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Suggestions for Cost Improvement of High concentration Linked Treatment in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (하수처리장에서의 고농도 연계처리수에 대한 요금 개선 제안)

  • Lee, Jiwon;Gil, Kyungik
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.92-99
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    • 2020
  • Linked treatment refers to a system that relieves the burden of the business by linking high concentrations of wastewater such as human waste, manure, leachate, and other industrial wastewater to nearby municipal wastewater treatment plants(MWTPs). In 2018, 187 MWTPs, which are about 4.5% of the total domestic MWTPs, have implemented a linked treatment system, but local governments are having difficulties in operating sewage treatment due to lack of reasonable cost estimation standards. Therefore, we proposed an improvement plan to solve the problem in the calculation method that currently imposes linked wastewater. To this end, the effects and correlations of the linkage treatment system on the sewage treatment unit were analyzed, and among them, the main factors with the highest correlation were applied to the improvement plan. As a result, an improvement plan that improved three parts of the existing calculation method was presented, and the calculation method and the calculation case using the existing literature values were also presented. This can be used as a basis for future reference by local governments to implement linkage treatment, and to revise local sewerage ordinance and is believed to be helpful in operating a rational linkage system.

Analysis of Filtration Characteristics of Submerged Microfiltration Membranes for Rainwater Filtration (빗물여과를 위한 침지식 정밀여과막의 여과특성 해석)

  • Cho, Hyeongrak;Jung, Jungwoo;Sohn, Jinsik;Lee, Sangho;Chae, Soo Kwon
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2014
  • Rainwater harvesting is a process by which rainwater collected from rooftop or other catchment is purified so that the water can be directly or indirectly used by human beings for beneficial uses. As rainwater is increasingly considered for high quality purposes, membranes have gained an important place in rainwater treatment. It has advantages such as the production of high quality water, small footprint, and affordable energy consumption. Nevertheless, membrane fouling is regarded as a serious problem similar to the cases of water treatment and wastewater reclamation. In this study, we applied microfiltration (MF) membranes for rainwater treatment. In addition, a low pressure ultraviolet (UV) process was also use as a pretreatment to control notonly. To quantify the effect of UV on organic matters, both total organic carbon (TOC) and UV absorbance (UVA) were measured. Moreover, the effect of UV pretreatment on membrane fouling was investigated. Experimental results indicated that the pretreatment of membranes using LPUV was effective to control fouling of MF membranes only when the rainwater was contaminated by algae. This was attributed the reduction and modification of organics after UV treatments. It is likely that the UV/MF process is a promising option for water treatment in decentralized water treatment such as micro water grid systems.

Design of discriminant function for thick and thin coating from the white coating (백태 중 후태 및 박태 분류 판별함수 설계)

  • Choi, Eun-Ji;Kim, Keun-Ho;Ryu, Hyun-Hee;Lee, Hae-Jung;Kim, Jong-Yeol
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2007
  • Introduction: In Oriental medicine, the status of tongue is the important indicator to diagnose one's health, because it represents physiological and clinicopathological changes of inner parts of the body. The method of tongue diagnosis is not only convenient but also non-invasive, so tongue diagnosis is most widely used in Oriental medicine. By the way, since tongue diagnosis is affected by examination circumstances a lot, its performance depends on a light source, degrees of an angle, a medical doctor's condition etc. Therefore, it is not easy to make an objective and standardized tongue diagnosis. In order to solve this problem, in this study, we tried to design a discriminant function for thick and thin coating with color vectors of preprocessed image. Method: 52 subjects, who were diagnosed as white-coated tongue, were involved. Among them, 45 subjects diagnosed as thin coating and 7 subjects diagnosed as thick coating by oriental medical doctors, and then their tongue images were obtained from a digital tongue diagnosis system. Using those acquired tongue images, we implemented two steps: Preprocessing and image analyzing. The preprocessing part of this method includes histogram equalization and histogram stretching at each color component, especially, intensity and saturation. It makes the difference between tongue substance and tongue coating was more visible, so that we can separate tongue coating easily. Next part, we analyzed the characteristic of color values and found the threshold to divide tongue area into coating area. Then, from tongue coating image, it is possible to extract the variables that were important to classify thick and thin coating. Result : By statistical analysis, two significant vectors, associated with G, were found, which were able to describe the difference between thick and thin coating very well. Using these two variables, we designed the discriminant function for coating classification and examined its performance. As a result, the overall accuracy of thick and thin coating classification was 92.3%. Discussion : From the result, we can expect that the discriminant function is applicable to other coatings in a similar way. Also, it can be used to make an objective and standardized diagnosis.

