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Mechanisms of gas permeation through microporous membranes - A review

  • Hwang, Sun-Tak
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1995.09a
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 1995
  • A review is presented for various gas tranport mechanisms through microporous membranes of both polymeric and inorganic materials. Different transport modes manifest depending on the pore size and the flow regime, which is a function of pressure, temperature, and the inateraction between gas molecules and the pore walls. For microporous membranes whose pores are small and the intenal surface area huge, the surface diffusion becomes a significant factor. If the pores become even smaller, them the transport mechanism will be more of an activated diffusion type. When conditions are right capillary condensation will take place to create an enormous capillary pressure gradient, which will greatly enhance the permeation flux. At the same time the capillary condensate of the heavier component may block the membrane pores denying the passage of the lighter gas molecules. All of these phenomena will influence the separation of mixtures.

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Convective heat and mass transfer affected by aspect ratios for physical vapor transport crystal growth in two dimensional rectangular enclosures

  • Kim, Geug Tae;Kwon, Moo Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2018
  • Natural convection of a two dimensional laminar steady-state incompressible fluid flow in a rectangular enclosure has been investigated numerically for low aspect ratios with the physical vapor transport crystal growth. Results show that for aspect ratio (Ar = L/H) range of $0.1{\leq}Ar{\leq}1.5$, with the increase in Grashof number by one order of magnitude, the total mass flux is much augmented, and is exponentially decayed with the aspect ratio. Velocity and temperature profiles are presented at the mid-width of the rectangular enclosure. It is found that the effect of Grashof number on mass transfer is less significant when the enclosure is shallow (Ar = 0.1) and the influence of aspect ratio is stranger when the enclosure is tall and the Grashof number is high. Therefore, the convective phenomena are greatly affected by the variation of aspect ratios.

Importance of Backscattering Effects in Ballistic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Ring Structures

  • Shin, Min-Cheol;Park, Kyoung-Wan;Lee, Seong-Jae;Lee, El-Hang
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.301-313
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    • 1997
  • We have found that in the ballistic electron transport in a ring structure, the junction-backscattering contribution is critical for all the major features of the Aharonov-Bohm-type interference patterns. In particular, by considering the backscattering effect, we present new and clear interpretation about the physical origin of the secondary minima in the electrostatic Aharonov-Bohm effect and that of the h/2e oscillations when both the electric and magnetic potentials are present. We have devised a convenient scheme of expanding the conductance by the junction backscattering amplitude, which enables us to determine most important electron paths among infinitely many paths and to gain insight about their contributions to the interference patterns. Based on the scheme, we have identified various interesting interference phenomena in the ballistic ring structure and found that the backscattering effect plays a critical role in all of them.

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A Numerical Tidal Model of the Asan Bay (아산만(牙山灣)의 조석수치모형(潮汐數値模型))

  • Choi, Byung Ho
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 1990
  • A two-dimensional nonlinear tidal model of the Asan Bay has been formulated to examine the tide and related hydraulic phenomena. The $M_2$ tidal regime was first computed using the model and the model also was to derive the maximum bed stress and transport potential in the region. Preliminary assessment of relation between sediment transport and the maximum bed stress distribution determined from the model are described.

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CRITICALITY SAFETY OF GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL FOR HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES

  • Ahn, Joon-Hong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.489-504
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    • 2006
  • A review has been made for the previous studies on safety of a geologic repository for high-level radioactive wastes (HLW) related to autocatalytic criticality phenomena with positive reactivity feedback. Neutronic studies on geometric and materials configuration consisting of rock, water and thermally fissile materials and the radionuclide migration and accumulation studies were performed previously for the Yucca Mountain Repository and a hypothetical water-saturated repository for vitrified HLW. In either case, it was concluded that it would be highly unlikely for an autocatalytic criticality event to happen at a geologic repository. Remaining scenarios can be avoided by careful selection of a repository site, engineered-barrier design and conditioning of solidified HLW. Thus, criticality safety should be properly addressed in regulations and site selection criteria. The models developed for radiological safety assessment to obtain conservatively overestimated exposure dose rates to the public may not be used directly for the criticality safety assessment, where accumulated fissile materials mass needs to be conservatively overestimated. The models for criticality safety also require more careful treatment of geometry and heterogeneity in transport paths because a minimum critical mass is sensitive to geometry of fissile materials accumulation.

