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The Factors of Local Disappearance and a Plan of Restoration for Parnassius bremeri from Okchon-gun, Korea (옥천군 지역의 붉은점모시나비(Parnassius bremeri)의 소멸 원인과 복원 방안)

  • 김도성;조영복;고재기
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.467-479
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    • 1999
  • The factors of local disappearance and a plan of restoration fer Parnassius bremeri from Okchon-gun, Chungchongbukdo, Korea, were investigated. The population of this butterfly from Okchon-gun was much more abundant than the other areas of Korea in the past. But only two adults were observed in 1997 at this site and no more observation was made in 1998. So we considered that Parnassius bremeri is disappeared from this area. To know the factors of local disappearance of this species, we analyzed data of the monitoring from seven localities of Okchon-gun from 1990 to 1998 and also checked 252 specimens from this area by several collections. As a result of it, the habitat changes by recent road constructions and the frequent collecting activity around this area are shown as the factors for the local disappearance of this species. We are intending to establish the programs for restoration of Parnassius bremeri in Okchon-gun. Firstly, the breeding plan of this species was designed by investigation on life cycle. Secondly, the environmental conditions among seven localities were compared and the suitable places of the restoration were selected. The most suitable localities for restoration by this study were of two localities, Dongrakjeong and Jangwahri, which are considerd as highly successful breeding places in the view of growth condition of host plant.

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A Study of Creating a Biotope in Namsan Urban Natural Park (남산도시자연공원내 생물서식공간 조성에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Hyun-Kyung;Lee, Soo-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.45-58
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    • 2006
  • This study was aimed to propose the plan of creating a biotope reflecting an ecological education as well as its function as the habitats of amphibian in Namsan Urban Natural Park in Seoul. There were Cheonil mineral spring area which was located on the southern side of Namsan, wetlands which was already created on the east valley(800$m^2$) and a buffer area of the circumference(1,100$m^2$) as the biotope sites. Major fields of this study include a survey of the staus, a basic plan, a master plan; a survey of this site was focused on topography, water system, existing vegetation, wildbird, amphibian, trail; a detailed plan was focused on flow plan, planting plan, facility plan. Existing vegetation was classified into 8 types; Pinus densiflora forest, Pinus densiflora planted area, Prunus sargentii-Quercus spp. forest, Pinus rigida forest, Robinia pseudoacacia forest, artificial green space, wetlands, south beltway. There were Pinus densiflora planted area and Prunus sargentii-Quercus spp. forest as major vegetations of this site. 14 species and 33 individuals of wildbirds appeared, Rana temporaria ornativentris and Hynobius leechi were investigated in the wetlands.In particular, habitats of amphibian were divided eco-zone, buffer-zone and restore-zone, and habitats and facilities which would be suitable for the characteristics of each space were planned. As a result, environment elements of good habitats including spawn wetlands of amphibian, harbor of amphibian, water plant of wetland, wild shrubs forest, ecological landscape forest, wetland observation trail, fence of wetland protection and ramp by pebble and log were created at the site. The amphibian biotope of Namsan is rated high as an important space for conserving biodiversity. Accordingly, continuous monitoring of this biotope as a urban habitat is required as the environment changes.

Dispersion Analysis of Surface Discharged Heat Water In Shallow Coastal Area (천해역에서의 표층온배수 확산해석)

  • 서승원;김덕호
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.340-345
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    • 1995
  • Dispersion characteristics of surface discharge heat water in shallow region are investigated for coastal power plant with nearly constant depth of 20 meters by observing the seasonal depthwide temperature in several stations, which give or precise horizontal distribution and vertical structure of heat water. Surface discharged heat water in shallow coast in the Yellow Sea relies mainly on ambient tidal flow. so it behaves as free jet when the ambient now is strong and shows plumelike behavior during stagnant tide. According to observation the neat field region is estimated as 200-300 meters and shows distinct vertical profile and exponentially decreasing pattern from discharge point for this region. But there are no remarkable vertical distortion of temperature beyond 800 meters even though it is discharged from surface. Characteristic length scale model, CORMIX3, is applied and compared with the field date Overall tendency of CORMIX3 results resemble well with field data especially in near field and intermediate region.

