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Study on a Forward Light Changes According to the Surface Treatment of Light Cutoff Panel (차광판 표면 처리 방법에 따른 전사광 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Gu, Jinhoi;Kwon, Myunghee;Lee, Yoon-Gyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2014
  • Since the "Light Pollution Prevention Act" was executed, the installation of the light cutoff panel to the security lightings which caused light trespass has been increased in the local government. The light cutoff panel is effective in reducing the light trespass in term of the cost-benefit. Because the installation of the light cutoff panel is inexpensive than the change of the security lighting. But the reflected light from the surface of the light cutoff panel has been regarded as another light pollution problem to solve. Therefore, we try to improve light cutoff panel by changing the light reflectivity characteristic of the surface of the light cutoff panel. First, we laminated the surface of light cutoff panel by black powder to reduce the light reflectivity of the light cutoff panel. After the black powder lamination, the light reflectivity on the light cutoff panel improved from 85% to 5%. And we compared reflected light caused by black powder laminated light cutoff panel with the one of no surface treatment cutoff panel. The vertical illuminance was measured at 3, 6, 9m in front of the security lighting and 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18m in back of the security lighting to evaluate the reflected light. And the measurement height was determined of 1.5m considering the height of the 1th floor of an apartment house. In this study, we found that the reflected light from the light cutoff panel can be reduced about 90% by the black powder lamination method. The results derived from this study will be helpful to develope the various kind of light cutoff panel which minimize the adverse effect like reflected light of light cutoff panel.

Sprinkler Layout Optimization Based on Fire Simulation and Mathematical Programming including Installation and Damage Costs (설치비와 피해액의 정형화를 통한 화재 시뮬레이션 및 수리계획법에 기반을 한 스프링클러의 배치 최적화)

  • Lee, Ki-Jun;Shin, Young-Sup T.;Hong, Gi-Hoon;Joo, Ki-Don;Shin, Dong-Il;Kim, Tae-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2012
  • The sprinkler system is regarded as the most effective fire extinguishing system. In this study, we proposed a sprinkler layout optimization framework based on fire simulation and mathematical programming. As a case study, the target space in the form of ordinary residence was set up with the size of $5.2m(L){\times}5.4m(W){\times}2.4m(H)$, and we constructed the fire scenario that polyurethane couch was ignited through carelessness. And we simulated and analyzed fire speed, temperature change and heat release rate according to the type and number of sprinklers installed. Through the formulation of installation and damage costs depending on sprinklers, the sprinkler layout showing optimal performance was resulted from mathematical programming.

New Control Method for Power Decoupling of Electrolytic Capacitor-less Photovoltaic Micro-Inverter with Primary Side Regulation

  • Irfan, Mohammad Sameer;Shin, Jong-Hyun;Park, Joung-Hu
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.677-687
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a novel power decoupling control scheme with the bidirectional buck-boost converter for primary-side regulation photovoltaic (PV) micro-inverter. With the proposed power decoupling control scheme, small-capacitance film capacitors are used to overcome the life-span and reliability limitations of the large-capacitance electrolytic capacitors. Then, an improved flyback PV inverter is employed in continuous conduction mode with primary-side regulation for the PV power conditioning. The proposed power-decoupling controller shares the reference for primary side current regulation of the flyback PV inverter. The decoupling controller shapes the input current of the bidirectional buck-boost converter. The shared reference eliminates the phase-delay between the input current to the bidirectional buck-boost converter and the double frequency current at the PV primary current. The elimination of the phase-delay in dynamic response enhances the ripple rejection capability of the power decoupling buck-boost converter even with small film capacitor. With proposed power decoupling control scheme, the additional advantage of the primary-side regulation of flyback PV inverter is that there is no need to have an extra current sensor for obtaining the ripplecurrent reference of the decoupling current-controller of the power-decoupling buck-boost converter. Therefore, the proposed power decoupling control scheme is cost-effective as well as the size benefit. A new transient analysis is carried out which includes the source voltage dynamics instead of considering the source voltage as a pure voltage source. For verification of the proposed control scheme, simulation and experimental results are presented.

