• 상하수도학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.317-324
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• 2018

SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination technology is recently getting more attention especially in large desalination markets such as USA, Middle East, Japan, Singapore, etc. because of its promising potential to recover a considerable amount of osmotic energy from brine (a high-concentration solution of salt, 60,000 - 80,000 mg/L) and also to minimize the impact of the discharged brine into a marine ecosystem. By the research and development of the core technologies of the SWRO-PRO desalination system in a national desalination research project (Global MVP) supported by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA), it is anticipated that around 25% of total energy consumption rate (generally 3 to $4kWh/m^3$) of the SWRO desalination can be reduced by recovering the brine's osmotic energy utilizing wastewater treatment effluent as a PRO feed solution and an isobaric pressure exchanger (PX, ERI) as a PRO energy converter. However, there are still several challenges needed to be overcome in order to ultimately commercialize the novel SWRO-PRO process. They include system optimization and integration, development of efficient PRO membrane and module, development of PRO membrane fouling control technology, development of design and operation technology for the system scaling-up, development of diverse business models, and so on. In this paper, the current status and progress of the pilot study of the newly developed SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination technology is discussed.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.102-105
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• 2002

ADSS(All Dielectirc Self-Supporting) cable installed under high voltage power cable line suffers a variety of environmental influence, rain, wind, snow fall, chemical pollution, salt fog and electrical stress. Its lifetime is required to be at least 20 years with this harsh weathering condition. The electrical stress under high voltage power line gives rise to dry band arcing and tracking, the severest damage, on the outer sheath of cable. Finally tracking might penetrate sheath and cause the break-down of ADSS cable. Tracking resistant sheath material, therefore, should be used to protect the core of ADSS from dry band arcing and to be sure long lifetime. In this work, we discuss various commercial tracking resistant material to investigate the way of track resistance and compare their mechanical, electrical, weathering and tracking properties through serial experiments. We found track resistant material is categorized into two main type : polyethylene with metal hydroxide and polyethylene with reduced carbon black. The Liquid contaminant, Inclined plane Tracking and Erosion test says the time to track of tracking resistant material with metal hydroxide has a little longer time to track in the high applied voltage than that with carbon black, but mechanical and weathering properties were inferior to.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.209-216
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• 2012

The biological activity of particles is largely dependent on their size in biological systems. Dispersion in the aqueous phase has been both a critical impediment to and a prerequisite for particle studies. Carbon black has been used as a surrogate to investigate the biological effects of carbonaceous particles. Here, biocompatible methods were established to disperse carbon black into ultrafine and fine particles which are generally distinguished by the small size of 100 nm. Carbon black with a distinct particle size, N330 and N990 were suspended in blood plasma, cell culture media, Krebs-Ringer's solution (KR), or physiological salt solution (PSS). Large clumps were observed in all dispersion preparations; however, sonication improved dispersion - averaged particle sizes for N330 and N990 were $85.0{\pm}42.9$ and $112.4{\pm}67.9$ nm, respectively, in plasma; the corresponding sizes in culture media were $84.8{\pm}38.4$ and $164.1{\pm}77.8$ nm. However, sonication was not enough to disperse N330 less than 100 nm in either KR or PSS. Application of Tween 80 along with sonication reduced the size of N330 to less than 100 nm, and dispersed N990 larger than 100 nm ($73.6{\pm}28.8$ and $80.1{\pm}30.0$ nm for N330 and $349.5{\pm}161.8$ and $399.8{\pm}181.1$ nm for N990 in KR and PSS, respectively). In contrast, 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) exhibited little effect. Electron microscopy confirmed the typical aciniform structure of the carbon arrays; however, zeta potential measurement failed to explain the dispersibility of carbon black. The methods established in this study could disperse carbon black into ultrafine and fine particles, and may serve as a useful model for the study of particle toxicity, particularly size-related effects.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.213-219
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 제온 파이 x200 프로세서를 이용하여 3차원 파동 전파 모델링을 수행하고 기존의 제온 CPU를 사용한 경우와 병렬 연산 성능을 비교하였다. 제온 파이 1세대 프로세서인 제온 파이 나이츠 코너 보조프로세서와 달리 제온 파이 2세대 프로세서인 x200 프로세서는 직접 운영체제 실행이 가능하므로 내장 메모리와 주메모리 사이의 추가적인 통신이 필요 없다. 또한 제온 파이 x200 프로세서는 대용량 주메모리와 고대역폭 메모리를 이용하여 대규모 컴퓨팅을 독립적으로 실행할 수 있다. 병렬 연산 성능 비교를 위해 MPI (Message Passing Interface)와 OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing)를 이용해 모델링을 수행하였다. SEG/EAGE 암염돔 모델을 이용한 수치 실험 결과 제온 파이에서 다량의 연산 코어와 고대역폭 메모리를 이용해 12 코어 CPU 대비 2.69 ~ 3.24배 우수한 모델링 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.161-161
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• 2017

