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Behavior of THM Formation Pormation Potential for Micro-Pollutants Mixed with SBR Effluent in BAC Treatment (활성오니 처리수중에 함유된 미량유기오염물의 생물학적 활성탄 처리시 THM 생성능의 거동)

  • Han, Myung Ho;Kim, Jeong Mog;Huh, Man Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.84-98
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    • 2000
  • Control of Trihalomethanes(THMs) is a major concern of many water treatment plants. A number of researchers have studied the effectiveness of activated carbon adsorption process in removing THMs or organic halogen compounds. Recently, attention has been paid to the biological activated carbon (BAC) treatment of THM precursors as an alternative to the carbon adsorption treatment because of its effectiveness as well as its low running cost. In this study, changes of THM formation potential(THMFP) and removal of substrates in the SBR effluent were investigated in an attempt to clarify the mechanisms of the decrease/increase of THMFP in the BAC treatment. The increase and decrease of THMFP concentrations were observed in effluents during prolonged operation. When PCP or DBS was feeded as substrate contained in SBR effluent, the THMFPs were easyly removed with TOCs removal. But the case of SBR effluent containing SDS or glycine was introduced, and when microbial growth came to its near steady state, the THMFPs of treated effluents were increased more or less in comparison to those in the influents. Such increases of THMFP coincided with the increase in microbial growth within the activated carbon fiber(ACF) column. In the case of only sucrose was feeded as substrate on ACF colume, THMFP concentrations of effluent were higher than those of influent. The THMFP concentration was significantly increased on inlet part of ACF column, which biomass inhabits abundantly, then they were decreased gradually. These increases mean production of the secondary THM precursors by biological activities, which can be removed by adsorption and biological degradation on ACF column.

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Surface Information Acquisition for Asphalt Concrete Pavement Using Digital Video Camera (디지털 비디오카메라를 이용한 아스팔트 콘크리트 포장 노면 정보획득)

  • Seo, Jeong-Hoon;Seo, Dong-Ju;Lee, Jong-Chool;Lee, Sung-Rock
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.12 no.3 s.30
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2004
  • In the study, there has been a sharp upward trend in road maintenance cost as the expansion of road networks increases. Running a pavement management system(PMS) is indispensable for efficient and scientific maintenance of the whole road networks with limited maintenance budgets. With a PMS, a maintenance plan should be drawn up after surface conditions are precisely examined and analyzed. The majority of the present PMSs are run by the fact that experts first examine surface conditions on sites, and then enter results into systems. However, considering the actual circumstances of the present time and the increase in paved road hereafter, it is inefficient that experts examine the whole paved roads in person and long-lasting PMSs can not be kept up. As a result, after analyzing the accuracy of 3-D coordinates representing road surfaces that was decided using multi orientation and digital photogrammetry, the average of standard errors turned out to be 0.0427m on the X-axis, 0.0527m on the Y-axis and 0.1539m on the Z-axis. It was found to be good enough to be put to practical use for maps drawn on scales below 1 :1000, which are being currently made and used within the country, and GIS data.

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A Real-time Electronic Attendance-absence Recording System using Face Detection and Face Recognition (얼굴 검출 및 인식 기술을 이용한 실시간 전자 출결 시스템)

  • Jeong, Pil-seong;Cho, Yang-hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.1524-1530
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    • 2016
  • Recently, research about an electronic attendance-absence recording system has been actively carried out using smart devices. Using an electronic attendance-absence recording system, professors can check their students' attendance on a real-time basis and manage their attendance records. In this paper, we proposed a real-time electronic attendance-absence recording system using face detection and face recognition based on web application. It can solve the spatial, temporal, cost issues belong to electronic attendance-absence recording system using AIDC(Automatic Identification and Data Capture). A proposed system is running on web server and made by HTML5(Hyper Text Markup Language ver.5). So professor connect to server using mobile web browser on mobile device and real-time manage electronic attendance-absence recording with real-time send or receive image data. In addition, the proposed system has an advantage capable of installation and operation, regardless of the operating system because it operates based on the Python flask framework.

