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Silicone Rubber Membrane Bioreactors for Bacterial Cellulose Production

  • Onodera, Masayuki;Harashima, Ikuro;Toda, Kiyoshi;Asakura, Tomoko
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.289-294
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    • 2002
  • Cellulose production by Acetobacter pasteurianus was investigated in static culture using four bioreactors with silicone rubber membrane submerged in the medium. The shape of the membrane was flat sheet, flat sack, tube and cylindrical balloon. Production rate of cellulose as well as its yield on consumed glucose by the bacteria grown on the flat type membranes was approximately ten-fold greater than those on the non-flat ones in spite of the same membrane thickness. The membrane reactor using flat sacks of silicone rubber membrane as support of bacterial pellicle can supply greater ratio of surface to volume than a conventional liquid surface culture and is promising for industrial production of bacterial cellulose in large scale.

WEAR BEHAVIOUR OF STEAM GENERATOR TUBES IN ROOM TEMPERATURE WATER

  • Lee, Young-Ho;Kim, Hyung-Kyu;Kim, In-Sup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10b
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    • pp.203-204
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    • 2002
  • The wear behaviour of steam generator (SG) tubes (Inconel 600 and 690) against support materials (405 and 409 ferritic stainless steels) has been experimentally studied in room temperature water using reciprocating wear apparatus with tube-an-plate configuration. The results showed that the wear rate of Inconel 690 was lower than that of lnconel 600 with increasing normal loads and sliding amplitudes. Also, plastic deformation layers appear below the surface of both SG tubes, which have a specific thickness and are small compared with their grain size. This means that wear rate of SG tubes in water condition is closely related to the formation and fracture of plastic deformation layers.

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A Novel Bit Rate Adaptation using Buffer Size Optimization for Video Streaming

  • Kang, Young-myoung
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.166-172
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    • 2020
  • Video streaming application such as YouTube is one of the most popular mobile applications. To adjust the quality of video for available network bandwidth, a streaming server provides multiple representations of video of which bit rate has different bandwidth requirements. A streaming client utilizes an adaptive bit rate scheme to select a proper video representation that the network can support. The download behavior of video streaming client player is governed by several parameters such as maximum buffer size. Especially, the size of the maximum playback buffer in the client player can greatly affect the user experience. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose the maximum buffer size optimization according to available network bandwidth and buffer status. Our simulation study shows that our proposed buffer size optimization scheme successfully mitigates playback stalls while preserving the similar quality of streaming video compared to existing ABR schemes.

Graphitic Mesostructured Carbon from an Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Precursor

  • Kim, Chy-Hyung;Oh, Teresa
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.9
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    • pp.1978-1980
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    • 2009
  • A mesostructured form of carbon was fabricated from a template of mesostructured silica by using pentane, an aliphatic hydrocarbon precursor. To synthesize the mesostructured silica, a buffered (pH of 6.5) mixture of nonionic Pluronic P123 surfactant, sodium silicate, and acetic acid were used. The impregnated silica with Fe$(CO)_5$ (wt 5%) and pentane was placed in a quartz tube, treated with pentane vapor at 800 ${^{\circ}C}$ for two hours to synthesize the mesostructured carbon. The XRD patterns of the carbon replica in the low/wide angle regions, its TEM images, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherm revealed that the long-range framework order of mesostructure with the pore size centered on 2.8 nm was maintained to some extent mainly due to some portions of mesophase carbon that work as a support to fix the hexagonal frameworks by anchoring on the pore surface with an improved graphitic character. The dc conductivity of the mesostructured carbon in pressed powder form at 6.0 MPa was 2.08 S/cm.

Development of Ceramic Composite Membranes for Gas Separation: III. Examination of Membrane Characteristics by the Gas Permeation Model (기체분리용 세라믹 복합분리막의 개발: III. 기체투과 모델에 의한 막의 특성 규명)

  • 현상훈;윤성필;강범석
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.29 no.11
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    • pp.905-911
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    • 1992
  • Model equations for the gas permeation through a ceramic composite membrane were derived for examining the existence of crack, the reproducibility, and the microstructural properties of composite membranes. From the results of analyzing the nitrogen permeability data through alumina-tube supported TiO2 and SiO2 composite membranes, the extent of cracking, and the formation and structure of membrane top-layers were modelled. It was proved that the crack-free and reproducible composite membranes could be easily prepared only by the pore-filled coating within pores of the support in the sol-gel coating process.

