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Numerical simulation of bubble growth and liquid flow in a bubble jet micro actuator

  • Ko, Sang-Cheol;Park, Nam-Seob
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.10
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    • pp.1232-1236
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    • 2014
  • Numerical models of fluid dynamics inside the micro actuator chamber and nozzle are presented. The models include ink flow from reservoir, bubble formation and growth, ejection through the nozzle, and dynamics of refill process. Since high tapered nozzle is one of the very important parameters for overall actuator performance design. The effects of variations of nozzle thickness, diameter, and taper angles are simulated and some results are compared with the experimental results. It is found that the ink droplet ejection through the thinner and high tapered nozzle is more steady, fast, and robust.

Effects of AlN Ratio on Microstructure of AlN Films Grown by PAMBE (PAMBE를 이용하여 성장된 AlN 박막의 미세구조에 미치는 Al/N 비율 영향)

  • 홍성의;한기평;백문철;조경익;윤순길
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.972-978
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    • 2001
  • Some effects of Al/N ratio on microstructure of AlN films grown on Si(111) substrates by PAMBE were investigated. Al/N ratio was controlled by rf power of N$_2$ plasma source system. Al excess or N excess conditions were obtained below or above 350 W rf power, respectively. Surface roughness and morphology of AlN film grown at Al/N=1.0 showed the best result. Under Al excess condition, it was suggested that excess Al atoms which did not contribute to the growth of AlN film prevent the normal crystal growth and make abnormal growth of some columns. However, under N excess condition, it was explained that some of the excess active N source turned into gas state and then desorbed out from substrate.

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Effects of Simulated Acid Rain on Histology, Water Status and Growth of Pinus densiflora (인공산성빗물이 소나무의 조직, 수분수지 및 생장에 미치는 영향)

  • 이창석;길지현;유영한
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 1998
  • To clarify the effects of acid precipitates on histological damage, water status, and growth of Pinus densiflora green house experiment applyin simulated acid rain was carried out. Contact angle of water droplet on needles of P. densiflora seedlings treated with simulated acid rain of different pHs simulated acid rain was, the more rapid transpiration was. Leaf water potential after water withdrawal was also reduced rapidly in proportion to acidity of simulated acid rain. Height growth of P. densiflora seedlings treated with simulated acid rain of pH 2 decreased, while growth of seedlings treated with that of pH 3 and 4 increased comparing with that treated with normal rain of pH 5.6. pH of cultivated soil in pH 2 plot was acidified with the amount of simulated acid rain applied but that in pH 3 and 4 plots did not show any directional change. From those results, it could be interpreted that decrease of height growth in pH 2 plot was originated from multiple effects of water deficit from rapid transpiration and soil acidification. On the other hand, increased of height growth in pH 3 and 4 plots would be originated from the supply of N and S included in simulated acid rain.

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Water Repellency on a Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Carbon Fibers Network

  • Ko, Tae-Jun;Her, Eun-Kyu;Shin, Bong-Su;Kim, Ho-Young;Lee, Kwang-Ryeol;Hong, Bo-Ki;Kim, Sae-Hoon;Oh, Kyu-Hwan;Moon, Myoung-Woon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.224-224
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    • 2012
  • For decades, carbon fiber has expanded their application fields from reinforced composites to energy storage and transfer technologies such as electrodes for super-capacitors and lithium ion batteries and gas diffusion layers for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Especially in fuel cell, water repellency of gas diffusion layer has become very important property for preventing flooding which is induced by condensed water could damage the fuel cell performance. In this work, we fabricated superhydrophobic network of carbon fiber with high aspect ratio hair-like nanostructure by preferential oxygen plasma etching. Superhydrophobic carbon fiber surfaces were achieved by hydrophobic material coating with a siloxane-based hydrocarbon film, which increased the water contact angle from $147^{\circ}$ to $163^{\circ}$ and decreased the contact angle hysteresis from $71^{\circ}$ to below $5^{\circ}$, sufficient to cause droplet roll-off from the surface in millimeter scale water droplet deposition test. Also, we have explored that the condensation behavior (nucleation and growth) of water droplet on the superhydrophobic carbon fiber were significantly retarded due to the high-aspect-ratio nanostructures under super-saturated vapor conditions. It is implied that superhydrophobic carbon fiber can provide a passage for vapor or gas flow in wet environments such as a gas diffusion layer requiring the effective water removal in the operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Moreover, such nanostructuring of carbon-based materials can be extended to carbon fiber, carbon black or carbon films for applications as a cathode in lithium batteries or carbon fiber composites.

