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Energy harvesting characteristics on curvature based PVDF cantilever energy harvester due to vortex induced vibration (곡면을 가진 외팔보형 PVDF 에너지 하베스터의 와류유기진동으로 인한 에너지 수확 특성)

  • Woo-Jin Song;Jongkil Lee
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.168-177
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    • 2024
  • When designing an underwater Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (PEH), Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV) is generated throughout the cantilever through a change in curvature, and the generation of VIV increases the vibration displacement of the curved cantilever PEH, which is an important factor in increasing actual power. The material of the curved PEH selected a Polyvinyline Di-Floride (PVDF) piezoelectric film, and the flow velocity is set at 0.1 m/s to 0.50 m/s for 50 mm, 130 mm, and 210 mm with various curvatures. The strain energy change of PEH by VIV was observed. The smaller the radius of curvature, the larger the VIV, and as the flow rate increased, more VIV appeared. Rapid shape transformation due to the small curvature was effective in generating VIV, and strain energy, normalized voltage, average power, etc. To increase the amount of power of the PEH, it is considered that the average power will increase as the number of curved PEHs increases as well as the steep curvature is improved.

Possibility of Using Non-selective Herbicides as Desiccants for Improving Soybean Harvest Efficiency (콩 수확 효율 증진을 위한 건조제로서 비선택성 제초제의 활용 가능성)

  • Won, Ok Jae;Hong, Seo yeon;Suh, Eun Ji;Park, Jae-Sung;Lee, Hong Seok;Park, Jin-Ki;Ryu, Jong-Soo;Han, Won-Young;Han, Kil Su;Song, Duk Young
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.66 no.4
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    • pp.358-364
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    • 2021
  • This study was conducted to select a desiccant and determine its concentration for safe usage to improve the harvesting efficiency of soybeans. Soybeans were treated with a desiccant (non-selective herbicide) before and after the maturation stage. The drying effect of the desiccant was higher at earlier treatment times than at the maturation stage, but the difference was not statistically significant. The higher efficacy might be related to the drying process of the leaves and stems, with most of the leaves and stems having already been dried by the time of hand harvesting. Desiccant treatments had no adverse effects on soybean yield, weight of 100 grains, seed quality, or seed germination rate compared with the untreated control. Pesticide residue analysis showed minimum residue concentration to be lower than the tolerance level of pesticide residues. In conclusion, it was confirmed that the desiccant was effective in drying soybean, and that there was no damage to the quality of soybean seeds. In addition to the drying effect, the dessicant treatment also facilitates the removal of weeds that interfere with the mechanical harvest and improves harvesting efficiency through the drying of the growth imbalanced individual. The desiccant treatment is expected to shorten the mechanical harvesting time by 1-2 weeks. It is thought that the selection of the proper cultivation period for other crops after soybean cultivation will be more advantageous.

A STUDY ON EROSION (CAUSES AND REMEDIES) BASED ON HYDROLOGICAL DATA

  • K.M. Ibe, Sr;H. Krynen
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.269-276
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    • 2001
  • The project concentrates on an hydrological analysis. The analysis consists of rainfall, infiltration, Determination of runoff and sediment yield. The risque of erosion and the control measures are related to the slopes and land use. Therefore the first approach to erosion must be correct land use based on land classification. Basically there are two types of mechanical protection works; Drainage and Storage. Realization of a drainage system will be very costly and therefore temporary storage is preferred. For farmland in flat areas hardly any measures are needed. For farmland on slopes temporary storage can be effected by applying tillage with ridges within contour bunds. Along roads infiltration pits should be constructed and in areas with houses, the solution to avoid runoff will be water harvesting.

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Measurement of Physical Properties of Agricultural Products (농산물(農産物)의 물리적(物理的) 특성(特性) 측정(測定)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Koh, Hak Kyun
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.20-29
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    • 1988
  • Properties of agricultural products are important for engineering design and analysis with respect to their mechanical harvesting, handling, transporting and processing. Researcher have presented the data of properties for various kinds of agricultural products. These data, however, are obtained from the materials produced in foreign countries, and a very few data could be found in Korea. In this paper, emphasis put on the importance of measuring the properties of agricultural products through an extensive review of literatures, and some experimental results on the viscoelastic and elastic properties of the materials are presented. Viscoelastic characteristics of some agricultural materials, specifically the force-deformation-time relationship of the whole orange and cylindrical samples of cheese under different types of loading were investigated. In elastic test, the response of apple during an impact and the relationships among various parameters such u degree of damage, drop height and absorbed energy were determined.

