• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.213-219
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• 2018

Purpose: Satisfying the environmental regulations, the automobile manufacturer should install urea tank, which is a key component of the urea system. However, due to the limitations of existing layouts, it may be mounted which is disadvantageous to vibration and shock resulting in durability robust. analyze the factors affecting the durability life of urea tank and the vibration characteristics through RLDA. In this study, clarify the limit of the current practice test method of urea tank and analyze the possibility of the new vibration test method in the system unit reflecting the characteristics of actual use condition. Methods: Analyzing the factors affecting the durability life of urea tank and the vibration characteristics through PSD & FDS of RLDA that actual vehicle driving data on durability test road. Results: The limit of the uniform width/single frequency test method of urea tank is clarifed and the positive prospects of the new test method are discovered. Conclusion: The vibration durability test with PSD method in system unit effectively reflects the magnitude and frequency characteristics of field vibration.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to propose the basic data for the development of a sensor capable of simultaneously measuring the liquid-level, concentration and temperature of a urea tank using ultrasonic and electrical conductivity sensors for diesel vehicles with a urea-SCR system. It was found that the liquid-level of the urea tank using the ultrasonic sensor showed a good linearity with the actual liquid-level, and the urea concentration maintained good linearity in the range of 32.5 wt% to 10 wt%. It was an effective measurement of urea concentration to use the electrical conductivity sensor in the temperature range of $-10{\sim}22^{\circ}C$ and to use the ultrasonic sensor at $22^{\circ}C$ or more. Simultaneous measurement of concentration, liquid-level and temperature of the urea tank will be possible by attaching the electrical conductivity sensor and the ultrasonic sensor (split-type) to one sensor together.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2009

Urea-SCR system, the selective catalytic reduction using urea as reducing agent, is a powerful technique to reduce nitrogen oxides(NOx) emitted from diesel engines. However, a tank of urea(32.5 wt%)-water solution can be frozen in low ambient temperature levels of below $-11^{\circ}C$. The purpose of this study is to understand freezing and melting phenomena of the urea-water solution, and its can be applied to get the urea-water solution from frozen it within 5 minutes after cold start. Factors considered were the type of heater and the urea tank shape. From the results, it was found that melting volume of cartridge heater B during 5 minutes of heating period was 83ml when supplying electric power of 150W. Horizontal heater B, which was put in the narrow bottom space of the tank T1, had fast melting characteristics.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2020

Recently, when a new component of construction equipment is designed, a stamping process capable of producing parts having high appearance quality and precision has been gaining attention. However, in general, as it is developed based on existing parts made by welding metal sheets and tubes, frequent to die modification occurs, which increases the time and cost of developing new parts. Thus, it is necessary to reduce the cost by shortening the die development period. In this study, a stamping process was designed for the urea tank cover, which is a part for excavators, to reduce the die development period through sheet metal forming analysis. The stamping process was designed by determining the blank holding force after selecting the initial blank shape and size. The round value at the corner was modified such that formability is ensured. After selecting process parameters, the thickness reduction rate and spring-back effect were reviewed.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the best melting condition with various winding number of a heating pipe, supplying quantity of engine coolant and coolant temperature at the inlet of the heating pipe. Also, it is to suggest getting method of an appropriate quantity of the agent for the urea-SCR system within 10 minutes. For this matter, this study identifies the temperature distribution of inside of urea-tank while it is frozen at the low temperature condition, and suggests the best melting condition of the frozen urea within 10 minutes. From the results, it was found that 2L of melted urea was obtained by the coolant flow rate of 200L/hr at $70^{\circ}C$ for 10 minutes from the start of engine operating.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2014

Urea-SCR system is the selective catalytic reduction to reduce nitrogen oxides ($NO_x$) emitted from diesel vehicles. The objective of this study is numerical analysis of 3-dimensional unsteady melting problems of frozen urea by using an electric heater. It can be applied to determine capacity of power with respect to time and the location of the urea suction pipe in urea storage tank. The study includes the change of liquid volume fraction, temperature profiles and a influence of natural convection by using the commercial software STAR-CCM+(v7.06). The accuracy of the numerical analysis is estimated by comparisons with experimental data. After validation, a numerical analysis for freezing urea is conducted with four different heating power. From the results, it was found that relation of velocity of phase interface and amount of melting urea by increasing heating power in a container. There is also a difference in trend between velocity of phase interface and amounts of melting urea because of effect of natural convection.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.717-724
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• 2013

