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조지훈의 한용운 인식방법 비판 (Criticism on Cho Ji-hoon's Recognition of Han Yong-un)

  • 이선이
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제45권
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    • pp.85-107
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    • 2016
  • 조지훈은 해방 이후 한용운에 대한 인식을 주도적으로 생산한 논자이다. 그는 한용운을 민족시인으로, 그의 시를 저항적 민족시의 한 전형으로 평가함으로써 한용운에 대한 현재적 인식의 시각과 방법을 제시하였다. 여기에서는 조지훈이 남긴 세 편의 '한용운론'을 분석하면서, 한용운에 대한 조지훈의 인식이 어떻게 논리화되었는지 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 시인론과 작품론에 대한 인식을 분리하고, 각각의 인식이 조지훈의 역사인식 및 문학인식과 어떤 정합성을 갖는지에 대해 추적해 보았다. 그 결과, 조지훈이 한용운의 생애와 작품을 파악하는 인식의 근저에는 정신사로서의 세계인식이 전제되어 있었다는 점, 절대가치로 상정된 민족이 이질적인 차이들을 봉합하는 논리였다는 점, 민족정신과 시의 결합이 시인지사론(詩人志士論)과 민족시의 논리로 표출되었다는 점을 파악할 수 있었다. 또한 그의 논리에는 인권과 민족주권의 결합, 민족과 선(禪)의 결합으로 인한 논리적 균열이 내재해 있으며, 시인의 사명에 대한 다른 가능성이 충분히 논리화되지 못한 채 미완인 채로 논의가 끝나버렸음을 밝혔다.

Insights Into Emissions and Exposures From Use of Industrial-Scale Additive Manufacturing Machines

  • Stefaniak, A.B.;Johnson, A.R.;du Preez, S.;Hammond, D.R.;Wells, J.R.;Ham, J.E.;LeBouf, R.F.;Martin, S.B. Jr.;Duling, M.G.;Bowers, L.N.;Knepp, A.K.;de Beer, D.J.;du Plessis, J.L.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.229-236
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    • 2019
  • Background: Emerging reports suggest the potential for adverse health effects from exposure to emissions from some additive manufacturing (AM) processes. There is a paucity of real-world data on emissions from AM machines in industrial workplaces and personal exposures among AM operators. Methods: Airborne particle and organic chemical emissions and personal exposures were characterized using real-time and time-integrated sampling techniques in four manufacturing facilities using industrial-scale material extrusion and material jetting AM processes. Results: Using a condensation nuclei counter, number-based particle emission rates (ERs) (number/min) from material extrusion AM machines ranged from $4.1{\times}10^{10}$ (Ultem filament) to $2.2{\times}10^{11}$ [acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and polycarbonate filaments). For these same machines, total volatile organic compound ERs (${\mu}g/min$) ranged from $1.9{\times}10^4$ (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and polycarbonate) to $9.4{\times}10^4$ (Ultem). For the material jetting machines, the number-based particle ER was higher when the lid was open ($2.3{\times}10^{10}number/min$) than when the lid was closed ($1.5-5.5{\times}10^9number/min$); total volatile organic compound ERs were similar regardless of the lid position. Low levels of acetone, benzene, toluene, and m,p-xylene were common to both AM processes. Carbonyl compounds were detected; however, none were specifically attributed to the AM processes. Personal exposures to metals (aluminum and iron) and eight volatile organic compounds were all below National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-recommended exposure levels. Conclusion: Industrial-scale AM machines using thermoplastics and resins released particles and organic vapors into workplace air. More research is needed to understand factors influencing real-world industrial-scale AM process emissions and exposures.

문화예술계 성 인권 보호를 위한 제도 연구 (A Study on the Gender Rights Protection System in Arts and Cultural Industry)

