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A Study on User's Opinion for Designing of Multi-Functional Plant Applications (복합적 기능의 식물 애플리케이션 디자인을 위한 사용자 조사)

  • Lee, Ha Na;Park, Han Na;Paik, Jin Kyung
    • Korea Science and Art Forum
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.297-308
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    • 2019
  • Air pollution due to the fine dust level updating every day, and the problem of indoor air pollution due to ventilation difficulties and indoor discharge pollutants is also serious. In order to improve the indoor air quality, the air purification effect using the plants is prominent. In this study was started to investigated the living environment of modern people, the risk of indoor air pollution and the improvement function of plants, and to activate plant application. The purpose of this study is to analyze the main functions and design status of domestic and overseas plant - related applications, and to understand the actual use of modern plant applications and to help them learn more convenient plant - related knowledge. Therefore, this paper attempted to establish a basis for suggesting a new plant application by conducting a survey on the health effects of indoor air pollution and user awareness of plant - related applications. The results and contents of the study are as follows. First, as a theoretical review, indoor air pollution is more dangerous to modern people who have a high proportion of indoor living time and adversely affects their health. In order to solve such a problem, it has been shown that air conditioning and stress reduction can be effectively achieved by placing plants in the indoor space. Second, the analysis of the previous study shows the risk of indoor air pollution and its adverse effects on health. In addition, I have been able to find some researches related to the improvement of the indoor air by using the air purifying plants, and I can see the improvement of the user's behavior through the development or improvement of the application. Third, as a result of the survey on the status of domestic and overseas plant application, the main function of the application having high installation number was watering notification, provision of basic information of plants, and most of the functions were plant discerment through cameras. Fourth, most of the survey respondents have either raised or raised plants. Those who have little experience with plant applications have also shown positive feedback in the future on the use of plant-related applications. In addition, due to social problems such as air pollution, air purification using plants and functional plants showed high interest. Based on these results, we propose the need for a multi-functional plant application that can improve the indoor air pollution and facilitate the provision of information related to it.

Self-Localization Algorithm for a Mobile Air Cleaner

  • Kim, Young-Baek;Cho, Jin-Hee;Rhee, Sang-Yong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.321-326
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    • 2009
  • The mobile air cleaner analyzes a distribution of polluted air to purify the air fast, calculates an optimal position and moves the position so that it can remove indoor dust more quickly. At this time, the self-localization is necessary to make the mobile air cleaner move accurately to the calculated position. This paper proposed a self-localization algorithm having high accuracy without complicated calculation and implemented it by combining a ultrasonic sensor and video processing technologies, so that it is suitable for a mobile air cleaner, and as a test result, the mean error of $\pm1cm$ appeared between the actually measured position and the calculated position.

A Review of the Odor Control From Inside of Swine Production Facilities (양돈시설 내부의 악취조졸에 관한 기술 및 연구동향)

  • 김두환;김인배
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.203-216
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    • 1999
  • Recent public concern about air pollution caused by swine production facilities has forced to develop the methods to reduce and control the swine odors. Swine odors were affected the life of pig farm neighborhoods, swine productivity, pig health, diseases, and human right, safety, sanity as negatively. The first approaches of control of swine odors are the change or improve of the classical management systems, which are manure treatment method, manure storage facility, phase feeding, sex-divided feeding, feeder type, liquid-slurry feeding, environment control of swine building and dust control of indoor swine facility. The methods to control odor emission from manure have to include the diet modification as nutritional basis. In recent, research emphasis has focused on manipulating the swine diet to increase the nutrient utilization of the diet to reduce excretion products and reduction of odors. There are lots of feed additives and pit additives introduced as practical basis for reducing odor emissions. The ozone treatment method is candidate as the good system for reducing swine odor. But this system is still too expensive to practice in present.

