• Title/Summary/Keyword: optimization problems

Search Result 2,423, Processing Time 0.026 seconds

A study on the Diminishing Manufacturing Source and Material Shortages Management Cost Analysis to Select Optimization Alternatives (부품단종관리 비용분석을 통한 최적화 대안 수립)

  • Park, Kwang-Hyo;Shim, Bo-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
    • /
    • v.21 no.4
    • /
    • pp.311-316
    • /
    • 2020
  • The main cause of DMSMS is the rapid replacement cycle and short life cycle of parts, according to the development of science, compared to the long life cycle of weapons systems. In particular, the problem of the supply and demand of such parts becomes even more acute during the operation maintenance phase after the mass production and power generation stage. To eliminate DMSMS problems that arise continuously from development to the operation of weapon systems and select the most cost-effective countermeasures to obsolescence, this paper suggests a standard to determine the appropriate time for quantitative performance improvement by conducting total life cycle cost analysis. For such purpose, this study examined the domestic and overseas cost analysis methods and applied it to single domestic weapon system to verify the research. This study responds to the issue of discontinuing components and helps reduce the total life cycle cost of military products.

Implementation of Unsupervised Nonlinear Classifier with Binary Harmony Search Algorithm (Binary Harmony Search 알고리즘을 이용한 Unsupervised Nonlinear Classifier 구현)

  • Lee, Tae-Ju;Park, Seung-Min;Ko, Kwang-Eun;Sung, Won-Ki;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
    • /
    • v.23 no.4
    • /
    • pp.354-359
    • /
    • 2013
  • In this paper, we suggested the method for implementation of unsupervised nonlinear classification using Binary Harmony Search (BHS) algorithm, which is known as a optimization algorithm. Various algorithms have been suggested for classification of feature vectors from the process of machine learning for pattern recognition or EEG signal analysis processing. Supervised learning based support vector machine or fuzzy c-mean (FCM) based on unsupervised learning have been used for classification in the field. However, conventional methods were hard to apply nonlinear dataset classification or required prior information for supervised learning. We solved this problems with proposed classification method using heuristic approach which took the minimal Euclidean distance between vectors, then we assumed them as same class and the others were another class. For the comparison, we used FCM, self-organizing map (SOM) based on artificial neural network (ANN). KEEL machine learning datset was used for simulation. We concluded that proposed method was superior than other algorithms.

Analysis of Trace Levels of Lodinated Trihalomethanes in Water Using Headspace - GC/ECD (Headspace - GC/ECD를 이용한 수중의 미량 요오드계 트리할로메탄류 분석)

  • Son, Hee-Jong;Song, Mi-Jung;Kim, Kyung-A;Yoom, Hoon-Sik;Choi, Jin-Taek
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
    • /
    • v.36 no.1
    • /
    • pp.35-41
    • /
    • 2014
  • Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed as a results of the reaction of residual chlorine, used as a disinfectant in drinking water, with the organic matter in raw water. Although chlorinated and brominated THMs are the most common disinfection byproducts (DBPs) reported, iodinated THMs (I-THMs) can be formed when iodide is present in raw water. I-THMs have been usually associated with several medicinal or pharmaceutical taste and odor problems and is a potential health concern since they have been reported to be more toxic than their brominated and chlorinated analogs. Currently, there is no published standard analytical method for I-THMs in water. An automated headspace-gas chromatography/electron capture detector (GC/ECD) technique was developed for routine analysis of 10 THMs including 6 I-THMs in water samples. The optimization of the method is discussed. The limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantification (LOQ) range from 12 ng/L to 56 ng/L and from 38 ng/L to 178 ng/L for 10 THMs, respectively. Matrix effects in river water, sea water and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) final effluent water were investigated and it was shown that the method is suitable for the analysis of trace levels of I-THMs, in a wide range of waters. The method developed in the present study has the advantage of being rapid, simple and sensitive.

An Optimization Model and Heuristic Algorithms for Multi-Ring Design in Fiber-Optic Networks (광전송망에서의 다중링 설계를 위한 최적화 모형 및 휴리스틱 알고리즘)

  • 이인행;이영옥;정순기
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
    • /
    • v.25 no.1B
    • /
    • pp.15-30
    • /
    • 2000
  • The important considerations in the design of fiber-optic networks are reliability and survivability preparing against a failure. The SDH(Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), the international standard of optical transmission, offers several network reconfiguration methods that enable network to be automatically restored from failure. One of the methods is the SHR(Self Healing Ring), which is a ring topology system. Most network providers have constructed their backbone networks with SHR architecture since it can provide survivability economically. The network architecture has eventually evolved into a multi-ring network comprised of interconnected rings. This paper addresses multi-ring network design problems is to minimize ring-construction cost. This problem can be formulated with MIP(mixed integer programming) model. However, it is difficult to solve the model within reasonable computing time on a large scale network because the model is NP-complete. Furthermore, in practice we should consider the problem of routing demands on rings to minimize total cost. This routing problem involves multiplex bundling at the intermediate nodes. A family of heuristic algorithms is presented for this problem. These algorithms include gateway selection and routing of inter-ring demands as well as load balancing on single rings. The developed heuristic algorithms are applied to some network provider's regional and long-distance transmission networks. We show an example of ring design and compare it with another ring topology design. Finally, we analysis the effect bundling.