Analysis of New Air Control System in Clean Stocker (Clean Stocker내 새로운 방식의 기류제어에 관한 해석)

  • Choe, Gi-Han;Han, Chang-U;Lee, Sang-Ryong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2002
  • Clean stockers are being used by semiconductor and TFT-LCD manufacturers to store and buffer work in process. Since an important function of a stocker is to keep the contained material clean. The only way to keep the stored product clean is to provide constant clean airflow the product and through stocker, The airflow across the product prevent contamination from settling on the product. Up to now, stocker typically have been configured to receive their laminar airflow from fan filter units that are located on the side of the stocker This type of stocker may have such problems as complexity of structure, increment of temperature, mechanical vibration, initial investment and running cost. In this study, In order to solve the above mentioned problems, new air control system in stocker is proposed, which is to control open ratios of exits that are located on the side of the stocker without fan filter units. Open ratios of exits need to be optimized for the same quantities of airflow in each exit. In this study, static pressure regain was used for the analysis of the open ratios of exits theoretically and Blue Ridge Numerics FEM software, CFDesign, was used fur simulating airflow in stocker. As a result, Open ratios of exits important to provide constant clean airflow can be obtained by the analysis of static pressure regain and was verified by simulation results. Therefore, new air control system in stocker can be used by the semiconductor and TFT-LCD manufacturers.

A new Clustering Algorithm for GPS Trajectories with Maximum Overlap Interval (최대 중첩구간을 이용한 새로운 GPS 궤적 클러스터링)

  • Kim, Taeyong;Park, Bokuk;Park, Jinkwan;Cho, Hwan-Gue
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.419-425
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    • 2016
  • In navigator systems, keeping map data up-to-date is an important task. Manual update involves a substantial cost and it is difficult to achieve immediate reflection of changes with manual updates. In this paper, we present a method for trajectory-center extraction, which is essential for automatic road map generation with GPS data. Though clustered trajectories are necessary to extract the center road, real trajectories are not clustered. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new method using the maximum overlapping interval and trajectory clustering. Finally, we apply the Virtual Running method to extract the center road from the clustered trajectories. We conducted experiments on real massive taxi GPS data sets collected throughout Gang-Nam-Gu, Sung-Nam city and all parts of Seoul city. Experimental results showed that our method is stable and efficient for extracting the center trajectory of real roads.

Development of a Simulator for Off-Line Programming of Gantry-Robot Welding System

  • Ahn, Cheol-Ki;Lee, Min-Cheol;Kwon Son;Park, Jae-Won;Jung, Chang-Wook;Kim, Hyung-Sik
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.517-517
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    • 2000
  • Welding automation is one of the most important manufacturing issues in shipbuilding in order to lower the cost, increase the quality, and avoid the labor problems. Generally the on-line teaching is utilized on the robot that is used in the welding automation system, but it requires much effort and long time to program. Especially, if the system is composed of more than two cooperating robots, it demands much more skill to program the robots' motion. Thus, a convenient programming tool is required for efficient utilization of welding automation system. In this study, a convenient programming tool is developed for welding automation in which gantry-robot system is used. The system is composed of a gantry transporter and two robots mounted on the gantry to cover the wide work range in the ship building application. As a programming tool, an off-line programming software based on PC is developed. By using this software, field operator does not need to concern about coding of task programs for three control units, one is for gantry and two are for robots. The task programs are automatically generated by assembling the program modules in database according to geometrical information of workpiece and welding condition, which become the only concern of field operator, The feasibility of the generated programs can be verified via a motion simulator previously to on-line running.

