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Analysis of Water Transport through Measurement of Temperature and Relative Humidity in PEMFC at OCV (개방회로 상태 PEMFC 내부 온도와 습도 측정을 통한 수분투과 분석)

  • KIM, TAEHYEONG;HAN, JAESU;YU, SANGSEOK
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.353-362
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    • 2022
  • In this study, water diffusion in proton exchange membrane fuel cell at open circuit voltage (OCV) was analyzed through experiment. First, the reliability of the micro-sensor (SHT31) was verified. It was concluded the micro-sensor has an excellent reliability at 60℃ and 70℃. After the sensor reliability test, the temperature and relative humidity measurement in bipolar-plate was conducted at OCV. To analyze water distribution and water flux, the temperature and relative humidity was converted into dew point. To the end, it was found water concentration affects water diffusion.

A Compound Sensor and a Portable System for the Measurement of Urea-and-Glucose Concentration in Blood (혈중요소-혈당농도 측정 복합센서 및 휴대용 시스템)

  • 유재택;이동하;민남기
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.07c
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    • pp.2871-2874
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    • 2003
  • The development of a portable system to be used by diabetes patients and renal discase patients is needed to monitor their urea concentration and their glucose concentration in blood. This paper reports a compound sensor composed of a urea sensor, a glucose sensor and a micro-channel. This paper also reports the development of a portable measurement system to measure the concentrations, display the values, and save the values to be used by doctors.

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Near-Field Detection of Aβ Proteins Using Micro Beads

  • Lee, Seung-Jun;Sung, Hee-Kyung;Choi, Yo-Han
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.319-323
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we present the possibility of quantification analysis for $A{\beta}$ captured by micro beads using Near-filed detection. In order to evaluate detection efficiency, detected signals were compared with different sizes of micro beads and a varied number of micro beads. Also, $A{\beta}$ deposits and $A{\beta}$ binding to micro beads were measured, therefore, we observed the $A{\beta}$ deposit and light scattering around the surface of micro beads induced by attached $A{\beta}$. This method can be used for quantitative analysis for not only the number of $A{\beta}$, but also the binding ratio of $A{\beta}$ to micro beads.

Web-based Real Environment Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Lee, Gil-Jae;Kong, Jong-Uk;Kim, Min-Ah;Byeon, Ok-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.207-210
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    • 2005
  • Ubiquitous computing is one of the key technology areas in the "Project on Development of Ubiquitous computing and network technology" promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology as a frontier business of the $21^{st}$ century in Korea, which is based on the new concept merging physical space and computer-based cyber space. With recent advances in Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology, low cost and low-power consumption wireless micro sensor nodes have been available. Using these smart sensor nodes, there are many activities to monitor real world, for example, habitat monitoring, earthquake monitoring and so on. In this paper, we introduce web-based real environment monitoring system incorporating wireless sensor nodes. It collects sensing data produced by some wireless sensor nodes and stores them into a database system to analyze. Our environment monitoring system is composed of a networked camera and environmental sensor nodes, which are called Mica2 and developed by University of California at Berkeley. We have modified and ported network protocols over TinyOS and developed a monitoring application program using the MTS310 and MTS420 sensors that are able to observe temperature, relative humidity, light and accelerator. The sensed data can be accessed user-friendly because our environment monitoring system supports web-based user interface. Moreover, in this system, we can setup threshold values so the system supports a function to inform some anomalous events to administrators. Especially, the system shows two useful pre-processed data as a kind of practical uses: a discomfort index and a septicity index. To make both index values, the system restores related data from the database system and calculates them according to each equation relatively. We can do enormous works using wireless sensor technologies, but just environment monitoring. In this paper, we show just one of the plentiful applications using sensor technologies.

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Wide-range Speed Control Scheme of BLDC Motor Based on the Hall Sensor Signal

