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Design and Analysis of Desalination Process using LNG Cold Energy (LNG 냉열 기반 해수 담수화 공정의 설계 및 분석)

  • Lee, Sang Hyun;Park, Kyungtae
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.60 no.3
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    • pp.371-376
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    • 2022
  • Liquefied natural gas undergoes a process of vaporization to be supplied as city gas, which generates about 800 kJ/kg of cold energy. Currently, all of this cold energy is being dumped into the sea, resulting in a very serious energy waste from the point of view of energy recycling. In this study, a seawater desalination process that can utilize the wasted cold energy was proposed, and this process was optimized to analyze the specific power consumption and economic feasibility. As a result, the specific energy consumption of the proposed process was calculated as -5.2kWh/m3, and the production cost of the pure water was 0.148 USD/m3, confirming that it is superior to any other process developed so far.

MODELING THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROCESS IN THE THAI CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: A PILOT STUDY

  • Tanut Waroonkun;Rodney A. Stewart;Sherif Mohamed
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.845-848
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    • 2005
  • Technology transfer (TT) has been defined as the shared responsibility between the source and the destination for ensuring that technology is accepted and at least understood by someone with the knowledge and resources to apply and/or use the technology. The adoption of TT in construction industries is necessary for economic growth to occur in developing countries such as Thailand. This process should provide numerous benefits for the host sector in areas such as increased productivity, enhancement of product quality, cost savings, improvements in market share and entry to new markets. However, there are many factors, which may impact on the TT process and its subsequent outcomes for Thai construction firms and individuals, including, the transfer environment, learning environment, transferor characteristics and transferee characteristics. The performance and interaction of these enablers will influence the degree of value added to the local construction sectors in areas such as economic advancement, knowledge advancement and project performance. This paper presents a conceptual framework for international TT that accommodates the numerous factors believed to impact on the processes effectiveness. Through a Pilot Study, where 27 industry professionals from Thailand were interviewed, the significant factors which impact on the TT process have been identified along with the strength of interrelationship between individual and groups of factors. Future research seeks to target a greater sample of respondents with the view to validate the conceptual model and apply it on a number of large Thai projects where international TT was incorporated into the project agreement.

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Market and Marketing: Analysis and Proposal from a Market Economist's Point of View (마켓(Market)과 마케팅(Marketing): 시장 경제학적 관점에서의 분석과 제언)

  • Park, Kwang Ryang
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.93-121
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    • 2005
  • This study is about to enhance our understanding of market and market principle, so that marketing research contribute to create more values for customers and firms. For this purpose three following suggestions are proposed. First, marketing research should expand its research scope to include all the market participants in addition to consumers. Second, marketing research should expand into the 'internal market' of the organization. where internal sub-groups are engaging in fierce marketing-like activities. Third, marketing researchers should thoroughly understand the basic market principles and the macro political-economic structure of capitalism. Only on the ethical basis of free market system, it is argued, market, marketing, and marketing research will flourish.

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Empirical Analysis of the Back and Forth Relationship Between China and U.S since 1989: focusing on the Jiangzemin and Clinton's cognitive map (1989년 이후 이중적 중미관계: 장저민과 클린턴의 인지지도 분석을 중심으로)

  • Chung, Da Hoon
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.47-66
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    • 2012
  • This paper aims at investigating and identifying the factor that has led the back and forth relationship between China and the United States since 1989. Previous studies on this subject addressed the issue by taking either of two approaches: one with the micro view that interprets the back and forth relationship in the context of the end of the Cold war, on other hand, with the macro view that interprets the fragile relationship in the context of the rise of China. However, neither of the approaches explains with sufficiency the question at hand. Hence for the inquiry, this article suggests a fresh view by exploring alternative method of using a cognitive map of each nation's leader, Jiangzemin and Bill Clinton. This article provides an empirical analysis through the Selected works of Jiangzemin and the speeches of Bill Clinton in 1998 for the first time in the field of Sino-US relationship studies in Korea. With the results of the cognitive map analysis, we can reach the following four points. Firstly, indicators of the forth relationship between China and the US are: i) the recognition by Bill Clinton on the importance of China's economic growth and; ii) the US's cooperation of science technology with China. Second, the conflict between China and the US results from the discordance of opinions on the matter of human rights and military power. Second, the conflict will inevitably arise on environmental issues around the globe including a global warming. Third, while China has yet to find a legitimate reason to agree upon these issues with the US, the US urges China of its cooperation. Lastly, Both China and the US attach great importance to the alliance with Japan. This implicates that relatively, issues involving Japan take more control in the China-US relationship, than those of Korea Peninsula.

