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Characterization of Length change and Free-Thaw Resistance of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (재생골재콘크리트의 길이변화 및 동결융해 저항성에 대한 실험적 특성 고찰)

  • Sim, Jong-Sung;Park, Cheol-Woo;Park, Sung-Jae;Kim, Kil-Jung;Kim, Tae-Gwang
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2006.05b
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 2006
  • Social and environmental pressures draw greater significance on the recycling of the waste. Particularly, waste concrete is particularly crucial among the construction wastes in terms of conservation of natural construction resources as well as disposal crisis. The technology to recycle the waste concrete has been improved. This study has various replacement levels of natural fine aggregate with recycled fine aggregate while coarse aggregate is completely replaced with the recycled coarse aggregate and herein fundamental properties investigated include compressive strength, shrinkage and dynamic modulus of elasticity. As a result, it is anticipated that the recycled aggregate concrete can be successfully applied to structural concrete members provided a proper recycling process, mix design and curing method are practiced.

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Analysis of Residents Behavior for the Sustainable Community - How They Produce and Dispose Waste - (지속가능한 도시만들기를 위한 거주자의 행태분석- 쓰레기 발생과 처리방법을 중심으로 -)

  • Kwak, In-Suk
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.64-68
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    • 2009
  • This study is done in order to find the solutions that we are facing on social and ecological crisis around the world. The basic survey was done on college students who will mostly become city residents in the future. Students collect information about the amount of the waste and the way of disposition for a week. The analysis how they produce and dispose waste will show what influence their behavioral decisions. The findings are first, students are very conscious of the importance of environmental conservation. But they value little and they don't have proper knowledge. Second, sex was the decisive factor, women tend to behave eco-friendly. But the more they are conscious about environment, the less they behave eco-friendly. The more they spend allowances, the less they are conscious of environment. Third, they recycle waste at home during the weekend, but not during weekdays at school because there is no recycling bin or they are not economically responsible.

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Numerical Investigation for Combustion Characteristics of Vacuum Residue in a Test Furnace

  • Sreedhara, S.;Huh, Kang-Y.;Park, Ho-Young
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2006
  • It has become inevitable to search for alternative fuels due to severe energy crisis these days. Use of alternative fuels, which are typically of lower quality, tends to increase environmental pollution, including formation of nitrogen oxides (NOx). In this paper performance of vacuum residue has been investigated experimentally as well as numerically in typical operating conditions of a furnace. Heat release reaction is modeled as sequential steps of devolatilization, simplified gas phase reaction and char oxidation as that for pulverized coal. Thermal and fuel NOx are predicted by conditional estimation of elementary reaction rates and are compared against measured experimental data. On the overall reasonable agreement is achieved for spatial distributions of major species, temperature and NOx for all test cases.

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Study on the Smart Charging for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (플러그인 하이브리드 전기자동차의 스마트 충전에 관한 연구)

  • Roh, Chul-Woo;Kim, Min-Soo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.349-352
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    • 2008
  • The most concerning issue in these days is the energy crisis by increasing threat of global warming and depletion of natural resources. In the situations, the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) is drawing attention from many countries for the next generation's car which has higher fuel efficiency and lower environmental impact. This paper presents simulation results about the limit capacity of central power-grid which doesn't have enough surplus electric power for charging PHEVs. Therefore, this paper also presents a smart charging system that can charge the PHEVs with a function of distributing demands of charging. The smart charging system is an agent facility between the government and consumer, which can recommend the best time to charge the battery of PHEVs by the lowest energy cost. This function of choosing time-slots is the technical system for the government which wants to control the consumption rate of electric power for PHEVs. Finally, this paper presents the economic feasibility of PHEVs from the two kinds of price system, midnight electric price and home electric price.

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Animal Biotechnology in Bioindustry : Why and How?

  • You, Seungkwon
    • Proceedings of the KSAR Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.3-4
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    • 2001
  • Normal cells proliferate generally a limited number doublings in culture and only rarely have they been shown to overcome cellular senescence and crisis stages, and immortalize spontaneously. I have established a number of non-chemically and non-chemically immortalized embryo fibroblastic (EF) cell lines in continuous cell culture. These include the spontaneously immortalized cell line, DF-1 and several immortal EF cell lines derived from various embryonic tissues. I have previously demonstrated that all of the immortal EF cells established have rapid cell proliferation capacity compared to primary EF cells, presumably due to the deregulation of cell cycle regulators such as p53, E2F-1 and the numerous cyclins. DF-1 cells, in particular, were shown to proliferate more rapidly under normal culture conditions compared to other immortal EF cells, implicating other mechanisms may be important for regulating their growth. The possible mechanism(s) underlying the accelerated growth of DF-1 cells will be addressed in this study. (omitted)

