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The Points of Issue and Countermeasure for Sediment Control Dam Designs (사방댐 설계방법의 문제점과 그 대책)

  • Kim, Woon-Hyung;Song, Byung-Woong;Kim, Burm-Suck;Kim, Ju-Han;Lee, Kyung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.1057-1064
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    • 2009
  • Since the global warming causes debris flow damage has increased in Kangwon Area, Sediment control dam have increasingly founded to protect the damage. In spite of the realities design methods are well not established to determine type of the dam, design parameters and maintenance. Through comparison for design methods to sediment control dam in Korea, it raised some points to improve to correspond with realities. In addition, it pointed that some issues for the sediment control dams in Kangwon Area. Those are shown that unclear positions of the dams, unremoval of sediment, occurrence of seepage under the dams and uninstallation of roads to remove sediment. In addition, the countermeasure for the issues are proposed.

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Various Problems in Oxygen-evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Conditions and Perovskites Utilization (저온형 알칼라인 산소발생반응의 문제점과 perovskites촉매 개발 동향)

  • Lee, Jin Goo
    • Ceramist
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.182-188
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    • 2019
  • Alternative energy sources to the systems using hydrocarbon fuels have been actively developed due to exhaustion of fossil fuels and issue of global warming by CO2. Fuel cells have attracted great attentions to solve these issues as electricity can be produced with product of clean H2O by using H2-O2 as a fuel. Besides, using reverse reactions make it possible to produce H2 and O2 gas from electrolysis of water. There are various fuel cells systems depending on the types of electrolyte, and in this mini-reviews, the main aim is to focus on perovskite oxides as a catalyst for oxygen-evolution reactions in alkaline electrolysis and its potential to application of alkaline electrolysis systems.

The Study on Installation Application of Personal Rapid Transit (승객여정선택형 대중교통수단 설치적용방안 검토)

  • Jeong, Rag-Gyo;Kim, Back-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.195-197
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    • 2009
  • The role of environment-friendly and energy-efficient rail transportation is on the rise as a "sustainable transportation means" to cope with environmental changes that are major concerns around the world. Along with the environmental problems, the CO2 inhibition issue became critical for mankind to prepare global warming and high oil prices. It has come to a point where an alternate means are needed to revitalize plans including renewable energy, bicycle utilization, and prepare new solutions for decreasing number of cars within the city The personal rapid Transit(PRT) is the revolutionary future transportation means that can replace cars to deal with ever-increasing traffic congestions, vehicles, and environmental/energy problems. Expected as an efficient means, technology development has already taken place in developed countries such as U.S., England, and Germany. To meet the future demands, PRT installation around the nation's new and existing towns is being examined to produce important factors. The factors are produced for examining the availability of system requirements during design and construction practice.

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Service Scenarios for Green House Gas Monitoring Service over NGN

  • Choi, Sam-Gil;Kim, Dong-Il;Lee, Soong-Hee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.401-404
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    • 2011
  • Considerations for green house gas (GHG) monitoring over next generation network (NGN) are regarded as a green convergence service for the successful reduction of GHG emission leading to resolve global warming issue in that NGN is expected to provide secure connections to fixed-and-mobile converged (FMC) features. Model-based scenario approach is an appropriate way to standardize and actualize the desired service. This paper first describes the service scenario of GHG monitoring service over NGN.

ENERGY SAVING EFFECT OF INTELLIGENT EXCAVATING SYSTEM

  • Jeonghwan Kim;Seungwoo Pi;Jongwon Seo
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.209-212
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    • 2013
  • Global warming and climate change is now an important issue in every industry. Construction is not an exception. Greenhouse Gases (GHG) are emitted by construction activities such as fuel usage in construction equipment and so on. In light of this, Intelligent Excavating System (IES), which is a robotic excavator with site modeling capability, is developed by a research consortium formed in Korea to improve productivity, quality, and safety of the traditional earthwork. This paper presents that energy saving effect of IES in comparison to traditional method. Through this review, we propose a research strategy to achieve carbon reduction goals in construction industry.

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The Power-train for the Bicycle adopting the Timing belt

  • Bu-Seob Sien;Dong-Gu Sien;Sung-Cheon Park;Young-Woong Kwon
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.201-205
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    • 2024
  • Currently, the most important issue on the earth is global warming, which causes climate change and leads to disasters. For this reason, each country is focusing on renewable energy, carbon neutrality, environmentally friendly energy and transportation. Bicycles used as short-distance vehicles do not emit gases harmful to the human body that pollute the Earth's atmosphere. Also, the use of bicycles has the effect of improving the health of people, and each country is designing a short distance transportation network using bicycles. In this study, we propose a model of a bicycle power-train that can use a belt as a power transmission medium. The basic principles and methods for applying the proposed new type of power-train to bicycles are presented.

