• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2023

'Carbon-neutrality Assessment based on Technology Application Scenario (CATAS)' provides an analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction effectiveness when applying carbon-neutrality technology to areas such as energy conversion, transportation, and buildings at certain spatial levels. As for the development scope of the model, GHG emission sources were analyzed for direct GHG emissions, and the boundary between direct and indirect emissions are set according to the spatial scope. The technical scope included nine technologies and forest sinks in the transition sector that occupies the largest portion of GHG emissions in the 2050 carbon neutral scenario. The carbon neutrality rate evaluation methodology consists of four steps: ① analysis of GHG emissions, ② prediction of energy production according to technology introduction, ③ calculation of GHG reduction, and ④ calculation of carbon neutrality rate. After the web-based CATAS-BASIC was developed, an analysis was conducted by applying the new and renewable energy distribution goals presented in the ｢2050 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Promotion Plan｣ of the Seoul Metropolitan Government. As a result of applying solar power, hydrogen fuel cell, and hydrothermal, the introduction of technology reduced 0.43 million tCO₂eq of 1.49 million tCO₂eq, which is the amount of emissions from the conversion sector in Seoul, and the carbon neutrality rate in the conversion sector was analyzed to be 28.94 %.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.15 no.1 s.45
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• pp.52-59
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• 2006

This paper examined the conversion of methane to hydrogen and other higher hydrocarbons using dielectric barrier discharge with AC pulse power. Two metal electrodes of a coaxial-type plasma reactor were separated by gas gap and an alumina tube. The inner electrode was located inside the alumina tube. The alumina tube was located inside the stainless steel tube, which was used as the outer electrode. Effect of feed gas composition (methane, oxygen, argon, water and helium), flow rate, applied frequency, input volt-age on methane conversion and product distribution were studied. The major products of plasma chemical reactions were ethylene, ethane, propane, buthane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The increment of applied voltage and the usage of inert gas as the background (helium and argon) enhanced the selectivity of hydrocarbons and methane conversion. The addition of water in the feed stream enhanced the conversion of methane and yield of hydrogen. Higher voltage leads to higher yield of $C_2H_6,\;C_3H_8,\;C_4H_{10}$ and yield or $C_2H_2\;and\;C_2H_4$ appeared highly in lower voltage.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.88-94
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• 2019

Triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is a photochemical process wherein two or more low-energy photons are converted to a high-energy photon through a special energy transfer mechanism. Herein, we report a strategy to enhance the efficiency of TTA-UC through the light-scattering effect induced by silica microparticles (SM) embedded in polymeric thin films. By incorporating monodisperse uniform silica microparticles with a uniform size of 950 nm synthesized by $St{\ddot{o}}ber$-based seeded growth method into UC polymeric thin films, the UC intensity in the 430-570 nm range was enhanced by as much as 64% when irradiated by 635 nm laser. Analyzing the lifetime of PdTPBP phosphorescence revealed that the presence of SM in the UC layer does not affect triplet-triplet energy transfer (TTET) between sensitizers and acceptors, supporting the enhancement of TTA-UC originated from the light-scattering effect. On the other hand, the incorporation of SM in UC layer is shown to enhance the triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) efficiency, which results in a 1.5-fold increase of the ${\Phi}_{UC}$, by scattering light source and thus increasing the number of excited photons to be utilized in TTA-UC process.

• Clean Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.220-228
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• 2010

Four Keggin-type heteropolyacids, $H_nXM_{12}O_{40}$(X = P and Si, M = W and Mo) that were substituted with heteroatom and polyatom were applied to the dehydration reaction of fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). The results showed that the acid became stronger when the heteroatom and polyatom were substituted with P and W than the cases of Si and Mo, respectively. However, the amount of acidic sites increased with the decrease in the acid strength, resulting in the change of the catalytic activity of heteropolyacids in the dehydration reaction. The experimental results revealed that four different heteropolyacids produced similar amounts of HMF via the dehydration reaction of fructose due to the counterbalancing effect between the amount of active sites, which is related to the catalytic activity of heteropolyacids, and the softness of polyanion. In addition, it was observed that the prepared heteropolyacids showed good structural stability after heat treatment at $200^{\circ}C$.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.557-586
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• 2009

Although energy demand management policy attracts attention internationally and domestically, the importance of local government in this policy is not so much as central government. But local government can do a role with regard to this policy because it is close to energy consumers not like central government. So local energy plan should be based on the understanding local energy consumption characteristics to activate local energy demand management policy. This paper tries to analyze energy characteristics of 16 local governments by decomposing energy consumption into population, production and intensity factors. The result of index decomposition analysis shows that energy intensity improvement has offset the increase of energy consumption caused by economic growth in the metropolitan cities, while it couldn't offset in the other provinces because of industrialization based on the manufacturing. In conclusion, this paper suggests that it will be necessary to switch to low energy society by carrying out concrete energy efficiency improvement projects in the metropolitan cities while it will be helpful to make a local development plan for low energy intensive industrialization in the other provinces.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.56-60
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• 2009

