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Perceptions and Practices for Core Action Message on Green Dietary Life: The Case of Homemakers in Ulsan, Korea (울산지역 주부의 녹색식생활지침에 대한 인식 및 실천)

  • Ha, Tae Jeong;Park, Dong-Yean
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.533-548
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    • 2014
  • The Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs developed a program called "Core Action Massages for Green Dietary Life" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption and improve health. This study examines the degree of perceptions and practices with respect to these massages by considering a sample of 245 homemakers in Ulsan, Korea. The questionnaire consisted of questions about perceptions and practices of Core Action Massage and its three parts of detailed massages: , , . The data were analyzed with cross tabulation analysis, Tukey analysis after ANOVA. The score of agreement to Core Action Massage was 4.57(range 1-5). The score of perception about showed significant differences in age(p<0.01) and income(p<0.05). The score of perception about and showed significant differences in age(p<0.05). The score of practicing showed significant differences in age(0.001), education(0.01), housing style(p<0.01), and region(0.01). The score of practicing showed significant differences in age(p<0.001), education(0.05), and region(0.05). The frequency of practices for was low. As to the results of the study, education on green dietary life must be provided to homemakers, especially young homemakers. Opportunities to experience of farming to appreciate others' efforts to obtain food should also be provided.

Correlation Between Meteorological Factors and Hospital Power Consumption (기상요인과 병원 전력사용량의 상관관계)

  • Kim, Jang-Mook;Cho, Jung-Hwan;Kim, Byul
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.457-466
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    • 2016
  • To achieve eco-friendly hospitals it is necessary to empirically verify the effect of meteorological factors on the power consumption of the hospital. Using daily meteorological big data from 2009 to 2013, we studied the weather conditions impact to power consumption and analyzed the patterns of power consumption of two hospitals. R analysis revealed that temperature among the meteorological factors had the greatest impact on the hospital power consumption, and was a significant factor regardless of hospital size. The pattern of hospital power consumption differed considerably depending on the hospital size. The larger hospital had a linear pattern of power consumption and the smaller hospital had a quadratic nonlinear pattern. A typical pattern of increasing power consumption during a hot summer and a cold winter was evident for both hospitals. The results of this study suggest that a hospital's functional specificity and meteorological factors should be considered to improve energy savings and eco-friendly building.

Analysis of Development Trends on Bio-based Environmental Transformers Oils in Power Sector (전력분야의 바이오 기반 친환경 전기 절연유 적용에 관한 개발 동향 분석)

  • Kim, Jae-Kon;Min, YoungJe;Kim, Mock-Yeon;Kwark, ByeongSub;Park, Hyunjoo
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2022
  • Mineral electrical insulating oil, which is widely used in transformers, exhibits excellent cooling performance and transformer efficiency. However, given that it is composed of petroleum-based components, it is weak in terms of biodegradability. This causes environmental problems in case of leakage and a low flash point, which is a factor that would cause great damage in the event of a fire in a substation. In this context, the use of eco-friendly electric insulating oil composed of bio-based vegetable oil and synthetic ester, which has excellent biodegradability and flame retardancy performance, has recently been expanded to the field of electric power, and various research and development (R&D) studies are in progress. According to different research results, vegetable oil and synthetic ester manufacturing technology, thermal stability, oxidation stability, property change, and quality control, which are characteristics of eco-friendly electrical insulating oils, are major factors affecting the maintenance of insulating oil properties. In addition, power companies have established and operated quality control standards according to the use of eco-friendly electrical insulating oil as they expand the exploitatoin of renewable energy in electricity production. In particular, deterioration and oxidation characteristics were jointly identified in R&D as an important influencing factor according to the content of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids present in vegetable oils and synthetic esters in power transformer applications.

