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The optimized recover process of heavy minerals from Korean beach-sand

  • Shin, Hee-Young;Jeon, Ho-Soek;Baik, Seung-Woo;Kim, Wan-Tae;Lee, Jae-Chun
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.648-653
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    • 2003
  • Optimized recovery of heavy minerals from the near shore sands of Korean Yellow Sea was investigated using physical processing technologies such as gravity concentration and magnetic separation. The head samples were subjected to the three stages effective separation; Head sample was first treated by a spiral separator to recover rough heavy mineral concentrates, which are contained minerals like ilmenite, zircon and rare earth minerals. Much higher beneficiation processes were subsequently taken by wilfley table and magnetic separation according to their magnetic field responses. Heavy minerals were effectively recovered by wilfley table and subsequent recleaning of heavy minerals by magnetic separations was conducted. Qualitative and relative-quantitative analyses of their constituent elements were doing using XRD and XRF.

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An Experimental Study on PAG Oil Separation Characteristics of an Oil Separator for a $CO_2$ Refrigeration system ($CO_2$ 냉동시스템의 오일 분리기에서 PAG오일 분리 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Cho, Eun-Young;Lee, Sung-Kwang;Kang, Byung-Ha;Kim, Suk-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.271-276
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    • 2008
  • The oil trap in oil separator is one of the most important characteristics for normal operation of compressor. In this study, oil separation characteristics has been investigated for $CO_2$/PAG mixture using a gravity type of oil separator. The experimental study has been carried out in the range of oil concentration 0 to 5 weight-percent and the mixture temperature range of $0^{\circ}C$ to $15^{\circ}C$. The results obtained indicate that oil separation ratio in oil separator is increased with an increase in the oil concentration and mixture temperature.

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Potential Anomaly Separation and Archeological Site Localization Using Genetically Trained Multi-level Cellular Neural Networks

  • Bilgili, Erdem;Goknar, I. Cem;Albora, Ali Muhittin;Ucan, Osman Nuri
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.294-303
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a supervised algorithm for the evaluation of geophysical sites using a multi-level cellular neural network (ML-CNN) is introduced, developed, and applied to real data. ML-CNN is a stochastic image processing technique based on template optimization using neighborhood relationships of the pixels. The separation/enhancement and border detection performance of the proposed method is evaluated by various interesting real applications. A genetic algorithm is used in the optimization of CNN templates. The first application is concerned with the separation of potential field data of the Dumluca chromite region, which is one of the rich reserves of Turkey; in this context, the classical approach to the gravity anomaly separation method is one of the main problems in geophysics. The other application is the border detection of archeological ruins of the Hittite Empire in Turkey. The Hittite civilization sites located at the Sivas-Altinyayla region of Turkey are among the most important archeological sites in history, one reason among others being that written documentation was first produced by this civilization.

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A frictionless contact problem for two elastic layers supported by a Winkler foundation

  • Birinci, Ahmet;Erdol, Ragip
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.331-344
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    • 2003
  • The plane contact problem for two infinite elastic layers whose elastic constants and heights are different is considered. The layers lying on a Winkler foundation are acted upon by symmetrical distributed loads whose lengths are 2a applied to the upper layer and uniform vertical body forces due to the effect of gravity in the layers. It is assumed that the contact between two elastic layers is frictionless and that only compressive normal tractions can be transmitted through the interface. The contact along the interface will be continuous if the value of the load factor, ${\lambda}$, is less than a critical value. However, interface separation takes place if it exceeds this critical value. First, the problem of continuous contact is solved and the value of the critical load factor, ${\lambda}_{cr}$, is determined. Then, the discontinuous contact problem is formulated in terms of a singular integral equation. Numerical solutions for contact stress distribution, the size of the separation areas, critical load factor and separation distance, and vertical displacement in the separation zone are given for various dimensionless quantities and distributed loads.

Solid Separation and Flotation Characteristics of Livestock Wastewater Using DAF Process (DAF 공정을 이용한 축산폐수의 고형물 분리와 부상특성)

  • Kang, Byong-Jun;Yoo, Seung-Joon;Lee, Se-il;Kwak, Dong-Heui
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.359-366
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    • 2008
  • The series of experiments under the various conditions were carried out to evaluate the feasibility of dissolved air flotation (DAF) as an alternative of conventional gravity sedimentation (CGS) and to investigate the decrease of the loadings following to biological wastewater treatment processes in livestock wastewater system. On the basis of the experiment result between CGS and DAF processes, for the other water quality criteria as well as suspended solid the removal efficiency of DAF process was about 20~25 % better than CGS process on average. In addition, the particle removal efficiency of DAF process became higher in proportion as the increase of air to solid (A/S) ratio and the general wastewater treatment efficiency of DAF process was enough to meet the requirement of loading decrease to following biological process even at low A/S ratio range. Though DAF process is widely known as an solid separation unit, there was not the notable relationship between particle separation efficiency and several pollutant removal efficiencies like $COD_{Cr}$ and nutrients (T-N, T-P). Assume that the $COD_{Cr}$ was removed as the fraction of particle separation in this experiment, the removal efficiency of T-N and T-P were sensitive to removal efficiency of $COD_{Cr}$, especially.

