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Butyltins in Surface Sediments of Kyeonggi Bay, Korea

  • Kim, Gi-Beum;Tanabe, Shinsuke;Koh, Chul-Hwan
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 1998
  • Forty sediment samples from Kyeonggi Bay, Korea were analyzed for butyltins, including tributyltin (TBT), dibutyltin (DBT), and monobutyltin (MBT) to determine their distribution and source in this area. Total butyltin concentrations in Kyeonggi Bay sediments ranged from 0.8 to 297 ng/g dry wt. with a mean value of 38 ng/g. The highest butyltin concentration was found in the innermost site in Incheon Harbor basin. The mouth of Han River had higher butyltin levels in sediments compared to open ocean. Butyltin levels correlated well with organic carbon content of sediment, but the major factor was the distance from the source area where antifouling paints were used for vessels and marine structures. Butyltin concentrations in the study area were lower than those reported for bays in other parts of the world. Considering the high toxic potential and sediment/water partition coefficient of TBT, further studies are needed to assess its biological effect in the marine ecosystem of Kyeonggi Bay.

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CHARACTERIZATION OF NONPOINT SOURCES FROM URBAN RUNOFF

  • Park, Jae-Young;Jo, Young-Min;Oh, Jong-Min
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2000
  • This work was completed in partial fulfillment of an on-going research ot descover the effective management of urban nonpoint sources. The current data was obtained from the area of Shingal, Kyunni-do. The investigation was are predominant soures of storm-runoff load and drainage. As a result of the investigation, the road was found to be most seriously contaminated and a significant potential source deteriorating the quality of streams and lakes in the vicinity of the town. Thus, in could be concluded that an effective and systematic cleaning technique must be developed as soon as possible and be frequently applied to the road.

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A Fiberoptic Temperature Sensor Using Low-Coherence Light Source (가간섭성이 낮은 광원을 이용한 광섬유 온도 센서)

  • Kim, Gwang-Su;Lee, Hong-Sik;Im, Geun-Hui
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.49 no.12
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    • pp.691-697
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    • 2000
  • A fiberoptic sensor using a low-coherence SLD as a light source has been studied. The sensor system employing an intrinsic fiber Fabry-Peort interferometer as a sensing tip and a fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a processing one, overcomes the ambiguous reading caused by the highly periodic natrue of conventional high-precision interferometric sensors and provides unambiguous identification of the desired phase among several candidates on the transfer function of an interferometric signal. A tentative application to the temperature sensor shows the potential that the fiberoptic sensor has a side-dynamic range of $0-900^{\circ}C$ as well as reasonable resolution higher than $0.1^{\circ}C$ without ambiguity. Due to the inherent property of the optical fiber itself and the intrinsic fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer, the proposed fiberoptic sensor will give obvious benefits when it is applied to harsh environments to monitor some physical parameters such as temperature, strain, pressure and vibration.

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Characteristics of Transmutation Reactor Based on LAR Tokamak

  • Hong, B.G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.431-431
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    • 2012
  • A compact tokamak reactor concept as a 14 MeV neutron source is desirable from an economic viewpoint for a fusion-driven transmutation reactor. LAR (Low Aspect Ratio) tokamak allows a potential of high "see full txt" operation with high bootstrap current fractions and can be used for a compact fusion neutron source. For the optimal design of a reactor, a radial build of reactor components has to be determined by considering the plasma physics and engineering constraints which inter-relate various reactor components and are constrained to use ITER physics and technology. In a transmutation reactor, the blanket should produce enough tritium for tritium self-sufficiency and the neutron multiplication factor, keff should be less than 0.95 to maintain sub-criticality. The shield should provide sufficient protection for the superconducting toroidal field (TF) coil against radiation damage and heating effects of the fusion neutrons, fission neutrons, and secondary gammas. In this work, characteristics of transmutation reactor based on LAR tokamak is investigated by using the coupled system analysis.

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A Review on the Role of Duckweed in Nutrient Reclamation and as a Source of Animal Feed

  • Goopy, J.P.;Murray, P.J.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.297-305
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    • 2003
  • The family of lemnacae colloquially known as duckweed contains the world' smallest species of flowering plants (macrophytes). Aquatic and free-floating, their most striking qualities are a capacity for explosive reproduction and an almost complete lack of fibrous material. They are widely used for reducing chemical loading in facultative sewage lagoons, but their greatest potential lies in their ability to produce large quantities of protein rich biomass, suitable for feeding to a wide range of animals, including fish, poultry and cattle. Despite these qualities there are numerous impediments to these plants being incorporated into western farming systems. Large genetically determined variations in growth in response to nutrients and climate, apparent anti-nutritional factors, concerns about sequestration of heavy metals and possible transference of pathogens raise questions about the safety and usefulness of these plants. A clear understanding of how to address and overcome these impediments needs to be developed before duckweed is widely accepted for nutrient reclamation and as a source of animal feed.

