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A Study on Subsidence of Offshore Wind Power System Foundation (해상풍력시스템의 기초침하에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Dong-Il;Shin, Sung-Ryul;Lim, Jong-Se;Yoon, Ji-Ho;Jang, Won-Yil
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.1020-1027
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    • 2007
  • As a national enterprise has been expanded over and over, the worldwide energy consumption has been growing necessarily. Moreover, as recently energy spendings are on the increase in countries such as BRICs, it has resulted that a rise in the price of both oil and mineral resources and instability between supply and demand become serious issue in the world resources market. The recent high price of oil and mineral resources have a deep influence on economy and threaten energy security and even national prosperity of Korea. In addition to these, exhaustion of fossil fuels and the enhanced greenhouse effect which results from gases emitted as a result of fossil fuels has been in serious questions which occur a great deal of effort to secure clean energy resources all around the world. As it is considerably possible for Korea that the Kyoto protocol may come into effect on and after 2013, it is essential to require the technological development to promote energy efficiency as well as to develope safe and renewable energy resources. The wind energy technology which converts kinetic energy into electrical energy has been in the focus of the world's attention. In this study, two-dimensional numerical analyses were conducted to observe subsidence aspects of the sea bottom on differently applied loads and various ground conditions.

Estimation of Biomass Resources Potential (바이오매스 자원 잠재량 산정)

  • Lee, Joon-pyo;Park, Soon-chul
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2016
  • Biomass has been used for energy sources from the prehistoric age. Biomass are converted into solid, liquid or gaseous fuels and are used for heating, electricity generation or for transportation recently. Solid biofuels such as bio-chips or bio-pellet are used for heating or electricity generation. Liquid biofuels such as biodiesel and bioethanol from sugars or lignocellulosics are well known renewable transportation fuels. biogas produced from organic waste are also used for heating, generation and vehicles. Biomass resources for the production of above mentioned biofuels are classified under following 4 categories, such as forest biomass, agricultural residue biomass, livestock manure and municipal organic wastes. The energy potential of those biomass resources existing in Korea are estimated. The energy potential for dry biomass (forest, agricultural, municipal waste) were estimated from their heating value contained, whereas energy potential of wet biomass (livestock manure, food waste, waste sludge) is calculated from the biological methane potential of them on annual basis. Biomass resources potential of those 4 categories in Korea are estimated to be as follows. Forest biomass 355.602 million TOE, agricultural biomass 4.019 million TOE, livestock manure biomass 1.455 million TOE, and municipal organic waste 1.074 million TOE are available for biofuels production annually.

A Study on Distribution of Small Hydropower Resources Using GIS (지리정보시스템을 이용한 소수력자원 분포 연구)

  • Park, Wansoon;Lee, Chulhyung
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.203-203
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    • 2010
  • Small hydropower is one of the many types of new and renewable energy, which South Korea is planning to develop, as the country is abundant in endowed resources. In order to fully utilize small hydropower resources, there is a need for greater precision in quantifying small hydropower resources and establish an environment in which energy sources can be discovered using the small hydropower geographic information system. This study has given greater precision to calculating annual electricity generation and installed capacity of small hydropower plants of 117 medium basins by inquiring into average annual rainfall, basin area and runoff coefficient, which is anticipated to promote small hydropower resources utilization. Small hydropower geographic information system was also established by additionally providing base information on quantified small hydropower resources and analysis function and small hydropower generator status, rivers, basin, rainfall gauging station, water level gauging station etc.. Established system of GIS small hydropower energy can be used gather basic information for positive applications of small hydropower energy nationwide.

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Ocean Energy Resources and Its Application (해양 에너지 자원과 그 이용)

  • 강영승
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.43-47
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this article is to introduce ocean energy and its application. In recent years, the energy consumption and requirement of fossil resources are increased due to the advanced life style. But, the amount of fossil fuels have limitation. Also, it is difficult to construct new large power plant facilities for the production of electric energy. Therefore, the necessities to study and to find out other energy resources are increased more and more. In the ocean, the efforts of using tide, wave, tidal current and thermal energy are should be attempt. To satisfy the needs, corporation is required among the government, research institute, university and company.

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Output control of solar cells using PWM chopper (PWM chopper 에 의한 태양전지의 출력제어)

  • Yu, Gwon-Jong;Kim, Yong-Sik;Park, I-Jun;Song, Jin-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1990.07a
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    • pp.401-404
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    • 1990
  • A new control method of solar cell output using PWM chopper is described. Theoretical analysis and comparision for all sorts of system are also discussed for improving photovoltic system efficiency. It is expected that the result of this study will be utilized to some other DC or AC application equipments.

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