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A Study on Greenhouse Gas Emission Characteristics for Regional Governments (A Case Study of Jeonbuk Province) (지자체 온실가스 배출특성 분석연구-전라북도 14개 시·군 사례)

  • Jang, Nam-Jung;An, Jeong-Yi;Kim, Tae-Kyun;Im, Seoung-Hyun;Kim, Deug-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.225-237
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    • 2011
  • For each local town (6 cities and 8 counties) affiliated with Jeonbuk provincial government, characteristics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were analyzed and key emission areas were drawn to establish mitigation policies of the regional greenhouse gases. National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) reported that the total greenhouse gas emission of Jeonbuk was 20.93 million $tCO_2e$ in 2006. The inland area of 5 cities and 1 county (Jeonju, Gunsan, Iksan, Jungeup, Kimje, Wanju) covered 82% of total greenhouse gas emission in Jeonbuk, while the rest local towns of the province, mostly from mountainous areas were responsible for the rest of the total GHG emission. The cities and counties having relatively higher emission in Jeonbuk province were influenced dominantly by the emission from energy and waste sections. Also, agricultural section showed similar tendency except industrial cities such as Gunsan and Jeonju. In the internal portion of city and county, energy section showed the highest portion at the range of 72.1 (Sunchang)~97.0% (Jeonju) and agricultural section was at the range of 1.2% (Jeonju)~26.6 (Sunchang). When the portion of energy section was higher, the lower agricultural section. The emission index was applied to decide the key city and county and the potential city and county with two methodologies in this study. It was required that the key emission areas were drawn to establish regional greenhouse gases mitigation policies.

Development of Electrical Safety Evaluation Method about PEMFC 1kW (가정용연료전지 전기적 안전성 평가 기법 개발)

  • Han, Woonki;Park, Chaneum;Jung, Jinsu;Ko, Woonsik
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.99-99
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    • 2011
  • Fuel cell systems are a completely different form of electricity source that has been used so far and is an aggregation of multiple technologies with multidisciplinary features that can be operated safely only when gas and electrical safety are being considered. Since fuel cells generate through electrochemical reactions there are difficulties in ensuring electricity safety, power quality assessment, effective control and reliability standards for system faults using conventional inspection techniques and even though they are necessary as a primary means for reduction of CO2 owing to the Climate Convention, electrical safety assessment and measures are required for the prevention of faults in residential facilities. Although small-scaled distributed power supplies can be utilized as important means of peak control and energy management measures, research is required for observing the effects on the system and the development of inspection technology to ensure stable operation, and the electrical safety of residential fuel cell systems need to be assessed and the problems derived for establishing electrical safety standards. From the year 2002, Japan has established laws on technical safety standards and development and rules on the product specifications and standards for the industrialization of hydrogen fuel cells. Also, a lot of effort have been made for the commercialization of fuel cells by building one-stop certification services. Internationally, the IEC TC 105 has established international standards based on fuel cells. In order to protect the national interest, the country should be able to respond accordingly meet global standards. In fact, in Korea, to comply with the international trend, Korea Energy Management Corporation is establishing a certified agenda for fuel cells and Korean Agency for Technology and Standards is enacting technical standards for fuel cells. The current terms of fuel cells are that research has been focused more on the quality and performance of manufactured products rather than stable power operation and maintenance over time. In this paper, by considering the household fuel cell as a power device, the safety standards of the fuel cell system for a reliable operation with the existing power system is being proposed.

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Analysis of Radiative Characteristics at Urban Area by Observation in Summer Season (하절기 도시의 지역별 장.단파복사 특성 분석과 해석)

  • Jung, Im-Soo;Choi, Dong-Ho;Lee, Bu-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2011
  • The objective of this study is to analyze the characteristic of radiation environment in the urban and rural through the field observation in the summer. The radiation balance was compared through the measurement of the shortwave radiation and long-wave radiation in the urban, sub-urban, and rural. The following conclusion could be obtained from this research. (1)In the results of observation including the rain-day, it was found that the short wave radiance in the urban is lower about 10% than the rural. (2)The upper part of atmosphere layers in the urban are aabsorb much short wave radiation energies compared with the rural relatively. It can increase the temperature of the upper part of atmosphere layers and the emittance of long wave radiation. (3)The ratio of the downward short wave radiation to the downward long wave radiation was 1.24 for the urban, 1.28 for sub-urban and 1.35 for rural. It can be estimated that the atmosphere condition of the rural is better than that of other areas. (4)The net radiation of the rural was lower that of the urban. It was found that the energy in and outflow of the rural is easier than that of the urban. (5)The temperature variation for the long-wave radiation change of the rural showed more sensitive than that of the urban. It was came from the radiation characteristics of the surrounding environment and can be used as the important index to evaluate the thermal environment characteristic of urban.

