• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.79-84
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• 2012

This study consist of two parts. One is development of a self-propelling vinyl remover which was already reported at the previous paper. This is the second part of the study. For the study, an attached vinyl remover was developed. It was consisted of connecting tractor to bucket, removing bucket from tractor, and the process was the tractor's assistance hydraulics. In the case of an attached vinyl remover, the vinyl was twisted 0.5times per 30~85cm length. The bobbin's diameter was 190mm and it's stable travelling speed was 1m/s. The revolution of the remover wheel was 90rpm to maintain the wheel's linear velocity. As seen at performance test at the field which had 950mm ridge intervals and 10 a area, the average working speed was 1m/s and the turning time was 20seconds. Therefore, the working performance was 24.5min/10a. The efficiency of used vinyl remover was 97% and working conditions were good.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.113-118
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• 2012

Mulching vinyl is used on field crops to reduce herbicides and this causes multiple effects. The mulching vinyl must be collected for the next crop season, but was left alone due to a shortage of labor. The used mulching vinyl that was left alone acted as one of the main sources of environmental pollution on farms. In order to solve these problems, a self-propelling vinyl remover was developed. The self-propelling vinyl remover consists of a travelling part and rotating of remover wheel. Each output device has a 1.5ps engine and a 2.5ps engine. The vinyl was twisted 17~47cm/times length. The bobbin's diameter was 160mm and it's stable travelling speed was 0.5m/s. The revolution of the remover wheel bobbin was 60rpm to maintain the wheel's linear velocity. As seen at performance test at the field which had 950mm ridge intervals and 10a area, the average working speed was 0.56m/s and the turning time was 15seconds. Therefore, the working performance was 40.1min/10a.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.190-197
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• 2012

We employed the vinyl ethylene carbonate (VEC) as an electrolyte additive and investigated the effect of the electrolyte additive on the electrochemical performance in hybrid capacitor. The activated carbon was adopted as cathode material, and the $Li_4Ti_5O_{12}$ oxide was used as anode material. The electrolyte was prepared with the $LiPF_6$ salt in the mixed solvent of ethylene carbonate (EC), dimethyl carbonate (DMC), and ethyl methyl carbonate(EMC). We evaluated the electrochemical performance of the hybrid capacitor with increasing the amount of the VEC electrolyte additive, which is known as the remover of oxygen functional group and the stabilizer of the electrode by reducing the surface of electrode, and obtained the superior performance data especially at the addition of the VEC electrolyte additive of around 0.7 vol%. On the contrary, the addition of the VEC more than 0.7 vol% in the electrolyte leads to the degradation in electrochemical performance of hybrid capacitor, suggesting the increase of the side reaction from the excessive VEC additive. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that the addition of the VEC suppressed the formation of LiF component, which is known as the insulator, on the surface of electrode. The optimized addition of VEC exhibited the improved capacity retention around 82.7% whereas the bare capacitors without VEC additive showed the 43.2% of capacity retention after 2500 cycling test.