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Postharvest Handling and Marketing Management for Making High Salability of Sweetpotatoes (상품성 제고를 위한 고구마 수확 후 관리 및 출하기술)

  • Jeong, Byeong-Choon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Postharvest Science and Technology of Agricultural Products Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.51-64
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    • 2001
  • The qualities including taste of sweetpotato stored during the winter which can display in the spring market in Korea are affected by availability of storage for the roots. In order to make high storage availability of sweetpotato, the postharvest handlings should be done thoroughly from the moment of harvest until shipping them to the market. A lot of procedures that must be handled carefully for improving postharvest management are as follows; digging, trimming, gathering, putting in storage containers, carrying them from field to house, curing, storing, washing, drying, selecting marketable roots, packing and shipping to the market, etc.. Sweetpotatoes have a high moisture content, and a relatively thin and delicate skin, and are sensitive to chilling, so careless postharvest handling can lead to both quantitative and qualitative losses which may be extremely high in some circumstances. From now on research has concentrated on the improvement of postharvest conditions to increase yield and lower disease rates. Storage, which makes sweetpotatoes available through out the year, benefits both the producer and the consumer. Seven very important points must be needed in order to get the best quality marketable roots in the storing of sweetpotatos : $\circled1$The storage house must be clean and sanitary, $\circled2$The crop must be harvested before the first frost to avoid low-temperature injury, $\circled3$Particular care must be taken to avoid cutting, bruising, or other injuries of the sweetpotatoes during digging, picking up, grading, placing in containers, and moving to the storage house, $\circled4$Select sound, disease-free roots for storage $\circled5$Sweetpotatoes should be stored in properly stacked containers $\circled6$Cure immediately after harvest, preferably at 32∼33$^{\circ}C$ and 90 to 95 percent relative humidity for 4 to 7 days, After curing the temperature should be reduced to 13$^{\circ}C$ to 16$^{\circ}C$ by ventilating the storage with outside air. $\circled7$Store at 12$^{\circ}C$ to 14$^{\circ}C$ and a relative humidity of 80 to 85 percent. Storage houses should be located on suitable sites and should be tightly constructed and insulated so that temperature and humidity will be uniform. Sweetpotatoes are usually not washed and graded, and lately sometimes washed, graded, waxed, before being shipped to market. Consumer packaging of sweetpotatoes in paper boxes(10-15kg) or film bags is done mainly to aid marketing. The shelf life of washed roots in consumer packs in only 1 to 2 weeks. Weight loss of roots during marketing is much less in perforated film bags than in mesh and paper bags. Perforation of 0.8 to 1kg polyethylene bags with about six 6mm holes is essential ; to lower the internal relative humidity and avoid excessive sprouting, rooting, and dampness. Development and use of better postharvest handling with good storage facilities or marketing methods can minimize sweetpotate losses and has an effect of indirectly increasing productivity and farmer’s income.

Development of HIL simulator for performance validation of stack inlet gases temperature controller of marine solid oxide fuel cell system (선박용 고체산화물형 연료전지 시스템의 스택 공급 가스 온도 제어기 성능 검증을 위한 HIL 시뮬레이터 개발)

  • Ahn, Jong-Woo;Park, Sang-Kyun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.582-588
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    • 2013
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) has been focused as a promising power source, which can replace a diesel engine regarding as major source of air pollution by the ship, due to high efficiency and eco-friendly. High operating temperature of SOFC is enable to secure of high efficiency, use various fuels and no need of high priced catalyst, but it may damage to components of SOFC. Therefore temperature control system has to be designed and validated before employing the fuel cell system for securing high efficiency and reliability. In this paper, instead of using typical method to validate performance of the controller, which consumes high cost and time, performance validation system using Hardware-in-the-loop simulation was developed and validated performence of the designed temperature controller for SOFC system.

