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A Case Study of Electric Power Consumption Characteristics in University Building (대학건물의 전력소비 특성에 관한 사례분석)

  • Lee, Wang-Je;Yoo, Jong-Ho;Baek, Nam-Choon;Shin, U-Cheul
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.282-287
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    • 2011
  • Of school buildings, university building requires various case analysis unlike buildings in the elementary, middle and high schools in accordance with its characteristic for variables such as characteristic of department, construction structure and material, the number of persons admitted and schedule. Through the case research on the 'D' university located in Daejeon, this study made a comparison on the monthly and yearly consumption of gas and electricity of the most recent 3 years and implemented analysis on the usage pattern and standby power of air conditioning and heating by the hour and month using PCCS(Power Consumption Consulting System) as respects electricity that is considered to have a possibility of energy-saving. The result of analysis showed that enormous amount of electric power was used during the night time for freeze protection and burst in winter season and standby power was increased in winter season as a result.

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Detailed Analysis on Operation Characteristics and Cooling Energy Saving Effect of Chiller Staging in an Office Building (사무소 건물에서 냉동기의 대수제어를 통한 냉동기 거동 특성 및 에너지 절감 효과 분석)

  • Seo, Byeong-Mo;Son, Jeong-Eun;Lee, Kwang Ho
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2016
  • Commercial buildings account for a significant proportion of the total building energy use in Korea, and cooling energy, in turn, accounts for the largest proportion of total energy consumption in commercial buildings. Under this circumstance, chiller staging is considered to be a reasonable and practical solution for cooling energy saving. In this study, the part-load ratio and the operating characteristics of a vapor compression chiller were analysed within an office building. In addition, energy consumption among different chiller staging schemes was comparatively analysed. As a result, significant proportions of total operating hours, cooling load and energy consumption turned out to be in the part load ratio range from 0% through 50%, and thus energy consumption was significantly affected by the chiller COP at low part-load conditions, indicating that the chiller operation at the part-load is an important factor in commercial buildings. In addition, utilizing a sequential chiller staging scheme can reduce the annual cooling energy usage by more than 10.3% compared to operating a single chiller.

Study on the characteristics of optical fiber for photocatalytic system (광촉매 반응 시스템을 위한 광섬유 광특성 조사)

  • Jeong, Hee-Rok;Joo, Hyun-Ku;Park, Sang-Eun;Jun, Myung-Seok;Auh, Chung-Moo;Moon, Il
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2001
  • In this study, the characteristics of optical fibers for the application in photocatalytic system was investigated using the intentionally designed accessories for spectrometer and radiometer to resolve the problems associated with the conventional system such as cost and structural restrictions from artificial lamp usage, to broaden the application fields into underground, and to utilize solar light in the future. To do this two kinds of optical fibers, plastic optical fiber (POF) and quartz optical fiber (QOF) were compared in terms of characteristics related with light transmittance and absorption and reactivity in TCE degradation.

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Prediction of City-Scale Building Energy and Emissions: Toward Sustainable Cities

  • KIM, Dong-Soo;Srinivasan, Ravi S.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.723-727
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    • 2015
  • Building energy use estimation relies on building characteristics, its energy systems, occupants, and weather. Energy estimation of new buildings is considerably an easy task when compared to modeling existing buildings as they require calibration with actual data. Particularly, when energy estimation of existing building stock is warranted at a city-scale, the problem is exacerbated owing to lack of construction drawings and other engineering specifications. However, as collection of buildings and other infrastructure constitute cities, such predictions are a necessary component of developing and maintaining sustainable cities. This paper uses Artificial Neural Network techniques to predict electricity consumption for residential buildings situated in the City of Gainesville, Florida. With the use of 32,813 samples of data vectors that comprise of building floor area, built year, number of stories, and range of monthly energy consumption, this paper extends the prediction to environmental impact assessment of electricity usage at the urban-scale. Among others, one of the applications of the proposed model discussed in this paper is the study of urban scale Life Cycle Assessment, and other decisions related to creating sustainable cities.

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A Case Study of Electric Power Consumption Characteristics in University Building (대학건물의 에너지 소비 특성에 관한 사례분석)

  • Lee, Wang-Je;Lee, Dong-Won;Lee, Jae-Bum;Yoon, Jong-Ho;Shin, U-Cheul
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.90-95
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    • 2012
  • Of school buildings, university building requires various case analysis unlike buildings in the elementary, middle and high schools in accordance with its characteristic for variables such as characteristic of department, construction structure and material, the number of persons admitted and schedule. Through the case research on the 'D' university located in Daejeon, this study made a comparison on the monthly and yearly consumption of gas and electricity of the most recent 3 years and implemented analysis on the usage pattern and standby power of air conditioning and heating by the hour and month using PCCS(Power Consumption Consulting System) as respects electricity that is considered to have a possibility of energy-saving. The result of analysis showed that enormous amount of electric power was used during the night time for freeze protection and burst in winter season and standby power was increased in winter season as a result.

