• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.57-63
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• 2015

Recently, Korea's municipal wastewater treatment plants generated amount of wastewater sludge per day. However, ocean dumping of sewage sludge has been prohibited since 2012 by the London dumping convention and protocol and thus removal or treatment of wastewater sludge from field sites is an important issue on the ground site. The hydrothermal carbonization is one of attractive thermo-chemical method to upgrade sewage sludge to produce solid fuel with benefit method from the use of no chemical catalytic. Hydrothermal carbonization improved that the upgrading fuel properties and increased materials and energy recovery, which is conducted at temperatures ranging from 200 to $350^{\circ}C$ with a reaction time of 30 min. Hydrothermal carbonization increased the heating value though the increase of the carbon and fixed carbon content of solid fuel due to dehydration and decarboxylation reaction. Therefore, after the hydrothermal carbonization, the H/C and O/C ratios decreased because of the chemical conversion. Energy retention efficiency suggest that the optimum temperature of hydrothermal carbonization to produce more energy-rich solid fuel is approximately $200^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.608-610
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• 2006

Supply Chain Management(SCM) system is a critical investment that can affect future competitiveness and performance of a company. When adopting a new SCM system, organizations experience increasing difficulty in decision making because information technology is changing so rapidly these days. Therefore, organizations have been looking for industry standards and proven methods of selection that they can utilize to choose the best SCM system. To select an optimum solution, we need to consider a number of different quantitative and qualitative factors such as cost, user interface and convenience, reference site, and so on. In this study, we propose a solution selection model of SCM systems using Fuzzy AHP to maximize the return on investment in information technology. The proposed model can systematically construct the objectives of SCM system selection to support the business goals.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.15-21
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• 1995

In this paper, $TiO_{2}-V_{2}O_{5}$ humidity sensors are fabricated by Sol-Gel method. For the establishment of optimum processing condition which is good humidity sensitive characteristics for specimens, their microstructures and crystalline-structures are analysed. Grain size increases with substitution rate of $V^{5+}$ on $Ti^{4+}$ site. From the analysis of XRD, $V^{5+}$ peak can't confirm with $V_{2}O_{5}$ rate. Their humidity sensitive characteristics is good at 1mol% of $V_{2}O_{5}$ rate and heat-treated at $700^{\circ}C$. The capacitance of specimens decreases with frequency.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.294-303
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• 2015

The present study is conducted to identify a better design and optimal number of Francis runner blades for sediment laden high head micro hydropower site, Tara Khola in the Baglung district of Nepal. The runner is designed with in-house code and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is performed to evaluate the performance with three configurations; 11, 13 and 17 numbers of runner blades. The three sets of runners were also investigated for the sediment erosion tendency. The runner with 13 blades shows better performance at design as well as in variable discharge conditions. 96.2% efficiency is obtained from the runner with 13 blades at the design point, and the runners with 17 and 11 blades have 88.25% and 76.63% efficiencies respectively. Further, the runner with 13 blades has better manufacturability than the runner with 17 blades as it has long and highly curved blade with small gaps between the blades, but it comes with 65% more erosion tendency than in the runner with 17 blades.

• Clean Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.67-76
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• 2002

Dewatered sludge of 400,000t/y from water treatment plants in Korea is being disposed through landfill and ocean dumping. However, the disposal is posing more and more serious environmental problems at the same time not only because of landfill site shortage in municipal suburbs, but because of the concern it will contaminate the oceans. In this study, the research on utilizing the sludge dried by flash dryer as covering soil in the landfill sites was carried out to solve these problems on environmental affinity. Both dewatered and dried sludge were exposed to the natural condition and observed according to the atmospheric changes. An experiment of soil engineering characteristics of the dried sludge and tests on mixed sludge(silty sandy soil : dried sludge = 10:90 ~ 30:70) such as particle size distribution, liquid and plastic limit, moisture content, specific gravity and compaction test were carried out. According to the compaction test, the compaction was confirmed as the optimum water content ratio was observed in the condition of SM-silty sand of particle size distribution, NP of liquid and plastic limit, 101.4% of moisture content, 2.04~2.12 of specific gravity. The results showed that dried sludges mixed with at least 30% of natural soil could be used as daily covering soil in the landfill sites.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.581-588
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• 2009

