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A Study of the Rationalization of Handling Facility Safety Management Standard for Hazardous Chemicals : Focusing on Dike (화학물질 안전관리 시설기준 합리화 연구 : 방류벽 중심)

  • Kim, Nam-Suk;Yoo, Byung-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2020
  • The Chemical Control Act has revised in 2015 to promote chemical safety, particularly enhancing the standards for the installation and management of hazardous chemical handling facilities. However, in some existing facilities, it was difficult to comply with some facility standards because of lack of land, safety accident possibility during rebuilding. In this study, we attempted to provide a more rational approach of dike standard which was the highest(2017: 117, 2018: 83) complaint for two years(2017~2018, 1,087) by prior study, FLACS simulation, analyze safety management standard and conduct a survey. Therefore, considering the purpose of installing the discharge wall only at existing facilities in operation, additional sensors that can detect chemical leakage and leakage were recognized as an additional alternative to installing and operating closed circuit television (CCTV). This will help the safety and cost aspects of small or medium-sized businesses or small and medium-sized enterprises that cannot secure legal grounds or fail to enforce legal regulations due to economic problems such as construction costs.

Photoluminescent Graphene Oxide Microarray for Multiplex Heavy Metal Ion Analysis

  • Liu, Fei;Ha, Hyun Dong;Han, Dong Ju;Park, Min Su;Seo, Tae Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.08a
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    • pp.281.2-281.2
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    • 2013
  • Since heavy metal ions included in water or food resources have critical effects on human health, highly sensitive, rapid and selective analysis for heavy metal detection has been extensively explored by means of electrochemical, optical and colorimetric methods. For example, quantum dots (QDs), such as semiconductor QDs, have received enormous attention due to extraordinary optical properties including high fluorescence intensity and its narrow emission peaks, and have been utilized for heavy metal ion detection. However, the semiconductor QDs have a drawback of serious toxicity derived from cadmium, lead and other lethal elements, thereby limiting its application in the environmental screening system. On the other hand, Graphene oxide (GO) has proven its superlative properties of biocompatibility, unique photoluminescence (PL), good quenching efficiency and facile surface modification. Recently, the size of GO was controlled to a few nanometers, enhancing its optical properties to be applied for biological or chemical sensors. Interestingly, the presence of various oxygenous functional groups of GO contributes to opening the band gap of graphene, resulting in a unique PL emission pattern, and the control of the sp2 domain in the sp3 matrix of GO can tune the PL intensity as well as the PL emission wavelength. Herein, we reported a photoluminescent GO array on which heavy metal ion-specific DNA aptamers were immobilized, and sensitive and multiplex heavy metal ion detection was performed utilizing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the photoluminescent monolayered GO and the captured metal ion.

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A Study on Contact Resistance Properties of Metal/CVD Graphene (화학기상증착법을 이용하여 합성한 그래핀과 금속의 접촉저항 특성 연구)

  • Dong Yeong Kim;Haneul Jeong;Sang Hyun Lee
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.60-64
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the electrical contact resistance characteristics between graphene and metals, which is one of important factors for the performance of graphene-based devices, were compared. High-quality graphene was synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, and Al, Cu, Ni, and Ti as electrode materials were deposited on the graphene surface with equal thickness of 50 nm. The contact resistances of graphene transferred to SiO2/Si substrates and metals were measured by the transfer length method (TLM), and the average contact resistances of Al, Cu, Ni, and Ti were found to be 345 Ω, 553 Ω, 110 Ω, and 174 Ω, respectively. It was found that Ni and Ti, which form chemical bonds with graphene, have relatively lower contact resistances compared to Al and Cu, which have physical adsorption properties. The results of this study on the electrical properties between graphene and metals are expected to contribute to the realization of high-performance graphene-based devices including electronics, optoelectronic devices, and sensors by forming low contact resistance with electrodes.

Characteristics of Pd-doped WO3 thin film for hydrogen gas sensor (수소 센서용 Pd 첨가한 WO3 박막의 특성)

  • Kim, Gwang-Ho;Choi, Gwang-Pyo;Kwon, Yong;Park, Jin-Seong
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.120-126
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    • 2006
  • Physicochemical and electrical properties for hydrogen gas sensors based on Pd-deposited $WO_3$ thin films were investigated as a function of Pd thickness, annealing temperature, and operating temperature. $WO_3$ thin films were deposited on an insulating material by thermal evaporator. XRD, FE-SEM, AFM, and XPS were used to evaluate the crystal structure, microstructure, surface roughness, and chemical property, respectively. The deposited films were grown $WO_3$ polycrystalline with rhombohedral structure after annealing at $500^{\circ}C$. The addition effect of Pd is not the crystallinity but the suppression of grain growth of $WO_3$. Pd was scattered an isolated small spherical grain on $WO_3$ thin film after annealing at $500^{\circ}C$ and it was agglomerated as an irregular large grain or diffused into $WO_3$ after annealing at $600^{\circ}C$. 2 nm Pd-deposited $WO_3$ thin films operated at $250^{\circ}C$ showed good response and recovery property.

Fast and Efficient Method for Fire Detection Using Image Processing

  • Celik, Turgay
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.881-890
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    • 2010
  • Conventional fire detection systems use physical sensors to detect fire. Chemical properties of particles in the air are acquired by sensors and are used by conventional fire detection systems to raise an alarm. However, this can also cause false alarms; for example, a person smoking in a room may trigger a typical fire alarm system. In order to manage false alarms of conventional fire detection systems, a computer vision-based fire detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed fire detection algorithm consists of two main parts: fire color modeling and motion detection. The algorithm can be used in parallel with conventional fire detection systems to reduce false alarms. It can also be deployed as a stand-alone system to detect fire by using video frames acquired through a video acquisition device. A novel fire color model is developed in CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space to identify fire pixels. The proposed fire color model is tested with ten diverse video sequences including different types of fire. The experimental results are quite encouraging in terms of correctly classifying fire pixels according to color information only. The overall fire detection system's performance is tested over a benchmark fire video database, and its performance is compared with the state-of-the-art fire detection method.

