• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.172-181
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• 2012

Mercury is one of the most hazardous air pollutants. Recently, mercury has been a concern in domestic and overseas because it has lethal toxicity, long distance transport, persistence and bioaccumulation in the environment. Stationary combustion sources such as coal-fired power plants, waste incinerators, and cement kilns are the major sources of mercury emissions. The objectives of this study were to measure the concentration for mercury from coal-fired power plants and to calculate emission factor to estimate its emission. The results showed that the mercury concentrations in the flue gas were 1.63-3.03 mg/$Sm^3$ in anthracite-fired power plants (average 2.32 mg/$Sm^3$) and 1.95-3.33 mg/$Sm^3$ in bituminous-fired power plants (average 2.6 mg/$Sm^3$). Mercury emission factor was estimated as 25.74 mg/ton for anthracite-fired power plants and 12.48 mg/ton for bituminous-fired power plants. Because actual measurements are limited in quantity, it is desirable to refine our estimates by extending the actual measurements.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.315-337
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• 2018

정부는 준공된 지 30년 이상 경과한 8기의 노후 석탄화력발전소를 2017년 6월 한 달간 가동중단하였다. 이번 정부의 조치는 일종의 정책실험으로 자연실험에 가까운 특성을 가지고 있다. 본고는 이러한 정책실험의 특성을 이용하여 가동중단 조치에 따른 초미세먼지 농도변화의 인과적 효과를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 정책대상 발전기 중 2기가 위치한 영동 화력발전소 인근 지점을 실험군으로, 그곳에서 약 40km 거리를 가진 삼척 지점을 대조군으로 하여 이중차분법을 실행하였다. 해당 대조군은 발전소 지역과 지리적, 지형적 특성은 유사하나 해당 발전소에서 배출된 초미세먼지로부터의 직접적인 영향은 크지 않다는 특징을 가지고 있다. 분석 결과, 이번 가동중단 조치로 영동석탄화력발전소 주변지역은 $3.7{\sim}4.4{\mu}g/m^3$의 초미세먼지 농도 감소효과가 발생한 것으로 분석되었다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2015

Distribution of rare earth metals (REMs) and rare valuable metals (RVMs) contents in coal ashes (fly ash, bottom ash, and pond ash) and leachate from 11 coal-fired power plants in Korea were investigated. Coal ashes and leachates were found to contain important REMs and RVMs such as Yttrium (Y) and Neodymium (Nd), which was in the range of 23~75 mg/kg. However, it still requires developing effective recovery and separation methods in order to utilize REMs and RVMs in ash and leachate. Recovery of valuable elements (Y and Nd) from various and extensive ash sources (8.21 million tons/year in 2013) can provide the existing power plants with additional profit; therefore, it can significantly improve economics of the power plants.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2006년도 제33회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 논문집
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• pp.299-303
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• 2006

From the analysis of fly ash, which contains unburned carbon, collected from the coal-fired Yong Hung power station, most particles are turned out to be hollow cenosphere and agglomerated soot particles. The sooting potential from six coals used in the plant were investigated with CPD model. The results show that the higher potential presented to Peabody, Arthur, Shenhua coals rather than other coals. It is necessary to measure the coal flow rates at each coal feeding pipe for four burner levels since they affect the extent of mixing of soot with oxidant, in turn, the oxidation rate of soot particles. The unbalance in coal flow rate was found in several coal pipes. We successfully reduced unburned carbon in ash by increasing the excess air and changing the SOFA yaw angle.

• 에너지공학
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2017

Coal power plants produce electricity for the nation's power grid, but they also produce more hazardous air emissions than any other industrial pollution sources. The quantity is staggering, over 386,000 tons of 84 separate hazardous air pollutants spew from over 400 plants in 46 states. In South Korea also, annual coal ash generation from coal-fired power plants were about 6 million tons in 2015. Pollutants containing particulate matter 10, 2.5 (PM10, PM2.5), heavy metals and dioxins from coal-fired power plant. The emissions threaten the health of people who live near these power plants, as well as those who live hundreds of miles away. These pollutants that have long-term impacts on the environment because they accumulate in soil, water and animals. The present study is to investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of coal-fired power plant fly ash and bottom ash contains particulate matter, whose particulate sizes are lower than $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{2.5}$ and heavy metals. There are wide commercial technologies were available for monitoring the PM 2.5 and ultra-fine particles, among those carbonation technology is a good tool for stabilizing the alkaline waste materials. We collected the coal ash samples from different coal power plants and the chemical composition of coal fly ash was characterized by XRF. In the present laboratory research approach reveals that potential application of carbonation technology for particulate matter $PM_{10}$, $PM_{2.5}$ and stabilization of heavy metals. The significance of this emerging carbonation technology was improving the chemical and physical properties of fly ash and bottom ash samples can facilitate wide re use in construction applications.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.403-417
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• 1995

