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Problems and Solutions of Anion Exchange Membranes for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (AEMFC) (음이온교환막연료전지용 음이온교환막의 문제점과 해결방안)

  • Son, Tae Yang;Kim, Tae Hyun;Kim, Hyoung Juhn;Nam, Sang Yong
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.489-496
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    • 2018
  • Fuel cells are seen as eco-friendly energy resources that convert chemical energy into electrical energy. However, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have problems such as the use of expensive platinum catalysts for the reduction of conductivity under high temperature humidification conditions. Thus, an anion exchange membrane fuel cell (AEMFC) is attracting a great attention. Anion exchange fuel cells use non - Pt catalysts and have the advantage of better efficiency because of the lower activation energy of the oxygen reduction reaction. However, there are various problems to be solved including problems such as the electrode damage and reduction of ion conductivity by being exposed to the carbon dioxide. Therefore, this mini review proposes various solutions for different problems of anion exchange fuel cells through a wide range of research papers.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation : overview for general pediatrician (조혈모세포이식)

  • Hwang, Tai Ju
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.50 no.7
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    • pp.613-621
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    • 2007
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has expanded and evolved substantially in the last decades to treat various malignant and nonmalignant diseases. However, the conditioning regimen can lead to transplantation related death by major organ dysfunction, severe infection and bleeding. In the allogeneic setting, graft versus host disease may also develop, making post-transplant management complex. To overcome these problems, new stem cell sources, stem cell mobilizing agents and new skills, nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation including reduced intensity stem cell transplantation has been introduced in clinical practice, but problems remained so far. Recipients of stem cell transplant may be severely immunocompromised for many months after transplantation. Furthermore, long-term complications (endocrine, metabolic, relapse, second malignancies, etc) can develop. Pediatrician is open called on to participate in the evaluation and consideration of patients for possible transplant and long-term follow-up of HSCT patients. This review is intended as a basic overview of HSCT relevant to general pediatrician.

Machine-Part Cell Formation based on Kohonen화s Self Organizing Feature Map (Kohonen 자기조직화 map 에 기반한 기계-부품군 형성)

  • ;;山川 烈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.315-318
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    • 1996
  • The machine-part cell formation means the grouping of similar parts and similar machines into families in order to minimize bottleneck machines, bottleneck parts, and inter-cell part movements in cellular manufacturing systems and flexible manufacturing systems. The cell formation problem is knows as a kind of NP complete problems. This paper briefly introduces the cell-formation problem and proposes a cell formation method based on the Kohonen's self-organizing feature map which is a neural network model. It also shows some experiment results using the proposed method. The proposed method can be easily applied to the cell formation problem compared to other meta-heuristic based methods. In addition, it can be used to solve large-scale cell formation problems.

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Modification of Existing Similarity Coefficients by Considering an Operation Sequence Ratio in Designing Cellular Manufacturing Systems

  • Yin, Yong;Yasuda, Kazuhiko
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2002
  • An operation sequence of parts is one of the most important production factors in the design of cellular manufacturing systems. Many similarity coefficient method (SCM) based approaches have been proposed to solve cell formation problems in the literature. However, most of them do not consider the operation sequence factor. This study presents an operation sequence ratio (OSR) and modifies some existing similarity coefficients using the OSR to solver cell formation problems considering operation sequences. The computational results show that the OSR ratio is useful and robust in solving cell formation problems with operation sequences.

Analysis of Voltaic Cell Described in the Science Textbooks of Secondary Schools (중·고등학교 과학 교과서에 제시된 볼타전지에 대한 문제점 분석)

  • Sin, Dong-Hyeok;Lee, Sang-Gwon;Choe, Byeong-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.363-377
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to improve the problems of the voltaic cell described in the science textbooks of secondary schools. For this purpose, the contents of science textbooks which are related to the voltaic cell were analyzed and the problems which were not explained clearly by theorems were tried to be explained by experiments, and lastly sug-gestions were made toward the improvements regarding the voltaic cell in the science textbooks. The findings are that there are problems on the ways of ensuring whether the voltaic cell operates properly as a chemical battery, on the explanation of why the hydrogen bubbles form at the zinc electrode, on the cell potential, on the unification of the electrode terminology used, and on the mention of the current. Solutions to the problems except the cell potential were suggested. According to the experiment, the theoretical potential was calculated by considering the potentials of redox reactions at the two electrodes of the cell and by taking into account the characteristics of the electrodes such as the work function, ionization energy, stan-dard reduction potential, and electronegativity.The cell potential of the voltaic cell is explained by several factors. In the improved version of the textbook's introduction section to the voltaic cell, it is necessary to describe the voltaic cell his-torically.For the conceptual section, it should be explained in terms of the Daniel cell.

A Study on the I-V Characteristics of Fuel Cell (수소-산소 연료전지의 전압-전류 특성)

  • Jung, You-Ra;Choi, Yong-Sung;Hwang, Jong-Sun;Lee, Kyung-Sup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.121-121
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    • 2009
  • A clean and highly efficient energy production has long been sought to solve energy and environmental problems. A fuel cell energy is expected to be a key to solve the problems. The emissions of fuel cell is low, the by-product is low, the by-product is pure water. This paper shows the I-R and V-R characteristics of fuel cell which are connected in parallel and series. In addition, the voltage of the fuel cells which are connected in parallel is less than the voltage of the fuel cells which are connected in series.

