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수소생산기술현황 (Hydrogen Production Technology)

  • 주오심
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • 제49권6호
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    • pp.688-696
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    • 2011
  • 수소는 에너지를 방출하는 과정에서 부산물로 물만 배출하기 때문에 지속가능한 청정에너지원 중의 하나이다. 현재 세계적으로 사용되는 수소는 대부분 화석연료의 개질에 의해 생산되고 있으며 1kg 수소를 생산하는 과정에서 7kg 이상의 이산화탄소를 배출하고 있다. 수소를 생산하는 과정에서 투입되는 에너지와 자원이 지속가능하고 재생 가능해야 수소를 청정에너지원이라 할 수 있다. 바이오매스는 화석연료를 대체할 수 있는 에너지원중의 하나인데, 그 이유는 바이오매스로부터 수소를 생산할 수 있으며 수소생산과정에서 발생하는 이산화탄소는 바이오매스 생산과정에서 소비되기 때문에 이론적으로 이산화탄소를 발생시키지 않는 에너지원이다. 태양에너지와 물로부터 수소를 생산하는 기술은 지구상에 널려있는 자연에너지와 물을 사용하기 때문에 인류가 직면한 에너지와 환경문제를 해결하기 위한 가장 이상적인 기술 중의 하나이다.

폐자원을 재활용한 일체형 경량 콘크리트 태양광패널 제작에 관한 기초적 연구반복 (A basic study on the production of an integrated lightweight concrete solar panel using recycled waste resources)

  • 이국재
    • 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국건축시공학회 2022년도 봄 학술논문 발표대회
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    • pp.168-169
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    • 2022
  • The continuous development of science and technology since the Industrial Revolution and the development of human civilization are based on the use of fossil fuels. However, the use of fossil fuels is increasing the greenhouse gas, the main cause of global warming, and global warming is an extreme climate anomaly that is rapidly increasing human and material damage. Therefore, efforts are being made worldwide to return greenhouse gases to pre-industrial levels. In Korea, 2050 carbon neutrality has been set as a major policy and efforts are being made to curb carbon emissions in the overall industry. Carbon emission suppression is based on the minimization of fossil fuel use, and research and development are underway on building a zero-emission house that minimizes the energy used in buildings in the construction field. Therefore, in this study, as part of the zero-emissions water system construction, waste resources generated at industrial sites were utilized and an integrated lightweight concrete solar panel grafted with a concrete lightweight panel and solar panel was manufactured and the possibility of its use was evaluated.

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Electric Scooter Purchase Intentions: The Influence of Environmental Concern, Price Consciousness, and Social Norms

  • Yann-Jy Yang;Chih-Chien Wang
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.21-40
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    • 2023
  • Scooters are a popular way to get around on your own in many places, such as Taiwan, India, Thailand, etc., because they are easy to move around in, small, and cheaper to buy than cars. On the other hand, traditional scooters that run on fossil fuels put some pollution into the air and add to problems like global warming and air pollution. Switching from scooters that run on fossil fuels to electric scooters can help clean up the air in cities with much pollution. To promote the use of electric scooters, it's important to know how consumers feel about them. The current study investigates consumers' purchase intentions for electric scooters. Based on the questionnaire survey results (n = 567), we found that consumers' environmental concerns, price consciousness, and perceived subjective norms are associated with electric scooter purchase intention. Consumers with price consciousness may choose fossil-fuel-powered scooters because they consider electric-powered scooters more costly, although environmentally friendly. The study gives researchers and practitioners a glimpse into consumers' environmental concerns and subjective norms for a sustainable product.

Application of Biocathodes in Microbial Fuel Cells: Opportunities and Challenges

  • Gurung, Anup;Oh, Sang-Eun
    • 한국토양비료학회지
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    • 제45권3호
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    • pp.410-420
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    • 2012
  • The heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially oil and gas has triggered the global energy crisis. Continued use of petroleum fuels is now widely recognized as unsustainable because of their depleting supplies and degradation to the environment. To become less dependent on fossil fuels, current world is shifting paradigm in energy by developing alternative energy sources mainly through the utilization of renewable energy sources. In particular, bioenergy recovery from wastes with the help of microorganism is viewed as one of the promising ways to mitigate the current global warming crisis as well as to supply global energy. It has been proved that microorganism can generate power by converting organic matter into electricity using microbial fuel cells (MFCs). MFC is a bioelectrochemical device that employs microbes to generate electricity from bio-convertible substrate such as wastewaters including municipal solid waste, industrial, agriculture wastes, and sewage. Sustainability, carbon neutral and generation of renewable energy are some of the major features of MFCs. However, the MFC technology is confronted with a number of issues and challenges such as low power production, high electrode material cost and so on. This paper reviews the recent developments in MFC technology with due consideration of electrode materials used in MFCs. In addition, application of biocathodes in MFCs has been discussed.

