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Satellite Monitoring of Smoke Aerosol Plume during the Russian Fire Episode of May 2003 over Northeast Asia

  • Lee, Kwon H.;Kim, Young J.;Hoyningen-Huene, Wolfgang V.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.491-492
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    • 2003
  • The large amount of smoke produced near Lake Baikal was transported to Northeast Asia with high AOT (Aerosol Optical Thickness) as seen in satellite images. Aerosol retrieval using a separation technique was applied to MODIS (Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer) and SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor) data observed during 14-22 May 2003. Large AOT, 2.0~5.0 was observed on 20 May 2003 over Korea due to the influence of the long range transport of smoke aerosol plume from the Russian fires, resulting in high PM10 concentration was observed at the surface.

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220Vrms Series Arc Characterization Depending on load capacity For Arc Fault Detection (아크사고 검출을 위한 부하용량별 220Vrms 직렬아크특성)

  • Choi, Su-Kyung;Kwon, Wan-Sung;Kim, Chong-Min;Bang, Sun-Bae;Choe, Gyu-Ha
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.213-214
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    • 2010
  • The Arc fault is primary reason of electric fire. so we must detect. the purpose of this study is to extend our knowledge of AC-arc characteristics and detect. The Arcs are produced by separating two electrodes made with graphite and copper. A very low separation speed allows arcs to reinitiate, as in arc fault in wires. Power is 220Vrms-60Hz and the load is light bulbs and capacities are 220W, 660W and 1100W. I measured Arc voltage and current. and defined voltage and current Max level, voltage plateau and Arc-power at each cycle.

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A Study on Ensuring Safety in Electric Railway Based on the Risk Assessment (위험도 평가 기반의 전철/전력분야 안전확보 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, Yun-Suk;Choi, Kyu-Hyoung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.275-280
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    • 2008
  • Recently the railway safety is very important issue in Korea because there are lots of changes like the separation of operation and facility of national rail network, the inauguration of high speed train and Daegu subway fire accident. Railway safety management system is based on risk assessment of rolling stocks, electrical system, signaling, operation & maintenance and human element. With this process, railway risk will be reduced as low as reasonably acceptable level. Through risk assessment on accident data, this study predicted the current risk level of railway electrical system and presented the proper safety ensuring measures.

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A Study on Improvement of Discharge Obstruction Prevention Standard for Sprinkler Head on NFSC 103 (스프링클러설비 소화성능 향상을 위한 NFSC 103 살수장애 방지기준 개선 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sunghyun;Lee, Sungsu
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.237-247
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study aims to draw the problems and improvements of NFSC 103 sprinkler head discharge obstruction prevention standard to increase the fire extinguishing performance of sprinkler system in order to contribute to the protection of people's lives and property in the event of a fire. Method: NFSC 103 was compared to NFPA 13 which is the latest 2019 version in U.S in terms of sprinkler head discharge obstruction prevention. Results: This study found that NFSC 103 doesn't define even the basic concept of sprinkler discharge obstruction. And NFSC 103 doesn't have detailed standard for side wall sprinkler head discharge obstruction prevention as well as the "height" criteria of the "three times" separation rule. Conclusion: NFSC 103 needs a lot of supplements and improvements such as the addition of definition for water discharge obstructions, the adoption of sidewall sprinkler heads standard for preventing water discharge obstructions and the additional establishment of the "three times rule" considering the "height" of obstacles to promote the advance of fire safety standard equal or above fire fighting advanced country and increase the reliability for the suppression performance of sprinkler system.

A Study on the Improving Speech Intelligibility of Emergency Broadcast Equipment in the Apartments (공동주택 내 비상방송설비의 음성명료도 실태 분석 및 재실자 인지성 개선방안 연구)

  • Oh, So-Young;Cho, Hyun-Min;Lee, Young-Ju;Lee, Min-Joo;Yoon, Myung-Oh
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.60-68
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    • 2018
  • Due to the complicated plan structure of the apartment units and the improved room-to-room sound insulation performance, it is difficult to communicate and recognize the fire situation by emergency broadcast equipment. In this study, speech intelligibility was measured and analyzed for three types of apartment unit by emergency broadcast equipment on various measurement points. Simulations were also conducted to improve the speech intelligibility. As a result of field measurements 72, 84, and 101 Type were not satisfied with NFSC standard of 90 dBA at the point of 1 m distance from source. In addition, it was evaluated that 75 dBA and CIS 0.7 of NFPA standard was not satisfied at all measurement points except for the 72 Type at living room point with door opened condition. Based on the door opened condition of the bedroom, it satisfied the NFPA of 75 dBA and CIS 0.7 in each bedroom when more than 90 dBA was satisfied at the 1 m separation point provided in NFSC standard.

Current Status of Tire Recycling in Taiwan

  • Shanshin Ton;Taipau Chia;Lee, Ming-Huang;Chien, Yeh-Chung;Shu, Hung-Yee
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.230-235
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    • 2001
  • There are more than 15 millions cars or motors in Taiwan. According to the statistics from Environmental Protection Administration, the number of resulting scrap tires are near 110 thousand tons each year. The tire recycle programs in Taiwan were first conducted in 1989 and executed by ROC Scrap Tire Foundation. However, the current efficiency of the tire recycling industry still needs to be improved to minimize the environmental problem or fire hazards caused by scrap tires storage. Ten major tire-recycling factories are surveyed in this study. The investigations include the source of scrap tire, the shredding process, the market of products, the management of wastes disposal, and the difficulties of these sectors. As the varieties of the shredding machines of the recycle factories, there are three kinds of final products which include powder, granular, and chips. The wastes, wires and fibers, produced by the shredding process are the major problems fur all the factories. The percentage of the wire and fiber removal from rubbers still needs to be increased. The best approaches found in this study to increase the efficiency of scrap tire recycling processes are proposed which include the improvement of magnetic separation system fiber/rubber separation system and the minimization of waste disposal. A categorized standard of the processing outputs is suggested as a reference for the decision-making of the tire-recycling factories.