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A Study on Chromosomal Mosaicism Detected through Cytogenetic Analysis

  • Hwang, Si-Mok;Kwon, Kyoung-Hun;Yoon, Kyung-Ah
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2011
  • Mosaicism is the presence of two or more chromosomally distinct cell lines, each seen in two or more cells. Chromosomal mosaicism presents one of the most difficult problems in prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis, requiring the differentiation of true mosaicism from pseudomosaicism. To overcome associated problems we investigated 24 cases (amniotic fluid 13 cases, abortus tissue 3 cases, peripheral blood 8 cases) in which mosaicism has been found in cytogenetic analysis. 5 cases (38.5%) of 13 amniotic fluid cells in which mosaicisms showed single cell pseudomosaicism. Chromosomal true mosaicism is found in about 0.28% (8/2,826) of amniotic fluid cell cultures. The 24 cases involved 12 cases (50%) with sex chromosomal abnormalities, 7 cases (29.2%) with autosomal structural defects, 3 cases (12.5%) with autosomal abnormalities, 2 cases (8.3%) with a supernumerary marker. Mosaicism detected in amniotic fluid may represent the true mosaicism or may pseudomosaicism. If the same chromosome abnormality is seen in more than one cell and in two different cultures, it is considered a true mosaicism, whereas single-cell abnormalities from a single culture are regarded as pseudomosaicism. In this study, we describe a mosaicism in chromosome analysis, its diagnostic problems and clinical significance.

Analysis of Series and/or Parallel Converter for V-I Output Characteristics of Solar Cell

  • Yoo J.-H.;Han J.-M.;Ryu T.-G.;Gho J.-S.;Choe G.-H.;Chae Y.-M.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.639-643
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    • 2001
  • Recently, photovoltaic system has been studied widely as a renewable energy system, because it does not produce environmental pollution and it has infinity energy source from the sun. A study on photovoltaic system has a lot of problems like as reappearance and repetition of some situation in the laboratory experiment for development of MPPT algorithm and islanding detection algorithm, because output characteristics of solar cell are varied by irradiation and surface temperature of solar cell. And this system is consisted a lot of solar cell unit. Therefore, the assistant equipment which emulates the solar cell characteristics which can be controlled arbitrarily by researcher is require to the researchers for reliable experimental data. In this paper, the virtual implement of solar cell (VISC) system is proposed to solve these problems and to achieve reliable experimental result on photovoltaic system. VISC system emulates the solar cell output characteristics, and this system can substitute solar cell in laboratory experiment system. To realize the VISC, mathematical model of solar cell is studied for driving converter and the DC/DC converters are compared in viewpoint of tracking error using computer simulation. And then analysis of parallel and series characteristics was done for combination of VISC model.

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NUMERICAL METHOD FOR MOLTEN METAL FLOW SIMULATION WITH CUT CELL (Cut Cell을 고려하는 주조유동 해석 방법)

  • Choi, Y.S.;Hong, J.H.;Hwang, H.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.518-522
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    • 2011
  • Cartesian grid system has mainly been used in the casting simulation even though it does not nicely represent sloped and curved surfaces. These distorted boundaries cause several problems. A special treatment is necessary to clear these problems. A cut cell method on Cartesian grids has been developed to simulate three-dimensional mold filling Cut cells at a cast-mold interface are generated on Cartesian grids. Governing equations were computed using volume and areas of cast at cut cells. In this paper, we propose a new method that can consider the cutting cells which are cut by casting and mold based on the patial cell treatment (PCT). This method provides a better representation of geometry surface and will be used in the computation of velocities that are defined on the cell boundaries in the Cartesian gird system. Various test examples for several casting process were computed and validated. The analysis results of more accurate fluid flow pattern and less momentum loss owing to the stepped boundaries in the Cartesian grid system were confirmed. We can know the momentum energy at the cut cell is conserved by using the cut cell method. By using the cut cell method. performance of computation gets better because of reducing the whole number of meshes.

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Analysis of PWM Converter for V-I Output Characteristics of Solar Cell

  • Han, Jeong-Man;Jeong, Byung-Hwan;Gho, Jae-Seok;Choe, Gyu-Ha
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2003
  • Recently, photovoltaic system has been studied widely as a renewable energy system, because it does not produce environmental pollution and it has infinity energy source from the sun. A study on photovoltaic system has a lot of problems like as reappearance and repetition of some situation in the laboratory experiment for development of MPPT algorithm and islanding detection algorithm. because output characteristics of solar cell are varied by irradiation and surface temperature of solar cell. Therefore, the assistant equipment which emulates the solar cell characteristics which can be controlled arbitrarily by researcher is require to the researchers for reliable experimental data. In this paper, the virtual implement of solar cell (VISC) system is proposed to solve these problems and to achieve reliable experimental result on photovoltaic system. VISC system emulates the solar cell output characteristics, and this system can substitute solar cell in laboratory experiment system. To realize the VISC, mathematical model of solar cell is studied for driving converter and the DC/DC converters are compared in viewpoint of tracking error using computer simulation. Output dynamic characteristic of PV array is varied by irradiation and PWM converter performance is studied using PSIM simulator.