• 제목/요약/키워드: Future water demand change

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안동-임하 연결도수로 설치에 따른 가용 수자원량에 관한 연구 (Study on Potential Water Resources of Andong-Imha Dam by Diversion Tunnel)

  • 추연문;지홍기;권기대;김철영
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.1126-1139
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    • 2014
  • 도시화 및 산업화에 따른 온실가스의 증가로 전 세계적인 이상기후 현상이 빈번하게 발생하고 있으며, 국내에서도 이러한 현상의 하나로 홍수와 가뭄의 영향이 지속적으로 심화되고 있다. 기후변화는 이수, 치수, 환경 등 다양한 측면에서 물 관리 전반에 걸쳐 복잡성을 가중시키고 불확실성을 확대시키는 등 많은 영향을 초래한다. 또한 과거와는 달리 하천유지수량, 환경용수량 등 다양한 용수수요의 증가에 따라 제한된 가용수자원의 추가적인 확보를 위한 분석과 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 안동댐과 임하댐 유역을 대상으로 기후변화 시나리오와 토양수분 저류구조 Tank 모형을 이용하여 장기 유출량을 산정하였고, 연결도수로를 통해 병렬 연결된 안동댐과 임하댐의 저수지 연결모의운영을 수행하여 임하댐에서 안동댐으로 전환되는 추가 가용 수자원량을 분석, 비교함으로서 미래 기후변화가 가용수자원 확보에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 평가하였다. 대표농도경로 기후변화 시나리오 중 RCP 6.0과 RCP 8.5를 이용하여 대상유역의 상세 수문자료를 생산하여 과거 유역의 관측 강수량 자료와 경향성을 분석한 결과 시나리오별 모두 5%~9%의 범위로 강수량이 증가하는 것으로 분석되었으며, 목적함수를 이용한 민감도 분석을 통해 가장 높은 적합도를 나타낸 개체군의 크기는 1000 이었으며 교차비율은 80% 이었다. 본 연구의 결과를 이용하여 미래 기후변화에 대응한 물 관리 측면에서 저수지 운영의 효과를 극대화하고 장기적으로 안정적이고 풍부한 용수공급 계획을 수립하는데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

효율적인 하천정보 서비스를 위한 RIMGIS 개선방안 연구 (A Study on the Improvement of RIMGIS for an Efficient River Information Service)

  • 신형진;채효석;황의호;임광섭
    • 한국지리정보학회지
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    • 제16권1호
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2013
  • 국가하천에 대한 하천대장, 하천측량도 및 부도 등 관련 정보들을 표준화하여 구축함으로써 관련 업무 활용 및 대국민 서비스 등을 실시하기 위해 국토해양부에서는 지난 2000년도부터 하천관리지리정보시스템(RIMGIS; River Information Management GIS)을 구축하여 운영 중에 있다. RIMGIS는 그 동안 정보환경 변화에 능동적으로 대응하기 위해 여러 차례 개선되었으며, 최근 스마트 리버 하천정보 서비스 및 관련 자료가 방대해짐에 따라 빅데이터를 효율적으로 관리하기 위한 개선이 필요한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 RIMGIS의 현황 파악, 개선방향 도출, 데이터베이스를 재설계, 배포프로그램 개발 및 하천종합정보시스템 제안을 통해 정보환경 변화에 대응해 향후 스마트 리버 하천정보 서비스를 제공하기 위한 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 따라서, RIMGIS의 활용성을 강화하기 위해 속성정보의 엔터티간 연관관계를 구분할 수 있는 유일키와 외부키 등과 하천표준 데이터베이스 관점에서 테이블간의 위상관계를 정립하여 속성정보 DB의 구성과 정보관리를 위하여 연관관계도도 새롭게 제시하였다. 아울러, 하천관리 패러다임 변화에 대응 가능한 하천관련 정보의 효율적인 관리와 이용 체계 수립을 통해 현재 공급자 중심의 시스템 운영을 수요자 중심으로 확대하기 위한 방안을 도출하였다.