Qualitative Changes in Grafted Cactus Cultivars during Simulated Transportation (모의운송시 접목선인장의 품종별 품질변화)

  • Yoon, Jung-Han;Song, Jong-Eun;Byoun, Hye-Jin;Park, Ju-Hyun;Kim, Young-Ho;Son, Ki-Cheol
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.575-582
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    • 2011
  • This experiment was conducted to study the qualitative changes of grafted cactus after harvest and to examine the decomposition characteristics of pathogenic fungi which occurs or grows during the simulated shipping period. Plant materials with four varieties of Gymnocalycium mihanovichii var. friedrichii including, 'Hukwang', 'Huhong', 'Hwangwol', 'Yeunhwa' and two varieties of Chamaecereus silvestrii f. variegate such as 'Goldcrown' and 'Yellowcrown' were used. During the simulated shipping period, the fresh-weight, bulb diameter, carbon dioxide emission rate, and decomposition rate were observed. The regeneration rate and decomposition rate were observed for the grafted cactuses that were placed in a greenhouse environment with a temperature of $28{\pm}12^{\circ}C$ and humidity of $36{\pm}15.3%$ after 40 days of simulated shipping. There were reductions in the fresh-weight and bulb diameter in every variety as time passed while the carbon dioxide emission rate showed no meaningful difference by each variety. Furthermore, the decomposition rate in the scion was higher than in the stock. According to the analysis of pathogenic fungi by decomposition characteristics, Alternaria sp., Cladosporium sp., Colletotrichum sp., Fusarium sp., Penicillium sp. in G. mihanovichii var. friedrichii were found and Alternaria sp., Bipolaris sp., Cladospoirum sp. in C. silvestrii f. variegate were identified. Therefore, to maintain and improve the quality of grafted cactus, it is necessary to analyze the factors of decomposition from the time of harvest until the point of export and develop a process technology to minimize the decomposition rate.

Numerical Analysis on Freezing in the Ship Voyaging in Polar Regions

  • Kang, Ho-Keun;Kim, Ki-Pyoung;Ahn, Soo-Whan
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.30-37
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    • 2013
  • For vessels operating in the cold climate regions, the ballast water inside or hopper tanks above the waterline may be frozen, starting at the top of the tank and at the side walls. Therefore, countermeasures against freeze-up of the ballast tank such as air-bubbling system, hot steam injecting system, heating coil system and water circulating system are taken to prevent freeze-up phenomenon; however, there are no rigorous investigations of anti-freezing to examine the effectiveness and validity of systems against freeze-up of the ballast tank, in which the temperatures are about -$25^{\circ}C$ (ambient air temperature) and $0^{\circ}C$ (sea water), respectively. In this paper, to ensure reasonable specifications for cold regions if the measures from the above-mentioned systems against freeze-up are effective, the phenomenon of ballast tank freeze-up is simulated and discussed in low temperature conditions. With the results using the commercial CFD code, CFX 14, the most cost-effective solution is conducted to prevent being frozen along the outer surface.

Numerical Study on Vortex Structures in a Two-dimensional Bluff-Body Burner in the Transitional Flow Regime

  • Kawahara, Hideo;Nishimura, Tatsuo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 2002
  • Vortical structures are investigated numerically for both cold and combusting flows from a two-dimensional bluff-body burner in the transitional flow regime from steady to unsteady state. The Reynolds number of the central fuel flow is varied from 10 to 230 at a fixed air Reynolds number of 400. The flame sheet model of infinite chemical reaction and unit Lewis number are assumed in the simulation. The temperature dependence of the viscosity and diffusivity of the gas mixture is also considered. The vortex shedding is observed depending on the fuel flow. For cold flow, four different types of vortical structure are identified. However, for combusting flow of methane-air system the vortical structures change significantly due to a large amount of heat release during the combustion process, in contract to cold flow.

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Experimental Study on Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine with Hydrogen Application (수소를 첨가한 디젤엔진의 연소 및 배기특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Oh, Jungmo
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.203-209
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    • 2017
  • The International maritime organization(IMO), in an effort to slow down the global warming, proposes reduction in ship's speed as a way to lower the rate emissions from ships. In addition, since ship's fuel cost have been increased, the shipping volumes, fuel-saving technology are being required urgently. Therefore, in this present study, a method of reducing the fuel cost that can improve the performance of the diesel engine was tried by introducing a predetermined amount (0.1~0.3% of the mass amount of fuel used) of hydrogen fuel additive. The experimental conditions of the test engine were 1500rpm and torque BMEP-10b ar. The engine performances (power output, fuel consumption rate, p-max, exhaust temperature) were compared before and after addition of hydrogen fuel additives. This experimental study confirmed reducing at least 2% fuel consumption and 2.19% NOx emission.