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An Exploratory Research on Learning Competency based Personalized Learning in K University (K대학의 역량기반 맞춤형 학습 지원을 위한 탐색적 연구)

  • Kim, Mi Hwa;Yoon, Gwan Sik;Park, Jiwon
    • Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.49-60
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    • 2020
  • With the advent of the knowledge-based era of the fourth industrial revolution, a paradigm shifts in university education. As a complete overhaul of university educational methods is required, strengthening competence through personalized is emerging as one of the solutions to the problem. To provide appropriate education accordingly focusing on individual learners, more studies at various levels are needed about understanding the characteristics of learners and ways to support them at universities. This study aims to conduct an exploratory research for adapting personalized learning at K University and explore effective ways to support. First, through literature review, the theoretical basis of personalized learning considering the diverse characteristics of learners and domestic and overseas cases of are examined. Secondly, a pilot study is conducted with K University students as subjects. FGI, study style diagnosis, one-on-one follow-up interviews are conducted and competency-based learning performance analysis and study style diagnosis result paper are provided to selected participants. Finally, major issues and implications are suggested to support the effective personalized learning of K university students.

A Model-based Methodology for Application Specific Energy Efficient Data path Design Using FPGAs (FPGA에서 에너지 효율이 높은 데이터 경로 구성을 위한 계층적 설계 방법)

  • Jang Ju-Wook;Lee Mi-Sook;Mohanty Sumit;Choi Seonil;Prasanna Viktor K.
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.12A no.5 s.95
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    • pp.451-460
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    • 2005
  • We present a methodology to design energy-efficient data paths using FPGAs. Our methodology integrates domain specific modeling, coarse-grained performance evaluation, design space exploration, and low-level simulation to understand the tradeoffs between energy, latency, and area. The domain specific modeling technique defines a high-level model by identifying various components and parameters specific to a domain that affect the system-wide energy dissipation. A domain is a family of architectures and corresponding algorithms for a given application kernel. The high-level model also consists of functions for estimating energy, latency, and area that facilitate tradeoff analysis. Design space exploration(DSE) analyzes the design space defined by the domain and selects a set of designs. Low-level simulations are used for accurate performance estimation for the designs selected by the DSE and also for final design selection We illustrate our methodology using a family of architectures and algorithms for matrix multiplication. The designs identified by our methodology demonstrate tradeoffs among energy, latency, and area. We compare our designs with a vendor specified matrix multiplication kernel to demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology. To illustrate the effectiveness of our methodology, we used average power density(E/AT), energy/(area x latency), as themetric for comparison. For various problem sizes, designs obtained using our methodology are on average $25\%$ superior with respect to the E/AT performance metric, compared with the state-of-the-art designs by Xilinx. We also discuss the implementation of our methodology using the MILAN framework.

Problems and Suggestions for Improvement Derived from an Analysis of the Work of the Urban & Residence Environment Improvement Project -Focused on the Establishment of Preparation Committee and Association Committee- (도시 및 주거환경정비사업의 업무분석을 통한 문제점과 개선 사항 -조합설립추진위원회와 조합설립 업무를 중심으로-)

  • Ryu, Han-Guk;Son, Bo-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2010
  • The government has routinely made efforts to improve the living environment and infrastructure of less-developed areas through large area urban remodeling projects, which are in themselves attempts to overcome the disadvantages of piecemeal local area development. Such projects are very complex, and various stakeholders are involved. However, the data on such projects has not been well managed, and has not lent itself to being easily adopted to similar projects. In addition, there are numerous fragmented mega-projects that seem to be performed based on "rules of thumb" To address this issue, the work process of many urban and residence project types should be standardized otherwise the participants will be confused to work properly. In particular, typical residents who lack knowledge about building redevelopment, building remodeling, urban environment improvement projects, and the like think that it is difficult to establish the preparation committees and association committees for the projects. Therefore, we examined previous researches related to the urban and building renovation to solve the prescribed present problems. This paper presents the three necessary research performances: first, we analyzed the administrative work process in the related laws; second, we examined the practical work process of the preparation committee and association committee stages; and finally we deduced the problem and presented the required improvements.

