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Investigation of EVA Accelerated Degradation Test for Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

  • Kim, Jaeun;Rabelo, Matheus;Holz, Markus;Cho, Eun-Chel;Yi, Junsin
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.24-31
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    • 2021
  • Renewable energy has become more popular with the increase in the use of solar power. Consequently, the disposal of defective and old solar panels is gradually increasing giving rise to a new problem. Furthermore, the efficiency and power output decreases with aging. Researchers worldwide are engaged in solving this problem by developing eco-module technologies that restore and reuse the solar panels according to the defect types rather than simple disposal. The eco-module technology not only solves the environmental problem, but also has economic advantages, such as extending the module life. Replacement of encapsulants contributes to a major portion of the module maintenance plan, as the degradation of encapsulants accounts for 60% of the problems found in modules over the past years. However, the current International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard testing was designed for the commercialization of solar modules. As the problem caused by long-term use is not considered, this method is not suitable for the quality assurance evaluation of the eco-module. Therefore, to design a new accelerated test, this paper provides an overview of EVA degradation and comparison with the IEC and accelerated tests.

A Study on the Methods of the Decorations Using Module Plants in Interior Spaces (모듈형 식물장식을 활용한 실내공간 장식방법에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Ran
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this research is to analyze the methods of the decorations using module plants in interior spaces. This research produced 18 types of the module plant decoration: considering the classifications of module plants(soil, hydroculture, moss), directions of module plants (up, side, down), assembling ways of module plants (horizontal, vertical). Applying these 18 types to the interior space decoration (floor stand, wall attach, ceiling hanging), 54 types were classified. After that, 150 cases of the decoration using module plants in interior spaces were collected and analyzed. In result, the cases were belong to 25 types of 54 types. The important types were the types to be able to decorate wide area of walls or ceilings without occupying floor area: SOIL-UP-VERTICAL, HYDROCULTURE-UP-VERTICAL, MOSS-SIDE-VERTICAL. These types were the decorations with function of bio-filter for air cleaning. Special types were SOIL-SIDE-HORIZONTAL, SOIL-SIDE-VERTICAL with soil developed not to pour and SOIL-DOWN-HORIZONTAL, SOIL-DOWN-VERTICAL with lucks not to pour soil. Plants will be used widely in interior design because of the awareness of eco-friendly design. The strength that module plants are portable, changable, able to exchange parts helps users to maintain plants in interior spaces. For designers, module plants are flexible materials in order to make variety of forms to adjust to interior spaces. The results of this research about methods of the decorations using module plants in interior spaces are useful to designers who want to design interior spaces eco-friendly and user-friendly.

The Eco-Architecture for Optimal End-Of-Life Strategy for Complex Products : An Extension to Hierarchical Analysis (제품의 사용 후 처리전략 수립 최적화를 위한 계층적 에코 아키텍쳐 분석방법론)

  • Kwak, Min Jung;Lee, Hyun Bok;Hong, Yoo Suk;Cho, Nam Wook;Choi, Keon Young
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.79-89
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    • 2008
  • An end-of-life strategy is concerned with how to disassemble a product and what to do with each of the resultingdisassembled parts. A sound understanding of the end-of-life strategy at the early design stage could improve theease of disassembly and recycling in an efficient and effective manner. Therefore, the end-of-life decisionmaking for environmental conscious design has become a great concern to product manufacturers.We introduce a novel concept ofeco-architecture which represents a scheme by which the physical componentsare allocated to end-of-life modules. An end-of-life module is a physical chunk of connected components or afeasible subassembly which can be simultaneously processed by the same end-of-life option without furtherdisassembly. In this paper, a method for analyzing the eco-architecture of a product at the configuration designstage is proposed. It produces an optimal eco-architecture under the given environmental regulations. To dealwith the case ofa complex product, the method is extended for analyzing hierarchical eco-architecture.

Electric Fan Heater Design for Eco-Energy Saving (친환경 에너지 절감형 전기온풍기 기구설계)

  • Sul, Yong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.474-479
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    • 2016
  • As the Eco-energy is recently required, electrical energy is fast increased. Several induction heating methods are attractive for Eco-energy and energy saving. In this paper, electrical fan heater was designed and developed with new concept for energy saving by electromagnetic induction heating. Proposed system was composed of three module, blast part, induction heating part and power transformation part. Induction heating method was adapted for heating and the resonant inverter was used for increasing of the power transformation efficiency. Full-bridge resonant inverter was adopted to resonant inverter. This system was composed of induction heating part made with metal(SUS 40 series), and power transformation part made with rectifier module, filter module and resonant inverter. From these results, the proposed new electric heater could be saved the energy from faster increasing the temperature compared to commercial gas and other electric heater. This electrical fan heater is possible to be used in field of home, commercial and agricultural area for eco-energy saving heater.

Development of an Eco-Value Engineering Support System

  • Sun-Im Kang;Jong-Hyeob Kim;Mi-A Jung;Chang-Taek Hyun;Sangwon Han
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2013
  • A number of urban renewal projects are currently being implemented around the world. Current project management tools are limited in effectively dealing with numerous issues regarding management of these projects (e.g., simultaneous execution of multiple projects). As an effort to address this deficiency, an Intelligent Program Management Information System (i-PgMIS) was developed for effective management of urban renewal projects. The i-PgMIS is a web-based system consisting of various modules including cost management, schedule management, risk management, change management, eco-value engineering (EVE) and so on. Based on the recognition of increasing awareness of creating sustainable built environment, this paper focuses on the EVE module that can support eco-value analysis at program-level management. The EVE module is expected to enhance value and sustainability of construction processes throughout the whole 'program' lifecycle and further to support program feasibility study based on life cycle costing.

