• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2012

Heliostat field is the most important subsystem in the tower type solar thermal power plant since its optical performance affects the total system efficiency most significantly while the construction cost of it is the major part of total construction cost in such a power plant. Thus a well designed heliostat field to maximize the optical efficiency as well as to minimize the land usage is very important. This work presents methodology, procedures and result of heliostat filed design for 200kW solar thermal power plant built recently in Daegu, Korea. A $2{\times}2(m)$ rectangular shaped receiver located at 43(m) high and tilted $28^{\circ}$ toward heliostat field, 450 of heliostats of which the reflective surface is formed by 4 of $1{\times}1(m)$ flat plate mirror facet, and the land area having about $140{\times}120(m)$ size are used to form the heliostat field. A procedure to deploy 450 heliostats in radial staggered nonblocking formation is developed. Also the procedures to compute the cosine effect, intercept ratio, blocking and shading ratio in the field are developed. Finally the heliostat filed is designed by finding the optimal radial distance and azimuthal spacing in radial staggered nonblocking formation such that the designed heliostat field optical efficiency could be maximized. The designed heliostat field has 77% of annual average optical efficiency, which is obtained by annually averaging the optical efficiencies computed between the time of where sun elevation angle becomes $10^{\circ}$ after sunrise and the time of where sun elevation angle becomes $10^{\circ}$ before sunset in each day.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.776-780
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 저전압 DRAM용 VPP Generator의 전하펌프회로(Charge Pump Circuit)를 새롭게 제안하였다. 제안된 전하펌프회로는 2-Stage 크로스 커플 전하펌프회로(Cross-Coupled Charge Pump Circuit)이다. 4개의 비중첩 클럭신호들을 이용하여 전하전달 효율을 향상시켰고, 각 전하펌프단 마다 Oscillation 주기를 줄일 목적으로 Distributed Clock Driver인 Inverter 4개를 추가하여 펌핑전류(Pumping Current)를 증가시켰다. 그리고 전하전달 트랜지스터의 게이트단에 프리차지회로 (Precharge Circuit)를 두어 대기모드진입 시 펌핑된 전하를 방전하지 못하고 고전압을 유지하여 소자의 신뢰성을 떨어트리는 문제를 해결하였다. 모의실험결과 펌핑전류, 펌핑효율(Pumping Efficiency), 파워효율(Power Efficiency) 모두 향상된 것을 확인하였고, $0.18{\mu}m$ Triple-Well 공정을 이용하여 Layout 하였다.

• Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2007

Due to the strong influence of nitrogen(N) on plant productivity, a vast amount of N fertilizers is used to maximize crop yield. Over-use of N fertilizers leads to severe pollution of the environment, especially the aquatic ecosystem, as well as reducing farmer's income. Growing of N-efficient cultivars is an important prerequisite for integrated nutrient management strategies in both low- and high-input agriculture. Taking maize as a sample crop, this paper reviews the response of plants to low N stress, the physiological processes which may control N-use efficiency in low-N input conditions, and the genetic and molecular biological aspects of N-use efficiency. Since the harvest index(HI) of modern cultivars is quite high, further improvement of these cultivars to adapt to low N soils should aim to increase their capacity to accumulate N at low N levels. To achieve this goal, establishment and maintenance of a large root system during the growth period may be essential. To reduce the cost of N and carbon for root growth, a strong response of lateral root growth to nitrate-rich patches may be desired. Furthermore, a large proportion of N accumulated in roots at early growth stages should be remobilized for grain growth in the late filling stage to increase N-utilization efficiency. Some QTLs and genes related to maize yield as well as root traits have been identified. However, their significance in improving maize NUE at low N inputs in the field need to be elucidated.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.156-163
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 적응적 얼굴영역 검출과 얼굴 특징자 평가함수를 사용한 실시간 얼굴인식 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 명암도 정보와 타원마스킹 기법뿐만 아니라 인종별 얼굴피부색을 사용하여 정확한 얼굴영역을 적응적으로 검출 가능하다. 또한 제안한 알고리즘은 얼굴 특징자 및 얼굴특징자간 기하학적 평가함수를 사용하여 얼굴 인식 효율을 개선하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 생체인증 및 보안 시스템 분야에 사용 가능하다. 실험에서는 제안한 방법의 우수성을 입증하기 위해 실 영상을 사용하였으며 실험 결과 기존의 방법보다 얼굴 영역 검출뿐만 아니라 얼굴인식 성능을 개선하였다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.235-245
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• 1997

대청호 원수를 취수하여 정수하는 대청수도에서 이취미를 제거하고 THM(Trihalomethanes) 발생량을 줄이기 위하여 기존 표준정수공정에 오존과 활성탄여과공정을 추가한 pilot plant 실험을 수행하였다. pilot 실험결과 표준정수공정에서 DOC(dissolved organic carbon)는 약 25% 제거되었으나, 오존공정에서는 거의 제거되지 않았고, 30일이 지난 후 GAC(granular activated carbon)에서는 약 75%까지 제거되는 것으로 나타났다. 표준정수공정에서 이취미는 약 30%, 오존산화공정에서 약 60%정도 제거되었고, 활성탄여과에서 대부분 제거되었으나, Column 1과 2에서는 DOC와 같이 이취미물질도 파과(breakthrough) 되는 것으로 나타났다. 전염소처리 대신에 중1, 2염소처리를 도입할 경우 전염소처리와 비교하여 약 25%정도의 THM발생량이 감소하였으며, 후염소처리만할 경우 약 30%까지 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.205-210
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• 2014