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Fuel Economy Improvement Cruise Control Algorithm using Distance and Altitude Data of GPS in Expressway (고속도로에서 GPS 거리와 고도데이터를 이용한 연비 향상 정속 순항 제어 알고리즘)

  • Choi, Seong-Cheol;Lee, Jong-Hwa
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.68-75
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    • 2011
  • A vehicle fuel economy is very important issue in view of fuel cost and environmental regulation. It has been improved according to the performance improvement of the vehicle engine, power train and many components. It was evaluated at given mode (LA-4, FTP-75, etc) on an engine dynamometer or computer simulation program. In this paper, the fuel economy improvement cruise control algorithms as controling a vehicle velocity by road load calculated and predicted in a real expressway with gradient was studied. Firstly, the altitude and distance data which was measured with GPS sensor was already installed in the ECU of a vehicle. Then the vehicle equipped with GPS receiver is driven the same expressway. The ECU calculates the gradient angle and the in-/decreasing velocity using the gradient angle by comparing the current received distance and altitude data from GPS with the saved data ahead of the vehicle. Therefore the ECU can calculate and predict the vehicle velocity considering tolerance velocity of next position with running. Then the ECU controls the vehicle velocity to meet this predicted velocity in all section. Three cruise control algorithms with the different velocity profiles for the improvement of fuel economy are proposed and compared with the computer simulation results that the vehicle runs on Youngdong expressway. The proposed CVELCONT2 and CVELCONT3 algorithms were improved 3.7% and 4.8% of fuel economy compared with CONSTVEL which is steady cruising algorithm. These two algorithms are recommended as the Eco-cruise drive methodologies in this paper.

Comparison of Methods for Calculating Reactive Power Service Charge and Proposing a New Method using Reactive Power Markets (무효전력시장을 이용한 무효전력서비스 요금 산정방법의 비교 및 새로운 방안)

  • Ro, Kyoung-Soo;Choi, Joon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.78-84
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    • 2006
  • As electric power systems have been moving from a vertically integrated structure to a deregulated environment, calculating reactive power service charges is a new challenging theme for market operators. This paper examines various methods for reactive power management adopted in some deregulated foreign and domestic markets and then proposes a new method to calculate reactive power service charges using a reactive power market. The reactive power market is operated based on bids from the generating sources and is settled on uniform prices by running reactive OPF programs after the day-ahead electricity market. The proposed method takes into account recovering not only the costs of installed capacity but also the lost opportunity costs incurred by reducing active power output to increase reactive power production. A numerical sample study is carried out to illustrate the processes and appropriateness of the proposed method.

A Method on the Realization of QoS Guarantee in the Grid Network (그리드 네트워크에서의 QoS 보장방법 구현)

  • Kim, Jung-Yun;Na, Won-Shin;Ryoo, In-Tae
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2009
  • Grid computing is an application to obtain the most efficient performance from computing resources in terms of cost and convenience. It is also considered as a good method to solve a problem that cannot be settled by conventional computing technologies such as clustering or is requiring supercomputing capability due to its complex and long-running task. In order to run grid computing effectively, it needs to connect high-performance computing resources in real-time which are distributed geographically. Answering to the needs of this grid application, researchers in several universities with Argonne National Laboratory in the USA (ANL) as the main axis have developed Globus. It is noticed, however, that the quality of service (QoS) is not guaranteed when certain jobs are exchanged through networks in the context of Globus. To tackle with this problem, the ANL has invented Globus Architecture for Reservation and Allocation (GARA). The researchers of this paper constructed a testbed for evaluating the ability to reserve resource in the GARA system and implemented the GARA code for it. We analyzed the applied results and discussed future research plans.

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Light-Weight Mobile VR Platform using HMD with 6 Axis (6 축센서를 갖는 HMD 경량 모바일 VR Platform)

  • Kang, Yunhee;Kang, JungJu
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2018
  • Recently VR environment is used in many areas including mobile learning, smart factory. However HMD(head-mounted display) is required to a dedicated and expensive system with high-end specification. When designing a VR system, it is needed to handle performance, mobility and usability. Many VR applications need to handle diverse sensors and user inputs continuously in a streaming manner. In this paper we design a VR mobile platform and implement a low-cost mobile VR HMD running on the platform. The VR HMD supports 3D contents delivery in a mobile manner. It is used to detect the motion detection based on angle value of a VR player from accelerator and gyro sensor. The MPU-6050, 6-axis sensor, is used to get a sensory value and the sensory value is taken as an input to a VR rendering server on a Unity game engine that is generated 3D images.