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A Network Capacity Model for Multimodal Freight Transportation Systems

  • Park, Min-Young;Kim, Yong-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.175-198
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents a network capacity model that can be used as an analytical tool for strategic planning and resource allocation for multimodal transportation systems. In the context of freight transportation, the multimodal network capacity problem (MNCP) is formulated as a mathematical model of nonlinear bi-level optimization problem. Given network configuration and freight demand for multiple origin-destination pairs, the MNCP model is designed to determine the maximum flow that the network can accommodate. To solve the MNCP, a heuristic solution algorithm is developed on the basis of a linear approximation method. A hypothetical exercise shows that the MNCP model and solution algorithm can be successfully implemented and applied to not only estimate the capacity of multimodal network, but also to identify the capacity gaps over all individual facilities in the network, including intermodal facilities. Transportation agencies and planners would benefit from the MNCP model in identifying investment priorities and thus developing sustainable transportation systems in a manner that considers all feasible modes as well as low-cost capacity improvements.

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A Study on the Method of Science Laboratory Waste Water by Absorbent at the Secondary School (학교 실험 폐수 처리 방안)

  • 장원일
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.92-99
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    • 1991
  • According to our secondary school curriculum for natural science and technical circles, there be used 353 of chemical reagents including 24 kinds of harmful and toxicant components. At present, most school are discharging their school laboratory waste water without any chemical and physical treatments. So as to solve the environmental problem for water pollution, this study tried to research a kind of adsorbant utilizing saw dust, wasted wood sources and designed the simple processing system using the adsorbent. This adsorbent was made by extracting lignin substances from raw saw dust under the solution of 0.5N-NaOH at the temperature of $100^{\circ}C$. Their metal removed rates was measured not only by processing of column and vessel. but also by comparing the standard solution and real waste water. The results were proved as more than 90(%) of the adsorptive efficiency on the average from Pb, Cd, Cu except Cr(VI)in case of the school experimental waste water soaked in vessels a long with 4g of the adsorbent for 24 hours. The new processing system enables to remove most harmful and toxicant metals by filtering, sedimenting and adsorbing at the low cost.

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Properties of CdS Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Bath Deposition as a Function of Thiourea/CdAc2 Ratio in Solution (CBD법으로 제작된 CdS 박막의 thiourea/CdAc2 농도비에 따른 특성)

  • Song, Woo-Chang
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.28-32
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    • 2008
  • In this paper CdS thin films, which were widely used window layer of the CdS/CdTe and the CdS/$CuInSe_2$ heterojunction solar cell, were grown by chemical bath deposition, which is a very attractive method for low-cost and large-area solar cells, and the structural, optical and electrical properties of the films was studied. As the thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio was increased, the deposition rate of CdS films prepared by CBD was increased due to increasing reaction velocity in solution and the optical bandgap was increased at higher thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio due to larger grain size and continuous microstructure. The minimum resistivity of the films was at thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio of 3.

Development of Nursery Total Solution by using NFC Sensing (NFC 센싱을 이용한 어린이집 등하원 토탈 솔루션 개발)

  • Kim, Tae Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.65-66
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    • 2013
  • Using NFC sensing technology and smart phone, nursery total solution system has been developed and bus position and time information can be conformed through its total system without additional GPS receiver and hardware. This total system will be applied on nursery school with low cost.

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Adsorption of Dyes from Aqueous Solution by Cow Dung Ash

  • Rattan, V.K.;Purai, Abhiti;Singh, Harminder;Manoochehri, Mahboobeh
    • Carbon letters
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2008
  • The ability of cow dung ash without any pretreatment to remove color from textile dyes N Blue RGB, Green B and EOSIN YWS from aqueous solution has been investigated in this work. Cow dung ash, an ecofriendly and low cost adsorbent was prepared by burning cow dung cakes in the muffle furnace at $500^{\circ}C$. The adsorption was achieved under different pH and adsorbate concentration. The data was fitted to simple polynomial and the isotherms similar to Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms.

Capillary Breakup of Viscoelastic Fluid and its Extensional Rheology (점탄성유체의 Capillary Breakup 가시화 및 신장유변물성 측정)

  • Jeon, Hyun Woo;Choi, Chan Hyuck;Kim, Byung Hoon;Park, Jinsoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2021
  • Extensional flow of viscoelastic fluids is widely utilized in various industrial processes such as electrospinning, 3D printing and plastic injection molding. Extensional rheological properties, such as apparent viscosity and relaxation time, play an important role in the design and evaluation of the viscoelastic fluid-involved processes. In this work, we propose a lab-built capillary breakup extensional rheometer (CaBER) based on flow image processing to investigate the capillary breakup of polyethylene oxide (PEO) solution and its extensional rheological properties. We found that the apparent extensional viscosity and extensional relaxation time of the PEO solution are independent of the strike time. The proposed CaBER is expected to be applied to characterization of the extensional rheological properties of viscoelastic fluids at low cost with high precision.

