• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2019

As rubber products such as O-rings, which are also known as packings or toric joints, come in regular, long term contact with liquid fuel, they can eventually swell, become mechanically weakened, and occasionally crack; this diminishes both their usefulness and intrinsic lifetime and could cause leaks during the steady-state flow condition of the fuel. In this study, we evaluate the lifetime of such products through compression set tests of FKM, a family of fluorocarbon elastomer materials defined by the ASTM international standard D141; these materials have great compression, sunlight, and ozone resistance as well as a low gas absorption rate. In this process, O-rings are immersed in the liquid fuel of airtight containers that can be expressed as a compression set, and the liquid fuel leakage in a flow rig tester at variable temperatures over 12 months is investigated. Using the Power Law model, our study determined a theoretical O-ring lifetime of 2,647 years, i.e. a semi-permanent lifespan, by confirming the absence of liquid fuel leakage around the O-ring assembled fittings. These results indicate that the FKM O-rings are significantly compatible for fuel tests to evaluate long-term sealing conditions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.573-587
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• 2022

The agricultural sector is completely different from other sectors since it completely relies on various natural and climatic factors. Climate changes have many effects, including lack of annual rainfall and pests, heat waves, changes in sea level, and global ozone/atmospheric CO₂ fluctuation, on land and agriculture in similar ways. Climate change also affects the environment. Based on these factors, farmers chose their crops to increase productivity in their fields. Many existing agricultural ontologies are either domain-specific or have been created with minimal vocabulary and no proper evaluation framework has been implemented. A new agricultural ontology focused on subdomains is designed to assist farmers using Jaccard relative extractor (JRE) and Naïve Bayes algorithm. The JRE is used to find the similarity between two sentences and words in the agricultural documents and the relationship between two terms is identified via the Naïve Bayes algorithm. In the proposed method, the preprocessing of data is carried out through natural language processing techniques and the tags whose dimensions are reduced are subjected to rule-based formal concept analysis and mapping. The subdomain ontologies of weather, pest, and soil are built separately, and the overall agricultural ontology are built around them. The gold standard for the lexical layer is used to evaluate the proposed technique, and its performance is analyzed by comparing it with different state-of-the-art systems. Precision, recall, F-measure, Matthews correlation coefficient, receiver operating characteristic curve area, and precision-recall curve area are the performance metrics used to analyze the performance. The proposed methodology gives a precision score of 94.40% when compared with the decision tree(83.94%) and K-nearest neighbor algorithm(86.89%) for agricultural ontology construction.

• 분석과학
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.357-363
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• 2014

아이소프렌은 자연기원의 휘발성 유기화합물 (BVOCs) 중의 하나로 대류권 오존 생성 및 포름알데히드의 근원으로 알려져 있다. 또한, 아이소프렌은 호흡가스에 포함된 미량 성분으로 폐암과 같은 질병의 진단마커로 사용되기도 하기 때문에 대기 중 아이소프렌의 정확한 측정을 위해 신뢰성 있는 가스 표준물질이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 아이소프렌 측정용 일차표준가스의 개발을 위해 중량법에 의한 제조 및 특성평가를 수행하였다. 독립적으로 제조한 일차표준가스들의 농도를 가스크로마토그래프-불꽃이온화검출기(GC-FID)로 비교하여 0.01%의 순도를 포함한 중량법에 의한 제조 불확도와 0.08% 수준의 제조 재현성을 확인하였다. 제조한 일차표준가스는 14개월간 동안 1.3% 수준의 안정성을 보였다. 원료의 순도, 질량측정(질량값), 제조 재현성, 흡착성 및 장기 안정성을 모두 고려하여 결정한 $10{\mu}mol/mol$ 수준 아이소프렌 일차표준가스 인증값의 상대 확장불확도는 2.8%(95%의 신뢰수준, k=1.96)이었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.113-125
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• 1984

