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A Presentation of a Cost Classification System for Gas Plant Construction Projects

  • Park, Moonsun;Kim, Yongsu
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.625-626
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to present a cost classification system that can be used in gas plant construction projects. Towards this end, it examined the detailed statements of the construction companies which had experience in carrying out plant construction projects. Based on the above, it also presented a life-cycle (i.e., EPCC) cost classification system for the gas plant construction projects by conducting the Delphi analysis through the expert opinions.

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Interactions Between Genetic Risk Score and Healthy Plant Diet Index on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Among Obese and Overweight Women

  • Fatemeh Gholami;Mahsa Samadi;Niloufar Rasaei;Mir Saeid Yekaninejad;Seyed Ali Keshavarz;Gholamali Javdan;Farideh Shiraseb;Niki Bahrampour;Khadijeh Mirzaei
    • Clinical Nutrition Research
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.199-217
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    • 2023
  • People with higher genetic predisposition to obesity are more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and healthy plant-based foods may be associated with reduced risks of obesity and other metabolic markers. We investigated whether healthy plant-foods-rich dietary patterns might have inverse associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in participants at genetically elevated risk of obesity. For this cross-sectional study, 377 obese and overweight women were chosen from health centers in Tehran, Iran. We calculated a healthy plant-based diet index (h-PDI) in which healthy plant foods received positive scores, and unhealthy plant and animal foods received reversed scores. A genetic risk score (GRS) was developed based on 3 polymorphisms. The interaction between GRS and h-PDI on cardiometabolic traits was analyzed using a generalized linear model (GLM). We found significant interactions between GRS and h-PDI on body mass index (BMI) (p = 0.02), body fat mass (p = 0.04), and waist circumference (p = 0.056). There were significant gene-diet interactions for healthful plant-derived diets and BMI-GRS on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (p = 0.03), aspartate aminotransferase (p = 0.04), alanine transaminase (p = 0.05), insulin (p = 0.04), and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (p = 0.002). Adherence to h-PDI was more strongly related to decreased levels of the aforementioned markers among participants in the second or top tertile of GRS than those with low GRS. These results highlight that following a plant-based dietary pattern considering genetics appears to be a protective factor against the risks of cardiometabolic abnormalities.

A Method for Generating a Plant Model Based on Log Data for Control Level Simulation (제어시뮬레이션을 위한 생산시스템 로그데이터 기반 플랜트 모델 생성 방법)

  • Ko, Minsuk;Cheon, Sang Uk;Park, Sang Chul
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2013
  • Presented in the paper is a log data based modeling method for effective construction of a virtual plant model which can be used for the virtual PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) simulation. For the PLC simulation, the corresponding virtual plant, consisting of virtual devices, is required to interact with the input and output symbols of a PLC. In other words, the behavior of a virtual device should be the same as that of the real device. Conventionally, the DEVS (Discrete Event Systems Specifications) formalism has been used to represent the behavior a virtual device. The modeling using DEVS formalism, however, requires in-depth knowledge in the simulation area, as well as the significant amount of time and efforts. One of the key ideas of the proposed method is to generate a plant model based on the log data obtained from the production system. The proposed method is very intuitive, and it can be used to generate the full behavior model of a virtual device. The proposed approach was applied to an AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle).

A Standard Way of Constructing a Data Warehouse based on a Neutral Model for Sharing Product Dat of Nuclear Power Plants (원자력 발전소 제품 데이터의 공유를 위한 중립 모델 기반의 데이터 웨어하우스의 구축)

  • Mun, D.H.;Cheon, S.U.;Choi, Y.J.;Han, S.H.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.74-85
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    • 2007
  • During the lifecycle of a nuclear power plant many organizations are involved in KOREA. Korea Plant Engineering Co. (KOPEC) participates in the design stage, Korea Hydraulic and Nuclear Power (KHNP) operates and manages all nuclear power plants in KOREA, Dusan Heavy Industries manufactures the main equipment, and a construction company constructs the plant. Even though each organization has a digital data management system inside and obtains a certain level of automation, data sharing among organizations is poor. KHNP gets drawing and technical specifications from KOPEC in the form of paper. It results in manual re-work of definition and there are potential errors in the process. A data warehouse based on a neutral model has been constructed in order to make an information bridge between design and O&M phases. GPM(generic product model), a data model from Hitachi, Japan is addressed and extended in this study. GPM has a similar architecture with ISO 15926 "life cycle data for process plant". The extension is oriented to nuclear power plants. This paper introduces some of implementation results: 1) 2D piping and instrument diagram (P&ID) and 3D CAD model exchanges and their visualization; 2) Interface between GPM-based data warehouse and KHNP ERP system.