Global Rice Production, Consumption and Trade: Trends and Future Directions

  • Bhandari, Humnath
    • 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국작물학회 2019년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.5-5
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    • 2019
  • The objectives of this paper are (i) to analyze past trends and future directions of rice production, consumption and trade across the world and (ii) to discuss emerging challenges and future directions in the global rice industry. Rice is a staple food of over half of the world's 7.7 billion people. It is an important economic, social, political, and cultural commodity in most Asian countries. Rice is the $1^{st}$ most widely consumed, $2^{nd}$ largely produced, and $3^{rd}$ most widely grown food crop in the world. It was cultivated by 144 million farms in over 100 countries with harvested area of over 163 million ha producing about 745 million tons paddy in 2018. About 90% of the total rice is produced in Asia. China and India, the biggest rice producers, account for over half of the world's rice production. Between 1960 and 2018, world rice production increased over threefold from 221 to 745 million tons (2.1% per year) due to area expansion from 120 to 163 million ha (0.5% per year) and paddy yield increase from 1.8 to 4.6 t/ha (1.6% per year). The Green Revolution led massive increase in rice production prevented famines, provided food for millions of people, reduced poverty and hunger, and improved livelihoods of millions of Asians. The future increase in rice production must come from yield increase as the scope for area expansion is limited. Rice is the most widely consumed food crop. The world's average per capita milled rice consumption is 64 kilograms providing 19% of daily calories. Asia accounted for 84% of global consumption followed by Africa (7%), South America (3%), and the Middle East (2%). Asia's per capita rice consumption is 100 kilograms per year providing 28% of daily calories. The global and Asian per capita consumption increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but stable afterward. The per capita rice consumption is expected to decline in Asia but increase outside Asia especially in Africa in the future. The total milled rice consumption was about 490 million tons in 2018 and projected to reach 550 million tons by 2030 and 590 million tons by 2040. Rice is thinly traded in international market because it is a highly protected commodity. Only about 9% of the total production is traded in global rice market. However, the volume of global rice trade has increased over six-fold from 7.5 to 46.5 million tons between the 1960s and 2018. A relatively small number of exporting countries interact with a large number of importing countries. The top five rice exporting countries are India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, and China accounting for 74% of the global rice export. The top five rice importing countries are China, Philippines, Nigeria, European Union and Saudi Arabia accounting for 26% of the global rice import. Within rice varieties, Japonica rice accounts for the highest share of the global rice trade (about 12%) followed by Basmati rice (about 10%). The high concentration of exports to a few countries makes international rice market vulnerable to supply disruptions in exporting countries, leading to higher world prices of rice. The export price of Thai 5% broken rice increased from 198 US$/ton in 2000 to 421 US$/ton in 2018. The volumes of trade and rice prices in the global market are expected to increase in the future. The major future challenges of the rice industry are increasing demand due to population growth, rising demand in Africa, economic growth and diet diversification, competition for natural resources (land and water), labor scarcity, climate change and natural hazards, poverty and inequality, hunger and malnutrition, urbanization, low income in rice farming, yield saturation, aging of farmers, feminization of agriculture, health and environmental concerns, improving value chains, and shifting donor priorities away from agriculture. At the same time, new opportunities are available due to access to new technologies, increased investment by the private sector, and increased global partnership. More investment in rice research and development is needed to develop and disseminate innovative technologies and practices to overcome problems and ensure food and nutrition security of the future population.

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Thermal and Electrical Energy Mix Optimization(EMO) Method for Real Large-scaled Residential Town Plan

  • Kang, Cha-Nyeong;Cho, Soo-Hwan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.513-520
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    • 2018
  • Since Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015, many policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas have been accelerating, which are mainly related to renewable energy resources and micro-grid. Presently, the technology development and demonstration projects are mostly focused on diversifying the power resources by adding wind turbine, photo-voltaic and battery storage system in the island-type small micro-grid. It is expected that the large-scaled micro-grid projects based on the regional district and town/complex city, e.g. the block type micro-grid project in Daegu national industrial complex will proceed in the near future. In this case, the economic cost or the carbon emission can be optimized by the efficient operation of energy mix and the appropriate construction of electric and heat supplying facilities such as cogeneration, renewable energy resources, BESS, thermal storage and the existing heat and electricity supplying networks. However, when planning a large residential town or city, the concrete plan of the energy infrastructure has not been established until the construction plan stage and provided by the individual energy suppliers of water, heat, electricity and gas. So, it is difficult to build the efficient energy portfolio considering the characteristics of town or city. This paper introduces an energy mix optimization(EMO) method to determine the optimal capacity of thermal and electric resources which can be applied in the design stage of the real large-scaled residential town or city, and examines the feasibility of the proposed method by applying the real heat and electricity demand data of large-scale residential towns with thousands of households and by comparing the result of HOMER simulation developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL).