우리 나라는 수공급(水供給)을 주로 댐개발(開發)에 의존(依存)하여 왔으나 이와 같은 방식(方式)은 앞으로 댐적지(適地)의 감소(減少), 건설비(建設費)의 앙등(昻騰), 수몰지역주민(水沒地域住民)의 생활재건대책(生活再建對策), 환경영향(環境影響) 등의 제요인(諸要因)으로 인하여 계속하여 개발(開發)하기 어려운 상황(狀況)에 있다. 한편 수수요(水需要)는 도시(都市)로의 인구집중(人口集中), 생활수준(生活水準)의 향상(向上), 산업발전(産業發展) 등으로 인하여 계속 증가(增加)되고 있으며 앞으로도 인구(人口)의 증가(增加)와 경제활동(經濟活動)의 고도화(高度化)에 따른 도시기능(都市機能)의 향상(向上)에 의해 증가(增加)될 것으로 예상(豫想)된다. 따라서, 앞으로 늘어날 수수요(水需要)에 대처(對處)하기 위해서는 지하수(地下水)의 개발(開發), 해수(海水)의 담수화(淡水化), 그리고 물을 순환재이용(循環再利用)하는 중수도(中水道)의 도입(導入)이 절실(切實)하며 그 연구(硏究) 또한 시급하다. 중수도(中水道)란 종래(從來) 수도(水道)에 의해서 급수(給水)되고 있던 용도(用途)가운데 반드시 음용수(飮用水)와 같은 정도(程度)의 청정(淸淨)을 요(要)하지 않는 용도(用途)에 대(對)하여 각(各) 용도(用途)에 적합(適合)한 수질(水質)의 중수(中水)를 공급(供給)하는 것으로써 사람이 마시기에 적합(適合)하지 않은 물을 공급(供給)하는 시설(施設)의 총체(總體)라고 정의(定義)한다. 이와 같은 중수도(中水道)의 용도(用途)로는 수세식(水洗式) 변소용수(便所用水), 에어컨냉각용보급수(冷却用補給水), 세차용수(洗車用水), 살수용수(撒水用水), 가로청소용수(街路淸掃用水), 조경용보급수(造景用補給水), 소화용수(消火用水) 등을 들 수 있으며, 원수(原水)로는 건물내(建物內)에서 발생(發生)하는 잡배수(雜排水), 수세식(水洗式) 변소용수(便所用水), 냉동냉각배수(冷凍冷却排水), 하수처리수(下水處理水), 오탁하천수(汚濁河川水), 그리고 우수(雨水), 지하수(地下水) 등을 생각할 수 있다. 그러나, 원수(原水)를 선정(選定)할 때는 수질(水質)과 함께 수량(水量)이 풍부(豊富)한가에 대해서도 고려(考慮)하여야 한다. 중수도(中水道)의 형태(形態) 및 분류(分類)는 개방계(開放系) 순환방식(循環方式)과 폐쇄계(閉鎖系) 순환방식(循環方式)으로 대별(大別)되며, 이를 규모(規模)에 따라 개별순환방식(個別循環方式), 지구순환방식(地區循環方式), 광역순환방식(廣域循環方式)의 3 가지로 나눈다. 중수도처리방식(中水道處理方式)은 활성오니법(活性汚泥法), 회전원판법(回轉圓板法), 접촉폭기법(接觸曝氣法)을 포함(包含)한 생물화학적(生物化學的) 처리법(處理法)과 의집심의법(擬集沈擬法), 사려과법(砂濾慮過法), 활성탄처리법(活性炭處理法), ozone 처리법(處理法), 염소처리법(鹽素處理法), 막처리(膜處理) 등을 포함(包含)한 물리화학적(物理化學的) 처리법(處理法)으로 대별(大別)된다. 또한 현재(現在) 외국(外國)에서 실시(實施)하고 있는 중수도(中水道)의 예(例) 조사(調査)하였으며, 중수도이용(中水道利用)의 효과(效果)를 직접적(直接的) 효과(效果)와 부수적(附隨的) 효과(效果)로 나누어 기술(記述)하였다. 또한 중수도(中水道) 개발시(開發時)의 문제점(問題點)을 순환방식별(循環方式別)로 조사(調査)하였으며, 기술(技術), 위생(衛生), 관리상(管理上)의 문제(問題)와 비용문제(費用問題), 법령상(法令上)의 문제(問題)를 다루었다. 중수도(中水道)를 개발(開發)하기 위해 사업자(事業者)(설치자(設置者))와 행정기관(行政機關)의 역할(役割) 중수도(中水道)를 위한 시설(施設)의 구조기준(構造基準) 및 유지관리기준(維持管理基準), 재정적(財政的) 조치(措置) 등에 대해서 연구(硏究)하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.189-198
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 지난 2020년 2월에 발사된 정지궤도환경위성탑재체(Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer; GEMS)의 이산화황 산출 현업 알고리즘에서 오프셋 보정 계수 산정 방법이 이산화황 칼럼 농도 산출 결과에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. GEMS의 현업 이산화황 산출 알고리즘은 차등흡수분광법(Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy; DOAS)과 주성분분석방법(Principal component analysis; PCA)이 융합된 하이브리드 알고리즘이다. 하이브리드 알고리즘에서는 차등흡수분광법을 이용하여 스펙트럴 피팅 후 나오는 이산화황 경사층적분농도 값에 나타나는 오존에 의한 흡수 영향을 보정하기 위하여 편차 보정 과정을 필수적으로 거치게 되며, 오프셋 보정 계수를 산정하는 조건에 따라 이산화황 칼럼농도 산출결과가 달라질 수 있기 때문에 적절한 오프셋 보정 계수 값의 적용이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 구름 화소가 많이 존재하는 날짜와 적게 존재하는 날짜에 대해 오존 보정 계수를 각각 계산하고, 각각의 오존 보정 계수를 GEMS 현업 이산화황 산출 알고리즘에 적용하여 산출한 이산화황 칼럼농도의 비교를 수행하였다. 구름 화소가 많이 존재하는 날의 GEMS 복사휘도 자료를 이용하여 계산된 오존 보정 계수를 사용한 경우, GEMS 관측 영역의 가장자리에 해당하는 인도 부근에서의 이산화황 칼럼농도의 표준편차가 1.27 DU, 한반도 부근에서 0.58 DU, 주변에 구름 화소가 많았던 홍콩 부근에서 0.77 DU로 나타났다. 한편, 구름 화소가 적은 날의 GEMS 자료를 이용하여 계산된 오존 보정 계수를 사용하였을 경우의 이산화황 칼럼농도의 표준편차는 인도주변에서 0.72 DU, 한반도 주변에서 0.38 DU, 홍콩 부근에서 0.44 DU로 다소 감소하였음을 확인하였으며, 구름 화소가 많은 날의 오존 보정 계수를 사용하여 이산화황을 산출한 경우 대비 비교적 안정적인 산출이 이루어졌음을 확인하였다. 이에 따라, GEMS 이산화황 산출 알고리즘의 불확실성 최소화 및 안정적인 산출을 위해서 적절한 조건에서의 오존 보정 계수 산정이 이루어져야 할 필요가 있다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.497-505
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• 2005

