• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.423-430
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• 1996

The improved and advanced Annulus Gas System(AGS) has been developed for Wolsong 2 to satisfy the requirements of the regulatory body. The Atomic Energy Control Board(AECB) required a shorter detection time following a small leak from a pressure tube and/or calandria tube. This paper describes licensing requirements, functional requirements and detail design description for the AGS. The Wolsong unit No. 1 AGS was designed to operate as a stagnant system normally requiring only pressure regulation and having provisions for purging. no improved AGS involves the adoption of gas recirculation in AGS, duplication of dew point indicators with additional instrumentation and sampling provisions to prompt operator action. The improved system operates in the recirculation mode with continuous dew point measurement for leak detection. An AGS with improved detection instrumentation is provided.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.1703-1707
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• 2013

A fast and simple sampling and sample preparation device, (NTD) has been developed and applied to sample and analyze volatile components from ground coffee beans. Coffee fragrances and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were sampled by the NTD and then analyzed by gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Divinylbenzene (DVB) particles (80/100 mesh size) were the sorbent bed of the NTD. More than 150 volatile components were first identified based on the database of the mass library and then finally 30 fragrances including caffeine were further confirmed by comparing experimental retention indices (i.e. Kovat index) with literature retention indices. Total sampling time was 10 minutes and no extra solvent extraction and/or reconstitution step need. Straight n-alkanes (C6-C20) were used as retention index probes for the calculation of experimental retention indices. In addition, this report suggests that an empty needle can be an alternative platform for analyzing polymers by pyrolysis-GC/MS.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2004

Some of the petroleum products contain benzene which is well known as a confirmed human carcinogen. For example, gasoline products contain benzene ranging up to several percents by weight. High exposures to the benzene and other organic solvents would be likely to occur during intermittent tasks and or processes rather than continuous jobs such as sampling, repair, inspection, and loading/unloading jobs. The work time for these jobs is various. However, most of work time is very short and the representative time interval is 15 minutes. Thus, it is preferable to do exposure assessment for 15 minute time weighted average which is known as a short time exposure level(STEL) by ACGIH rather than for 8-hours TWA. It is particularly significant to the exposure monitoring for benzene since it has been known that the exposure rate plays an important role to provoke the leukemia. Due to the large variations, a number of processes/tasks, the traditional sampling technique for organic solvents with the use of the charcoal and sampling pumps is not appropriate. Limited number of samples can be obtained due to the shortage of sampling pumps. Passive samplers can eliminate these limitations. However, low sampling rates resulted in collection of small amount of the target analysts in the passive samplers. This is originated the nature of passive samplers. Field applications were made with use of passive samplers to compare with the charcoal tube methods for 15 minutes. Gasoline loading processes to the tank lorry trucks at the loading stations in the petroleum products storage area. Good agreements between the results of passive samplers and those of the charcoal tubes were achieved. However, it was found that special cautions were necessary during the analysis at very low concentration levels.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.374-375
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• 2007

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.586-599
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• 2014

During the last two decades, indoor air quality and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have been of concern in Korean society due to their nature of potential health impacts. In order to investigate the pollution levels of VOCss in indoor environments, establishment of a solid test method for monitoring the airborne VOCss is essential. In Korea, a method based on adsorbent sampling and GC analysis coupled with thermal desorption was proclaimed as the Korea Standard Method for Indoor Air Quality Test. This study was carried out to examine some inherent problems of the VOCs measurement method. The VOCs method does not describe in detail preparing the standard samples. The standard samples may be prepared by impregnation of either liquid standard solutions or a mixture of standard gases. In this study, we investigated the optimal temperature condition for transferring the liquid standards onto a standard adsorbent tube. As a result, keeping the impregnation temperature at $250^{\circ}C$ will be recommended in regard of the boiling points of multiple target analytes and the thermal stability of the adsorbent. We also demonstrated some problems associated with handling of a syringe used for transferring the standard solutions onto the adsorbent tubes, and a best way to get rid of the syringe problems was suggested. Finally, a number of field works were conducted to evaluate the performance of adsorbent sampling methods. Comparison of different adsorbent tubes, i.e. tube packed with single sorbent (Tenax) and double sorbents (Tenax with Carbotrap), revealed that 30 to 40% differences between the two groups, implying that sampling efficiency is depending on the volatility and the strength of adsorbents. However, duplicate precisions for VOCs sampling with a same type of adsorbent and at same flow rates appeared to be satisfactory to be all within 20%, which is a quality control guideline. Distributed volume precisions were also found to be within a guideline value, 25%, although the precision was in general inferior to the duplicate precision. The Korea indoor VOCs test method should be more refined and improved in many aspects, particularly procedure and instrumentation for preparing the standard samples and specification of quality control assessment.