Assessment of dynamic crushing and energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled cylinders due to axial and oblique impact load

  • Baaskaran, N.;Ponappa, K.;Shankar, S.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.179-194
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    • 2018
  • Reliable and accurate method of computationally aided design processes of advanced thin walled structures in automotive industries are much essential for the efficient usage of smart materials, that possess higher energy absorption in dynamic compression loading. In this paper, most versatile components i.e., thin walled crash tubes with different geometrical profiles are introduced in view of mitigating the impact of varying cross section in crash behavior and energy absorption characteristics. Apart from the geometrical parameters such as length, diameter and thickness, the non-dimensionalized parameters of average forces which control the plastic bending moment for varying thickness has explored in view of quantifying its impact on the crashworthiness of the structure. The explicit finite element code ABAQUS is utilized to conduct the numerical studies to examine the effect of parametric modifications in crash behavior and energy absorption. Also the simulation results are experimentally validated. It is evident that the circular cross-sectional tubes are preferable as high collision impact shock absorbers due to their ability in withstanding axial and oblique impact loads effectively. Furthermore, the specific energy absorption (SEA), crash force efficiency (CFE), plastic bending moment, peak force responses and its impact for optimally tailoring a design to cater the crashworthiness requirements are investigated. The primary outcome of the study is to provide sufficient information on circular tubes for the use of energy absorbers where impact oblique loading is expected.

The Study of Economical Efficiency for the Ice Storage System of more Energy Consumption Building (에너지 다소비형 건물 축냉 시스템의 경제성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Je-Myo
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.24 no.10
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    • pp.733-738
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    • 2012
  • It is important issue to reduce the electric energy to save the operating cost of HVAC system. Even if electrical energy is the clean energy, it is difficult and takes high cost for storage of electricity. These cause the high peak load of electric energy for HVAC in summer season. In korea, government impose the electric charge with several grade for the purpose of cut-off the peak load of electricity. Government has a policy to support to design and install the heat/ice storage system using midnight electricity. In this study, analysis of cooling load and operating characteristics for ice storage system are performed. And, also economical efficiency is compared between ordinary charge system of electricity and midnight rate charge of electricity. The systematic and economical supports are needed for expansion of usage of energy saving equipments.

Study on the Thermal Characteristics of Concrete Using Insulation Performance Improve Material (단열성능향상 재료를 사용한 콘크리트의 열적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Young-Shin;Kim, Jung-Ho;Kang, Yeun-Woo;Youm, Kwang-Soo;Jeon, Hyun-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.227-228
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    • 2013
  • Recently, it is certain that the increase of heating and cooling energy consumption by radical change in climate condition has caused serious problems related to environmental and energy concerns associated with increase of fossil fuel usage and carbon dioxide production as well as global warming. So, various actions to reduce greenhouse gas exhaustion and energy consumption have been prepared by world developed countries. The energy consumption by buildings approximately reaches 25% of total korea energy consumption. The greatest part in the buildings of the energy consumption is building facade. but a few research projects on concrete comprising more than 70% of outsider of buildings has been tried. This research structural insulation concrete what improved insulation performance using insulation performance improve material.

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A Study on the Operating Characteristics for the Grid Interconnected PV System with BESS (BESS를 적용한 계통연계형 PV시스템의 운전특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Yeon;Jeong, Byeong-Ho;Cho, Geum-Bae;Baek, Hyung-Lae;Jung, Hae-Duck
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2006
  • Photovoltaic is an attractive technology to remote power applications, because of its reliability, low maintenance, and zero fuel requirements. In this paper represents residential PV system based on BESS(battery energy storage system) for managing the electric power, a pattern of daily operation considering the load characteristics of the house, the generation characteristics of PV power, and utility power leveling. For apply to control algorithm, we consider the load on monthly power consumption trend and daily usage pattern. As for the control of the proposed system, to increase the conversion efficiency of the PV power, bidirectional converter is used for MPPT and SPWM inverter. An experimental system is implemented, and some experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system.

Transient Characteristic Analysis on the Regenerative Braking System of Fuel-cell Electric Vehicle with Electro-Hydraulic Brake (전기유압식 브레이크를 장착한 연료전지차량의 회생제동 천이구간 특성해석)

  • Choi, Jeong-Hun;Cho, Bae-Kyoon;Park, Jin-Hyun;Hwang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2012
  • Nowadays, various researches about eco-friendly vehicles such as hybrid electric vehicle, fuel cell vehicle and electric vehicle have been actively carried out. Since most of these green cars have electric motors, the regenerative energy technology can be used to improve the fuel economy and the energy efficiency of vehicles. The regenerative brake is an energy recovery mechanism which slows a vehicle by converting its kinetic energy into electric energy, which can be either used immediately or stored until needed. This technology plays a significant role in achieving the high energy usage. However, there are some technical problems for controlling the regenerative braking and the electro-hydraulic brake during switching at transient region. In this paper, the performance simulator for fuel-cell vehicle is developed and transient response characteristics of the regenerative braking system are analyzed in the various driving situations. And the hardware-in-the-loop simulation of electro-hydraulic brake is performed to validate the transient characteristics of the regenerative braking system for fuel-cell electric vehicle.