A Study for the Application of Ammonia Propulsion Model: Focusing on the Training Ship (암모니아 추진 모델 적용을 위한 연구: 실습선을 중심으로)

  • GA-YOUNG YANG;JAE-WOO AHN;SUNG-BIN HONG;KANG-HYEON KIM;JAE-MIN PARK;BO RIM RYU;HO KEUN KANG
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.156-157
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    • 2022
  • Currently, due to the increase in GHG emissions, the global weather phenomenon is constantly occurring, and each international organization is trying to reduce 온실가스 through various regulations to reduce GHG. To comply with the regulations, eco-friendly ships are currently being studied to reduce GHG. This paper models the fuel propulsion system of NH3 sofc fuel cell propulsion ship through the case study of eco-friendly ships, especially NH3 fuel cells, and provides information on how NH3 sofc fuel cell propulsion ships can benefit energy efficiency and decarbonization compared to existing FO vessels.

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Economic Evaluation of a Crush-screen Hybrid Pretreatment Process for Waste Vinyl (폐비닐의 파쇄/선별 융합 전처리 공정의 경제성 평가)

  • Seo, Su Been;Cho, Il Ho;Yun, Hyun Pyo;Kang, Seo Yeong;Kim, Hyung Woo;Lee, See Hoon
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.289-295
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    • 2019
  • Though the usage of vinyls and plastics produced from fossil fuels has been increasing in the world, the eco-friendly domestic disposal or recycling of waste vinyls has to be executed because the migration or importation of waste vinyls or waste plastics are globally prohibited. Even though the eco-friendly domestic disposal or recycling of waste vinyls and waste plastics should be developed, promising eco-friendly recycling methods are few because there are extraneous substances in waste vinyls and waste plastics. Also, conventional incineration and landfill methods result in secondary contamination and then increase disposal costs. Therefore, the selective elimination of extraneous substances or other materials included in waste vinyls and waste plastics could make valuable recycling or reuse possible. In particular, the novel hybrid process in which crushing and screening are simultaneously conducted in a rotary kiln type reactor can domestically maximize the material recycling or reuse. In this study, the feasibility study for a crushing/screening hybrid process developed in Korea was performed and evaluated in case of thermal recycling (TR) and material recycling (MR). The effect of various subsidies on economic efficiency was especially evaluated by means of domestic recycling plans. The incentive revenues from waste vinyl recycling and the incineration share of waste vinyls affected the net present values and internal rate of returns of the hybrid process.

Influence of Japanese Restaurants' LOHAS Image Factors on Customers' Menu Selection and Satisfaction (일식레스토랑의 로하스이미지요인이 메뉴선택과 고객만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jin-Gap;Lee, Yeon-Jung
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.166-182
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of LOHAS images of Japanese restaurants on customers' menu selection and satisfaction to provide useful information on proposing detailed marketing directions by deriving the importance and satisfaction factors of LOHAS images and to suggest practical and effective measures for using LOHAS images to improve menus at Japanese restaurants. The results of the study are as follows. First, as a result of examining hypothesis 1, "LOHAS images will influence essential factors," it was found that healthy ingredient, family-oriented, eco-friendly, sustainability, and energy-saving factors were influential. With greater family-oriented, sustainability, healthy ingredient, and eco-friendly factors in LOHAS image, interests in essential factors increased. Second, family-oriented, energy-saving, social-oriented, and sustainability factors in LOHAS image had a significantly positive impact on the environmental factors of menu. Third, eco-friendly, sustainability, family-oriented, energy-saving, healthy preparation, and healthy ingredient factors in LOHAS image had a significantly positive impact on customer satisfaction. Fourth, essential factors in the selection attributes of Japanese restaurant menu had a significantly positive impact on customer satisfaction. Fifth, environmental factors in Japanese restaurants had a significantly positive impact on customer satisfaction. The significance and limitation of this study are: first, Japanese restaurants would be able to build a better image with customers by providing menu items that are family-oriented, sustainable, and energy-saving. Second, it would be necessary to study how LOHAS factors influence customers' general purchase decisions and psychological factors.

