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Effect of High Pressure Low Temperature Treatment on the Inactivation of Microorganism in Raw Milk

  • Kim, Jee-Yeon;Hong, Geun-Pyo;Park, Sung-Hee;Kim, Jeong-Mee;Min, Sang-Gi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Food Science of Animal Resources Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 2006
  • This study was carried out to investigate the effect of HPLT on the inactivation rates of microorganisms in raw milk depending on the pressurization time and temperature. Raw milk samples were submitted to HPLT of 200 MPa at -4, 4, 12 and $20^{\circ}C$, respectively. Inactivation increased with pressurization time and HPLT of microorganisms at 200 MPa was time dependent at any temperature. At sub-zero temperature of $-4^{\circ}C$, high pressure pasteurization was the most effective in inactivating microorganisms.

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Recent Advances in Cold-Start and Drive Capability of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

  • Sung, Woo-Suk;Suh, Kyung-Won;Kweon, Soon-Gil;Park, Jong-Jin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 2008
  • The sub-zero cold is a major environmental consideration for the operational readiness of FCEVs because fuel cells produce water and utilize wet air with varying water content to generate electricity. Typical fuel cells thus have a fatal flaw in freezing conditions at startup. This drawback becomes more serious with the outsourced fuel cell that is entirely water-based for its internal humidification. In this background, the HMC's self-designed fuel cell was developed as an alternative and was employed in the Tucson-based FCEV in 2006 demonstrating its good cold-startup characteristics. The cold-startup capacity of the vehicle was validated through tests in the cold chamber and on the road, resulting in 50% stack power achieved in 250 seconds at $-15^{\circ}C$.

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Analysis of Stratified Lake using an Eddy Diffusion and a Mixed-layer Models

  • Kim, Kyung-sub
    • Korean Journal of Hydrosciences
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    • v.8
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 1997
  • A one-dimensional eddy diffusion model and a mixed-layer model are developed and applied to simulate the vertical temperature profiles in lakes. Also the running result of each method are compared and analyzed. In an eddy diffusion model, molecular diffusivity is neglected and eddy diffusivity which does not need lake-specific fitting parameter and constant lake's level are applied. The heat exchanges at the water surface and the bottom are formulated by the energy balance and zero energy gradient, respectively. In a mixed-layer model, two layers approach which has a constant thickness is adopted. The application of these models which use explicit finite difference and Runge-Kutta methods respectively demonstrates that the models simulate water temperatures efficiently.

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The Evolutionary Statuses of Solar Type Detached Eclipsing Binary Stars

  • Kanjanascul, Chanisa;Bach, Kie-Huon;Hong, Kyeong-Soo;Kim, Sung-Eun;Lee, Jae-Woo;Kang, Young-Woon
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.131-140
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    • 2012
  • We presented fundamental stellar parameters and evolutionary statuses of six solar type detached eclipsing binaries whose masses are in the range of 0.97-1.43 $M_{\odot}$. EK Cep and FL Lyr belong to the zero age main sequence. HS Hya, IT Cas and CD Tau are on the main sequence. Their ages are 1.3, 1.9 and 2.2 Gyr, respectively. Both component stars of AI Phe evolved to sub giants and its age is 4.0 Gyr. Those ages of the detached binary systems show good agreement with the time scale for synchronization and circularization of the binary systems.

Very Efficient Maximum-Likelihood and Sub-Optimal Decoders for V-BLAST

  • Le Minh-Tuan;Pham Van-Su;Yoon Gi-Wan
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a low-complexity ML decoder based on QR decomposition, called LCMLDec decoder, is proposed for the V-BLAST with 2 transmit antennas. Then, it is combined with other suboptimal interference nulling and cancelling decoders originated form QR decomposition such as sorted QR or MMSE-SQRD decoder to generate efficient decoders that significantly improve the performance of the V-BLAST with more than 2 transmit antennas, at the expense of a small increase in complexity. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performances and complexities of the proposed decoders.

