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An Evaluation of Thermal Stability of Raw Materials in the Vinyl Acetate Polymerization Process (비닐아세테이트 중합공정에서 원료물질의 열적 안정성 평가)

  • Lee, Keun-Won;Han, In-Soo;Lee, Jung-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2010
  • Most of the chemical reactions performed in the chemical industry are exothermic, meaning that thermal energy is released during the reaction. It is also important to understand the thermal hazards such as thermal stabilities and runaway reactions, which are governed by thermodynamics and reaction kinetics of the mixed materials. The paper was described the evaluation of thermal behavior caused by an exothermic batch process in manufacture of the vinyl acetate resin. The aim of the study was to evaluate the thermal stabilities of raw materials with operating conditions such as a reaction inhibitor, heating rate, reaction atmosphere and the mount of methanol charged in the vinyl acetate polymerization process. The experiments were performed in the differential scanning calorimeter(DSC), C 80 calorimeter, and thermal screening unit($TS^u$). It was suggested that we should provide the thermal characteristics for raw materials to present safe precautions with operating conditions in the vinyl acetate polymerization process.

COMBINED ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR LWR CONTAINMENT PHENOMENA

  • Allelein, Hans-Josef;Reinecke, Ernst-Arndt;Belt, Alexander;Broxtermann, Philipp;Kelm, Stephan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.249-260
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    • 2012
  • Main focus of the combined nuclear research activities at Aachen University (RWTH) and the Research Center J$\ddot{u}$lich (J$\ddot{U}$LICH) is the experimental and analytical investigation of containment phenomena and processes. We are deeply convinced that reliable simulations for operation, design basis and beyond-design basis accidents of nuclear power plants need the application of so-called lumped-parameter (LP) based codes as well as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes in an indispensable manner. The LP code being used at our institutions is the GRS code COCOSYS and the CFD tool is ANSYS CFX mostly used in German nuclear research. Both codes are applied for safety analyses especially of beyond design accidents. Focal point of the work is containment thermal-hydraulics, but source term relevant investigations for aerosol and iodine behavior are performed as well. To increase the capability of COCOSYS and CFX detailed models for specific features, e.g. recombiner behavior including chimney effect, building condenser, and wall condensation are developed and validated against facilities at different scales. The close connection between analytical and experimental activities is notable and identifying feature of the RWTH/J$\ddot{U}$LICH activities.

Status of ICT Convergence Smart Quality Distribution Technology for Food Quality and Safety Management

  • Kim, Jong Hoon;Kim, Ji Young;Kim, Byeong Sam
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2014
  • The world is in the process of a structural change related to ICT convergence knowledge industries. ICT is leading to the creation of new products and services, and is making our lives more convenient, safer, and more efficient. In advanced countries, many studies have been conducted with the goal of developing new business models converged with ICT, and this is also the case in the food industry. Korea possesses world-leading ICT, and if this ICT is applied to the food industry, a world-class new business model can be developed. The u-Food System, which is in the process of development in Korea, is a next-generation food system that can allow food providers, consumers, and distributors to access various types of information about food products, including traceability, distribution, safety, quality, and freshness, and manage this information. It is a future food system that converges ICT, biotechnology and sensing technology with food. Based on the u-Food System, this paper will introduce the status of current smart quality distribution technologies that converge ICT (such as sensor tag, sensor network, LBS, GIS, and CDMA) with food technologies (such as traceability, quality, distribution management) to manage the safety and quality of fresh food in the distribution process.

Warrantless Searches and Seizures of Vessels at Sea (해상에서 선박에 대한 영장 없는 수색과 압수 - 미국 해안경비대(Coast Guard)의 직무집행과 관련하여 -)

  • Kim, Jong-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.375-383
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the U.S. Coast Guard's origins and powers with respect to the warrantless searches of vessels at sea. In principle, searches and seizures of vessels at sea require a warrant. However, a ship at sea may easily slip away and destroy evidence while authorities attempt to get a warrant. Thus, warrantless searches and safety inspection need to be validated because of the exigent circumstances at the sea. There are also two kinds of exceptions that justify warrantless searches at sea namely, border searhes and administrative searches. These theories in the U.S. will be useful for legislation and law enforcement related to the Korea Coast Guard's mission.

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A Study on the Methods of Fault Analysis to Improve Safety in U-Healthcare System for Managing Emergency Rescue for Seniors (시니어들의 응급구난 관리를 위한 U-Healthcare시스템에서 안전성 개선을 위한 결함 분석 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gyu-A;Park, Man-Gon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.170-179
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    • 2014
  • Recently the U-Healthcare system has been rapidly advanced to manage emergence rescue for seniors. We can access emergency rescue systems with high quality services anytime, anywhere under ubiquitous healthcare systems. The more the various systems develop, the more software security systems become important. Therefore, the safety-critical system has been widely spread to the world by advancement of the information and communication technologies. There are a lot kind of fault analysis methods to evaluate software security systems. However due to characteristics of software that is not applied by human error, it can be prevented the enormous damages and losses from improving the safety of safety-critical system. So this paper proposes an integration method of FTA and Forward and Backward FMECA. This method has each strength of FTA and FMECA which is visual and numeric in normalization. First, by use of FTA, we can redraw FTA with Forward FMECA and Backward FMECA in consideration of occurrence, severity, detection, correctness, robustness, and security. Also according to value of NRVP at each event, we can modify FTA diagrams as shown critical paths given by severity and occurrence. Also, we propose the improved emergency rescue service platform of ubiquitous healthcare systems through identifying priorities of the criticality according to normalized risk priority values (NRPV).

