• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.357-363
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• 2011

To examine factors affecting feeding efficiency of grey herons (Ardea cinerea), the foraging behavior was studied at a reservoir in Asan city, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea during the breeding seasons (from April to July) of 2006 and 2007. Four factors (age of foraging birds, time of day, breeding stage, and microhabitat type) were analyzed. Adults were more efficient foragers than recently fledged juveniles, and they had a higher success rate than juveniles. About half of the adults caught large prey, whereas most juveniles caught only small prey. Adult grey herons had different feeding efficiency according to the breeding stage. Pecking and capture rates were high during the late period (fledging stage), and biomass intake rates were high during the early (incubating stage) and late periods. However, time of day had no significant effect on foraging activity of adult grey herons. Feeding activities of adult grey herons also showed significant variation among microhabitat types. Pecking and capture rates were higher in the submerged plants area, but capture success rate and biomass intake rate were not different according to microhabitat type.

• 에너지공학
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2019

The high energy penalty in amine-based post-combustion CO₂ capture process is hampering its industrial scale application. An advanced process is designed by intensive heat integration within the conventional process to reduce the stripper duty. The study presents the technical feasibility for stripper duty reduction by intensive heat integration in CO₂ capture process. A rigorous rate-based model has been used in Aspen Plus® to simulate conventional and advanced process for a 300 MW coal-based power plant. Several design and operational parameters like split ratio, stripper inter-heater location and flowrate were studied to find the optimum values. The results show that advanced configuration with heat integration can reduces the stripper heat by 14%.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2018

This study applied upgrades to the processes of a 10 MW wet amine $CO_2$ capture pilot plant and conducted performance evaluation. The 10 MW $CO_2$ Capture Pilot Plant is a facility that applies 1/50 of the combustion flue gas produced from a 500 MW coal-fired power plant, and is capable of capturing up to 200 tons of $CO_2$. This study aimed to quantitatively measure efficiency improvements of post-combustion $CO_2$ capture facilities resulting from process upgrades to propose reliable data for the first time in Korea. The key components of the process upgrades involve absorber intercooling, lean/rich amine exchanger efficiency improvements, reboiler steam TVR (Thermal Vapor Recompression), and lean amine MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression). The components were sequentially applied to test the energy reduction effect of each component. In addition, the performance evaluation was conducted with the absorber $CO_2$ removal efficiency maintained at the performance evaluation standard value proposed by the IEA-GHG ($CO_2$ removal rate: 90%). The absorbent used in the study was the highly efficient KoSol-5 that was developed by KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation). From the performance evaluation results, it was found that the steam consumption (regeneration energy) for the regeneration of the absorbent decreased by $0.38GJ/tonCO_2$ after applying the process upgrades: from $2.93GJ/ton\;CO_2$ to $2.55GJ/tonCO_2$. This study confirmed the excellent performance of the post-combustion wet $CO_2$ capture process developed by KEPCO Research Institute (KEPRI) within KEPCO, and the process upgrades validated in this study are expected to substantially reduce $CO_2$ capture costs when applied in demonstration $CO_2$ capture plants.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2014

단일 노즐을 이용하는 $CO_2$ 포집용 분무탑의 기본적 특성을 실험적으로 구하였다. 다양한 조건 - 주입 기체 유량 및 농도, 주입 흡수제 유량 및 농도 등 - 에서 얻어진 포집성능을 포집효율 뿐만 아니라 재생에너지의 주요 결정요인인 $CO_2$ 포화도 측면에서 검토하였다. 다양한 조건들에서의 포집효율 변화는 흡수제($NH_3$)와 $CO_2$의 상대적 유량비만의 단조증가함수로 잘 표현되었다. 포집후의 흡수제의 $CO_2$ 포화도 또한 $NH_3/CO_2$ 유량비만의 함수로 잘 정리가 되었으나, 포집효율과는 다르게 단조감소함수를 보였으며, 특히 $CO_2$ 포화도와 포집효율과의 상관관계를 보면 기존의 모든 연구들에서 포집효율이 증가할수록 $CO_2$ 포화도가 감소하였다. $CO_2$ 포화도는 낮은 포집효율 조건에서 최대 20-25% 수준이었으나, 90% 이상의 고효율에서는 10% 미만으로 매우 낮았다. 이는 높은 포집효율을 위해 사용되는 흡수제의 양이 과도하며, 다시 재생에너지가 과도하게 필요함을 의미한다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2016

Global warming due to greenhouse gases is an issue of great concern today. Fossil fuel power plants, especially coal-fired thermal power plants, are a major source of carbon dioxide emission. In this work, carbon capture and utilization using sodium hydroxide was studied experimentally. Application for flue gas of a coal-fired power plant is considered. Carbon dioxide, reacting with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide, could be converted to sodium bicarbonate ($NaHCO_3$). A bench-scale unit of a reactor system was designed for this experiment. The capture scale of the reactor system was 2 kg of carbon dioxide per day. The detailed operational condition could be determined. The purity of produced sodium bicarbonate was above 97% and the absorption rate of $CO_2$ was above 95% through the experiment using this reactor system. The results obtained in this experiment contain useful information for the construction and operation of a commercial-scale plant. Through this experiment, the possibility of carbon capture for coal power plants using sodium hydroxide could be confirmed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.290-298
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• 1996

