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Tritium Fuel Cycle Technology of ITER Project (ITER 사업의 삼중수소 연료주기 기술)

  • Yun, Sei-Hun;Chang, Min-Ho;Kang, Hyun-Goo;Kim, Chang-Shuk;Cho, Seung-Yon;Jung, Ki-Jung;Chung, Hong-Suk;Song, Kyu-Min
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2012
  • The ITER fuel cycle is designed for DT operation in equimolar ratio. It involves not only a group of fuelling system and torus cryo-pumping system of the exhaust gases through the divertor from the torus in tokamak plant, but also from the exhaust gas processing of the fusion effluent gas mixture connected to the hydrogen isotope separation in cryogenic distillation to the final safe storage & delivery of the hydrogen isotopes in tritium plant. Tritium plant system supplies deuterium and tritium from external sources and treats all tritiated fluids in ITER operation. Every operation and affairs is focused on the tritium inventory accountancy and the confinement. This paper describes the major fuel cycle processes and interfaces in the tritium plant in aspects of upcoming technologies for future hydrogen and/or hydrogen isotope utilization.

Joining Condition of Engineering Plastic for Car (자동차용 엔지니어링 플라스틱의 접합조건)

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Lee, Woo-Ram
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.96-102
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    • 2012
  • The current establishment of car engineering plastic piping polyethylene (PE) tube used as bonding state or part of the health or safety of fusion is very important. A part of these fusion methods to determine the soundness of the short-term trials and long-term tests can be largely classified. Typical tests included short-term strength, tensile strength, impact strength, compressive strength, resiliency and compression. Polyethylene (PE) pipes installed in the domestic terms of overall penetration rate of 45% has been used. However, polyethylene (PE) pipes have reliability problems, and these occurs mostly in part by defective welding. Therefore, the test is necessary for safety. Non-destructive methods (ultrasonic testing) are difficult to be used. Therefore, Polyethylene (PE) pipe are used. Fusion of thses materilas is necessary in these field however, its technical, and basic research has not been studied well. In this research, short-term strength of welding parts, its tensile strength, hardness, fatigue, and microstructure have been analyzed to find the optimum process conditions to improve mechanical properties.

Controlled Release of Nifedipine from Osmotic Pellet Based on Porous Membrane (니페디핀을 포함한 삼투성펠렛의 제조와 다공성막을 통한 약물방출제어)

  • Youn, Ju-Yong;Ku, Jeong;Kim, Byung-Soo;Kim, Moon-Suk;Lee, Bong;Khang, Gil-Son;Lee, Hai-Bang
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.328-333
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    • 2008
  • The osmotic delivery systems are based on osmosis. The transverse diffusion of water through a porous membrane from a medium with a low osmotic pressure to a medium with a high osmotic pressure. Nifedipine tablet dosage forms of Procardia $XL^{(R)}$(Pfizer) and $Adalat^{(R)}$(Bayer) are commercialized systems of this type that push-pull osmotic tablet operates successfully in delivering water-insoluble drugs. We prepared osmotic pellet system by fluidized bed coating method, and model-drug used nifedipine. The osmotic pellet system was composed of the core material. the swelling and osmotic pressure layer, the drug coating layer, and the porous membrane. This work is performed to investigate the effect of different factors, such as composition and thickness of membrane. The osmotic pellet has been successfully prepared by fluidized bed coating technology. The drug release behavior depended on the increase of CA ratio and thickness in porous membrane. The morphology of the osmotic pellet before and after the dissolution test were observed by SEM. In conclusion, we found that the drug release of osmotic pellet depended on the composition and coating thickness of porous membrane.

Excited State Dynamics of Curcumin and Solvent Hydrogen Bonding

  • Yang, Il-Seung;Jin, Seung-Min;Kang, Jun-Hee;Ramanathan, Venkatnarayan;Kim, Hyung-Min;Suh, Yung-Doug;Kim, Seong-Keun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.spc8
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    • pp.3090-3093
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    • 2011
  • Curcumin is a natural product with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal functions. As it is known that the excited state intramolecular hydrogen transfer of curcumin are related to its medicinal antioxidant mechanism, we investigated its excited state dynamics by using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in an effort to understand the molecule's therapeutic effect in terms of its photophysics and photochemistry. We found that stronger intermolecular hydrogen bonding with solvents weakens the intramolecular hydrogen bonding and decelerates the dynamical process of the enolic hydrogen. Exceptions are found in methanol and ethylene glycol due to their nature as simultaneous hydrogen bonding donor-acceptor and high viscosity solvent, respectively.

Role of Radio Frequency and Microwaves in Magnetic Fusion Plasma Research

  • Park, Hyeon K.
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.169-177
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    • 2017
  • The role of electromagnetic (EM) waves in magnetic fusion plasma-ranging from radio frequency (RF) to microwaves-has been extremely important, and understanding of EM wave propagation and related technology in this field has significantly advanced magnetic fusion plasma research. Auxiliary heating and current drive systems, aided by various forms of high-power RF and microwave sources, have contributed to achieving the required steady-state operation of plasmas with high temperatures (i.e., up to approximately 10 keV; 1 eV=10000 K) that are suitable for future fusion reactors. Here, various resonance values and cut-off characteristics of wave propagation in plasmas with a nonuniform magnetic field are used to optimize the efficiency of heating and current drive systems. In diagnostic applications, passive emissions and active sources in this frequency range are used to measure plasma parameters and dynamics; in particular, measurements of electron cyclotron emissions (ECEs) provide profile information regarding electron temperature. Recent developments in state-of-the-art 2D microwave imaging systems that measure fluctuations in electron temperature and density are largely based on ECE. The scattering process, phase delays, reflection/diffraction, and the polarization of actively launched EM waves provide us with the physics of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and transport physics.

