• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.702-711
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• 2016

The authors reviewed information about biorefining of biomass by using academic information databases. Feedstocks were classified into triglycerides biomass, sugar biomass, starchy biomass, lignocellulosic biomass, and organic waste biomass. Biorefinery is an integrated system converting biomass into biofuels and biochemicals by various physical, chemical, biological, and thermochemical technologies. This paper presented a comprehensive summaries of opportunities, recent trends and challenges of biorefinery. A brief overview of promising building blocks, their sources from biomass, and their derivatives were also provided. In conclusion, this paper demonstrated the feasibility of biorefinery producing biofuels and biochemicals from biomass.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2019

Current international concerns are the energy crisis due to climate change and depletion of fossil fuels due to global warming. Korea has a very high dependency on energy imports 93%. In Korea, 63% of the country is forested, and a power plant using wood biomass is being built in Korea. Biomass fly ash, a by-product of biomass energy generation, is now being discarded. There is little research to utilize discarded biomass fly ash. Therefore, this study aims to solve the environmental problems, develop new mixed materials, improve the quality and utilize the biomass fly ash, which is a by-product of the industrial waste. As a result of the experiment, the flowability decreased as the replacement ratio of biomass fly ash increased. As the replacement ratio of biomass fly ash decreased, the amount of air content.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.131-140
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• 2010

Zero waste clean city was visualized by designing the environmental fundamental facilities such as automated waste collection and bio-energizing system of domestic waste, which was categorized into food and combustible waste from urban area. The biomass circulation position was applied to the domestic waste collection position combined with bio-energizing system in the zero waste clean city. Bio-energizing system consisted of bio-gasification, bio-fuel and bioenergy-circulation process. Food wastes were treated by bio-gasification with anaerobic digestion, and combustible wastes were made of bio-fuel with pyrolysis/drying. Biogas and bio-fuel was utilized into the electric generation or boiler heat in bioenergy-circulation process. The emission of carbon dioxide(CO2) and construction fee of the environmental fundamental facilities related with domestic waste was estimated in the existing city and zero waste clean city, assuming the amount of food waste 35 ton/day, combustible waste 20 ton/day from domestic area. Consequently, 2.7 times lower carbon dioxide emission and 15% construction fee of the environmental fundamental facilities related with domestic waste were obtained from the zero waste clean city by comparing with existing city.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.54-65
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• 2006

This study was conducted to examine the biomass and energy content of 60- to 70-year-old Quercus mongolica stand facing northern and southern aspect in Mt. Baekwoon (800 m above sea level), Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do and in Mt. Halla (1,000 m above sea level), Jeju-do. The total biomass was 288.4 ton/ha in northern aspect and 241.9 ton/ha in southern aspect of Mt. Baekwoon while 368.4 ton/ha in northern aspect and 364.3 ton/ha in southern aspect of Mt. Halla. Annual net production was 20.7 ton/ha/yr in northern aspect and 17.7 ton/ha/yr in southern aspect of Mt. Baekwoon while 19.0 ton/ha/yr in northern aspect and 21.2 ton/ha/yr in southern aspect of Mt. Halla. Total biomass and annual net production of Mt. Halla were greater than those of Mt. Baekwoon. The net assimilation rate (NAR) was 5.05 in northern aspect and 4.09 in southern aspect of Mt. Baekwoon, while 4.60 in northern aspect and 3.66 in southern aspect of Mt. Halla, Total energy content was 5,666 GJ/ha in northern aspect and 4,793 GJ/ha in southern aspect of Mt. Baekwoon while 6,550 GJ/ha in northern aspect and 6,435 GJ/ha in southern aspect of Mt. Halla. Annual energy content was 365 GJ/ha/yr in northern aspect and 360 GJ/ha/yr in southern aspect of Mt. Baekwoon while 351 GJ/ha/yr in northern aspect and 347 GJ/ha/yr in southern aspect of Mt. Halla. Annual energy content of Mt. Baekwoon was greater than that of Mt. Halla.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.804-815
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• 2019

Due to the depletion and environmental problems of fossil fuel, biomass has arisen as an alternative energy source. Biomass is a renewable and carbon-neutral source. However, it is moister and has lower energy density. Therefore, biomass needs thermal chemical conversion processes like gasification, and it does not only produce a flammable gas, called 'syngas', which consists of CO, H2, and CH4, but also some unwanted byproducts such as tars and some particulates. These contaminants are condensed and foul in pipelines, combustion chamber and turbine, causing a deterioration in efficiency. Thus this work attempted to find a method to remove tars and particles from syngas with a filter which adopts a pre-coating technology for preventing blockage of the filter medium. Hydrated limestone powder and activated carbon(wood char) powder were used as the pre-coat materials. The removal efficiency of the tars was 86 % and 80 % with activated carbon(wood char) coating and hydrated limestone coating, respectively.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.221-227
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• 2010

