• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.165-169
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• 2010

The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) is a national bioinformatics research center in Korea. We developed many bioinformatics algorithms and applications to facilitate the biological interpretation of OMICS data. Here we present an introduction to major bioinformatics resources of databases and tools developed at KOBIC. These resources are classified into three main fields: genome, proteome, and literature. In the genomic resources, we constructed several pipelines for next generation sequencing (NGS) data processing and developed analysis algorithms and web-based database servers including miRGator, ESTpass, and CleanEST. We also built integrated databases and servers for microarray expression data such as MDCDP. As for the proteome data, VnD database, WDAC, Localizome, and CHARMM_HM web servers are available for various purposes. We constructed IntoPub server and Patome database in the literature field. We continue constructing and maintaining the bioinformatics infrastructure and developing algorithms.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2124-2135
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• 2006

In this paper, the reliability estimation of pipelines is performed by employing the probabilistic method, which accounts for the uncertainties in the load and resistance parameters of the limit state function. The FORM (first order reliability method) and the SORM (second order reliability method) are carried out to estimate the failure probability of pipeline utilizing the FAD (failure assessment diagram). And the reliability of pipeline is assessed by using this failure probability and analyzed in accordance with a target safety level. Furthermore, the MCS (Monte Carlo Simulation) is used to verify the results of the FORM and the SORM. It is noted that the failure probability increases with the increase of dent depth, gouge depth, operating pressure, outside radius, and the decrease of wall thickness. It is found that the FORM utilizing the FAD is a useful and is an efficient method to estimate the failure probability in the reliability assessment of a pipeline. Furthermore, the pipeline safety assessment technique with the deterministic procedure utilizing the FAD only is turned out more conservative than those obtained by using the probability theory together with the FAD. The probabilistic method such as the FORM, the SORM and the MCS can be used by most plant designers regarding the operating condition and design parameters.

• 물과 미래
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.97-105
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• 1993

본 논문은 캡슐밀도의 균일성의 영향을 고려하여 관로내에서의 원통형 캡슐 흐름의 특성을 이해하기 위하여 수행된 연구결과를 기술한다. 캡슐의 중심 축방향으로의 밀도변화 영향을 실험적으로나 분석적인 방법으로 연구하였다. 실험은 직경 190mm, 길이 17m인 관에서 수행되었으며, 속도, 캡슐의 기울기, 캡슐바닥과 관과의 간격이 여러 가지 실험 조건하에서 측정되었다. 실험데이타를 해석하기 위하여 무차원 변수로 주어지는 안정성지수(Stability Index)가 유도되었다. 관로에서의 캡슐의 거동은 안정성 지수에 크게 영향을 받는다. 실험결과는 안정성 지수가 캡슐거동과 캡슐밀도의 균일성과의 상관관계를 잘 설명하여주는 유효한 기준임을 증명하였다.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가스학회 2006년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.191-195
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• 2006

전력선에 지락고장이 발생할 경우 대지로 유입된 고장전류에 의하여 인접한 배관에 아크 용융이 발생하면 가스폭발이나 기름유출과 같은 대형사고를 발생시킬 수 있으며, 배관의 유지 및 보수를 담당하는 작업자의 안전에도 위험을 초래할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 대지를 통한 철탑과 배관 사이의 아크 발생에 대하여 알아보고, 국내외에서 사용되고 있는 철탑 인근에 매설된 배관의 이격거리 기준을 조사하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2014

Offshore fields are increasingly important for the development of offshore resources due to the growing energy needs. However, an offshore field for oil and gas production has difficult development conditions, e.g., high temperature, high pressure, sweet/sour compositions of fluids, etc. Corrosion is one of the biggest issues for offshore pipeline engineering. In this study, a Corrosion Resistant Alloy (CRA) pipe for corrosion prevention was investigated through its global demand and trends, and three types of CRA pipelines were introduced with detailed explanations. The usefulness of CRA was also evaluated in comparison to a carbon steel pipeline in terms of the structural strength, cost, and other factors. Offshore pipeline engineering, including mechanical design and verification of the results through an installation analysis based on numerical software, was performed for the carbon steel type and solid CRA type. The results obtained from this study will be useful data for CRA pipeline designers and researchers.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2017