  • PDF

Titanium Geology and Metallurgical Processes from Applied Petrologic Viewpoints

  • Park, Won Choon
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
    • /
    • v.11 no.3
    • /
    • pp.89-98
    • /
    • 1978
  • Mineralogy, beneficiation, and processes of titanium ores are reviewed from petrographic viewpoints. The most important titanium minerals are ilmenite ($FeTiO_3$) and rutile ($TiO_2$). Ilmenite will play major role :for raw material, because rutile are rapidly diminishing. Thus, there is a need to develope a successful process for producing high grade Ti02 from ilmenite. Commercial, as well as R and D processes to treat more abundant ilmenite ores fall in three general classess: 1. Iron in ilmenite is partially or completely reduced and separated either physically or chemically. 2. Iron is reduced to ferrous state and chemically leached away from the titanium. 3. Ore is treated to make chlorides either selectively or with subsequent separation and purification of $TiC_4$. Routes and efficiencies of these process technologies are primarily influenced by the particular ore deposit to be mined and secondly by environmental considerations. One deposit parameters which influence ilmenite process technologies are: 1. Complexity of microtextures of ilmenite intergrown with Fe-oxide minerals. 2. Composition of concentrates; ilmenites contain minor amounts of substituted Mg, Mn, and V. These elements plus iron and gangue minerals can cause difficulties to complete reactions, substantial acid consumption, difficulties of removing waste solids, and waste disposal problems. Major contributions to be made by petrologists for process optimization are: characterization and interpretation of compositional and physical changes of raw materials and solids derived from process streams. These informations can play significant role in selecting and improving process steps for titania production.

  • PDF

A Novel Fast and High-Performance Image Quality Assessment Metric using a Simple Laplace Operator (단순 라플라스 연산자를 사용한 새로운 고속 및 고성능 영상 화질 측정 척도)

  • Bae, Sung-Ho;Kim, Munchurl
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
    • /
    • v.21 no.2
    • /
    • pp.157-168
    • /
    • 2016
  • In image processing and computer vision fields, mean squared error (MSE) has popularly been used as an objective metric in image quality optimization problems due to its desirable mathematical properties such as metricability, differentiability and convexity. However, as known that MSE is not highly correlated with perceived visual quality, much effort has been made to develop new image quality assessment (IQA) metrics having both the desirable mathematical properties aforementioned and high prediction performances for subjective visual quality scores. Although recent IQA metrics having the desirable mathematical properties have shown to give some promising results in prediction performance for visual quality scores, they also have high computation complexities. In order to alleviate this problem, we propose a new fast IQA metric using a simple Laplace operator. Since the Laplace operator used in our IQA metric can not only effectively mimic operations of receptive fields in retina for luminance stimulus but also be simply computed, our IQA metric can yield both very fast processing speed and high prediction performance. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed IQA metric, our method is compared to some state-of-the-art IQA metrics. The experimental results showed that the proposed IQA metric has the fastest running speed compared the IQA methods except MSE under comparison. Moreover, our IQA metric achieves the best prediction performance for subjective image quality scores among the state-of-the-art IQA metrics under test.

Improvement in the Dispersion Stability of Iron Oxide (Magnetite, Fe3O4) Particles with Polymer Dispersant Inject (고분자 분산제 주입을 통한 철산화물(Magnetite, Fe3O4) 입자의 분산 안정성 향상)