Technology Trends of Indoor Air quality for Public transportation (대중교통 실내공기질 기술 동향)

  • Park, Mijeong;Choi, Jinsik;Park, Byung Hyun
    • Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2020
  • 수년간 고농도 미세먼지 발생으로 인한 실내공기질 관리방안에 관한 논의가 계속되고 있다. 특히, 시민들이 하루에 1.75시간 이상 지하철 및 버스 등의 대중교통 내에서 머물고 있는 것으로 발표되고 있어 환경부에서는 2019년 대중교통에서의 공기질 관리 방안을 강화하는 것으로 발표한 바 있다. 최근 철도차량 등의 대중교통 차량에서 공기질 개선장치가 도입되고 있는 추세이긴 하나, 대부분의 기존 대중교통차량에서는 공기질 개선장치가 적용되어 있지 않고 대기질이 나쁨인 경우 실내 환기가 어려워 이용 시민들의 건강을 해칠 수 있는 상황이다. 이러한 상황에서 강화되는 실내공기질관리법을 만족하기 위해서는 다양한 대중교통 차량에서의 공기질 관리기술을 토대로 신규차량 뿐만 아니라 기존차량에서 적용할 수 있는 실제적인 논의가 필요하다. 본 기고문에서는 대중교통에서의 공기질 현황을 알아보고 효율적인 공기질개선을 위한 미세먼지 및 이산화탄소 저감에 관한 연구동향을 정리하고자 한다.

The Detection and Analysis System for Indoor Fine Dust/Gas on the Smart Multi-Sensor (스마트 다중 센서기반 실내 미세먼지/가스 탐지 및 분석 시스템)

  • Kim, Si-Won;Kim, Seong-Su;Jung, Ju-Ho;Oh, Ryum-Duck;Ahn, Jun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2020.01a
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    • pp.67-68
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    • 2020
  • 본 논문에서는 미세먼지 센서와 가스 센서를 이용한 효율적인 스마트 홈 기반 다중 센서 알림 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템은 여러 유형의 홈 센서를 이용하여 효율적으로 미세먼지와 실내의 가스를 탐지 후 실시간으로 애플리케이션을 통해서 사용자에게 탐지 결과를 알려주는 시스템이다. 본 시스템의 경우 기존에 존재하는 미세먼지 센서와 가스 센서를 적용한 측정 시스템에 비해 소액으로 최적의 시스템을 구축할 수 있다. 시스템은 기존의 가스 센서와 다르게 한 번에 다양한 종류의 가스를 탐지해 사용자에게 여러 정보를 제공할 수 있도록 개발하였다.

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A Study on the Indoor and Outdoor Fine Dust Identification Service Based on Arduino (아두이노 기반의 실내외 미세먼지 파악 서비스 연구)

  • Hong, Yeji;Park, Donghee;Kong, Minjeong
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.908-909
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    • 2022
  • 인체의 미세먼지 노출에 의한 연구가 활발히 진행되면서 미세먼지와 건강 영향에 대한 인과 관계가 입증되고 있다. 미세먼지는 기침, 재채기, 심혈관 질환, 폐암 등 가벼운 증상부터 심각한 질병까지 인체의 건강에 다양하게 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 미세먼지는 2000 년 초부터 꾸준히 높은 농도를 보여왔지만, 사람들이 실제로 미세먼지를 위험 물질로 인식하기 시작한 것은 10 년이 채 되지 않았다. 이에 본 논문은 실외 미세먼지에 대한 정보 제공뿐만 아니라 사용자가 실제로 위치한 실내 미세먼지 농도까지 함께 제공하여 미세먼지에 관한 관심을 증가시키고자 한다.

Development of Optimal Antiviral Coating Method for the Air Filtration System of Subway Station (지하역사 승강장 공조 시스템 필터용 항바이러스 코팅 성능 및 재생 성능 평가)

  • Park, Dae Hoon;Hwang, Jungho;Shin, Dongho;Kim, Younghun;Lee, Gunhee;Park, Inyong;Kim, Sang Bok;Hong, Keejung;Han, Bangwoo
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.9-21
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    • 2022
  • In this study, a novel antiviral coating method for the air filtration system of subway station was investigated. Using dry aerosol coating process, we developed a high-performance antiviral air filter with spark discharger and carbon brush type ionizer. Silver nanoparticles were produced by a spark discharge generation system with ion injection system and were used as antiviral agents coated onto a medium grade air filter. The pressure drop, filtration efficiency, and antiviral ability of the filter against aerosolized MS2 virus particles as a surrogate of SARS-CoV-2 virus were tested with dust contamination. Dust contamination caused the increase of the filtration efficiency and pressure drop, while the antiviral agents (in this study, silver nanoparticles) coating did not have any significant effect on the filtration efficiency and pressure drop. Using these properties, we suggested a novel method to maximize the antiviral performance of the antiviral air filter that was contaminated by dust particles. Moreover theoretical analysis of antiviral ability with dust contamination and re-coated antiviral agents was carried out using a mathematical model to calculate the time-dependent antiviral effect of the filter under actual conditions of subway station. Our model can be used to apply on antiviral air filtration system of subway station for prevention of pandemic diffusion, and predict the life cycle of an antiviral filter.

