• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.883-893
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• 2021

Clostridium difficile present in feces of food animals may contaminate their meats and act as a potential source of C. difficile infection (CDI) to humans. C. difficile resistance to antibiotics, its production of toxins and spores play major roles in the pathogenesis of CDI. This is the first study to evaluate C. difficile prevalence in retail raw animal meats, its antibiotics susceptibilities and toxigenic activities in Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia. Totally, 240 meat samples were tested. C. difficile was identified by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Vitek-2 compact system confirmed C. difficile isolates were 15/240 (6.3%). Toxins A/B were not detected by Xpect C. difficile toxin A/B tests. Although all isolates were susceptible to vancomycin and metronidazole, variable degrees of reduced susceptibilities to moxifloxacin, clindamycin or tetracycline antibiotics were detected by Epsilon tests. C. difficile strains with reduced susceptibility to antibiotics should be investigated. Variability between the worldwide reported C. difficile contamination levels could be due to absence of a gold standard procedure for its isolation. Establishment of a unified testing algorithm for C. difficile detection in food products is definitely essential to evaluate the inter-regional variation in its prevalence on national and international levels. Proper use of antimicrobials during animal husbandry is crucial to control the selective drug pressure on C. difficile strains associated with food animals. Investigating the protective or pathogenic potential of non-toxigenic C. difficile strains and the possibility of gene transfer from certain toxigenic/ antibiotics-resistant to non-toxigenic/antibiotics-sensitive strains, respectively, should be worthy of attention.

• 대한설비공학회지:설비저널
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1985

One of the problems with the Boiling Water Reactor involves the flow and thermal mixings in the suppression water pool high pressure steam discharge into the pool in case of emergency core relief. Varioos heat sensitive devices and pumps for the reactor core cooling are installed in the middle of the suppression pool. Especially the pumps utilize pool water in order to cool the reactor core in emergency cases. In this case, the water temperature for the reactor cool ins should be below a certain temperature specified by the reactor design. In the present investigation, in other to determine the optimum locations of these pumping devices, numerical solutions have been obtained for the model to determine the f low mixing characteristics. Experimental investigations have also been carried out for the flow mixing and for the thermal mixing in the pool during the discharge. Considering that the discharge steam through the Quenching Device becomes hot water immediately in the water pool, the steam- equivalent hot water has been utilized. Examining these characteristices, it becomes possible to deform me the best locations for RCIC, LPCI , HPCI pumps in the suppression water pool for the emermency reactor core cooling.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1507-1517
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• 2023

Centrifugal pumps are a crucial part of nuclear power plants, and their dependable and safe operation is crucial to the security of the entire facility. Cavitation will cause the centrifugal pump to violently vibration with the large number of vacuoles generated, which not only affect the hydraulic performance of the centrifugal pump but also cause structural damage to the impeller, seriously affecting the operational safety of nuclear power plants. A closed cavitation test bench of a centrifugal pump is constructed, and a method for precisely identifying the cavitation state is proposed based on Complementary Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (CEEMD) and Deep Residual Shrinkage Network (DRSN). First, we compared the cavitation sensitivity of pressure fluctuation, vibration, and liquid-borne noise and decomposed the liquid-borne noise by CEEMD to capture cavitation characteristics. The decomposition results are sent into a 12-layer deep residual shrinkage network (DRSN) for cavitation identification training. The results demonstrate that the liquid-borne noise signal is the most cavitation-sensitive signal, and the accuracy of CEEMD-DRSN to identify cavitation at different stages of centrifugal pumps arrives at 94.61%

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.34.2-34.2
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• 2021

SPT-CL J2106-5844 is the most massive galaxy cluster at z>1 discovered to date. It has been known to be an isolated system with a singular, well-defined halo. However, recent studies provide lines of evidence for its merging state. We strengthen the case with the multi-wavelength observations from ALMA, ACA, ASKAP, ATCA, and Chandra. With the sensitive, high resolution ALMA+ACA observations, we reconstruct the ICM pressure map from the thermal SZ effect. It reveals two main gas components that are associated with the mass clumps inferred from the weak-lensing analysis. Furthermore, the X-ray hardness map supports the bimodal gas distribution. With these multi-wavelength data, we probe the merger phase in SPT-CL J2106-5844.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.147-172
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• 2023