농업저수지의 저수량 추정을 위한 Sentinel-1 SAR 영상 기반 수체탐지 기법 (Sentinel-1 SAR image-based waterbody detection technique for estimating the water storage in agricultural reservoirs)

  • 정재환;오승철;이슬찬;김진영;최민하
    • 한국수자원학회논문집
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    • 제54권7호
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    • pp.535-544
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    • 2021
  • 농업용수는 용수수요의 48%를 차지하고 있으며, 농업 유역내의 유량관리를 위해서는 농업저수지의 관리가 중요하다. 효율적인 농업용수의 활용을 위해서는 농업저수지 및 농업 유역 내 수자원의 분포를 모니터링 할 수 있는 기술이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 2018년부터 2020년까지 3년간의 Sentinel-1 영상을 활용하여 지상의 수체를 탐지하기 위한 임계값 결정 방법 세 가지(고정 임계값, Otsu 임계값, Kittler-Illingworth (KI) 임계값)을 비교하여, 정확한 저수면적을 산정하기 위한 임계값 결정 방법을 평가하고자 하였다. 또한 이동, 고삼, 기흥저수지에서 저수면적과 저수량의 관계를 분석하여, SAR 영상 기반의 저수량을 산정하였고 지상관측 자료와의 검증을 수행하였다. 수체를 탐지하기 위한 임계값 결정 방법은 KI 임계값의 경우가 가장 정확한 것으로 나타났으며, KI 임계값을 활용하여 산정된 저수량은 이동, 고삼, 기흥저수지의 지상관측 자료와의 검증에서 평균 r = 0.9235, KGE' = 0.8691 로 높은 일치도를 나타냈다. 계절에 따른 오차 특성은 충분히 관측되지 않았으나, 저수면적과 저수량 간의 관계가 급격하게 바뀌는 고수위에서의 과소 산정 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 정확한 저수량 추정을 위해서는 지상관측 자료를 통한 저수면적-저수량 관계 파악이 선행되어야 한다. 추후 수자원위성을 통한 SAR 자료의 활용이 가능해지면, 본 연구의 결과를 바탕으로 저수량 모니터링 및 가뭄 대응을 위한 활용에서 유용할 것으로 판단되나, 홍수예방 등의 목적으로 활용하기 위해서는 추가적인 연구가 필요하다.

철도차량 기후환경시험을 위한 국제 규격(UIC, EN, IEC) 및 국내 규격(시험방법) 분석 및 고찰 (Analysis and Investigation of International(UIC, EN, IEC) and Domestic Standards(Test Methods) for Climatic Wind Tunnel Test of Rolling Stock)

  • 장용준;정종덕;이재천
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
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    • 제21권12호
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    • pp.782-789
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    • 2020
  • 국내에서 제작되는 철도차량의 해외 시장 개척을 위하여 다양한 기후환경에서도 최고의 성능을 유지하기 위한 철도차량의 기술개발이 시급하다. 본 연구에서는 혹독한 기후환경시험 모사 시스템 구축에 필수적으로 적용되어야 할 국제·국내 규격을 조사 및 비교 분석하였으며, 국내 규격의 향상 방안을 고찰하였다. 기후환경시험 풍동내에서 풍속 및 온도 규정은 UIC, EN 및 IEC 규격에 규정되어 있으며, EN 50125-1에서 가장 큰 풍속인 180km/h까지 시험하도록 되어있다. 극저온 시험은 UIC 및 EN 규격에서 가장 낮은 온도 -45℃를 제시하고 있으며, IEC 62498-1에서 55℃까지의 고온시험을 규정하고 있다. 태양광 복사 시험은 UIC, EN, IEC 규격에서 최대 1200W/m2 복사 강도까지 규정되어 있다. 강우시험은 IEC, EN 및 KS R 9145 규격에서 규정하고 있으며 살수량, 살수 압력 및 살수방법 등에서 차이점이 있다. 강설시험의 경우는 국내외적으로 상세히 규정되어 있지 않다. 여압 시험은 KRTS-VE-Part31 국내 기준에서 규정되어 있다. 고속 철도차량 기밀시험은 UIC 660 및 779-11에서 객실내 압력 변화율 규정이 있으며 차량 기밀도가 규정되어 있다. 국내 규격에서는 풍속에 대한 규정은 매우 미비하며, 태양광 복사 시험 및 강설 시험 규격은 존재하지 않는다. 철저한 기후환경 시험을 위하여 국내 철도 완성차 관련 기술기준 및 시험 규격을 국제수준으로 향상시킬 필요가 있는 것으로 판단된다.