In this study, we consider gas generation characteristics on pyrolysis of eco-fuel which were made by mixing of Pitch Pine and Lauan sawdust as biomass and polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene as municipal plastic wastes with catalyst in fixed bed reactor. From the result of higher heating value(HHV) measurement and of ultimate analysis, the heating value of plastic wastes and a hydrogen content in plastic sample are higher than biomass. An activation energy was reduced by a catalyst addition. However the catalyst content influence over 5 wt% was insignificant. The yield of hydrogen from gasification of biomass containing plastic wastes such as polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene were obtained higher than that of sole biomass. The high temperature and mixture ratio of catalyst conditions induced to high hydrogen yield in most of the samples. As the influence of catalyst, the hydrogen yield by catalytic reaction was higher than non-catalytic reaction. We confirmed that Ni-$ZrO_2$ catalyst is more active in increasing the hydrogen yield in comparison with that of carbonate catalyst. The maximum hydrogen yield was 65.9 vol.%(Pitch Pine / polypropylene / 20 wt.% Ni-$ZrO_2$(1:9) at $900^{\circ}C$).

• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.4 s.371
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• pp.28-29
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• 2000

우리나라에 에너지를 안정적으로 공급하고 에너지기술을 자립시키는 것을 목표로 설립된 한국에너지기술연구소 산하의 대체에너지연구부는 태양열 이용연구 등 7개팀으로 나뉘어 연구사업을 펼치고 있다. 이 연구부는 주로 태양에너지를 비롯해 풍력발전, 소규모의 수력발전, 수소에너지, 바이오매스(동ㆍ식물, 미생물의 유기물량)등을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있는 기술에 대한 연구를 계속하고 있다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.10-22
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• 2022

Forest biomass energy is based on scientific evidence in response to carbon neutrality and the climate crisis, international consensus, and environmental-geographic characteristics of each nation. In this study, the authors aimed to analyze macroscopic forest biomass energy policies for ten major countries. They categorized them into six detailed categories (Sustainable utilization, Cascading Uutilization, Replacement of fossil fuel/Carbon intensive products, Utilization of forest by-products/residues as the source of energy, Contribution to carbon-neutral/climate change, and Biomass combined with CCS/CCUS ). In addition, the surveyed nations have developed a policy consensus on the active use of forest biomass with sustainable forest management except for the cascading utilization category. Furthermore, the authors evaluated the mid to long-term plans of the Korean government for improvements in the policy and legal aspects. As a result, the authors derived four major directions that South Korea should approach strategically in the future (1) secure financial resources for sustainable forest management and stimulating investment in the timber industry, (2) promote unified policies to establish a bio-economy, (3) enhancement of the forest biomass energy system, and (4) reorganization and promotion of strategy centered on the opinions of field experts in internal and external instability.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.161-162
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• 2011

신재생에너지는 자연계에 존재하는 에너지원으로 이용하는 이상의 속도로 재생되는 에너지원이다. 그 에너지원은 태양, 풍력, 조력 등으로 사실상 고갈되지 않는 에너지원이며 또한 수력, 태양광, 태양열, 조력, 풍력, 지열, 바이오매스 등의 형태로 이용된다. 이들 에너지원은 직접, 또는 간접적으로 이용하는 경우가 있다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.456-461
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• 2012

To verify the utilization of biomass as energy, the combustion characteristic has been studied by an experimental combustion furnace under an isothermal and non-isothermal combustion. The wood pellet, rice straw and rice husk were used as biomass samples in this work. The characteristics of emission gases, dusts and residues from biomass combustion have been analyzed and compared with those of reuse derived fuel (RDF). From isothermal combustion experiments, it was found that the incomplete combustion of rice straw was greater that that of rice husk, wood pellet and RDF. This is due to the fact that the combustion reaction rate of the rice straw was faster than that of other samples, and the oxygen concentration in rice straw combustion was rapidly decreasing. It was also found that $NO_{X}$ concentration of emission gas from wood pellet combustion was the lowest. From non-isothermal combustion experiments, it was found that all samples were burned before $900^{\circ}C$. Also, the temperature range of $NO_{X}$ emission was similar to that of CO emission, on the other hand, $SO_{2}$ was emitted at a higher temperature than that of CO emission.