Characteristic Assessment of Heavy Metals in Dusts Collected by the Air Filtration System at Subway Stations in Daegu, Korea (대구지역 지하철역사 공기여과필터 포집먼지에 함유된 중금속성분의 특성평가)

  • Do, Hwa-Seok;Song, Hee-Bong;Shin, Dong-Chan;Kwak, Jin-Hee;Lee, Myoung-Sook;Yoon, Ho-Suk;Kang, Hye-Jung;Phee, Young-Gyu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2009
  • Samples of subway dust were collected by the air filter system of 30 subway stations on Daegu subway line 1 in January 2008. Samples were sieved below 100 ${\mu}m$, and 14 elements were analyzed using ICP after acid extraction. Results obtained from the source assessment of trace elements using enrichment factor showed that Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, V were influenced by natural sources such as weathered rock and resuspended soil, while Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were influenced by anthropogenic sources such as fuel combustion and waste incineration. Concentrations were remarkably higher in components from natural sources than in components from anthropogenic sources. Anthropogenic sources were significantly affected by indoor dusts than outdoor dusts. Results of pollution indices of heavy metals indicated that indoor dusts were more contaminated with heavy metal ions than outdoor dusts. The correlation analysis among trace elements indicated that components were much correlated in the order of natural sources-anthropogenic sources, anthropogenic sources-anthropogenic sources, natural sources-natural sources in both indoor and outdoor dusts. Trace element components of outdoor dusts were largely correlated than those of indoor dusts. In addition, indoor dusts were significantly affected by outdoor dusts rather than depth from the surface or the average daily number of subway passengers.

Microbial Exposure Assessment in Sawmill, Livestock Feed Industry, and Metal Working Fluids Handling Industry

  • Park, Hyun-Hee;Park, Hae-Dong;Lee, In-Seop
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.183-191
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    • 2010
  • Objectives: The objective of this study is to investigate the distribution patterns and exposure concentrations of bioaerosols in industries suspected to have high levels of bioaerosol exposure. Methods: We selected 11 plants including 3 livestock feed plants (LF industry), 3 metal working fluids handling plants (MWFs industry), and 5 sawmills and measured total airborne bacteria, fungi, endotoxins, as well as dust. Airborne bacteria and fungi were measured with one stage impactor, six stage cascade impactor, and gelatin filters. Endotoxins were measured with polycarbonate filters. Results: The geometric means (GM) of the airborne concentrations of bacteria, fungi, and endotoxins were 1,864, $2,252\;CFU/m^3$, and $31.5\;EU/m^3$, respectively at the sawmills, followed by the LF industry (535, $585\;CFU/m^3$, and $22.0\;EU/m^3$) and MWFs industry (258, $331\;CFU/m^3$, and $8.7\;EU/m^3$). These concentrations by industry type were significantly statistically different (p < 0.01). The ratio of indoor to outdoor concentration was 6.2, 1.9, 3.2, and 3.2 for bacteria, fungi, endotoxins, and dust in the LF industry, 5.0, 0.9, 2.3, and 12.5 in the MWFs industry, and 3.7, 4.1, 3.3, and 9.7 in sawmills. The respiratory fractions of bioaerosols were differentiated by bioaerosol types and industry types: the respiratory fraction of bacteria in the LF industry, MWF industry, and sawmills was 59.4%, 72.0%, and 57.7%, respectively, and that of fungi was 77.3%, 89.5%, and 83.7% in the same order. Conclusion: We found that bioaerosol concentration was the highest in sawmills, followed by LF industry facilities and MWFs industry facilities. The indoor/outdoor ratio of microorganisms was larger than 1 and respiratory fraction of microorganisms was more than 50% of the total microorganism concentrations which might penetrate respiratory tract easily. All these findings suggest that bioaerosol in the surveyed industries should be controlled to prevent worker respiratory diseases.