Rapid discrimination of commercial strawberry cultivars using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy data combined by multivariate analysis

  • Kim, Suk Weon;Min, Sung Ran;Kim, Jonghyun;Park, Sang Kyu;Kim, Tae Il;Liu, Jang R.
    • Plant Biotechnology Reports
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 2009
  • To determine whether pattern recognition based on metabolite fingerprinting for whole cell extracts can be used to discriminate cultivars metabolically, leaves and fruits of five commercial strawberry cultivars were subjected to Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. FT-IR spectral data from leaves were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA) and Fisher's linear discriminant function analysis. The dendrogram based on hierarchical clustering analysis of these spectral data separated the five commercial cultivars into two major groups with originality. The first group consisted of Korean cultivars including 'Maehyang', 'Seolhyang', and 'Gumhyang', whereas in the second group, 'Ryukbo' clustered with 'Janghee', both Japanese cultivars. The results from analysis of fruits were the same as of leaves. We therefore conclude that the hierarchical dendrogram based on PCA of FT-IR data from leaves represents the most probable chemotaxonomical relationship between cultivars, enabling discrimination of cultivars in a rapid and simple manner.

Performance Evaluation of an Oxy-coal-fired Power Generation System - Thermodynamic Evaluation of Power Cycle (순산소 석탄 연소 발전 시스템의 성능 평가 - 동력 사이클의 열역학적 해석)

  • Lee, Kwang-Jin;Choi, Sang-Min;Kim, Tae-Hyung;Seo, Sang-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2010
  • Power generation systems based on the oxy-coal combustion with carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) capability are being proposed and discussed lately. Although a large number of lab scale studies for oxy-coal power plant have been made, studies of pilot scale or commercial scale power plant are not enough. Only a few demonstration projects for oxy-coal power plant are publicized recently. The proposed systems are evolving and various alternatives are to be comparatively evaluated. This paper presents a proposed approach for performance evaluation of a commercial 100 MWe class power plant, which is currently being considered for 'retrofitting' for the demonstration of the concept. The system is configurated based on design and operating conditions with proper assumptions. System components to be included in the discussion are listed. Evaluation criteria in terms of performance are summarized based on the system heat and mass balance and simple performance parameters, such as the fuel to power efficiency and brief introduction of the second law analysis. Also, gas composition is identified for additional analysis to impurities in the system including the purity of oxygen and unwanted gaseous components of nitrogen, argon and oxygen in air separation unit and $CO_2$ processing unit.

Optimization of Redundancy by using Genetic Algorithm for Reliability of Plant Protection Controller (플랜트 보호 제어기의 신뢰도분석과 유전알고리듬을 이용한 다중성의 최적화)

  • Yu, Dong-Wan;Kim, Dong-Hun;Park, Hui-Yun;Gu, In-Su;Seo, Bo-Hyeok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.49 no.9
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    • pp.504-511
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    • 2000
  • The reliability of system is to become a important concern in developed industry. The controller based on the reliability is so important position. PPC(Plant Protection Controller) is for plant protection and human life by fault detection and control action against the transient condition of plant. The protection system of the nuclear reactor and chemical reactor are representative of PPC. This paper presents analysis of PPC relaibility formal problem statement of optimal redundancy based on the reliability for PPC. And the problem is optimized by genetic algorithm, The genetic algorithms is useful algorithm in case of large searching complex gradient existence local minimum. The genetic algorithms is useful algorithm is case of large searching complex gradient existence local minimum. The ability and effectiveness of the proposed optimization is demonstrated by the target reliability of one channel. PPC. using the failure rate based on the MIL-HDBK-217

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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.

A study of SDN/SON-based emergency communications systemprovisioning for nuclear power plant under extreme natural disaster (극한 자연재해 상황 하의 SDN/SON 기반 원자력발전소 비상통신망 구축방안 연구)

  • Choi, Taesang;Yoon, Sangsik;Lee, Junkyung;Cho, Yongsu;Lee, Sangjin
    • KNOM Review
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2019
  • This paper introduces our research results of SDN/SON-based emergeny communications system for nuclear power plant under extreme natural diaster like Fukusima nuclear power plant incident. In such a extreme situation, nuclear power plant operational staffs which do not have technical knowledge of network provisioning and operations have to deploy the emergency network. Thus our proposed system provides capabilities to provision an emergency network autonomically and enable voice and data services. It also describes our PoC system developed based on the proposed core technology and architecture with the results of system verification testing.