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Research on Water-Energy-Food Comprehensive Utilization Efficiency in China (중국의 물-에너지-식량 종합 이용 효율성을 평가 연구)

  • LU, YULIN;HE, YAN
    • Journal of Digital Policy
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2022
  • The World Economic Forum has included Water-Energy-Food among the three major risk groups in the world, and Water-Energy-Food is related to the development strategies of countries and the lives of their citizens. This study calculates the combined Water-Energy-Food use efficiency in China for 2011-2020 based on the SBM-Malmquist index. The results show that the overall combined Water-Energy-Food efficiency in China is low, but shows an upward trend. There is a clear variability in the combined Water-Energy-Food utilization efficiency in China, with an overall geographic distribution pattern of East > Middle > West. Only Beijing and Shanghai have reached the real above effective nationwide, and all other provinces have inefficiency between input and output. The Malmquist index of integrated Water-Energy-Food utilization efficiency is 1.136, with an up ward trend, and technical efficiency and technological progress lead the improvement of integrated Water-Energy-Food utilization efficiency in China at the sametime. The Water-Energy-Food issue should be raised to a strategic level as soon as possible, and policy support should be provided for its development. Each region should establish a cross-regional coordinating body to formulate targeted measures according to the province's food production and water distribution, so as to promote economic transformation from sloppy development to green development as soon as possible.

A Study on the Design of Smart Farm Heating Performance using a Film Heater (필름 히터를 이용한 스마트 팜 난방 성능 설계에 관한 연구)

  • W. Kim
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2023
  • This paper presents the optimal design of a heating system using radiant heating elements for application in smart farms. Smart farming, an advanced agricultural technology, is based on artificial intelligence and the internet of things and promotes crop production. Temperature and humidity regulation is critical in smart farms, and thus, a heating system is essential. Radiant heating elements are devices that generate heat using electrical energy. Among other applications, radiant heating elements are used for environmental control and heating in smart farm greenhouses. The performance of these elements is directly related to their electrical energy consumption. Therefore, achieving a balance between efficient electrical energy consumption and maximum heating performance in smart farms is crucial for the optimal design of radiant heating elements. In this study, the size, electrical energy supply, heat generation efficiency, and heating performance of radiant heating elements used in these heating systems were investigated. The effects of the size and electrical energy supply of radiant heating elements on the heating performance were experimentally analyzed. As the radiant heating element size increased, the heat generation efficiency improved, but the electrical energy consumption also increased. In addition, increasing the electrical energy supply improved both the heat generation efficiency and heating performance of the radiant heating elements. Based on these results, a method for determining the optimal size and electrical energy supply of radiant heating elements was proposed, and it reduced the electrical energy consumption while maintaining an appropriate heating performance in smart farms. These research findings are expected to contribute to energy conservation and performance improvement in smart farming.

The effect of rear side etching for crystalline Si solar cells (후면식각이 결정질 실리콘 태양전지에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Jeong Hyun;Kim, Sun Hee;Lee, Hongjae;Kim, Bum Sung;Lee, Don Hee
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.72.2-72.2
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    • 2010
  • Nowadays, the crystalline Si Solar cell are expected for economical renewable energy source. The cost of the crystalline Si solar cell are decreasing by improvement of its efficiency and decrease of the cost of the raw Si wafers for Solar cells. This Si wafer based crystalline Si solar cell is the verified technology from several decade of its history. Now, I will introduce one method that can be upgrade the efficiency by using simple and economical method. The name of this method is Rear Side Etching(RSE). The purpose of rear side etching is the elimination of n+ layer of rear side and increase of the flatness. The effects of rear side etching are the improvement of Voc and increase of efficiency by reducement series resistance and forming of uniform BSF. The experimental procedure for rear side etching is very simple. After anti-reflection coating on solar cell wafer, Solar cell wafer is etched by the etching chemical that react with only rear side not front side. This special chemical is no harmful to anti-reflection coating layer. It can only etched rear side of solar cell wafer. We can use etching image by optical microscope, minority carrier life time by WCT 120, SiNx thickness and refractive index by ellipsometer, cell efficiency for the RSE effect measurement. The key point of rear side etching is development of etching process condition that react with only rear side. If we can control this factor, we can achieve increase of solar cell efficiency very economically without new device.