Evaluation of Radiation Doses of Dental Portable Equipment (치과용 이동형 방사선장치의 선량평가)

  • Park, Hoon-Hee;Kang, Byung-Sam
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2018
  • We aim to evaluate safety of radiation by measuring leakage dose and patient(phantom) incident dose of ZEN-PX II dental portable equipment developed by G company. Measurement for leakage dose of equipment is conducted on the top, at the bottom, on the left, on the right and at the back. Dose measurement incident on the subject with the area dosimeter when using the phantom and measurement the leakage dose of equipment when using the phantom are evaluated. Comparing the right with the highest leakage dose as a 0 cm, 25 cm, 50 cm, 75 cm and 100 cm dose measurement at the measurement height of 100 cm, 64.2 uR was reduced to 47.3 uR in the senser mode 0.32sec. Even in film mode it was measured at 414.4 uR and about 27% lower at 162.6 uR. As the result of this study, when the irradiation time is 2 sec the right side dose is 290.5 uR and sensor mode is 0.32 sec the right side dose is 64.2 uR.

Investigation on reverse flow characteristics in U-tubes under two-phase natural circulation

  • Chu, Xi;Li, Mingrui;Chen, Wenzhen;Hao, Jianli
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.889-896
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    • 2020
  • The vertically inverted U-tube steam generator (UTSG) is widely used in the pressurized water reactor (PWR). The reverse flow behavior generally exists in some U-tubes of a steam generator (SG) under both single- and two-phase natural circulations (NCs). The behavior increases the flow resistance in the primary loop and reduces the heat transfer in the SG. As a consequence, the NC ability as well as the inherent safety of nuclear reactors is faced with severe challenges. The theoretical models for calculating single- and two-phase flow pressure drops in U-tubes are developed and validated in this paper. The two-phase reverse flow characteristics in two types of SGs are investigated base on the theoretical models, and the effects of the U-tube height, bending radius, inlet steam quality and primary side pressure on the behavior are analyzed. The conclusions may provide some promising references for SG optimization to reduce the disadvantageous behavior. It is also of significance to improve the NC ability and ensure the PWR safety during some accidents.

Improved u-Healthcare Service Authentication Protocol based on RFID Technology (개선된 RFID 기술을 이용한 u-헬스케어 서비스 인증 프로토콜)

  • Ahn, Hae-Soon;Yoon, Eun-Jun;Bu, Ki-Dong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.10
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the RFID technology is combined with a u-healthcare services is an emerging trend in the field of medical services. u-healthcare service, as covering the field of personal health information beyond the level of simple health screening and treatment of life are closely related. Considering security, invasion of privacy, as well as life may be threatened even if your personal health information to be exposed or exploited illegally u-Healthcare services certification is essential. In 2012, Jeong proposed J-L patient authentication protocol that Initialization process, and patients using RFID technology separates the certification process. Jeong, such as the claim that the proposed protocol for reuse attacks, spoofing attacks, prevent information disclosure and traceability fire safety, but raises issues of security and operations efficiency. Therefore, in this paper, Jeong, such as the security of the proposed protocol and to prove the computational efficiency issues, and to enhance the safety and efficiency of RFID technology based on practical u-Healthcare services authentication protocol is proposed.

Cleavage-Dependent Activation of ATP-Dependent Protease HslUV from Staphylococcus aureus

  • Jeong, Soyeon;Ahn, Jinsook;Kwon, Ae-Ran;Ha, Nam-Chul
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.43 no.8
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    • pp.694-704
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    • 2020
  • HslUV is a bacterial heat shock protein complex consisting of the AAA+ ATPase component HslU and the protease component HslV. HslV is a threonine (Thr) protease employing the N-terminal Thr residue in the mature protein as the catalytic residue. To date, HslUV from Gram-negative bacteria has been extensively studied. However, the mechanisms of action and activation of HslUV from Gram-positive bacteria, which have an additional N-terminal sequence before the catalytic Thr residue, remain to be revealed. In this study, we determined the crystal structures of HslV from the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus with and without HslU in the crystallization conditions. The structural comparison suggested that a structural transition to the symmetric form of HslV was triggered by ATP-bound HslU. More importantly, the additional N-terminal sequence was cleaved in the presence of HslU and ATP, exposing the Thr9 residue at the N-terminus and activating the ATP-dependent protease activity. Further biochemical studies demonstrated that the exposed N-terminal Thr residue is critical for catalysis with binding to the symmetric HslU hexamer. Since eukaryotic proteasomes have a similar additional N-terminal sequence, our results will improve our understanding of the common molecular mechanisms for the activation of proteasomes.

A Study on the Development of the Web-based u-WMS using RFID (RFID를 활용한 웹기반 u-창고관리시스템 개발에 대한 연구)

  • Li, Guang-Zhu;Lee, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.159-170
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    • 2006
  • This paper deals with the S/W development of web-based warehouse management system using ubiquitous RFID(Radio Frequency Identification). This S/W System supports the realtime inventory management and collaborative operations of relational companies in SCM. We expect to decrease the logistic cost and to upgrade the status of WMS and competitive power of company.