• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.561-571
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• 2005

To introduce an emissions trading system for GHG that currently have no reduction requirements, the following should be considered as priorities: eliciting the participation of the industrial sector and linking GHG emission trading systems to the emissions trading system (implemented from July 2007) that has become part of national policy with the enactment of the Special Act. Two directions can serve as viable alternatives in that regard. One is a baseline-and-credit method based on incentive auctioning. This has the advantage of inducing participation through economic incentives without a reductions commitment. The downside of this method is that it requires vast investments, as well as the fact that reaching an agreement between participants and the government to decide an objective baseline is difficult. On the other hand, the cap-and-trade method set forth in the Special Act is attractive in that it can be integrated with the air pollutant emissions trading system, but it would be difficult to elicit the participation of the industrial sector in the absence of GHG emission reduction requirements. In the current situation, it would be preferable for the government to induce the participation of the industrial sector by devising a wide variety of incentives because taking part in the emissions trading system before reducing GHG emissions offers large incentives through learning by doing. The timing of GHG reduction commitments and emissions trading system implementation may be uncertain but their Implementation will be unavoidable. Thus the government needs to facilitate preparations for emissions trading of GHG in the future and continuously review its operation in integration with the air pollutant emissions trading system to maximize adaptation and teaming by doing effect in the industrial sector.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.209-223
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• 2021

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Korea agricultural productions and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions based on Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach - This study utilized time series data of economic growth, greenhouse gas, agricultural productions, trade dependency, and energy usages. In order to econometric procedure of EKC hypothesis, this study utilized unit root test and cointegration test to check staionarity of each variable and also adopted Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) to analyze the short and long run relationships. Findings - In the short run, greenhouse gas emissions resulting from economic growth show an inverse U-shape relationship, and an increase in agricultural production and energy consumption led to increase in greenhouse gas emission. In the long run, total GHG emissions and CO2 emissions show an N-shaped relationship with economic growth, and an increase in agricultural production has resulted in a decrease in total GHG and CO2 emissions. However, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions showed an inverse U-shape relationship with economic growth, which indicated the environment and production process of agricultural production. Research implications or Originality - Korea agricultural production has different effects on the GHG emission sources, and in particular, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions show to increase as the agricultural production expansions, so policy or technological development in related sector is required. Especially, in the context of the 2030 GHG reduction road-map, if GHG-related reduction technologies or policies are spread, national GHG emission reduction targets can be achieved and this is possible to predict the decline in production in the sector and damage to the related industries.

• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2020

This study analyzes in detail greenhouse gas emissions in building sector. To this end, this study used data on building characteristics (including building type, region, and construction year) and monthly energy consumptions (including electricity, city gas, and district heat) for all buildings from 2015 to 2018. These data were collected from the National Building Energy Database and the energy consumptions were converted into greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The total amount of GHG emissions from the building sector has increased steadily from 2015 (118.1MtCO2eq.) to 2018 (132.6MtCO2eq.). On the other hand, the more recently constructed buildings had lower GHG intensities. This result shows that strengthening building design criteria was effective on the reduction of GHG emissions in buildings, and that the increased buildings contributed to increasing GHG emissions of the building sector. In addition, sales facilities are thought to have the largest reduction potential as they had the highest amount of GHG emissions and GHG intensity. This study is expected to help establish new policies for GHG reduction in building sector as well as to evaluate the effects of existing policies.

• 융복합기술연구소 논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.15-18
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• 2017

As emission gas regulation of deisel vehicles is strengthened to Euro-6, It becomes difficult to deal with NOx regulated value mainly by EGR without additional after-treatment system. In addition, RDE(Real Driving Emissions) test will be introduced after september 2017. Therefore, It is essential to develop the after-treatment of diesel vehicles which reduce NOx emissions. It is possible to use DOC, DPF, LNT or DOC, DPF and SCR as a after-treatment system for reducing NOx. However, It is expected that the SCR will be applied widely because LNT alone does not have sufficient NOx purification efficiency. In this study, It tried to analyze the efficiency of reducing NOx emissions during the mode test by attaching a NOx sensor to test vehicle. As a result, It was confirmed that NOx emissions was significantly reduce through the after-treatment system from engine. And the NOx reduction efficiency of SCR was about 4.5 times better than DOC, DPF.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.208-214
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• 2006