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Environmentally-Friendly Building for Environmental Improvement Development of Fashion Skin Technique and laser IT Converged Technology Projection Mapping (환경 개선을 위한 친환경 건축물 패션 스킨공법 및 레이져 IT융합기술 프로젝션 맵핑 개발)

  • Kim, Dae-Geon;Woo, Jong-Yeol;Kim, Jung-Woo;Cha, Yong-Myung;Lee, Dong-Oun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.181-182
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    • 2018
  • Decline in population and aging have led to the crisis of urban extinction, and the importance of urban regeneration has grown in the country. In addition to the meaning of redevelopment and reconstruction, the government will seek to secure sustainable living conditions, restore the economy, and restore social and cultural functions by utilizing the new technologies based on the efforts to restore the maximum cost to urban buildings and IT technologies.

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A Study on the Location Efficiency and the Development of Transit-Oriented Development Theory (TOD이론의 발전과 입지효율성에 관한 연구)

  • Kwack, Dong-Wha
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to analysis the concept of location efficiency, a base for the qualitative evaluation of TOD, and to propose the method of urban design for the improvement of location efficiency. Because of the environmental crisis by urbanization, sprawl and global warming, the importance of the solution through TOD has been increasing. For the future development of TOD, it becomes important to evaluate TOD qualitatively. From the study, it is grasped that location efficiency contains the concepts of value recapture, QoL and choice, financial return, and efficient regional land use and patterns. And the method of urban design for location efficiency is proposed as the followings: Form Based Zoning as land use plan, TOD and TOC model as node function, and street systems, mixed-use development, characteristic housing with various types, and networking of neighborhood facilities as place function.

Development Of Power Information Management System For Customer Power Manager and Consumer Participation Type Oriented (수용가 전력관리자와 일반 소비자 참여형 전력정보관리시스템 구축)

  • Jung, Hyung-Yong;Yoo, Sang-Bong;Lee, Ki-Chul;Lee, Cheo-Jick
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.3
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    • pp.480-484
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    • 2015
  • As the increasing national power crises due to various environmental factor, power market change is needed more developed and systemized DSM(Demand Side Management) search at DR market. To overcome national power crisis outbreaking every year and manage the eletric power reserve ratio, we need to construct and develop the electric safety manager and general public main oriented national power plant. For the advanced national power demand management system, it is required the application development like OpenAPI, Big Data Acquisition, Web/APP basd on ICT.

Physical Properties of Matrix with Replacement Ratio of Biomass Fly Ash Based on Cement (시멘트 기반 바이오매스 플라이애시 치환율에 따른 경화체의 물리적 특성)

  • Kim, Dae-Yeon;Cho, Eun-Seok;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.209-210
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    • 2019
  • Current international concerns are the energy crisis due to climate change and depletion of fossil fuels due to global warming. Korea has a very high dependency on energy imports 93%. In Korea, 63% of the country is forested, and a power plant using wood biomass is being built in Korea. Biomass fly ash, a by-product of biomass energy generation, is now being discarded. There is little research to utilize discarded biomass fly ash. Therefore, this study aims to solve the environmental problems, develop new mixed materials, improve the quality and utilize the biomass fly ash, which is a by-product of the industrial waste. As a result of the experiment, the flowability decreased as the replacement ratio of biomass fly ash increased. As the replacement ratio of biomass fly ash decreased, the amount of air content.

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Urgency of LiFePO4 as cathode material for Li-ion batteries

  • Guo, Kelvii Wei
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2015
  • The energy crisis involving depletion of fossil fuel resource is not the sole driving force for developing renewable energy technologies. Another driving force is the ever increasing concerns on the air quality of our planet, associated with the continuous and dramatic increase of the concentration of greenhouse gas (mainly carbon dioxide) emissions. The internal combustion engine is a major source of distributed $CO_2$ emissions caused by combustion of gasoline derived largely from fossil fuel. Another major source of $CO_2$ is the combustion of fossil fuels to produce electricity. New technologies for generating electricity from sources that do not emit $CO_2$, such as water, solar, wind, and nuclear, together with the advent of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and even all-electric vehicles (EVs), offer the potential of alleviating our present problem. Therefore, the relevant technologies in $LiFePO_4$ as cathode material for Li-ion batteries suitable to the friendly environment are reviewed aim to provide the vital information about the growing field for energies to minimize the potential environmental risks.