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A survey on the EMF Levels of Study and Electric Appliances in Korea (국내 전철 및 가전제품을 대상으로 한 전자장 수준 실태조사)

  • Jang, Seong Ki;Cho, Yong Sung;Lee, Seok Jo;Yoo, Seong Wha;Jung, Kyung Mi;Lim, Jun Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study was to collect, analyze, and describe the MF exposure levels from subways in Korea and to measure and evaluate the MF levels generated from electric appliances used at general homes. The target subway lines were Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 to Line 8, Bundang Line, Incheon Line, Daegu Line, Gwangju Line, and Busan Line 1 and Line 2. We measured at each station in those subway lines and, all the train types (pantograph-equipped, motor-equipped, and common), and platform types(facing and isolating) were investigated by the distance(80, 200, 400 cm) from the train on 19 targeted subway lines using 3 magnetic field measuring devices (EMDEXII, Enertech Co.) during the survey from January till October, 2004. On the other hand, the levels of the 60Hz magnetic fields generated from 14 items of home electric appliances such as electric blankets, hair dryers, electric razors, etc. were measured at 10 general homes using 5 EMDEXII meters with a sampling interval of 1.5 second by the distance(surface, 30, 50, 100, 300cm ) from the target electric appliances. The survey results in the whole subway lines examined in this study were as follows; Seoul Metropolitan Line 4 using AC(alternating current) power source showed the highest mean value of $2.85{\mu}T$, followed by Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 running between Seoul and Incheon using AC($2.78{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 between Seoul and Uijongbu using AC($2.73{\mu}T$), Bundang Line using AC($1.79{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 connected from Yongsan using AC($1.67{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 between Seoul and Suwon using AC($0.79{\mu}T$), and so on. In general, the intensity of the magnetic field in the subway systems in Korea was significantly higher when using AC($2.14{\pm}0.91{\mu}T$) than when using DC($0.29{\pm}0.44{\mu}T$) power source. Among the home electric appliances examined, microwave ovens showed the highest mean value of $7.69{\mu}T$, followed by hair dryers($6.47{\mu}T$), vacuum cleaners($5.27{\mu}T$), televisions ($2.26{\mu}T$), electric blankets($1.38{\mu}T$), personal computers ($0.81{\mu}T$), and so on. Two items of electric appliances showed the excess value of $0.2{\mu}T$ at the distance of 30cm in the MF exposure level; electric razors $1.58{\pm}2.13{\mu}T$ and vacuum cleaners $0.48{\pm}0.44{\mu}T$. As a whole, this study showed a tendency that the shift of the MF levels according to the increase of distance from the electric appliances was lower than those of the results surveyed in UK and USA. As a result, this study is expected to suggest meaningful data for the future study in exposure assessment of magnetic fields and for the establishment of guidelines for subways and electric appliances in Korea. More detailed and large scaled exposure assessment studies should be performed continuously to get the various and useful information on health risk assessment of MFs in Korea.

Comparison of Microwave and Conventional Cooking Methods on the Nutritional Composition of Potatoes -(1) Changes of Proximate Composition, Minerals and Water-soluble Vitamins- (감자의 몇가지 영양성분(營養成分)에 대한 마이크로파(波)와 재래적(在來的) 조리방법(調理方法)의 비교(比較) -1. 일반성분(一般成分), 무기질(無機質) 및 수용성(水溶性) 비타민의 변화에 대하여-)