Domestic Sewage Treatment Plants are mostly based on biological treatment, in which large amounts of excess sludge are generated and occupy about 40 ~ 60% of the total sewage treatment costs. Several methods for sludge treatment has been so far reported as upgrading biodegradation of sludge; heat treatment, chemical treatment, including thermo-alkali and ozone, mechanical treatment including ultrasonic pulverization. But, it has a limitation in case of reducing the amount of excess sludge which are already producted. In this study, application of excess sludge reduction process using thermophilic aerobic bacteria for activated sludge was examined. The research was carried out two different stage. one for a biological wastewater treatment and the other for a thermophilic aerobic solubilization of the waste sludge. A portion of excess sludge from the wastewater treatment step was into the thermophilic aerobic sludge solubilization reactor, in which the injected sludge was solubilized by thermophilic aerobic bacteria. The solubilized sludge was returned to the aeration tank in the wastewater treatment step for its further degradation. Sludge solubilization reactor was operated at $63{\pm}2^{\circ}C$ with hydraulic retention time(HRT) of 1.5 ~ 1.7 day. Control group was operated with activated sludge process(AS) and experiment group was operated with three conditions(RUN 1, RUN 2, RUN3). RUN 1 was operated with AS without sludge solubilization reactor. RUN 2 were operated with AS with sludge solubilization reactor to examine correlation between sludge circulation ratio and sludge reduction ratio by setting up sludge circulation ratio to 3. RUN 3 was operated with sludge circulation ratio of 3 and MLSS concentration of 1,700~2,000mg/L to examine optimum operation condition. The quantity of excess sludge production was reduced sharply and in operation of RUN 3, sludge The quantity of excess sludge production was reduced sharply and in operation of RUN 3, sludge solubilization ratio and sludge reduction ratio were 53. 7%, 95.2% respectively. After steady state operation, average concentration of TBOD, SBOD, $TCOD_{Cr}$, $SCOD_{Cr}$, TSS, VSS, T-N, T-P of effluent were 4.5, 1.7, 27 .8, 13.8, 8.1, 6.2, 15.1, 1.8mg/L in the control group and were 5.6, 2.0, 28.6, 19.1, 9.7, 7.2, 16.1, 2.0mg/L in the experimental group respectively. They were appropriate to effluent standard of Sewage Treatment Plants.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.304-315
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• 2006