The micro grid considered in this paper consists of a diesel generator, a photovoltaic array, a wind turbine, a fuel cell, and a energy storage system. This paper explains and simulates the micro grid components in terms of accuracy and efficiency of having a system model based on the costs of fuel as well as operation and maintenance. For operational efficiency, the objective function in a diesel generator consists of the fuel cost function similar to the cost functions used for the conventional fossil-fuel generating plants. The wind turbine generator is modeled by the characteristics of variable output. The optimization is aimed at minimizing the cost function of the system while constraining it to meet the customer demand and safety of micro grid. The operating cost in fuel-cell system includes the fuel costs and the efficiency for fuel to generate electric power. To develop the overall system model gives a possibility to minimize of the total cost of micro grid. The application of optimal operation can save the interruption costs as well as the operating costs, and improve reliability index in micro grid.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2009

잘 알려진 무선 센서 네트워크의 프로액티브 프로토콜인 Flooding과 SPIN은 싱크 노드의 요청 없이 감지한 데이터를 즉각적으로 전송한다. 그러나 이러한 전송방법은 그 데이터가 필요하지 않는 노드들에게까지 전송하기에 에너지 효율성 측면에서 비효율적이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해서 전체 노드 대신에 적절한 일부 노드들에게만 전송할 수 있는 세미프로액티브 프로토콜을 제안한다. 따라서 만일 싱크노드와 같은 어떠한 노드가 감지한 데이터를 필요로 할 경우 미리 설정한 몇 홉 이내에 그 데이터를 쉽게 얻을 수 있다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 잘 알려진 SPIN과 비교하여 노드의 에너지 효율성이 약 83%까지 높다는 것을 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1425-1440
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• 2017

In wireless communications, antenna selection (AS) is a widely used method for reducing comparable cost of multiple RF chains in MIMO systems. As is well known, most of literatures on combining AS with MIMO techniques concern linear modulations such as phase shift keying (PSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). The combination of CPM and MIMO has been considered an optimal choice that can improve its capacity without loss of power and spectrum efficiency. The aim of this paper is to investigate joint transmit and receive antenna selection (JTRAS) in CPM MIMO systems. Specifically, modified incremental and decremental JTRAS algorithms are proposed to adapt to arbitrary number of selected transmit or receive antennas. The computational complexity of several JTRAS algorithms is analyzed from the perspective of channel capacity. As a comparison, the performances of bit error rate (BER) and spectral efficiency are evaluated via simulations. Moreover, computational complexity of the JTRAS algorithms is simulated in the end. It is inferred from discussions that both incremental JTRAS and decremental JTRAS perform close to optimal JTRAS in BER and spectral efficiency. In the sense of practical scenarios, adaptive JTRAS can be employed to well tradeoff performance and computational complexity.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.223-231
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• 2011

The thermal efficiency of energy-to-power conversion becomes uneconomically low when the temperature of heat source drops below $370^{\circ}C$. ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) has attracted much attention in last few years due to its potential in reducing consumption of fossil fuels and relaxing environmental problems, and its favorable characteristics to exploit low-temperature heat sources. In this work thermodynamic performance of ORC using nine working fluids is comparatively assessed. Special attention is paid to the effect of system parameters such as turbine inlet temperature and pressure on the characteristics of the system such as volumetric flow rate and quality at turbine exit, latent heat, net work as well as thermal efficiency. Results show that in selection of working fluid it is required to consider various criteria of performance characteristics as well as the thermal efficiency. Results also show that the system efficiencies become same irrespective of kind of working fluid when the temperature of heat source decreases to low range.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.225-227
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• 2009

International standard specification, H.264/SVC improved from H.264/AVC, is set up so as to promote free use of huge multimedia data in various channel environments.;H.264/AVC is a international standard speicification for video compression, adopted and commercialized as standard for DMB broadcasting by JVT of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. SVC standard uses 'intra/inter prediction' in AVC as well as 'inter-layer intra prediction', 'inter-layer motion prediction' and 'inter-layer residual prediction' to improve efficiency of encoding. Among prediction technologies, 'inter-layer intra prediction' is to use co-located block of up sampled sublevels as a prediction signal. At this time, application of interpolation is one of the most important factors to determine encoding efficiency. SVC's currently using poly-phase FIR filter of 4-tap and 2-tap respectively to luma components. This paper is written for the purpose of analyzing encoding performance according to the interpolation. For this purpose, we applied poly-phase FIR filter of '2-tap', '4-tap' and '6-tap' respectively to luma components and then measured bit-rate, PNSR and running time of interpolation filter. We're expecting that the analysis results of this paper will be utilized for effective application of interpolation filter. SVC standard uses 'intra/inter prediction' in AVC as well as 'inter-layer intra prediction', 'inter-layer motion prediction' and 'inter-layer residual prediction' to improve efficiency of encoding.