Construction Material Management Using Smart Mobile Computing (스마트 모바일 어플리케이션을 이용한 건설 자재 관리)

  • Lee, Kwang-Pyo;Lee, Hyun-Soo;Park, Moon-Seo;Kim, Eui-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.59-69
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    • 2011
  • Construction works have become larger and more complex, improving productivity by introducing Information Technology (IT) is pursued. In this circumstance, many different kinds of project management system is being introduced, and various IT technologies are applied such as Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Bar Code, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Web Camera, and so on. However, these kinds of technologies might cause reprocessing of information and ineffectiveness of project because of lack of real time information processing technology or separation between construction sites and management offices. Therefore, this research aims to develop Application that can be applied efficiently for construction material management, by understanding problems of former management system with questionnaires and extracting functions with analysis of requirements. This will be possible to input information automatically, to process and check material information in real time, and to identify the location of necessary material. Then, the problem of separation between construction sites and management offices are solved, and as a result, more efficient management of materials in construction sites will become possible.

A Study on the Efficient Application for Cadastral Surveying of RTK-GPS (RTK-GPS의 지적측량에 효율적 적용 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Eon;Lee, Woo-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2012
  • The study conducted the measurement of RTK-GPS with changing the number of observation as the method to differ reference stations of RTK-GPS. Also it aimed to suggest an effective application plan for cadastral surveying based on the accuracy analysis accordingly. According to the result of selecting the study region, observing with different reference stations, and comparing with previous TS performance, the 1st reference station was calculated as ${\pm}0.024m$ for x-coordinate's RMSE and ${\pm}0.029m$ for y-coordinate's RMSE, and the 2nd reference station was calculated as ${\pm}0.040m$ for x-coordinate's RMSE and ${\pm}0.029m$ for y-coordinate's RMSE. All these results (the 1st and the 2nd reference stations) are allowed as acceptable performance within the margin of error according to the existing cadastral regulations, and there was no significant difference between two performances. Therefore, unless there was no problem in receiving GPS satellite data, it would be possible to secure stable performance enough with 1 observation. Depending on surveying environment that has possible problems in receiving data, however, 2 or more observations would be necessary to secure stable performance.

K-connected, (K+1)-covered Fault-tolerant Topology Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서 망을 위한 K-연결 (K+1)-감지도 고장 감내 위상 제어 프로토콜)

  • Park, Jae-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.11B
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    • pp.1133-1141
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we present a distributed fault-tolerant topology control protocol that configure a wireless sensor network to achieve k-connectivity and (k+1)-coverage. One fundamental issue in sensor networks is to maintain both sensing coverage and network connectivity in order to support different applications and environments, while some least active nodes are on duty. Topology control algorithms have been proposed to maintain network connectivity while improving energy efficiency and increasing network capacity. However, by reducing the number of links in the network, topology control algorithms actually decrease the degree of routing redundancy. Although the protocols for resolving such a problem while maintaining sensing coverage were proposed, they requires accurate location information to check the coverage, and most of active sensors in the constructed topology maintain 2k-connectivity when they keep k-coverage. We propose the fault-tolerant topology control protocol that is based on the theorem that k-connectivity implies (k+1)-coverage when the sensing range is at two times the transmission range. The proposed distributed algorithm does not need accurate location information, the complexity is O(1). We demonstrate the capability of the proposed protocol to provide guaranteed connectivity and coverage, through both geometric analysis and extensive simulation.

Regional Balanced Development Policy Leverage in the Capital and Non-Capital Areas : Focusing on Local Function Concentration and Dispersion Structure (수도권과 비수도권의 지역균형발전 정책 레버리지 탐색 : 지역의 기능 집중·분산 구조를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jin-Hee;Lee, Man-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.502-512
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    • 2019
  • To examine the problem structure of balanced regional development policy and identify the causes of the gap between the capital and non-capital areas, this study examined the causal structure in terms of the concentration and distribution of functions in the metropolitan area and non-capital area and explored the policy leverage. As a research method, the causal map was drawn using System Dynamics techniques and policy leverage was derived through an exploration of the feedback structure. In particular, the causes of the problems in balanced regional development policies were approached by system accidents rather than by single-circuit accidents, and causality analysis was performed among the variables constituting balanced regional development policies based on system accidents. In particular, it singled out 31 variables, developed 13 feedback loops, and confirmed four major policy leverages, including relocation of the capital function, local decentralization policies, consistent development, and investment practices centered on the Non­Capital Area. Subsequently, a follow-up study by computer simulation is needed by modeling the structure of the system to identify the ripple effect of the policies of the Capital Area on the Non­Capital Area.