• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.190-197
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• 2024

A commercial PbO₂ mesh cylinder electrode was utilized as the anode for the electrochemical degradation of the textile effluent after the biological treatment with the titanium cylinder as the cathode in a self-made tube electrolyzer. The electrochemical performances of the PbO₂ electrode in tube electrolyzer under different initial pH, electrolyte flow rates, current densities and times of the electrochemical degradation were investigated. The experimental results illustrated that the PbO₂ electrode can reduce the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the textile effluent from 94.0 mg L^-1 to 65.0 mg L^-1 with the current efficiency of 88.3%, the energy consumption of 27.7 kWh kg^-1 (per kilogram of degraded COD) and the carbon emissions of 18.0 kg CO₂ kg^-1 (per kilogram of degraded COD) under the optimal operating conditions. In addition, the COD of the textile effluent could be reduced from 94.0 mg L^-1 to 22.0 mg L^-1 after the fifth electrochemical degradation. Therefore, PbO₂ mesh cylinder electrode in the tube cylinder was promising for the electrochemical degradation of the textile effluent.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.266-271
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• 2021

A commercial PbO₂ electrode was adopted as the anode for the electrochemical degradation of the real textile effluent with the initial COD of 56.0 mg L^-1 and the stainless steel plate as the cathode. The effect of the initial pH, the electrolyte flow rate and the cell voltage on the COD, the current efficiency and the energy consumption were investigated without the addition of NaCl or Na₂SO₄. The experimental results illustrated that the PbO₂ electrode can reduce the COD of the textile effluent from 56.0 mg L^-1 to 26.0 mg L^-1 with the current efficiency of 86.1% and the energy consumption of 17.5 kWh kg^-1 (per kilogram of degraded COD) under the optimal operating conditions. Therefore PbO₂ electrode as the anode was promising to further electrochemically degrade the real textile effluent.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권6호
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• pp.803-810
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• 2013

The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of shape of the inductive textile electrode on the non-contact heart activity sensing, based on the magnetic-induced conductivity principle. Four types of the inductive textile electrodes were determined according to the combinations of the two shape features. A fiber-metal hybrid-typed conductive thread was developed and applied to materialization of the textile electrodes by embroidery method. The heart activity was extracted through the textile electrode sewn on a T-shirt. The experiments were implemented to constantly measure the heart activity for 20 seconds, in each case of 5 healthy male subjects. The heart activity signals acquired in each type of the inductive textile electrode were analyzed, 1)by drawing a comparison of morphology with those of ECG signal (LeadII), and 2)by calculation of the normalized mean and standard deviation of magnitude of the heart activity signals. The analysis resulted that the relatively better quality of signals were acquired in the 'square' types in the matter of whole shape, while the better results were obtained in 'donut' types in the matter of center hole. Accordingly, the relatively best quality of signals was obtained in the case of 'Square-Donut' type of the inductive textile electrode.

• 감성과학
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.419-426
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• 2008

In order to develop "textile electrode - sensing clothing" which is a sort of smart clothing to measure electric activities of heart, we propose possible ways to develop textile electrode and design of sensing clothing, ultimately aiming to develop "ECG sensing clothing for lifestyle monitoring". Conventional sensors for measuring typical electric activities of heart keep certain distance between measuring electrodes to measure signals for electric activities of heart, but these sensors often cause inappropriate factors (e.g. motional artifacts, inconvenience of use, etc) for monitoring natural cardiac activities in our daily life. In addition, most of textile electrodes have made it difficult to collect data due to high impedance and unstable contact between skin and electrodes. To overcome these questions, we minimized distance between electrodes and skin to maximize convenience of use. And in order to complement contact between skin electrodes, we modified textile electrode's form and developed ways to design clothing. As a result, we could find out clinical significance by investigating possible associations of clinical electrocardiogram (ECG) with variation of distance between electrodes, and could also demonstrate clinically significant associations between textile electrode developed herein and clothing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.371-372
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• 2008

Many kinds of electrodes have been developed in various forms and shapes for measurement of bio potential signal. Textile electrode has benefit of collect long tenn data monitoring because of it is non-consciousness, convenient and do not occur skin irritation. However, It is very difficult to acquire available data due to high impedance of electrode and unstable skin-electrode contact which generate motion artifact. Also snap button which usually used as mediator between textile and measurement device cause change of electrical characteristics. In this paper, we inflated textile electrode to stabilize contact and add conductive silver paste between textile and snap button to improve conductance. To compare the performance of two methods, flat or inflated and add conductive paste or not, four types of electrodes are tested on each impedance and SNR by ECG measurement. In result, the first type electrode which flat and non-conductive paste showed the worst performance and the last type electrode which is inflated shape and contain conductive paste show the best performance.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1186-1193
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• 2009

Wearable ECG monitoring is regarded as one of the most essential part in the ubiquitous healthcare environment and subsequently day-life monitoring of a heart condition has been pursued especially for the elder people. However, there are many problems to accomplish this task such as; i) implementation of long-term monitoring device, ii) development of non-irritating electrode on skin and iii) stable signal acquisition. With these aims, we have focused on implementing a non-irritating electrode with an endurable monitoring device for day-life. To accomplish our tasks, we basically developed four different types of textile electrodes that are adapted by both shape and the composed material; flat or convex shape and Ag-conductive paste material or not. It turns out to be that a convex shape and Ag-paste textile electrode has the best performance in terms of both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and Impedance/Phase characteristics. Furthermore, ECG amplifier (35 ${\times}$ 35 mm) has developed to resolve the ECG signal and transfer the signal to desktop computing device or portable one by RF serial communication.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.359-363
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• 2000