  • Yoo, Yang-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.171-176
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    • 1985
  • The effects of cooking methods by boiling, electric oven and microwave on the proximate composition, minerals and water-soluble vitamins of two major Korean potato varieties (Soomi and Namjac) were studied. The dry matter content was increased after the cooking by the methods of electric oven and microwave, however, the crude fiber content was highly decreased by both methods. The crude ash content was not affected by the cooking methods used. The potassium content was increased by electric oven and microwave methods, and iron content was increased by electric oven baking, however, the copper content was significantly decreased by the electric oven and microwave cooking methods. The macrominerals (phosphorus, magnesium, calcium) and microminerals (zinc, manganese, nickel, lead, cadmium) content present initially in potatoes have not been changed by the cooking methods employed in this study. Relative retention value of ascorbic acid was the lowest and the value of thiamin was the highest in the potatoes cooked by microwave. The retention values of riboflavin and folic acid obtained. after boiling were similar to those after microwave cooking, and both of these treatments were superior to the electric oven baking. The retention values of niacin and vitamin $B_6$ varied between 93 and 100% depending on the cooking methods used. Overall, with a few exceptions, the retention values of water-soluble vitamins in boiled and microwave cooked potatoes were superior to those of the electric oven baked.

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A Study on the Performance of Home Clothes Dryer using Thermoelectric Module (열전소자를 이용한 가정용 의류 건조기의 성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Min-Jae;Gong, Sang-Un;Kim, Jong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2073-2078
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    • 2007
  • This study was performed to develop a dryer for home clothes using thermoelectric module. The thermoelectric module was used as a heat source and a dehumidification device because it has heating part and cooling part at once. To design for maximizing the energy efficiency and the rate of dehumidification, the parameters of the dryer using thermoelectric module are heat capacity and air flow rate. This study showed that the thermoelectric module can be used in the clothes dryer and energy efficiency of clothes dryer be better than that of electric heating dryer.

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Content Analysis of Consumer Safety Problem through the Korean Mass Media (한국 대중매체에 나타난 소비자안전문제의 내용분석-1991년부터 1993년까지의 신문과 소비자전문지를 중심으로-)

  • 김성숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.19-32
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the consumer safety problems appeared in the Korean mass media-the newspaper(the Kong-A Ilbo and the Chosun Ilbo) and the consumer magazines(the Sobija-Sidae and the Sobija) from 1991 to 1993. I use the content analysis of the articles related with consumer safety through the above mass media. The results are (1) the goods-services areas that are severe in the consumer safety problem are food, environment, medicine, electric appliances, services(restaurant, medical service), and etc. (2) the most important problem areas are Toxic ingredients(remaining agricultural chemicals and heavy metal), Food additionals, Sanitary problem, Hygiene products hazard, Safety accident, Environmental pollution, etc. (3) the goods-service area and the consumer safety problem are different according to the publication year and the mass media type.

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An Analysis on Export Competitiveness of Korea Manufacturing Industries in the U.S.A. Market (한국제조업의 대미 수출경쟁력 변화분석)

  • Son, Yong-Jung
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.89-104
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    • 2006
  • Though weight manufacturing has in national gross production is decreasing, it has still a decisive role in economic growth of Korea, and foreign competitiveness of manufacturing has a great influence on our whole economy. Therefore, as this study speculates export competitiveness of manufacturing item by item, the results can be used for selection of strategic export-oriented products. The results of the analysis are summarized as follows: first, products that are found as competitive through analysis of trade specialization indexes are plastic, rubber, fabric, home electronic appliances, computers, communication equipment, automobiles and their spare parts. Second, electronic-electric industry such as semi-conduits, communication equipment, home electronics, computers was decided as advantageous through analysis of comparative advantages at present, while paper, print and publishing, and leather industries were classified as comparatively disadvantageous. Its political implications are presented as follows: Private corporations should develop more advanced technology and government should give more support to secure export competitiveness of manufacturing toward America. Governmental policies should be prepared to induce consistent and daring investment to technology-intensive products for export products with high-added value.