A Collision Compensation Method for CSMA/CR Protocol in Wireless LAN (포화상태인 무선랜 네트워크에서 Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Resolution (CSMA/CR) 프로토콜의 실용화를 위한 충돌 보상 방법)

  • Kim, Ji-in;Park, Byung-hyun;Kwon, YongHo;Rhee, Byung Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.1033-1036
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    • 2013
  • A study about collision resolution is needed because huge file, video and multimedia information are transmitted to wireless LAN. CSMA/CR protocol guarantees fairness, but doesn't consider QoS. To practicalize CSMA/CR protocol in saturation fully-connected single hop network environments, this paper proposes method of collision compensation. previous CSMA/CR protocol chooses CR Slot only considering fairness, but this paper chooses front CR Slot for compensation of collision to station experiencing collisions. The station transmits jam signal and has channel priority of transmission. So transmitting efficiency and successful transmission probability rise. This proposed simple method can offer benefit to station experiencing collisions without additional hardware cost.

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Prospects for e-Science In Korea : The role and impacts ol Korea-UK collaboration

  • Kim, Cha-Young;Suh, Jee-Hyun;Tomlinson, Mark
    • Korea Information Processing Society Review
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2008
  • The Korea UK e-Science Collaboration project has been aimed at supporting research and collaboration between Korean and UK researchers. Its goal is to benefit the nation by reducing cost and time in constructing the National e-Science Research Environment' by studying and benchmarking the cases in countries that have already procured advanced technologies in the area. Two joint workshops were held in a year where researchers from the two countries had the opportunities to share their research results with each other. Also, the project has supported exchanges of researchers fostering expertise in the field. In the course of the project, the e-Science Centre in the UK and KISTI have signed MoU(Memorandum of Understanding) in 2006. Moreover, there have been active research collaboration between Korea and the UK. The University of Southampton will share the BioSimGrid data with the Korean counterpart, and the University of York has provided the AURA software. In the future, KISTI and the UK NGS(National Grid Service) will organize a working group at OGF that will work mainly on the standardization of Parameter Sweep and bring it to lead the global standard. KISTI will include its own AURORA system into OMI-UK software stack, which will enable access to NGS resources through AURORA user application. The collaboration with the UK has opened up more opportunities for collaboration with other countries as well. KISTI and HLRS in Germany have agreed to share the COVISE and will have research exchanges. As such, it is expected that Korea will play a major role in e-Science research by building strategic and systematic collaborative relations with its International partners.

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A case study on the economic feasibility of different patterns of green care and healing complexes

  • Koo, Seungmo;Kim, Dae Sik;Koo, Hee Dong;Lee, Han Joon;Park, Bum Jin;Kim, Kyoung-Chan
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.451-461
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    • 2017
  • Korean agriculture has recently focused on the 6th dimension of industrialization, which includes the functions of healing and care. The green care and healing business is one of the most representative models, satisfying modern consumers' needs for care or healing in rural agricultural environments. Many studies have shown physical and social benefits from green care and healing, but studies regarding economic performance are rarely found. The present study aimed to analyze the economic feasibility of different green care and healing farm complexes proposed in recent domestic research, with various possible combinations of business scenarios. The results show that most of the scenarios are economically feasible as B/C (benefit-cost ratio) and IRR (internal rate of return) are 1.19 and 8.53%, respectively, under scenario 1. This study also performed a break-even analysis for providing more flexible decision-making information. Overall, scenario 1 from green care and healing site and scenario 4 from green care and healing cluster are found to be superior to the other scenarios in terms of B/C and IRR. The scenarios in this study reflect the domestic farms or complexes which have similar functions of care or healing. Therefore, the results of this study provide information on practical policies and business implications in making decisions on the specific size and operational patterns when adopting green care and healing complexes by central or local governments and private sectors in the future.

A Study on the Effective Economic Appraisal of Port Remodeling Project (항만투자평가 개선방안에 관한 연구 - 항만 리모델링사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.58-81
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    • 2010
  • The economic appraisal of a port remodeling project must be transparent and persuasive to the public over the entire stage of the project. A project evaluator need to be familiar with the guidelines on evaluation, and to do his best to follow the guidelines to evaluate the given project. To make the right decision on investment, the evaluator must take into consideration not only economic efficiency, but also equity issues such as income redistribution and balanced development between regions. Port remodeling projects tend to produce externalities to the environment. However, these externalities are of qualitative nature, and hard to measure in monetary terms, so these are liable to be ignored in the process of project evaluation. Two different approaches - RP(revealed preference) and SP(stated preference) have been tried to assess the value of these non-market goods. Government authorities need to set minimum guidelines which project evaluators must follow in order to make the evaluation more reliable.