This study is performed to reexamine the association between ambient air pollution and daily mortality in seven major cities of Korea using a method of meta-analysis with the data filed for the period 1998-2001. These cities account for half of the Korean population (about 23 million). The observed concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO, mean=1.08 ppm), ozone ($O_3$, mean=33.97 ppb), particulate matter less than 10 ${\mu}m$ ($PM_{10},\;mean=57.11\;{\mu}g/m^3$), nitrogen dioxide ($NO_2$, mean=25.09 ppb), and sulfur dioxide ($SO_2$, mean=9.14 ppb) during the study period were at levels below Korea's current ambient air quality standards. Generalized additive models were applied to allow for the highly flexible fitting of seasonal and long-term time trends in air pollution as well as nonlinear associations with weather variables, such as air temperature and relative humidity. Also, we calculated a weighted mean as a meta-analysis summary of the estimates and its standard error. In city-specific analyses, an increase of $41.17{\mu}g/m^3(IQR)\;of\;PM_{10}$ corresponded to $1{\sim}12%$ more deaths, given constant weather conditions. Like most of air pollution epidemiologic studies, this meta-analysis cannot avoid fleeing from measurement misclassification since no personal measurement was taken. However, we can expect that a measurement bias be reduced in district-specific estimate since a monitoring station is better representative of air quality of the matched district. Significant heterogeneity was found for the effect of all pollutants. The estimated relative risks from meta-like analysis increased compared to those relative risks from pooled analysis. The similar results to those from the previous studies indicated existence of health effect of air pollution at current levels in many industrialized countries, including Korea.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.177-190
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• 2013

Air pollution trends in Japan between 1970 and 2012 were analyzed, and the impact of air pollution countermeasures was evaluated. Concentrations of CO decreased from 1970 to 2012, and in 2012, the Japanese environmental quality standard (EQS) for CO was satisfied. Concentrations of $SO_2$ dropped markedly in the 1970s, owing to use of desulfurization technologies and low-sulfur heavy oil. Major reductions in the sulfur content of diesel fuel in the 1990s resulted in further decreases of $SO_2$ levels. In 2012, the EQS for $SO_2$ was satisfied at most air quality monitoring stations. Concentrations of $NO_2$ decreased from 1970 to 1985, but increased from 1985 to 1995. After 1995, $NO_2$ concentrations decreased, especially after 2006. In 2012, the EQS for $NO_2$ was satisfied at most air quality monitoring stations, except those alongside roads. The annual mean for the daily maximum concentrations of photochemical oxidants (OX) increased from 1980 to 2010, but after 2006, the $98^{th}$ percentile values of the OX concentrations decreased. In 2012, the EQS for OX was not satisfied at most air quality monitoring stations. Non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC) concentrations generally decreased from 1976 to 2012. In 2011, NMHC concentrations near roads and in the general environment were nearly the same. The concentration of suspended particulate matter (SPM) generally decreased. In 2011, the EQS for SPM was satisfied at 69.2% of ambient air monitoring stations, and 72.9% of roadside air-monitoring stations. Impacts from mineral dust from continental Asia were especially pronounced in the western part of Japan in spring, and year-round variation was large. The concentration of $PM_{2.5}$ generally decreased, but the EQS for $PM_{2.5}$ is still not satisfied. The air pollution trends were closely synchronized with promulgation of regulations designed to limit pollutant emissions. Trans-boundary OX and $PM_{2.5}$ has become a big issue which contains global warming chemical species such as ozone and black carbon (so called SLCP: Short Lived Climate Pollutants). Cobeneficial reduction approach for these pollutants will be important to improve both in regional and global atmospheric environmental conditions.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2014