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Quality Change of Refrigerated Chicken Breast Meat Patties and Nuggets Packaged with and without Vacuum (진공과 비진공 포장방법에 따른 닭가슴살 Patty 와 Nugget 의 품질변화)

  • Yi, Y.H.;T.C., Chen
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 1990
  • Frozen, prefried chicken breast meat patties and nuggets were obtained from a commercial plant. The samples were packaged with and without vacuum in pouches and stored at $2-4^{\circ}C$. The quality of these products was measured at 4-day intervals for a period of 28 days. Vacuum packaging did not inhibit or reduce psychrotrophic microbial growth of the patty and nugget samples upon refrigerated storage. Log total fungal counts for vacuum packaged samples remained stationary after reaching a log number of 3.5, while a continuous increase was observed for nonvacuum packaged samples. Vacuum packaging did not prevent an increase of TBA values. Free fatty acid values of the samples were low and remained low throughout the observation period. A continuous darkening of the Internal portions of the samples was observed.

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Production of Soild Fuel from Organic Waste Sludge by Vacuum Frying (감압유탕공정을 이용한 유기성슬러지의 연료화)

  • Park, Sang-Sook;Kang, Hwa-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.1347-1351
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    • 2006
  • It was tried to utilize organic waste sludge from wastewater treatment plant as a starting material to produce a solid fuel by vacuum flying. The effects of decompression levels, frying time and temperature on the calorific value and moisture of vacuum fried sludge were systematically investigated. Dewatered raw sludge used in this study had a moisture of 81.1% and calorific value of 2,930 kcal/kg. Based on the experimental observation, it was identified that the decompression level and frying time have the greatest influence on the calorific value of vacuum fried sludge. Moistures of the fried sludge at $180^{\circ}C$ for 25 min in 760 mmHg, 684 mmHg and 630 mmHg were 32.4%, 14.2% and 11.6%, respectively. Calorific values of the vacuum fried sludge at $140^{\circ}C$ for 15 min and 25 min were 5,400 kcal/kg and 5,540 kcal/kg in 684 mmHg and 5,520 kcal/kg and 5,660 kcal/kg in 630 mmHg, respectively.

Heat Loss Audit and Assessment of the Greenhouses Using Infrared Thermal Image Analysis (적외선 열화상 분석을 통한 온실의 열손실 진단 및 평가)

  • Moon, Jong-Pil;Yun, Nam-Kyu;Lee, Sung-Hyoun;Kim, Hak-Joo;Lee, Su-Jang;Kim, Young-Hwa
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2010
  • Unlike Urban building, horticultural facilities has a lot of heat loss through plastic or glass covering material which could be much influential to growing plant and consuming energy for heating greenhouse. In many cases, heat loss from a break of cover, a gap of joint sealing, the entrance to greenhouse and windows for ventilation are the main factors considered in calculating the heating load for horticultural facilities. however the normal observation through human eye and digital camera could not recognize where the heat loss occurred. but the infrared thermal image camera with detecting thermal difference could be very effective for noticing heat loss by analyzing infrared thermal image. In this study, greenhouse structure, covering material, internal and external provisions for Horticultural facilities were surveyed in different sites and Infrared thermal camera shooting and image analysis were performed for auditing heat loss from cultivation facilities The results from this study were that unexpected heat loss had been noticed in 7 representative cases of greenhouse such as side wall covered with single or double plastic, and the joint of horizontal thermal curtain, roof without horizontal thermal curtain, entrance to greenhouse, windows for ventilation. the most important factors for keeping heat energy were whether the horizontal thermal curtain with multifold thermal material was installed or not. The internal or external covering using multifold thermal curtain proved to be the most effective ways to keep heat energy from losing through heat transmission, heat radiation. from inside to outside the horticultural facilities.

Ultrastructure of the Cutaneous Mucous Glands and Histochemical Pronerty of the Mucous Secretory Material in Bombina orientalis. (무당개구리(Bombina orientalis Boulenger) 피부 점액선의 세포구조 및 점액분비물질의 조직화학적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 문명진;김기영;김우갑
    • The Korean Journal of Zoology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.221-231
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    • 1989
  • The histochemical characteristics of the cutaneous mucous glands and its fine structure of the Korean fire bellied toad, Bombina orientolis Boulenger, were studied with light and electron microscopes. The mucous glands of the toad are simple alveolar gland, and are composed of inner glandular epithelial cells and outermost myoepithelial cells. Histochemical studies suggest that main secretory materials released from the mucous glands might be acid mucopolysaccharides which is more abundant in the ventral skin than in the dorsal skin. The scanning electron microscopic observation showed that the morphology of the opening sites of the gland duct is similar to the morphology of stomata on the plant leaves. Glandular epithelial layers of the mucous glands are composed of two cell types, the mucous secreting cells and the mitochondria rich cells. The mucous secreting cells could be classified according to the morphology and inner textures of cytoplasm and those characteristics were seemed to be related to the degree of maturation of the cells. Furthermore the mucous within the mucous secreting cells appears to be synthesized in the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