The Economic Analysis on Traffic Safety Facility along the Inland Waterway Using Probabilistic Simulation -Focusing on the section between Phnom Penh and Chong Kneas port in Cambodia- (확률론적 시뮬레이션을 이용한 내륙수로 교통안전시설의 경제성 분석 -캄보디아의 프롬펜과 총크니아스항 구간을 대상으로-)

  • Kim, Jung-Hoon
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.165-182
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    • 2009
  • This study analyzed the economic analysis on the Cambodian inland waterway from Phnom Penh to Chong Kneas. The social discount rate of 3.5% was applied for the cost and benefit of projects and converted to the current values in 2009. The benefits were supposed as the triangle distribution with minimum, mode, and maximum value corresponding to pessimistic, moderate and optimistic prospect separately. And the distributions of costs were the normal. As the result of probabilistic simulations, the average of B/C for scenario A showed relatively the highest with 0.25 and its 90% confidence interval 0.16~0.35. The average B/C of scenario B is 0.10 with the 90% confidence interval 0.06~0.13 and the one of scenario C is 0.15 with 90% confidence interval 0.12~0.19. Therefore it was concluded as low economic feasibility to install inland waterway aids to navigation along the surveyed waterway. However, the performance of the project should be determined by its political analysis as well as the economic.

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A study of the train traffic optimal control system in a circular metro line (도시형 순환 열차에서 운전 최적제어 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Hyo-Sik;Ryu, Kwang-Gyun;Song, Noon-Suck
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.10c
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    • pp.236-246
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    • 2003
  • This paper is implemented a control algorithm in order to be stable and minimized to entire train traffic system at delayed case. Signal ing system is described wi th algebraic equations given for train headway, Discrete-event simulation principles are reviewed and a demonstration block signaling model using the technique is implemented. Train congestion at station entrance for short headway operation is demonstrated and the propagation of delays along a platform of trains from any imposed delay to the leading train is also shown. A rail way signaling system is by nature a distributed operation with event triggered at discrete intervals. Although the train kinematic variables of position, velocity, and acceleration are continually changing, the changes are triggered when the trains pass over section boundaries and arrive at signals and route switches. This paper deals with linear-mode1ing, stability and optimal control for the traffic on such metro line of the model is reconstructed in order to adapt the circuits. This paper propose optimal control laws wi th state feedback ensuring the stability of the modeled system for circuits. Simulation results show the benefit to be expected from an efficient traffic control. The main results are summarized as follows: 1. In this paper we develop a linear model describing the traffic for both loop lines, two state space equations have been analyzed. The first one is adapted to the situation where a complete nominal time schedule is available while second one is adapted when only the nominal time interval between trains is known, in both cases we show the unstability of the traffic when the proceeding train is delayed following properties, - They are easily implemented at law cost on existing lines. - They ensure the exponetial stability of loop system. 2. These control laws have been tested on a traffic simulation software taking into the non-linearites and the physical constraints on a metro line. By means of simulation, the efficiency of the proposed optimal control laws are shown.

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A Return-on-Investment Analysis for evaluating Effectiveness of Corporate e-Learning Programs (기업 전자교육프로그램의 교육투자수익률 일(-) 분석)

  • Lee, Hyun-Kyung;Lee, Myung-Geun;Kim, Yoon-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 2011
  • The study explored a way to analyze return-on-investment for evaluating corporate e-learning programs. It is said to be not easy to measure return-on-investment due to complexity of determining exact amount of cost and benefit of any e-learning program. In this vein, it has been rare to see researches regarding return-on-investment for corporate e-learning programs. Nevertheless, it is needed to try to document return-on-investment evidence for verifying effectiveness of the programs. More concretely, the purpose of the study is to draw up guidelines in making decisions about whether companies should invest in e-learning programs any more at particular point of time.