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A Machine Vision Algorithm for Measuring the Diameter of Eggcrate Grid (에그크레이트(Eggcrate) 격자(Grid)의 내접원 직경 측정을 위한 머신비편 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Chae-Soo;Park, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Woo-Sung;Hwang, Hark;Lee, Moon-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.85-96
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    • 2000
  • An Eggcrate assembly is an important part to hold and support 16,000 tubes containing hot and contaminated water in the steam generator of nuclear power plant. As a great number of tubes should be inserted into the eggcrate assembly, the dimensions of each eggcrate grid are one of the critical factors to determine the availability of tube insertion. in this paper. we propose a machine vision algorithm for measuring the inner-circle diameter of each eggcrate grid whose shape is not exact quadrangular. The overall procedure of the algorithm is composed of camera calibration, eggcrate image preprocessing, grid height adjustment, and inner-circle diameter estimation. The algorithm is tested on real specimens and the results show that the algorithm works fairly well.

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DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR HIGH STABILITY TELESCOPE STRUCTURE

  • Lee, Deog-Gyu;Jang, Hong-Sul;Lee, Eung-Shik;Jung, Dae-Jun;Lee, Seung-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.225-228
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    • 2005
  • Telescope structure based on Korsch type optical layout was suggested for a large aperture optical system. Korsch type optical layout is regarded as providing wide field of view and no color aberration for which high resolution space cameras greatly demand. For the suggested Korsch type telescope structure, two folding mirrors are adopted, firstly to provide for the refocusing device mounting plane on the second fold mirror assembly, secondly by double folding the light path to concisely confine focal plane assembly within the perimeter of the tube. Optical layput design and corresponding support structure design were attained.

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Development of Ceramic Composite Membranes for Gas Separation: V. Synthesis of Nanoparticulate Silica Membranes by the Pressurized Sol-Gel Coating Technique (기체분리용 세라믹 복합분리막의 개발 : V. 가압 졸-겔 코팅법에 의한 rrmaltp입자 실리카 막의 합성)

  • 현상훈;윤성필;김준학
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.189-198
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    • 1993
  • A new pressurized sol-gel coating technique forming membrane layers inside pores of the porous support by the simple operation has been developed. Crack-free and reproducible nanoparticulate silica membranes supported on the porous $\alpha$-alumina tube are synthesized by pressurized coating at 600kPa for 2hr. The pore radius and N2 gas permiability at the room temperature of silica membrane layers are 8$\AA$ and 7.0$\times$10-7mol/$m^2$.s.Pa, respectively. The mechanism of N2 gas transfer through synthesized membrane layers is the perfect Knudeen flow, and the thermal stability of the silica composite membranes is excellent upto 40$0^{\circ}C$.

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An accident diagnosis algorithm using long short-term memory

  • Yang, Jaemin;Kim, Jonghyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.582-588
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    • 2018
  • Accident diagnosis is one of the complex tasks for nuclear power plant (NPP) operators. In abnormal or emergency situations, the diagnostic activity of the NPP states is burdensome though necessary. Numerous computer-based methods and operator support systems have been suggested to address this problem. Among them, the recurrent neural network (RNN) has performed well at analyzing time series data. This study proposes an algorithm for accident diagnosis using long short-term memory (LSTM), which is a kind of RNN, which improves the limitation for time reflection. The algorithm consists of preprocessing, the LSTM network, and postprocessing. In the LSTM-based algorithm, preprocessed input variables are calculated to output the accident diagnosis results. The outputs are also postprocessed using softmax to determine the ranking of accident diagnosis results with probabilities. This algorithm was trained using a compact nuclear simulator for several accidents: a loss of coolant accident, a steam generator tube rupture, and a main steam line break. The trained algorithm was also tested to demonstrate the feasibility of diagnosing NPP accidents.

Attenuation Characteristics of Fluid-Borne Pressure Ripple in Automotive Power Steering Hydraulic Hoses (자동차 동력조향용 유압호스의 압력맥동 감쇠특성)

  • 김도태
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 1998
  • This paper presents experimental investigations on the attenuation characteristics of pressure ripple in automotive power steering hydraulic hoses. Also, a mathematical model of hydraulic hoses is proposed to support design of the power steering hydraulic circuit and analyze the attenuation characteristics of pressure ripples. The experimental results show that the pulsation attenuation characteristics of hydraulic hoses is remarkably affected by the flexible metal tube inserted coaxially inside a hydraulic hose with a finite length as well as viscoelastic properties of hose wall. It is also shown that the predicted results by the model proposed here agree well with the measured results over a wied range of frequency.

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