• 분석과학
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.91-101
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• 2012

2010년부터 지정악취물질로 관리 중인 유기지방산은 큰 반응성과 그에 따른 낮은 회수율 등의 문제로 인해, 분석이 난해한 성분으로 알려져 있다. 악취공정시험기준에서는 대기 중에 존재하는 유기지방산을 분석하는 방법으로 알칼리함침필터법과 알칼리흡수용액법을 제시하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 유기지방산의 분석기법을 전반적으로 비교검토하였다. 그러나 이들 지정분석방법에 대한 객관적인 검증이 쉽지않다는 점을 감안할 때, 유기지방산의 새로운 대안 분석방안으로 고체흡착관-저온농축탈착법 등을 고려할 필요가 있다. 고체흡착관으로 시료를 채취하고 저온농축열탈착기를 이용하여 분석할 경우, 공정시험기준상에 제시한 분석방법들에 비해 상당히 간편하고 검정이 용이하다는 이점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 분석방법에 대한 고찰에 덧붙여, 표준시료의 준비, 시료의 채취단계, 최종적인 검출단계에 대한 부분에 대해서도 검토하였다. 유기지방산의 현장시료를 채취 및 분석하기 위해서, 용기채취법의 적용은 심각한 오차를 수반할 수 있다는 점을 확인하였다. 또한 현장에서 채취한 시료의 유기지방산을 분석할 때, GC/FID에 의존할 경우, 여러 가지 간섭 성분의 영향을 배제하기 어렵다. 따라서 유기지방산의 분석에는 GC/MS를 이용하여 정량뿐 아니라 정성적인 부분까지 동시에 검토하는 것이 중요하다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

한국건설기술연구원(KICT)에서는 트리플 코어 바렐의 원리를 적용하여 기존의 연약지반 뿐만 아니라 사질토 및 풍화토 지대에도 적용이 기능한 대구경 샘플러를 개발하였다. 특별히 제작된 시료 절단 및 추출 장치는 다양한 종류의 채취 시료에 적용하여 시료의 교란을 최대한 방지 할 수 있도록 고안되었다. 샘플러 두부에는 적절한 강성의 스프링을 설치하여 슈(shoe)와 비트(bit) 사이의 거리가 변화하도록 하여 대상지반의 강성에 맞추어 효과적인 시료채취가 가능하도록 하였다. 대구경 샘플러의 적용성을 확인하기 위하여 일반적으로 시용되는 피스톤 샘플러와 대구 경 샘플러를 이용해 여러 대상지반에서 채취한 시료의 교란도를 비교 분석하였으며, 다양한 공학적 특성 또한 비교 분석 하였다.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.1338-1348
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• 2019

The Geomunoreum Lava Tube System, declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has a unique natural ecosystem. The information available about this ecosystem, which contains lava caves with secondary carbonate speleothems, is sparse. Hence, extensive research is warranted for establishing a conservation standard. We commenced microbial research on the system and have been studying the microorganisms coating the lava tube wall to acquire fundamental information for understanding the lava cave ecology of Jeju Island. Samples were collected from yellow-colored walls in six caves that are part of the system-the Bengdwi, Utsanjeon, Bukoreum, Manjang, Gimnyeong, and Yongcheon caves. This study focused on yellow walls as it is the most easily distinguished color. According to previous studies, the color of cave walls is attributed to microorganisms or their components. To determine whether the yellow mats from the Jeju lava tube walls are caused by microorganisms, we examined samples at the microscopic scale, by staining mats and analyzing bacterial isolates from glitter particles. As a result, we found that the yellow walls of lava tubes are comprised of microbial mats.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.302-310
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 원자력 발전소 증기발생기 세관에 발생할 수 있는 결함의 크기측정에 사용되는 Bagging 신경회로망에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. Bagging은 부트스트랩(bootstrap) 샘플링에 기반을 둔 추정기 앙상블을 생성하는 방법이다. 증기발생기 세관의 결함 크기측정을 위하여 다양한 폭과 깊이를 갖는 4가지 결함패턴의 eddy current testing 신호를 생성하였다. 그 다음, 단일 신경회로망(single neural network; SNN)과 Bagging 신경회로망(Bagging neural network; BNN)을 구성하여 각 결함의 폭과 깊이를 추정하였다. SNN과 BNN 추정성능은 최대오차를 이용해서 측정하였다. 실험결과, 결함 깊이 추정시의 SNN과 BNN 최대오차는 0.117mm와 0.089mm 이었다. 또한, 결함 폭 추정 시에는 SNN과 BNN 최대오차는 0.494mm와 0.306mm 이었다. 이러한 실험결과는 BNN 추정성능이 SNN 추정성능보다 우수하다는 것을 보여준다.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.105-113
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• 2019

The exhaust emissions from coal-fired power plants have received much attention because coal-fired power plants are the one of the largest sources of particulate matter (PM) emissions in South Korea. To measure the PM10 and PM2.5, we developed the novel diluter which is comprised of ejector and porous tube in series. The dilution ratio must be defined to calculate particle concentrations of the sampled air as well as to probe match for the isokinetic sampling. For this reason, we verified the dilution ratio of the developed diluter by the flow rate, numerical solution, gas concentration and particle concentration. The ejector-supplied flow rates were 10-50 L/min and the porous tube-supplied flow rates were 30, 50 L/min in this study. All methods above showed similar dilution ratios to each other within 10 % error rate. The dilution ratio was confirmed by comparing mass concentrations before and after the dilution process.