Simplification of Transfer Function Via Walsh Function in Frequency Domain (주파수 영역에서 Walsh 함수에 의한 전달함수의 간단화)

  • Doo-Soo Ahn
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 1982
  • This paper deals with the simplification of the transfer function in a frequency domain, viz. the integral of the squared errors between the original and the simplified model is minimized and the latter is estimated by the Walsh function. It tries to minimize the errors between the frequency responses of the two functions. This method is compared with the existing method by means of a numercal example. The frequency response of this simplified model approximates closely to that of the original model. The proposed method is simpler in analysis and easier in implementation than the existing methods. Though the Walsh function can be easily generated with the discrete values, it has errors because its zero crossings are not continuous. This method aims at the reduction of the errors in the real parts and the imaginary parts of the two functions by dividing into the more sub-intervals, and selecting the reduced-order model according to the response of the model. As a result, it can be applied for the simplification of higher order functions into lower order functions and for the design of control systems.

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Fast Training of Structured SVM Using Fixed-Threshold Sequential Minimal Optimization

  • Lee, Chang-Ki;Jang, Myung-Gil
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we describe a fixed-threshold sequential minimal optimization (FSMO) for structured SVM problems. FSMO is conceptually simple, easy to implement, and faster than the standard support vector machine (SVM) training algorithms for structured SVM problems. Because FSMO uses the fact that the formulation of structured SVM has no bias (that is, the threshold b is fixed at zero), FSMO breaks down the quadratic programming (QP) problems of structured SVM into a series of smallest QP problems, each involving only one variable. By involving only one variable, FSMO is advantageous in that each QP sub-problem does not need subset selection. For the various test sets, FSMO is as accurate as an existing structured SVM implementation (SVM-Struct) but is much faster on large data sets. The training time of FSMO empirically scales between O(n) and O($n^{1.2}$), while SVM-Struct scales between O($n^{1.5}$) and O($n^{1.8}$).

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Development of Simulation Model for Grid-tied Fuel-Cell Power Generation with Digital Controlled DC-DC Converter (디지털제어 DC-DC컨버터로 구성된 계통연계 연료전지발전 시뮬레이션모델 개발)

  • Ju, Young-Ah;Cha, Min-Young;Han, Byung-Moon;Kang, Tae-Sub;Cha, Han-Ju
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.58 no.9
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    • pp.1728-1734
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    • 2009
  • This paper proposes a new power conditioning system for the fuel cell power generation, which consists of a ZVS DC-DC converter and 3-phase inverter. The ZVS DC-DC converter with a digital controller boosts the fuel cell voltage of 26-50V up to 400V, and the grid-tie inverter controls the active power delivered to the grid. The operation of proposed power conditioning system was verified through simulations with PSCAD/EMTDC software. The feasibility of hardware implementation was verified through experimental works with a laboratory prototype, which was built with 1.2kW PEM fuel-cell stack, 1kW DC-DC converter, and 3kW PWM inverter. The proposed system can be utilized to commercialize an interconnection system for the fuel-cell power generation.

Efficient Maximum-Likelihood and Sub-optimal Decoders

  • Le, Minh-Tuan;Pham, Van-Su;Mai, Linh;Yoon, Giwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.110-116
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a low-complexity ML decoder based on QR decomposition, called LCMLDec decoder, is proposed for the V-BLAST with 2 transmit antennas. Then, it is combined with other suboptimal interference nulling and cancelling decoders originated form QR decomposition such as sorted QR or MMSE-SQRD decoder to generate efficient decoders that significantly improve the performance of the V_BLAST with more than 2 transmit antennas, at the expense of a small increase in complexity. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performances and complexities of the proposed decoders.

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A Study on the ZVT Boost Converter with reduced Auxiliary switch losses (ZVT Boost 컨버터의 보조스위치 손실 저감에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Myung-Sub;Kim, Yong;Bae, Jin-Yong;Lee, Eun-Young;Kwon, Soon-Do;Lee, Byung-Song
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07b
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    • pp.1428-1431
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents an improved ZVT(Zero Voltage Transition) DC/DC Boost Converter using Active Snubber. The Conventional ZVT PWM Boost Converter is improved to minimize the switching loss of auxiliary switch using the minimum number of the components. In this thesis, advantage and disadvantages of Conventional ZVT Converter using a auxiliary resonant circuit is discussed. Then Improved ZVT soft switching converter will be discussed. In comparison a previous ZVT converter, the proposed converter reduces turn-off switching loss of the auxiliary switch. Therefore, the proposed converter has a high efficiency by active snubber. To show the superiority of this converter is verified through the experiment with a 640W, 100kHz prototype converter.

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