  • 변영건;이승엽
    • 예술경영연구
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    • 제54호
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    • pp.155-184
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    • 2020
  • 본 연구는 미투 운동 이후 시작된 문화예술계 성 인권 보호 제도의 흐름을 점검하고 이에 대한 개선 방향을 제안하는 것을 목표로 한다. 그동안 정부에서는 '범정부 합동 대책', '문화예술계 성희롱·성폭력 특별조사단 권고', '문화체육관광부 성희롱·성폭력 예방대책위원회의 1·2차 권고', '문화비전 2030'를 발표하고, 이를 토대로 문화예술계의 성 인권 보호 제도를 설계했다. 이후 시행된 제도는 구체적으로 피해자 보호, 가해자 제재, 예방·방지책 마련, 법적 근거 및 제도 틀 개선의 4가지 범주로 분류할 수 있었다. 하지만 정부의 다각적인 노력에도 불구하고 현장에서는 제도의 실효성이 높지 않다는 비판이 끊임없이 제기됐다. 피해 당사자의 목소리로 말미암아 성평등 문화정책이 진척을 이룬지 2년이 흐른 지금, 현장에서 진정한 변화를 만들어내기 위해서는 현행 제도의 진단과 개선 방향에 관한 논의가 필요한 시점이다. 이를 위해 정부 발간자료 등을 기반으로 한 문헌 연구와 정책 기획·실행 단계의 주요 행위자 9명과의 인터뷰 내용을 바탕으로 한 면접 분석연구를 진행했다. 인터뷰 내용 분석에는 질적 연구 분석 프로그램인 MAXQDA를 활용했다. 연구 결과 제도의 범주별로 각각 5~10가지 문제점이 드러났다. 문제 해결을 위해 인터뷰이들이 제시한 개선 방향에서는 긴밀한 연관 관계가 확인됐다. 이는 성 인권 보호를 위한 제도가 유기적으로 연결되어야 효과를 낼 수 있음을 시사한다.

사이버공격에 의한 임무영향 분석 도구를 이용한 통합시나리오 저작 방법 (Integrated Scenario Authoring Method using Mission Impact Analysis Tool due to Cyber Attacks)

  • 김용현;김동화;이동환;김주엽;안명길
    • 인터넷정보학회논문지
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2023
  • 사이버 공간에서 이루어지는 전투 행위가 군의 주요 임무체계 및 무기체계에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 평가할 수 있어야 한다. 사이버공격에 의한 임무영향을 사이버 M&S로 분석하기 위해서는 대상이 되는 임무체계와 사이버전 요소를 모델로 구축하고, 시뮬레이션을 위한 시나리오를 저작하여야 한다. 사이버전에 의한 임무영향 분석 관련 연구는 미국을 중심으로 많은 연구가 수행되었으며, 기존의 연구에서는 물리전장과 사이버전장에 대해 별개로 시나리오를 저작하였다. 임무영향 분석의 정확도를 높이기 위해서는 물리전장 모델과 사이버전장 모델을 결합한 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하고, 임무 시나리오와 사이버공격/방어 시나리오를 통합해서 저작할 수 있어야 한다. 또한 물리전장과 사이버전장은 업무영역이 상이함을 고려하여 시나리오를 효율적으로 저작할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 임무체계 정보를 이용하여 시나리오 저작에 필요한 자료를 사전에 작성하고, 선작업된 자료를 이용하여 통합시나리오를 저작하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 시나리오 저작도구의 설계에 반영하여 개발하고 있으며, 제안 방법을 입증하기 위해 대화력전 분야의 통합시나리오 저작을 수행하였다. 향후, 제안한 방법을 반영한 시나리오 저작도구를 활용하면 임무영향 분석을 위한 통합시나리오를 짧은 시간에 쉽게 저작할 수 있게 될 것이다.

국내 알루미늄 노출실태 및 노출기준 개정 제안 (Proposals for Revising the Occupational Exposure Limits for Aluminum in Korea)

