution flowing back and forth was 88-fold higher than that of free-beads.

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SATELLITE-MEASURED TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF TOKACHI RIVER PLUME

  • Lihan, Tukimat;Saitoh, Sei-Ichi;Iida, Takahiro;Matsuoka, Atsushi;Hirawake, Toru;Iida, Kohji
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.118-121
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    • 2006
  • Variations in the extent and dispersal of river plume are important in the study of coastal environment. The objectives of this study are to examine relationship between satellite detected plume area and river discharge and to clarify the temporal and spatial dynamic of plume from Tokachi River, Hokaido, Japan. We used 1.1 km spatial resolution of SeaWiFS normalized water-leaving radiance (nLw) images from 1998 to 2002. Supervised maximum likelihood classification was implemented to define classes of surface water optical properties. Satellite observed plume area was correlated to the amount of river discharge from April to October. First mode (44% of variance) of EOF analysis shows the turbid plume distribution resulting from re-suspension by strong wind mixing along the coast during winter. This mode also shows plume distribution along-shelf direction in spring and late summer. Second mode (17% of variance) shows spring pattern across-shelf direction due to strong discharge of snow melting water.

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Engine Operation Characteristics of a Gasoline Direct Injection Engine (가솔린 직접 분사식 엔진의 운전특성에 관한 연구)

  • 조한승;박태용;박성진;조남효
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.54-66
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    • 2000
  • A gasoline direct injection single cylinder engine has been developed to study operational characteristics for highly stratified conditions. Parameters related to design and experiment were also studied to understand the characteristics of combustion and emissions at some part load conditions. It was found that optimal timings between the end of fuel injection and spark ignition were existed for stable combustion under the stratified modes, In a low engine speed, fuel spray behavior around piston bowl was important for stable combustion. The in-cylinder air motion affecting fuel spray behavior was found to be a dominant factor at higher engine speed as fuel injection timing had to be advanced to secure enough time for fuel evaporation and mixing with surrounding air. As swirl ratio increased, spark timing could be advanced for stable combustion and a higher compression ratio could be used for improved fuel consumption and stable combustion at the stratified mode. It was also observed that electrode geometry and piston bowl shape played an important role for combustion and emission characteristics and some results were shown for comparison.

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Predicting Methane Production Potential of Anaerobic Co-digestion of Swine Manure and Food Waste

  • Shin, Joung-Du;Han, Sung-Su;Eom, Ki-Cheol;Sung, Shi-Hwu;Park, Sang-Won;Kim, Hyun-Ook
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.93-97
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    • 2008
  • Anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure and food waste for biogas production was performed in serum bottles at 2% volatile solids(VS) concentration and various mixing ratios of two substrates(swine manure: food waste = 100 : 0 $\sim$ 0 : 100). Through kinetic mode of surface methodology, the methane production was fitted to a Gompertz equation. The specific methane production potential of swine manure alone was lower than that of food waste. However, maximum methane production potential increased up to 1.09-1.22% as food waste composition increased up to the 80%. The maximum methane production value of food waste was 544.52 mL/g VS. It was observed that the maximum methane production potential of 601.86 mL/g VS was found at the mixing ratio of 40:60.

Effects of Mixing Mode on the Fracture Properties of Silica and Carbon Black Filled NR Vulcanizates (실리카 및 카본블랙이 충전된 천연고무 가황물에서 배합방법이 파열특성에 미치는 영향)

  • 박성수;박병호;송기찬;김수경
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.220-227
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    • 2000
  • Silica and carbon black filled natural rubber (NR) vulcanizates were prepared with different mixing modes and amounts of fillers. Curing characteristics, morphology. and tear properties of the NR vulcanizates were investigated. The NR vulcanizates filled with silica and carbon black sequentially showed longer induction time ($t_2$), cure index ($t_{90}$ ), and lower maximum torque ($T_{max}$ ) than the NR vulcanizates filled with them simultaneously, during curing process. The former showed superior dispersion of fillers and tear properties to the latter. The NR vulcanizates containing 30 phr of silica showed excellent properties in the experimental range.