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High Temperature Creep Characteristics Evaluation for Degraded Heat Resistance Steel of Power Plant by Mini-Specimen (미소시험편에 의한 재질열화된 내열강의 고온 크리프 특성 평가)

  • Lyu, Dae-Young;Baek, Seung-Se;Yu, Hyo-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.429-435
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    • 2003
  • In this study the new creep test using miniaturized specimen(10${\times}$10${\times}$0.5 ㎣) was performed to evaluate the creep characteristics for degraded materials of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel. For this creep test, the artificially aged materials for 330 hrs and 1820hrs at $630^{\circ}C$ were used. The test temperatures applied for the creep deformation of miniaturized specimens was X$630^{\circ}C$ and the applied loads were between 45 kg∼80 kg. After creep test, macro- and microscopic observation were conducted by the scanning electron microscope(SEM). The creep curves depended definitely on applied load and microstructure and showed the three stages of creep behavior like uniaxial tensile creep curves. The load exponents of virgin, 330 hrs and 1820 hrs materials based on creep rate showed 14.8, 9.5 and 8.3 at $550^{\circ}C$ respectively, The 1820 hrs material showed the lowest load exponent and this behavior was also observed in the case of load exponent based on creep rupture time. In contrast to virgin material which exhibited fined dimple fractography, a lot of carbides like net structure and voids were observed on the fractography of degraded materials.

Analysis of the Aluminum Extrusion Process Equipped with the Continuous Heat Treatment System

  • Lee, Bong-Sang;Cho, Young-Hee;Lee, Jeong-Min;Lim, Hak-Jin;Koo, Jar-Myung;Yoon, Bo-Hee;Lee, Tae-Hyuk;Lee, Jong-Hyeon
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the heat flow of the plant scale aluminum extrusion process was investigated to establish optimum continuous heat treatment conditions. During the extrusion of 6061 aluminum alloy, processing parameters such as the extrusion pressure, speed and temperature histories of billets were logged as a function of time. The surface temperature of the billets increased at constant ram speed, while it decreased with decreases of the ram speed. In order to maintain the billet temperature within a solutionizing temperature range prior to the succeeding water quenching step, the ram speed or the temperature of the blower should be controlled. The temperature histories of the billets during the extrusion and hot air blowing processes were successfully simulated by using the velocity boundary model in ANSYS CFX. The methodology to design an optimum process by using a commercial simulation program is described in this study on the basis of the metallurgical validation results of the microstructural observation of the extrudates. The developed model allowed the advantages of taking into account the motion of the extrudate coupled with the temperature change based on empirical data. Calculations were made for the extrudate passing through the isothermal chamber maintained at appropriate temperature. It was confirmed that the continuous heat treatment system is beneficial to the productivity enhancement of the commercial aluminum extrusion industry.

Characteristics of Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera G.) Leafstalk Pulp for the Development of High Performance Paper (기능성 섬유원료 개발을 위한 연잎줄기 펄프의 특성)

  • Choi, Tae-Ho;Seo, Ji-Cheol;Lee, Ji-Nyeon
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2010
  • This study was carried out to investigate the pulping and papermaking characteristics of lotus (Nelumbo nucifera G.) leafstalk for the development of high performance paper. Anatomical and chemical properties of the lotus leafstalk were analyzed. The pulping and papermaking properties of the lotus leafstalk by conventional alkali and sulfomethylated pulping processes were also evaluated. The length and width of fibers were 0.06-3.32 mm (av. 1.23 mm) and 3.47-25.6 ${\mu}m$ (av. 20.7 ${\mu}m$), respectively. The length and width of vessel elements were 0.07-0.78 mm (av. 0.20 mm) and 14.1-330.0 ${\mu}m$ (av. 54.13 ${\mu}m$), respectively. The fiber length/fiber width ratio was 60.20. The extractives (cold water, hot water, 1% NaOH and ethanol-benzene) and lignin content of lotus leafstalk were higher than those of plant bast fiber. The contents of holocellulose, lignin, and ash were 73.8%, 24.3%, and 4.3%, respectively. The pulp yields based on pulping methods were sulfomethylated pulping av. 52%, and alkaline pulping av. 42%. The conventional alkaline pulping shows better pulp and sheet properties than the sulfomethylated pulping which was modified pulping processes. But the sulfomethylated pulping shows higher brightness than alkali pulping. In the consequence of FE-SEM observation, lotus leafstalk pulp consists of various kinds of thin walled fibers which have large amount of small pits.