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The analysis on the Energy Distribution Function for Electron in SiH4-Ar Gas Mixtures (SiH4-Ar혼합기체의 전자분포함수 해석)

  • Kim, Sang-Nam
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.65-69
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    • 2004
  • This paper calculates and gives the analysis of electron swarm transport coefficients as described electric conductive characteristics of pure Ar, pure $SiH_4$, Ar-$SiH_4$ mixture gases($SiH_4$-0.5%, 2.5%, 5%) over the range of E/N = 0.01~300[Td], P = 0.1, 1, 5.0 [Torr] by Monte Carlo the backward prolongation method of the Boltzmann equation using computer simulation without using expensive equipment. The results have been obtained by using the electron collision cross sections by TOF, PT, SST sampling, compared with the experimental data determined by the other author. It also proved the reliability of the electron collision cross sections and shows the practical values of computer simulation. Electron swann parameters in argon were drastically changed by adding a small amount of mono-silane. The electron drift velocity in these mixtures showed unusual behaviour against E/N. It had negative slope in the medium range of E/N, yet the slope was not smooth but contained a small hump. The longitudinal diffusion coefficient also showed a corresponding feature in its dependence on E/N. A two-tenn approximation of the Boltzmann equation analysis and Monte Carlo simulation have been used to study electron transport coefficients.

Transport of Some Solutes in Blood Plasma Through Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) Hydrogel Membrane (혈장내 염의 Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) 격막 투과현상)

  • Jee Jong Gi;Jhon Mu Shik;Ree Tai Kyue
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.304-310
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    • 1978
  • The relative permeabilities, distribution coefficients and diffusion coefficient of some salts which are important components in blood plasma through a poly(HEMA) membrane were measured. The crosslinker which was used for preparing the membrane was tetraethylene glycol dimethacrylate(TEGDMA), the weight percentage of the latter was about 2.8. We found that the diffusion coefficients ($D_m$) of the solutes decrease exponentially with increasing molecular weight, and also that $D_m$'s decrease linearly (except urea) with cylindrical radius (a). These facts were explained by a sieve pore flow model. The relative permeability and diffusion coefficient of urea at various temperature were larger than those of other solutes such as glycine, ${\beta}$-alanine, D-glucose, saccharose and maleic acid. The result indicates that the poly(HEMA) membrane might be suitable for hemodialysis application.

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A Study on the Computational Simulation of Cyclic Voltammetry using Semi-infinite Diffusion Model (반무한 확산모델을 이용한 순환전위법의 전산모사에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Ha-Na;Kim, Tae-Yong;Yoon, Do-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.138-144
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    • 2011
  • The transport phenomena of electron and ion around the electrode have been analyzed, herein the computational program to simulate the electrochemical signal of cyclic voltammetry has been implemented. For the dominant mass-transfer system, the governing equation and its boundary conditions are confined to the semi-infinite diffusion model and the reversible reaction at the electrode. In order to obtain the numerical solutions of cyclic voltammetry, MATLAB was used for the explicit finite difference method. Experimental results from the cyclic voltammetry of electrochemical system(10 mM $K_3Fe(CN)_6$ and 0.1M KCl) upon the ITO glass substrate were compared with the numerical solutions. Present program explains the experimental results fairly well, where they approached the simulated ones closely with deceasing the scan rate. Furthermore, the effects of electrode area, electrochemical reaction constants and transfering coefficients in the cyclic voltammetry were discussed quantitatively.

The Study for Diffusion Mechanism of Amino Acids Through Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) Membrane (Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate)막을 통한 아미노산의 확산 기구에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Ui-Rak;Jeong Bong-Jin;Lee Myung-Jae;Min Kyung-Sub
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.10-21
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    • 1993
  • The transport phenomena of ten amino acid molecules through poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate), P(HEMA) membrane have been investigated in various range pH solutions. It is found that the permeability and diffusivity of the amino acids through membrane depended on the different shape, size and the charge of them are changed by the pH. The permeabilities and diffusivities of amino acids have the largest value in the neutral solution. In this case, they are diffused through free water in the P(HEMA) membrane and the diffusion mechanism is the pore type. The basic solution have larger value than the acidic it. Whether the diffusion mechanism of the core type or the partition type, it is depended on the effect of side chain of the amino acid in basic and acidic solution.