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ZigBee Wireless Sensor Nodes and Network For Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring (풍력발전기 상태 모니터링을 위한 ZigBee 무선 센서노드 및 네트워크)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Ho;Ahn, Sung-Bum;Choi, Sang-Jin;Pan, Jae-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.4186-4192
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    • 2012
  • Because wind turbines are larger and more off-shore construction due to economic and environmental factors, it is more difficult to access the wind turbine as well as the necessary parts and the maintenance costs are increasing. So, we need to minimize fault elements and to prevent a secondary accident at failure through monitoring to reduce maintenance costs and to increase reliability of operation. In this paper we have implemented ZigBee based wireless sensor nodes and network for wind turbine condition monitoring using temperature, humidity, voltage, current, wind direction, and wind speed sensors. ZigBee wireless sensor nodes signals are transmitted to a central monitoring system via routers. Also, the sensor signals are collected and processed using LabVIEW program to monitor the wind turbine conveniently. The administrators and users can monitor the condition of wind turbine at remote site in real time over TCP/IP.

Economic evaluation analysis for accommodation re-arrangement of 9,600TEU Container ship (9,600TEU급 컨테이너선의 거주 공간 재배치에 의한 경제성 평가 분석)

  • Choi, Kyong-Soon;Im, Nam-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.325-332
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    • 2005
  • As ship builder companies have a tendency to pursuit the effect of scale economy, recently the ultra-large sized container ship is discussed very actively among them. It is expected that these situation will be continued for the time being. The need of accommodation re-arrangement is carefully proposed according to the tendency of ultra-large sized ship. In this paper, accommodation re-arrangement of ultra-large container ship is examined in the view of economy. We proposed separation of engine room and accommodation part through review and supplementaition of drawing generation in intial design stage. Also we investigated its merits and demerits to find out whether it can be realized or not in the view of economical efficiency. The RFR(Required Freight Rate) is considered as the objective function to evaluate the re-designed vessel. The economical benefits for increasing the number of TEU(Twenty-foot Equivalent Units)'s and the re-arranged space are analyzed in the view of ship owner and shipyards respectively.

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A Study on Classification of Explosion Hazardous Area for Facilities using Lighter-than-Air Gases (공기보다 가벼운 가스 사용시설의 폭발위험장소 설정방안에 대한 연구)

  • Yim, Ji-Pyo;Chung, Chang-Bock
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.24-30
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    • 2014
  • There have been controversies over whether explosion hazardous area(EHA) should be classified for facilities which use lighter-than-air gases such as city gas, hydrogen and ammonia. Two view points are confronting each other: an economic piont of view that these gases are lighter than air and disperse rapidly, hence do not form EHA upon release into the atmosphere, and a safety point of view that they are also inflammable gases, hence can form EHA although the extent is limited compared to heavy gases. But various standards such as KS, IEC, API, NFPA do not exclude light gases when classifying EHA and present examples of EHA for light gas facilities. This study calculates EHA using the hypothetical volume in the IEC code where the hole sizes required for the calculation were selected according to various nominal pipe sizes in such a way to conform to the EHA data in the API code and HSL. Then, 25 leakage scenarios were suggested for 5 different pipe sizes and 5 operating pressures that cover typical operating conditions of light gas facilities. The EHA for the minimum leakage scenario(25 mm pipe, 0.01MPa pressure) was found to correspond to a hypothetical volume larger than 0.1 $m^3$(medium-level ventilation). This confirms the validity of classifying EHA for facilities using lighter-than-air gases. Finally, a computer program called HACPL was developed for easy use by light gas facilities that classifies EHA according to operating pressures and pipe sizes.