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A Successful Regeneration from Shoot Tips of Chrysanthemum morifolium (Ramat.) following Cryopreservation by Droplet-vitrification

  • Yi, Jung-Yoon;Balaraju, Kotnala;Baek, Hyung-Jin;Yoon, Mun-Seop;Kim, Haeng-Hoon;Lee, Young-Yi
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.675-683
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    • 2018
  • This study describes an efficient and widely applicable droplet-vitrification following cryopreservation for shoot tips of Chrysanthemum morifolium (Ramat.) cvs. 'Borami' and 'Yes morning'. The shoot tips of Chrysanthemum were precultured in Murashige and Skoog (MS) liquid medium supplemented with sucrose (0.3-0.7 M). Precultured explants were treated with loading solution (LS, C6) containing glycerol 20% and sucrose 20% for 30 min and exposed to dehydration solution (B5) containing 40% of glycerol and 40% of sucrose for 60 min at $25^{\circ}C$, and then transferred onto droplets containing $2.5{\mu}l$ PVS3 on sterilized aluminum foils ($4cm{\times}0.5cm$) prior to direct immersion in liquid nitrogen (LN) for 1 h. The highest regeneration rate (%) was obtained when shoot tips were precultured with treatment-2 (exposing of shoot tips to MS + 0.3M sucrose for 30 h and then treated with MS+0.5 M sucrose for 16 h) at $25^{\circ}C$ in both the cultivars. The viability of cooled samples, followed by culturing on $NH_4NO_3$-free MS medium for first 5 days was increased to two-fold (80.7%) regrowth rate over those cultured on normal MS medium or MS medium containing plant growth regulators. This result shows droplet-vitrification would be a promising method for cryobanking chrysanthemum germplasm.

Effect of powder phase during SiC single crystal growth (탄화규소 단결정 성장시 원료분말 상(Phase)의 영향)

  • Kim, Kwan-Mo;Seo, Soo-Hyung;Song, Joon-Suk;Oh, Myung-Hwan;Wang, Yen-Zen
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.214-217
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    • 2004
  • 숭화법을 이용한 탄화규소(Silicon carbide) 단결정 성장시 사용되는 원료의 상(phase)이 단결정 성장에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 알파형 탄화규소 분말(${\alpha}-SiC$ powder)과 베타형 탄화규소 분말(${\beta}-SiC$ powder)을 각각 사용하였다. 알파형 탄화규소 분말을 사용한 경우에 단결정(single-crystal)을 성장할 수 있었으나, 베타형 탄화규소 분말을 사용하였을 때에는 다결정(poly-crystal)이 성장되었다. 다결정 형성요인에 관한 EPMA 분석결과, 베타형 탄화규소 분말의 탄소에 대한 실리콘의 원소조성비$(N_{Si}/N_C\;=\;1.57)$가 알파형 탄화규소 분말의 경우보다$(N_{Si}/N_C\;=\;0.81)$ 높음을 확인하였다. 따라서 흑연도가니(crucible) 내부의 실리콘 원자가 알파형 탄화규소 분말을 사용하는 경우보다 높은 과포화상태가 되어 종자정 표면에 미세한 실리콘 액적(droplet)이 중착되고 이것으로부터 일정하지 않은 방향성(random orientation)을 갖는 탄화규소 다결정(다양한 방향성을 갖는 다형 포함)이 성장한 것으로 실리콘과 탄소 원소에 대한 EPMA 지도(map) 결과를 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

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Spray Behavior and Atomization Characteristics of Air-Assist Type Gasoline Fuel Injector (공기보조형 가솔린 연료 분사기의 분무거동 및 미립화 특성)

  • 노병준;강신재;김원태
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.187-197
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    • 1998
  • To investigate the spray behavior and atomization characteristics using an air-assist injector, spray visualization and PDPA measurements were carried out under the various assisted air pressures and the fixed fuel pressure. The air assist pintle type injector employed in this study is consisted of the air assist adaptor and an injector housing using the gasoline fuel and air as the working fluids. As results, increasing pressure of assisted air, the growth of spray tip penetration is gradually reduced at the end of spray and spray angle is steadily increased at the main spray region except from the early spray. For the air assist pressure of 25㎪ in a spray downstream, it is doncluded that droplet size distribution shows the peak of 10${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and most of the droplet sizes are less than 50${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. Also, the air-assist injector extremely improves fuel atomization in order to produce much finer droplets, it shows that approximately, in this case, 50% decreade of SMD than without air assit.

