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Should Workers Avoid Consumption of Chilled Fluids in a Hot and Humid Climate?

  • Brearley, Matt B.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.327-328
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    • 2017
  • Despite provision of drinking water as the most common method of occupational heat stress prevention, there remains confusion in hydration messaging to workers. During work site interactions in a hot and humid climate, workers commonly report being informed to consume tepid fluids to accelerate rehydration. When questioned on the evidence supporting such advice, workers typically cite that fluid absorption is delayed by ingestion of chilled beverages. Presumably, delayed absorption would be a product of fluid delivery from the gut to the intestines, otherwise known as gastric emptying. Regulation of gastric emptying is multifactorial, with gastric volume and beverage energy density the primary factors. If gastric emptying is temperature dependent, the impact of cooling is modest in both magnitude and duration (${\leq}5$ minutes) due to the warming of fluids upon ingestion, particularly where workers have elevated core temperature. Given that chilled beverages are most preferred by workers, and result in greater consumption than warm fluids during and following physical activity, the resultant increased consumption of chilled fluids would promote gastric emptying through superior gastric volume. Hence, advising workers to avoid cool/cold fluids during rehydration appears to be a misinterpretation of the research. More appropriate messaging to workers would include the thermal benefits of cool/cold fluid consumption in hot and humid conditions, thereby promoting autonomy to trial chilled beverages and determine personal preference. In doing so, temperature-based palatability would be maximized and increase the likelihood of workers maintaining or restoring hydration status during and after their work shift.

Recent advances of aromatic C-F bond borylation and its application to positron emission tomography

  • Song, Dalnim;Lee, Sanghee;Lee, Byung Chul;Kim, Sang Eun;Lee, Eunsung
    • Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.80-87
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    • 2015
  • Carbon-fluorine (C-F) bonds have been found ubiquitously in pharmaceuticals, radiopharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and material science due to their unique properties such as thermal and oxidative stability and lipophilicity to improve bioavailability. For the past five years, there have been significant advances in F-18 fluorination of aromatic complex molecules combined with the development of late-stage fluorination reactions. More recently, direct incorporation of F-18 to fluorinated aromatic molecules via borylation of C-F bonds has been developed by Niwa and Hosoya. In this minireview, we will discuss the progress of C-F bondborylation of fluorinated arenes utilizing transition metal catalysts and the impact on the development of F-18 radiotracers for positron emission tomography (PET).

Bendable Photoelectrodes by Blending of Polymers with $TiO_2$ For Low Temperature Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

  • Yu, Gi-Cheon;;Lee, Do-Gwon;Kim, Gyeong-Gon;Go, Min-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.02a
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    • pp.319-319
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    • 2010
  • Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on plastic substrates have attracted much attention mainly due to extensive applications such as ubiquitous powers, as well as the practical reasons such as light weight, flexibility and roll-to-roll process. However, conventional high temperature fabrication technology for glass based DSSCs, cannot be applied to flexible devices because polymer substrates cannot withstand the heat more than $150^{\circ}C$. Therefore, low temperature fabrication process, without using a polymer binder or thermal sintering, was required to fabricate necked $TiO_2$. In this presentation, we proposed polymer-inorganic composite photoelectrode, which can be fabricated at low temperature. The concept of composite electrode takes an advantage of utilizing elastic properties of polymers, such as good impact strength. As an elastic material, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is selected because of its optical transparency and good adhesive properties. In this work, a polymer-inorganic composite electrode was constructed on FTO/glass substrate under low temperature sintering condition, from the mixture of PMMA and $TiO_2$ colloidal solution. The effect of PMMA composition on the photovoltaic property was investigated. Then, the enhanced mechanical stability of this composite electrode on ITO/PEN substrate was also demonstrated from bending test.