본 연구는 국내에서 시행중인 친환경 건축물 인증제도 (G-SEED)에 따른 환경영향 저감 효과를 파악하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여, G-SEED 인증을 받은 초등학교 건축물과 인증을 받지 않은 일반 초등학교 건축물을 대상으로, 전과정평가 방법론을 이용하여 4가지 환경영향범주 (지구온난화, 오존층파괴, 산성화, 부영양화)에 따른 환경영향을 평가하고, 결과를 비교하였다. 건축물에 대한 환경영향평가는 자재생산, 자재운송, 시공, 운영단계를 포함하였으며, 운영기간은 40년으로 설정하였다. 두 건축물의 단위연면적당 환경영향을 비교한 결과, 일반 초등학교 건축물에 비해 친환경 인증 초등학교 건축물의 환경영향이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 예를 들어, 친환경 인증 초등학교 건축물의 지구온난화지수는 3.751 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$ 로 산출된 반면, 일반 초등학교 건축물의 지구온난화지수는 3.282 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$ 로 산출되어, 약 12.5% 크게 나타났다. 이는 G-SEED 인증이 4가지 측면에서의 환경영향의 저감을 보장하지 못한다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 건축물로부터 발생하는 환경영향의 저감을 달성하기 위해서는 G-SEED에 대한 보완이 필요하다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.61-79
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• 2018

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of non-thermal dielectric barrier discharge(DBD) plasma on decontamination of Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) and Escherichia coli(E. coli) as common pathogens. Methods: This experiment was carried out in a chamber($0.64m^3$)designed by the authors. The plasma was continuously generated by a non-thermal DBD plasma generator(Model TB-300, Shinyoung Air tech, Korea). Suspensions of S. aureus and E. coli of 0.5 McFarland standard($1.5{\times}10^8CFU/mL$) were prepared using a Densi-Check photometer(bio $M{\acute{e}}rieux$, France). The suspensions were diluted1:1000 in sterile PBS solutions(approximately$10^{4-5}CFU/mL$) and inoculated on tryptic soy agar(TSA) in Petri dishes. The Petri dishes(80mm internal diameter)were exposed to the non -thermal DBD plasma in the chamber. Results: The results showed that 95% of S. aureus colonies were killed after a six-hour exposure to the DBD plasma. In the case of E. coli, it took two hours to kill 100% of the colonies. The gram-negative E. coli had a greater reduction than the gram-positive S. aureus. This difference may be due to the structure of their cell membranes. The thickness of gram-positive bacteria is greater than that of gram-negative bacteria. The S. aureus is more resistant to DBD plasma exposures than is E. coli. It should be noted that average concentrations of ozone, a byproduct of the DBD plasma generator, were monitored throughout the experiment and the results were well below the criteria, 50 ppb, recommended by the Korean Ministry of the Environment. Thus, non-thermal DBD plasma is deemed safe for use in hospital and public facilities. Conclusions: There was evidence that non-thermal DBD plasma can effectively kill S. aureus and E. coli. The results indicate that DBD plasma technology can greatly contribute to the control of infections in hospitals and other public and private facilities.