  • 김승원;피영규;백용준;정태진;이혜실
    • 한국산업보건학회지
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    • 제34권1호
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 2024
  • Objectives: This study was intended to investigate the revision status of the occupational exposure standards for aluminum at home and abroad; to investigate worker exposure at domestic aluminum manufacturing and handling workplaces; to conduct social and economic evaluation for the revision of domestic aluminum exposure limits. Methods: We investigated the current status of occupational exposure limits for aluminum at home and abroad, and analyzed supporting data. An exposure survey was conducted targeting domestic aluminum manufacturing and handling workplaces. Based on these, revised aluminum occupational exposure limits were proposed. Results: The major aluminum exposure limits at home and abroad show a notable difference. The toxicity of aluminum, which was revealed through animal experiments and epidemiological investigations. The average concentration of aluminum in the air at 12 workplaces was 0.016 mg/m3, and the maximum was 0.0776 mg/m3. When total dust and respiratory dust were measured side by side and simultaneously for the same process, 12.1% of the total mass concentration of aluminum dust was respiratory dust. As a result of measuring and comparing the size distribution of dust with an optical particle counter in real time, 48.1% of the total dust in the form of welding fume and pyro-powder was respiratory dust. Based on the literature review and workplace survey, three proposals for changing the aluminum exposure limit were proposed. Proposal (1): For all types, 10 mg/m3 is unified as the exposure limit except for soluble salts and alkyls. Proposal (2): 1(R) mg/m3 as the exposure limit for all forms except soluble salts and alkyl. Proposal (3): 1(R) mg/m3 for pyro-powder and welding fume, and 10 mg/m3 for metal dust, aluminum oxide, and insoluble compounds as exposure standards. A pyro-powder was defined as dry aluminum powder of 200 mesh size (74 ㎛) or smaller (larger size classified as metal dust). Reason for setting: In the workplace survey, the ratio of respiratory dust to total dust was analyzed to be about 1:10, so it was judged that the domestic standard and the ACGIH standard were compatible. Conclusions: In all scenarios according to the revision of the exposure standard, the B/C ratio was greater than 1 or only benefits existed, so it was evaluated as sufficiently reasonable as a result of the socio-economic evaluation.

우리 나라 농촌지역(農村地域)에 부합하는 1차(次) 보건의료전달체계(保健醫療傳達體系) 정착구현(定着具現)에 관한 연구(硏究) -마을 보건임원(保健任員) 개발(開發)- (A Study on Implementation of Primary Health Care Delivery System meet to Rural Area in Korea -Village Health Voluntary Worker Development-)

  • 구연철;위자형;황선정;최삼섭
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 1979
  • A study was carried out from October 1977 to September 1978 in order to develope health care delively system which will meet to rural area in Korea. For the study objective a model of health care delivery system of Myun (township) area was developed which is adopted the net-work of village health voluntary worker who will play the role of bridge for communication related with health and illness between families or village people and health subcenter, and :he model health care delivery system net-work was set in the area of Soodong Myun, Yangju Gun. which is the rural health demonstration area of Ewha Womans University since 1972. The activities and attitude of 22 village health voluntary workers were observed and analized. during the study period. The results are as follows; 1. For the field activities of village health voluntary workers. a guide line which is described with specific behavioral objectives was developed and used for not only training of the workers but also evaluation of their field activities. 2. During the study period, the number of 971 village people were served primary health care service by village health voluntary worker and the service was classified largely into symptomatic medications (92%) and preventive measures (8%). 3. Comparative percentage of the number of 894 symptomatic cases cared by village health voluntary workers to 5,695 cases of patient treated by Soodong Health Subcenter during the same period was 15.7%. 4. Annual utility rate of village health voluntary worker by Myun total people was 16.1% but utility rate by Rie was varied from 38.2% to 2.8% which shown there were considerable differences in each Rie. In order to settle the village health care service, the obstructive factors of utility should be detected and their counter measure must be taken. 5. As the health need of village people increases, it is expected that the supplement of drug excluding present sit basic drugs is inevitable, but considering the ability of village health voluntary worker, the selection of additional drugs and education, plan should be carefully studied. 6. It is desirable that a financial resource for supplementary purchase of first aid kit, drugs and materials whould be alloted from village public fund like Saemaeul Women's Club fund, which has already practiced in a few villages in the study area. 7. As pointed out by village health voluntary workers, in order to improve the village health, village leaders should be in the center of it and the cooperation of whole village people is a core of healthful village development, and it is reasonable that the health subcenter backs up these voluntary health activities by village people in techniques. 8. It seems effective that a supplementary education for village health voluntary worker be accomplished by a planned education through regular meetings like worker's monthly meeting and irregular post guide when Myun Health Workers can handle the problems found during the round trip of villages. 9. It is desirable that village health voluntary workers, who are recommended by a civil voluntary organization like Saemael Woman's Club, are charged by natural villagc unit, are given a function of village health care service and used through basic education at health subcenter. 10. It is advisable that the village health voluntary worker's service is compensated not by a form of money, but by other way such as an exemption of medical fee of worker herself or her families in health subcenter can be one method. 11. Daily health activities of each village health voluntary worker should be reported to health subcenter by biweekly or monthly in order to get not only for basic data of the program but also for evaluation the program. It is recomandable that the report form should be simple and clear enough for village health voluntary worker to fill it effectively. 12. Village health care service should be developed into a Saemaeul Movement in which village people actively participate. For this, the appointed function of village health voluntary worker should be absorbed into those of living Environment Betterment Section or Family Planning Section of Saemaeul Women's Club or it is desirable that establish a new section, Village Health Promoting Section and make it involve the appointed functions of those sections mentioned above.

