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Analysis of the Major Design Parameters of a Pantograph-Railway Catenary System for Improving the Current Collection Quality (집전성능 향상을 위한 팬터그래프-전차선의 주요 설계 파라미터분석)

  • Cho, Yong Hyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2014
  • Stiffness variations and wave propagation/reflection in railway catenaries are the primary sources of contact loss between a pantograph and a railway contact wire. This paper analyzes which design parameter is more important for 200km/h conventional rail and 300km/h high-speed rail, in order to effectively reduce the contact loss. For the high-speed rail, the wave propagation and reflection in the overhead contact lines are more influential than the stiffness variation over a span. When the high-speed rail needs to speed-up, it is necessary to develop higher strength contact wires in order to increase the wave propagation speed. In addition, the dropper clamp mass should be reduced in order to alleviate the wave reflection. However, it is noted that the increase in the tension to a messenger wire could deteriorate the current collection quality, which contrasts with expectations. For the 200km/h conventional rail, the stiffness variation over a span is more influential than the wave propagation and reflection. Therefore, shortening span length, increasing the tension in the contact wire and optimizing the location of the droppers are recommended for a smoother stiffness variation over the span.

Tri-ramification of left external carotid artery associated with anatomical variation of its branches and aneurysm formation

  • Punnapa Raviteja;Mrudula Chandrupatla;Rohini Motwani
    • Anatomy and Cell Biology
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.324-327
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    • 2024
  • Essential sources of arterial vascularisation in the head and neck region are the left and right common carotid arteries (CCA) and their branches. The left CCA (LCCA) originates from the arch of the aorta and the right CCA originates from the brachiocephalic trunk. In this case report, there was a bilateral higher division of CCA at the plane of the greater cornua of the hyoid bone, unilateral tri-ramification of the LCCA and the left external carotid artery (LECA), and the origin of the linguo-facial trunk and the pharyngo-occipital trunk from the LECA. An aneurysm formed in the distal part of LECA before its termination. In this case, we propose a novel categorization called the punnapatla classification for the anatomical variance branching forms of ECA. These kinds of variations are important to the surgeons, and anaesthetists, during the surgeries of the head and neck.

Review of Variable-flux Permanent Magnet Machines

  • Owen, R.L.;Zhu, Z.Q.;Wang, J.B.;Stone, D.A.;Urquhart, I.
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2012
  • Variable-flux permanent-magnet machines (VFPM) are of great interest and many different machine topologies have been documented. This paper categorizes VFPM machine topologies with regard to the method of flux variation and further, in the case of hybrid excited machines with field coils, with regard to the location of the excitation sources. The different VFPM machines are reviewed and compared in terms of their torque density, complexity and their ability to vary the flux.

Persulfate Wet Oxidation Method for the Determination of Total Phosphorus in Atmospheric Aerosols and Its Application for a Year-round Observation in Beijing

  • Okuda, Tomoaki;Gunji, Yuma;He, Kebin;Ma, Yongliang
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2013
  • Measurement of the phosphorus concentration in aerosols in Beijing, which was a representative East Asian mega-city, was carried out. The optimum procedure for analyzing phosphorus in aerosols was found in this study. Recovery of phosphorus in environmental samples through the improved method was almost 100%. The concentration of phosphorus in TSP was $145{\pm}47\;ng/m^3$, with a seasonal variation showing high concentrations in winter and low concentrations in summer. The concentrations of phosphorus in $PM_{2.5}$ accounted for $35{\pm}6%$ of those in TSP, with no seasonal variations. The major source of phosphorus in aerosols in Beijing was soil dust, and additional sources of phosphorus in fine particles could be coal combustion and biomass burning.

Experimental Investigation on the Distortion Error induced by Shrinkage in Sterolithography Process (광조형 공정 시 수축에 의한 변형 오차의 실험적 고찰)

  • Kim, Gi-Dae;Oh, Young-Tak
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2005
  • During stereolithography processes, one of the main sources of dimensional error of prototype is the distortion effect owing to the shrinkage of resin. In this study, the effects of dimension of specimen, such as length, width, and thickness, on the curl distortion is examined. During the SL processes, the variation of curl distortion ewer is measured according to the number of layers, Through this study, it is verified that there is a big difference of the distortion error in both direction and magnitude between before and after the supports are removed. It Is also observed that end profile of the test part and the upper side around the border are also distorted due to the shrinkage of the resin.