  • Song, Geun Dong;Kim, Mun Hwan;Lee, Yong Taek;Maeng, Wan Young
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
    • /
    • v.24 no.6
    • /
    • pp.656-662
    • /
    • 2013
  • The iron oxide ($Fe_3O_4$) particles in the coolant of the secondary system of a nuclear power plant reduce the heat transfer performance or induce corrosion on the surface of the heat transfer tube. To prevent these problems, we conducted a study to improve the dispersion stability of iron oxide using polymeric dispersant injection in simulated secondary system water. The three kinds of anionic polymers containing carboxyl groups were selected. The dispersion characteristics of the iron oxide particles with the polymeric dispersants were evaluated by performing a settling test and measuring the transmission, the zeta potential, and the hydrodynamic particle size of the colloid solutions. Polymeric dispersants had a significant impact on the iron oxide dispersion stability in an aqueous solution. While the dispersant injection tended to improve the dispersion stability, the dispersion stability of iron oxide did not increase linearly with an increase in the dispersant concentration. This non-linearity is due to the agglomerations between the iron oxide particles above a critical dispersant concentration. The effect of the dispersant on the dispersion stability improvement was significant when the dispersant concentration ratio (ppm, dispersant/magnetite) was in the range of 0.1 to 0.01. This suggests that the optimization of dispersant concentration is required to maximize the iron oxide removal effect with the dispersant injection considering the applied environments, the iron oxide concentration and the concentration ratio of dispersant to iron oxide.

A Study on the Implementation of an Agile SFFS Based on 5DOF Manipulator (5축 매니퓰레이터를 이용한 쾌속 임의형상제작시스템의 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Seung-Woo;Jung Yong-Rae
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
    • /
    • v.42 no.1
    • /
    • pp.1-11
    • /
    • 2005
  • Several Solid Freeform Fabrication Systems(SFFS) are commercialized in a few companies for rapid prototyping. However, they have many technical problems including the limitation of applicable materials. A new method of agile prototyping is required for the recent manufacturing environments of multi-item and small quantity production. The objectives of this paper include the development of a novel method of SFFS, the CAFL/sup VM/(Computer Aided Fabrication of Lamination for Various Material), and the manufacture of the various material samples for the certification of the proposed system and the creation of new application areas. For these objectives, the technologies for a highly accurate robot path control, the optimization of support structure, CAD modeling, adaptive slicing was implemented. However, there is an important problem with the conventional 2D lamination method. That is the inaccuracy of 3D model surface, which is caused by the stair-type surface generated in virtue of vertical 2D cutting. In this paper, We design the new control algorithm that guarantees the constant speed, precise positioning and tangential cutting on the 5DOF SFFS. We develop the tangential cutting algorithm to be controlled with constant speed and successfully implemented in the 5DOF CAFL/sup VM/ system developed in this paper. Finally, this paper confirms its high-performance through the experimental results from the application into CAFL/sup VM/ system.

Measurement of Viscosity Behavior in In-situ Anionic Polymerization of ε-caprolactam for Thermoplastic Reactive Resin Transfer Molding (반응액상성형에서 ε-카프로락탐의 음이온 중합에 따른 점도 거동 평가)

  • Lee, Jae Hyo;Kang, Seung In;Kim, Sang Woo;Yi, Jin Woo;Seong, Dong Gi
    • Composites Research
    • /
    • v.33 no.2
    • /
    • pp.39-43
    • /
    • 2020
  • Recently, fabrication process of thermoplastic polyamide-based composites with recyclability as well as impact, chemical, and abrasion resistance have been widely studied. In particular, thermoplastic reactive resin transfer molding (TRTM) in which monomer with low viscosity is injected and in-situ polymerized inside mold has received a great attention, because thermoplastic melts are hard to impregnate fiber preform due to their very high viscosity. However, it is difficult to optimize the processing conditions because of high reactivity and sensitivity to external environments of the used monomer, ε-caprolactam. In this study, viscosity as an important process parameter in TRTM was measured during in-situ anionic polymerization of ε-caprolactam and the solutions for problems caused by high polymerization rate and sensitivity to moisture and oxygen were suggested. Reliability of the improved measurement technique was verified by comparing the viscosity behavior at various environmental conditions including humidity and atmosphere, and it is expected to be helpful for optimization of TRTM process.

Development of the Pre-treatment Technology for LNG-FPSO (LNG-FPSO용 천연가스 전처리 기술 개발)

  • Jee, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Sun-Keun;Jung, Je-Ho;Min, Kwang-Joon;Kim, Mi-Jin
    • Plant Journal
    • /
    • v.9 no.3
    • /
    • pp.38-42
    • /
    • 2013
  • Submarine gas fields have focused because of the increasing fuel cost, the environmental regulations, and the safety & NIMBY problems. LNG-FPSO which is available for acid gas removal, recovery of the condensate & LPG and Liquefaction in topside process is one of high technology offshore structures. On the other hands, it is necessary to verify the pre-treatment efficiency by the ship motion and to apply to the design for LNG-FPSO. This study is to develop the pre-treatment technology for LNG-FPSO as taking account to the process efficiency by ship motion effects and the area optimization. Based on the simulation results, it founds that hybrid process shows the low circulate rate, the low heat duty and the small size of column dimensions compared to typical amine process. It will be verified the process efficiency in the various conditions by sea states as performing the 6-DOF motion test and CFD simulation.

  • PDF