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Pellet Geometric Effects on a Thermoelectric Generator with a High Power Electronic Component (고파워 전자소자에 부착된 열전생성기에 대한 pellet의 기학학적 구조가 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, K.J.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.36-42
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문은 고파워 전자소자로부터 에너지를 수확하는 열전생성기의 성능에 pellet의 기학학적 구조가 미치는 영향들을 보고한다. 열경계저항을 포함하는 열전모델을 적용하여, 다양한 경계조건들과 열원의 열율들에 대해 pellet의 높이, pellet의 단면적, thermocouple의 수를 최적화 하고, 이처럼 최적화된 pellet의 기하학적 구조를 갖는 열전생성기의 성능과 일반적인 pellet으로 구성된 열전생성기의 전력생성성능과 효율이 예측되고 비교되어진다. 예측된 결과는 최적화된 pellet으로 구성된 열전생성기가 일반적인 pellet으로 구성된 열전생성기보다 2-10배까지 생성효율이 우수함을 보여준다. 최적화된 pellet으로 구성된 열전생성기와 일반적인 pellet으로 구성된 열전생성기의 열적성능도 예측되고 비교된다.

Design and Fabrication of Low Frequency Driven Energy Harvester Using Electromagnetic Conversion

  • Lee, Byung-Chul;Chung, Gwiy-Sang
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.143-147
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes a low frequency driven electromagnetic energy harvester (EMEH) which consists of a thin flame resistant (FR-4) planar spring, NdFeB permanent magnets, and a copper coil. The FR-4 spring was fabricated using a desk computer numerical control (CNC) 3D modeling machine. Mathematical modeling and ANSYS finite element analysis (FEA) were used totheoretically investigate the mechanical properties of the spring mass system. The proposed EMEH generates a maximum power of 65.33 ${\mu}W$ at a resonance frequency of 8 Hz with an acceleration of 0.2 g (1 g = 9.8 $m/s^2$) and a superior normalized power density (NPD) of 77 ${\mu}W/cm^3{\cdot}g^2$.

Fermentation of Acidic Beverage with Dropped Peach (복숭아 낙과를 이용한 초산음료의 발효)

  • 김순동;이재석;김미경
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.135-146
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    • 1994
  • The study was conducted to research the desirable method for fermentation of acidic beverage in the farmhouse using peach dropped at harvesting periods. Step by step fermentation(SSF), complex fermentation after crushing of the fruit(CCF), complex fermentation after slicing of the fruit(SCF) and natural fermenation added yeast only after slicing of the fruit(SYNF) were compared. The brief stationary fermentor for complex fermentation in the farmhouse was made in this experiment. The ability of acid production, flavor, taste and color were measured by sensory evaluation and mechanical methods. The quality of vinegar by SYNF was the most desirable, estimated by the color, the flavor, the content and composition of sugar, and of organic acids, and which was a suitable fermentation method for the farmhouse. The strains of acetobacter SYNF-1, 2 and 3 were isolated from the SYNF vinegar, and the SYNF-1 was a main strain.

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Generating Characteristics of the Cymbal Type Piezoelectric Generator (Cymbal Type 압전 발전기의 발전 특성)

  • Jun, Ho-Ik;Jeoung, Sung-Su;Chong, Hyon-Ho;Park, Tae-Gone;Kim, Myung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.360-365
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    • 2009
  • On this paper, piezoelectric generators using piezoelectric ceramics were designed and fabricated. Generators were made by attaching cymbal type metal plates on upper and bottom sides of a disc type piezoelectric ceramic. Generator converts wasting mechanical energy to electrical energy. Output voltage was increased when thickness of ceramic and displacement of vibration were increased. Temperature of the ceramic was increased when it generates, but the temperature rising was saturated at certain temperature.

Piezoelectric Generator Using Cymbal Type Transducer (Cymbal Type 트랜스듀서를 이용한 압전 발전 장치)

  • Jun, Ho-Ik;Jeoung, Sung-Su;Park, Tae-Gone
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.169-170
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    • 2008
  • On this paper, piezoelectric generators using piezoelectric ceramics were designed and fabricated. Generators were made by attaching cymbal type metal plates on upper and bottom sides of a disc type piezoelectric ceramic. Generator converts wasting mechanical energy to electrical energy. Output voltage was increased when thickness of ceramic and displacement of vibration were increased. Temperature of the ceramic was increased when it generates, but the temperature rising was saturated at certain temperature.

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Experimental identification of rare-earth magnetic suspensions for micro and meso scale levitating systems

  • Siyambalapitiya, Chamila;De Pasquale, Giorgio;Soma, Aurelio
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.181-192
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    • 2012
  • Magnetic suspensions based on passive levitation of diamagnetic materials on permanent magnets provide attractive systems for several applications on the micro and meso scales. The magnetic properties of these kinds of suspensions dramatically reduce the global mechanical stiffness of the devices providing significant effects on their dynamic response. The goal of this paper is to investigate the static and dynamic behavior of magnetic suspensions with respect to its dependant parameters. Experimental measurements have been performed on the response of dedicated prototypes where the geometrical dimensions and magnetic field strength have been intended as variable parameters. Some benefits have been documented in the fields of energy harvesting and inertial sensing, while additional applications of magnetic suspensions are under investigation.