This study investigates the influence of loading and inflow conditions on tidal turbine performance from a hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic point of view. A boundary element method is utilized for the former to investigate turbine performance at various loading conditions under zero/non-zero yaw inflow. The boundary element method is selected as it has been selected, tested, and validated to be computationally efficient and accurate for marine hydrodynamic problems. Once the hydrodynamic solutions are obtained, such as the time-dependent surface pressures and periodic motion of the turbine blade, they are taken as the known noise sources for the subsequence hydroacoustic analysis based on the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings formulation given in a form proposed by Farassat. This formulation is coupled with the boundary element method to fully consider the three-dimensional shape of the turbine and the speed of sound in the acoustic analysis. For validations, a model turbine is taken from a reference paper, and the comparison between numerical predictions and experimental data reveals satisfactory agreement in hydrodynamic performance. Importantly, this study shows that the noise patterns and sound pressure levels at both the near- and far-field are affected by different loading conditions and sensitive to the inclination imposed in the incoming flow.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2024

As microchips' degree of integration is getting higher, its cooling problem becomes important more than ever. One of the promising methods is using fractal microchannel heat sink by mimicking nature's Murray networks. However, most of the related works have been progressed only by numerical analysis. Perhaps such lack of direct experimental studies is due to the technical difficulty of the temperature and heat flux measurement in complex geometric channels. Here, we demonstrate the direct visualization of in situ temperature profile in a fractal microchannel heat sink. By using the temperature-sensitive fluorescent dye and a transparent Polydimethylsiloxane window, we can map temperature profiles in silicon-based fractal heat sinks with various fractal scale factors (a=1.5-3.5). Then, heat transfer rates and pressure drops under a fixed flow rate were estimated to optimize hydrodynamic and thermal characteristics. Through this experiment, we found out that the optimal factor is a=1.75, given that the differences in heat transfer among the devices are marginal when compared to the variances in pumping power. This work is expected to contribute to the development of high-performance, high-efficiency thermal management systems required in various industrial fields.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.428-435
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• 2024

The important factors in the design of the gun propellant are impetus, flame temperature and pressure. In this paper, we considered a nitrocellulose based propellant composition that replaced sensitive NG(Nitroglycerin) with RDX(Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) and DEGDN(Diethylene glycol dinitrate) which high energy and low sensitivity. Particle size and content of RDX are the two main factors that affect the burning stability of RDX-based propellants. Among them, the characteristics of the propellant according to the particle size of RDX were confirmed. The relative combustion rate(R.Q., Relative Quickness) of the propellant changed according to the RDX particle size, and internal ballistics of properties of propellant were also varied. The particle size of RDX can be confirmed as a major factor in the combustion and internal ballistics characteristics of the propellant.

• 공업화학
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.341-345
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• 2024

일반적인 접착제에는 인간과 환경에 유해한 화학물질이 포함되어 있어 안전 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 그러나 활용되지 않는 자원 중 하나인 바질 씨에서 해결책을 찾을 수 있다. 우리는 바질 씨에서 점증 물질을 추출하고, 바질 씨 점질물(BSM)과 물의 비율을 조절함으로써 접착력을 통제할 수 있다는 사실을 발견했다. 물이 증발하고 BSM 농도가 증가함에 따라 접착력이 향상되었다. BSM은 접착제뿐만 아니라 점착제로도 사용될 수 있다. 이 연구는 BSM의 인상 깊은 강도와 안정성을 선보여, 이를 이용한 산업용 친환경 접착제가 식물 기반 자원에서 나온 혁신적인 선택지임을 입증한다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.285-299
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• 2023

