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Flow Induced Material Degradation In Power Plant Secondary Systems-A Review

  • Kim, I.S.;Van Der Helm, M.;Ballinger, R.G.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.148-163
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    • 1998
  • Flow Induced Material Degradation (FIMD) is reviewed focusing on Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) models. Several examples of FAC related incidents are described, which include nuclear and fossile power plants. Lastly, mitigation techniques such as inspection, material selection, water chemistry, temperature, and hydrodynamic factor are discussed.

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The characteristics of mineral hydrate insulation material using activated cement prepared from pilot plant activation system

  • Seo, Sung Kwan;Chu, Yong Sik;Kim, Tae Yeon;Kim, Yoo
    • Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.428-433
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    • 2018
  • In this study, using the pilot plant activation system, the activated cement has been manufactured and then applied to the manufacturing process of mineral hydrate insulating material. The fineness of the activated cement is controlled at $5,000cm^2/g$ and $7,500cm^2/g$ and the features of mineral hydrate insulating material, using OPC and the activated cement for each degree of fineness, has been analyzed. As the result of analyzing the crystal habit of the manufactured mineral hydrate insulting material, it is analyzed that the main crystal phase of specimen is tobermorite and some quartz peak has been detected. As the degree of fineness of the activated cement increases, the height of bubble of slurry increases as well, whereas the tendency for the density character to decrease has been detected. Along with it, as the density character decreases, the compression strength has decreases, whereas the tendency for the thermal characteristic to increases has been detected. The main features of mineral hydrate insulating material, using the activated cement with the fineness of $7,500cm^2/g$, the compression strength of 0.36 MPa, and the thermal conductivity of $0.044W/m{\cdot}K$, presents the excellent features as insulation.

Effect of Mulching Materials on Growth and Agronomic Characteristics of Angelica gigas NAKA in Southern Area (남부 지방에서 피복 재료가 참당귀(Angelica gigas NAKAI)의 생육과 주요 형질에 미치는 영향)

  • 윤혜경;최성규;이종일;윤경원;서영남
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.124-130
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    • 2000
  • In an effort to produce high quality Angelica gigas NAKAI in the southern area of Korea, a variety of mulching materials were used to prevent withering during the summer. The experimental results are summarized as follows. Soil water content and temperature under various mulching materials were higher than those without mulching, in all the cases studied. Among various mulching materials P. E.(polyethylene) mulching material showed the highest effect. The appearance of weeds was the lowest when using the black P. E. mulching, while growth of weeds was the greatest when using transparent mulching. Growth and development of the plant were better with P. E. mulching than straw mulching or no mulching, allowed for more and bigger leaves. The bolting rate was about 2∼5%, with a slightly larger value under P. E. mulching. Under P. E. mulching, probably due to good physical properties of the soil the number of roots was large, and the length and diameter were good. Active growth of roots under P. E. mulching resulted in a yield increase of the plant. The black P. E. mulching material showed a prominent effect on suppression of weed growth, and the black P. E. material was considered to be the most recommendable among various P. E. mulching materials when there is a lack of labor.

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A study on the BAC pilot plant in the Duk-san water works (덕산(德山) 정수장(淨水場)에서의 BAC Pilot plant에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Sang-Bong;Kim, Dong-Youn;Lim, Jung-A;Lee, Won-Gwon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.97-107
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    • 1995
  • Today a conventional water treatment system has many problems. The ozone/GAC process, sometimes termed Biological Activated Carbon(BAC), appeared to be effective for the removal of soluble organic matters in the drinking water. The water quality of Nak-dong river in Pusan, generally shows BDOC 30-40% and NBDOC 60-70%. The pilot plant installed at the Duk-san water works that was been largest treatability(1,650,000ton/day) in Pusan. A experimental water in the pilot plant made use of the water after sand-filteration. Following results are drawn from this study. Initial adsorption velocity($DOC/DOC_o/T$) in the pure adsorption of GAG had a 0.0225, it's velocity changed to 0.006 after ozone added and the optimum ozone dose ranged of $1.4-2.0mgO_3/L$. A experimental water in the pilot plant composed with humic material(78%). Humic material composed with humic acid(20%) and fulvic acid(56%), and it's rate changed to 18 and 50% respectively after ozone added. DOC constantly decreased in the EBCTs and removal efficieny in the 15min of EBCT was 45-50%. It showed the largest removal rate of BDOC in the EBCT 5 and among the season, characteristics of removal varied. The HPC distributed over $10^6-10^7CFU/cm^3$ in the bed depth and among the season, distribution of HPC were differential.