Separation of Recycled Aggregates from Waste Concrete by Heavy Medium Separation (폐콘크리트에서 중액선별(重液選別)을 이용한 재생골재(再生骨材)의 선별(選別))

  • Lee, Myung-Gyu;Kwon, Ki-O;Gayabazar, Ganbileg;Kang, Heon-Chan
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2007
  • The recycled aggregates produced from waste concrete by crushing and granularity adjusting processes only can't be used for structural aggregates because they display low density and high abrasion rate by including lots of mortar and cement paste. However, the recycled aggregates include a lot of aggregates for concrete. Using the heavy medium separation method that is one of the specific gravity separation methods, about 45% of the waste concrete could be converted to the recycled aggregates.

Frictionless contact problem for a layer on an elastic half plane loaded by means of two dissimilar rigid punches

  • Ozsahin, Talat Sukru
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.383-403
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    • 2007
  • The contact problem for an elastic layer resting on an elastic half plane is considered according to the theory of elasticity with integral transformation technique. External loads P and Q are transmitted to the layer by means of two dissimilar rigid flat punches. Widths of punches are different and the thickness of the layer is h. All surfaces are frictionless and it is assumed that the layer is subjected to uniform vertical body force due to effect of gravity. The contact along the interface between elastic layer and half plane will be continuous, if the value of load factor, ${\lambda}$, is less than a critical value, ${\lambda}_{cr}$. However, if tensile tractions are not allowed on the interface, for ${\lambda}$ > ${\lambda}_{cr}$ the layer separates from the interface along a certain finite region. First the continuous contact problem is reduced to singular integral equations and solved numerically using appropriate Gauss-Chebyshev integration formulas. Initial separation loads, ${\lambda}_{cr}$, initial separation points, $x_{cr}$, are determined. Also the required distance between the punches to avoid any separation between the punches and the layer is studied and the limit distance between punches that ends interaction of punches, is investigated. Then discontinuous contact problem is formulated in terms of singular integral equations. The numerical results for initial and end points of the separation region, displacements of the region and the contact stress distribution along the interface between elastic layer and half plane is determined for various dimensionless quantities.

Mineralogy of Beach Sand in Jaeun Island, Shinangun, Chonranamdo (전라남도 신안군 자은도 해빈사의 광물학적 특성)

  • Chae, Soo-Chun;Jung, Jee-Sung;Jang, Young-Nam;Bae, In-Kook;Shin, Hee-Young
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.289-302
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    • 2007
  • Separation process of heavy minerals was performed with sand from Dunjang beach of Jaeundo, Shinangun, Chonnam, and the feasibility study separating heavy minerals was carried out, and their properties were studied. Samples were selected in three parts, which were upper part, middle part and lower part, with depth. Samples of heavy mineral groups separated with the spiral separator were chosen as starting materials, and they were separated with 3 times of table separation. Heavy minerals presenting in this area were ilmenite, zircon, rutile, anatase, monazite, and xenotime. In the results of 3 times of table separation, minor content of quartz, orthoclase, albite and muscovite were existed as gangue minerals. Accordingly, we concluded that additional specific gravity separation was needed. In the results of separation of heavy minerals by hand picking, it was confirmed that heavy minerals had various genesis because of their various roundness and color.

Preparation of High-grade Silica Sand for Metallurgical-grade Si Using a Physical Beneficiation (금속급 실리콘용 고순도 규사 제조를 위한 물리적 정제 특성)

  • Yang, Young-Cheol;Jeong, Soo-Bok;Chae, Young-Bae;Kim, Seong
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2009
  • It is very important to raise the purity of silica for manufacturing metallurgical-grade silicon because the purification of silicon in the smelting process is very difficult. In present study, the silica sand which is obtained from Vietnam was mineralogically analyzed. Based on the results, a novel process to separate impurities from the silica sand was developed, which consisted of classification, specific gravity and magnetic separation steps. Using the developed process, high-grade silica sand concentrate containing over 99.8 wt% $SiO_2$ was prepared, being suitable for manufacturing the metallurgical-grade silicon.

Unsteady Separation Characteristics of Air-Launching Rocket from Full-Geometry Mother Plane (초음속 공중발사를 위한 전기체-로켓의 비정상 분리 유동특성)

  • Ji, Young-Moo;Byun, Yung-Hwan;Park, Jun-Sang;Lee, Jae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.474-482
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    • 2007
  • An analysis is made for flow and rocket motion during a supersonic separation stage of an air-launching rocket(ALR) from the mother plane. Three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations are numerically solved to analyze the steady/unsteady flow fields around the rocket which is being separated from the mother plane configuration(F-4E Phantom). Simulation results clearly demonstrate the effect of shock-expansion wave interaction around both of the rocket and the mother plane. To predict the behavior of the ALR by the change of the center-of-gravity, three cases of numerical analysis are performed. As a result, a design-guideline of supersonic air-launching rockets for safe separation is proposed.