증발산량을 산정하는 것은 수자원 관리에서 매우 중요한 요소이고, 많은 연구자들에 의해서 FAO Penman-Monteith (FAO P-M) 식이 기준증발산량을 산정을 위해 적용되고 있다. 하지만 FAO P-M 식에는 다양한 입력 변수들이 적용되어서, 이들 입력변수들의 영향력을 파악하는 것은 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라 56개 연구지역을 대상으로 8개의 기상요소들(최고기온, 최저기온, 풍속, 상대습도, 일사량, 증기압부족, 순복사량, 지중열유동)과 FAO Penman-Monteith (FAO P-M) 기준증발산식의 에너지항과 공기동력항, 그리고 고도의 변화에 따른 FAO P-M 기준증발산량 산정에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 다른 변량들은 고정한 상황에서 각 특정 변량을 10% 증가시킴에 따른 기준증발산량의 변화를 평가하기 위해 상대 민감도분석을 실시하였다. 또한 5개 대표 지역을 선정하여 그 지역들에 대해서 월별 민감도분석을 실시하고자 군집분석을 이용하여 56개 연구지역을 5개로 분류하였다. 분석결과에 의하면 56개 연구지역에서 8개의 기상요소 중에서 순복사량이 가장 민감한 것으로 나타났고, 다음으로 상대습도, 일사량, 최고기온, 증기압부족, 풍속, 최저기온 순으로 나타났다. 지중열유동은 가장 덜 민감한 요소인 것으로 나타났다. 지표면 특성의 경우, 고도는 매우 낮은 양의 상대 민감도를 보였다. FAO P-M 기준증발산식의 에너지항과 공기동력항의 상대적 민감도는 에너지항이 0.707, 공기동력항이 0.293을 보여서 에너지항이 공기동력항보다 기준증발산량 산정에 기여도가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 월별 민감도분석에 의하면 기상 요소별 민감도는 계절적인 영향을 보이는 것으로 나타났고, 고도의 상대민감도는 지역 간 서로 다른 양상을 보였다. 따라서 FAO P-M 식 적용을 위해서는 입력변수의 지역적, 계절적 민감도 차이를 고려해야할 것으로 판단된다.

• 청정기술
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2020

오늘날 석유화학, 정밀화학, 대기오염 방지산업 등에서 증류, 흡수, 추출, 탈거 등 물질분리 단위공정으로 주로 충전탑을 사용해 왔다. 충전탑은 가스-액체, 가스-가스 시스템에서의 물질들과의 접촉에 의해 운전되어 진다. 이러한 충전탑은 낮은 압력손실, 경제적 효율, 고온성 액체물질 적용, 유지보수 용이, 유해가스 처리 등의 운영에서 장점들을 가진다. 충전탑의 성능은 충진물을 통해 가스와 액체를 고르게 분산함으로써 우수한 성능을 보이며, 이는 충전탑 설계에 있어 중요한 인자로 고려되어진다. 본 실험에서는 충진물에 대한 액체부하 및 가스용량인자에 따른 건조압력손실, 수력학적 압력손실, 액체함량 변화에 대한 기하학적 특성에 대하여 연구하였다. 결과로부터 설계인자와 운전조건 등의 유해가스 처리에 필요한 인자를 도출하였다. 임의 충진물인 raschig super-ring에 대한 건조압력손실을 측정한 결과, 가스용량인자가 증가할수록 일정하게 선형적으로 증가하였고, 가스용량인자가 0.630 ~ 3.448 kg^-1/2 m^-1/2 S^-1에서 건조압력손실은 1.892 ~ 47.312 mmH₂O m^-1로 기존 산업현장에서 보편적으로 사용되는 35 mm pall-ring보다도 낮은 압력손실을 보였다. 그리고 raschig super-ring에 대한 수력학적 압력손실을 측정한 결과, 고유 액체부하에 대하여 가스용량인자가 증가할수록 압력손실도 함께 증가함을 확인하였고, 액체부하 변화에 따른 가스용량인자가 1.855 ~ 2.323 kg^-1/2 m^-1/2 S^-1으로 20% 증가할 때, 압력손실은 약 17% 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 충진물 체적에 관한 액체함량은 가스용량인자에 의존된 액체부하 매개변수로서 액체부하 변화에 따른 가스용량인자 약 3.84 kg^-1/2 m^-1/2 S^-1까지는 거의 일정한 액체함량을 보였으나, 그 이상에서는 급격하게 증가하였다.