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A Study on the Facility and Equipment of Laboratory Medicine in General Hospital - Focused on more than 550 bed sized hospitals (종합병원 진단검사의학과 검사실의 시설 설비 현황 조사 - 550 병상 이상 종합병원을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Youngaee;Song, Sanghoon
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Though Korean healthcare services have been upgraded, infection and fire had been broken out in general hospitals. And higher concerns about quality assessment made it to clinical laboratory design guideline studies. So, this study investigates the facilities, equipment and personnel of laboratory medicine focusing on more than five hundred fifty bed hospital, and contributes to make guidelines for safety and efficiency in lab. Methods: Questionnaires to supervisor technologist and field surveys to medical laboratories in korean hospitals have been conducted for the data collection. 16 answers have been analysed statistically by MS Excel program. Results: Most of the sample tests such as hematology, clinical chemistry, immunology, transfusion, urinalysis, microbiology and molecular diagnosis are performed by more than 80% in large sized general hospital laboratory. In the test methods, automatic analyzers are used up to 80%, total laboratory automation up to 43% in clinical chemistry and immunology, and manual tests in all sorts of the test. There are placed in single lab or two and three labs above the ground, which are all in semi-open lab. There is some correlation with the number of specimens and the number of lab people depending on the number of hospital beds. Laboratory environment shows that work distance is good, but evacuation path width, visibility, separation of staff area from automatic analyzer, and equipment installations are needed to have more spaces and gears. Most of the infection controls are equipped with mechanical ventilation, air-conditioning, washbasin and wastewater separation, BSC installation and negative pressure lab room. Implications: Although the laboratory space area is calculated considering the number of hospital beds, type of tests and number of staff, hospital's expertise and the samples numbers per year should be taken into account in the planning of the hospital.

A study on the Comparison of High-rise building Egress Safety Rule in Countries for improvement of High-rise evacuation safety design criteria (초고층 피난안전설계 기준 개선을 위한 국내외 피난관계법령 비교에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, EunKyung;Park, SuRoh
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.429-438
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    • 2013
  • In this study, compare and analyze for high-rise evacuation safety design criteria improvement about internal high-rise building egress safety rule. To the result, high-rise evacuation safety design criteria improvement data can be summarized as follows. First, should compute the evacuation capacity about the number of persons and when more than 2 exits are requested, over 50% of evacuation capacity must be satisfied even approaching to 1 exit is unable. Second, 2 ways of evacuation can be made smoothly by the stair or exit separation-distance standard regulation. Third, regulate the length limitation of dead-end corridor or passageway and it should give grades in limitation of whether the spring-cooler has been installed. Fourth, must secure the evacuation way and do the evacuee guidance when it's safety area and elevator or stair. Also needs to provide extra safety area to secure horizontal direction Escape Safety except fire escaping floor.

Simultaneous Determination of the Seven Phenylpropanoids in Xanthii Fructus Using a HPLC-PDA and LC-MS

  • Seo, Chang-Seob;Shin, Hyeun-Kyoo
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.206-212
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    • 2018
  • Xanthii Fructus has been traditionally used for the treatment of rhinitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and eczema. In this study, a high-performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array (HPLC-PDA) method was developed and then used for the simultaneous analysis of eight phenylpropanoids in Xanthii Fructus. The analytical column used for this separation was a $SunFire^{TM}$ $C_{18}$ column, maintained at $40^{\circ}C$. The mobile phase used was 1.0% acetic acid in distilled water and 1.0% acetic acid in acetonitrile with gradient elution. For identify of each component, the mass spectrometer (MS) was used a Waters triple quadrupole mass spectrometer requipped with electrospray ionization (ESI) source. The HPLC-PDA method showed good linearity: correlation coefficients were ${\geq}0.9996$. The limits of detection and quantification of the eight compounds were 0.02 - 0.04 and $0.06-0.14{\mu}g/mL$, respectively. The extraction recoveries ranged from 97.51 to 108.67%. The relative standard deviation values of intra- and inter-day precision were 0.06 - 1.55 and 0.09 - 1.68%, respectively. The validated HPLC-PDA method was applied to simultaneously analyse the amounts of eight phenlypropanoids in Xanthii Fructus.

A Comparison of Spinosin Content in Zizyphi Semen and Its Processed Products by Roasting (산조인의 수치에 따른 Spinosin 함량 비교)

  • Seo, Chang-Seob;Kim, Jung-Hoon;Shin, Hyeun-Kyoo;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.360-365
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this study was to compare the amount of spinosin in the 70% ethanol extracts of non-processed Zizyphi Semem (ZS) and processed ZS by roasting using a high-performance liquid chromatography equipped with photodiode array detector. Separation of the spinosin was used $SunFire^{TM}$ $C_{18}$ analytical column ($5{\mu}m$, $4.6{\times}150mm$) using two mobile phase consisting of distilled water and acetonitrile, both with 1.0% (v/v) acetic acid. The flow rate was 1.0 mL/min and injection volume was $10{\mu}L$. Calibration curve of the spinosin was y = 22339.45x+483.99 in tested concentration range ($1.28-20.00{\mu}g/mL$) and correlation coefficient was 1.0000. In non-processed ZS sample, the amount of the spinosin was 0.94 m/g, while, the amount of the marker compound in processed ZS samples were 0.66-1.10 mg/g.