This research studied the characteristics and applicability of electrocoagulation using aluminium electrode for the color and COD removal in textile wastewater. Electrocoagulation reactor used two different electrode, Fe and Al, since in the general chemical wastewater treatment, aluminium and ferrous salts were used as coagulants. Aluminium electrode showed higher removal efficiency of color and COD than ferrous electrode did. The COD and color removal efficiency improved at the 0.192A/$dm^2$ current density. Thus, the electrocoagulation process with bipolar aluminium electrode showed better efficiency in the decolorization and COD removal rate of textile wastewater effluent than custom coagulants did.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.367-372
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• 2013

In this paper, micro dried bio-potential electrodes are demonstrated for sEMG (surface ElectroMyoGraphic) signal measurement using conductive epoxy on the textile fabric. Micro dried bio-potential electrodes on the textile fabric substrate have several advantages over the conventional wet/dry electrodes such as good feeling of wearing, possibility of extended-wearing due to the good ventilation. Also these electrodes on the textile fabric can easily apply to the curved skin surface. These electrodes are fabricated by the screen-printing process with the size of $1mm{\times}10mm$ and the resultant resistance of these electrodes have the average value of $0.4{\Omega}$. The conventional silver chloride electrode shows the average value of $0.3{\Omega}$. However, the electrode on the textile fabric are able to measure the sEMG signal without feeling of difference and this electrode shows the lower resistance of $1.03{\Omega}$ than conventional silver chloride electrode with $2.8{\Omega}$ in the condition of the very sharp curve surface (the radius of curvature is 40 mm).

• 감성과학
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.63-76
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 스마트 헬스케어를 위해 접촉식 직물전극의 구조가 심장활동 신호 획득에 미치는 영향을 연구하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 심장활동 신호 측정을 위하여 전극의 크기와 구성방식을 조작한 6종의 접촉식 직물전극을 컴퓨터 자수 방식으로 구현하였고, 이를 가슴밴드에 부착하여 응용형 리드 II(modified Lead II) 방식으로 심장활동 신호를 검출하였다. 건강한 신체의 남성 4명을 대상으로 서서 정지한 자세에서 각 직물전극을 사용하여 심장활동 신호를 검출하였으며, 모든 유형의 전극에 걸쳐 4회씩 반복측정 하였다. 심장활동 신호의 수집을 위해 BIOPAC ECG100 장비를 사용하여 1 kHz로 샘플링하였으며, 검출된 원 신호를 대역통과 필터를 사용하여 필터링하였다. 직물전극의 구조에 따른 심장활동 신호 획득의 성능을 비교하기 위하여 신호의 파형과 크기를 파라미터로 하여 정성적 분석을 실시하였고, 각 전극을 통하여 획득된 심장활동 신호의 SPR(signal power ratio)을 산출함으로써 정량적 분석을 실시하였다. 산출된 SPR 값을 대상으로 하여 비모수 통계분석 방식의 차이검정과 사후검정을 실시함으로써 6개 전극의 구조에 따른 심장활동 신호 획득의 성능 차이를 구체적으로 분석하였다. 연구 결과 접촉식 직물전극의 구조에 따라 심장활동 신호의 품질에는 정성적, 정량적 측면에 걸쳐 모두 주요한 차이가 있는 것이 고찰되었다. 접촉식 직물전극의 구성 측면에 있어서는 입체전극이 평면전극에 비해 더 우수한 품질의 신호가 검출되는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 3가지 전극 크기에 따른 심장활동 신호 획득의 유의한 성능 차이는 발견되지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 심장활동 신호 획득을 위한 접촉식 직물전극 구조의 두 가지 요건 중 구성방식(평면/입체)이 웨어러블 헬스케어를 위한 심장활동 신호 획득의 성능에 주요한 영향을 미치는 것을 시사한다. 본 연구 결과를 기반으로 후속 연구에서는 직물전극이 일체형으로 통합된 의복형 플랫폼을 구현하고 성능 고도화 방안을 연구함으로써, 시공간의 제약 없이 고품질의 심장활동 모니터링이 가능한 스마트 의류 기술을 개발하고자 한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2006

We have designed the system that measure one channel ECG by two electrode and extract real-time EDR with more related resipiration and comportable to subject by using conductive textile. On the assumption that relation between RL electrode and potential measurement electrode is coupled with RC connected model, we designed RL drive output to feedback two electrode for reduction of common mode signal. The conductive textile which was used for two ECG electrode was offered more comfort during night sleep in bed than any other method using attachments. In the method of single-lead EDR, R wave point or QRS interval area could be used for EDR estimation in traditional method, it is, so to speak, the amplitude modulation(AM) method for EDR. Alternatively, R-R interval could be used for frequency modulation(FM) method based on Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia(RSA). For evaluation of performance on AM EDR and FM EDR from 14 subject, ECG lead III was measured. Each EDR was compared with both temperature around nose(direct measurement of respiration) and respiration signal from thoracic belt(indirect measurement of respiration) on mean squared error(MSE), cross correlation(Xcorr), and Coherence. The upsampling interpolation technique of multirate signal processing is applied to interpolating data instead of cubic spline interpolation. As a result, we showed the real-time EDR extraction processing to be implemented at micro-controller.