In view of physics, energy is defined as the ability to work. The use of natural gas and nuclear power have been increased since 1980s to replace fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. Recently, solar energy, wind power, tidal power, and geothermal energy have been considered as promising alternative energy sources to overcome environmental pollution. However, their energy efficiencies are much lower than those of chemical energies such as nuclear power, explosive, and petroleum gas. In this study, the present situation of the green energy was reviewed to seek out the way to overcome the limit of the environmental (alternative) energy. Also, purification, application and development trend of the highly efficient alternative energy sources were investigated.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.602-604
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• 2012

무선센서네트워크에서 센서노드가 에너지를 적게 사용하여 네트워크 시간을 연장하는 것은 중요한 이슈이다. 센서노드의 에너지 소비를 줄이기 위해 듀티사이클이 제안되었고 낮은 비동기식 듀티사이클에서 각 센서노드는 독립적으로 활성화되며 트래픽이 적은 경우에 에너지를 효율적으로 줄인다. 하지만 전송할 데이터가 증가하면 낮은 듀티사이클로 인해 송신노드는 수신노드의 활성화시간까지 많은 시간을 기다려야 한다. 이때 사용하는 에너지는 데이터 전송에 사용되는 에너지보다 크다는 문제점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 전송노드는 자신보다 잔여 에너지가 큰 이웃노드에게 데이터를 전송하고 비활성상태로 전환되고 데이터를 모아 전송하는 OC-MAC 기법이 제안되었다. 하지만 OC-MAC 기법은 데이터를 위임할 이웃노드 선택시 자신보다 잔여 에너지가 큰 노드들 중 잔여 에너지가 제일 적은 노드를 선택한다. 이에 따라 센서노드들이 에너지를 균형있게 사용하지 못하는 문제점이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문이 제안하는 기법은 이웃노드 중 잔여 에너지가 큰 이웃노드에게 데이터를 전송함으로 센서노드의 에너지를 균형 있게 사용하고 무센서네트워크 수명을 연장한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.496-499
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• 2009

본 논문은 기하학적 비선형성을 가진 보존적 단일 하중 매개변수의 탄성 상태 공간구조의 분기이론에 관한 수치 해석적 기본 방법 및 경로 추적, pin-pointing, 경로 전환을 기술하고 있다. 비선형 탄성 불안정 상태는 극한점과 분기점으로 분류될 수 있으며, 평형경로상의 평형점의 계산 및 평형경로상의 특이점을 찾기 위한 pin-pointing 반복계산을 수행하는 일반적인 비선형 수치해석법으로 극한점을 계산할 수 있다. 그러나 분기좌굴 해석을 위해서는 좌굴 후 분기경로의 추적을 위한 분기경로 전환 알고리즘이 추가적으로 필요하다. 본문에서는 에너지이론에 기초한 일반 탄성안정이론을 소개하고, 평형경로 추적, 분기 좌굴점을 찾기 위한 직접법과 분기경로 전환에 관한 이론을 전개한다. 분기좌굴 해석예제로 트러스로 이루어진 스타돔, 핀지지의 평면아치, 평면프레임, 3차원 공간프레임의 분기좌굴 해석을 수행하여 본문에서 제시한 수치해석법의 정확성 및 실용성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.53-60
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• 1997

1. 서론 : 촉매막기술은 반응과 분리공정을 동시에 하나의 장치에서 수행할 수 있기 때문에 한 개의 공정을 줄일 수 있는 효과적인 에너지 절약형 기술이다. 생성물중의 적어도 하나가 선택적으로 막을 통해 투과되기 때문에 가역반응의 경우에는 비가역반응에 가까운 거동을 보이게 된다[1-5]. 본 연구는 12-텅스토인산($H_3PW_{12}O_{40}$)를 촉매로 사용하고 막반응시를 비활성촉매막반응기(IMRCF, Inert membrane reactor with catalyst in the feed side)형태, 막으로는 PSF(Polysulfone), PPO(Polyphenylene Oxide)를 사용하여 MTBE(Methyl tert-butyl ether)분해반응을 모사하였다. 막반응기에서 생성된 생성물을 선택적으로 분리해냄으로 인하여 전환율은 고정층보다 증가하였는데 반응온도가 증가할수록, 반응물의 분압은 낮을수록 증가하였다. 반응온도가 높아짐에 따라 막반응기에서의 전환율은 고정층반응에서 나타나는 전환율과의 차이가 줄어드는 것을 볼 수 있었다. 위와같은 결과에 따라서 MTBE 반응물의 분해로 생성되는Isobutene의 수율이 90$\circ$C 이상의 반응온도에서 촉매/반응물비에 대한 최적조건이 나타나는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 전기자동차(Electric Vehicle, EV)의 주요 에너지 공급원인 배터리를 안정적으로 충 방전하기 위한 모드 전환 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 모드 전환기법의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 일반적으로 차량 시스템에 사용되는 다상 방식의 양방향 컨버터를 이용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 또한, 컨버터의 전류제어는 각 상의 인덕터 전류에 대해 평균전류모드제어(Average Current Mode Control) 방법을 적용하여 제어하였다.