Dimethoxy methane$(CH_3-O-CH_2-O-CH_3)$, also known as methylal or DMM, is an oxygenated additive that contains 42.5% oxygen by weight and is soluble in diesel fuel. It is a colorless liquid and a gas-to-liquid chemical 방tat has been evaluated for use as a diesel fuel component. Experiments were conducted by using the five blends with different volumetric percentage of DMM(2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 12.5%) in baseline diesel fuel. The test engine was single cylinder, four stroke, DI diesel engine unmodified. Also, data was collected for steady state operation at 24 engine speed-load conditions. The focus of this study was to investigate the effects of the addition of oxygenated fuel to diesel fuel on the engine-out emissions and the performance. Smoke emissions of all DMM blends were reduced substantially in comparison with conventional diesel fuel. These results indicate that DMM may be an effective blendstock for diesel fuel as an environment-friendly alternative fuel. Besides, this study showed that simultaneous reduction of smoke and NOx emissions could be achieved by oxygenated fuel and EGR method that was applied to decrease NOx emissions increasing with smoke emissions reduction.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

Over the past centuries, industrialization in developed and developing countries has had a negative impact on global warming, releasing $CO_2$ emissions into the Earth's atmosphere. In recent years, the transportation sector, which emits one-third of total $CO_2$ emissions in the United States, has adapted by implementing a climate change action plan to reduce $CO_2$ emissions. Having an environmental policy might be an essential factor in mitigating the man-made global warming threats to protect public health and the coexistent needs of current and future generations; however, to my best knowledge, no research has been conducted in such a context with appropriate statistical validation process to evaluate the effects of climate change policy on $CO_2$ emission reduction in recent years in the U.S. transportation. The empirical findings using an entity fixed-effects model with valid statistical tests show the positive effects of climate change policy on $CO_2$ emission reduction in a state. With all the 49 states joining the climate change action plans, the U.S. transportation sector is expected to reduce its $CO_2$ emissions by 20.2 MMT per year, and for the next 10 years, the cumulated $CO_2$ emission reduction is projected to reach 202.3 MMT, which is almost equivalent to the $CO_2$ emissions from the transportation sector produced in 2012 by California, the largest $CO_2$ emission state in the nation.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2017

Currently, the proportion of diesel vehicles in all automobile has grown significantly over the past few years. Air pollutant also grew up and became a social problem. In particular, the issue of NOx emissions caused by NOx high emission in real driving has become a global issue. Despite the fact that the regulatory and reduction project of the new vehicle is actively carried out, there are no existence regulations of In-use diesel vehicle's NOx emission. Therefore, the emission characteristics of the in-use diesel vehicles were investigated to seek ways to reduce NOx emissions in this study. The test targets were used in 237 close inspection of exhaust gases and model year varied from 1996 to 2011. However, the classification of emissions by emission standards differed considerably from NOx emissions. This means that the selection method for early retirement targets should be converted from model year to amount of emissions. If the current early retirement program was applied to the existing system, pre-Euro 3 was 22.530 g/km and Euro 4 was 21.810 g/km to NOx reduction. However, when the vehicle was changed to high emission target vehicle, NOx reduction increase maximum 84.705 kg/yr. According to the study results, an effective reduction in NOx emissions can be achieved if an earlier target in expanded to Euro 4 vehicles.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.139-158
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• 2017

CMAQ (Community Multiscale Air Quality Model) simulations were carried out to estimate the potential range of contributions on surface $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) with the gaseous precursors and Primary Particulate Matters(PPM) available from a recent national emissions inventory. In detail, on top of a base simulation utilizing the 2013 Clean Air Policy Supporting System (CAPSS) emission inventory, a set of Brute Force Method (BFM) simulations after reducing anthropogenic $NO_x$, $SO_2$, $NH_3$, VOCs, and PPM emissions released from area, mobile, and point sources in SMA by 50% were performed in turn. Modeling results show that zero-out contributions(ZOC) of $NH_3$ and PPM emissions from SMA are as high as $4{\sim}5{\mu}g/m^3$ over the region during the modeling period. On the contrary, ZOC of local $NO_x$ and $SO_2$ emissions to SMA $PM_{2.5}$ are less than $1{\mu}g/m^3$. Moreover, model analyses indicate that a wintertime $NO_x$ reduction at least up to 50% increases SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations, probably due to increased HNO3 formation and conversion to aerosols under more abundant ozone and radical conditions after the $NO_x$ reduction. However, a nation-wide $NO_x$ reduction decreased SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations even during winter, which implies that nation-wide reductions would be more effective to curtail SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations than localized efforts.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.115-142
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• 2010