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경제적 철골제작$\cdot$설치 및 공기단축 사례분석연구 (Case Study on Economical Fabrication and Erection of Steel Structure and Reduction in Field Erection Time)

  • 안재봉;최윤기
    • 한국건설관리학회논문집
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    • 제5권5호
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    • pp.183-192
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    • 2004
  • 현재 국내에도 건물의 특성에 알맞은 가변적이며 대공간 확보가 가능하고 사용부재의 두께가 수mm에서 100mm에 이르는 극후판 두께의 건축 철골구조의 건축물 및 Box형 강재교량으로 구축되는 사례가 증가하면서 철골부재의 제작 및 가공기술이 예전보다 더욱 향상되고 구조물로서의 품질관리에 대한 신뢰성의 요구도 증가되고 있는 실정이다, 그러나 국내의 철골조 건축부재의 구조설계는 설계사대로 각기 이루어지고 해당 부재는 공장별로 제작진행되어 그 기술수준에는 보이지 않는 상당한 격차가 있다고 보여지며 업체별로 경제성 등을 고려하여 기본적이며 일반적 철골제작기법을 간결하게 적용하는 것에 머물러 고도한 선진적인 기술의 채용은 대부분 주저할 수 밖에 없는 상황이다 또한, 중소규모의 빌딩 건축물들의 철골조 설계적용을 고려해볼 때 수많은 접합부의 표준화를 비롯하여 구조체 전체의 표준화 및 내$\cdot$외장재까지 포함된 시스템건축의 건축물설계와 부재의 제작 및 설치기술 개발경향도 엿보이고 있는 가운데 특히, 철골부재의 공장제작과 현장설치의 보다 경제적이고 짧은 공기내에 완전한 품질을 확보할 수 있는 부재간의 접합부 설계에 대한 연구검토는 철골분야에 종사하는 업계는 물론 현장 관계자에게도 의미있는 일일 것이다. 본 논문에서는 철골조 건축물의 특성을 알아보고 철골구조물 공장제작 및 현장설치공기를 최대한 단축할 수 있는 철골기둥과 기둥, 기둥과 큰보부재 접합부 변경사례 및 Box Column의 용접자동화, 로봇화에 의한 철골기둥 부재제작사례와 금후 철골구조물 제작상의 문제점과 대응방안에 대하여 서술하고자 한다.

간호사(看護師)들의 간호사고(看護事故) 경험(經驗)과 사고원인(事故原因)에 관한 지각(知覺) (Perception on the Nursing Accident Experience of the Nurses and Its Cause)

