• Resources Recycling
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.67-76
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• 2022

The furniture industry has a high possibility to create value-added and a high potential to create new occupations due to the characteristics of the industry, which mainly consists of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, the used furniture, which has sufficient reuse value, is also crushed and used as solid refuse fuel (SRF) recently. Besides, the number of waste treatment companies continues to decrease, and it occurs congestion of wood waste. As a way to solve the issue, a business model development of remanufacturing used furniture can be suggested as an alternative due to its high circular economic efficiency. Remanufacturing business including furniture industry creates positive effects in various aspects such as economic, environmental and job creation. In other words, remanufacturing is an effective recycling way to reduce input resources and energy in the production process. The results of economic analysis show that the expected annual revenue from the single worker furniture remanufacturing site was 104 million won which is 3.11 times more than the average income of a single-worker household in Korea and its B/C ratio was estimated about 30 which means high business feasibility. Revenue through furniture remanufacturing also showed 320 times higher than that of SRF production from the perspective of weight. In addition, it is shown that the GHGs reduction from the furniture remanufacturing is 2.2 ton CO₂-eq. per year, which is similar to the amount of GHGs absorption effect of 937 pine trees or 622 Korean oak trees annually. Thus the results of this study demonstrate that it is important to adopt an appropriate recycling method considering the economic and environmental effects at the end-of-life stage.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2008

As recycled fine aggregate manufacturing technology with exceeding in economical efficiency, reduction efficiency of environmental load and quality improvement effect of recycled fine aggregate, it is to develop dry manufacturing system composed specific gravity separator of high-speed rotation impact type and centrifugal Force Powder Collector, etc. in this study. And it is to verify performance with evaluating quality of recycled fine aggregate. In consequence, it is identify that performance improvement effect of recycled fine aggregate by crushing recycled fine aggregate according to high-speed rotation impact, separating and collecting powder and minuteness dust according to centrifugal Force and mass defect, separating and reclaiming minuteness sand to mass defect.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.142-142
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• 2015

저영향개발 기법은 유역개발에 따른 수문 및 환경적 영향을 최소화하기 위해 자연상태를 가급적 보존하고 불투수 면적을 최대한 줄이며, 우수발생 지점에서부터 소규모로 우수를 관리하는 분산식 우수배제 방식을 지향한다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 저영향개발 기법을 이용한 도시유역의 우수관리에 관한 효과를 기술적, 경제적 관점에서 정량적으로 평가하는 것이다. 이를 위해 기존 개발 방식으로 계획된 송산 그린시티 동측지구에 저영향개발 기법을 적용하였고, 결과를 기존 개발 방식과 비교하여 저영향개발 기법의 효과를 분석하였다. 대상유역에 대하여 저영향개발 기법을 적용하기 위해 분산식 우수배제 방식을 도입하였고(그림 1), 식생수로와 인공습지 등의 저영향개발 요소기술을 적용하였다(그림 2). 연구에서는 SWMM을 이용하여 저영향개발 기법과 기존 개발 방식에 의한 우수관리를 각각 모의하였고, 모의 결과를 홍수, 물순환, 비점오염 저감의 관점에서 비교 검토하였다(그림 3과 4). 또한, 개략 공사비 산정을 통해 기존 개발 방식 대비 저영향개발 기술의 경제적 효과를 분석하였다. 그 결과, 저영향개발 기법을 적용할 경우, 상대적으로 저 비용으로도 기존 개발 방식에 의한 우수관리보다 더 높은 효과를 달성할 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.627-639
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• 2018

Waste management in Jeju Province, Korea, has recently emerged as an urgent problem. The increasing waste discharge requires more landfills but, since it is an island, the available land is restricted. Accordingly, an efficient waste management urgently requires environmentally sustainable policies. In this article, the waste discharge characteristics (such as the amount of waste, its composition, etc.) of Jeju Province have been compared with those in the rest of Korea. The current industrial waste management of two cities on the Island, Jeju City and Seogwipo City, has been also analyzed to suggest policies for an efficient management. The local government's endeavor to enhance environmental awareness of the community has been known to reduce the private cost of policy compliance, and have individuals recognize the results of their policy compliance. Policies to achieve the above are then proposed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.89-102
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• 2001

