• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.335-342
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• 2011

As part of the Department of Energy's Fuel Cycle Research and Development Program an electrochemical technology employing molten salts is being developed for recycle of metallic fast reactor fuel and treatment of light water reactor oxide fuel to produce a feed for fast reactors. This technology has been deployed for treatment of used fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) in the Fuel Conditioning Facility, located at the Materials and Fuel Complex of Idaho National Laboratory. This process is based on dry (non-aqueous) technologies that have been developed and demonstrated since the 1960s. These technologies offer potential advantages compared to traditional aqueous separations including: compactness, resistance to radiation effects, criticality control benefits, compatibility with advanced fuel types, and ability to produce low purity products. This paper will summarize the status of electrochemical development and demonstration activities with used nuclear fuel, including preparation of associated high-level waste forms.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.8-11
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• 2012

상용화된 자동합성장치는 사용되는 유기용매의 종류가 다르고 합성수율에 차이를 보인다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 자동합성장치에 따른 $^{18}F$-FDG의 방사선분해에 관한 방사화학적순도 변화를 비교하였다. Cyclotron (PETtrace, GE Healthcare)을 사용하여 $^{18}F$를 생산하고, 자동합성장치(FASTlab, Tracerlab MX, GE Healthcare)를 이용하여 FDG로 합성하였다. 방사화화적순도는 Radio-TLC Scanner (AR 2000, Bioscan), GC(Gas Chromatography, Agilent 7890A)를 사용하여 $^{18}F$-FDG에 함유되어 있는 에탄올의 양을 측정하였다. 고정상은 실리카겔로 도포된 유리판($1{\times}10cm$), 이동상은 아세토니트릴과 물 19:1 혼합액을 사용하고, 각각의 합성장치에서 고농도와 저농도의 $^{18}F$-FDG를 생산 후 2시간 간격으로 방사화학적순도를 측정하였다. 저농도 (약 2.59 GBq/mL 이하)에서 순도변화는 Tracerlab MX에서는 99.26%, 98.69%, 98.25%, 98.09%, FASTlab에서는 99.09%, 97.83, 96.89%, 96.62%를 얻었다. 고농도(약 3.7 GBq/mL 이상)에서 순도변화는 Tracerlab MX에서는 평균 99.54%, 96.08%, 93.77%, 92.54%, FASTlab의 경우 99.53%, 95.65%, 92.39%, 89.82%를 얻었다. 그리고 FASTlab에서 생산한 $^{18}F$-FDG의 GC에서는 에탄올이 검출되지 않았으며, Tracerlab MX에서는 100~300 ppm의 에탄올이 검출되었다. 이러한 결과를 비추어 봤을 때 방사선 보호제인 에탄올의 유무보다 방사능농도가 방사선분해에 더 큰 영향을 미치기 때문에 고농도의 $^{18}F$-FDG 생산 후 무균 생리식염수로 희석하여 농도를 낮춘 후 사용해야 한다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.335-339
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• 2008

Biodiesel is an alternative and renewable energy source, which is hoped to reduce global dependence on petroleum and environmental problem. Biodiesel produced from a variety of oil sources such as vegetable oil, animal fat and waste oils, and has properties similar to those associated with petro-diesel, including cetane number, volumetric heating value, flash point, viscosity and so on. In this study, we investigate the effect of quality of raw materials on alkali-catalyzed transesterification for producing of biodiesel. The increase of content of free fatty acid and water in oil were caused the sharp decrease of conversion yield. Also, the low purity of methanol in reactant was inhibited the reaction rate. In the case of addition of sodium sulfate as absorbent to prepare catalyst solution, the content of fatty acid methyl ester in product was increased more about 1.6% than that of control. However, the addition of zeolite, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate as absorbent in reactant to remove water generated from reaction did not show any enhancement in the reaction yield. This result may provide useful information with regard to the choice and preparation of raw materials for more economic and efficient biodiesel production.