해상 가두리양식장 양식어류의 대량폐사에 대하여 (A review of the mass-mortalities of sea-cage farm fishes)

  • 한지도;이덕찬
    • 한국어병학회지
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    • 제35권1호
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 2022
  • 지난 30년간 전세계 양식업은 비약적으로 발전하였다. 양식업은 인간이 요구하는 동물성 단백질 섭취량의 15% 이상을 공급하는 중요한 산업이므로 수요 충족을 위하여 어류와 수산생물의 지속적인 생산 증가가 필요하다. 우리나라 남해안(경남과 전남)에 위치한 어류 가두리양식장 수면적 비율은 전국 대비 약 90%로 어류 양식업의 측면에서는 매우 중요한 곳이다. 그러나 최근의 양식환경은 전지구적 문제인 기후변화에 의한 영향을 점진적으로 받고 있으며, 이러한 영향이 더욱 심화될 것으로 예측되고 있다. 그러므로 지금의 시점에서 기후변화가 우리나라 산업계, 특히 양식산업에 미칠 영향을 정확히 평가하여야 할 시점일 뿐만 아니라 나아가 어업피해를 최소화하기 위한 사회적 및 국가적 전략이 필요하다. 남해안 가두리양식장에서 양식되는 어류의 피해는 해마다 늘어나고 있는데 주요피해의 원인 인자는 기후변화와 직·간접적으로 관련이 있는 고수온, 저수온 및 적조의 발생 등으로 알려져 있다. 현재의 시점에서 지구 온난화는 경제적 한계를 가지는 어종이나 새로운 종에 대한 양식산업화의 기회를 제공할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 긍정적인 기회의 존재에도 불구하고 새로운 종의 유입에 의한 생태 교란, 적조 등 미세조류의 번식빈도 증가, 질병 발생 기회의 증가, 여름철 고수온 발생 및 기간의 장기화 등 부정적인 문제가 발생하며, 이러한 원인들의 복합적인 영향으로 인해 양식어류의 폐사 규모와 사례가 증가하고 있다. 어류의 폐사 피해의 증가는 양식산업계에 심각한 경제적 영향을 줄 뿐만 아니라 피해 대응과 후속 조치를 위한 사회적 비용 또한 증가하게 된다. 그러므로 어류양식장에서 발생하는 폐사 피해는 원인 인자들에 대한 적극적이고 능동적인 대응으로 줄일 수 있으며, 양식생물의 사육 및 관리기술 향상, 효율적인 먹이 관리, 질병 차단과 능동적 대응, 제도개선 등 다양한 영역에서 이루어져야 한다. 본 총설에서는 우리나라 남해안에 위치한 어류 가두리 양식장에서 발생한 대량폐사 사례를 분석하고 폐사 원인에 대한 대응 능력을 향상시키기 위한 방안을 제시하고자 하였다.

Development of analytical method for the isotope purity of pure D2 gas using high-precision magnetic sector mass spectrometer

  • Chang, Jinwoo;Lee, Jin Bok;Kim, Jin Seog;Lee, Jin-Hong;Hong, Kiryong
    • 분석과학
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    • 제35권5호
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    • pp.205-211
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    • 2022
  • Deuterium (D) is an isotope with one more neutron number than hydrogen (H). Heavy elements rarely change their chemical properties with little effect even if the number of neutrons increases, but low-mass elements change their vibration energy, diffusion rate, and reaction rate because the effect cannot be ignored, which is called an isotope effect. Recently, in the semiconductor and display industries, there is a trend to replace hydrogen gas (H2) with deuterium gas (D2) in order to improve process stability and product quality by using the isotope effect. In addition, as the demand for D2 in industries increases, domestic gas producers are making efforts to produce and supply D2 on their own. In the case of high purity D2, most of them are produced by electrolysis of heavy water (D2O), and among D2, hydrogen deuteride (HD) molecules are present as isotope impurities. Therefore, in order to maximize the isotope effect of hydrogen in the electronic industry, HD, which is an isotope impurity of D2 used in the process, should be small amount. To this end, purity analysis of D2 for industrial processing is essential. In this study, HD quantitative analysis of D2 for high purity D2 purity analysis was established and hydrogen isotope RM (Reference material) was developed. Since hydrogen isotopes are difficult to analyze with general gas analysis instrument, they were analyzed using a high-precision mass spectrometer (Gas/MS, Finnigan MAT271). High purity HD gas was injected into Gas/MS, sensitivity was determined by a signal according to pressure, and HD concentrations in two bottles of D2 were quantified using the corresponding sensitivity. The amount fraction of HD in each D2 was (4518 ± 275) μmol/mol, (2282 ± 144) μmol/mol. D2, which quantifies HD amount using the developed quantitative analysis method, will be manufactured with hydrogen isotope RM and distributed for quality management and maintenance of electronic industries and gas producers in the future.

