• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제46권11호
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• pp.1079-1088
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• 2013

지하수 양수정의 위치는 대수층내 지하수 유동과 하천-대수층의 상호작용에 영향을 미치므로 효과적인 지하수 개발 이용 및 하천수 관리를 위해서는 개별적인 지하수 관정의 양수 위치에 따른 하천수량 변화를 정량적으로 분석하는 과정이 선행되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 경기도 이천에 위치한 신둔천 유역에 대해서 단일 관정으로부터의 지하수 양수가 인근 하천구간에 미치는 영향을 지표수-지하수 통합모형 SWAT-MODFLOW를 이용하여 모의, 분석하였다. 유역내에 존재하는 지하수 관정들 중 임의로 50개를 선별하고 각각의 단일 관정의 양수로 인한 인접 및 하류부 하도 구간의 하천수 감소에 미치는 영향을 평가하였고, 특히 양수로 인한 하천 영향 판별 지표로 많이 사용되고 있는 하천고갈인자 및 하천바닥인자의 적용성을 검토하였다. 각각의 단일 관정의 지하수 양수 전 후의 하천유량을 비교한 결과 양수량 대비 하천수 감소량은 작게는 20% 미만에서 크게는 90%가 넘는 등 지역 및 하천-관정 이격거리에 따라 큰 차이를 나타내었다. 하천고갈인자와 하천바닥인자 모두 하천수감소량과는 상관성이 높지 않아 양수로 인한 하천에 미치는 영향을 판정하는 절대적인 기준이 될 수는 없는 것으로 분석되었다. 하지만, 하천-관정 이격거리가 약 500 m 이내인 경우에는 하천바닥인자는 하천 영향정도를 평가하는 지표로 사용이 가능할 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 1996

This study is concerned with the property changes(chemical and mechanical) of the used oil in diesel engine, which were sampled from a test engine with dynamometer and various cars. The properties of oil are TAN, viscosity, oxidation, ZDTP depletion factor and etc. Also the relation between the change of chemical and antiwear property of used oil was strongly related to ZDTP depletion factor as wall as the change of TAN(total acid number), sulfation and pentan unsoluble contents which were reated to the formation of protect film in sliding area. The oil used in pick-up(small) truck engine was deteriorated within the shortest distance than that of other cars. The antiwear property of used oil was decreased sharply as the running distance were over 5,000km. The oil used to mini bus was the least to deteriorate of properities for the funning distance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4731-4742
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• 2022

RBMK fuel assemblies differ from other LWR FA due to a specific arrangement of the fuel rods, the low enrichment, and the used burnable absorber - erbium. Therefore, there is a challenge to adapt modeling tools, developed for other LWR types, to solve RBMK problems. A set of 10 different depletion simulation schemes were tested to estimate the impact on reactivity and spent fuel composition of possible SCALE code options for the neutron transport modelling and the use of different nuclear data libraries. The simulations were performed using cross-section libraries based on both, VII.0 and VII.1, versions of ENDF/B nuclear data, and assuming continuous energy and multigroup simulation modes, standard and user-defined Dancoff factor values, and employing deterministic and Monte Carlo methods. The criticality analysis with burn-up credit was performed for the SFP loaded with RBMK-1500 FA. Spent fuel compositions were taken from each of 10 performed depletion simulations. The criticality of SFP is found to be overestimated by up to 0.08% in simulation cases using user-defined Dancoff factors comparing the results obtained using the continuous energy library (VII.1 version of ENDF/B nuclear data). It was shown that such discrepancy is determined by the higher U-235 and Pu-239 isotopes concentrations calculated.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2016

Visual MODFLOW was used for quantifying stream-aquifer interactions caused by seasonal groundwater pumping. A hypothetical conceptual model was assumed to represent a stream-aquifer system commonly found in Korea. The model considered a two-layered aquifer with the upper alluvium and the lower bedrock and a stream showing seasonal water level fluctuations. Our results show that seasonal variation of the stream depletion rate (SDR) as well as the groundwater depletion depends on the stream depletion factor (SDF), which is determined by aquifer parameters and the distance from the pumping well to the stream. For pumping wells with large SDF, groundwater was considerably depleted for a long time of years and the streamflow decreased throughout the whole year. The impacts of return flow were also examined by recalculating SDR with an assumed ratio of immediate irrigation return flow to the stream. Return flow over 50% of pumping rate could increase the streamflow during the period of seasonal pumping. The model also showed that SDR was affected by both the conductance between the aquifer and the stream bed and screen depths of the pumping well. Our results can be used for preliminary assessment of water budget analysis aimed to plan an integrated management of water resources in riparian areas threatened by heavy pumping.