Seed endophytes are very remarkable groups of bacteria for their unique abilities of being vertically transmitted and conserved. As plants attain hybrid vigor and heterosis in the process of crossbreeding, this might also lead to the changes in the community structure and diversity of plant endophytes in the hybrid plants ultimately affecting the endophytes of the seeds. It would be interesting to characterize how seed endophyte composition change over time. The objective of this study is to gain insights into the influence of natural crossbreeding and parental lineage in the seed bacterial endophytic communities of two pure inbred lines exploring contributions of the two most important sources of plant endophytes - colonization from external sources and vertical transmission via seeds. Total genomic DNA was isolated from rice seeds and bacterial DNA was selectively amplified by PCR. The diversity of endophytic bacteria was studied through Terminal-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis. Diversity between the original parents and the pure inbred line may show significant differences in terms of richness, evenness and diversity indices. Heat maps reveal astonishing contributions of both or either parents (IR29 ${\times}$ Pokkali and AT401 ${\times}$ IR31868) in the shaping of the bacterial seed endophytes of the hybrid, FL478 and IC32, respectively. Most of the T-RFs of the subsequent pure inbred line could be traced to any or both of the parents. Comparison of common and genotype-specific T-RFs of parents and their offspring reveals that majority of the T-RFs are shared suggesting higher transmission of bacterial communities common to both parents. The parents influence the bacterial community of their offspring. Unique T-RFs of the offspring also suggest external sources of colonization particularly as the seeds are cultivated in different ecogeographical locations. This study showed that host parental lines contributed greatly in the shaping of bacterial seed endophytes of their offspring. It also revealed transmission and potential conservation of core seed bacterial endophytes that generally become the dominant microbiota in the succeeding generations of plant hosts.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.127-140
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• 2015

A continuous series of 60 snow samples was collected at a 2.5-cm interval from a 1.5-m snow pit at a site on the Styx Glacier Plateau in Victoria Land, Antarctica, during the 2011/2012 austral summer season. Various chemical components (${\delta}D$, ${\delta}^{18}O$, $Na^+$, $K^+$, $Mg^{2+}$, $Ca^{2+}$, $Cl^-$, $SO_4{^2-}$, $NO_3{^-}$, $F^-$, $CH_3SO_3{^-}$, $CH_3CO_2{^-}$ and $HCO_2{^-}$) were determined to understand the highly resolved seasonal variations of these species in the coastal atmosphere near the Antarctic Jang Bogo station. Based on vertical profiles of ${\delta}^{18}O$, $NO_3{^-}$and MSA, which showed prominent seasonal changes in concentrations, the snow samples were dated to cover the time period from 2009 austral winter to 2012 austral summer with a mean accumulation rate of $226kgH_2Om^{-2}yr^{-1}$. Our snow profiles show pronounced seasonal variations for all the measured chemical species with a different pattern between different species. The distinctive feature of the occurrence patterns of the seasonal variations is clearly linked to changes in the relative strength of contributions from various natural sources (sea salt spray, volcanoes, crust-derived dust, and marine biogenic activities) during different short-term periods. The results allow us to understand the transport pathways and input mechanisms for each species and provide valuable information that will be useful for investigating long-term (decades to century scale periods) climate and environmental changes that can be deduced from an ice core to be retrieved from the Styx Glacier Plateau in the near future.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2012

The $[Fe_4S_4]^{2+}$ clusters with 2-, 3-, and 4-pyridinemethanethiolate (S2-Pic, S3-Pic, and S4-Pic, respectively) terminal ligands have been synthesized from the ligand substitution reaction of the $(^nBu_4N)_2[Fe_4S_4Cl_4]$ (I) cluster. The new $(^nBu_4N)_2[Fe_4S_4(SR)_4]$ (R = 2-Pic; II, 3-Pic; III, 4-Pic; IV) clusters were characterized by FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Cluster II was crystallized in the monoclinic space group C2/c with a = 24.530 (5) $\AA$, b = 24.636(4) $\AA$, c = 21.762(4) $\AA$, ${\beta}=103.253(3)^{\circ}$, and Z = 8. The X-ray structure of II showed two unique 2:2 site-differentiated $[Fe_4S_4]^{2+}$ clusters due to the bidentate-mode coordination by 2-pyridinemethanethiolate ligands. Cluster III was crystallized in the same monoclinic space group C2/c with a = 26.0740(18) $\AA$, b = 23.3195(16) $\AA$, c = 22.3720(15) $\AA$, ${\beta}=100.467(2)^{\circ}$, and Z = 8. The 3-pyridinemethanethiolate ligand of III was coordinated to the $[Fe_4S_4]^{2+}$ core as a terminal mode. Cluster IV with 4-pyridinemethanethiolate ligands was found to have a similar structure to the cluster III. Fully reversible $[Fe_4S_4]^{2+}/[Fe_4S_4]^+$ redox waves were observed from all three clusters by cyclic voltammetry measurement. The electrochemical potentials for the $[Fe_4S_4]^{2+}/[Fe_4S_4]^+$ transition decreased in the order of II, III and IV, and the reduction potential changes by the ligands were explained based on the structural differences among the complexes. The complex III was reacted with sulfonium salt of $[PhMeSCH_2-p-C_6H_4CN](BF_4)$ in MeCN to test possible radical-involving reaction as a functional model of the [$Fe_4S_4$]-SAM (S-adenosylmethionine) cofactor. However, the isolated reaction products of 3-pyridinemethanethiolate-p-cyanobenzylsulfide and thioanisole suggested that the reaction followed an ionic mechanism and the products formed from the terminal ligand attack to the sulfonium.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.573-580
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• 2006