Environmental analysis of present and future fuels in 2D simple model marine gas tubines

  • El Gohary, M. Morsy
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • 제5권4호
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    • pp.559-568
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    • 2013
  • Increased worldwide concerns about fossil fuel costs and effects on the environment lead many governments and scientific societies to consider the hydrogen as the fuel of the future. Many researches have been made to assess the suitability of using the hydrogen gas as fuel for internal combustion engines and gas turbines; this suitability was assessed from several viewpoints including the combustion characteristics, the fuel production and storage and also the thermodynamic cycle changes with the application of hydrogen instead of ordinary fossil fuels. This paper introduces the basic environmental differences happening when changing the fuel of a marine gas turbine from marine diesel fuel to gaseous hydrogen for the same power output. Environmentally, the hydrogen is the best when the $CO_2$ emissions are considered, zero carbon dioxide emissions can be theoretically attained. But when the $NO_x$ emissions are considered, the hydrogen is not the best based on the unit heat input. The hydrogen produces 270% more $NO_x$ than the diesel case without any control measures. This is primarily due to the increased air flow rate bringing more nitrogen into the combustion chamber and the increased combustion temperature (10% more than the diesel case). Efficient and of course expensive $NO_x$ control measures are a must to control these emissions levels.

가정용 연료전지 시스템의 계통연계 시 수용가 및 배전계통에서의 고조파 영향 평가 (An Assessment on Harmonics Effect in Customer and the Distributed Power System during Grid Connection of Residential Fuel Cell System)

  • 박찬엄;정진수;한운기
    • 전기학회논문지
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    • 제60권6호
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    • pp.1280-1285
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    • 2011
  • Recently, due to the use of fossil fuels for electric power production, carbon emissions increased excessively. Thereby, in order to replace fossil fuels, many studies about fossil fuels such as solar and fuel cell energy source are progressing. Fuel cell system has high energy conversion efficiency. Also, fuel cell system is environmentally friendly system because the carbon emission is almost not occur. Therefore, the fuel cell system is considered as the core technology of in the fields of the future energy and environmental. Fuel cell system has an effect on distribution power system because another power source of other than large power plants. So, fuel cell system can be degradation reason of power quality in the power system. In this paper, we constructed the system for an assessment on harmonics effect. The system is composed with power source, harmonics generation and linear load, fuel cell system. we also performed assessment on harmonics effect in customer and the distributed power system during grid connection of residential fuel cell system. An assessment cases are divided into three. A Case 1 is state that residential load and fuel system are connected to grid, Case 2 is state that residential load and harmonics load are connected to grid, and Case 3 is state that all loads are connected to grid. As a output of fuel cell system is increase, analysis results based on assessment system showed that power quality became more aggravation as effect of harmonics.

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

  • 강영승
    • 기술사
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    • 제37권1호
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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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지구 온난화와 대응 에너지시스템 (Global Warming and a Clean Energy Supply System)

  • 정헌생
    • 태양에너지
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.92-97
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    • 1991
  • 화석에너지로 부터 방출되는 온실효과 가스와 지구 온난화 현상에 대하여 조사하였다. 세계의 사회경제활동과정에서 가속화가 예상되는 에너지 수요증가에 대응하기 위하여, 온실가스 배출을 감소시킬 화석에너지 이용시스템과 핵에너지와 청정자원인 재생에너지를 포함한 종합적인 에너지공급시스템개념에 대하여 고찰하였다.

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HYDROGEN USE IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE: A REVIEW

  • Kumar, Vasu;Gupta, Dhruv;Kumar, Naveen
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.87-99
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    • 2015
  • Fast depletion of fossil fuels is urgently demanding a carry out work for research to find out the viable alternative fuels for meeting sustainable energy demand with minimum environmental impact. In the future, our energy systems will need to be renewable and sustainable, efficient and cost-effective, convenient and safe. Hydrogen is expected to be one of the most important fuels in the near future to meet the stringent emission norms. The use of the hydrogen as fuel in the internal combustion engine represents an alternative use to replace the hydrocarbons fuels, which produce polluting gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydro carbon (HC) during combustion. In this paper contemporary research on the hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine can be given. First hydrogen-engine fundamentals were described by examining the engine-specific properties of hydrogen and then existing literature were surveyed.

화석 연료와 온실가스 저감이 생산효율과 경제성장에 미치는 효과 -전통적 접근과 MFA접근 비교- (Effect of Fossil Fuels and Green House Gas on Production Efficiency and Economic Growth)

  • 강상목
    • 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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    • 제23권3호
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    • pp.365-408
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구의 목적은 전통적 접근의 한계를 지적하고 물질균형 접근의 생산효율을 도입하여 두 생산효율의 차이와 2단계 효율, 오염규제의 경제성장에 미치는 영향 등을 비교하고자 함이다. 특히 상이한 국가들을 대상으로 세 그룹으로 구분하여 이들의 결과를 비교한다. 본 연구에서는 화석연료 투입물을 직접 연계된 $CO_2$와 산출물과 연결시킴으로써 보다 현실에 가까운 생산효율을 측정하였다. 전통적 생산효율과 물질균형 효율비교에서 효율의 측정치는 세부적으로 살펴보면 상당한 차이가 있다. 특히 투입물인 화석연료를 고려하지 않을 경우 저소득국은 생산효율의 성과가 나쁘고 OECD와 중고소득이 보다 좋은 성과를 보인 것으로 나타나고 있어서 현실을 제대로 반영하지 못하고 있다. 물질흐름접근에 기초할 경우 저소득국의 성과가 OECD보다 높고 환경적 요인이 경제에 미치는 영향도 보다 완화된 것으로 확인된다.