최근까지 선진국 및 주요 개도국이 발표한 2020년까지의 자발적 온실가스 감축목표를 Global CGE모형을 활용하여 분석한 결과, 선진국의 온실가스 배출량이 2020년까지 1990년 대비 약 14.0% 감축하는 데 그칠 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 기후변화 문제 해결을 위한 선진국의 선도적 역할과 역사적 책임이라는 측면에서 그리고 Post-Kyoto 협상의 타결을 위해 선진국의 자발적 감축목표의 상향조정의 필요성이 대두되었다. 한편 개도국의 자발적 감축목표 이행은 전 세계 온실가스 배출량을 BaU 대비 약 15.9%까지 감축하는 데 기여할 것으로 분석되었으며, 이는 중국과 인도의 참여가 크게 작용하였다. 이와 같은 결과는 향후 Post-Kyoto 체제의 환경적 효과성을 높이기 위해 선진국의 감축목표 강화와 더불어 개도국의 광범위한 참여와 의미 있는 수준에서의 온실가스 감축행동도 동시에 필요함을 시사한다. 한편 선진국과 주요 개도국의 자발적 온실가스 감축목표의 이행은 전 세계 실질 국내총생산을 1.18% 감소시킬 것으로 분석되었다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.61-87
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• 1992

인위적(人爲的)인 배기(排氣)가스의 배출(排出)이 급증함(急增)함에 따라 나타날 것으로 예상되는 지구온난화(地球溫暖化)를 방지하기 위해서는 에너지 소비절약과 화석연료의 대체를 통해서 $CO_2$ 배출량을 축소시키는 노력이 필요하다. 그런데 배기(排氣)가스의 배출(排出)을 억제하는 데에는 많은 비용(費用)이 들 것이므로 배출억제수단(排出抑制手段)으로는 비용효율적(費用效率的)인 경제적 수단이 동원될 가능성이 높다. 본고(本稿)는 온난화(溫暖化) 방지수단(防止手段)으로 경제적 수단이 동원될 경우를 상정하여 기후변화 방지의 비용-수익분석을 통하여 최적 배출억제규모를 시산하고 있다. $CO_2$ 농축도가 현재 수준보다 배증(倍增)하는 경우 평균기온이 약 $3^{\circ}C$ 상승한다고 가정하고, $3^{\circ}C$ 상승이 유발하는 경제적 피해가 GNP의 0.25%, 1%, 2%에 이르는 세가지 시나리오를 상정하여 $CO_2$ 배출량 감축의 수익을 시산하였다. 단순성장(單純成長)-기후변화(氣候變化) 모형(模型)에 기초하여 시산(試算)한 결과(結果)에 의하면 우리나라의 경우 1990년을 기준으로 할 때 최적 $CO_2$ 배출량 감축규모는 피라미터값에 따라 현재수준의 2~15% 정도에 이르는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 배출감축시점을 지연시키는 경우 감축규모(減縮規模)는 현재시점을 기준으로 했을 때보다 커질 수도 있고 작아질 수도 있으나, 향후 기후관련 기술진보나 화석연료 사용의 효율성이 높아지는 경우 최적 감축규모는 감축시점(減縮時點)이 연기됨에 따라 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 본고(本稿)에서는 또한 최적배출규모가 주어졌을 때 실제로 배출규모를 감축하는 방법으로 동원될 수 있는 탄소세(炭素稅)와 배출권(排出權) 거래제(去來制)의 경제적 특징과 장 단점도 논의하고 있다. 이 두가지 수단은 최적조건이 동일한 성질을 갖고 있으므로 비용효율면에서는 동일한 효과를 갖고 있으나 실제운용에 있어서는 서로 다른 장 단점을 지니고 있다.