Using a multiproduct translog cost function model, this paper examines the existence or absence of scale and scope economies in Seoul's urban bus industry. The Paper then conceptualizes that the bus firm produces three outputs (city, seat and local bus-kilometers) using low input factors(labor, capital, fuel and maintenance). Using 1996 annual observations for 81 Seoul's bus firms, the equation system consisting of a cost function and three input share equations is estimated with the nonlinear iterative Zellner method. The findings show that the cost function corresponding to a non-homothetic production technology with separability between local bus outputs and inputs adequately represents the structure of cost for Seoul's bus firms, and that the demand lot all input factors is quite inelastic with respect to their own price. On the other hand, nearly all firms experience mild overall economies or scale, but rather marked product-specific economies of scale with respect to all the three outputs. In addition, there appear to be substantial economies or scope associated with the joint production of city and seat bus services, while considerable diseconomies of scope associated with that of city and local bus services. These results indicate that the merger of smaller firms into larger firms with a fleet of approximately 200 buses would result in more cost-efficient bus services.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.40-52
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• 2022

This study analyzed the amount of carbon dioxide reduction and economic benefits of detailed processes of CO₂ 6,000 tons plant facilities with mineral carbonation technology using carbon dioxide and coal materials emitted from domestic circulating fluidized bed combustion power plants. Coal ash reacted with carbon dioxide through carbon mineralization facilities is produced as a complex carbonate and used as a construction material, accompanied by a greenhouse gas reduction. In addition, it is possible to generate profits from the sales of complex carbonates and carbon credits produced in the process. The actual carbon dioxide reduction per ton of complex carbonate production was calculated as 45.8 kgCO₂eq, and the annual carbon dioxide reduction was calculated as 805.3 tonCO₂, and the benefit-cost ratio (B/C Ratio) is 1.04, the internal rate return (IRR) is 10.65 % and the net present value (NPV) is KRW 24,713,465 won, which is considered economical. Carbon mineralization technology is one of the best solutions to reduce carbon dioxide considering future carbon dioxide reduction and economic potential.

• 사회경제평론
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.63-105
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• 2018

Keynes proposed revolutionary claims in his General Theory that the capitalist economy have the following characteristics: unemployment is general, unemployment could not be automatically restored, business cycle and crisis are inherent in the capitalist economy. Hicks refuted Keynes that unemployment is a special case of depression, and Modigliani argued that it is only valid under a particular assumption of wage rigidity. Also, Pigou and Patinkin contended that unemployment can be automatically recovered in the flexible wages and prices system. These refutations have made the revolutionary reforms appeared in Keynes's General Theory to decline. However, their claims did not correctly interpret Keynes's theories, nor effectively refute them. They interpreted Keynes narrowly within the framework of the classical tradition and refuted Keynes using the claims of the classics. The revolutionary nature of Keynes's General Theory could be not undermined by their refutation, but rather may be more useful in analyzing today's economic reality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.658-660
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• 2002

순환 스케줄분석은 효율성과 경제성을 모두 제고하여야 하는 문제로 분석알고리즘의 구성이 쉽지 않다. 따라서, 서로 다른 요소들을 활용한 알고리즘들과, 새로운 분석알고리즘의 효율성 비교분석이 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 예제 모델을 통한 비교 알고리즘의 처리과정과 결과를 복잡도, 최적도와 노력도를 기준으로 비교 분석 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.19-22
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• 1995

순환유동층 연소기술은 다양한 성상의 연료를 저공해 고효율로 연소할 수 있는 우수한 연소방식으로 재래의 기포유동층 연소방식에서 부터 고효율, 대용량으로 확장되어 발전 및 열병합, 소각, 또는 복합발전에 적용되는 차세대 연소기술이다 [1,2]. 국내에는 1980년 중반이후 현재까지 약 10여기의 보일러가 도입되었으며, 경제성 및 관리체계의 우수성을 인정받아 확대 보급될 전망이다.

• Cement
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• s.194
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• pp.14-15
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• 2012

현대경제연구원은 지난 5월 16일부터 23일까지 8일 동안 전국 20세 이상의 성인남녀 1,011명을 대상으로 전화설문을 통해 "성장과 복지의 선순환 관련 설문 조사"를 실시하고 그 결과를 최근 발표했다. 설문조사 결과 성장과 복지 중 '성장이 우선'이라는 답변(58.0%)이 많았지만 세대간 차이가 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 2030세대는 '복지가 우선'이라는 응답이 많았으나 40세 이상은 '성장이 우선'이라는 답변이 많았다. 성장과 복지 둘 다 중요하며 함께 갈 수 있다는 의견에 대해서는 '가능하다'는 긍정적인 의견이 77.0%로 부정적인 견해(23.0%)보다 훨씬 많았다. 여기서는 이번 조사결과의 주요 내용을 요약해 소개한다.