  • 이순복;문희자
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.246-267
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    • 1995
  • Recently the request of the patients to participate in the medical courses has been expanding due to the elevated sense of right on the people's health, merchandised medical treatment by mass supply, human right declaration of the patients, generalized medical informations by the mass media and the change of human relation between the medical personnels and the patients. Under these phenomena the patients have been in the thought of solving such accidents only by regulation of the laws which they think to be all powerful, Such trends are same in the area of nursing service. Also today the accident by the nurses have been increasing by the area of the nurses having been expanded and their independent roles having been increased. Such nursing accidents are the important subject which the professional occupation of the nurse has been facing but legal protective capability of the nurses has been very weak. Therefore this study has examined the degree of the experience of the nursing accident that happens in the clinical nursing scenes in the general hospital to provide the basic materials for the protection and the counter measures of the nursing accident. The following is the conclusion based by the above examination. 1) The experience degree of the whole nursing accidents has been appeared as 1.90 in average. And the degree according to service area has been 1.77 in the area of supervising management of patients, 1.54 in the area of the same management of patients by head-nurses, 1.84 in the area of doctors' treatment performances, 14 in the enforcement and education areas of the nursing technology, 2.04 in the area of observing patients and judgement and 2.07 in the area of nursing records and maintaining confidentials. Accordingly there has been higher degree of accidental experiences in the independent service areas of the patients than in the dependent ones directed by the doctors. 2) The perception of the nurses showed that the cause of the nursing accident has been due to the heavy work of the nurses with the 60.4% of the response rate, the highest rate. They report the accident to the head nurse first by 2/3 nurses after accident. And the hour of the accident has been frequently happened regardless of service hours with 48.1% in response rate, the highest rate, and the nursing accident happens in the night more than the daytime with the rate of 37.5% at night while 14. 4% daytime. 3) The nurses are in the perception that the patients are responsible for the accident with 48.2% response rate while 43.9% rate in response showed that it has been caused by many people. They are in the perception that 41.7% when the nursing power was lacking, 46.7% lower recognition of actual state about indivitual patient in the section of technical speciality and 35.8% when the patients were not cooperative and 37.8% when the wards were dirty and in disorder. 4) the attitude of the patients after the various nursing accidents has been violent words in 72.7%, violence in 17.4% and 3.9% in attending the court by the sue of the patient's side(18 nurses). 5) The action of the hospital has been : requesting the submission of the story of the accident in 22.8%, the report of the accidents in 14.4%, thus the written statement disposal was most, 4.5% was the transfer to the other departments when the accident was larger or the patients' guardians protested strongly and 0.6% of the dismissals of the nurses. 6) In regard to the responsiblity of the nurse accidents, 78.9% was the highest rate of supplying the nursing manpowers, 48.4% of mutual cooperation of the medical personnels, 37.2% of strengthening the education for the nurses and hospital facilities reformation in 32.7%. 7) The review of relation between the general characters of the object of the study and the degree of experience of nursing accidents showed the significant differences in ages (F=4.04, p=0.000).

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탈곡기의 급동 속도가 도정 손실에 미치는 영향 (Effect of Thresher Drum-Speed on the Quality of the Milled Rice)

  • 정창주;고학균;이종호;강화석
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.10-24
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    • 1979
  • It is understood that drum speed of threshers and the moisture content of paddy grains to be threshed, respectively, have a signific:mt effect upon rice recoveries. Threshing under an increased drum speed would give a high performance rate, which is the general practice in custom work threshing in association with the use of semiauto-t hreshers. In the connection, however, it may result in the promotion of grain cracks and brokens of the rice product after milling. No reference or determination for an opti mum drum speed of the thresher is made available for various grain moisture contents at the time of the threshing operation and for different rice varieties especially for the Tongil rice varieties. This study was Conducted to find out and determine effects of the drum speeds on grain losses. The grain loss was quantified in terms of recovery rates of rice grains after treatments. Samples of each of all treatments were taken from the grain sampling plate placed in the grain conveyor of threshers. The grain sample plate was specially provided for this experiment. The brown-rice, milling, and head-rice recJveries were tes ted in the laboratory mill, respectively. Two rice varieties, Akibare and Suweon 251, each with five levels of different moist\ulcornerure contents at harvest and six levels of different drum speeds of threshers, were selected and used for treatments in this experiment. Two conditions of materials were tested in the thresher. One condition was to thresh the experimental material immediately after cutting, referred to as the wet-material thr eshing in this study. The other was to thresh the experimental :material, dried to contain about 15-16 percent of the grain moisture under the shocking operation. This is referred to as the dry-material threshing in this study. In additioon, field measurements for the grain moistures and drum-sdeeds under actual operation practices of the traditional field threshing, were conducted with a view to comparing with results of the experimental treatments. The results of the study may be summarized as follows: 1. For threshing treatments of Japonica-type rice variety (Akibare) , the effect of drum speeds and levels of grain moisture at cutting upon brown-rice, milling, and head-rice recoveries were found statistically significant. No significant difference in these recovery rates was noticed regardless of whether the material was threshed right after cutting or after drying by the shocking operation. 2. For the Tongil-sister rice variety(Suweon 251), milling recovery for the varied drum-speed and the grain~moisture level at cutting was found statististically significant. Th milling recovery was much significant when associated with the wet-material thres\ulcornerhing compared to the dry-material threshing. 3. The optimum peripheral velocity to be maintained at the edge of teeth on the thr\ulcorneresher drum was determined and may be recommanded as that of about 12 to 13 meters per second in view of the maximum recovery rate of the milled rice. 4. The effect of the drum speed on the qualitative loss of the milled rice was much greater in the case of the Tongil variety than Japonica. This effect was also greater by the wet-material threshing than by the dry-material threshing. Therefore, to apply the wet-material threshing operation for the Tongil variety, in particular, it should be very important to introduce the kind of threshing technology which would maintain the drum speed at optimum. 5. A field survey for the actual drum speed of threshing operations for 50 threshers indicated that average peripheral velccity was 12.76m/sec., and that the range was from 10.50 to 14.90m/sec. Approximately, more than 30% of the experimented and measured threshers were being operated at speeds which exceeded the optimum speed determined and assessed in this study. Accordingly, it should be highly desirable and important to take counter-measures against these threshing practices of operational overspeed.

