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Application of high temperature air combustion for improvement of thermal efficiency of oxide furnace (산화로의 열효율 향상을 위한 고온공기 연소 적용연구)

  • 이현찬;유현석;이중성
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.3-7
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    • 2002
  • 보일러 분야에 비해 요ㆍ로 분야는 로내 온도분포, 피가열물의 물리적 특성, 고열에 의한 열처리 등으로 인해 상대적으로 공정개선, 폐열회수율 등이 떨어지는 설비이다. 이에 일본, 미국, 유럽 등 선진국에서는 90년 초부터 연소배가스의 폐열을 적극적으로 회수하여 연소시키는 고온공기연소기술을 개발하여 상용화하였다.(중략)

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Demand Side Management in Power System (전력(電力)의 수요측(需要側) 관리방안(管理方案))

  • Kang, Won-Koo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1993.07a
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    • pp.45-47
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    • 1993
  • Load Management, is originated from efficiency improvement of energy use, or energy conservaion. Traditionally, electric utilities have constructed new power plants to meet the steadily increasing electricity demand. Power development planning, however, is becoming more difficult in the countries like Korea, Japan, and the United States, and increasing concerns about global environmental problems necessitate changes from existing supply-side options based on fossil-fuel to environmentally agreeable supply strategies. This paper discusses the demand side management strategy with emphasis on the concept, implementation scheme, and current practices employed in utilities.

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Efficiency evaluation of MBR, A/O processes utilizing self-sufficient energy (에너지 자립형 MBR, A/O 공정의 효율 평가)

  • Lim, Setaek;Kim, Jinkeun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.305-314
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    • 2014
  • A pilot plant (Q=5 $m^3/d$) study was implemented for small and medium sized personal wastewater treatment plant effluent to evaluate MBR and A/O processes utilizing self-sufficient energy composed of wind and solar energy. The removal efficiencies of BOD, SS, turbidity and color were sufficient for legal water quality standards for gray water. However, those of nitrogen and phosphorus could not meet legal regulations which suggested that further removal of those contaminants were needed for reuse of the treated water. Self-sufficient energy rate was 100 % for the pilot plant due to excessive design capacity. In this research, wind and solar energy system was applied considering geological characteristics, which significantly improved energy self-sufficiency. Substantial improvement on energy self-sufficiency can be obtained by optimized investment and operation at a full scale wastewater treatment plant.

NEUTRON INDUCED CROSS SECTION DATA FOR IR-191 AND IR-193

  • Lee, Yong-Deok;Lee, Young-Ouk
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.803-808
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    • 2006
  • The neutron induced nuclear cross section data for Ir-191 and Ir-193 were calculated and evaluated from unresolved resonance energy to 20MeV. The energy-dependent optical model potential parameters were determined based on the experimental data and applied up to 20MeV. A spherical optical model, a statistical model in an equilibrium energy region, and a multistep direct and multistep compound model in a pre-equilibrium energy region were used in the calculations. The direct capture model enhanced the fast neutron capture in the pre-equilibrium energy. The theoretically calculated cross sections were compared with the experimental data and the evaluated files. The calculations were found to be in good agreement with the experiment data. The evaluated cross section results were compiled with the ENDF-6 format. The fast energy results will be merged with the resonance parts to create a full evaluation library. The improvement of the neutron-induced cross section data will contribute to an increase in the efficiency of the production of Ir-192 as a radiation source.

A New Energy Saving Transport Protocol in Wireless Environments (무선 환경에서 새로운 에너지 절약형 전송 프로토콜)

  • Hwang, Sae-Joon;Lee, Jung-Min;Chung, Kwang-Sue
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.32 no.11_12
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    • pp.654-662
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    • 2005
  • Mobile portable devices for wireless network solely depend on a limited battery power. Therefore, we need to design for wireless communication protocols with an energy efficiency. TCP-Westwood is one of the most important approaches on TCP performance improvement in wireless environments that estimates the available bandwidth by using the sampling mechanism. The advantage is that data can be transmitted efficiently using the estimation of available bandwidth. However, when the sender with TCP-Westwood is in a wireless environment, it does not consider of the sampling mechanism operation. In this thesis, a new energy saving transport protocol, called E2TP(Energy Efficient Transport Protocol), is proposed to solve problems which occur when the sender with TCP-Westwood is in a wireless environment. Also, when there are packet loss while doing frequent link error in a wireless environment, E2TP provides the instantaneous segment size adjustment for a more efficient data retransmission. The simulation result proves that the proposed E2TP has better performance in energy efficiency and throughput than both TCP and TCP-Westwood.

