• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2017

A water treatment utility in South Korea operates a large system of pressurized hollow fiber membrane (PHFM) modules. The optimal selection of membrane module for the full scale plant was critical issue and carried out using Risk-based Life Cycle Cost (RbLCC) analysis based on the historical data of operation and maintenance. The RbLCC analysis was used in the process of decision-making for replacing aged modules. The initial purchasing cost and the value at risk during operation were considered together. The failure of modules occurs stochastically depending on the physical deterioration with usage over time. The life span of module was used as a factor for the failure of Poisson's probability model, which was used to obtain the probability of failure during the operation. The RbLCC was calculated by combining the initial cost and the value at risk without its warranty term. Additionally, the properties of membrane were considered to select the optimum product. Results showed that the module's life span in the system was ten years (120 month) with safety factor. The optimum product was selected from six candidates membrane for a full scale water treatment facility. This method could be used to make the optimum and rational decision for the operation of membrane water purification facility.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.179-189
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• 2019

This study aimed to investigate the effect of temperature and solid retention time (SRT) on membrane fouling in a membrane bioreactors (MBRs). For this purpose, a lab-scale submerged MBR system was used. This system operated at two SRTs of 15 and 5 days, three various temperatures (20, 25 and $30^{\circ}C$) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 8 h. The results indicated that decreased the cake layer resistance and increased particles size of foulant due to increasing temperature and SRT. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis show that the cake layer formed on the membrane surface, contained high levels of proteins and especially polysaccharides in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) but absorbance intensity of EPS functional groups decreased with temperature and SRT. EEM analysis showed that the peak on the range of Ex/Em=220-240/350-400 in SRT of 15 and temperature of $30^{\circ}C$ indicates the presence of fulvic acid in the cake. In addition, as the temperature rise from 20 to $30^{\circ}C$, concentration of soluble microbial products (SMP) increased and COD removal reached 89%. Furthermore, the rate of membrane fouling was found to increase with decreasing temperature and SRT.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.745-758
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• 2005

This paper presents a statistical analysis on the position-specific distributions of amino acid residues in transmembrane proteins. A hidden Markov model segments membrane proteins to produce segmented regions of homogeneous statistical property from variable-length amino acids sequences. These segmented residues are analyzed by using chi-square statistic and relative-entropy in order to find position-specific amino acids. This analysis showed that isoleucine and valine concentrated on the center of membrane-spanning regions, tryptophan, tyrosine and positive residues were found frequently near both ends of membrane.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.290-300
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• 2009

연직 막체방파제에 대한 기존의 수치해석에서는 막체의 운동 중 발생하는 변동장력성분이 초기장력에 비하여 미미하다는 가정 하에 운동 중의 막체 장력을 초기장력으로 대체하는 선형해석을 수행하였다. 본 수치해 석에서는 막체장력의 비선형 변화를 한 주기 동안의 평균장력으로 대체하며 이 평균장력을 반복계산을 통하여 구해나가는 준 비선형 해석을 수행하였다. 상기 선형해석 결과와 비교하여 입사파 주기가 증가할수록 반사율은 증가하며 전달율은 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러, 본 준 비선형해석을 계류형태를 달리하는 두 구조물에 적용한 결과, 막체의 수평변위의 제어가 방파성능에 밀접한 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 막체의 수평변위를 억제하기 위해서는 막체의 초기장력을 증가시키거나 막체의 중간부에 계류라인을 추가 결속시키는 방법들이 있으나 이를 위해서는 연직 하향 계류력을 지지하기 위한 대형 수면 부표의 설치가 요구된다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.487-493
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• 2004

본 연구는 고효율 비접촉 초음파 송수신이 가능한 미세가공 정전용량형 초음파 탐촉자(cMUT)를 개발하기 위한 기초연구로 수행되었다. cMUT의 주요 구성요소인 미세 진동 막의 거동-총진 주파수, 막 변위, 막 붕괴 변위, 막 붕괴전압-을 이론적인 해석과 유한요소해석을 이용하여 분석하였다. 진동 막의 두께와 크기, 희생층 두께, 전극의 두께와 크기 등과 같은 cMUT의 설계인자를 검토하였다. 분석결과 진동 막의 공진주파수는 진동 막의 두께가 증가함에 따라 증가하였으며 직경에 따라서는 감소하였다. 직류 바이어스 전압이 증가함에 따라 진동 막의 변위는 증가하였으며 진동 막의 붕괴전압을 분석하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.493-503
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• 1998