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Improvement of self-mixing semiconductor laser range finder and its application to range-image recognition of slowly moving object

  • Suzuki, Takashi;Shinohara, Shigenobu;Yoshida, Hirofumi;Ikeda, Hiroaki;Saitoh, Yasuhiro;Nishide, Ken-Ichi;Sumi, Masao
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.388-393
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    • 1992
  • An infrared range finder using a self-mixing laser diode (SM-LD), which has been proposed and developed by the Authors, can measure not only a range of a moving target but its velocity simultaneously. In this paper, described is that the precise mode-hop pulse train can be obtained by employing a new signal processing circuit even when the backscattered light returning into the SM-LD is much more weaker. As a result, the distance to a tilted square sheet made from aluminium or white paper, which is placed 10 cm through 60 cm from the SM-LD, is measured with accuracy of a few percent even when the tilting angle is less than 75 degrees or 85 degrees, respectively. And in this paper, described is the range-image recognition of a plane object under the condition of standstill. The output laser beam is scanned by scanning two plane mirrors-equipped with each stepping motor. And we succeeded in the acquisition of the range-image of a plane object in a few tens of seconds. Furthermore, described is a feasibility study about the range-image recognition of a slowly moving plane object.

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VLSI Implementation of CORDIC-Based Digital Quadrature Demodulator (CORDIC을 이용한 디지탈 Quadrature 복조기의 VLSI 구현)

  • 남승현;성원용
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.1718-1731
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    • 1998
  • Digital quadrature demodulator is needed for the coherent demodulation in the digital communication systems such as Binary Phase-Shift-Keying, Quadrature Phase-Shift-Keying, and Quadrature Anmplitude Modulation. Conventaionally, the DDFS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthsizer) is used for generating the carrier signal and seperate multi-pliers are used for mixing. And the DDFS is implemented using the ROM (Read Only Memory), which can be a bottle-neck neck when the fast-speed and small-area implementation is required. A new architecture is developed, which employs the circular rotation mode of the CORDIC algorithm for signal mixing as well as carrier generation. To optimize the hardware design parameters, the finiteword-length effects of the proposed implementation arachitecture are analyzed in comparison with a conventional ROM-based architecture. The hardware costs are also estimated, which showed that the proposed architecture occupies only a third of the area of the conventional ROM-based architecture for the same performance. A full-custom VLSI is developed using the proposed architecture.

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A Numerical Study for Performance of Automotive HVAC System (전산해석에 의한 자동차용 HVAC 시스템의 성능 연구)

  • Lee Dae-Woong;Yoo Seong-Yeon
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.1084-1091
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    • 2004
  • In automotive air handling system, mixing of air streams by the cooler and the heater affects the comfort of cabin room. In the present study, computer-aided analysis is done to improve the thermal comfort and for the optimal design of automotive HVAC system. The simulation software used was FLUENT, and complicate geometries were created by three dimensional CAD. Air flow volume, fir distribution rate and temperature controllability and temperature differences between upper and lower discharge air are analyzed through numerical simulation at vent, floor and defrost mode. Also, velocity vector of sirocco fan is investigated through the scroll housing. The velocity vector magnitude is larger at lower region of fan than that at any other regions. Recirculation and disturbance of air is relatively high near the cut-off edge in the scroll housing. By using the results of this study, the time for prototype production can be reduced and timely decisions can be made to determine initial design directions.

Potential Methane Production on Anaerobic Co-digestion of Swine Manure and Food Waste

  • Shin, Joung-Du;Park, Sang-Won;Kim, Sang-Hyoun;Duangmanee, Jack;Lee, Po-Heng;Sung, Shi-Hwu;Lee, Bong-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.145-149
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    • 2008
  • Anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure and food waste for biogas production was performed in serum bottles at various volatile solids(VS) contents and mixing ratios of two substrates(swine manure:food waste=$100:0{\sim}0:100$). Through kinetic mode of surface methodology, the methane production was fitted to a Gompertz equation. The ultimate methane production potential of swine manure alone was lower than that of food waste regardless of VS contents. However, it was appeared that maximum methane production potentials in 80 : 20 of the mixing rate at VS 3% was enhanced at 144.7%, compared to its only swine manure. The potential increased up to 815.71 ml/g VS fed as VS concentration and food composition increased up to 3.0% and 20%, respectively. The ultimate amount of methane produced had significantly a positive relationship with that of methane yield rate. Overall, it would be strongly recommended that feeding stocks use 20% of mixing ratio of food waste based on VS 3% contents when operating the anaerobic reactor on site at $35^{\circ}C$ if not have treatment of its anaerobic waste water.