• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.714-721
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• 2008

에너지의 소비가 큰 화학공장은 공정 자체가 가지는 비선형성, 불안정성등과 여러 가지 외란으로 인한 최적의 상태로 운전되고 있지 못하다. 이를 개선하기 위해 공장 전체 최적화를 수행하게 된다. 공장 전체를 대상으로 하는 최적화에는 경제적으로 영향을 주는 조절 변수가 많기 때문에 조절 변수의 개수를 최적으로 선정하는 문제는 중요하다. 경제적으로 영향을 주는 조절 변수를 모두 사용하여 최적화를 할 경우 최적화하여 나온 결과를 운전 조건에 반영할 때 많은 운전조건이 바뀌게 되므로 운전 조건의 변화에 따른 비용이 증가하게 된다.본 연구에서는 TPA(Terephthalic Acid) 공정을 대상으로 공장 규모 최적화를 하기 위하여 운전 비용에 영향을 주는 최적화 조절 변수를 최적으로 선정하기 위한 방법을 제시하였다. 즉, 모델을 만든 후 운전비용에 영향을 주는 조절 변수의 정도를 민감도 분석을 통해 알아 봄으로써 최적화할 때 운전 비용에 영향이 큰 변수들만 사용하는 것이다. TPA공정에서는 본 연구에서 제시한 방법에 의해 3개의 조절 변수를 선정하였고 선정된 변수로 최적화 한 결과 추가적인 설비 투자나 물리적인 개조 등이 없이 연간 약 3억 5천 만원의 에너지 비용 절감이 기대 된다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2018

This paper proposes supplementary control of conventional coordinated control of a power plant which directly affects network frequency. The supplementary control with dynamic matrix control is applied for 1000 MW power plant with ultra-supercritical (USC) once-through boiler. The supplementary control signal is added to the boiler feedforward signal in the existing coordinated control logic. Therefore, it is a very practical structure that can maintain the existing multi-loop control system. This supplementary controller uses the step response model for the power plant system, and on-line optimization is performed at every sampling step. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed supplementary control in a wide operating range of a practical 1000 MW USC power plant simulator. These results can contribute the stable operation of power system frequency.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.70-77
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• 2011

Sewage treatment plants, consuming 1,756[GWh] which is 0.53[%] of national wide electricity consumption, is one of the electricity consuming facilites. At the research of electricity consumption and power quality analysis on sewage treatment plants, average utilization of transformer was less than 40[%] because peak load was very lower than its capacity due to excess capacity. So reduction of power loss can be achieved by transformer design optimization. The achievement in this research, is to meet reduction of power loss through optimizing the capacity and to improve as high efficiency-low loss transformer while the transformer is operating.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.379-385
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• 2010

We developed a high-efficiency, wide-operating-range centrifugal blower stage to meet the demand for reduced total energy-consumption in sewage treatment plants. We improved the efficiency of the two-dimensional impeller using a shape optimization tool and one-dimensional performance prediction tool. A limit of the throat deceleration ratio was set to maintain the stall-margin of the impeller. The low solidity vaned diffuser and return channel were designed using a sensitivity analysis with orthogonal arrays and three-dimensional steady flow simulations. The low solidity diffuser was designed in order to improve the performance in the low-flow-rate region. The return channel was designed so that the total pressure loss in the return channel was minimized. Model tests of both the conventional and optimized blower stages were carried out, and the efficiency and operating range of both stages were compared. The optimized blower stage improved in stage efficiency by 3% and in operating range by 5% compared with the conventional blower stage.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.654-667
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• 2003

This paper presents a consequence of the systematic approach to identify the aerodynamic parameters of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with the automatic flight control system. A 3-2-1-1 excitation is applied for the longitudinal mode while a multi-step input is applied for lateral/directional excitation. Optimal time step for excitation is sought to provide the broad input bandwidth. A fully automated programmed flight test method provides high-quality flight data for system identification using the flight control computer with longitudinal and lateral/directional autopilots, which enable the separation of each motion during the flight test. The accuracy of the longitudinal system identification is improved by an additional use of the closed-loop flight test data. A constrained optimization scheme is applied to estimate the aerodynamic coefficients that best describe the time response of the vehicle. An appropriate weighting function is introduced to balance the flight modes. As a result, concurrent system models are obtained for a wide envelope of both longitudinal and lateral/directional flight maneuvers while maintaining the physical meanings of each parameter.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.311-317
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• 2000

The operation of flocculation process and the evaluation thereof have been mainly based on G, t and $G{\times}t$ values which are available from design guidelines and texts. However, their suggested ranges are too wide to find the optimum condition specific to a particular water treatment plant and none of the existing method can be used to evaluate and suggest the optimum operational condition. Recently, a commercially available particle counter is found to be useful in determining the flocculation process based on the particle dynamics. The optimum condition is defined as one that best suits the purpose of flocculation; the number of small particles should decrease, while that of large particles should increase. The experiments were performed at two conventional water treatment plants in Korea, one with horizontal mechanical flocculators, and another with vertical type mechanical flocculators. In this paper, experiences to evaluate the flocculation process and to suggest the optimum operation condition will be presented. Although particle counting method is found to be beneficial compared to any other existing methods, the optimum condition is very much site-specific and should be evaluated at each water treatment plant for different conditions.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.472-481
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• 2022