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New Practical and Eco-friendly Recycling method of FRP Boats (FRP선박의 재처리시스템과 활용성 연구)

  • Yoon, Koo-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2007
  • Despite of environmental problems(safety hazards), mechanical recycling of FRP boats, which involves shredding and grinding of the scrap FRP in a new product. is one of the simpler and more technically proven methods than incineration or reclamation ones. Because FRP is made up of reinforced fiber glass, it is very difficult to break into pieces. It also occurs secondary problem such as air pollution and unacceptable shredding noise level. The another urgent problem which is a serious barrier to FRP recycling is very limited reusable applications. This study is to propose a new method which is efficient and environment friendly waste FRP regenerating system. And it also have shown the polymer cement and fiber-reinforced concrete applications with the waste FRP.

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A Study on the Planning Characteristics of Ecological City - A Case Study of HafenCity, Hamburg - (생태도시 구축을 위한 계획 특성에 관한 연구 - 독일 함부르크 하펜시티 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Jong Ki;Chin, Kyung Il
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2012
  • Nowadays, interests on Eco-city planning as Solution for problems of energy demand and environmental change has grown. so Eco-city planning became a major political topic for urban planning and urban design in many advanced nation cities. The purpose of this study is to find out the organized characteristics of Eco-City planning by analyzing successful overseas case where wasted historic port area in city is are regenerated with a environment-friendly concept for Eco-City "HafenCity". It is located on Hamburg-mitte in Hamburg, Germany and is currently the largest construction project in Europe. HafenCity as Home to about 12,000 and the workplace of 40,000 people is being created to accommodate a variety of uses including residential buildings, business, office and retail space as well as cultural and leisure facilities. First of all, HafenCity impresses because of its size as well as because of its Urban planning for eco-city. It presents the excellent change from wasted historic port to the ecological urban space.

Eco-friendly Ceramic Materials for Shear Mode Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (전단 모드 압전 에너지 하베스팅용 친환경 세라믹 소재)

  • Han, Seung-Ho;Park, Hwi-Yeol;Kang, Hyung-Won;Lee, Hyeung-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.702-710
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    • 2012
  • Eco-friendly $(Na,K)NbO_3$ (NKN)-based piezoelectric ceramic materials were fabricated by conventional ceramic method for shear mode piezoelectric energy harvesting application. $NKN-LiTaO_3$ (LT) based compositions were adopted for the high $d_{15}{\times}g_{15}$ which is proportional to harvested energy density. The composition $0.935(Na_{0.535}K_{0.485})NbO_3-0.065LiTaO_3$ was found to be lie on the boundary of tetragonal and orthorhombic phases. With reducing Ta content, the dielectric constant decreased gradually while maintaining high $d_{15}$, which resulted in increased $d_{15}{\times}g_{15}$. The composition $0.935(Na_{0.535}K_{0.485})NbO_3-0.065Li(Nb_{0.990}Ta_{0.010})O_3$ was found to possess excellent piezoelectric and electromechanical properties ($d_{15}{\times}g_{15}=29\;pm^2/N$, $d_{15}$ = 417 pC/N, $k_{15}$ = 0.55), and high curie temperature ($T_c=455^{\circ}C$).

Survey and Analysis of Power Energy Usage of University Buildings (대학건축물의 전력에너지 사용량 조사 및 분석)

  • Youn, Nam Sik;Kim, Jeong Tai
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2013
  • For the past seven years, the increase in the energy consumption of universities in Korea has been 3.7 times higher than the overall increase in the energy consumption across Korea (22.5%). This is an example that shows that universities have been a massive source of greenhouse gases. Such an increase has been attributed to the new and expanded construction of architectural structures on campus. Many people argue that the increasing number of buildings may cause waste of energy and loss of efficiency. Therefore, this study was conducted as a preliminary study to derive energy efficiency measures for new university buildings. The two aspects of energy-saving as required by the eco-friendly structure certification standards have been applied to analyze the use of new/renewable energy and the energy consumption of new university buildings that have applied light density and light engineering methods. Based on these results, the major sources of energy of existing buildings and new university buildings were compared to comparatively discuss how effectively they improve energy performance.