• BMB Reports
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.202-207
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• 2000

The depletion of intracellular calcium stores by thapsigargin treatment evoked extracellular calcium-dependent membrane currents in Xenopus laevis oocytes. These currents have been compared to those evoked by microinjection of a calcium influx factor (CIF) purified from Jurkat T lymphocytes. The membrane currents elicited by thapsigargin treatment (peak current, $163{\pm}60$ nA) or CIF injection (peak current, $897{\pm}188$ nA) were both dependent on calcium entry, based on their eradication by the removal of extracellular calcium. The currents were, in both cases, attributed primarily to well-characterized $Ca^{2+}-dependent$ $Cl^-$ currents, based on their similar reversal potentials (-24 mV vs. -28 mV) and their inhibition by niflumic acid (a $Cl^-$ channel blocker). Currents induced by either thapsigargin treatment or CIF injection exhibited an identical pattern of inhibitory sensitivity to a panel of lanthanides, suggesting that thapsigargin treatment or CIF injection evoked $Cl^-$ currents by stimulating calcium influx through pharmacologically identical calcium channels. These results indicate that CIF acts on the same calcium entry pathway activated by the depletion of calcium stores and most lanthanides are novel pharmacological tools for the study of calcium entry in Xenopus oocytes.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2000

Spatial distributions of phytoplankton biomass and nutrients were examined to investigate the magnitude of phytoplankton blooms along the marginal ice zone (MIZ) in the northwestern Weddell Sea during austral summer of 1995. High phytoplankton biomass was associated with the MIZ in the study area. Vertical stability induced by meltwater appears to be the most important factor controlling phytoplankton biomass distribution. Nitrate concentrations are significantly depleted within the upper water column at the phytoplankton biomass maximum. The time required to attain the observed nutrient depletion was calculated from phytoplankton biomass and nitrate depletion, which ranges from 27 to 68 days in transect 4 and from 33 to 145 days in transect 3. Phytoplankton production was also calculated from nitrate depletion and time-scales of nitrate depletion, which varies from 272 to 1752 mg C m$^{-2}$ day$^{-1}$ in transect 4 and from 327 to 2648 mg C m$^{-2}$ day$^{-1}$ in transect 3. In the Southern Ocean where primary productivity shows large temporal and spatial variations, the productivity measurement from nutrient depletion can provide an average rate of primary production during phytoplankton bloom.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.1881-1895
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• 2020

The theoretical aspects behind the reactor depletion capability of the Monte Carlo code MCS developed at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and practical results of this depletion feature for a Material-Testing Reactor (MTR) with plate-type fuel are described in this paper. A verification of MCS results is first performed against MCNP6 to confirm the suitability of MCS for the criticality and depletion analysis of the MTR. Then, the dependence of the effective neutron multiplication factor to the number of axial and radial depletion cells adopted in the fuel plates is performed with MCS in order to determine the minimum spatial segmentation of the fuel plates. Monte Carlo depletion results with 37,800 depletion cells are provided by MCS within acceptable calculation time and memory usage. The results show that at least 7 axial meshes per fuel plate are required to reach the same precision as the reference calculation whereas no significant differences are observed when modeling 1 or 10 radial meshes per fuel plate. This study demonstrates that MCS can address the need for Monte Carlo codes capable of providing reference solutions to complex reactor depletion problems with refined meshes for fuel management and research reactor applications.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.172-181
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• 1999