한반도 서해안 중부 지역의 식생 변천사 규명을 위해 천리포 수목원 퇴적물의 방사성 탄소 연대 측정과 화분 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 약9,300 yr BP 이후 현재까지 식생 변천사를 규명하였다. 분석 결과를 통하여 바닥층부터 표층까지 4개의 주요한 화분대가 설정되었다. : Zone CHL-I, Quercus stage(ca. 9,300$\sim$6,200 yr BP); zone CHL- II, Quercus-Pinus stage(ca. 6,200$\sim$4,600 y BP): zone CHL-III, Pinus-Quercus stage(ca. 4,600$\sim$1,160 yr BP); zone CHL-IV, Pinus stage(ca. 1,160 yr BP-present). 홀로세초기 약9,000$\sim$B,500 yrBP동안 한랭한 기후의 영향으로 냉온대 북부/고산지형 침엽-낙엽혼합림의 단편을 확인할 수 있었다. 약 8,500$\sim$6,000 yr BP 동안 Quercus를 중심으로 한 냉온대 중부/산지형 낙엽활엽수림이 절대적으로 우세한 식생이 유지되고 있었으며, 이러한 식생형의 완성 시기는 약 6,500 y BP 전후로 판단된다. 천리포 수목원 주변에 Pinus가 생육하기 시작한 시기는 약 5,700 yr BP 이후로 사료된다. 약 1,100 yr BP 이후 Pinus의 증가와 비수목화분의 갑작스러운 증가는 인간의 간섭에 의한 식생 ,변화로 보인다. 염습지의 주요한 표징종인 Chenopo-diaceae화분 동태를 통하여 염습지에서 담수호로 변화한 시기는 약 6,500 yr BP이후인 것으로 추정된다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.156-170
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• 2007

부산은 지리적 특성으로 인하여 상공업이 발달하였고 정착기와 확산기를 맞이하였으며 무역도시로 발달하였다. 2000년 이후 인구감소, 제조업의 이전, 외래관광객의 감소 등으로 경제력이 약화되어 경쟁력을 잃고 있다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 항구적 해안의 지형적 지역의 전통산업적 국제교통적 특성의 강점을 이용하여 해상관광활성화의 혁신적 전략이 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 부산의 해상관광활성화의 전략을 규명하는 것으로 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 해안과 해상의 환경을 고려하여 해상관광의 거점을 선정하고 거점의 정체성을 규명하여 관광자원으로 개발되어야 한다. 둘째, 선정된 다수의 거점 중에서 핵심적인 관광거점은 외래관광객을 집중시키는 관광터미널의 기능이 필요하고 부산의 랜드마크가 되어야 한다. 셋째, 각각의 관광거점은 관광객이 다양한 해상관광활동을 체험할 수 있어야 하고 특화되어야 한다. 넷째, 해상관광거점은 해상관광루트로 연계되어야 한다. 다섯째, 해상관광의 비수기를 극복하기 위하여 관광거점을 중심으로 겨울관광상품인 실내 스케이트장과 스키장, 해수풀장과 인공해수욕장, 인공잔디썰매장, 인공해안절벽, 해수온천장 등의 관광자원개발이 요구된다.

• 폴리머
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.403-408
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• 2008

케라틴은 울, 머리카락, 손톱 등을 형성하는 섬유단백질의 주요성분으로 유용한 생체재료이다. 골수간염 줄기세포를 이용한 조직공학 적용을 위해 Poly(4-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA)에 함량별로 케라틴을 함유한 지지체를 용매 캐스팅/염 추출법을 이용하여 제조하였다. 제조된 지지체의 표면과 단면의 형태를 전자현미경(SEM)으로 관찰하고 특성분석을 위해 다공도, 표면 적심성, 물 흡수성, 그리고 열적성질을 분석하였다. 이 후 쥐에서 분리한 골수간엽줄기세포를 지지체에 파종하여 세포의 증식율을 (4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2.5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide(MTT) 분석방법을 이용하여 측정하였다. 천연/합성 하이브리드 담체인 케라틴/PLGA 지지체는 PLGA 단독으로 제조된 지지체와 비교 시 골수간엽줄기세포의 생장에 유익한 환경을 제공함을 확인하였다.