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Economic Analysis of the Seaweed Forest Creation Project : the Case of Jeju Woodo Seokwang-ri (해중림 조성사업의 경제성 분석:제주 우도 서광리 어장을 중심으로)

  • Kang, Seok-Kyu
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.37-55
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    • 2011
  • This study is to examine the economic effects of seaweed forest creation project in the case of Jeju Woodo Seokwang-ri. Seaweed forest creation project will raise up the quality and quantity of coastal fisheries resource and improve the structure of coastal ecosystem as a project the recovery of coastal fisheries resource against barren ground like whitening event. The economic effect by seaweed forest creation project can be found not only in the income increase of fishermen but also in reduction of carbon dioxide. The results of this study are summarized as follows: First, the income increase effect of fishermen has economic value of 26,945 thousand won under a 30-year cash flow based on a 8.5% discount rate. This suggests that the seaweed forest creation project increases income of fishermen. Second, the reduction effect of carbon dioxide has economic value of 1,083 thousand won per year. This indicates that the seaweed forest creation project reduces carbon dioxide. In conclusion, the results of this study suggest the seaweed forest creation project has economic value in the case of Jeju Woodo Seokwang-ri.

Effect of High Concentration Carbon Dioxide and Pre-Cooling Treated with Solid Carbon Dioxide on the Storability of Radish Sprout in MA Storage (고체 이산화탄소를 이용한 고농도 이산화탄소와 예냉 처리가 싹채소의 저장성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Ho-Min;Choi, In-Lee;Kim, Il-Seop;Park, Keun-Woo
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.285-290
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    • 2009
  • The solid carbon dioxide used for prolongation shelf life of radish sprout that was just 7days. The developed equipment for treated carbon dioxide consisted of solid carbon dioxide evaporated part and high carbon dioxide and low temperature treated part that can hold products. The inner temperature of equipment decreased temperature to below $5^{\circ}C$ from room temperature for 10minutes and carbon dioxide concentration increased to 80%. The radish sprouts treated 4 different conditions that was nontreated condition (control), solid carbon dioxide put into package (CO2-1), solid carbon dioxide treated before storage using the developed equipment (CO2-2), solid carbon dioxide treated before storage and during storage, and sprout packaged with solid carbon dioxide (CO2-3). These radish sprout packaged with $25{\mu}m$ ceramic film stored at $8^{\circ}C$. The high carbon dioxide treatment did not affect the fresh weight loss. The carbon dioxide and oxygen content in package changed 40% and 10%, respectively in CO2-1 and CO2-2 at 1day after treatments. But carbon dioxide content of all treatments was decreased to 5% and stabilized. The high carbon dioxide showed the effect of reduction ethylene production, but did not affect to visual quality and offodor.

Characteristics of Carbon Dioxide Reduction in the Gliding Arc Plasma Discharge (글라이딩 아크 플라즈마 방전에 의한 이산화탄소 저감 특성)

  • Lim, Mun Sup;Kim, Seung Ho;Chun, Young Nam
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.205-209
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    • 2015
  • CCU (Carbon Capture & Utilization) has a potential technology for the reduction and usage of carbon dioxide which is greenhouse gas emitting from a fossil fuel buring. To decompose the carbon dioxide, a three phase gliding arc plasma-catalytic reactor was designed and manufactured. Experiments of carbon dioxide reduction was performed by varying the gas flow rate with feeding the $CO_2$ only as well as the input power, the catalyst type and steam supply with respect to the injection of the mixture of $CO_2$ and $CH_4$. The $CO_2$ decomposition rate was 7.9% and the energy efficiency was $0.0013L/min{\cdot}W$ at a $CO_2$ flow rate of 12 L/min only. Carbon monoxide and oxygen was generated in accordance with the destruction of carbon dioxide. When the injection ratio of $CH_4/CO_2$ reached 1.29, the $CO_2$ destruction and $CH_4$ conversion rates were 37.8% and 56.6% respectively at a power supply of 0.76 kW. During the installation of $NiO/Al_2O_3$ catalyst bed, the $CO_2$ destruction and $CH_4$ conversion rates were 11.5% and 9.9% respectively. The steam supply parameter do not have any significant effects on the carbon dioxide decomposition.

The Analysis on the Evaluation Items of Korea Green Building Certification Criteria by the Case Studies of Collective Housing (국내 공동주택 부문의 친환경건축 인증 평가 항목 및 사례 분석)

  • Kim, Chang-Sung
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2013
  • Many countries have made their best to protect the earth from global warming and to find solutions for the reduction of carbon dioxide emittion and energy consumption. Especially, buildings have emitted over 40% of carbon dioxide against whole quantities emitted to the earth. Therefore, the reduction of carbon dioxide emitted from buildings require to save the earth environment. Energy consumption of buildings in Korea has reached 24% of total energy quantities, and energy consumption of collective housing has been continuously increasing. So, Korea government has also executed the Green Building Certification Criteria(GBCC). The GBCC evaluates the 8 types of buildings - collective housing, office, school, etc - to certificate the green building. In this paper, the evaluation items of collective housing in GBCC were reviewed to be used as the reference data for future revisions by the case studies. According to the results of this study, current version of GBCC requires additional revisions about the evaluations of energy consumption monitoring, commissioning and existing building.