When an anchor is dropped into the sea, there exists a danger of collision on the pipeline and subsea cables in the seabed. This collision could cause huge environmental disasters and serious economic losses. In order to secure the safety of subsea structures such as pipelines and subsea cables from the external impact, it is necessary to estimate the exact external force through the anchor's terminal velocity on the water. FLUENT, a computational fluid dynamic program, was used to acquire the terminal velocity and drag coefficient computation. A half-symmetry condition was used in order to reduce the computational time and a moving deforming mesh technique also adapted to present hydrostatic pressure. The results were examined with the equation based on Newton's Second Law to check the error rate. In this study, three example cases were calculated by stockless anchors of 5.25 ton, 10.5 ton, and 15.4 ton, and for the onshore experiment dropped height was back calculated with the anchor's terminal velocity in the water.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.14-20
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• 1997

배관망의 해석은 유체역학을 필요로 하며 관내의 유체의 거동과 운전상태에 따른 유동 해석을 위해 여러 식들이 사용되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 정상상태의 유량방정식을 사용해 경인지역가스 배관망에 대한 수학적 모델을 만들고 모사 및 분석을 수행하였다. 개발된 수학적 모델에서 얻어진 데이터에 통계학적인 방법을 도입해 통계학적 모델을 만듦으로써 통계학적 모델을 이용한 배관망 해석의 가능성에 대해 검토하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.259-266
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• 2015

Among many energy resources, natural gas has recently received a remarkable amount of attention, particularly from the electrical generation industry. This is in part due to increasing shale gas production, providing an environment-friendly fossil fuel, and high risk of nuclear power. Because South Korea, the world's second largest LNG importing nation after Japan, has no international natural gas pipelines and relies on imports in the form of LNG, the natural gas has been traditionally procured by long term LNG contracts at relatively high price. Thus, there is a need of developing an Asian LNG trading hub, where LNG can be traded at more competitive spot prices. In a natural gas spot market, the amount of natural gas to be bought should be carefully determined considering a limited storage capacity and future pricing dynamics. In this work, the problem to find the optimal amount of natural gas in a spot market is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) in risk neutral environment and the optimal base stock policy which depends on a stage and price is established. Taking into account price and demand uncertainties, the basestock target levels are simply approximated from dynamic programming. The simulation results show that the basestock policy can be one of effective ways for procurement of LNG in a spot market.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.32-37
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• 2015

In the fields of plant layout optimization, the main goal is to minimize the construction cost including pipelines as satisfying all constraints such as safety and operating issues. However, what is the lacking of considerations in previous researches is to consider proper safety and maintenance spaces for a complex plant. Based on the mathematical programming, MILP(Mixed Integer Linear Programming) problems including various constraints can be formulated to find the optimal solution which is to achieve the best economic benefits. The objective function of this problem is the sum of piping cost, pumping cost and area cost. In general, many conventional optimization solvers are used to find a MILP problem. However, it is really hard to solve this problem due to complex inequality and equality constraints, since it is impossible to use the derivatives of objective functions and constraints. To resolve this problem, the PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization), which is one of the representative sampling approaches and does not need to use derivatives of equations, is employed to find the optimal solution considering various complex constraints in this study. The EO (Ethylene Oxide) plant is tested to verify the efficacy of the proposed method.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.390-393
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 ATM 교환기의 스위치 패브릭을 효과적이고, 빠르게 중재할 수 있는 Cell 스케줄링 알고리즘의 구현에 대해 연구한다. 본 논문에서 설계하는 ATM 셀 스케줄러는 iSLIP 알고리즘을 기본으로 하고 있으며, 이의 고속 구현에 대해 연구한다. 구현되는 셀 스케줄러는 random uniform 트래픽에 대해 100%에 수렴하는 스케줄링 성능을 제공하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기본적인 스케줄러의 구조를 제안하고, 이를 HDL로 모델하여 동작 수준 및 타이밍 시뮬레이션을 완료하였다. 그리고 본 논문에서 설계된 셀 스케줄러는 8 포트를 지원하도록 설계하였으며, 이를 기반으로 하여 32 포트로 확장할 수 있다. 8 포트를 지원하는 스케줄러는 grant 및 accept 스테이지를 각각 2단 파이프라인 방식으로 설계하였다.