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Histological and Ultrastructural Study of Susceptible and Age-related Resistance Responses of Pepper Leaves to Colletotrichum cocodes Infection

  • Hong, Jeum-Kyu;Lee, Yeon-Kyeong;Jeun, Yong-Chull;Hwang, Byung-Kook
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.128-140
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    • 2001
  • Infection of pepper leaves by Colletotrichum cocodes at the two- and eight-leaf stages caused susceptible and resistant lesions 96 h after inoculation, respectively. At the two-leaf stage, progressive symptom development occurred on the infected leaves. In contrast, localized necrotic spots were characteristic symptoms at the eight-leaf stage. Infected leaves at the two-leaf stage exhibited cell death accompanied by the accumulation of autofluorescent compounds. At the eight-leaf stage, pepper leaves infected by the anthracnose fungus displayed localized autofluorescence from the symptoms. Infection of pepper leaves by C. cocodes at the two-leaf stage resulted in its rapidand massive colonization of all the leaf tissues including the vascular tissue, together with cytoplasmic collapse, distortion of chloroplasts, and disruption of host cell walls. However, penetration of C. cocodes was very limited in the older leaf tissues of pepper plants at the eight-leaf stage. Fungal hyphae grew only in the intramural spaces of the epidermal cell walls at this stage. Occlusion of amorphous material in xylem vessels, aggregation of fibrillar material in inter-cellular spaces, and deposition of protein bodies were found as resistance responses to C. cocodes.

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Inhibition of Aldose Reductase on Rat Lens by Tartary Buckwheat

  • Mok, So-Youn;Lee, Jeong-Min;Kim, Hye-Min;Lee, Dong-Gu;Yoon, Young-Ho;Cho, Eun-Ju;Lee, Sang-Hyun
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.230-233
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    • 2011
  • To evaluate the potential of naturally occurring aldose reductase (AR) inhibitors from food material, MeOH extract and stepwise polarity fractions from tartary buckwheat and two common Korean buckwheat cultivars, yangjul-maemil and daesan-maemil, were tested on AR inhibition in rat lens in vitro. The EtOAc fraction from tartary buckwheat exhibited good AR inhibitory activity ($IC_{50}$ value, $8.19\;{\mu}g$/ml). A portion of the EtOAc fraction from tartary buckwheat led to the isolation of rutin by MeOH recrystalization. Rutin exhibited good AR inhibitory activity ($IC_{50}$ value, $9.28\;{\mu}M$). These results suggest that tartary buckwheat could be a useful food material in the development of a novel AR inhibitory agent against diabetic complications.

A Study on the Prediction Method of Carbonation Process for Concrete Structures of Nuclear Power Plant (원전 콘크리트 구조물의 중성화 진행 예측 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Koh, Kyoung-Tack;Kim, Do-Gyeum;Kim, Sung-Wook;Cho, Myung-Sung;Son, Young-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.149-158
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    • 2002
  • The carbonation process is affected by both the concrete material properties such as W/C ratio, types of cement and aggregates, admixture characteristics and the environmental factors such as $CO_2$ concentration, temperature, humidity. Based on results of preliminary study on carbonation, this study is to develop a carbonation prediction model by taking account of $CO_2$ concentration, temperature, humidity ad W/C ratio among major factor affecting the carbonation process. And to constitute a model formula which correspond to the mix design of the nuclear power plant, test coefficient that correspond to the design of the nuclear power plant is obtained based on the results of accelerated carbonation test. Also a field coefficient which is obtained based on results of the field examination is included to improve the conformity of the actual structures of nuclear power plant.

