• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.474-483
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• 2014

The majority of existing WECs (wave energy converters) are designed to achieve maximum power at a resonance condition. In the case of a single WEC, its size must be large enough for tuning, and it has high efficiency only within a limited frequency band. Recently, wave power extraction by deploying many small buoys in a compact array has been studied under the assumption that the buoy's size and separation distance are much smaller than the water depth, wave length, and size of the array. A boundary value problem involving the macro-scale boundary condition on the mean surface covered by an infinite strip of buoys is solved using the eigenfunction expansion method. The energy extraction efficiency (${\varepsilon}=1-R^2_f-T^2_r$), where $R_f$ and $T_r$ are the reflection and transmission coefficients for a strip array of buoys, is assessed for various combinations of packing ratio, strip width, and PTO damping coefficient.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.324-331
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• 2002

ln competitive electricity market, useful technique would be required to calculate settlement amount for electric power traded between market participants and KPX since a number of market partici-pants would appear and trade electric power. Especially calculation of constrained on/off compensation amount can be complicated, and needs to be understood clearly by market participants to avoid unnecessary disputes. This paper presents a technique to settle more easily constrained on/off compensation amount using surplus function. In this technique, a surplus is calculated by each dispatched values and then the compen-sation amount is calculated by the difference of each surpluses. By doing this, settlement amount can be cal-culated by summing the trading amount and the compensation amount.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.562-574
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• 2004

We address the problem of energy-optimal voltage scheduling for fixed-priority hard real-time systems. First, we prove that the problem is NP-hard. Then, we present a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for the problem. for any $\varepsilon$>0, the proposed approximation scheme computes a voltage schedule whose energy consumption is at most (1+$\varepsilon$) times that of the optimal voltage schedule. Furthermore, the running time of the proposed approximation scheme is bounded by a polynomial function of the number of input jobs and 1/$\varepsilon$. Experimental results show that the approximation scheme finds more efficient voltage schedules faster than the best existing heuristic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.12
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• pp.870-872
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• 2014

In this paper, we devise a cost function by considering the energy consumption rate and the remaining energy of a peer. Then, we propose a parent peer selection method that chooses the least cost peer in the system in a distributed manner. On the contrary to the conventional method that makes each peer select the least cost neighbor as a parent peer, the proposed method chooses a parent peer using the swarm intelligence formed among a set of peers. Therefore, the proposed method could extent distributedly the number of peers searched for parent peer selection. Thus, compared to the conventional method, the proposed method increases the probability of being a parent peer as the cost of a peer becomes smaller with less operational load.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1665-1674
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm(GA) based locomotion method of a quadruped robot with waist joint, which makes a quadruped robot walk on the slop efficiently. In the proposed method, we first derive the kinematic model of a quadruped robot with waist joint and then set the gene and the fitness function for GA. In addition, we determine the best attitude for a quadruped robot and the landing point of a foot in the walk space, which has the optimal energy stability margin(ESM). Finally, we verify the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing with the performance of the previous method through the computer simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.47-55
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• 2017

The technology for hydrothermal reaction of organic waste is one of the promising process to improve energy efficiency of biomass waste recycling system since moisture contents of treated biomass could be reduced at 40% or less than by dehydration processes. For these reasons, many parts of the world are interested in hydrothermal reaction of organic waste. In this paper, drying performances were evaluated with and without hydrothermal reaction of organic wastes which are sewage sludge and food wastes. For the hydrothermal reaction, organic wastes were treated at $200^{\circ}C$ for 1hr. Drying time of treated organic waste by hydrothermal reaction was reduced. In case of food waste drying at $100^{\circ}C$, drying time of treated wasted was reduced more 52.9% than non-treated. Hence, drying performances of sewage sludge and food wastes should be improved by hydrothermal reaction. Drying rates of treated wastes were considerably increased at preheat period of drying characteristic curve as followings; at $80^{\circ}C$ sludge as 148%, $100^{\circ}C$ sewage sludge as 151%, $80^{\circ}C$ food waste as 209%, $100^{\circ}C$ food waste as 366%. It means the surface area of treated wastes could be increased with destruction of cell membrane by hydrothermal reaction. However, the designer and operator of drying process should be careful, since enhanced drying rate cause the extension the decreasing drying period.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.31-37
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• 2008