  • Lee, Dong-Hee
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.714-722
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a wide-range speed control scheme of brushless DC (BLDC) motors based on a hall sensor with separated low- and normal-speed controllers. However, the use of the hall sensor signal is insufficient to detect motor speed in the low-speed region because of low sensor resolution and time delay. In the proposed method, a micro-stepping current control method according to the torque angle variation is presented. In this mode, the motor current frequency and rotating angle are determined by the reference speed without the actual speed fed by the hall sensor. The detected torque angle is used to adjust the current value in a limited band to control the current value in accordance with the load. The torque angle is detected exactly at the changing point of the hall sensor signal. The rotor can follow the rotating flux with the variable torque angle. In a normal speed range, the conventional vector control scheme is used to control the motor current with a PI speed controller using the hall sensor. The torque characteristics are analyzed on the basis of the back EMF and current shape. To adopt the vector control scheme, the continuous rotor position is estimated by the measured speed and hall sensor position. At the mode changing point between low and normal speed range, the proper initial current command and reference rotor position are calculated. The calculated current command can reduce the torque ripple during transient mode. The proposed method is simple but effective in extending the speed control range of a conventional BLDC motor with hall sensor without the need for a high-resolution encoder. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by various experiments on a practical BLDC motor.

Environmental Monitoring Sub-System for Ubiquitous Terminal Using Metal Oxide Nano-Material Gas Sensor (나노 금속산화물을 이용한 유단말용 환경 모니터링 서브 시스템)

  • Moon, S.E.;Lee, H.Y.;Lee, J.W.;Park, J.;Park, S.J.;Kwak, J.H.;Maeng, S.;Park, K.H;Kim, J.;Udrea, F.;Milne, W.I.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.63-63
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    • 2008
  • Environmental monitoring sub-system has been developed using gas sensor module, Bluetooth module and PDA phone. The gas sensor module consists of $NO_2or$ CO gas sensor and signal processing chips. Gas sensor is composed of the micro-heater, sensing electrode and sensing material. Metal oxide nano-material was selectively deposited on a substrate with micro-heater and was integrated to the gas sensor module. The change in resistance of the metal oxide nano-material due to exposure of oxidizing or deoxidizing gases is utilized as the principle of this gas sensor operation mechanism. This variation detected in the gas sensor module was transferred to the PDA phone by way of Bluetooth module.

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Micro-tissue collecting tool for diagnosis of micro-spike biopsy (마이크로 스파이크로 채취한 조직의 진단을 위한 미세 조직회수도구)

  • Jeong, Hyo-Young;Koo, Kyo-In;Lee, Sang-Min;Ban, Jae-Won;Park, Ho-Soo;Bang, Seoung-Min;Song, Si-Young;Cho, Dong-Il Dan
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.122-127
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    • 2009
  • We have developed and reported several micro-spikes for minimally invasive biopsy. In this paper, a micro-tissue collecting tool for tissue diagnosis extracted by micro-spike is presented. Using proposed polydimethy-siloxane (PDMS) micro-tissue collecting tool, which has a negative micro-spike structure in a porous chamber, the extracted tissue in a micro-spike is effectively detached. The gastro-intestinal tissue of a pig is extracted in an in vivo environment, and then it is detached from a micro-spike using the PDMS micro-tissue collecting tool. A fine clinical picture of the detached tissue is acquired.

A Development and Performance Test of Voltage Measurement Accuracy Assessment System for Distribution Equipment (배전기기 전압계측 정밀도 평가시스템 개발 및 성능시험)

  • Cho, Jin-Tae;Kim, Ju-Yong;Lee, Hak-Ju;Kim, Jae-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2013
  • Power distribution system has been changed from radial system to closed loop or mesh system due to connection of distributed generation growth. Data from distribution equipments which are installed at distribution line is required to be accurate for the performance of DMS(Distribution Management System). This paper analyzes the voltage measurement data from distribution equipment. However, the results of the analysis are confirmed to have some errors in voltage measurement data from distribution equipment. These errors come from aging of voltage sensor in distribution equipment and inaccurate data transfer to FRTU(feeder remote terminal unit) through the controller. The main problem is that the voltage measurement data of distribution equipment can not be assessed after it's first installation at the distribution line. The voltage measurement accuracy assessment system is to assess the voltage measurement data from distribution equipment on hot-line. This study had a field test to verify the performance of system.

The performance evaluation of reverse engineering system using micro stepper (마이크로 스테퍼를 활용한 역설계 시스템의 성능 평가)

  • 한민식;이지용;김수용;김태호;전언찬
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.340-344
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    • 2004
  • This paper is the performance evaluation of reverse engineering system using simple mechanism. The existing equipment didn't use in the field popularly as it is too expensive. So we constructed the reverse engineering system of simple mechanism using the laser sensor, LM guide, micro step driver and control program. And we caught the Characteristics to measure some product. Finally we confirmed the precision to compare measured data and CAD date.

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