• 한국기계기술학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.123-128
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• 2011

It has been stand high in estimation to converse from Carbon dioxide to Dimethyl Ether in new alternative fuel energy division in 21C, especially Using of DME in point of view of transportation fuel has been discussed of a new clean energy which is very lower of exhaust gas than gasoline and diesel energy. In this paper it is used ZSM-5 and I developed new catalyst by addition of cerium to control acidity. The new catalyst was proved high conversion rate, when it was conversed from methanol to DME, there wasn't any additional material except DME and water, and I overlooked reaction temperature, reaction time, amount of catalyst, amount of added cerium, effect of water content in methanol, reaction temperature by making change of reaction time. I have conclude that conversion rate to DME was increased as increased of catalyst amounts. The best catalyst condition of without additional product was treated poisoning from ZSM-5 to 5% cerium and new catalyst was not effected in purity of fuel methanol.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.427-441
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• 2016

Objectives: This study investigated the aconitine contents analysis of Buja extracts (raw material of Buja, hot water extract of Buja, and hot water extract of Sambu-tang) and the single oral dose toxicity of Sambu-tang-R in six-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats in order to compare the toxicity of Buja extracts.Methods: Aconitine content analysis is that Buja extracts were hold purity test. To detect single oral dose toxicity, six-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into two groups, a normal control group and a sambutang-R (2,000 mg/kg) group. For 14 days of treatment, clinical signs, body weight, clinical chemistry, necropsy, and histopathology were examined.Results: The aconitine contents of the Buja extracts were Buja-RH (0.1738%), Buja-RD (0.1746%), and Sambu-tang-R (0.0961%). There were no cases of death in either the control group or the experimental group. Nor was there any disorder to the clinical signs or any significant change in body weight in either group. There was no significant change of clinical chemistry or disorder of necropsy findings in either the control or the experimental group. And there was no difference in histopathological findings in comparing the control group with the experimental group.Conclusions: These results suggest that the aconitine content of the hot water extract of Buja was similar to the raw material of Buja, but the hot water extract of Sambu-tang had greatly decreased aconitine content. These results also suggest that a single oral lethal dose of Sambu-tang-R for Sprague-Dawley rats exceeds 2,000 mg/kg for both female and male rats.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2006

Object : This study investigated the quality inspection of Schizandra chinensis (Turcz.) Bail distributed in Korea. Methods: To evaluate the quality of these herbal medicines, we carried out TLC pattern analysis, purity, loss on drying, ash, acid-insoluble ash, essential oil contents, dilute ethanol-soluble, water-soluble, ether-soluble extracts and HPLC analysis. Results : As a result, TCL pattern analysis of schizandrin and gomisin A showed Rf=0.64 and 0.74, respectively. To measured content of schizandrin and gomisin A, we quantitatively analyzed using HPLC. The average contents of schizandrin and gomisin A were detected to be 0.60 (${\pm}$0.02)% and 0.12 (${\pm}$0.004)%, respectively. Discussion : As a result of this study, we suggest that the minimum content of schizandrin and gomisin A should be 0.5% and 0.1%, respectively. We could suggest that the minimum of essential oil content should be 0.6 ml.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2016

용수공급이나 수질관리 등과 같은 저수지 운영을 위해서는 최신의 수위별 저수면적과 저수량을 평가해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 괴연저수지를 대상으로 UAV 촬영 및 GCP 측량을 통해 정사영상과 DSM 자료를 구축하였으며, 저수지 영역에 대한 TIN 데이터모델을 구축함으로써 실제 저수구간인 149~156 EL.m에 대한 수위별 저수면적과 저수량을 계산할 수 있었다. 또한 수위별 저수면적과 저수량 자료에 대해 다양한 함수식을 적용한 결과, 수위별 저수면적은 4차 다항식을 적용한 곡선식의 결정계수가 0.97로 가장 높게 나타났으며 수위별 저수량은 2차 다항식을 적용한 곡선식의 결정계수가 0.99로 가장 높게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같이 UAV 사진측량을 통해 저수면적과 저수량 곡선식을 산정함으로서 효율적인 저수지 관리가 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2004