The verification about possibility of introducing Window to Floor Ratio as design index for building energy performance

  • Choi, Won-Ki;Lee, Yong-Jun;Lee, Hyun-Soo;Eom, Jae-Yong;Lee, Chung-Kook
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: Many design index that are using in planning phase have been developed. The most popular things among them are Window to Wall Ratio and Surface to Volume Ratio. However there are some limits. Window to Wall Ratio cannot consider building size and Surface to Volume Ratio cannot do Window to Wall Ratio. Accordingly, in this paper, the Window to Floor Ratio was proposed that it can be considered both building size and Window to Wall Ratio. And analyzed correlation of energy demand. Method: For the test, 16 modules with the size of $6m{\times}6m{\times}4m$ were used to make 35 models with the same volume. The simulation was conducted to 945 cases using the window-to-wall ratio of 30, 50 and 70 % in three areas such as Seoul, Gwangju and Jeju and three kinds of windows. And IES_VE was used. Result: The findings above show that the Window to Floor Ratio that can be considered both building size and Window area have to become as design index. It was found out that design criteria with SHGC is necessary, not with the thermal performance (U-value). It is needed to additional analysis about residential building and the effect of 24-hours heating and cooling condition. It plans to carry out research to establish design indicators for climatic conditions in the country and building applications.

Evaluations of Hydrogen Embrittlement Behaviours on Dissimilar Welding Part of SDS Bottles (I) (삼중수소 저장용기 이종용접부의 수소취화 거동 평가 (I))

  • Cho, Kyoungwon;Choi, Jaeha;Jang, Minhyuk;Lee, Youngsang;Hong, Taewhan
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2015
  • Nowdays, fossil fuels have been used as an important resource in development of industry. But it is limited and caused climate change such as pollution and global warming. So nuclear fusion research is being issued with tritium to develop eco-friendly and sustainable energy. Republic of Korea is in charge of Storage and Delivery System (SDS) in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), weld present in the SDS bottles are easily exposed to the hydrogen embrittlement of special characteristics of the hydrogen in hydrogen atmosphere, When the hydrogen embrittlement is rapidly progresses, the cracking is generated in the weld zone. Due to this cracking, the risk of leakage of tritium into the atmosphere occurs. In this study, hydrogen heat treatment was processed through the Pressure-Composition-Temperature (PCT) device according to the time variation. Also mechanical properties such as rupture strength test, three point bend test and hardness test in accordance with the respective time have been conducted and the fracture was observed by scanning electron microscopy(SEM) after the mechanical properties evaluation.

An Experimental Study on Performance and Emission Characteristics of Hydrogen Mixtures in a CNG Engine (CNG 기관의 수소혼합률 변화에 따른 성능 및 배출가스 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • KIM, INGU;SON, JIHWAN;KIM, JOUNGHWA;KIM, SUNMOON;KIM, JEONGSOO;LEE, SEANGWOCK
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.357-364
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    • 2016
  • Recently, the world faces the environmental problem such as air pollution due to harmful gas discharged from car and abnormal climate due to the green-house gases increased by the discharge of $CO_2$. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), one of alternative for this problem, is less harmful, compared to the existing fossil fuel, as gaseous fuel, and less carbon in fuel ingredients and carbon dioxide generation rate relatively favorable more than the existing fuel. However, CNG fuel has the weakness of slow flame propagation speed and difficult fast burn. On the other hand, hydrogen does not include carbon in fuel ingredients, and does not discharge harmful gas such as CO and HC. Moreover, it has strength of quick burning velocity and ignition is possible with small ignition energy source and it's has wide Lean Flammability Limit. If using this hydrogen with CNG fuel, the characteristics of output and discharge gas is improved by the mixer's burning velocity improved, and, at the same time, is possible to have stable lean combustion with the reduction of $CO_2$ expected. Therefore, this research tries to identify the characteristics of engine and emission gas when mixing CNG fuel and hydrogen in each portion and burning them in spark igniting engine, and grasp the combustion stability and emission gas characteristics according and use it as the basic data of hydrogen-CNG premixed engine.