Study on Urban Temperature Prediction Method Using Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (라그랑지안 입자모델을 활용한 도시기온 예측기법의 연구)

  • Kim, Seogcheol;Yun, Jeongim
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • A high resolution model is proposed for calculating the temperature field of a large city, based upon a Lagrangian particle model. Utilizing the analogy between the heat and mass transport phenomena in turbulent flows, a Lagrangian particle model, originally developed for air pollutant dispersion problems, is adapted for simulating heat transport. In the model conceptual heat particles are released into the atmosphere from the heat sources and move along with the turbulent winds in accordance with the Markov process. The potential temperature assumed to be conserved along with heat particles serves as a tag, so the temperature fields can be deduced from the distribution of particles. The wind fields are constructed from a diagnostic meteorology model incorporating a morphological model designed for building flows. Test run shows the robustness of the modeling system.

불포화 토양내에서 가스상 오존 측정을 위한 광섬유센서의 적용

  • 정해룡;최희철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.111-114
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    • 2003
  • A new monitoring system has been developed for in-situ and realtime measurement of ozone transport in unsaturated porous media using a fiber optic sensor. The calibration of the fiber optic transflection dip probe (FOTDP) system was successfully carried out at various ozone concentrations using a column with length of 30 cm and diameter of 5 cm packed with glass beads, which don't react with gaseous ozone. The breakthrough curves (BTCs) of ozone was obtained by converting the normalized intensity into ozone concentration. The FOTDP system reflected the ideal transport phenomena of gas phase ozone at various flow rates. The FOTDP system worked well for in-situ monitoring of gas phase ozone at various water saturations and in presence of SOM. However, the FOTDP system did not measure the ozone concentration at more than 70% water saturation.

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Impact of mixer design to reactants mixing characteristics and gas-phase reactions in the mixing region of a hydrocarbon reformer (개질기 혼합영역 형상에 따른 반응물의 혼합도 및 가스상 반응특성에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Kim, Sunyoung;Bae, Joongmyeon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.99.1-99.1
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    • 2011
  • Reactant mixing has a critical role in ensuring reformate quality and an important design objective is to achieve sufficiently complete mixture of reactants. For that purpose it is required to understand the coupled transport-kinetics phenomena in the mixing region. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model was developed and validated in previous works. The mixing characteristics in various alternatives of a prototype mixing chamber were compared, and then a reduced reaction kinetics was applied to two extreme designs for investigating the impact of gas-phase reactions. Both designs did not reach threshold ethylene mole fraction of 0.001, but surprisingly more ethylene was generated in the design having better mixing characteristics. The presentation will deliver the development process of coupled transport and kinetics model briefly and the detailed information about the mixing characteristics and gas-phase reactions in two mixer designs.

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Spin Dependent Transport Phenomena for Annealed Co46Al19O35 Granular Thin Films

  • Jae-Geun Ha
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 1998
  • I have overviewed the change in GMR on annealing, in conjunction with the change in microstructure. The Co46Al19O35 granular thin films were annealed at 30$0^{\circ}C$ for various annealing time to change the microstructure. The magnitude of GMR decreases considerably with increasing annealing time, although the size of Co granules estimated from TEM observation show a small change. Parameter fits of magnetization curves and magnetoresistance curves to the Langevin function suggest that large clusters consisting of several small Co granules, which are coupled ferromagnetically, are related with the decrease of GMR on annealing. The temperature dependence of electrical resistivity ($\rho$) shows the relationship of log $\rho$ versus $T^{-1/2}$ for the sample annealed for 10 min., 1 hr. and 6 hrs. However, the sample annealed for 38 hrs. shows the relationship of log $\rho$ versus$ T^{-1/4},$ which represents a significant change in the transport mechanism.

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Development of Virtual Integrated Prototyping Simulation Environment for Plasma Chamber Analysis and Design (VIP-SEPCAD) (플라즈마 챔버의 특성 분석 및 최적 설계를 위한 가상의 시뮬레이션 환경 개발)

  • 김헌창;설용태
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.9-12
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes a newly developed simulation environment for analysis and design of a plasma processing chamber based on first principles including complicated physical and chemical interactions of plasma, fluid dynamics of neutrals, and transport phenomena of particles. Capabilities of our simulator, named VIP-SEPCAD (Virtual Integrated Prototyping Simulation Environment for Plasma Chamber Analysis and Design), are demonstrated through a two dimensional simulation of an oxygen plasma chamber. VIP-SEPCAD can provide plasma properties such as spatiotemporal profiles of plasma density and potential, electron temperature, ion flux and energy, etc. By coupling neutral and particle transport models with a three moment plasma model, VIP-SEPCAD can also predict spatiotemporal profiles of chemically reactive species and particles exist in plasma.

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