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Study on the chemical activation process from PVDC-resin with CuO agent to synthesize mesoporous carbon for supercapacitor electrodes (Supercapacitor 전극용 최적의 mesoporous carbon 합성을 위한 PVDC-resin 전구체로 부터 CuO를 이용한 화학적 활성화 과정 연구)

  • Sang-Eun Chun
    • Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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    • v.57 no.4
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    • pp.285-295
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    • 2024
  • PVDC-resin transforms into porous carbon through the removal of heteroatoms during heat treatment. When PVDC-resin mixed with chemical agent undergoes heat treatment, it transforms into porous carbon with a significant surface area. In this study, we aim to produce porous carbon using PVDC-resin as a precursor by mixing it with an inexpensive CuO agent in various ratios (1:1, 1:2) and varying the process temperatures (750℃, 950℃). To utilize the developed porous carbon as electrode for supercapacitors, this study explored the formation of micropores and mesopores during the activation process. The porous characteristics and specific surface area of the synthesized porous carbon were estimated using N2 isotherm. The specific capacitance and rate capability required for supercapacitor electrodes were evaluated through cyclic voltammetry. Experimental results demonstrated that when the precursor and agent were mixed in a 1:2 ratio, a high surface areal carbon with numerous micropores and mesopores was obtained. When the activation was performed at 950℃, no impurities remained from the agent, resulting in high rate performance. The porous carbon synthesized using PVDC-resin and CuO demonstrated high specific surface area and excellent rate capability, indicating its potential as an electrode material for supercapacitors.

Motivation based Behavior Sequence Learning for an Autonomous Agent in Virtual Reality

  • Song, Wei;Cho, Kyung-Eun;Um, Ky-Hyun
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.1819-1826
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    • 2009
  • To enhance the automatic performance of existing predicting and planning algorithms that require a predefined probability of the states' transition, this paper proposes a multiple sequence generation system. When interacting with unknown environments, a virtual agent needs to decide which action or action order can result in a good state and determine the transition probability based on the current state and the action taken. We describe a sequential behavior generation method motivated from the change in the agent's state in order to help the virtual agent learn how to adapt to unknown environments. In a sequence learning process, the sensed states are grouped by a set of proposed motivation filters in order to reduce the learning computation of the large state space. In order to accomplish a goal with a high payoff, the learning agent makes a decision based on the observation of states' transitions. The proposed multiple sequence behaviors generation system increases the complexity and heightens the automatic planning of the virtual agent for interacting with the dynamic unknown environment. This model was tested in a virtual library to elucidate the process of the system.

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A Study on the Decontamination Performance of Cesium by Soil Washing Process With Flocculating Agent (응집제를 적용한 토양세척 공정에서의 세슘 제염 성능 평가 연구)

  • Song, Jong Soon;Kim, Sun Il
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2018
  • Radioactive substances, especially $^{137}Cs$ discharged in the course of Nuclear Power Plant Accident or maintenance of power plants, cause contamination of the soil. For habitation of residents and reuse of industrial land, it is inevitably necessary to decontaminate the soil. This study examines a soil washing process that has actually been used for washing of radioactive-contaminated soil. The soil washing process uses a washing agent to weaken surface tension of the soil and cesium, separating cesium from the soil. In this study, in order to raise the efficiency of the process, a flocculating agent was added to the washing water to remove fine soil and cesium. The cesium concentrations before and after applying the flocculating agent to cesium solution were measured through ICP-OES. When using 0.1 g of J-AF flocculating agent in the experiment, the maximum Cs removal performance was approximately 88%; the minimum value was 67%. Species combinations between cesium and soil were predicted using Visual MINTEQ Code; the ability to reuse the washing water or not, and the removal rate of the fine soil, determined via measurement of the turbidity after applying the flocculating agent, were determined.

Characteristics of Redox Agent with Additive in Steam-Iron Process for the High Purity Hydrogen Production (고순도 수소 생성을 위한 SIP법에서 첨가제에 따른 환원 특성)

  • Jeon, Bup-Ju;Kim, Sun-Myung;Park, Ji-Hun
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.340-348
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    • 2011
  • Effects of various inorganic-metal oxide (Zr, Zn, Si, Al and Ca as promoters and stabilizers) additive on the reduction rate of iron oxide and the composition of forming hydrogen using the steam-iron cycle operation was investigated. The reduction rate of redox agent with additive was determined from weight change by TGA. The changes of weight loss and reduction rate according to redox agent with various additive affected the hydrogen purity and cycle stability of the process. The cyclic micro reactor showed that hydrogen purity exceeding 95% could be obtained by the water splitting with Si/Fe, Zn/Fe, Zr/Fe redox agents. The redox agents with these elements had an affect on redox cycle stability as a good stabilizer for forming hydrogen by the steam-iron process.