The Effects of Regular Jjimjilbang Exposure on Cold Tolerance in Young and Elderly Females (정기적인 찜질방노출이 청년과 노년 여성의 내한성에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Jeong-Wha;Song, Eun-Young;Hwang, Soo-Kyung
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.599-607
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    • 2007
  • We analyzed the effects of regular Jjimjilbang (Korean sauna) exposure on the cold tolerance in young and elderly females. Subjects were young (n=7) and elderly (n=7) females who had never had Jjimjilbang exposure experience. The Jjimjil training group was exposured in the Jjimjilbang 19 times per week. Jjimjibang exposure was limited to three times per day. Jjimjil activity was taken freely. To prove the effects of the cold tolerance, subjects were exposed to cold air ($12{\pm}1^{\circ}C,\;60{\pm}10%$RH). In these conditions, subjects were exposed for 30 minutes at which time rectal temperature, skin temperatures, clothing microclimate, energy expenditure, blood pressure and subjective sensation were measured. To prove the effects of the local cold tolerance, vascular hunting reaction was observed measuring the finger skin temperature while the left middle finger tip was immersed in cold water of $0^{\circ}C$ for 30 minutes. The results are as follows. According to repeated Jjimjil exposure, rectal temperature changes, peripheral temperature and energy expenditure were increased gradually in the cold climate chamber. Blood pressure, subjective sensation and vascular hunting reactions did not show any significant difference. In conclusion, regular Jjimjilbang exposure has negative effects on the ability of the body to improve its regulation of temperature especially in cold tolerance.

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Random Distribution based Decision Model of Design Factor having Time Variable in Building Energy Conservation Design (시간변수를 가진 건물에너지 절약 설계요소의 디자인 결정을 위한 확률분포 결정모델)

  • Woo, Se-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 2010
  • In the architectural design technologies being changed recently, there is the study to develop the way that will enable the designers to get access logically to the processes of deciding the values of design factors which depend on the experience of the designers. This study, which is one part of those studies, has been carried out to develop the model that can decide the values logically for the design factors having the character that the design values are changed by the time variation out of design factors involved in the building energy saving design. As a result, the structure of the decision model which can decide the design values logically from the computer simulation that solve the problem by interpreting the real world as the probability distribution, has been established through this study. For the application and verification of these decision model, the case study has been carried out for the outdoor climate factors that stand for the design factors having the time variation.

Net Radiation Estimation Using Flux Tower Data and Integrated Hydrological Model: For the Seolmacheon and Chungmichen Watersheds (플럭스 타워 관측 자료 및 통합수문모형을 이용한 순복사량 산정: 설마천, 청미천 유역을 대상으로)

  • Kim, Daeun;Baek, JongJin;Jung, Sung-Won;Choi, Minha
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.301-314
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    • 2013
  • Spatial heterogeneous characteristics of solar radiation energy from Climate Change gives rise to energy imbalance in the general ecological system including water resources. To understand energy flow, flux towers are up and running throughout the world. In step with, in domestic major areas, there have been observed using several flux towers. In this study, downward shortwave radiation, downward long wave radiation, and net radiation that take important part in hydro-meteorology and ecology were calculated by proposed physical equations using flux data of the Seolmacheon and Choengmicheon, then, the calculated net radiation and observed net radiation were individually compared and validated. The results confirmed applicability of physical methods for insufficient hydro-meteorological data and possibility for observed data of hydro-meteorological variables.

Configuration of clustering and routing algorithms for energy efficiency by wireless sensor network in ship (선박 내 무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율을 위한 클러스터링 및 라우팅 알고리즘의 구성)

  • Kim, Mi-jin;Yu, Yun-Sik;Jang, Jong-wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.435-438
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    • 2012
  • Today, In all fields, As combination of ubiquitous computing-based technologies between electronic space and physical space, has been active trend research about wireless integration sensor network between sensors and wireless technology. Also, but in ship is underway research about Ship Area Network(SAN) of intelligent ship to integrate wireless technology, ship is required SAN-bridge technology of a variety of wired, wireless network integration and heterogeneous sensor and interoperability of the controller and SAN configuration management technology of remote control. Ship keep safe of all the surrounding environment including crew besides structural safety and freight management monitoring. In this paper, for monitoring design such as on climate change detection and temperature, pressure about various structures, there identify technology trends for routing and data aggregation to use energy efficiency in wireless sensor network. And to analyze self-organizing clustering method, study For wireless sensor network configuration in ship.

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