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Immunochemical Studies for the Characterization of Purified $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ and Its Subunits with a Special Reference of Their Effect on Monovalent Cation Transport in Reconstituted $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ Vesicles

  • Rhee, H.M.;Hokin, L.E.
    • The Korean Journal of Pharmacology
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.35-49
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    • 1990
  • A highly purified $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ from the rectal gland of Squalus acanthias and from the electric organ of Electrophorus electricus has been used to raise antibodies in rabbits. The 97,000 dalton catalytic subunit and glycoprotein derived from the rectal gland of spiny shark were also used as antigens. The two $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ holoenzymes and the two shark subunits were antigenic. In Ouchterlony double diffusion experiments, these antibodies formed precipitation bands with their antigens. Antibodies prepared against the two subunits of shark holoenzyme also formed precipitation bands with their antigens and shark holoenzyme, but not with eel holoenzyme. These observations are in good agreement with inhibitory effect of these antibodies on the catalytic activity of $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ both from the shark and the eel, since there is very little cross-reaction between the shark anticatalytic subunit antibodies and the eel holoenzyme. The maximum antibodies titer of the anticatalytic subunit antibodies is found to be 6 weeks after the initial single exposure to this antigen. Multiple injections of the antigen increased the antibody titer. However, the time required to produce the maximum antibody titer was approximately the same. These antibodies also inhibit catalytic activity of $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ vesicles reconstituted by a slow dialysis of cholate after solubilization of the enzyme in a presonicated mixture of cholate and phospholipid. In these reconstituted $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ vesicles, effects of these antibodies on the fluxes of $Na^+$, $Rb^+$, and $K^+$ were investigated. Control or preimmune serum had no effect on the influx of $^{22}Na^+$ or the efflux of $^{86}Rb^+$. Immunized sera against the shark $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ holoenzyme, its glycoprotein or catalytic subunit did inhibit the influx of $^{22}Na^+$ and the efflux of $^{86}Rb^+$. It was also demonstrated that these antibodies inhibit the coupled counter-transport of $Na^+$ and $K^+$ as studied by means of dual labeling experiments. However, this inhibitory effect of the antibodies on transport of ions in the $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ vesicles is manifested only on the portion of energy and temperature dependent alkali metal fluxes, not on the portion of ATP and ouabain insensitive ion movement. Simultaneous determination of effects of the antibodies on ion fluxes and vesicular catalytic activity indicates that an inhibition of active ion transport in reconstituted $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ vesicles appears to be due to the inhibitory action of the antibodies on the enzymatic activity of $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ molecules incorporated in the vesicles. These findings that the inhibitory effects of the antibodies specific to $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ or to its subunits on ATP and temperature sensitive monovalent cation transport in parallel with the inhibitory effect of vesicular catalytic activity by these antibodies provide direct evidence that $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ is the molecular machinery of active cation transport in this reconstituted $(Na^+,\;K^+)-ATPase$ vesicular system.

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A Study on simulation analysis of the microbe transport of air-born virus in hospital for microbiological safety (미생물 안전을 위한 병원건물의 환기설계에 따른 공기 감염균 확산에 관한 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Choi, Sang-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.115-123
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    • 2017
  • Recently there is a growing interest in the airborne spread of virus. In particular, there is growing interest in secondary infection through the air in the hospital. The distribution of air-born virus depends on ventilation system installed in a hospital. In this study, simulations were carried out to predict the move of air-born virus by ventilation system at hospital. Simulation results showed that pressure distribution was -372.05Pa ~ -3.45 Pa at 1st floor incase of only used mechanical exhaust at bathroom, shower stall, storage, kitchen etc.. if ventilation switch from used mechanical exhaust to mechanical exhaust & mechanical supply. Simulation results showed that pressure distribution was -336.44Pa at stair hall < -0.2Pa at bathroom < mean 1.19Pa at other room. So simulation results showed that using all of the mechanical supply and mechanical exhaust was more effective then the mechanical exhaust for maintain the pressure distribution in hospital. It was also showed that when using the mechanical supply and mechanical exhaust more effectively prevention of air born virus diffusion.

Photovoltaic Behavior of Dye-sensitized Long TiO2 Nanotube Arrays

  • Kim, Sang-Mo;Kim, Hark-Jin;Kim, Yong-Joo;Lim, Goo-Il;Choi, Young-Sik;Lee, Wan-In
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.11
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    • pp.4035-4040
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    • 2011
  • Long $TiO_2$ nanotube (NT) arrays, prepared by electrochemical anodization of Ti foils, have been utilized as dye-adsorbing electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). By anodizing for 1-24 hr and subsequent annealing, highly crystallized and tightly-adhered NT arrays were tailored to 11-150 ${\mu}m$ lengths, ~90 nm innerpore diameter and ~30 nm wall thickness. I-V curves revealed that the photovoltaic conversion efficiency (${\eta}$) was proportional to the NT length up to 36 ${\mu}m$. Beyond this length, the ) was proportional to the NT length up to ${\eta}$ was still steadily increased, though at a much lower rate. For example, an ${\eta}$ of 5.05% at 36 ${\mu}m$ was increased to 6.18% at 150 ${\mu}m$. Transient photoelectron spectroscopic analyses indicated that NT array-based DSCs revealed considerably higher electron diffusion coefficient ($D_e$) and life time (${\tau}_e$) than those with $TiO_2$ nanoparticles (NP). Moreover, the electron diffusion lengths ($L_e$) of the photo-injected electrons were considerably larger than the corresponding NT lengths in all the cases, suggesting that electron transport in NT arrays is highly efficient, regardless of tube length.