At present, the target amount of demand-side management and investment cost of EE (Energy Efficiency) program, which consists of high-efficiency appliances, has been estimated simply by the diffusion function based on the real historical data in the past or last year. In the internal and external condition, the penetration amount of each appliance has been estimated by Bass diffusion model which is expressed by time and three coefficients. And enough acquisition of real historical data is necessary for reasonable estimation of coefficients. In energy efficiency, to estimate the target amount of demand-side management, the penetration amount of each appliance should be primarily forecasted by Bass diffusion model in Korea. On going programs, however, lightings, inverters, vending machine and motors have a insufficient real historical data which is a essential condition to forecast the penetration amount using a Bass diffusion model due to the short period of program progress. In other words, the forecast of penetration amount may not be exact, so that it is necessary for the method of forecast to apply improvement of method. In this paper, the penetration amount of high-efficiency appliances is forecasted by Bass, virtual Bass, Logistic and Lawrence & Lawton diffusion models to analyze the diffusion progress. And also, by statistic standards, each penetration is compared with historical data for model suitability by characteristic of each appliance. Based on the these result, in the forecast of penetration amount by diffusion model, the reason for error occurrence caused by simple application of diffusion model and preferences of each diffusion model far a characteristic of data are analyzed.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 1984

A Standard gamma-ray ionization chamber system was developed with a well type ionization chamber and micro current measuring circuit. Micro current was measured by the automatic Townsend balance with stepwise compensation method. For gamma emitting nuclides such as $^{241}Am,\;^{133}Ba,\;^{60}Co,\;^{134}Cs,\;^{137}Cs,\;and\;^{22}Na$ relative calibration factors to $^{226}Ra$ reference source were calculated and detection .efficiency curve was determined as a fudnction of gamma energy.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.226-227
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 전력 시스템의 저주파 진동을 효율적으로 억제하기 위하여 기존의 PSS 를 이용하는 방법 대신 FESS를 적용하는 방법을 제시하였다. FESS PID 제어기의 최적 파라미터를 선정하기 위하여 GA를 이용한 방법을 제시하였다. 최적화 파라미터 선정시 사용되는 평가함수를 2가지로 선정하여 선정된 파라미터를 이용하여 FESS PID 제어성능을 평가하였다. 다양한 동작 조건하에 몇 가지 외란이 발생한 경우 비선형 시뮬레이션을 통하여 기존의 PSS를 이용한 방법과 동특성을 비교 고찰하였다.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.44-47
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• 1992

본 학술기사의 목적은 구조설계를 위한 강력하고도 유용한 도구로서의 최적화기법을 소개하는 것이고 현재의 기술현황을 보여주는 것이다. 최적화의 발전은 유한요소법과 컴퓨터기법 그리고 최적화알고리즘 및 소프트웨어의 동시적인 발전으로부터 이루어진다. 이렇게 됨으로써 사용자가 꼭 최적화 이론가가 될 필요성은 없어질 것이고 모든 공학자는 설계의 질과 생산성을 증진시키기 위해 최적화를 훌륭한 설계기술로서 이용할 수가 있게 될 것이다. 최적화를 위한 두가지 접근방안이 제안되었다. 하나는 최적화 과정중 직접적으로 사용되는 민감도 정보를 제공하기 위해 유한요소해석 프로그램을 수정하는 것이고, 다른 하나는 설계변수와 구조응답들로 구성된 목적함수, 제약조건으로된 최적화문제에 최적화기법을 연결하는 것이다. 가장 좋은 방법은 이 두 접근방법의 조합된 방법인 것 같지만 서로 모순된 것 같기 때문에 분명하지가 않다. 따라서 이 부분은 앞으로 주목을 받을 충분한 가치가 있는 내용이 될 것이다. 원료 부족에 대한 인식의 증대와 부존에너지자원의 빠른 고갈은 경량이면서 효율적이고 경제적인 구조물에 대한 욕구를 증폭시켰다. 따라서 오늘날의 유용하고, 거대한 계산능력을 고려한다면, 최적화기법을 사용하고자 하는 동기는 충분한 것이고 숙련된 공학설계자들에 의해 응용됨으로써 최적화는 경쟁적인 우위를 제공하는 강력한 도구가 될 수 있을 것이다.