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Effect of Activated Carbon on Growth of Agastache rugosa in Greenhouse

  • Choi Seong-Kyu;Park Yeong-Tyae;Yang Deok-Chun
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.171-174
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    • 2005
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of activated carbon on leaf and stem production of Agastache rugosa as affected by different amounts of activated carbon. The results obtained are summarized as follows. Growth characteristics including plant height and leaf length were the highest when activated carbon added with $10\%$, suggesting that optimum amount of activated carbon was ranged from 10 to $20\%$. Growth and enlargement of the root were improved by $10\%$ AC. Activated carbon can be utilized as a soil conditioner in agricultural crop areas.

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Field-effect Ion-transport Devices with Carbon Nanotube Channels: Schematics and Simulations

  • Kwon Oh Kuen;Kwon Jun Sik;Hwang Ho Jung;Kang Jeong Won
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2004.08c
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    • pp.787-791
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    • 2004
  • We investigated field-effect ion-transport devices based on carbon nanotubes by using classical molecular dynamics simulations under applied external force fields, and we present model schematics that car be applied to the nanoscale data storage devices and unipolar ionic field-effect transistors. As the applied external force field is increased, potassium ions rapidly flow through the nanochannel. Under low external force fields, ther nal fluctuations of the nanochannels affect tunneling of the potassium ions whereas the effects of thermal fluctuations are negligible under high external force fields. Since the electric current conductivity increases when potassium ions are inserted into fullerenes or carbon nanotubes, the field effect due to the gate, which can modify the position of the potassium ions, changes the tunneling current between the drain and the source.

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Energy Absorption Characteristics of the Al/CFRP/GFRP Hybrid Member under Quasi-static Axial Compressive Load (준정적 축 압축하중을 받는 Al/CFRP/GFRP 혼성부재의 에너지흡수 특성)

  • Kim, Sun-Kyu;Heo, Uk;Im, Kwang-Hee;Jung, Jong-An
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.588-592
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    • 2012
  • This study concentrates the effect of hybridisation on the collapse mode and energy absorption for composite cylinders. The static collapse behavior of laminated(Al/CFRP/GFRP) circular-cylindrical composite shell under quasi-static axial compressive load has been investigated experimentally. Eight different hybrids of laminated(Al/CFRP/GFRP) circular-cylindrical composite shell were fabricated by autoclave. Eight types of composites were tested, namely, Al/carbon fiber/epoxy, Al/glass fiber/epoxy, Al/carbon-carbon-glass/epoxy, Al/carbon-glass-carbon/epoxy, Al/carbon-glass-glass/epoxy, Al/glass-glass-carbon/epoxy, Al/glass-carbon-glass/epoxy and Al/glass-carbon-carbon/epoxy. Collpase modes were highly dominated by the effect of hybridisation. The results also showed that the hybrid member with material sequence of Al-glass-carbon-carbon/epoxy exhibited good energy absorption capability.

Is there a causal effect between agricultural production and carbon dioxide emissions in Ghana?

  • Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa;Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.40-54
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    • 2017
  • According to FAO, "agricultural sectors are particularly exposed to the effects of climate change and increases climate variability". As a result, the study makes an attempt to answer the question: Is there a causal effect between agricultural production and carbon dioxide emissions in Ghana? By employing a time series data spanning from 1960 to 2015 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag method. There was evidence of a long-run equilibrium relationship running from copra production, corn production, green coffee production, milled rice production, millet production, palm kernel production and sorghum production to carbon dioxide emissions. The short-run equilibrium relationship shows that, a 1% increase in copra and green coffee production will increase carbon dioxide emissions by 0.22% and 0.03%, a 1% increase in millet and sorghum production will decrease carbon dioxide emissions by 0.13% and 0.11% in the short-run while a 31% of future fluctuations in carbon dioxide emissions are due to shocks in corn production. There was bidirectional causality between milled rice production and carbon dioxide emissions, millet production and carbon dioxide emissions and, sorghum production and carbon dioxide emissions; and a unidirectional causality running from corn production to carbon dioxide emissions and carbon dioxide emissions to palm kernel production.

A Study on the Removal of Low-Concentration Ozone by means of Activated Carbon (활성탄을 이용한 저농도 오존(OZONE)제거에 관한 연구)

  • 양원호;최경호;정문식
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 1997
  • This study was carried out to find the adverse health effects of ozone by papers, the potential indoor sources of ozone by papers, and then the removal mechanism of ozone by experiments. The exposure of individuals to excessive levels of ozone both in the industrial and ambient environment is a continuing public health concern. Ozone indoors may play a role in generating secondary pollutants that may have adverse health effects. The removal efficiency of ozone was studied by (1) the effect of concentration on breakthrough time, (2) the effect of flow rate on breakthrough time, (3) the effect of adsorbent's weight on breakthrough time, (4) the effect of temperature on breakthrough time, (5) the application of Langmuir's isotherm equation in using activated carbon. The followings are the conclusions that were derived from this study. 1. In the effect of concentration on breakthrough time, the adsorption capacity of activated carbon was inversely proportional to ozone concentratuion (0.1, 0.2, 0.3 ppm). 2. In the effect of flow rate on breakthrough time, the service life of activated carbon was inversely proportional to flow rate (2, 8, 14l/min). 3. The difference in removal efficiency of ozone between weights(100 mg and 150 mg) was seen. And when weight of activated carbon was 100 mg and 150 mg, pressure loss was 4-5mmHg and 6-7mmHg, respectively. It is required to study relations among flow rate and adsorbent's weight and ventilation quantity, too. 4. Generally, Langmuir's equation, one of the oldest and most used frequently isotherm equation, applies to chemisorption. In case of ozone, when the weight of activated carbon was 70 mg and temperature 40, slope(1/a) was $6.25\times 10^{-1}$ and intercept(1/ab) was $1.9\times 10^{-4}$ (average r=0.94).

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Growth of nickel-catalyzed carbon nanofibers using MPCVD method and their electrical properties

  • Kim, Sung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2004
  • Carbon nanofilaments were formed on silicon substrate via microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. The structure of carbon nanofilaments was identified as the carbon nanofibers. The extent of carbon nanofibers growth and the diameters of carbon nanofibers increased with increasing the total pressure. The growth direction of carbon nanofibers was horizontal to the substrate. Laterally grown carbon nanofibers showed the semiconductor electrical characteristics.