• Title/Summary/Keyword: Separation principle

Search Result 150, Processing Time 0.032 seconds

A study on stormwater fee imposition for sustainable rainwater management (지속가능한 빗물관리를 위한 강우유출수 부담금 도입방안 검토)

  • Kim, Gil-Bok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
    • /
    • v.33 no.2
    • /
    • pp.103-110
    • /
    • 2019
  • Management of stormwater runoff is considered a nationwide challenge. To deal with this challenge, many researches have been conducted to study initial stage of stormwater fee imposition. The objective of this study was to recommend a framework for stormwater fee imposition not only for funding the stormwater management programs but also for encouraging people to decrease impervious area. This study focused on, regulations, financial resources and international cases related to stormwater runoff management. Polluter pays principle, which is generally recognized environmental policy principle is regarded the basis of stormwater fee imposition. Three components suggested for the stormwater rate structure are 1) stormwater utility revenue requirement, 2) billable equivalent stormwater unit, 3) system unit cost. The key point of stormwater rate structure is the "Equivalent Residential Unit(ERU)". The concept of an ERU is one residential area with a runoff coefficient. The runoff coefficient is that portion of rainfall that becomes runoff rather than infiltrating into the ground. In addition to this, this study took into account the observed data simulation for the separation of stormwater treatment expenditure from the comprehensive wastewater treatment cost.

High-accuracy quantitative principle of a new compact digital PCR equipment: Lab On An Array

  • Lee, Haeun;Lee, Cherl-Joon;Kim, Dong Hee;Cho, Chun-Sung;Shin, Wonseok;Han, Kyudong
    • Genomics & Informatics
    • /
    • v.19 no.3
    • /
    • pp.34.1-34.6
    • /
    • 2021
  • Digital PCR (dPCR) is the third-generation PCR that enables real-time absolute quantification without reference materials. Recently, global diagnosis companies have developed new dPCR equipment. In line with the development, the Lab On An Array (LOAA) dPCR analyzer (Optolane) was launched last year. The LOAA dPCR is a semiconductor chip-based separation PCR type equipment. The LOAA dPCR includes Micro Electro Mechanical System that can be injected by partitioning the target gene into 56 to 20,000 wells. The amount of target gene per wells is digitized to 0 or 1 as the number of well gradually increases to 20,000 wells because its principle follows Poisson distribution, which allows the LOAA dPCR to perform precise absolute quantification. LOAA determined region of interest first prior to dPCR operation. To exclude invalid wells for the quantification, the LOAA dPCR has applied various filtering methods using brightness, slope, baseline, and noise filters. As the coronavirus disease 2019 has now spread around the world, needs for diagnostic equipment of point of care testing (POCT) are increasing. The LOAA dPCR is expected to be suitable for POCT diagnosis due to its compact size and high accuracy. Here, we describe the quantitative principle of the LOAA dPCR and suggest that it can be applied to various fields.

Railway Underground Crossing Method Using PC Slab (직접 PC슬래브설치를 통한 철도지하횡단 공법의 적용 연구)

  • Min, Kyung-Ju;Lee, Bang-Woo;Park, Byung-Yong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
    • /
    • 2011.10a
    • /
    • pp.2439-2449
    • /
    • 2011
  • Existing grade crossings between railway and roadway area gradually changed to grade separation systems by the law. In the case of new roadway construction which crosses railways, it shall be grade separation system in principle. With the railway underground crossing method, many practices have been developed which can minimize rail displacements and avoid rail release. With these methods, the effects to the train can be reduced. The underground crossing methods can be identified as open-cut methods and non open-cut methods. The open-cut methods include temporary support methods and special rail construction methods. Also the non open-cut methods includes pipe roof methods, front jacking methods, messer shield methods, NTR methods and JES methods. Among these, the most suitable method is applied considering safety, economy, class of each rail system (train passing frequency and velocity), etc. In the non open-cut methods, the cost and duration shall be increased to keep existing rail system during construction. In the open-cut methods which use plate girders, the rail speed shall be restricted due to the displacement and vibration of the girder. In this study new grade separation methods were developed. With this method, the safety during construction can be increased. This method refines temporary support methods, but pc slab girder with huge stiffness is applied instead of plate girders. With this method, the rail displacement can be reduced and higher safety can be obtained during construction. Also construction cost and duration can be minimized because the temporary work and the overburden soil depth can be reduced.

  • PDF

An Improved Multiplicative Updating Algorithm for Nonnegative Independent Component Analysis

  • Li, Hui;Shen, Yue-Hong;Wang, Jian-Gong
    • ETRI Journal
    • /
    • v.35 no.2
    • /
    • pp.193-199
    • /
    • 2013
  • This paper addresses nonnegative independent component analysis (NICA), with the aim to realize the blind separation of nonnegative well-grounded independent source signals, which arises in many practical applications but is hardly ever explored. Recently, Bertrand and Moonen presented a multiplicative NICA (M-NICA) algorithm using multiplicative update and subspace projection. Based on the principle of the mutual correlation minimization, we propose another novel cost function to evaluate the diagonalization level of the correlation matrix, and apply the multiplicative exponentiated gradient (EG) descent update to it to maintain nonnegativity. An efficient approach referred to as the EG-NICA algorithm is derived and its validity is confirmed by numerous simulations conducted on different types of source signals. Results show that the separation performance of the proposed EG-NICA algorithm is superior to that of the previous M-NICA algorithm, with a better unmixing accuracy. In addition, its convergence speed is adjustable by an appropriate user-defined learning rate.