Novel thermoplastic toughening agents in epoxy matrix for vacuum infusion process manufactured composites

  • Bae, Jin-Seok;Bae, Jihye;Woo, Heeju;Lee, Bumjae;Jeong, Euigyung
    • Carbon letters
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    • v.25
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2018
  • This study suggests the novel thermoplastic toughening agent, which can be applied in the monomer forms without increasing the viscosity of the epoxy resin and polymerized during the resin curing. The diazide (p-BAB) and dialkyne (SPB) compounds are synthesized and mixed with the epoxy resin and the carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites are prepared using vacuum infusion process (VIP). Then, flexural and drop weight tests are performed to evaluate the improvement in the toughness of the prepared composites to investigate the potential of the novel toughening agent. When 10 phr of p-BAB and SPB is added, the flexural properties are improved, maintaining the modulus as well as the toughness is improved. Even with a small amount of polytriazolesulfone polymerized, due to the filtering effect of the solid SPB by the layered carbon fabrics during the VIP, the toughening and strengthening effect were observed from the novel toughening agent, which could be added in monomer forms, p-BAB and SPB. This suggests that the novel toughening agent has a potential to be used for the composites prepared from viscosity sensitive process, such as resin transfer molding and VIP.

A Design of Call Routing Agent for Multi-Channel (멀티채널 환경에서의 콜 에이전트 설계 및 구현)

  • Jun, Byung-Uk
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.139-145
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    • 2008
  • CRM(Customer Relationship Management) improves the competitiveness of small companies to large enterprises. E-mail, SMS (Short Message Service), telephony service, DM (Direct Mail) are used for customer response in many companies. In order to improve company's profit, business diversification is in progress with protecting the succession of existing customers, and the only of new customers. Futhermore, BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) and BPM (Business Process Management) of the CRM can be easily found in many companies, because it is the first contact point to the company at the customer's view. This paper discusses the development of CRM, and proposes a call object routing agent that is the main engine of the CRM. Result of performance evaluation of proposed method show that the system is effective and powerful enough to use at the multi-channel environment.

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An Experimental Study on the Development of Soft Ground Firming Agent Using EAF Reduction Slag (전기로 환원 슬래그를 이용한 연약지반 고화재 개발에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Seok;Lee, Yoon-Kyu;Choi, Jae-Seok;Han, Man-Hae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.09a
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    • pp.998-1001
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    • 2010
  • Most firming agent used in Korea is cement-firming agent. Cement-firming agent absorb water for combination, and then it makes ettringite. Through this chemical process, soft ground is firmed by cement-firming agent. Although most cement-firming agent used in Korea made from CSA, it relies on imports. Therefore, the development of soft ground firming agent using new materials is required. In this study, we suggested that EAF reduction slag not used for anything in the steel industry is available for material of soft ground firming agent. If EAF reduction slag is used in soft ground firming agent, it will be possible to solve the problem with treatment of slag and improvement of soft ground.

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A Study on Ship Initial Design Agent System Based on ACL and CORBA (ACL과 CORBA를 이용한 선박 초기설계 에이전트 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • 김동현;이규열;이상욱
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.360-370
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    • 1999
  • The paper proposed a basic architecture of an agent system to support exchange and sharing of design informations by means of ACL(Agent Communication Language) which can represent design informations and knowledges. Based on the architecture of the agent system a ship initial design agent system was implemented in order to show the effectiveness of the agent-based system. The basic architecture of the agent consists of an ACL handlerand CORBA(Common Object Request Broker Architecture) objects for the exchange of ACL messages in the heterogeneous and distributed environment. The ACL handler can process expressions of knowledge and manage communication messages among the agents. The paper mainly focuses on the implementation of the ACL handler. The ACL handler consist of a KQML(Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language) handler that manages KQML messages, a conversation module, and a content handler that handles message contents. The conversation modulo implements conversation policies and checks all messages if they are allowable and meaningful messages based on the conversation policies. The implemented agent-based system was applied to the ship initial design to show the handling procedure of the agent system.

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A Study on the Accumulation Phenomena of Oxidized Starch in White Water of closed Fine Papermaking Process (Part 2) -Effect of broke use ratio and surface sizing pick up- (백상지 공정 폐쇄화에 따른 백수 내 산화전분의 축적 현상에 관한 연구 (제2보) -파지혼합비율 및 표면사이징 픽업량 변화의 영향-)

  • Ahn, Hyun-Kyun;Lee, Hak-Lae
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2004
  • Reduction of fresh water consumption and effluent discharge provide diverse advantages in raw materials and energy savings. Papermaking system closure, however, reduces the efficiency of additives, decreases retention and dewatering, and causes many other Problems in papermaking. Accumulation of inorganic and organic substances in the process white water is the prime cause of these problems. Understanding of the accumulation phenomena of the detrimental substances in the papermaking process is of great importance for papermaking system closure. In this study a process simulation method was employed to analyze the accumulation phenomena of anionic starch in the process white water as the reuse rate of dry broke and pick up of surface sizing agent is increased. Steady state simulation studies were carried out based on the model developed in previous study. The variation of dissolved starch concentration in each process unit was monitored as a function of reuse rate of dry broke and surface sizing agent pick up rate. The result showed that dissolved starch concentration Increased as reuse rate of dry broke and surface sizing agent pick up rate was increased.