Urea-SCR은 동절기, 북유럽과 북미지역과 같은 $-20^{\circ}C$ 이하의 환경에서 요소수가 동결되는 문제점을 해결해야 한다. 따라서 이러한 요소수 저장탱크에 해동 시스템을 적용하여 시동 초기, 요소수를 적정 시간 내 분사하기 위한 기술의 확보가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 저장탱크 내 요소수의 동결현상과 냉각수 순환 가열방식을 적용한 해동현상에 대하여 상용 소프트웨어인 Fluent 6.3을 이용하여 3차원 비정상상태 수치해석을 수행하였다. 이를 통하여 요소수의 동결 및 해동과정 중 나타난 온도분포, 상경계면, 그리고 액상분율을 분석하여 열전달 특성을 고찰하였다. 결론적으로 요소수의 동결은 저장탱크 벽면으로부터 중심부로 이루어졌으며, 해동현상은 순환 파이프와 인접할수록 요소수의 상변화가 빠르게 진행하였다. 또한, 냉각수의 $70^{\circ}C$, $200{\ell}/h$ 조건에서 $1{\ell}$의 액상 요소수를 얻는데 약 190초의 시간이 필요하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2012

Urea-SCR system, which converts nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and water in the presence of a reducing agent, usually AdBlue urea solution, is known as one of the powerful NOx reduction systems for mobile as well as stationary applications. For its consistent and reliable operation in mobile applications, such various problems as transient injection, ammonia slip, and freezing in cold weather have to be resolved. In this work, therefore, numerical study on three-dimensional unsteady heating problems were analyzed to understand the melting and heat transfer characteristics such as urea liquid volume fraction, temperature profiles and generated natural convection behavior in urea solution by using the commercial software Fluent 6.3. After validating by comparing numerical and experimental data with pure gallium melting phenomena, numerical experiment for urea melting is conducted with three different coolant heating models named CH1, 2, and 3, respectively. Finally, it can be found that the CH3 model, in which more coolant is concentrated on the lower part of the urea tank, has relatively better melting capability than others in terms of urea quantity of $1{\ell}$ for start-up schedule.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2009

토지이용에서 보았을 때 제주도는 해안을 따라 넓게 분포하는 밭과 과수원의 화학비료와, 중산간 지대 방목지의 가축분뇨 및 산발적으로 존재하는 주거지역의 생활하수에 의한 질산태 질소 오염이 추정되었다. 질소동위원소 분석이 이들 오염원들을 구분하기 위하여 사용되었으며, 주요 오염원인 요소, 유안, 축분정화조, 축분유기질 비료에 대해 측정된 $\delta^{15}N$ 값을 토대로 화학비료에 의한 오염은 5‰ 이하, 생활하수 혹은 가축분뇨에 의한 오염은 10‰ 이상으로 기준을 정하였다. 제주도 전역에 걸친 33개 관정의 질산태 질소 동위원소 분석결과는 대부분의 관정이 화학비료에 의해 오염되었으며, 일부 관정이 가축분뇨와 생활하수에 의해 영향받았음을 나타내었다. 이러한 결과는 질소동위원소분석이 토지이용분류로는 판별하기 어려운 오염원 추정에 매우 유용한 수단이 될 수 있음을 나타낸다. 특히 좁은 지역에서 토지이용이 다양하게 이루어 지고 있는 경우에 중요한 오염원 추정 수단이 될 수 있음을 경기, 강원 지역의 지하수 분석을 통해 확인할 수 있었으며, 또한 두 가지 이상의 오염원이 동시에 작용할 수 있고 그 기여도가 시기별로 달라질 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2000

An improved method of refolding recombinant human proinsulin from E. coli was presented. It was based on a two-stage stirred tank reactor in which denatured proinsulin-s-sulfonate was mixed instantaneously with a reaction buffer in the first stage reactor, and then fed to the second stage reactor. The mixture was stirred further for a total of 30h in the second stage reactor. In this system, unfavorable effects present due to the increase in reaction volume and protein concentration for protein refolding, which becomes significant in a large-scale operation, were avoided. Refolding yields of over 80% was obtained for achieving reaction volume of upto 50 l at protein concentration of 1 mg/ml. The optimum urea concentration was 1M. Refolding yield at the 1-1 reaction volume and protein concentration of 0.5mg/ml was increased about 2.5-fold, compared to that in a batch reactor. By increasing protein concentration in a two-stage refolding reaction, the cost for insulin production could be reduced, therefore, making this process economical.