A Numerical Analysis of Flow Characteristics and Oil Separation Performance for Cyclone Oil Separator Designs (사이클론 오일분리 장치 형상변화에 따른 유동 및 오일분리 성능에 관한 해석적 연구)

  • Cho, Yong-Seok;Lee, Seang-Wock;Woo, Keun-Sup;Yoon, Yu-Bin;Park, Young-Joon;Lee, Dug-Young;Kim, Hyun-Chul;Na, Byung-Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
    • /
    • v.16 no.5
    • /
    • pp.22-28
    • /
    • 2008
  • A closed type crankcase ventilation system has been adopted to engines to prevent emission of blow-by gas to atmosphere. In the early closed type crankcase ventilation system, blow-by gas which contains engine lubricating oil is re-circulated into the intake system. The blow-by gas containing oil mist leads to increased harmful emissions and engine problems. To reduce loss of the engine oil, a highly-efficient oil separation device is required. Principle of a cyclone oil separator is to utilize centrifugal force in the separator and, therefore, oil separator designs depend on rotational flow which causes the centrifugal force. In this paper, flow characteristics and oil separation performances for cyclone type designs are calculated with CFD methodology. In the CFD model, oil particle was injected on a inlet surface with Rosin-Rammler distribution and uniform distribution. The major design parameters considered in the analysis model are inlet area, cone length and outlet depth of the oil separator. As results, reducing inlet area and increasing cone length increase oil separation performance. Changes in outlet depth could avoid interference between rotational flow and outlet flow in the cyclone oil separator.

Compensation for temperature-level control of tanked water system with time delay

  • Nakamura, Masatoshi;Watanabe, Kiyoto
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 1993.10b
    • /
    • pp.42-47
    • /
    • 1993
  • Importance of separation of a nonlinear dynamical system into nonlinear static part and linear dynamical part was insisted in designing a controller for the nonlinear system. We further proposed compensation techniques for oscillation of controlled variables caused by system time delay and compensation of steady state errors caused by modelling errors of the systems. The proposed principle of designing procedure and the compensation methods were discussed by applying them for temperature and level control of an actual tanked water system.

  • PDF

PRACTICAL OBSERVER FOR IMPULSIVE SYSTEMS

  • Ellouze, Imen
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.51 no.1
    • /
    • pp.99-111
    • /
    • 2014
  • In this paper, we deal with the problem of practical observer design and the practical stabilization for a class of perturbed impulsive systems. We show that, under the classical conditions of uniform complete controllability and uniform complete observability of the nominal system without impulsive effects, it is possible to design an observer controller for a class of perturbed linear impulsive system when the origin is not an equilibrium point.

Pulsatilla Saponin D: the Antitumor Principle from Pulsatilla koreana

  • Kim, Yong;Bang, Seong-Cheol;Lee, Ji-Hyun;Ahn, Byung-Zun
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
    • /
    • v.27 no.9
    • /
    • pp.915-918
    • /
    • 2004
  • By bioassay-guided separation, an already known saponin, Pulsatilla saponin D was isolated from the root of Pulsatilla koreana Nakai as a antitumor component when evaluated by in vivo antitumor activity as well as in vitro cytotoxic activity test. It showed potent inhibition rate of tumor growth (IR, 82%) at the dose of 6.4 mg/kg on the BDF1 mice bearing LLC cells.

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR NEW LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS

  • Penterman, Roel;Klink, Stephen I.;Koning, Henk de;Vogels, Joost;Huitema, Edzer;Broer, Dirk J.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2003.07a
    • /
    • pp.273-276
    • /
    • 2003
  • Polymerization induced diffusion has been successfully applied to create new display components. Based on this principle a new technique to produce polymer covered liquid crystal layers on a single substrate, called photo-enforced stratification, allows cost-effective production of ultra-thin LCDs. The two-step photopolymerization-induced phase separation of a liquid crystal and a polymer precursor can be performed on a variety of substrates and provides freedom in display design.

  • PDF

Digita Redesign of Observer-Based Output Feedback Controller

  • Lee, Ho-Jae;Park, Jin-Bae;Cho, Kwang-Lae;Joo, Young-Hoon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2002.10a
    • /
    • pp.64.5-64
    • /
    • 2002
  • This paper concerns a new digital redesign (DR) technique for an observer-based output-feedback control (OBOFC) system. The term DR involves converting an analog controller into an equivalent digital one in the sense of state-matching. The considered DR problem is formulated as convex minimization problems of the norm distances between linear operators to be matched. The stability condition is easily embedded and the separation principle on the DR of the OBOFC is explicitly shown. A numerical example is included for visualizing the feasibility of the proposed technique.

  • PDF