Brown blotch disease, caused by Pseudomonas tolaasii, is one of the most serious diseases in mushroom cultivation, and its control remains an important issue. This study isolated and evaluated pathogen-specific bacteriophages for the biological control of the disease. In previous studies, 23 varieties of P. tolaasii were isolated from infected mushrooms with disease symptoms and classified into three subtypes, Ptα, Ptβ, and Ptγ, based on their 16S rRNA gene sequences analysis and pathogenic characters. In this study, 42 virulent bacteriophages were isolated against these pathogens and tested for their host range. Some phages could lyse more than two pathogens only within the corresponding subtype, and no phage exhibited a wide host range across different pathogen subtypes. To eliminate all pathogens of the Ptα, Ptβ, and Ptγ subtype, corresponding phages of one, six, and one strains were required, respectively. These phages were able to suppress the disease completely, as confirmed by the field-scale on-farm cultivation experiments. These results suggested that a cocktail of these eight phages is sufficient to control the disease induced by all 23 P. tolaasii pathogens. Additionally, the antibacterial effect of this phage cocktail persisted in the second cycle of mushroom growth on the cultivation bed.

• Mycobiology
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.230-238
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• 2023

Glabridin is a well-known active isoflavone found in the root of licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.) that possess a wide range of biological activity. Plant cells, hairy roots, and fungal endophytes cultures are the most important alternative methods for plant resources conservation and sustainable production of natural compounds, which has received much attention in recent decades. In the present study, an efficient culture condition was optimized for the biomass accumulation and glabridin production from fungal endophyte Aspergillus eucalypticola SBU-11AE isolated from licorice root. Type of culture medium, range of pH, and licorice root extract (as an elicitor) were tested. The results showed that the highest and lowest biomass production was observed on PCB medium (6.43 ± 0.32 g/l) and peptone malt (5.85 + 0.11 g/l), respectively. The medium culture PCB was produced the highest level of glabridin (7.26 ± 0.44 mg/l), while the lowest level (4.47 ± 0.02 mg/l) was obtained from the medium peptone malt. The highest biomass (8.51 ± 0.43 g/l) and glabridin (8.30 ± 0.51 mg/l) production were observed from the PCB medium adjusted with pH = 6, while the lowest value of both traits was obtained from the same medium with pH = 7. The highest production of total glabridin (10.85 ± 0.84 mg/l) was also obtained from the culture medium treated with 100 mg/l of the plant root extract. This information can be interestingly used for the commercialization of glabridin production for further industrial applications.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.575-584
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• 2019

Colletotrichum acutatum is a species complex responsible for anthracnose disease in a wide range of host plants. Strain C. acutatum KC05, which was previously isolated from an infected pepper in Gangwon Province of South Korea, was reidentified as C. scovillei using combined sequence analyses of multiple genes. As a prerequisite for understanding the pathogenic development of the pepper anthracnose pathogen, we optimized the transformation system of C. scovillei KC05. Protoplast generation from young hyphae of KC05 was optimal in an enzymatic digestion using a combined treatment of 2% lysing enzyme and 0.8% driselase in 1 M NH₄Cl for 3 h incubation. Prolonged incubation for more than 3 h decreased protoplast yields. Protoplast growth of KC05 was completely inhibited for 4 days on regeneration media containing 200 ㎍/ml hygromycin B, indicating the viability of this antibiotic as a selection marker. To evaluate transformation efficiency, we tested polyethylene glycol-mediated protoplast transformation of KC05 using 19 different loci found throughout 10 (of 27) scaffolds, covering approximately 84.1% of the entire genome. PCR screening showed that the average transformation efficiency was about 17.1% per 100 colonies. Southern blot analyses revealed that at least one transformant per locus had single copy integration of PCR-screened positive transformants. Our results provide valuable information for a functional genomics approach to the pepper anthracnose pathogen C. scovillei.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.82-91
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 도시하수처리장 방류수를 하천연구용 추적자로 이용할 수 있는지 여부를 검토하였다. 이 같은 연구는 전주하수처리장 처리수 방류지점 하류 12 km구간에 대해서 수행 되었다. 연속 수질조사 결과 당 하수처리장 방류수의 수질은 조사기간 동안 비교적 넓은 범위에서 변화되고 있음이 관찰되었다. 특히 염소이온농도, 황산이온농도, 총양이온 농도, 전기전도도 등과 같은 변수들은 하수처리장 방류수에서의 수질변화 양상이 방류지점 하류의 관측지점들에서도 시간차이를 두고 순차적으로 관찰되었으며, 이러한 관측결과를 바탕으로 하천의 유속(v), 유량(Q), 수리분산계수(D) 값을 유추해 낼 수 있었다. 본 연구를 위해서는 1차원 비반응성 이산-분산 모델을 자동최적화 기법으로 역산하는 방법이 이용되었다. 이 같은 방법을 통하여 추산된 최하류 지점의 유량은 조사기간동안 6.4에서 $9.0m^3/sec$ 까지 변화되는 것으로 나타났으며, 유속은 조사구간내에서 0.06에서 0.10 m/sec까지, 수리분산계수는 0.7에서 $6.4m^2/sec$까지 변화되는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 대도시의 대규모하수처리장이 수문연구에 적합한 추적자들을 제공해줄 수 있다는 점을 보여 주는 것이다.