Corrosion Resistance of SD460 Reinforcing Rod by Ceramic Coating (SD460 철근의 세라믹 코팅에 의한 내식성 향상연구)

  • Park, Ki Y.;Lee, Jong K.;Hong, Seok W.
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.157-161
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    • 2009
  • The corrosion resistance of reinforcing bar was studied to endure the marine environment during shipment. The red rust on the surface did not damage the adherence in the concrete structures, especially in highly alkaline environment, but made the consumer doubt of the quality. The passivation process by alkalization of the quenching water in the tempcore process failed to endure the long shipping period. The ceramic coating by sol-gel process improved the corrosion resistance without damaging the mechanical properties and adherence between concrete and reinfiorcing bar. Optimal concentration of the coating solution and coating temperature were tested. No additional energy was necessary for the coating process by spraying during cooling process, resulting simplified process and low cost. Salt spray test, cyclic corrosion test and atmospheric test were employed to confirm the resistance. The corrosion rates were presented by rating number and polarization resistance. The coating layer was examined by FIB, XRD and SEM etc.

Implementation of A9-Based Digital Portable Radiation Detector with the Algorithm of Temperature Compensation in Scintillator (Scintillator에 온도 보정 알고리즘을 적용한 A9기반의 디지털 휴대용 방사선 검출기 구현)

  • Lim, Ik-Chan;Park, Geo;Kim, Young-kil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.10
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    • pp.1981-1989
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    • 2017
  • In accordance with the global strengthening of security systems for the safety of the shipping and logistics industry, the development of core technologies within the field has become a key in the establishment of Korea's own national logistics security system. Further in line with these global developments, there is growing attention within Korea to the development of portable radiation detectors capable of detecting gamma ray nuclides. In addition, many parts are becoming localized. In this research, instead of Pulse Shaping Board, which is used in existing portable radiation detectors, we have implemented an Algorithm to discriminate nuclides and correct the temperature conversion efficiency of the scintillator. This paper aims to improve the performance of these devices through the implementation of a temperature conversional algorithm within the scintillator of the A9-based digital portable radiation detector.

Effect of N2 Diluent on Soot Formation Characteristics in Ethylene Diffusion Flames (에틸렌 확산화염 내 질소 혼합이 매연 생성 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Jun-Soo Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.356-362
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    • 2023
  • The risk of climate change has been long acknowledged, and ongoing efforts to overcome this issue, within the shipping sector, with the international maritime organization playing a central role. Conducting research on characteristics of soot formation is crucial to control its occurrence within the combustion process. In this study, the laser extinction method and chemical reaction numerical analysis were employed to examine the alterations in the state of chemical species associated with flame temperature, flame visual, and soot formation by mixing nitrogen, an inert gas, in the counterflow diffusion flame based on ethylene gas. The findings of the study suggest that as the mixing ratio of nitrogen increased, both the flame temperature and soot volume fraction decreased. Additionally, the area in which soot particles were distributed also decreased, and the volume fraction decrease rate declined when the mixing ratio increased by more than 30%. The mole fraction of the chemical species involved in soot growth also decreased. the chemical species associated with the HACA reaction were affected by variations in the hydrocarbon fuel ratio, and the chemical species related to the odd carbon path were confirmed to be affected by the flame temperature as well as the hydrocarbon fuel ratio.

Studies on Botrytis cinerea Density in Packing Shed and Gray Mold Incidence Following Storage-Temperature in Exported Strawberry (수출딸기 선별장에서 잿빛곰팡이병원균 밀도조사와 저장온도에 따른 잿빛곰팡이병 발생 연구)

  • Kim, Da-Ran;Jeon, Chang Wook;kwak, Youn-Sig
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.295-300
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    • 2015
  • Currently, amount of export strawberry has been continuously increased to ship many south Asia countries, including Hong Kong and Singapore. In the distribution process, significant damage to the quality has been caused depending on the environmental conditions. Gray mold disease caused by Botrytis cinerea has been known as major damage to the export strawberry, and the disease was caused during shipping and distribution to the final consumers. This study was performed to assess the relationship between pathogen density in packing shed and disease incidence of gray mold during storage period. Maximum gray mold disease incidence in storage period was up to 16% with low temperature condition ($4^{\circ}C$). At room temperature condition, the disease incidence reached up to 100% even densities of the pathogen spore were recorded relatively low in the packing shed. As results of the study, the correlation between pathogen density in the air and disease occurrence clearly clarified.