The sectional forming analysis considering bending effects from the geometrically deformed shape of two linear membrane finite elements(called super element) was performed under plane strain assumption for analyzing forming processes of an arbitrarily shaped draw-die. For the evaluation of bending effects, the bending equivalent forces are calculated from the bending moment computed using the changes in the interior angle at the middle node of super element, and are agumented to the membrane stretch forces. In order to verify the validity of the bending formulation, the simulation results for the stretch, draw, and bend sections were compared with membrane analysis results and measurements.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.45-60
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• 2010

막 구조물의 비선형 문제는 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구가 있었고 현재 또한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 막 구조물은 해석방법에 따라 그 수렴성이 민감하게 반응하기 때문이다. 이러한 비선형 문제는 매우 복잡하고 정교한 연구가 수반되어야 하며 고도의 기술을 필요로 하기 때문에 해석방법에 대한 접근이 초기형상결정단계부터 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 해석할 때에 발생하는 해의 발산과 면재의 쏠림 현상에 대한 해결책으로 막 구조물 설계 시에 많이 사용되는 삼각형 평면요소에 대해서 선재로 치환하여 해석하는 방법을 제안하고, 카테나리 예제를 대상으로 해석을 수행하여 해의 수렴성 및 신뢰도를 고찰한다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.237-242
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• 2012

Purpose: The aim of this study was to clinically and radiographically evaluate and compare treatment of intrabony defects with the use of decalcified freeze-dried bone allograft in combination with a calcium sulphate barrier to collagen membrane. Methods: Twelve patients having chronic periodontal disease aged 20 to 50 years and with a probing depth >6 mm were selected. Classification of patient defects into experimental and control groups was made randomly. In the test group, a calcium sulphate barrier membrane, and in control group, a collagen membrane, was used in conjunction with decalcified freeze-dried bone graft in both sides. Ancillary parameters as well as soft tissue parameters along with radiographs were taken at baseline and after 6 months of surgery. Parameters assessed were plaque index, modified gingival index, probing depth, relative attachment level, and location of the gingival margin. A Student's t-test was done for intragroup and a paired t-test for intergroup analysis. Results: Intragroup analysis revealed statistically significant improvement in all the ancillary parameters and soft tissue parameters with no statistically significant difference in intergroup analysis. Conclusions: The study concluded that a calcium sulphate barrier was comparable to collagen membrane in achieving clinical benefits and hence it can be used as an economical alternative to collagen membrane.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.325-334
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• 2023

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) provides the benefits on high effluent quality and construction cost without the secondary clarification. Despite of these advantages, fouling, which clogs the pore in membrane modules, affects the membrane life span and effluent quality. Studies on the laboratory scale MBR were focused on the control of particulate fouling, organic fouling and inorganic fouling. However, less studies were focused on the control of biofouling and microbial aspect of membrane. In the full scale operation, most MBR produces high effluent quality to meet the national permit of discharge regulation. In this study, the performance and microbial community analysis were investigated in two MBRs. As the results, the performance of organic removal, nitrogen removal, and phosphorus removal was similar both MBRs. Microbial community analysis, however, showed that Azonexus sp. and Propionivibrio sp. contributed to indirect fouling to cause the chemical cleaning in the DX MBR.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2021

A POM-membrane was fabricated by immobilizing a keggin type polyoxometalate (POM) H5PV2Mo10O40 onto the surface of microporous flat-sheet polymeric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVFD) membrane using a chemical deposition method. The POM-membrane was characterized by FT-IR, SEM and EDX to confirm existing of the POM onto the membrane surface. The POM-membrane was used to remove an anionic textile dye (Reactive Black 5 named as an RB5) from aqueous phases with a cross-flow membrane filtration and a batch adsorption system. The dye removal efficiency of the POM-membrane using the cross-flow membrane filtration system and the batch adsorption system was about 88% and 98%, respectively. The influence factors such as contact time, adsorbent dosage, pH, and initial dye concentration were investigated to understand the adsorption mechanism of the RB5 dye onto the POM-membrane. To find the best fitting isotherm model, Langmuir, Freundlich, BET and Harkins-Jura isotherm models were used to analyze the experimental data. The isotherm analysis showed that the Langmuir isotherm model was found to the best fit for the adsorption data (R2 = 0.9982, qmax = 24.87 mg/g). Also, adsorption kinetic models showed the pseudo second order kinetic model was found the best model to fit the experimental data (R2 = 0.9989, q = 8.29 mg/g, C0 = 15 ppm). Moreover, after four times regeneration with HNO3 acid, the POM-membrane showed high regenerability without losing dye adsorption capacity.