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A Study on the Improvement of Sailing Efficiency Using Big Data of Ship Operation (선박 운항 빅데이터를 활용한 운항 효율 향상 방법 연구)

  • Shin, Jung-Hun;Shim, Jeong-Yeon;Park, Jin-Woo;Choi, Dae-Han;BYEON, Sang-Su
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2017.04a
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    • pp.244-244
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    • 2017
  • Recently, A study is actively underway to apply to various industries, which are one of the major changes in the key drivers of the industry 4.0.. The data generated by the ship include various indicators such as the fuel volume, engine power, ground speed, speed, speed, main engine rpm, DFOC, SFOC, and FOC. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of the Gathering data and analyzes the impact energy efficiency of the vessel operation by analyzing the influence among each parameter, using the mathematical models, you create an surrogate model using the math model, comparative analysis of actual measurement data and predictive results were analyzed. Through the use of big data analysis technology, it is possible to identify the sensitivity between the energy efficiency related variables of the ship, The possibility of utilization of fuel efficiency indicators using of the surrogate model is identified.

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The effects of special metallic dampers on the seismic behavior of a vulnerable RC frame

  • Ozkaynak, Hasan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.61 no.4
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    • pp.483-496
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    • 2017
  • Earthquake excitations may induce important amount of seismic energy into structures. Current design philosophy mainly deals with the plastic deformations of replaceable energy dissipating devices rather than damages accumulated on structural members. Since earthquake damage is substantially concentrated on these devices they could be replaced after severe earthquakes. In this study, the efficiency of steel cushion (SC) on seismic improvement of a vulnerable reinforced concrete (RC) frame is determined by means of several numerical simulations. The cyclic shear behaviors of SCs were determined by performing quasi-static tests. The test results were the main basis of the theoretical model of SCs which were used in the numerical analysis. These analyses were performed on three types of RC frames namely bare frame (BF), full-braced frame (F-BF) and semi-braced frame (S-BF). According to analysis results; implementation of SCs has considerable effects in reducing the storey shear forces and storey drifts. Moreover plastic energy demands of structural elements were reduced which indicates a significant improvement in seismic behavior of the RC frame preventing damage accumulation on structural elements. Full-braced frame having SCs with the thickness of 25 mm has better performance than semi-braced frame interms of energy dissipation. However, global energy dissipation demand of S-BF and F-BF having SCs with the thickness of 18 mm are almost similar.

The Fuzzy AHP Approach to Prioritize the Future Energy Technology Development (퍼지 계층분석기법을 이용한 국내 미래 에너지기술개발 우선순위 도출)

  • Ha, Young-Jin;Kang, Seung-Jin
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.453-459
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    • 2008
  • In general, reliability of AHP depends on pairwise comparison of evaluators. In addition, human judgment on the importance of alternatives or criteria is always imprecise and vague. The Fuzzy AHP technique is suggested and used widely recently. In this paper, we prioritize future energy technology development for well focused R&D. We selected 3 criteria and 10 sub-criteria. According to the result in this study, the most important sub-criterion is the precedence over other competitive technology, the second is the possibility for fundamental technology acquisition, and the third is the improvement energy efficiency. The other side, the lowest important sub-criterion is the technology level compared with advanced countries.

An Analysis of the Energy Saving Effect Through the Retrofit and the Optimal Operation for HVAC Systems (공조설비 운전방법 및 시설개선을 통한 에너지절약 효과분석)

  • Kim, Yong-Ki;Lee, Tae-Won
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.343-350
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    • 2012
  • The major goal of building energy management is to minimize the energy consumption while maintaining the comfortable environment condition. Nowadays building energy management to save HVAC energy and so on is the most critical issue for existing building service branch with high efficiency equipments and their optimal operation. The effects on the building energy savings of the building equipment retrofit and the improvement of its operation method, especially in the field of HVAC system, were analyzed in this study for domestic small and/or medium sized buildings. Over 8.8% of energy saving was achieved compared withe total energy consumption in commercial building. These results could be used for reasonable maintenance and efficient management of the various building service equipments and related systems.

A Novel Improved Energy-Efficient Cluster Based Routing Protocol (IECRP) for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Inam, Muhammad;Li, Zhuo;Zardari, Zulfiqar Ali
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2021
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require an enormous number of sensor nodes (SNs) to maintain processing, sensing, and communication capabilities for monitoring targeted sensing regions. SNs are generally operated by batteries and have a significantly restricted energy consumption; therefore, it is necessary to discover optimization techniques to enhance network lifetime by saving energy. The principal focus is on reducing the energy consumption of packet sharing (transmission and receiving) and improving the network lifespan. To achieve this objective, this paper presents a novel improved energy-efficient cluster-based routing protocol (IECRP) that aims to accomplish this by decreasing the energy consumption in data forwarding and receiving using a clustering technique. Doing so, we successfully increase node energy and network lifetime. In order to confirm the improvement of our algorithm, a simulation is done using matlab, in which analysis and simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of two well-known recent benchmarks.