Physiochemical Properties of Repeated Deep-frying Oil and Odor Pattern Analysis by Electronic Nose System (재가열 튀김유의 이화학적 특성과 전자코에 의한 향기 패턴 분석)

  • Kim, Nam-Sook;Shin, Jung-Ah;Lee, Ki-Teak
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.717-723
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    • 2006
  • Chemical characteristics of soybean oil after deep-frying with potato sticks (200 g, 10% w/w of soybean oil) were studied according to the 34 deep-frying times. After consecutive 34 deep-frying, total polyunsaturated FA contents was gradually decreased while the total saturated FA and trans FA were increased. Acid value and peroxide value were increased while iodine value decreased, respectively. The Hunter $L^{\ast}$ value decreased while each $a^{\ast}\;and \;b^{\ast}b$ value were gradually increased. Electronic nose equipped with 12 metal oxide sensors was used for the discrimination of odor pattern of frying oils against the times of deep-trying. The proportions of 1st and 2nd principal component analysis showed 75.97% and 21.23%, respectively. While 6 among total 12 sensors well responded to discrimination of odor in the repented frying oils, suggesting that the odor pattern of each oil after deep-frying would be discriminated against fresh soybean oil, especially after 14 times. From the results, electronic nose could differentiate the degree of quality deterioration of the repeated deep-frying oils.

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The highly sensitive NO2 gas sensor using ZnO nanorods grown by the sol-gel method (졸-겔법으로 증착된 ZnO 나노막대를 이용한 고감도 이산화질소 가스 센서 제작 및 특성 연구)

  • Park, S.J.;Kwak, J.H.;Park, J.;Lee, H.Y.;Moon, S.E.;Park, K.H.;Kim, J.;Kim, G.T.
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.147-150
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    • 2008
  • Multiple ZnO nanorod device detecting $NO_2$ gas was fabricated by sol-gel growth method and gas response characteristics were measured as a chemical gas sensor. The device is mainly composed of sensing electrode and sensing nano material. To acquire high sensitivity of the device for $NO_2$ gas it was heated by a heat chuck up to $400^{\circ}C$ The sensing part was easily made using the CMOS compatible process, for example, the large area and low temperature nano material growth process, etc. The sensors were successfully demonstrated and showed high sensitive response for $NO_2$ gas sensing.

A Study on PBS-AES Correlator Design adapted in Binary CDMA System (Binary CDMA 시스템에 적용 가능한 PBS-AES 코릴레이터 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seon-Keun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.2713-2717
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    • 2011
  • To transmit data from straggling sensors in water-processing basic industries etc., used Binary-CDMA system has safety voluntarily. But Binary-CDMA is necessity that react very sensitively in environment change as defense about hacking and cracking of various way that change suddenly. Therefore, this paper is that see added cryptographic algorithm for safety and easy update on correlator that a bottle-neck phenomenon is happened in Binary-CDMA to solve problem that is such. Added cryptographic algorithm does to communicate safe information in channel that is not safe as that achieve 1:1 confrontation for sensors by symmetric cryptographic algorithm.

Electrochemical Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor based on Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Metal-Organic Framework Composite

  • Ranganethan, Suresh;Lee, Sang-Mae;Lee, Jaewon;Chang, Seung-Cheol
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.379-385
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    • 2017
  • In this study, an amperometric non-enzymatic glucose sensor was developed on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode by simply drop-casting the synthesized homogeneous suspension of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets with a copper metal-organic framework (Cu-MOF) composite. Comprehensive analytical methods, including field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and amperometry, were used to investigate the surface and electrochemical characteristics of the h-BN-Cu-MOF composite. The FE-SEM, FT-IR, and XRD results showed that the h-BN-Cu-MOF composite was formed successfully and exhibited a good porous structure. The electrochemical results showed a sensor sensitivity of $18.1{\mu}A{\mu}M^{-1}cm^{-2}$ with a dynamic linearity range of $10-900{\mu}M$ glucose and a detection limit of $5.5{\mu}M$ glucose with a rapid turnaround time (less than 2 min). Additionally, the developed sensor exhibited satisfactory anti-interference ability against dopamine, ascorbic acid, uric acid, urea, and nitrate, and thus, can be applied to the design and development of non-enzymatic glucose sensors.

Real-Time Visualization Techniques for Sensor Array Patterns Using PCA and Sammon Mapping Analysis (PCA와 Sammon Mapping 분석을 통한 센서 어레이 패턴들의 실시간 가시화 방법)

  • Byun, Hyung-Gi;Choi, Jang-Sik
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2014
  • Sensor arrays based on chemical sensors produce multidimensional patterns of data that may be used discriminate between different chemicals. For the human observer, visualization of multidimensional data is difficult, since the eye and brain process visual information in two or three dimensions. To devise a simple means of data inspection from the response of sensor arrays, PCA (Principal Component Analysis) or Sammon's nonlinear mapping technique can be applied. The PCA, which is a well-known statistical method and widely used in data analysis, has disadvantages including data distortion and the axes for plotting the dimensionally reduced data have no physical meaning in terms of how different one cluster is from another. In this paper, we have investigated two techniques and proposed a combination technique of PCA and nonlinear Sammom mapping for visualization of multidimensional patterns to two dimensions using data sets from odor sensing system. We conclude the combination technique has shown more advantages comparing with the PCA and Sammon nonlinear technique individually.