Adsorption of Divalent Cationic Herbicides from Aqueous Solution by FA-zeolite A and X (FA-Zeolite A 및 X에 의한 수용액 중 양이온성 제초제의 흡착)

  • Choi, Choong-Lyeal;Yeo, Sang-Woon;Kim, Jang-Eok;Park, Man
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.386-391
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to elucidate the adsorption properties of fly ash (FA)-derived zeolites A and X for the divalent cationic herbicides, paraquat and diquat. Their adsorption isotherms were well fitted to the Langmuir equation, indicating that adsorption mainly occurred on the crystal surface. FA-zeolite X showed a higher adsorption capacity than that of FA-zeolite A due to wide pore window size in spite of its low CEC. The equilibrium adsorption increased with increasing the reaction temperature because of the enhanced molecule activity and the thermal expansion of zeolite pore windows. Overall, these results demonstrated that the FA-zeolite synthesized from fly ash could be used as a low-cost mineral adsorbent for the removal of environmental cationic organic pollutants from the aqueous solution.

Direct Printing and Patterning of Highly Uniform Graphene Nanosheets for Applications in Flexible Electronics

  • Gu, Ja-Hun;Lee, Tae-Yun
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.39.2-39.2
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    • 2011
  • With the steady increase in the demand for flexible devices, mainly in display panels, researchers have focused on finding a novel material that have excellent electrical properties even when it is bended or stretched, along with superior mechanical and thermal properties. Graphene, a single-layered two-dimensional carbon lattice, has recently attracted tremendous research interest in this respect. However, the limitations in the growing method of graphene, mainly chemical vapor deposition on transition metal catalysts, has posed severe problems in terms of device integration, due to the laborious transfer process that may damage and contaminate the graphene layer. In addition, to lower the overall cost, a fabrication technique that supports low temperature and low vacuum is required, which is the main reason why solution-based process for graphene layer deposition has become the hot issue. Nonetheless, a direct deposition method of large area, few-layered, and uniform graphene layers has not been reported yet, along with a convenient method of patterning them. Here, we report an evaporation-induced technique for directly depositing few layers of graphene nanosheets with excellent uniformity and thickness controllability on any substrate. The printed graphene nanosheets can be patterned into desired shapes and structures, which can be directly applicable as flexible and transparent electrode. To illustrate such potential, the transport properties and resistivity of the deposited graphene layers have been investigated according to their thickness. The induced internal flow of the graphene solution during tis evaporation allows uniform deposition with which its thickness, and thus resistivity can be tuned by controlling the composition ratio of the solute and solvent.

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Production of High-purity Magnetite Nanoparticles from a Low-grade Iron Ore via Solvent Extraction

  • Suh, Yong Jae;Do, Thi May;Kil, Dae Sup;Jang, Hee Dong;Cho, Kuk
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.53 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2015
  • We produced magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) and a Mg-rich solution as a nano-adsorbent and a coagulant for water treatment, respectively, using a low-grade iron ore. The ore was leached with aqueous hydrochloric acid and its impurities were removed by solvent extraction of the leachate using tri-n-butyl phosphate as an extractant. The content of Si and Mg, which inhibit the formation of MNPs, was reduced from 10.3 wt% and 15.5 wt% to 28.1 mg/L and < 1.4 mg/L, respectively. Consequently, the Fe content increased from 68.6 wt% to 99.8 wt%. The high-purity $Fe^{3+}$ solution recovered was used to prepare 5-15-nm MNPs by coprecipitation. The wastewater produced contained a large amount of $Mg^{2+}$ and can be used to precipitate struvite in sewage treatment. This process helps reduce the cost of both sewage and iron-orewastewater treatments, as well as in the economic production of the nano-adsorbent.

6LoWPAN Based IP-USN System Implementation for Improving Scalability (확장성 향상을 위한 6LoWPAN 기반의 IP-USN 시스템 구현)

  • Oh, Seung-Kyo;Efendi, Ardiansyah Musa;Choi, Deok-Jai
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38B no.9
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    • pp.687-699
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    • 2013
  • IP-based IP-USN overcomes that disadvantages of verify the existence and geographic limits of the sensor by applying a standard technique called 6LoWPAN. However, in terms of the management and cost, The USN node should work for a long period of time without periodic batter replacement. but this solution is insufficient.In this paper, we configure the node using TI's CC2530 that low-power Soc solution and Contiki OS for optimal low-power operation IP-USN and implement the gateway to support connecting IP networks and Sensor networks. In addition, a system implemented to measure and analyze the energy consumption of an independent power supply to look for ways.