일본 어류 양식업의 발전과정과 산지교체에 관한 연구 : 참돔양식업을 사례로 (A study on Development Process of Fish Aquaculture in Japan - Case by Seabream Aquaculture -)

  • 송정헌
    • 수산경영론집
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    • 제34권2호
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2003
  • When we think of fundamental problems of the aquaculture industry, there are several strict conditions, and consequently the aquaculture industry is forced to change. Fish aquaculture has a structural supply surplus in production, aggravation of fishing grounds, stagnant low price due to recent recession, and drastic change of distribution circumstances. It is requested for us to initiate discussion on such issue as “how fish aquaculture establishes its status in the coastal fishery\ulcorner, will fish aquaculture grow in the future\ulcorner, and if so “how it will be restructured\ulcorner” The above issues can be observed in the mariculture of yellow tail, sea scallop and eel. But there have not been studied concerning seabream even though the production is over 30% of the total production of fish aquaculture in resent and it occupied an important status in the fish aquaculture. The objectives of this study is to forecast the future movement of sea bream aquaculture. The first goal of the study is to contribute to managerial and economic studies on the aquaculture industry. The second goal is to identify the factors influencing the competition between production areas and to identify the mechanisms involved. This study will examine the competitive power in individual producing area, its behavior, and its compulsory factors based on case study. Producing areas will be categorized according to following parameters : distance to market and availability of transportation, natural environment, the time of formation of producing areas (leaderㆍfollower), major production items, scale of business and producing areas, degree of organization in production and sales. As a factor in shaping the production area of sea bream aquaculture, natural conditions especially the water temperature is very important. Sea bream shows more active feeding and faster growth in areas located where the water temperature does not go below 13∼14$^{\circ}C$ during the winter. Also fish aquaculture is constrained by the transporting distance. Aquacultured yellowtail is a mass-produced and a mass-distributed item. It is sold a unit of cage and transported by ship. On the other hand, sea bream is sold in small amount in markets and transported by truck; so, the transportation cost is higher than yellow tail. Aquacultured sea bream has different product characteristics due to transport distance. We need to study live fish and fresh fish markets separately. Live fish was the original product form of aquacultured sea bream. Transportation of live fish has more constraints than the transportation of fresh fish. Death rate and distance are highly correlated. In addition, loading capacity of live fish is less than fresh fish. In the case of a 10 ton truck, live fish can only be loaded up to 1.5 tons. But, fresh fish which can be placed in a box can be loaded up to 5 to 6 tons. Because of this characteristics, live fish requires closer location to consumption area than fresh fish. In the consumption markets, the size of fresh fish is mainly 0.8 to 2kg.Live fish usually goes through auction, and quality is graded. Main purchaser comes from many small-sized restaurants, so a relatively small farmer and distributer can sell it. Aquacultured sea bream has been transacted as a fresh fish in GMS ,since 1993 when the price plummeted. Economies of scale works in case of fresh fish. The characteristics of fresh fish is as follows : As a large scale demander, General Merchandise Stores are the main purchasers of sea bream and the size of the fish is around 1.3kg. It mainly goes through negotiation. Aquacultured sea bream has been established as a representative food in General Merchandise Stores. GMS require stable and mass supply, consistent size, and low price. And Distribution of fresh fish is undertook by the large scale distributers, which can satisfy requirements of GMS. The market share in Tokyo Central Wholesale Market shows Mie Pref. is dominating in live fish. And Ehime Pref. is dominating in fresh fish. Ehime Pref. showed remarkable growth in 1990s. At present, the dealings of live fish is decreasing. However, the dealings of fresh fish is increasing in Tokyo Central Wholesale Market. The price of live fish is decreasing more than one of fresh fish. Even though Ehime Pref. has an ideal natural environment for sea bream aquaculture, its entry into sea bream aquaculture was late, because it was located at a further distance to consumers than the competing producing areas. However, Ehime Pref. became the number one producing areas through the sales of fresh fish in the 1990s. The production volume is almost 3 times the production volume of Mie Pref. which is the number two production area. More conversion from yellow tail aquaculture to sea bream aquaculture is taking place in Ehime Pref., because Kagosima Pref. has a better natural environment for yellow tail aquaculture. Transportation is worse than Mie Pref., but this region as a far-flung producing area makes up by increasing the business scale. Ehime Pref. increases the market share for fresh fish by creating demand from GMS. Ehime Pref. has developed market strategies such as a quick return at a small profit, a stable and mass supply and standardization in size. Ehime Pref. increases the market power by the capital of a large scale commission agent. Secondly Mie Pref. is close to markets and composed of small scale farmers. Mie Pref. switched to sea bream aquaculture early, because of the price decrease in aquacultured yellou tail and natural environmental problems. Mie Pref. had not changed until 1993 when the price of the sea bream plummeted. Because it had better natural environment and transportation. Mie Pref. has a suitable water temperature range required for sea bream aquaculture. However, the price of live sea bream continued to decline due to excessive production and economic recession. As a consequence, small scale farmers are faced with a market price below the average production cost in 1993. In such kind of situation, the small-sized and inefficient manager in Mie Pref. was obliged to withdraw from sea bream aquaculture. Kumamoto Pref. is located further from market sites and has an unsuitable nature environmental condition required for sea bream aquaculture. Although Kumamoto Pref. is trying to convert to the puffer fish aquaculture which requires different rearing techniques, aquaculture technique for puffer fish is not established yet.