An Investigation on Dynamic Behaviors of Single Vortex with CO2 Dilution in a CH4-Air Jet Diffusion Flame (CH4공기 제트 확산화염에서 CO2 첨가에 따른 단일 와동의 동적거동에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Chul-Hong;Oh, Chang-Bo;Lee, Dae-Yup;Lee, Chang-Eon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1209-1219
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    • 2003
  • The dynamic behaviors of the single vortex interacting with $CH_4-Air$ jet diffusion flame are investigated numerically. The numerical method is based on a predict-corrector scheme for a low Mach number flow. A two-step global reaction mechanism is adopted as a combustion model. Studies are conducted in fixed initial velocities for the three cases according as where $CO_2$ is added; (1) without dilution, (2) dilution in fuel stream and (3) dilution in oxidizer stream. A single vortex is generated by an axisymmetric jet, which is made by an impulse of a cold fuel when a flame is developed entirely in a computational domain. The simulation shows that $CO_2$ dilution in fuel stream results in somewhat larger vortex radius, and greater amount of entrainment of surrounding fluid than in other cases. Thus, the dilution of $CO_2$ in fuel stream enhances the mixing in single vortex and increases the stretching of the flame surface. The budgets of the vorticity transport equation are examined to reveal the mechanism of vortex formation when $CO_2$ is added. It is found that, in the case of $CO_2$ dilution in fuel stream, the vortex destruction due to volumetric expansion and the vortex production due to baroclinic torque are more dominant than in other cases.

Estimation of Suspended Solids Concentration Caused by Stream Bed Excavation Works through the Application of the Fickian Diffusion Model (Fick 확산 모형을 이용한 하상 굴착 공사로부터의 부유물질 농도 산정)

  • An, Myeong-Gil
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.621-628
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    • 1997
  • Excavation works on stream beds have been done for various reasons including aggregate collection, sediment dredging, bridge constructions, or laying pipes under the ground. These activities may cause significant loadings of SS (suspended solids) resulting in water pollution and other detrimental effects to the surrounding environment. This research investigates application potential of a fickian diffustion model, derived from two dimensional advection-diffusion equation through some simplifying assumptions, as a planning tool for the estimation of SS loadings from excavation works and evaluation fo pollution prevention measures in case that sophisticated numerical simulation models are not applicable due to various practical reasons. Through a case study of the Juncheon stream in the Donghae City on the Kangwondo Province, this study demonstrates applicability of the fickian diffustion model as a practical method for the preliminary estimation of Ss loadings from excavation works and evaluation of performance of fabrics made of synthetic fiber for the reduction of downstream SS concentration with deficient field data.

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A Numerical Study on Characteristics of Solute Transport in a Rough Single Fracture with Spatial Correlation Length and Effect of Effective Normal Stress (공간적 상관길이와 유효수직응력의 효과에 따른 거친 단일 균열내의 용질이동특성에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Jeong, Woochang
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.5-14
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    • 2009
  • This study is to analyze numerically the spatial behaviors of the solute transport in a spatially correlated variable-aperture fracture under the effective normal stress conditions. Numerical results show that the solute transport in a fracture is strongly affected by the spatial correlation length of apertures and applied effective normal stress. According to increasing spatial correlation length, the mean residence time of solute is decreased and the tortuosity and Peclet number (is a dimensionless number relating the rate of advection of a flow to its rate of diffusion) is also decreased. These results mean that the geometry of the aperture distribution is favorable to the solute transport as the spatial correlation length is increased. However, according to the applied effective normal stress is increased, the mean residence time and tortuosity have a tendency to increase but the Peclet number is decreased. The main reason that the Peclet number is decreased, is that the solute is displaced by one or two channels with relatively higher local flow rate due to the increment of contact areas by increasing effective normal stress. Moreover, based on numerical results of the solute transport in this study, the exponential-type correlation formulae between the mean residence time and the effective normal stress are proposed.

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