Phytochemical Study for Botanical Utilization of the Fruits of Malus baccata (자원식물로서 응용을 위한 야광나무 열매의 식물화학적 연구)

  • Park, Hee-Juhn;Lee, Myung-Sun;Young, Han-Suk;Choi, Jae-Sue;Jung, Won-Tae
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.282-288
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    • 1993
  • Very little utilization of the fruits of Malus baccata(Rosaceae) has been employed for food and medicinal plants except for preparing fruit beverages. But, it was estimated as valuable to investigate the chemical components for the botanical resource of this plant. In this study, it was found that the fruits of this plant contained primary long chain alcohol, ${\beta}-sitosterol$, campesterol, ursolic acid and ${\beta}-_D-glucosides$ of ${\beta}-sitosterol$ and campesterol. However, phloretin(dihydrochalcone) and its 5-O-glucoside(phloridzin) known as plant growth regulators in many Rosaceae plants were not found in this plant material by co-TLC analysis with authentic specimens. Although plant sex hormone, estrone, was often contained in relates of M. baccata, e.g., Prunus spp., Crataegus spp. and Malus spp., this compound was not detected in this fruit by comparison with an authentic material. By RIC chromatography, it was suggested that the Soxhlet extraction by the solvent of ether was excellently useful to extract ursolic acid efficiently.

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Moisture Effect on Fermentation Characteristics of Cup-Plant Silage

  • Han, K.J.;Albrecht, K.A.;Muck, R.E.;Kim, D.A.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.636-640
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    • 2000
  • Cup-plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.) has potential to produce high biomass and highly digestible forage in the wetlands where other productive forages do not grow or produce well. However, high moisture content at harvest is a considerable disadvantage of cup-plant for the production of high quality silage. This study was conducted to determine the effect of moisture content on the characteristics of cup-plant silage. Harvested cup-plant was ensiled in farm scale plastic bag silos and laboratory silos. In the plastic bag silos, first growth (FG) and regrowth (RG) cup-plant was harvested, wilted and ensiled. Dry matter content of FG and RG was 280 g/kg and 320 g/kg after 48 hr of wilting. The silage made with FG had pH 5.3 and 5.63 g/kg DM of acetate as a major volatile fatty acid. The composition of lactate, butyrate and acetate production was 1.0: 0.9: 2.3. The pH of silage made with RG was 4.5 and lactate was a major fermentation end product (16.8 g/kg DM). In the laboratory silos, wilted and unwilted first growth cup-plant material was ensiled to compare the early fermentation end products at days 2, 4, 11, and 40. Wilting increased dry matter content by 42% in the harvested material. Wilted silage showed about one unit lower pH until day 11. The contents of ammonia nitrogen and acetate were higher in un wilted silage, while that of lactate was higher in wilted silage (p<0.05). Butyrate and propionate were not detected in the wilted silage until day 40. We conclude from the results that moisture control is essential for the production of high quality cup-plant silage and high pH of cup-plant silage is due to low concentrations of fermentation end products.

Bioassays of Plant Hormones and Plant Growth Regulating Substances II. Abscisic Acid and Brassinolide (식물홀몬 및 생장조절물질의 생물검정기술 II. Abscisic Acid 및 Brassinolide)

  • 최충돈
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.34 no.s01
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 1989
  • A bioassay is a test system using a living organism (in whole or in part) to determine the presence or relative potency of chemical substances. The development and uses of bioassay are intimately linked to the discovery and characterization of the major classes of plant hormones. An application of this relationship is helpful for understanding the concept of plant hormones as well as the use of bioassay. And plant bioassay have been development and employed not only for the discovery and characterization of the biological activity of plant growth regulators but also have served several important secondary roles. The ideal bioassay should possess the characteristic of high specificity. great sensitivity. short response time, low cost and ease of obtaining plant material. acceptable ease of manipulation, and minimal space and equipment requirements.

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