Improved Carrier Tunneling and Recombination in Tandem Solar Cell with p-type Nanocrystalline Si Intermediate Layer

  • Park, Jinjoo;Kim, Sangho;Phong, Pham duy;Lee, Sunwha;Yi, Junsin
    • Current Photovoltaic Research
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2020
  • The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of a two-terminal tandem solar cell depends upon the tunnel-recombination junction (TRJ) between the top and bottom sub-cells. An optimized TRJ in a tandem cell helps improve its open-circuit voltage (Voc), short-circuit current density (Jsc), fill factor (FF), and efficiency (PCE). One of the parameters that affect the TRJ is the buffer layer thickness. Therefore, we investigated various TRJs by varying the thickness of the buffer or intermediate layer (TRJ-buffer) in between the highly doped p-type and n-type layers of the TRJ. The TRJ-buffer layer was p-type nc-Si:H, with a doping of 0.06%, an activation energy (Ea) of 43 meV, an optical gap (Eg) of 2.04 eV, and its thickness was varied from 0 nm to 125 nm. The tandem solar cells we investigated were a combination of a heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) bottom sub-cell and an a-Si:H (amorphous silicon) top sub-cell. The initial cell efficiency without the TRJ buffer was 7.65% while with an optimized buffer layer, its efficiency improved to 11.74%, i.e., an improvement in efficiency by a factor of 1.53.

Combustion Characteristics of HCNG Burner System with Tail Gas Addition (HCNG용 버너시스템에서 Tail Gas 첨가 시 연소특성)

  • Han, J.O.;Lee, J.S.;Kim, H.T.;Kim, S.M.;Lee, Y.C.;Kim, Y.C.;Hong, S.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.36-39
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    • 2015
  • The combustion characteristics of metal fiber burner fueled natural gas with tail gas produced from reforming process were analyzed on the point of flame stability and excess air conditions. Also, it was analyzed the effect of energy efficiency improvement due to decrease the fuel input in reforming system by using residue gases. As a results, it was confirmed that tail gas including hydrogen, CO and $CO_2$ could be directly injected without any change of air control system in natural gas burner and also energy efficiency was increased up to 30% maintained stable combustion.

Design of Receiver-Initiated Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Energy-Efficiency in WSNs (전력 효율을 위한 수신자 기반 비동기 센서 MAC 프로토콜 설계)

  • Park, In-Hye;Lee, Hyung-Keun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39B no.12
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    • pp.873-875
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    • 2014
  • In this paper we describe an asynchronous MAC protocol with receiver-initiated duty cycling for energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks(WSN). Legacy asynchronous MAC protocols, X-MAC and PW-MAC, has weaknesses which generates too many control packets and has data collision problem between multiple transmitters, respectively. Therefore, we propose a receiver-initiated asynchronous MAC protocol which generates control packets from transmitter to complement these disadvantages. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a improvement in energy-efficiency, throughput and latency from simulation results.

Chemical Treatment of Low-level Radioactive Liquid Waste (I)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Choe, Jong-In;Kim, Yong-Eak
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 1976
  • This experiment has been carried out for the removal of long-lived radioactive-nuclides (Sr-90, Ru-106, Cs-137 and Ce-144) contained in the low-level radioactive effluents from the spent fuel reprocessing plant and nuclear power plant, in order to determine the decontaminability of various chemical coagulants and domestic clay mineral (montmorillonite). Phosphate process showed prominent efficiency for the removal of Ce-144, and lime-soda process did good removal efficiency for Sr-90. About Cs-137 copper-ferrocyanide process is much desirable. In phosphate or lime-soda process, most favorable removal efficiency was obtained at more than pH 11. The montmorillonite treated with sodium chloride showed a considerable improvement in the removal of the radioactive-nuclides. By a combined chemicals-montmorillionite process, the radioactive-nuclides could be more effectively removed than by the only chemicals process.

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A Study on the Improvement of Sludge Dewatering and Dewatering Efficiency by Using Oyster Shell (굴 폐각을 적용한 슬러지 탈수 및 탈수효율 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Eom, Han Ki;Lee, Jin Heon;Joo, Hyun Jong
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.458-464
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    • 2016
  • This study evaluated the dewatering efficiency of inorganic dehydrating agents that contain oyster shells. A filter press dehydrator was used for this study. The experiments were performed by the single injection of calcium-based chemicals, the single injection of oyster shells, and the mixed injection of oyster shells and calcium-based chemicals. The moisture content of the dewatered cake generated after dehydration confirmed that the best dewatering efficiency was found at the mixing ratios of CaCO3 to sludge, oyster shell to sludge, and inorganic dehydrating agent to sludge of 3:1, 10:1, and 1.5:2.5:1, respectively. The moisture contents exhibited less than 58% when the injection mixing ratio of inorganic dehydrating agent to sludge was 1.5:2.5:1. From EPS, SEM, and EDX analysis, it was found that the calcium adsorbed on the sludge surface could reduce extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) and enhanced the dewaterbility. Based on the above results, it is considered possible to apply inorganic dehydrating agents containing recycled oyster shells in sludge dewatering in order to reduce sludge.