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A Study on Prediction of Road Freezing in Jeju (제주지역 도로결빙 예측에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Mi;Oh, Sang-Yul;Lee, Soo-Jeong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.531-541
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    • 2018
  • Road freezing caused by snowfall during wintertime causes traffic congestion and many accidents. To prevent such problems, we developed, in this study, a system to predict road freezing based on weather forecast data and the freezing generation modules. The weather forecast data were obtained from a high-resolution model with 1 km resolution for Jeju Island from 00:00 KST on December 1, 2017, to 23:00 KST on February 28, 2018. The results of the weather forecast data show that index of agreement (IOA) temperature was higher than 0.85 at all points, and that for wind speed was higher than 0.7 except in Seogwipo city. In order to evaluate the results of the freezing predictions, we used model evaluation metrics obtained from a confusion matrix. These metrics revealed that, the Imacho module showed good performance in precision and accuracy and that the Karlsson module showed good performance in specificity and FP rate. In particular, Cohen's kappa value was shown to be excellent for both modules, demonstrating that the algorithm is reliable. The superiority of both the modules shows that the new system can prevent traffic problems related to road freezing in the Jeju area during wintertime.

A Study on the Eco-environmental Blind using BIPV Module Applications (BIPV Module을 적용한 친환경 전동 블라인드에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hyun-Woo;Yoon, Jong-Ho;Lee, Kil-Song;Kim, Byeong-Man;Jang, Jin-Ho;Kang, Gi-Hwan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.105-106
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    • 2008
  • In korea, PV business has been growing fast since 2000. There are many ways to build PV System. Among them, BIPV(Building Integrated Photovoltaic) System using PV Modules as external wall has been carried out research on and invested much. Thus I will suggest another way to apply the BIPV System. This System is Eco System designed to consume little energy working the blind by the power that the BIPV System generates. I will show you how to make and apply this BIPV System.

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Optimizing Lamination Process for High-Power Shingled Photovoltaic Module (고출력 슁글드 태양광 모듈의 라미네이션 공정조건 최적화)

  • Jeong, Jeongho;Jee, Hongsub;Kim, Junghoon;Choi, Wonyong;Jeong, Chaehwan;Lee, Jaehyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.281-291
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    • 2022
  • Global warming is accelerating due to the use of fossil fuels that have been used continuously for centuries. Now, humankind recognizes its seriousness, and is conducting research on searching for eco-friendly and sustainable energy. In the field of solar energy, which is a kind of eco-friendly and sustainable, many studies are being conducted to enhance the output performance of the module. In this study, the output improvement for the shingled module structure was studied. In order to improve the output performance of the module, the thickness of the encapsulant was increased, and the lamination process conditions have been improved accordingly. After that, the crosslinking rate was analyzed, and the suitability of the lamination process conditions was judged using this. In addition, a peeling test was conducted to analyze the correlation between the adhesion of the encapsulant and the output performance of the module. Finally, the optimization for the encapsulant material and the lamination process conditions for high-power shingled modules was established, and accordingly, the market share of high-power shingled modules in the solar module market can be expected to rise.

Conceptual eco-hydrological model reflecting the interaction of climate-soil-vegetation-groundwater table in humid regions (습윤 지역의 기후-토양-식생-지하수위 상호작용을 반영한 개념적인 생태 수문 모형)

  • Choi, Jeonghyeon;Kim, Sangdan
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.54 no.9
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    • pp.681-692
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    • 2021
  • Vegetation processes have a significant impact on rainfall runoff processes through evapotranspiration control, but are rarely considered in the conceptual lumped hydrological model. This study evaluated the model performance of the Hapcheon Dam watershed by integrating the ecological module expressing the leaf area index data sensed remotely from the satellite into the hydrological partition module. The proposed eco-hydrological model has three main features to better represent the eco-hydrological process in humid regions. 1) The growth rate of vegetation is constrained by water shortage stress in the watershed. 2) The maximum growth of vegetation is limited by the energy of the watershed climate. 3) The interaction of vegetation and aquifers is reflected. The proposed model simultaneously simulates hydrologic components and vegetation dynamics of watershed scale. The following findings were found from the validation results using the model parameters estimated by the SCEM algorithm. 1) Estimating the parameters of the eco-hydrological model using the leaf area index and streamflow data can predict the streamflow with similar accuracy and robustness to the hydrological model without the ecological module. 2) Using the remotely sensed leaf area index without filtering as input data is not helpful in estimating streamflow. 3) The integrated eco-hydrological model can provide an excellent estimate of the seasonal variability of the leaf area index.

Optimal design of Sound Enclosure of the BOP module(300kW MCFC) (MCFC 모듈형 BOP(300kW급) 방음 Enclosure 최적설계)

  • Oh, Jin-Woo;Lee, Jang-Hyun;Lee, Kyu-Houng;Lee, Sang-Hun;Oh, Yong-Min;Kim, Sun-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.122-127
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    • 2011
  • Recently eco friendly energy is the most interested field and has been research actively. MCFC is a representative technology of eco friendly energy. Eco friendly energy shouldn't cause environmental problems like noise and vibration because that is the technology to solve environmental problems. The major noise and vibration source of MCFC is blowers. this project designed sound enclosure and isolator as the best way for blowers.

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