A literatual study on medical thought of Wu Shi Ji(吳師機) about external therapy - Translation and analysis on $\ulcorner$Lue Yan, 略言$\lrcorner$ in $\ulcorner$Li Yue Pian Wen, 理倫騈文$\lrcorner$ (吳師機의 外治法 思想에 대한 硏究 -<理倫騈文> 中 <略言>을 中心으로)

  • Cheon, Jae-Hong;Kim, Hyun-a
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.268-294
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    • 1999
  • External therapy is a very useful method in today. But a study of theoretical basis of external therapy is very poor in Korea. So I carried out to investigate of 《Li Yue Pian Wen, 理淪騈文》. And I translated and analyzed to , firstly. Wu Shi Ji (吳師機) was one of the physician in qing(淸) dynasty (AD). He wrote the 《Li Yue Pian Wen, 理淪騈文》 which is the first special book on the external therapy(外治法). This is composed of 5 parts. In these parts,

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Measuring Economic Values of Amenity Services from Urban Greenspaces in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Using Choice Experiments (선택실험을 이용한 서울 도시녹지 어메니티의 경제가치 평가)

  • Choi, Andy S.;Eom, Young Sook
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.105-138
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    • 2018
  • This paper reports novel empirical results of a choice experiment that elicited the economic values that residents in the Seoul metropolitan area place on the amenity services realized from the landscape views and accessibilities to urban green spaces (i.e., mountains, rivers and urban parks). The 1,000 respondents in the sample were divided into two residential of housing types (apartments vs. houses) and occupancy types (owners vs. tenants). Residents living in apartments are willing to pay an average of 28% (5.0 million KRW per year) above the current housing prices per household for a mountain view, compared to an apartment view from their living room. Their willingness to pay values are about 22% (4.0 million KRW per year) and 10% (1.8 million KRW per year) respectively for a river view and a urban park view. Economic benefits of having access (i.e., a 10 minutes working distance) to mountains, rivers and urban parks are estimated to be an average of 16% (2.9 million KRW per year), 20% (3.6 million KRW per year) and 18% (3.2 million KRW per year), respectively, above the current housing prices per household. On the other hand, access benefits for those residing in houses are 18% (4.7 million KRW per year), 16% (4.1 million KRW per year) and 22% (5.6 million KRW per year) per household, respectively. They are also willing to pay an average of 35% (8.9 million KRW per year) above the current housing prices for keeping or having a garden or vegetation bed. Furthermore, a strong "greenspace premium" is centered around the three Gangnam districts for house-dwellers, whereas it is areas of "new real estate boom" for apartment dwellers.

The Impact of K-Beauty Search Volumes on Export and Tourism: Based on the Google Search and YouTube Page View (K-뷰티(K-Beauty) 검색량이 수출과 관광에 미치는 영향: Google과 YouTube 검색 데이터 분석을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Sun-Jeong;Lee, Soobum
    • Review of Culture and Economy
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.119-147
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    • 2017
  • This study analyzes Big Data to understand the economic influence of K-Beauty which is expected as a fast-growing industry. Because the content of K-beauty is mainly transmitted over the Internet, Big Data about K-Beauty in the database of online services can show interest and engagement in K-Beauty. The export volume of the beauty industry and the number of foreign tourist in Korea were used as dependent variables. The volume of Google search and the volume of YouTube page view were independent variables. According to the result of a multi-regression analysis, the volume of Google search of K-Beauty had a positive influence on both dependent variables, even after controlling for GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and distances between nations. When it comes to the volume of YouTube page view of K-Beauty, it had a positive relationship with the export volume of the beauty industry, whereas there was no significant relationship between the volume of YouTube page view and the number of foreign tourists. The result indicates that the content of K-Beauty has a significant impact on the beauty industry. Moreover, this empirical study shows that web search and YouTube search have a positive relationship with the economical aspect. These results can be used to discuss public relations strategy to promote K-Beauty industry.