MAPPING STUDY OF MASSIVE CLOUD CORES

  • WEI Y;WU Y;WANG Y;Xu D;Ju B
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.291-293
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    • 2005
  • Using 13.7 m telescope of Qinghai station of NAO, PMO at Delin Ha, 43 IRAS sources were mapped with $^{13}CO\;J=1-0\;C^{18}O\;J=1-0$ and CO J=1-0. Each source has one or more cores. The distances of these cores range from 1 pc to several pc, and the masses from $10^2\;M_{\bigodot}$ to $10^5\;M_{\bigodot}$. High velocity outflows were detected. The mass, momentum and energy of these massive cores are larger than those of the low mass ones. With radio, IRAS, MSX data, stellar source distribution were investigated, and sourceless cores that deviate from infrared sources were identified. They are potential high mass star formation sites.

The Optimization of Fermentation Parameters for Heterologous Protein Productivity Enhancement with Pichia pastoris (Methylotrophic Yeast를 이용한 외래단백질 발현에서의 발효 변수 최적화)

  • 강환구;이문원;전희진
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.325-330
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    • 1998
  • The methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris, is known to be a potential host to offer many advantages for production of recombinant proteins. Fermentation parameters were optimized to enhance the heterologous ${\beta}$-galactosidase productivity with P. pastoris. Optimum concentration of methanol, used as inducer, was observed to be 8 g/L and the extent of repression of AOX1 promoter by glycerol was lower than by glucose. The degradation of the gene product ${\beta}$-galactosidase by protease was inhibited as the pH increased from 5 to 8 and the yeast extract(1%) as nitrogen source increased expression level 4 times higher compared to yeast nitrogen base(1%) as nitrogen source increased expression level 4 times higher compared to yeast nitrogen base(1%). Induction method, in which methanol is just added to fermentation medium without centrifugation, was found to be as much effective as the one with centrifugation.

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Numercal Simulation of Unsteady Performance for 20D Surface Effect Airfoils (2차원 해면효과익의 비정상 성능에 대한 수치적 시뮬레이션)

  • Park, Il-Ryong;Jeon, Ho-Hwan
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 1995
  • A numerical model capable of simulating a 2-D airfoil flying over in the vicinity of the waves is discussed. Instead of treating the problem as a heaving oscillation one above the rigid flat wall, sources are distributed on the prescribed wave profile. The wave deformation due to the airfoil is assumed to be negligible and treated as a rigid undulated wall. The source and vortex are distributed on the surface of the foil. It is found that the variation of $C_L$ with wave steepness in severe and that the lift variation due to waves decreases as the wing height above the water surface increases.

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Enterococcus faecalis RKY1의 회분식 발효를 통한 수크로스로부터 L(+)-Lactic acid의 생산

  • Wi, Yeong-Jung;Yun, Jong-Seon;Jeong, Sang-Won;Han, Seung-Ho;Ryu, Hwa-Won
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.218-221
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    • 2003
  • Lactic acid fermentation from sucrose as a carbon source was experimented. E. faecalis RKY1 metabolized sucrose efficiently into lactic acid through homolactic fermentation pathway. The optimal sucrose concentration for lactic acid production was found to be 150 g/l with the yield and productivity of 0.97 g/g and $3.7\;g/l\;{\cdot}\;h$, respectively. Lactic acid produced from sucrose was almost L(+)-lactic acid up to 98% based on total lactic acid produced. Therefore, sucrose was thought to be potential carbon source for L(+)-lactic acid production using E. faecalis RKY1.

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A Study on the phase angle detection of power source for PWM converter based on PLL method (PLL기법에 기반한 PWM 컨버터 전원 위상각 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Cheol;Lee Sang-Hun;Kim Cheol-U
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.284-288
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes the direct detection method of phase angle for the power source, which is based on the PLL method. The proposed method using a bidirectional photo-coupler is used to directly detect the zero crossing of phase voltage and calculate the angular frequency in the controller based on a M/T algorithm. Through the method, the additional installation space in the traditional method using a potential transformer can be minimized and it can be easy to design. The paper presents straightforward schematic circuits, design and experimental results.

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