COMMISSIONING RESULT OF THE KSTAR HELIUM REFRIGERATION SYSTEM

  • Park, Dong-Seong;Chang, Hyun-Sik;Joo, Jae-Joon;Moon, Kyung-Mo;Cho, Kwang-Woon;Kim, Yang-Soo;Bak, Joo-Shik;Cho, Myeon-Chul;Kwon, Il-Keun;Andrieu, Frederic;Beauvisage, Jerome;Desambrois, Stephane;Fauve, Eric
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.467-476
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    • 2008
  • To keep the superconducting (SC) magnet coils of KSTAR at proper operating conditions, not only the coils but also other cold components, such as thermal shields (TS), magnet structures, SC bus-lines (BL), and current leads (CL) must be maintained at their respective cryogenic temperatures. A helium refrigeration system (RRS) with an exergetic equivalent cooling power of 9 kW at 4.5 K without liquid nitrogen ($LN_2$) pre-cooling has been manufactured and installed. The main components of the KST AR helium refrigeration system (HRS) can be classified into the warm compression system (WCS) and the cryogenic devices according to the operating temperature levels. The process helium is compressed from 1 bar to 22 bar passing through the WCS and is supplied to cryogenic devices. The main components of cryogenic devices are consist of cold box (C/B) and distribution box (D/B). The C/B cool-down and make the various cryogenic helium for the KSTAR Tokamak and the various cryogenic helium is distributed by the D/B as per the KSTAR requirement. In this proceeding, we will present the commissioning results of the KSTAR HRS. Circuits which can simulate the thermal loads and pressure drops corresponding to the cooling channels of each cold component of KSTAR have been integrated into the helium distribution system of the HRS. Using those circuits, the performance and the capability of the HRS, to fulfill the mission of establishing the appropriate operating condition for the KSTAR SC magnet coils, have been successfully demonstrated.

Fuzzy systems, neural networks and genetic algorithms

  • Lee, Hyung-Kwang;Lee, Jee-Hyong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 1999.10b
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    • pp.327-332
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    • 1999
  • Fuzzy systems, neural networks and genetic algorithms have different origins and thus have differently developed their own unique characteristics. These characteristics can be used as a good complement to the others. Therefore, many researches have been devoted to not only these techniques but also fusion of them. This paper briefly summarizes these three techniques and surveys the researches on fusion of them.

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Expression of a Bovine ${\beta}$-Casein/Human Lysozyme Fusion Gene in the Mammary Gland of Transgenic Mice

  • Lee, Woon-Kyu;Kim, Sun-Jung;Hong, Seung-Beom;Lee, Tae-Hoon;Han, Yong-Mahn;Yoo, Ook-Joon;Im, Kyung-Soon;Lee, Kyung-Kwang
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.413-417
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    • 1998
  • Transgenic mice containing a bovine ${\beta}-Casein/Human$ lysozyme fusion gene (pBZ) were generated in order to produce human lysozyme in their milk. The expression vector was a quadripartite fusion consisting of a 2 kb upstream DNA of the bovine ${\beta}-casein$ gene, human lysozyme gene, intron II of the rabbit ${\beta}-globin$ gene, and the polyadenylation/termination signals of SV40 DNA. Fertilized mouse zygotes were microinjected with pBZ, then transferred into the oviduct of foster mothers. Out of 20 mice born, 11 survived until postweaning and three were identified as positivetransgenic by Southern blot analysis (one male and two females). The founder mice were mated to BCFl mice to produce transgenic progeny. It was confirmed by RT-PCR and Northern blot analyses that the transgene was specifically expressed in the mammary gland of the founder mice. Furthermore, the artificial introns within the transgenic RNA was proven to be correctly spliced out as judged by RT-PCR analysis. These results indicated that transgenic mice generated in this study properly expressed the human lysozyme RNA in their mammary gland.

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Establishment of Model for the Human Resource Development in RI-Biomics Field (RI-Biomics 분야 인력양성 모델 정립)

  • Yeom, Yu-sun;Shin, Woo-Ho;Hwang, Young-Muk;Park, Tai-Jin;Park, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.7 no.2_3
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    • pp.209-219
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    • 2013
  • RI-Biomics field comes into the limelight as a new fusion radiation technology. These rapid development of RI-Biomics cause the necessity of establishment of a new methodical education program model for consistent training of professional manpower in RI-ADME, Biomics field. But domestic current status is not satisfied to training human resource development in RI-Biomics. Actually domestic educational organization related to RI-Biomics just run educational programs oriented basic theory, so practical and fusion education are not existed nowadays for preliminary RI-Biomics expert. Therefore we established a new education program model for educate of the expert in RI-Biomics field to overcome current problem about the route of knowledge that has more monotonous and concentrated tendency and non-professional education. To improve universality and practicality, we conduct education-training model survey about domestic and foreign country. This new human resource development model will contribute to fostering new expert in RI-Biomics field.