Sclerotinia sp. (isolate BWC98-105) causes stem blight and root rot in Leghum sp., and is presently being evaluated as a potential mycoherbicide for the control of Trifoliorium repens. Bioassays have shown that Sclerotinia sp. produces phytotoxic substance which is biologically active against T. repens. Two biologically active compounds, designated as compoundsI and II, were produced in vitro from the culture filtrate of BWC98-105 isolate Sclerotium sp. Compounds I and II were purified by means of liquid-liquid extraction and $C_{18}$ open column chromatography (300 ${\times}$ 30 mm, i.d). To determine the purity, the purified compounds were analyzed by RP-HPLC. The analytical RP-HPLC column was a TOSOH ODS-120T (150 ${\times}$ 4.6 mm i.d, Japan), of which the flow rate was set at 0.7 mL/min using the linear gradient solvent system initiated with 15 % methanol to 85 % methanol for 50 min with monitoring at 254 nm. Under these RP-HPLC conditions, compounds I and II eluted at 3.49 and 4.13 min, respectively. Compound II was found to be most potent and host specific. However, compound I had a unique antibiotic activity against phytopathogenic bacteria like bacterial leaf blight (Xanthomonas oryzae) on rice, where it played a less important role in producing toxicity on T. repens. No toxin activity was detected in the water fraction after partitioning with several organic solvents. However, toxin activity was detected in the ethyl acetate and butanol fractions. In the leaf bioassay using compound II, the disease first appeared within 4-5 h as water soaked rot, which subsequently developed into well-defined blight affecting the whole plant.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.357-367
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• 2007

Recently, eutrophication or lake and reservoir has become serious problem to man who want use that water for several purpose. In order to solve the eutrophication problem, the trophic state of that eutrophic lake and reservoir should be measured properly. For the purpose of this, various method to indicate the trophic state of lake and reservoir was developed by many researchers. This research was conducted to evaluate characteristics and eutrophication of water qualitymfor small scale reservoir in Kunsan. On-site investigation to 5 reservoirs and laboratory experiment were carried out during four seasons from November, 2003 to July, 2004. Twelve items measured field ana a laboratory. Measured data was analyzed to quantitative method by multivariate approach and eutrophication index. The result is summarized as following. 1) Showing the characteristics of water quality for reservoir in Kunsan, Okgu reservoir and Oknua reservoir was exceeded 4 grades of agricultural water standard in TP, TN and COD. This means that eutrophication was gone much, therefore, water-purity control of reservoir need. While, Mije reservoir that is used to Kunsan citizens' recreation was good in water quality. But, water quality exceeded 4 grades of agricultural Dater standard sometimes. 2) As a results of correlation analysis between variables of water qualify, Interrelation between variables which is connected with eutrophication was expressed good relationship as above 6.000 in correlation coefficients. The correlation coefficient(r) between COD and chlorophyll-a, total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a, total nitrogen and chlorophyll-a were 0.750, 0.720 and 0.600 respectively. Therefore, Change of water quality can grasp according to eutrophication progress degree. 3) If do evaluate to eutrophication by quantitative method which is proposed by OECD, US-EPA and Forsberg & Ryding, in the case of chlorophyll a, Okgu, Oknua and Daewi reservoir was eutrophic state and Mije and Geumgul reservoir was mesotrophic state. But, estimation by TN and TP showed highly eutrophic state (hypereutrophic) in all reservoirs. 4) If do evaluate by eutrophication index which is Carlson's TSI, revised carlson TSI and Walker's index, in the case of chlorophyll a, TSI values of Okgu, Oknua and Daewi reservoir is eutrophic state more than 50 and Mije and Geumgul reservoir was mesotrophic state as range of $40{\sim}50$ in TSI value. But, in the case of TP as nutrients, all reservoirs showed highly eutrophic state which was exceed to 70 in TSI value. According to above results, the water quality for small scale reservoirs in Kunsan is progressing by trophic state. therefore, for continuous use as agriculture water, we had better do establishment of management plan about water quality.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.679-687
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• 2003

In this study, we investigated the analytical techniques to quantify the ambient concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H$_2$S) in air at ppt concentration level. For this purpose, an on-line GC analytical system equipped with both pulsed-flame photometric detector (PFPD) and thermal desorption unit (TDU) was investigated by collecting ambient air samples. The results of our study generally indicated that calibration conditions of GC system is highly sensitive to affect the accuracy of the analytical technique. Most importantly. we found that the use of different matrices in the the preparation stage of working standards was sensitive to control the overall performance of this technique. The calibration of our analytical system was tested by the two types of working standard (prepared by mixing either with high purity $N_2$ or with the ambient air). According to this test, the latter represented more efficiently the detecting conditions of actual air samples. The peak occurrence patterns of both air samples and standards (prepared by mixing with ambient air) were altered in a similar manner as the function of the loaded volume; however, it was not the case for the $N_2$-mixed standards. Results of our study suggest that detection of H$_2$S is highly different from other sulfides and that its quantification requires minimiaing interfering effects of non -pure substance (like water vapor) and (either sorptive or destructive) loss effects.