• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.41-47
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• 2002

Adverse environmental conditions such as drought, high salt and cold/freezing are major factors that reduces crop productivity worldwide. According to a survey, $50-80\%$ of the maximum potential yield is lost by these 'environmental or abiotic stresses', which is approximately ten times higher than the loss by biotic stresses. Thus, Improving stress-tolerance of crop plants is an important way to improve agricultural productivity. In order to develop such stress-tolerant crop plants, we set out to identify key stress signaling components that can be used to develop commercially viable crop varieties with enhanced stress tolerance. Our primary focus so far has been on the identification of transcription factors that regulate stress responsive gene expression, especially those involved in ABA-mediated stress response. Be sessile, plants have the unique capability to adapt themselves to the abiotic stresses. This adaptive capability is largely dependent on the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA), whose level increases under various stress conditions, triggering adaptive response. Central to the response is ABA-regulated gene expression, which ultimately leads to physiological changes at the whole plant level. Thus, once identified, it would be possible to enhance stress tolerance of crop plants by manipulating the expression of the factors that mediate ABA-dependent stress response. Here, we present our work on the isolation and functional characterization of the transcription factors.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2000

산업의 고도화에 따른 경제성장으로 인류의 삶의 질은 많이 좋아졌지만 경제활동으로 인한 각종 환경 오염물질은 상대적으로 많이 배축된 것이 사실이다. 특히 대기오염물질의 주 요인이 되고있는 질소산화물과 아황산가스 등 많은 오염물질이 있지만 최근 더욱더 문제가 되고있는 것이 휘발성 유기화합물질로써 대기중의 탄화수소 화합물의 총칭으로 광 화학 옥시던터와 오존 등으로 인한 대기오염으로 인체에 미치는 영향이 아주 심각하며, 발생장소도 대규모 석유화학 장치산업의 원유를 정제하는 정제공정에서부터 저유소 및 중간 제품공정, 그리고 소비자가 직접 접하는 전국각지에 산재되어 있는 주유소 등에서 많은 량의 휘발성 유기화합물질이 발생되고 있다. 이에 대한 대책으로 정부차원에서 우선 대규모 석유화학단지를 휘발성 유기화합물질 배출저감을 위한 종합대책지역으로, 전남 여천지역은 1996. 9. 20일, 울산지역은 1997. 7. 1일에 지정고시 하였다. 울산지역의 경우 당초 대상물질이 47개 항목에서 시행초기에 보완적인 차원에서 크실렌 및 초산 등 일부물질이 수정된 31개 항목으로 변경고시 되었으며, 이에 대해 사업장에서는 해당물질에 따른 처리시설을 설치 가동 중에 있다. 그러나 휘발성 유기화합물질의 발생조건과 발생량, 각 물질의 혼합시 안전성문제 등이 공정조건상 일정하지 않아 방지시설 선정설치에 많은 에로사항이 있었다. 기존의 시설에 방지시설을 추가한다는 것은 화학공장 특성상 여러 가지 조건이 있으며, 그 동안 많은 시행착오를 하면서 설치하였다. 그러나 일부시설은 아직도 완벽한 방지효과를 얻기에는 부족하므로 향후 계속적인 기술 및 설비투자와 관리대책이 보완되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.310-321
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• 2007

Status of benzene exposure was evaluated upon petrochemical workers in the Yeosu Industrial Complex, based on questionnaire responses by workers, review of previous work environment assessment reports between 1996 and 2004, in addition to short-term exposure measurements for unit tasks in the field. Questionnaire results showed that workers in the field were suffering concern on and symptoms of respiratory diseases, cancers or other illnesses of unknown causes. In particular, workers were highly worried about the risk of exposure to chemical hazards including benzene, while conducting specific tasks (e.g. sampling, draining, gauging) among normal operations during which equipments are opened and contents are exposedin the air, as well as periodic turnaround (TA) task. However, the review of previous work environment assessment reports found out that short-term exposure assessment data for unit tasks accounted for less than 1% of total data, and most of them were on 8-hr average exposure level. It also turned out that benzene was not detected in 83% of total samples, suggesting routine but pointless sampling has been repeated. Short-term exposure level was assessed focusing on tasks with high level of complaints on the exposure risk, based on the questionnaire responses. As predicted, a maximum of 741 ppm benzene exposure was reached depending on types and conditions of operations involved. In conclusion, these findings suggest that the evaluation and management on the short-term high exposure tasks including turnaround are crucial in reducing benzene exposure and preventing haematopoietic cancer in workers in the petrochemical industry.

• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.41-47
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• 2002

Adverse environmental conditions such as drought, high salt and cold/freezing are major factors that reduces crop productivity worldwide. According to a survey, 50-80% of the maximum potential yield is lost by these 'environmental or abiotic stresses', which is approximately ten times higher than the loss by biotic stresses. Thus, improving stress-tolerance of crop plants is an important way to improve agricultural productivity. In order to develop such stress-tolerant crop plants, we set out to identify key stress signaling components that can be used to develop commercially viable crop varieties with enhanced stress tolerance. Our primary focus so far has been on the identification of transcription factors that regulate stress responsive gene expression, especially those involved in ABA-mediated stress response. Be sessile, plants have the unique capability to adapt themselves to the abiotic stresses. This adaptive capability is largely dependent on the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA), whose level increases under various stress conditions, triggering adaptive response. Central to the response is ABA-regulated gene expression, which ultimately leads to physiological changes at the whole plant level. Thus, once identified, it would be possible to enhance stress tolerance of crop plants by manipulating the expression of the factors that mediate ABA-dependent stress response. Here, we present our work on the isolation and functional characterization of the transcription factors.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2000

PM10, which is below 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ in a diameter, has a high deposition in the lung or the bronchus by breathing and is generally composed of a lot of organic matters, viruses, algae, mold, and metallic elements that are very toxic to people. This study identified the characteristics of concentration of PM10 and air-borne jmetallic elements produced in the industrial city, Ulsan, and analyzed the correlatuion between sources and generation patterns of PM10 and metallic elements. We classified the five areas(green, residential, heavy traffic, mechanic, and petrochemcal and non-ferrous metal) which might have different characteristics of sources of PM10 and metallic elements. The average concentrations of PM10 in the five areas were as follows(petrochemical and non-ferrous metal(99.9$\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥)>mechanic(77.5 $\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥)>heavy traffic(47.1 $\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥)>residential(39.3 $\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥)>green(32.8 $\mu\textrm{g}$/㎥)). Those of petrochemical and non-ferrous metal areas were higher than other areas. In this study, the average concentration trend of metallic elements contained in PM10 are shown as follows: Fe>Zn>Pb>Cu>Mn>Cr>As>Cd>Sn>Hg, respectively. The metallic elements identified in PM10 showed the highest concentration in the petrochemical and non-ferrous areas. Metal combinations showed that a high correlation among concentrations of heavy metals were as follows: As, Cd and Fe in the residential area; Zn, Mn, Cu and Pb in the mechanical area; and Zn, Cu, As, Pb in the petrochemical and non-ferrous industrial area.

• 폴리머
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2011

The synthesis of well-defined poly(styrene-b-isobutylene-b-styrene) (SIBS) triblock copolymers was accomplished by cationic sequential block copolymerization of isobutylene (IB) with styrene (St) using 1,4-di(2-chloro-2-propyl) benzene (DCC) /$TiCl_4$/2,6-di-tert-butylpyridine(DtBP) as an initiating system in methyl chloride ($CH_3Cl$)/methylcyclohexane(MeChx) (50/50 v/v) solvent mixture at $-80^{\circ}C$. The triblock copolymers exhibited excellent thermoplastic and elastomeric characteristics. Tensile strengths and Shore hardness increased with increasing polystyrene (PS) content, while elongation at break decreased. The blood-compatibility of SIBS was assessed by SEM observation of the platelet adhesion, blood clotting time and haemolysis ratio. The haemolysis ratios were below 5% which met the medical materials standard. The platelet adhesion test further indicated that SIBS block copolymers had a good blood compatibility.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.83-96
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• 2005