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탈곡기의 급동 속도가 도정 손실에 미치는 영향 (Effect of Thresher Drum-Speed on the Quality of the Milled Rice)

  • 정창주;고학균;이종호;강화석
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.9-9
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    • 1979
  • It is understood that drum speed of threshers and the moisture content of paddy grains to be threshed, respectively, have a signific:mt effect upon rice recoveries. Threshing under an increased drum speed would give a high performance rate, which is the general practice in custom work threshing in association with the use of semiauto-t hreshers. In the connection, however, it may result in the promotion of grain cracks and brokens of the rice product after milling. No reference or determination for an opti mum drum speed of the thresher is made available for various grain moisture contents at the time of the threshing operation and for different rice varieties especially for the Tongil rice varieties. This study was Conducted to find out and determine effects of the drum speeds on grain losses. The grain loss was quantified in terms of recovery rates of rice grains after treatments. Samples of each of all treatments were taken from the grain sampling plate placed in the grain conveyor of threshers. The grain sample plate was specially provided for this experiment. The brown-rice, milling, and head-rice recJveries were tes ted in the laboratory mill, respectively. Two rice varieties, Akibare and Suweon 251, each with five levels of different moist?ure contents at harvest and six levels of different drum speeds of threshers, were selected and used for treatments in this experiment. Two conditions of materials were tested in the thresher. One condition was to thresh the experimental material immediately after cutting, referred to as the wet-material thr eshing in this study. The other was to thresh the experimental :material, dried to contain about 15-16 percent of the grain moisture under the shocking operation. This is referred to as the dry-material threshing in this study. In additioon, field measurements for the grain moistures and drum-sdeeds under actual operation practices of the traditional field threshing, were conducted with a view to comparing with results of the experimental treatments. The results of the study may be summarized as follows: 1. For threshing treatments of Japonica-type rice variety (Akibare) , the effect of drum speeds and levels of grain moisture at cutting upon brown-rice, milling, and head-rice recoveries were found statistically significant. No significant difference in these recovery rates was noticed regardless of whether the material was threshed right after cutting or after drying by the shocking operation. 2. For the Tongil-sister rice variety(Suweon 251), milling recovery for the varied drum-speed and the grain~moisture level at cutting was found statististically significant. Th milling recovery was much significant when associated with the wet-material thres?hing compared to the dry-material threshing. 3. The optimum peripheral velocity to be maintained at the edge of teeth on the thr?esher drum was determined and may be recommanded as that of about 12 to 13 meters per second in view of the maximum recovery rate of the milled rice. 4. The effect of the drum speed on the qualitative loss of the milled rice was much greater in the case of the Tongil variety than Japonica. This effect was also greater by the wet-material threshing than by the dry-material threshing. Therefore, to apply the wet-material threshing operation for the Tongil variety, in particular, it should be very important to introduce the kind of threshing technology which would maintain the drum speed at optimum. 5. A field survey for the actual drum speed of threshing operations for 50 threshers indicated that average peripheral velccity was 12.76m/sec., and that the range was from 10.50 to 14.90m/sec. Approximately, more than 30% of the experimented and measured threshers were being operated at speeds which exceeded the optimum speed determined and assessed in this study. Accordingly, it should be highly desirable and important to take counter-measures against these threshing practices of operational overspeed.