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Numerical Analysis on Rapid Solidification of Gas-atomized Al-8wt. pct Fe Droplets (가스분무한 Al-8wt.%Fe 합금분말의 급속응고과정에 대한 수치해석)

  • Kim, Seong-Gyoon;Choi, Hoi-Jin;Ra, Hyung-Yong
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.462-475
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    • 1993
  • A numerical analysis on the microstructural evolutions of microcellular and cellular ${\alpha}-aluminum$ phase in the gas-atomized Al-8wt. pct droplets was represented. The 2-dimensional non-Newtonian heat transfer and the dendritic growth theory in the undercooled melt were combined under the assumptions of a point nucleation on droplet surface and the macroscopically smooth solid-liquid interface enveloping the cell tips. It reproduced the main characteristic features of the reported microstructures quite well. It predicted a considerable volume fraction of segregation-free region in a droplet smaller than $l0{\mu}m$ if an initial undercooling larger than 100K is given. The volume fractions of the microcellular region($g_A$) and the sum of the microcellular and cellular region($g_a$) were predicted as functions of the heat transfer coefficient, h and initial undercooling, ${\triangle}T$. It was shown that $g_A$ and $g_a$, in the typical gas-atomization processes with $h=0.1-1.0W/cm^2K$, are dominated by ${\triangle}T$ and h, respectively, but for h larger than $4.0W/cm^2K$, a fully microcellular structure can be obtained irrespective of the initial undercooling.

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Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Inlet Duct Spray on Scrubbing Efficiency using Experimental Design (실험계획법을 이용한 입구덕트 스프레이의 습식 세정 효율 변화효과 분석 연구)

  • Lee, Minwoo;Kim, Hyun Ho;Koo, Junemo
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a packing-free wet scrubber to prolong the maintenance interval compared with the conventional packed bed wet scrubbers with which frequent operation stops are unavoidable to clean the packing materials. The main- and interaction-effects were quantitatively analyzed by regression analysis for the measured ammonia scrubbing data from the experiments prepared by experimental design. The scrubbing efficiency of the newly developed wet scrubber was found to be over 95% under the condition of flue gas flow rate of 90CMM and liquid-to-gas ratio $2l/m^3$ for all considered trials of experimental design. The interaction effect between the inlet duct spray and the filter was found to be important, which controls the droplet growth due to the droplet collisions between the duct- and scrubbing tower-spray. The presented methodology to analyze the impacts of operational and design factors on the scrubber efficiency showed potential for applications to optimize the future flue gas abatement process in semiconductor plants.

Growth Characteristics of AlN by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy with Different Al Flux (플라즈마분자선에피탁시법을 이용한 알루미늄 플럭스 변화에 따른 질화알루미늄의 성장특성)

  • Lim, Se Hwan;Lee, Hyosung;Shin, Eun-Jung;Han, Seok Kyu;Hong, Soon-Ku
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.539-544
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    • 2012
  • We have grown AlN nanorods and AlN films using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy by changing the Al source flux. Plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy of AlN was performed on c-plane $Al_2O_3$ substrates with different levels of aluminum (Al) flux but with the same nitrogen flux. Growth behavior of AlN was strongly affected by Al flux, as determined by in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction. Prior to the growth, nitridation of the $Al_2O_3$ substrate was performed and a two-dimensionally grown AlN layer was formed by the nitridation process, in which the epitaxial relationship was determined to be [11-20]AlN//[10-10]$Al_2O_3$, and [10-10]AlN//[11-20]$Al_2O_3$. In the growth of AlN films after nitridation, vertically aligned nanorod-structured AlN was grown with a growth rate of $1.6{\mu}m/h$, in which the growth direction was <0001>, for low Al flux. However, with high Al flux, Al droplets with diameters of about $8{\mu}m$ were found, which implies an Al-rich growth environment. With moderate Al flux conditions, epitaxial AlN films were grown. Growth was maintained in two-dimensional or three-dimensional growth mode depending on the Al flux during the growth; however, final growth occurred in three-dimensional growth mode. A lowest root mean square roughness of 0.6 nm (for $2{\mu}m{\times}2{\mu}m$ area) was obtained, which indicates a very flat surface.