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The Consumer Complaining Behavior according to Consumer Problems -in case of household electric goods- (소비자문제경험에 따른 대응행동 -가전제품을 중심으로-)

  • 이승신
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.179-191
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study was to investgate consumer problems which were severe for consumers and their complaining behavior. This research had a purpose to enhance the ability of consumer protection by the well-developed consumer education. The subjects were 342 homewives in Seoul, Feb. 1995. The major results were as follows : Younger, higher-educated, small sized family and white-collor and professional occupation homewives experienced more consumer problems. Also theses homewives with higher level of consumer attitude, information search and more consumer problems had more complaining behavior. For the causal relation of consumer problems experience, several independent variables and consumer complaining behavior, the path analysis was used. Only the consumer problem experience which was a intervening variable had direct affect to the consumer complaining behavior. Education level, number of family, consumer knowledge had inderect affect through the intervening variable to the consumer complaining behavior.

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Induction motor vector control for washing machine (드럼 세탁기용 유도전동기의 효율운전)

  • Lee, Dong-Yup;Lee, Won-Chul;Bae, Woo-Ri;Kim, Lee-Hun;Won, Chung-Yuen
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.36-38
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    • 2005
  • In home appliances, electric energy is optimally controlled by using power electronics technology, creating a comfortable environment in terms of energy saving, low sound generation, and reduced time consumption. Usually simplicity and robustness make the three phase induction motor attractive for use in domestic appliance, including washing machines. Two main types of domestic washing machine have evolved. We focus on the front loading machine favored in Europe, which has a horizontal drum axis. The efficiency improvement in home appliances is very important for customers. Induction motor efficiency can be improved by means of loss reduction, which can be realized by motor selection and design, improvement of the waveforms supplied by power Inverter, utilizing a suitable control method. So this paper describes the architecture and feature of washing machine fed induction motor drive under minimizing losses vector control.

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Thermal Management Study of PEMFC for Residential Power Generation (가정용 연료전지 시스템의 열관리 해석)

  • Yu, Sang-Seok;Lee, Young-Duk;Ahn, Kook-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.2839-2844
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    • 2008
  • A PEMFC(proton exchange membrane fuel cell) is a good candidate for residential power generation to be cope with the shortage of fossil fuel and green house gas emission. The attractive benefit of the PEMFC is to produce electric power as well as hot water for home usage. Typically, thermal management of vehicular PEMFC is to reject the heat from the PEMFC to the ambient air. Different from that, the thermal management of PEMFC for RPG is to utilize the heat of PEMFC so that the PEMFC can be operated at its optimal efficiency. In this study, dynamic thermal management system is modeled to understand the response of the thermal management system during dynamic operation. The thermal management system of PEMFC for RPGFC is composed of two cooling circuits, one for controling the fuel cell temperature and the other for heating up the water for home usage. Dynamic responses and operating strategies of the PEMFC system are investigated during load changes.

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A Design and Analysis on Performance of Wireless Home Theater System (무선 전송방식의 홈시어터 설계 및 이의 성능 분석)

  • Kang, Kyoung-Won
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.181-182
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    • 2007
  • Wireless home theater and speaker system was designed. That has 20W output per channel, 0.1% THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) and automatic algorithm avoiding noise. The 3D stereophonic sound was realized through the wireless 5.1channel speaker system designed. That could be secured 0.4% improvement effect of THD compared with wire speaker systems. Specially in transfer sound with wireless, Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum was superior than Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum in household electric appliances and wireless internet environment that radiated noise similar with ISM Band using 2.4GHz.

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Design and Fabrication of a Home-panel Board for Electromagnetic Compatibility (전자파 대응 단위세대 분전반의 설계 및 제작)

  • 길경석;송재용;이종혁;권장우;송동영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2000
  • This paper describes the design and fabrication of a home-panel board for electromagnetic compatibility which can protect home-electric appliances from transient voltages and power line noise. The proposed panel board include a transient voltage blocking device and a EMI filter which consisted of varistors, capacitors, and bus line inductance.A performance test of the prototype panel board, blocking characteristics to transient voltages and reduction characteristics to power line noise, are carried out by using a combination surge generator standardized in IEC and a network analyzer.The results showed that the proposed panel board is satisfied with the surge immunity level of IEC 61000-4-5, and has an over 20[dB] noise reduction performance in ranges from 150[kHz]∼30[MHz].

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