Series expansion methods to compute the exponential of a matrix have been compared by applying them to fuel depletion calculations. Specifically, Taylor, Pade, Chebyshev, and rational Chebyshev approximations have been investigated by approximating the exponentials of bum matrices by truncated series of each method with the scaling and squaring algorithm. The accuracy and efficiency of these methods have been tested by performing various numerical tests using one thermal reactor and two fast reactor depletion problems. The results indicate that all the four series methods are accurate enough to be used for fuel depletion calculations although the rational Chebyshev approximation is relatively less accurate. They also show that the rational approximations are more efficient than the polynomial approximations. Considering the computational accuracy and efficiency, the Pade approximation appears to be better than the other methods. Its accuracy is better than the rational Chebyshev approximation, while being comparable to the polynomial approximations. On the other hand, its efficiency is better than the polynomial approximations and is similar to the rational Chebyshev approximation. In particular, for fast reactor depletion calculations, it is faster than the polynomial approximations by a factor of ∼ 1.7.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.563-569
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• 2020

Purpose: The vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in mature animals have implicated to play a major role in the progression of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. This study aimed at optimizing the protocol in culturing primary VSMCs (pVSMCs) from rat thoracic aorta and investigating the effect of cellular zinc (Zn) deficiency on cell proliferation of the isolated pVSMCs. Methods: The thoracic aorta from 7-month-old Sprague Dawley rats was isolated, minced and digested by the enzymatic process of collagenase I and elastase, and then inoculated with the culture Dulbecco Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) at 37℃ in an incubator. The primary cell culture morphology was observed using phase-contrast microscopy and cellular Zn was depleted using Chelex-100 resin (extracellular zinc depletion only) or 3 µM N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridinylmethyl)-1,2-ethanediamine (TPEN) (extracellular and intracellular zinc depletion). Western blot analysis was used for the detection of SM22α and calponin as smooth muscle cell marker proteins and von Willebrand factor as endothelial cell marker protein to detect the culture purity. Cell proliferation by Zn depletion (1 day) was measured by MTT assay. Results: A primary culture protocol for pVSMCs from rat thoracic aorta was developed and optimized. Isolated cultures exhibited hill and valley morphology as the major characteristics of pVSMCs and expressed the smooth muscle cell protein markers, SM22α and calponin, while the endothelial marker von Willebrand factor was hardly detected. Zn deprivation for 1 day culture decreased rat primary vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and this pattern was more prominent under severe Zn depletion (3 µM TPEN), while less prominent under mild Zn depletion (Chelexing). Conclusion: Our results suggest that cellular Zn deprivation decreased pVSMC proliferation and this may be involved in phenotypic modulation of pVSMC in the aorta.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 하폭, 하상수리전도도 등의 하천수리특성을 고려할 수 있는 Baalousha (2012)의 해석해를 이용하여 안성천 상류구간 인근에 위치한 관정 17개에 대해 지하수 양수로 인한 하천수 감소량을 산정하고 그 특성을 고찰하였다. 해석해 적용을 위해서 양수시험과 시피지시험을 통해 측정한 대수층과 하상의 수리특성값을 이용하였다. 양수기간 5년 동안 양수량 대비 하천수 감소량은 약 0.23에서 0.89로 관정 위치별로 차이가 크게 나타났으며, 하천고갈인자(Stream Depletion Factor, SDF) 값이 1,000일보다 큰 경우 0.4 미만으로 양수의 영향이 작은 것으로 분석되었다. Baalousha (2012) 해석해 적용 결과를 미소하폭에 대한 Hunt (1999) 해석해 적용 결과와 비교한 결과 연구대상 지역은 상대적으로 간단한 Hunt (1999) 해석해로 지하수 양수 영향을 파악하는데 충분한 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 투수량계수, 저류계수, 하상수리전도도, 하폭, 하천-관정 이격거리, 하폭 등의 수리특성치 조합에 따른 총 3,000가지 조건에 대해 각각의 해석해로 5년 평균 하천수 감소비를 구하여 비교한 결과 하천-관정 이격거리가 하폭 보다 길어야 두 해석해의 차이가 작아 하폭의 영향이 감소하는 것으로 분석되었다.