Characteristics of nocturnal maximum ozone and meteorological relevance in Pusan coastal area (부산 연안역의 야간 고농도 오존 발생 특성과 기상학적 관련성)

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    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.287-292
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    • 1999
  • This study was performed to investigate the characteristics of nocturnal maxiumu ozone occurrence and the meteorological relevance using to hourly ozone data and meteorological data for 1995~1996 in Pusan coastal area. Kwangbokdong showed the highest occurrence of nocturnal maximum ozone as 36.9%, and Deokcheondong showed the lowest occurrence(9.2%) for research period in Pusan. The occurrence rates of nocturnal maximum ozone concentration were decreased toward land area. The low maximum temperature, high minimum temperature, low diurnal range, high relative humidity, high wind speed, high could amount, low sunshine and low radiation were closely related to the main meteorological characteristics occuring the nocturnal maximum concnetration of ozone. It was shown that normal daily variation of ozone concentration by strong photochemical reaction at the before day of nocturnal maximum ozone. The concnetration of nocturnal maximum ozone were occured by entrainment of ozone from the upper layer of developed mixing layer. There are no ozone sources near the ground at night, so that the nighttime ozone should be entrained from the upper layer by forced convection.

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SUPPLEMENTARY ANALYSES OF ECONOMIC X CHART MODEL

  • Jeon,Tae Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.111-111
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    • 1987
  • With the increasing interest of reducing process variation, statistical process control has served the pivotal tool in most industrial quality programs. In this study, system analyses have been performed associated with a cost incorporated version of a process control, a quadratic loss-based X over bar control chart model. Specifically, two issues, the capital/research investments for improvement of a system and the precision of a parameter estimation, have been addressed and discussed. Through the analysis of experimental results, we show that process variability is seen to be one of the most important sources of loss and quality improvement efforts should be directed to reduce this variability. We further derive the results that, even if the optimal designs may be sensitive, the model appears to be robust with regard to misspecification of parameters. The approach and discussion taken in this study provide a meaningful guide for proper process control. We conclude this study with providing general comments.

A Study on Generator Temperature and Power Converter Efficiency according to change of Wind Velocity (풍속 변화에 따른 발전기 온도 및 전력변환장치 효율에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Young-Sang;Han, Woon-Ki;Jung, Jin-Soo;Lim, Hyun-Sung;Cho, Sung-Koo;Jeon, Taehyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2015
  • Recently, because a renewable power source must operate as a constant rate in accordance with RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard), the study of the renewable power sources has been ongoing. Especially because of noise of wind turbine, troubleshooting, and urban greening business, research related with small wind turbine are underway. The economics and reliability are important parts for the activation of small wind turbine, such as solar energy. In this paper, by analyzing the temperature variations for each location and efficiency of power conversion devices in accordance with short period wind speed changes in simulation test, we reviewed the safety about temperature variations of wind generator and the method of selection of power converter.

Analysis and Improvement of Low-Frequency Control of Speed-Sensorless AC Drive Fed by Three-Level Inverter

  • Chang Jie (Jay)
    • KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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    • v.5B no.4
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    • pp.358-365
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    • 2005
  • In induction machine drive without a speed sensor, the estimation of the motor flux and speed often becomes deteriorated at low speeds with low back EMF. Our analysis shows that, in addition to the state resistance variation, the estimated value of field orientation angle is often corrupted by accumulative errors from the integration of voltage variables at motor terminals that have low signal/noise ratio at low frequencies. A repetitive loop path of integration in the feedback can amplify this type of error, thus speeding up the degradation process. The control system runs into information starvation due to the loss of correct field orientation. The machine's spiral vectors are controlled only in a reduced dimension in this situation. A novel control scheme is developed to improve the control performance of motor's current, torque and speed at low frequencies. The scheme gains a full-dimensional vector control and is less sensitive to the combined effect of the error sources at the low frequencies. Experimental tests demonstrate promising performances are achievable even below 0.5 Hz.

Studies on the Pectolytic Enzymes from Byssochlamys fulva I (Byssochlamys fulva가 생성하는 펙틴질 분해효소에 관한 연구 I)

  • 남영중;김남수;홍순우
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 1983
  • Effects of carbon sources, incubation time, incubation temperature, initial incubation pH, and vitamin B complex on the polygalacturonase activity of Byssochlamys fulva were studied to confirm the optimum conditions for the production of that enzyme. When pectin was used as carbon source, polygalacturonase activity reached to the maximum value of 0.50 units/ml. After 5 days of incubation, polygalacuturonase activity reached to its maximum of 0.48units/ml. Polygalacturonase activities were similar between $25^{\circ}C\;and\;45^{\circ}C$, however, decreased dramatically in the outside of this range. Polygalacturonase activity was not signicicantly influenced by the variation of initial incubation pH. However, at pH5.0, polygalacturonase activity was slightly through the addition of thiamine and riboflavin, and the optimum concentrations were $10^{-2}M$ in case of thiamine and $10^{-3}M$ in riboflavin.

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