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설비공학 분야의 최근 연구 동향: 2011년 학회지 논문에 대한 종합적 고찰 (Recent Progress in Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research: A Review of Papers Published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering in 2011)

  • 한화택;이대영;김서영;최종민;백용규;김수민
    • 설비공학논문집
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.521-537
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    • 2012
  • This article reviews the papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during 2011. It is intended to understand the status of current research in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation, and indoor environments of buildings and plant facilities. Conclusions are as follows. (1) Research trends of thermal and fluid engineering have been surveyed as groups of fluid machinery and fluid flow, thermodynamic cycle, and new and renewable energy. Various topics were presented in the field of fluid machinery and fluid flow. Research issues mainly focused on the rankine cycle in the field of thermodynamic cycle. In the new and renewable energy area, researches were presented on geothermal energy, fuel cell, biogas, reformer, solar water heating system, and metane hydration. (2) Research works on heat transfer area have been reviewed in the categories of heat transfer characteristics, pool boiling and condensing heat transfer, nanofluids and industrial heat exchangers. Researches on heat transfer characteristics included heat transfer above liquid helium surface in a cryostat, methane hydrate formation, heat and mass transfer in a liquid desiccant dehumidifier, thermoelectric air-cooling system, heat transfer in multiple slot impinging jet, and heat transfer enhancement by protrusion-in-dimples. In the area of pool boiling and condensing heat transfer, researches on pool boiling of water in low-fin and turbo-B surfaces, pool boiling of R245a, convective boiling two-phase flow in trapezoidal microchannels, condensing of FC-72 on pin-finned surfaces, and natural circulation vertical evaporator were actively performed. In the area of nanofluids, thermal characteristics of heat pipes using water-based MWCNT nanofluids and the thermal conductivity and viscosity were measured. In the area of industrial heat exchangers, researches on fin-tube heat exchangers for waste gas heat recovery and Chevron type plate heat exchanger were implemented. (3) Refrigeration systems with alternative refrigerants such as $CO_2$, hydrocarbons, and mixed refrigerants were studied. Heating performance improvement of heat pump systems were tried applying supplementary components such as a refrigerant heater or a solar collector. The effects of frost growth were studied on the operation characteristic of refrigeration systems and the energy performance of various defrost methods were evaluated. The current situation of the domestic cold storage facilities was analyzed and the future demand was predicted. (4) In building mechanical system fields, a variety of studies were conducted to achieve effective consumption of heat and maximize efficiency of heat in buildings. Various researches were performed to maximize performance of mechanical devices and optimize the operation of HVAC systems. (5) In the fields of architectural environment and energy, diverse purposes of studies were conducted such as indoor environment, building energy, and renewable energy. In particular, renewable energy and building energy-related researches have mainly been studied as reflecting the global interests. In addition, various researches have been performed for reducing cooling load in a building using spot exhaust air, natural ventilation and energy efficiency systems.