Direct Containment Heating, DCH, is supposed to occur during a core melt-down accident if the primary system pressure is still high at the time of vessel breach in a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). In this case, DCH is considered to be one of very important severe phenomena during postulated severe accident scenario because of the fast heat transfer rate to atmosphere and the sharp pressure increase in a containment. To reduce the effect of this DCH phenomena, the capture volume wes designed at Ulchin NPP units 3 and 4. But, the effect of this has not been studied extensively. This work consists of experimental and numerical analyses of the effects of capture volume in the cavity on DCH phenomena. The experimental model is a 1/30 scaled-down model of Ulchin NPP units 3 and 4. We used three types of capture volumes to investigate the effect of size. Numerical analysis using CONTAIN 1.2 is performed with the correlation for the dispersed fraction of molten corium from the cavity into the containment derived from the experimental data to examine the effect of capture volume on DCH phenomena in full scale of Ulchin NPP units 3 and 4.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.6439-6444
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• 2015

지구온난화 방지를 위해 이산화탄소를 제거하는 다양한 방법 중 이산화탄소 포집 및 저장 기술이 가장 유망한 기술로 부각되고 있다. 이산화탄소 포집 및 저장기술이 상용화되기 위해서는 저가의 효율적인 흡수제 개발이 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 금속 나노입자를 이용하여 이산화탄소 흡수속도를 촉진하는 연구를 수행하였다. 코발트, 아연, 니켈의 세 가지 금속나노입자를 합성하였으며 나노입자 합성 방법 중 습식법과 건식법에 의한 영향을 비교 분석하였다. pH 변화를 이용한 이산화탄소 흡수 속도 측정 결과 습식법으로 제조한 니켈 금속나노입자가 가장 우수한 이산화탄소 흡수 속도 촉진효과를 보였다. 금속 나노입자를 이산화탄소 포집공정에 적용할 경우 흡수탑의 크기를 작게 하여 경제적인 공정 구현이 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2014

It is necessary to decide the pumping rate and pumping well location together with the capture zone in order to determine an appropriate groundwater remediation strategy to manage the contaminated groundwater. The relationship between the capture zone and the drawdown radius of influence ($ROI_s$) was considered. $ROI_{cs}$ is defined as the distance where the criteria of drawdown is cs meter from pumping well in this paper. A method to decide the required pumping rate for the remediation of contaminated groundwater in order to create appropriate $ROI_{cs}$ is suggested by using the Theis equation (1935) and Cooper-Jacob equation (1946). It was shown in this study that $ROI_{cs}$ is in proportion to the pumping rate and the criteria of drawdown, which decides $ROI_{cs}$, is inversely proportional to Ti value (transmissivity ${\times}$ hydraulic gradient). The pumping rate which creates the required $ROI_{cs}$ could be planned through the relationship between the $ROI_{cs}$ and pumping rates ($ROI_{cs}$-Q curve) of the field sites 1, 2 and 3. If the drawdown is investigated along with Ti value and pumping rate at a specific site where pump and treat remediation is planned, it is expected that the required criteria of drawdown can be evaluated by using the relationship between the cs and Ti (cs-Ti curve).

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.516-521
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• 2012

본 연구는 연소기체로부터 $CO_2$ 기체를 포집하는 기포 유동층 흡착 및 재생 반응기 공정의 주요 운전변수의 영향을 조사하기 위해서 단순화된 공정모델을 개발하였다. 반응속도와 반응기에서 고체입자의 평균체류시간을 이용하여 흡착탑과 재생탑에서 각 반응 전환율을 계산하였다. 실험실 규모 기포 유동층 공정에 적용하여 $CO_2$ 포집효율에 대한 온도, 기체유속, 고체순환속도, 연소기체 중 수분농도의 영향을 조사하였다. $CO_2$ 포집효율은 흡착탑의 온도 혹은 유속이 증가함에 따라서 감소하였다. 그러나 연소기체의 수분농도 혹은 재생탑의 온도가 증가함에 따라서 증가하였다. 계산된 $CO_2$ 포집효율은 측정값과 잘 일치하였다. 그러나 본 모델은 $CO_2$ 포집효율에 대한 고체순환속도의 영향과 잘 일치하지 않았다. 이의 해석을 위해서는 기체-고체 접촉효율에 대한 이해가 더 필요하였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제61권3호
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• pp.368-377
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• 2023

천연가스복합발전 공정은 일반 석탄 화력발전 공정에 비해 이산화탄소 배출량이 낮아 최근에 발전 플랜트로서 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 이산화탄소 배출을 완전히 억제하기는 어려우므로 이산화탄소 포집공정이 필요하며 본 연구에서는 천연가스복합발전 플랜트에서 발생하는 배기가스 내 낮은 이산화탄소 농도를 고려해 포집공정을 구성하고 운전조건을 최적화하는 연구를 수행하였다. 최적화 연구를 위해 상용 시뮬레이션 프로그램으로 천연가스복합발전 공정과 습식 이산화탄소 포집공정이 결합된 전체 공정을 모델링 하였으며, 이를 이용해 다양한 조건에서 이산화탄소 흡수율, 흡수제 재생율, 천연가스복합발전 공정 내 전력 손실율을 종합적으로 고려한 최적 운전조건을 도출하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 기존에 이산화탄소 포집공정에서 포집된 이산화탄소 톤당 에너지 소모량만을 주요 지표로 검토하던 것과 달리, 천연가스복합발전 공정 내 스팀 사용으로 인한 발전효율 저감, 운전조건 변화에 따른 이산화탄소 흡수율 및 흡수제 재생율 변화의 측면도 함께 고려하여 공정 전반의 성능을 종합적으로 고려할 수 있도록 하였다. 결론적으로 재생탑 재비기 온도가 120 ℃가 되었을 때 가장 좋은 결과를 보이는 것으로 나타났으며, 그 원인을 분석하였다.