1970년대 초반에 한국의 원자력 발전소 계획이 시작된 반면, 미국에서는 1970년대 후반 이래로 신규원자력 발전소 건설은 실질적으로 중단되었다. 신규 발전소 건설 현황을 고려해 보면, 발전소가 원자력과 화력의 적절한 조합에서, 모두 화력 발전소로 옮겨가는 것으로 보인다. 그렇지만, 천연자원의 고갈이라는 관점에서, 경쟁관계인 두 발전소를 투입된 에너지의 측면에서 고찰하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 원자력과 화력의 두 발전소를 에너지 투자의 측면에서 비교 분석하였다. 비교 방법은 순에너지분석(NEA)이다. 그러한 분석을 통하여 산업체와 상품들에 대한 입력-출력 분석(IOA)을 수행하였다. 이러한 정보를 이용하여 순에너지비율(net energy ratio)을 계산하고 비교하였다. 한국의 자료가 불충분하기 때문에 미국의 발전소를 대상으로 NEA를 수행하였다. 순에너지분석이 결론적인 해답을 주지는 못하지만, 이 방법은 의사 결정 과정중의 제거절차(screening process)로 쓰일 수 있다. 에너지 계통을 고려할 때, 이러한 분석 결과는 일반적인 지침으로 사용될 수 있다. 이러한 분석은 다른 계통의 에너지사용에 대한 고찰을 하는 데도 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2015

This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of a partial repowering scheme for an existing 210 MW coal fired power plant by integrating a gas turbine and by employing waste heat recovery. In this repowering scheme, one of the four operating coal mills is taken out and a new natural gas fired gas turbine (GT) block is considered to be integrated, whose exhaust is fed to the furnace of the existing boiler. Feedwater heating is proposed through the utilization of waste heat of the boiler exhaust gas. From the thermodynamic analysis it is seen that the proposed repowering scheme helps to increase the plant capacity by about 28% and the overall efficiency by 27%. It also results in 21% reduction in the plant heat rate and 29% reduction in the specific $CO_2$ emissions. The economic analysis reveals that the partial repowering scheme is cost effective resulting in a reduction of the unit cost of electricity (UCOE) by 8.4%. The economic analysis further shows that the UCOE of the repowered plant is lower than that of a new green-field power plant of similar capacity.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1988년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 한국전력공사연수원, 서울; 21-22 Oct. 1988
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• pp.693-696
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• 1988

This paper is investigated on the improvement for steam temperature control at Boryung coal-fired drum boiler type thermal power plant. The steam temperatur control has been mainly operated by the feedback controllers. Automatic controllers are bounded and difficult. Because boiler system is nonlinear and the system time delay is very large. Optimal regulators including predictive feedforward and differentiate control are synthesized and some improved output results are presented.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2000

An environmental geochemical survey of heavy metal distribution in marine surface sediments around the ocean of Samcheonpo coal-fired power plant was conducted to investigate the possibility of coal-ash leakage from ash pond and the associated heavy metal pollution in sedimental deposits due to the operation of the coal-fired power plant. The X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD) analysis showed that the main leakage point of coal-ash was limited to a single site of the first ash pond. It also appeared that the amounts of organic carbon and metal elements were positively correlated to the grain size distribution, and that Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, and Zn were bounded to organic ligands. However, the distributions of Cd, Hg, and Mn did not have any significant correlation with the sediment grain size and organic matters. In particular, the distribution of Cd appeared to be affected by the concentration of the carbonate materials in the study area.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

In korea, 500MW standard coal fired power plants were designed and operated for the initial base load, so facility stability was prioritized from facility problem to treatment, but now we needed to research for minimizing greehouse gas emissions at the operation of coal fired power plants. research on various facilities and technologies was actively conducted to reduce environment pollutants was drastically reduced, but research and attempts on coping measures in the event of a reduction facility problem were in sufficient. this study considered investigated ways to minimized pollutants by quickly responding to logic development and application of the load runback concept in case of serious problems with environmental pollutant reduction facilities such as NOx reduction selective catalytic reduction facilities, SOx reduction wet flue gas desulpherisation facilities, and TSP(Total Suspended Particles) collection low temperature electric precipitator.