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Effect of Peak Temperatures on Hydrogen Attack Susceptibility in Simulated Weld Heat Affected Zone of 3Cr-1Mo-V Steel (3Cr-1Mo-V강의 재현 열영향부에서 최고가열온도가 수소침식감수성에 미치는 영향)

  • 김동진;김병훈;공병욱;김정태;권용형;박화순;강정윤
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.232-232
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    • 2000
  • The hydrogen attack characteristics of 3Cr-1Mo-V steel as simulated weld heat affected state were studied in this paper. The hydrogen attack susceptibility was evaluated by the ratios of Charpy impact absorbed energy at 0℃($vE_{0HA}$/$vE_{0}$) and reduction of area by tensile test ($RA_{HA}$/RA) before and after exposure to hydrogen at 600℃ under 450kgf/㎠ for 300hr. The values of $vE_{0HA}$/$vE_{0}$ and $RA_{HA}$/RA were aggravated as the peak temperature of the simulated heat affected zone(HAZ) raised. These results were due to the increase of the possession of bubbles along the grain boundaries, which were resulted in the reduction of grain boundary area to be precipitated carbides due to grain coarsening and the carbon dissolved in the martensite-austenite constituent near by the prior austenite grain boundary. The possession ratio of methane bubbles formed along prior austenite grain boundaries were increased with raising the peak temperature. (Received February 22, 2000)

Effect of Peak Temperatures on Hydrogen Attack Susceptibility in Simulated Weld Heat Affected Zone of 3Cr-1Mo-V Steel (3Cr-1Mo-V강의 재현 열영향부에서 최고가열온도가 수소침식감수성에 미치는 영향)

  • 김동진;김병훈;공병욱;김정태;권용형;박화순;강정윤
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.105-111
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    • 2000
  • The hydrogen attack characteristics of 3Cr-1Mo-V steel as simulated weld heat affected state were studied in this paper. The hydrogen attack susceptibility was evaluated by the ratios of Charpy impact absorbed energy at 0℃({TEX}$vE_{0} {HA}_/vE_{0}${/TEX}) and reduction of area by tensile test({TEX}$RA_{HA}/RA${/TEX}) before and after exposure to hydrogen at 600℃ under 450kgf/㎠ for 300hr. The values of {TEX}$vE_{0} {HA}_/vE_{0}${/TEX} and {TEX}$RA_{HA}/RA${/TEX} were aggravated as the peak temperature of the simulated heat affected zone(HAZ) raised. These results were due to the increase of the possession of bubbles along the grain boundaries, which were resulted in the reduction of grain boundary area to be precipitated carbides due to grain coarsening and the carbon dissolved in the martensite-austenite constituent near by the prior austenite grain boundary. The possession ratio of methane bubbles formed along prior austenite grain boundaries were increased with raising the peak temperature.

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The Interaction for the pit formation on ABS with laser beam (레이저에 의한 ABS의 홈 형성에 동반되는 상호작용)

  • Kim Youngseop;Park Sohee;Shin Yongjin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Laser Processing Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 2004
  • Pit and rim formation on the Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene(ABS) plastic surface was evaluated after it was irradiated by $CO_2$ and Nd:YAG laser beams. Our results show that thermal effect floor was well observed at the outer wall of pit with $CO_2$ laser irradiated while it was not the case with Nd:YAG laser irradiated. Also the volume and depth of pit formation increase proportionally with the energy intensities of two laser irradiations, but there are significant differences in the slope, width, and FWHM of the Pit formation with two types of laser irradiations. This result shows that $CO_2$ laser irradiation leads to better cooling contraction effect while Nd:YAG laser irradiation induces better recoil pressure effect during the interaction between ABS plastic and laser beam irradiation. The shape of the laser marking could vary significantly depending on the traveling path of molten plastic during injection molding of ABS plastic. Therefore, the selection of material and molding process can have a great impact on the performance of optical storage media.

