• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.524-532
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• 2003

In this paper, a personal air-conditioning system considering the human thermal adaptability is analyzed. Although the conventional personal air-conditioner was proofed to be satisfactory in providing for the thermal comfort, it is being questioned on the term of its energy efficiency. Therefore, it is important and urgent to develop new types of personal air-conditioning system with sustainable control strategy that can ensure energy saving and thermal comfort simultaneously. In this study, we first examined the problems of the conventional personal air-conditioning system with field interview and laboratory experiment in terms of usage, management and thermal comfort, and proposed the energy-saving personal air-conditioning system considering the human thermal adaptation. Then a laboratory experiment was performed to analyze the characteristics of the human thermal comfort under severe indoor thermal conditions, which were controlled using a new personal air-conditioning unit designed according to the proposal. The results help to illustrate the alleviation effect of the new personal air-conditioning system, and indicate that the thermal alleviation time is useful to maintain the thermal comfort with efficient usage of energy.

• Solar Energy
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.63-79
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• 1990

It has been recognized that a policy for supplying solar house and hot water production systems utilizing solar energy needs to be driven to save civilian comsuming energy or to develop alternative energy. However, the economic feasibility study of solar energy systems must be carried out before their practical use. The purpose of this study is to furnish information for supplying policy and enlightening users with the economic feasibility study of solar house and hot water production systems. Decision support systems are established to carry out economic analysis on solar systems more accurately. Therefore, computer simulation is carried out to analyze the performance of solar systems and also economic feasibility study by trial and error method is carried out. Fuel cost and additional cost for solar systems are estimated employing present worth concept and economic analysis has been conducted using the break-even point analysis method and life-cycle cost analysis method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.89-89
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• 2001

종이는 목재섬유와 물의 현탁액을 스크련을 통해 균일하게 분산시킨 판상섬유 제품 으로서 가격이 저렴하고, 열, 전기절연성, 필터기능, 난연성 및 폐기성이 우수하여 다양한 분 야에서 활용되고 있다. 특히 최근에는 종이의 고부가가치화, 차별화를 위하여 내열성, 전기 절연성, 내수성, 기계적 특성, 내약품성, 생체적응성을 지닌 다양한 기능지가 개발되어 식품, 전기, 전자, 건축, 화학, 의료 관련 산업에 있어서 주요 재료로 이용되고 있다. 특히 전기, 전 자산업 발전과 더불어 전기절연성이 우수한 종이의 역할과 수요는 크게 증대되고 있으며 산 업발전의 핵심적인 제품으로서 자리매김을 하고 있다. 하지만 국내의 경우 전기절연지와 관 련된 제품 및 생산기술 부족으로 전량을 수입에 의존하고 있는 실정이며, 그 수입량은 앞으 로 전기 및 전자 산업의 발전으로 인해 더욱 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 수입의존성을 극복하기 위해서는 전기절연지와 관련된 제품개발 및 생산기술에 관한 연구가 시급히 요청 되고 있다. 이러한 기술의 국산화는 수입 대체 효과 뿐만 아니라 관련 산업의 발전에도 기 여할 수 있을 것으로 예상되며 수출산업으로 성장할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 종이의 전기적 성질은 유전상수, 유전손실율과 같은 유전적 특성과 전기저항, 절연 파괴강도의 기계적 특성으로 구분할 수 있다. 종이의 전기적 성질 가운데 유전율은 전기장 에 대한 종이의 물리화학적인 반응으로 일반적으로 종이의 밀도와 종이를 구성하는 성분의 쌍극자 모멘트에 비례하며 온도에 따라서도 변화한다. 일반적으로 온도가 상승하면 열에너 지를 얻게된 쌍극자가 전기장에 배열됨으로써 유전율이 상승하지만 온도가 유리전이점 이상 으로 높아질 경우 열적 교란에 의해서 분극 능력이 감소하게 되어 유전완화 현상이 나타난 다. 전기절연지로 사용될 종이의 절연특성을 이해하기 위해서는 사용환경에 따른 유전적 특 성 및 tan$\delta$에 관한 연구가 펼요하다. 본 연구에서는 종이의 유전특성을 개선하기 위해서 펼름형성능력이 우수한 polyvinyl alcoholCPV A)과 aery lonitrile을 이용하여 시아노에틸화한 P PYA의 표면처리에 따른 종이의 유전적 특성의 변화를 검토하였다. 그 결과 PYA에 도입된 시아노에틸기에 의해 유전율을 증가시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또 본 연구에 적용된 시험 범위에서는 온도상승에 따라 유전율이 상승하였다.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.194-204
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• 2020

Cultivar parameters, which are key inputs to a crop growth model, have been estimated using observation data in good quality. Observation data with high quality often require considerable labor and cost, which makes it challenging to gather a large quantity of data for calibration of cultivar parameters. Alternatively, data in sufficient quantity can be collected from the reports on the evaluation of cultivars by region although these data are of questionable quality. The objective of our study was to assess the quality of crop and management data available from the reports on the regional adaptation trials for rice cultivars. We also aimed to propose the measures for improvement of the data quality, which would aid reliable estimation of cultivar parameters. DatasetRanker, which is the tool designed for quantitative assessment of the data for parameter calibration, was used to evaluate the quality of the data available from the regional adaptation trials. It was found that these data for rice cultivars were classified into the Silver class, which could be used for validation or calibration of key cultivar parameters. However, those regional adaptation trial data would fall short of the quality for model improvement. Additional information on management, e.g., harvest and irrigation management, can increase the quantitative quality by 10% with the minimum effort and cost. The quality of the data can also be improved through measurements of initial conditions for crop growth simulations such as soil moisture and nutrients. In addition, crop model improvement can be facilitated using crop growth data in time series, which merits further studies on development of approaches for non-destructive methods to monitor the crop growth.

• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.113-125
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• 2004

Effect of microwave radiation on physico-chemical properties of cor'n starches was studied. Waxy com, com and high amylose com starches of varying moisture content(20～35%) were subjected to microwave processing(2450MHz) at $120^{\circ}$ and the experimental starch samples were examined by a X-ray diffractometry, rapid viscosity analyzer(RVA) and. with the samples in temperature was observed and the peaks of high amylose com starches at $2^{\circ}$=5.0, 15.0 and $23.0^{\circ}$, were disappeared indicating the melting of crystallines while those of com and waxy com had not changed. A change in gelatinization pattern was observed in the case of corn starches from type A with nearly no peak-viscosity and breakdown to type C. Except a decreased viscosity, no change was observed in those of waxy com starches.