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Development and Fabrication of Heating and Water Sparging Remediation System (HWSRS) for DNAPL-contaminated Groundwater Treatment

  • Lee, Ju-Won;Park, Won-Seok;Gong, Hyo-Young;Lee, Ae-Ri;Kim, Da-Eun;Baek, Seung-Chon;Lee, Jong-Yeol
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2013
  • The scope of this study was to develop, design, and build an ex-situ remediation system of using the heating and water sparging treatment for the highly volatile DNAPL (Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid) contaminated groundwater, and to conduct pilot testing at the site contaminated with DNAPL. The TCE (Trichloroethylene) removal was at the highest rate of 94.6% with the water sparging at $70^{\circ}C$ in the lab-scale test. The pilot-scale remediation system was developed, designed, and fabricated based on the results of the lab-scale test conducted. During the pilot-scale testing, DNAPL-contaminated groundwater was detained at heat exchanger for the certain period of time for pre-heating through the heat exchanger using the thermal energy supplied from the heater. The heating system supplies thermal energy to the preheated DNAPL-contaminated groundwater directly and its highly volatile TCE, $CCl_4$ (Carbontetrachloride), Chloroform are vaporized, and its vaporized and treated water is return edback to the heat exchanger. In the pilot testing the optimum condition of the HWSRS was when the water temperature at the $40^{\circ}C$ and operated with water sparging concurrently, and its TCE removal rate was 90%. The efficiency of the optimized HWSRS has been confirmed through the long-term performance evaluation process.

Management Efficiency of High-growth Electrical and Electronics Industry (고성장 전기·전자사업의 경영효율성)

  • Kang, Da-Yeon;Lee, Ki-Se
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2019
  • The high-technological in the electric and electronic industries is recognized in overseas markets as well. However, the competition for technologies in these industries is increasing. Therefore, electric and electronic firms should be more efficient in their production. so, This paper analyzes the efficiency of High-growth Electrical and Electronics firms using DEA model. We evaluate the CCR, BBC efficiency and RTS(return to scale) of 20 Korean high-growth Electrical and Electronics firms. There are a total of 12 efficient DMUs with a BCC of 1. There are a total of 4 efficient DMUs with a CCR of 1. A total of 11 DMUs were IRS in Scale Efficiency and a total of 6 DMUs were CRS in Scale Efficiency and a total of 3 DMUs were DRS in Scale Efficiency. We also suggest the Electrical and Electronics firms which can be benchmarked based on analyzed information.

Implementation of the 50kW Utility Interconnected Photovoltaic System Simulator (50kW급 계통연계형 태양광발전시스템의 시뮬레이터 구현)

  • Jeong, Byeong-Ho;Park, Jeong-Min;Cho, Geum-Bae;Baek, Hyung-Lae;Chung, Soo-Bok
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2005
  • This paper summarizes the results of these efforts by offering a photovoltaic system structure in 50kW middle scale applications installed in Cho-sun University dormitory roof. The combination of photovoltaic system components are interconnected and system monitoring system will be summarized for the purpose of the increasing safety in this article. This paper describes configuration of utility interactive photovoltaic system which generated electric power supplies to dormitory. In order to installing the middle or large scale photovoltaic system, It must investigated the optimal design of system, compute quantity of power generation, economic rate of return and so on. In this paper represent 50kW utility photovoltaic system examination and developed simulation results. The performance of photovoltaic system has been evaluated and analyzed with simulation. The results obtained in this research will be much useful to prior investigation for installing utility interactive photovoltaic system.

Evaluation of University Library Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA를 적용한 대학도서관의 효율성 평가)

  • Jung, Young-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.301-315
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    • 2011
  • DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis) is useful to measure the relative efficiency of organizational units where the presence of multiple inputs and outputs. This study applied DEA-CCR and DEA-BCC to evaluate the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency of 29 university libraries. The input variables were number of books, print edition expenses, building space, staff, number of seats. As output variables we estimated: reader visits, number of borrowed items, number of visitors. It was found out that number of libraries with 100% relative efficiency among 29 libraries were 13. Also the results shows that main reason of inefficiency was from scale rather than from pure technical. Many inefficient libraries were operations of increasing return to scale.

A Study on Economic Evaluation of Small KSO Field in Indonesia (인도네시아 소규모 KSO 광구의 경제성 평가 연구)

  • Moon, Seo-Yoon;Choi, Youngil;Lim, Jong-Se;Huh, Seung-Kyun;Jeong, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.624-634
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    • 2018
  • Indonesia has become a net crude oil importer because of the reduction of a new oil field discovery, and Indonesia is attempting to raise investment funds through the Kerja Sama Operasi (KSO) contract to develop a small-scale field. However, the KSO has a high-risk and low-return contract system for investors, necessitating an economic evaluation to examine the feasibility of the project. This study performed economic evaluation on the development of an Indonesian small-scale field by applying the KSO contract conditions, and identified the major economic parameters through a sensitivity analysis. As a result, the oil price, CAPEX and OPEX were identified as influential factors for economic evaluation. The results also indicate that commercial production in small-scale fields is difficult. In the future, this study can be used as a reference resource for investment in oil and gas development projects in Indonesia.

Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) Band-Pass-Filter for Wireless Applications from Silicon Integrated Passive Device (IPD) Technology

  • Lee, Yong-Taek;Liu, Kai;Frye, Robert;Kim, Hyun-Tai;Kim, Gwang;Aho, Billy
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2011
  • Currently, there is widespread adoption of silicon-based technologies for the implementation of radio frequency (RF) integrated passive devices (IPDs) because of their low-cost, small footprint and high performance. Also, the need for high speed data transmission and reception coupled with the ever increasing demand for mobility in consumer devices has generated a great interest in low cost devices with smaller form-factors. The UWB BPF makes use of lumped IPD technology on a silicon substrate CSMP (Chip Scale Module Package). In this paper, this filter shows 2.0 dB insertion loss and 15 dB return loss from 7.0 GHz to 9.0 GHz. To the best of our knowledge, the UWB band-pass-filter developed in this paper has the smallest size ($1.4\;mm{\times}1.2\;mm{\times}0.40\;mm$) while achieving equivalent electrical performance.

Measuring Relative Efficiency of Korean Life Insurance Companies Employing DEA/Window Model (DEA/Window 모형을 이용한 국내 생명보험산업의 상대적 효율성 분석)

  • Lee, Hyung-Suk;Kim, Ki-Seog
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.192-206
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    • 2008
  • With many changes such as the increase in telemarketing, internet marketing and enforcement of bancassurance, the Korean life insurance companies have undergone a startling transformation. The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyse the static/dynamic efficiency of Korean life insurance companies employing Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA). As the result of the static efficiency analysis, we provide CCR, BCC and scale efficiency, return to scale, and reference set of Korean life insurance companies in 2004. And we also describe about the trend and stability of their efficiency for 7 years(1998-2004) in the dynamic efficiency analysis.

Impact of energy efficiency improvement on greenhouse gas in off-season tomato farming: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan

  • Ali, Qamar;Khan, Muhammad T.I.;Khan, Muhammad N.I.
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.207-217
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    • 2017
  • Energy consumption in agriculture is responsible for greenhouse gas emission but it can be reduced after efficient utilization of energy inputs. Therefore, the present study aims for the estimation of energy efficiency and extent of greenhouse gas reduction after benchmarking of inefficient farms in off-season tomato in Punjab province of Pakistan. Primary data were collected from 70 farmers with simple random sampling. By using data envelopment analysis, the average value of technical, pure technical and scale efficiency was 0.80, 0.92 and 0.87, respectively while increasing, constant and decreasing return to scale was observed in 33, 26 and 11 farmers, respectively. Total input energy was reduced by $12,688.91MJ\;ha^{-1}$ (13.89%) if inefficient farms used the energy inputs according to recommendations or benchmarking. A major portion of energy saving comes from fertilizers (68.79%) followed by diesel (15.70%), chemicals (5.91%), machinery (4.37%) and water (4.00%). Total greenhouse gases reduction was $499.17kg\;CO_2\;eq.ha^{-1}$ (14.57%) as a result of improvement in energy efficiency or benchmarking of inefficient farms. Agricultural extension staff should visit the vegetable farms on regular basis and give necessary information about efficient utilization of energy inputs. The government should create awareness about the optimum use of input through seminars and pamphlets.

An Efficiency Analysis of Public Enterprises Using Bootstrap DEA (부트스트랩 DEA를 이용한 공기업 효율성 분석)

  • Park, Man Hee
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.475-487
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    • 2015
  • This study measures the managerial efficiency of Korea's 14 public enterprises using bootstrap DEA in 2013. In addition, it examines the factors that affect on the bootstrap bias-corrected efficiency using truncated regression analysis. The results and implications of this study are as follows. First, using bootstrap DEA model analysis, the results showed that the mean technical efficiency was 0.3182, the mean pure technical efficiency was 0.4994 and the mean scale efficiency was 0.6585. The main cause of technical inefficiency was due to pure technical inefficiency. Second, rank test between technical efficiency of general DEA model and bootstrap DEA model was no significant difference under CRS and VRS assumption. Third, the main cause of the inefficiency in 11 DMUs among 14 DMUs were mainly due to the pure technology and three DMUs were because of the scale efficiency. Finally, in the truncated regression analysis, cost of labor, profit, sales, return of equity, and the number of employees appeared as factors affecting the scale efficiency at the 10% significance level.

Building a Market Share Model of Alternative Fuel Vehicles: From Generic System Archetypes to System Dynamics Modeling (시스템 원형을 활용한 시스템 다이내믹스 모형 구축: 대체연료차량 시장 모형의 예)

  • Kwon, Tae-Hyeong
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.27-43
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    • 2008
  • This study investigates market barriers in increasing the market share of Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFVs). In particular, this study first conceptualizes the AFVs market model with the aid of generic system archetypes suggested by Wolstenholme. Among four generic system archetypes suggested by Wolstenholme, the market structure of AFVs can be explained by the 'relative achievement' archetype. Starting from the generic system archetype, this study extends the model boundary step by step to take account of various model assumptions necessary to simulate the model numerically. If there is a significant network effect on vehicle operating costs, it is difficult to achieve the shift to AFVs even in the long term without a policy intervention because the car market is locked into the current structure. There are several possible policy options to break the 'locked-in' structure of the car market, such as subsidies on vehicles, subsidies on fuels, and a niche management policy.

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