The purposes of this study were to characterize the local levels of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), to develop source profiles of VOCs, and to quantify the source contribution of VOCs using the CMB (chemical mass balance) model. The concentration of VOCs had been measured every 6-day duration in the SRO monitoring site in the Yeosu Petrochemical Industrial Complex from September 2000 to August 2002. The total of 35 target VOCs, which were included in the TO-14 designated from the U.S. EPA, was selected to be monitored in the study area. During a 24-h period, the ambient VOCs were sampled by using canisters placing about 10 ～ 15 m above the ground level. The collected canisters were then analyzed by a GC-MS in the laboratory. Aside from ambient sampling at the SRO site, the VOCs had been intensively and massively measured from 8 direct sources and 4 general sources in the study area. The results obtained in the study were as follows; first, the annual mean concentrations of the target VOCs were widely distributed regardless of monitoring sites in the Yeosu Petrochemical Industrial Complex. In particular, the concentrations of BTX (Benzene, Toluene, Xylene), vinyl chloride were higher than other target compounds. Second, based on these source sample data, source profiles for VOCs were developed to apply a receptor model, the CMB model. Third, the results of source apportionment study for the VOCs in the SRO Site were as follows; The source of petrochemical plant was apportioned by 31.3% in terms of VOCs mass. The site was also affected by 16.7% from wastewater treatment plant, 14.0% from iron mills, 8.4% from refineries, 4.4% from oil storage, 3.8% from automobiles, 2.3% from fertilizer, 2.3% from painting, 2.2% from waste incinerator, 0.6% from graphic art, and 0.4% from gasoline vapor sources.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4883-4901
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• 2016

Energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very appealing research area due to serious constrains on resources like storage, processing, and communication power of the sensor nodes. Due to limited capabilities of sensing nodes, such networks are composed of a large number of nodes. The higher number of nodes increases the overall performance in data collection from environment and transmission of packets among nodes. In such networks the nodes sense data and ultimately forward the information to a Base Station (BS). The main issues in WSNs revolve around energy consumption and delay in relaying of data. A lot of research work has been published in this area of achieving energy efficiency in the network. Various techniques have been proposed to divide such networks; like grid division of network, group based division, clustering, making logical layers of network, variable size clusters or groups and so on. In this paper a new technique of group based WSNs is proposed by using some features from recent published protocols i.e. "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEMDC)" and "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEUC)". The proposed work is not only energy-efficient but also minimizes the delay in relaying of data from the sensor nodes to BS. Simulation results show, that it outperforms LEACH protocol by 38%, EEMDC by 10% and EEUC by 13%.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2020

우리나라는 항만 인프라가 뛰어나며, 석유화학단지를 보유하고 있기 때문에 동북아 오일 허브의 가능성이 충분하다. 특히 부가가치가 높은 STS(해상환적작업)는 국가 경제에 크게 기여하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 화학공업생산품, 석유정제품, 그리고 원유를 전국, 부산, 울산, 그리고 여수/광양 물동량으로 분류하였다. 그리고 이들 간의 수입, 수출 및 환적의 그랜저 인과관계를 살펴보았다. 단위근 검정을 위하여 ADF, PP, KPSS를 적용하였다. 또한 VAR모형과 Toda and Yamamoto의 확장된 VAR모형을 활용하여 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 각 지역에 따라 그랜저 인과관계 유무에 차이가 있는 것을 발견하였다. 또한 컨테이너와 비컨테이너로 구분해서 분석한 결과 화물 종류에 따른 차이가 나타났다. 따라서 항만에 대한 정부의 정책이나 인센티브제도와 같은 지원은 획일화 보다는 지역, 화물의 종류, 화물의 운송 형태 등에 따라 차별화가 요구된다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.107-113
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• 2019

최근 지구 온난화 현상에 따라 낙뢰가 증가하고 있는 추세이며 산업시설과 인프라 설비에 사고 위험이 가중되고 있다. 특히 낙뢰가 정유 및 석유화학 공장의 시설물이나 저장탱크 등 인프라 설비에 떨어지는 경우 가동 중인 공장에 정전, 전자기기의 오동작이나 파손을 유발하거나 화재 폭발과 함께 동시 다발적이고 복합적인 재해를 초래하게 된다. 그러므로 낙뢰사고에 대한 체계적인 연구를 통하여 낙뢰에 대한 메커니즘의 이해 및 낙뢰에 의한 화재 폭발 발생 사례를 심층 분석하고, 조사 방법을 체계화하여 예방대책을 강구 할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 낙뢰에 의해 석유화학공장의 폐수저장탱크 내부의 유증기가 폭발한 사례에 대해 사고 원인을 분석하고 그 원인에 따른 사전 예방대책을 제시하여 낙뢰에 의한 사고 발생을 예방하고자 한다.