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The Study on the Synthesis of Propellant with High Nitrogen Content (고질소 추진물질 합성 연구)

  • Lee, Woonghee;Kim, Minjun;Park, Youngchul
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.96-102
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    • 2015
  • Traditional propellants emit toxic gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen chloride during combustion which are harmful to the environment. This study established a synthetic process of a high nitrogen containing derivative of tetrazine, 3,3-Azobis(6-Amino-1,2,4,5-Tetrazine) (DAAT), which can be applied as solid fuels for a solution to environmental concerns. Also, this paper described the detailed process and the analytic results of properties, which were not mentioned in previous reports. The compound was characterized by NMR, IR spectroscopy, and thermal, impact, and friction stability were measured. In addition, the heats of formation (${\Delta}H_f$) and detonation properties (pressure and velocity) of DAAT were calculated using Gaussian 09 and EXPLO5 programs.

An Experimental Study on the Heat Exchangers in the Pulse Tube Refrigerator (맥동관 냉동기 열교환기에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 남관우;정상권;정은수
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.284-291
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    • 2000
  • A basic pulse tube refrigerator has been constructed with extensive instrumentation to study the characteristics of the heat exchanger experimentally under the oscillating pressure and the oscillating flow. This paper describes the sequential experiments with the basic pulse tube refrigerator. The experiments were performed for various cycle frequencies under the square pressure wave forms. First, the heat flux was measured through the cycle at the both cold and warm end heat exchangers without the regenerator. In order to enhance the thermal communication capability of the heat exchanger with the gas at low operating frequencies, a unique design of the triangular shape radial fin concept was applied to the heat exchangers. For the fin heat exchanger, the measured heat flux and the calculated heat flux from the two well-known oscillating heat transfer correlations were compared and discussed. Second, the regenerator was added to the pulse tube to make a basic pulse tube refrigerator configuration. The experiment showed the great impact of the regenerator on the temperature and the heat flux profiles. At the warm-end, the cyclic averaged heat flux had its maximum value at the specific operating frequency. The paper presents the explanation of the surface heat pumping effect as well as the experimental data.

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A Debris Bed Model with Gab Inflow and Gas Upflow for Debris/Water/Concrete Interaction and Its Application under Severe Accident Condition in LWR. (개스 Inflow와 Upflow를 갖는 Debris/water/concrete상호작용 해석용 Debris Bed 모델 및 중대사고 조건에 그 적용해석)

  • Jong In Lee;Jin Soo Kim;Byung Hun Lee
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 1985
  • A model for thermal interactions of debris/water with gas flow from within and below debris bed was presented for severe accident analysis in LWR. The consumption of steam, production of hydrogen in the debris bed, generation of gases from below debris bed and generation of chemical heat are included in the conservation equations. The model has been incorporated in the MARCH code to estimate the gas production due to both metal/oxidation and hot debris/concrete interaction. The results indicate that the hydrogen source can potentially give a significant impact on the containment pressure transient and the conductive heat loss to concrete and the convective gas cooling in the debris bed have a small effect on the debris bed coolability. However, the reheating and melting of the debris particles could be delayed by the interaction of debris with concrete.

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Cumulative GHG Reduction Impact Analysis by the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Energy Concerning Technologies for the Residential Sector (주거용 건물부문 태양열 기술 보급에 따른 누적 온실가스 감축 효과 분석)

  • Rhee, Dong-eun;Kim, Seung Jin;Jeon, Eui-Chan
    • Journal of Climate Change Research
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2014
  • A key driver for climate change caused by global average temperature rise is greenhouse gas cumulative emissions that stay for long term in the atmosphere. Although at the moment there is no GHG emission, global warming will continue owing to GHG cumulative emission. In this study, scenarios are developed based on two types of optimistic and conservative diffusion goal. There were a total of 6 alternatives scenarios. The objective of this study are to compare scenarios in terms of GHG cumulative emissions and alternative fuels. An object of analysis is the residential buildings and time frame of scenarios is set up by 2030. And this study uses the LEAP model that is a bottom-up energy model. In conclusion, It is important to set specific diffusion pathway for mitigating climate change virtually.