With the development of IT industry and formation of web-based knowledge sharing platform, a variety of railway-related information services on the web have emerged, ranging from personal blogs to dedicated portal sites, as in the other sectors. These services are contributing to advancing railway industry after all. As far as it is concerned with specific areas such as railway sector, the internet users are hardly expected to avail satisfactory results in acquiring customized information from the access, as the information served varies on the intension of the web site operator or relevant agency, and indexing categories and sub-categories is not easy to work out in a straight manner. This study will review on the feasibility of standardizing categories and sub-categories for railway industry information on the web, and present optimum categorization and sub-categorization approach for the most satisfactory results when searched, ultimately aiming at laying a foundation to satisfy the wide spectrum of users' need for railway information.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.759-762
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• 2001

Mg$_2$SnO$_4$having an inverse spinel structure was selected as a new host material of $Mn^{2+}$ activator. The luminescence of the $Mg_2$SnO$_4$:Mn phosphor prepared by the solid-state reaction were investigated under ultraviolet and low-voltage electron excitation. The Mn-doped magnesium tin oxide exhibited strong green emission with the spectrum centered at 500nm wavelength. It was explained that the green emission in $Mg_2$SnO$_4$:Mn phosphor is due to energy transfer from $^4T_1to ^6A_1\;of\; Mn^{2+}$ ion at tetrahedral site in the spinel structure. The optimum concentration of $Mn^{2+}$/ion exhibiting maximum emission intensity by the low-voltage electron excitation was 0.6mol%. ？

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.38-45
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• 1998

To extract insoluble proteins and to improve funtional properties of abolished proteins, an phytase producing Aspergillus sp. SM-15 was isolated from soil. The enzyme was purified and its enzymological characteristics were investigated. Phytase production reached to maximum when the wheat bran medium containing 1% mannose, 1% yeast extract, 1% (NH4)2HPO4 and 0.2% calcium chloride was cultured for 4 days. Phytase was purified 17.1 fold and specific activity was 244.32unit/mg by a sequencial process of ammonium sulfate fraction, ion exchange chromatography and gel filtrations Pruified enzyme was confirmed as a single band by the polyacrylamide gel electro-phoresis. The molecular weight of phytase was estimated to be 46,000. The optimum pH and temperature for the phytase activity were 5.5 and 5$0^{\circ}C$. The enzyme is stable in pH 4.5~5.5, 6$0^{\circ}C$. The activity of purified enzyme was inhibited by Hg2+ whereas activited by Pb2+ and Fe2+. The activity of phytase was inhibited by the treatment with iodine. The result indicate the possible involvement of histidine at active site. Km and Vmax of the puridied phytase were 37.037mM/L and 159.87umol/min, respectively.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.199-205
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• 2007

Thermostable asparaginase was purified to homogeneity from mesophilic Strepfomyces lincolnensis M-20 by 30${\sim}$70% ammonium sulfate precipitation and asparagine-Sepharose CL 6B affinity column chromatography, The apparent molecular mass of L-asparaginase by SDS-PAGE was found to be 47 kDa, whereas by its mobility on Sephacryl S-300 column was around 180 kDa, indicating that the enzyme at the native stage acts as tetramer, The purified enzyme showed a single band on acrylamide gel electrophoresis. The optimum pH and temperature were pH 9.5 and 55${\circ}$C, respectively. Chemical modification experiments of purified asparagines implied the existence cystein residue located at or near active site. Purified asparaginase retained the 85% of the initial activity after incubation at 90${\circ}$C for 30 min. A correlation between themostability and resistance to proteolysis of commercial asparaginase and purified asparaginase from Strepfomyces lincolnensis M-20 was investigated. Purified thermostable asparaginase was resistant to trypsin and chymotrypsin treatment, while the commercial asparaginase was not themostable and was susceptible to proteolytic treatment with trypsin and chymotrypsin.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.411-418
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• 2002

In domestic road construction sites, the compaction control based on strength are widely performed through the direct method with high accuracy, such as Plate Loading Test or Field CBR test. It is impossible to manage all construction sites using the direct method because the direct method requires heavy reaction loads and long measurement time. Therefore, it is necessary to apply the indirect method that could control the relative density of construction sites on the whole. Indirect methods, such as Cone Penetration Test and Fall Cone Test, require extra time for data analyzing and fixed area for test device. In this paper, the field applicability of Soil Impact Hammer (SIH) was investigated comparing with the results of field measurement tests and laboratory compaction tests. SIH developed by Japan Construction Administration and Asanuma Ltd., is a kind of indirect methods for compaction checking. According to the results of SIH performed in domestic road construction site, the subgrade reaction modulus obtained from SIH are similar to that from Plate loading tests in the range of 10 to 40. In comparison with laboratory compaction test, similar compaction line are shown in the dry side of optimum moisture contents.