A study on the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (전기화학환원에 의한 이산화탄소의 수소화 반응연구)

  • Sim, Kyu-Sung;Kim, Jong-Won;Kim, Yeon-Soon;Myeong, Kwang-Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 1998
  • The catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide has been studied for the fixation of carbon dioxide to mitigate global warming problems, but it needed hydrogen, which the price is still high. Recently, the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide has been drawn attractions because carbon dioxide could be converted to the valuable chemicals such as methane, ethane and alcohols electrochemically in the electrolyte solution using a catalytic electrode. This system is simple because the water electrolysis and hydrogenation take place at the same time using the surplus electricity at midnight. In this work, a continuous electrochemical reduction system was fabricated, which was composed of the reduction electrode (copper or perovskite type, $2{\times}2cm^2$), reference electrode(platinum, $2{\times}6cm^2$), standard electrode(Ag/AgCl), and potassium bicarbonate electrolyte solution saturated with carbon dioxide. The quality and quantity of the products and reduction current were analyzed, according to the electrolyte concentration and electrode type.

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Effect of High-Molecular Weight Organic Compounds on Improvement of Pore Structure of Cement Materials

  • Lee, Woong-Geol;Jeon, Se-Hoon;Song, Myong-Shin;Kim, Jusung
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.56 no.6
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    • pp.534-540
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    • 2019
  • Carbon dioxide emissions involved in global warming are one of the most important issues in the world, and carbon dioxide emissions from the cement industry are about 7% of total carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, reduction in the amount of utilized cement can contribute to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. The average life of concrete is 20 ~ 30 years, and if concrete life can be improved by ten years, cement use will be much lower. In this study, we examined the use and effect of fructan from microbes as a method for the densification of the pore structure of cement. The effect of fructan on the hydration reaction and pore distribution, as well as the water absorption of hardened cement mortar were studied. Pores distribution increased in mesopore OPC, and absorption rate was found to decrease with the use of fructan, which has a glue-like and swelling character.

The Function of Hydrogen Chloride on Methane-Air Premixed Flame (메탄-공기 예혼합 화염에서 염화수소의 역할)

  • Shin, Sung-Su;Lee, Ki-Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.9 s.240
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    • pp.979-987
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    • 2005
  • Numerical simulations were performed at atmospheric pressure in order to understand the effect of additives on flame speed, flame temperature, radical concentrations, $NO_x$ formation, and heat flux in freely propagating $CH_4-Air$ flames. The additives were both carbon dioxide and hydrogen chloride which had a combination of physical and chemical behavior on hydrocarbon flame. In the flame established with the same mole of methane and additive, hydrogen chloride significantly contributed toward the reduction of flame speed, flame temperature, $NO_x$ formation and heat flux by the chemical effect, whereas carbon dioxide mainly did so by the physical effect. The impact of hydrogen chloride on the decrease of the radical concentration was about $1.4\~3.0$ times as large as that of carbon dioxide. Hydrogen chloride had higher effect on the reduction of $EI_{NO}$ than carbon dioxide because of the chemical effect of hydrogen chloride. The reaction, $OH+HCl{\rightarrow}Cl+H_2O$, played an important role in the heat flux from flames added by hydrogen chloride instead of the reaction, $OH+H_2{\rightarrow}H+H_2O$ which was an important reaction in hydrocarbon flames.

The Optimum of $CO_2$ Decomposition using Spinel Phase Magnetite (스피넬상 마그네타이트를 이용한 $CO_2$ 분해의 최적조건)

  • Ryu, Dae-Sun;Hong, Phil-Sun;Lee, Poong-Hun;Kim, Soon-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.38 no.10
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    • pp.901-907
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    • 2001
  • Magnetite was synthesized using $0.2M-FeSO_4{\cdot}7H_{2}O$ and 0.5 M-NaOH by air oxidation method for carbon dioxide decomposition to carbon. The carbon dioxide decomposition was successfully carried out after reduction of ${Fe_3}{O_4}$ for 2 hrs using hydrogen gas. The carbon dioxide decomposition at 325, 350, 375, 400, $425^{\circ}C$, 88% was the highest at $350^{\circ}C$ and the activation energy of ${Fe_3}{O_4}$ in carbon dioxide decomposition was 30.96 kJ/mol. After $CO_2$ decomposition, the carbon of surface of catalyst reacted with hydrogen produced methane.

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Process of Community-based Sustainable CO2 Management

  • Park, Jae-Hyun;Hong, Tae-Hoon
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2011
  • According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many countries around the world have been concerned with reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Reducing the level of building energy consumption is particularly important in bringing GHG down. Because of this, many countries including the US and the EU are enforcing energy-related policies. However, these policies are focused on management of single types of buildings such as public buildings and office buildings, instead of management on a national level. Thus, although various policies have been enforced in many countries, $CO_2$ management on a national level is still not an area of focus. Therefore, this study proposed a community-based $CO_2$ management process that allows government-led GHG management. The minimum unit of the community in this study is a plot, and the process consists of three steps. First, the current condition of the GHG emission was identified by plot. Second, based on the identified results, the GHG emission reduction target was distributed per plot by reflecting the weighted value according to (i) the target $CO_2$ reduction in the buildings in the standard year, (ii) region, and (iii) building usage and size. Finally, to achieve the allocated target reduction, building energy management was executed according to the properties of the building located on each plot. It can be expected that the proposed community-based $CO_2$ management process will enable government-level GHG management, through which environment-friendly building construction can be promoted.