Development and Application of Carbon Emissions Estimation Methodology During the Life Cycle of Road (도로의 전과정 탄소배출량 산정방법 개발 및 적용)

  • Kwak, In-Ho;Park, Kwang-Ho;Hwang, Young-Woo;Park, Ji-Hyoung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.382-390
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    • 2012
  • Global warming has been hot issue world wide. Korea has been dealing with the global issue under the slogan of low carbon and green-growth such as setting national greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets and allocation to each industrial sector. Infrastructure construction, in which enormous social overhead capital (SOC) is input, has great role as one of the actions. Road is one of the representative infrastructure and large amount of resources is utilized in its construction, operation and maintenance stage. The estimation methodology of life cycle carbon emissions was developed and applied to a case study of highway currently under construction in this study. Also, total carbon emissions of all the highway in South Korea at present (2009) and cumulative carbon emissions from 2009 to 2020 were estimated using the results of case study.

Numerical Analysis of Phase Behavior and Flow Properties in an Injection Tubing during Gas Phase CO2 Injection : Application of Demonstration-scale Offshore CO2 Storage Project in the Pohang Basin, Korea (기체상태의 CO2 주입시 주입관내 상변화 및 유동 특성의 수치해석적 연구 : 포항분지 해상 중소규모 CO2 지중저장 사업에 적용)

  • Jung, Woodong;Sung, Wonmo;Han, Jeong-Min;Song, Youngsoo;Wang, Jihoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2021
  • CO2 storage technology in an aquifer is one of the most effective way to decrease global warming due to a high storage capacity and economics. A demonstration-scale offshore CO2 storage project was performed in a geological deep aquifer in the Pohang Basin, Korea for a technological development of large-scale CO2 storage. A challenging issue in the early design stage of the project was to establish the proper injectivity during CO2 injection. To solve this issue, injection conditions were calculated by calculating injection rate, pressure, temperature, CO2 phase change, and thermodynamic properties. For this study, we simulated and numerically analyzed CO2 phase change from gas to supercritical phase and flow behavior in transport piping and injection tubing using OLGA program. Our results provide the injectivity conditions of CO2 injection system combined with a bottomhole pressure of an aquifer.

U-health Bike Web Services for Reducing Carbon and Health Information (탄소 저감 및 건강 정보를 위한 U-health Bike 웹 서비스)

  • Kim, Changjin;Kim, Wuwoan;Jang, Sangdong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.249-256
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    • 2013
  • Recent days, the global warming problem due to excessive use of fossil fuels has been the world wide issue so that Korea government and developed countries make an alternative plan for eco-friendly and transportations by utilizing bicycles for health promotion. Existing Public Bicycle Rental Service Systems provide simple service such as bicycle rental management and tracking the location. However there is no user-side service for the information of the measure of carbon reduction, or use of bicycles. The proposed system in this paper provides users' health information, environmental information, personal information, counseling services and the measures of carbon reduction. The new system has been developed to carry out reducing carbon and growing green in terms of using bicycles by adopting Web 2.0 technology.

Environmental Challenges of Animal Agriculture and the Role and Task of Animal Nutrition in Environmental Protection - Review -

  • Chen, Daiwen
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.423-431
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    • 2001
  • Animals are one of the important memberships of the food chain. The low-efficiency rule of nutrient transfer from one member to the next in the food chain determines the low efficiency of animal agriculture for human food. On the average, about 20% feed proteins and 15% feed energy can be converted into edible nutrients for humans. The rest proportion of feed nutrients is exposed to the environment. Environmental pollution, therefore, is inevitable as animal agriculture grows intensively and extensively. The over-loading of the environment by nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus from animal manure results in soil and water spoilage. The emission of gases like $CH_2$, $CO_2$, $SO_2$, NO, $NO_2$ by animals are one of the contributors for the acidification of the environment and global warming. The inefficient utilization of natural resources and the probable unsafety of animal products to human health are also a critical environmental issue. Improving the conversion efficiency of nutrients in the food chain is the fundamental strategy for solving environmental issues. Specifically in animal agriculture, the strategy includes the improvements of animal genotypes, nutritional and feeding management, animal health, housing systems and waste disposal programs. Animal nutrition science plays a unique and irreplaceable role in the control of nutrient input and output in either products or wastes. Several nutritional methods are proved to be effective in alleviating environmental pollution. A lot of nutritional issues, however, remain to be further researched for the science of animal nutrition to be a strong helper for sustainability of animal agriculture.