• KIEAE Journal
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2009

Currently, the environmental issue is of great urgency and sensitivity to the future of our planet. Global warming caused by increased CO2 concentration has an alarming impact on the earth's fragile environment. Droughts throughout the world are causing crop failures. Wildfires now burn with far greater rage. Melting ice caps and glaciers are causing floods. Sea levels are rising. Warm unseasonable winters are threatening our fragile eco-systems. Global warming is no longer a theory; it is an obvious fact we are confronted with every day, and the only way we can prevent it is to take action now. The need to reduce CO2 emissions and try to become carbon neutral is of national importance and leadership. We have become so reliant on fossil fuels that nearly everything we do generates CO2 emissions; from our modern farming practices to transport, to the electricity used to turn on a light, boil water in a kettle or cook our meals. A reduction of 50% of CO2 emissions can easily be achieved by decreasing the energy amount used. We tracked the carbon footprint throughout the electricity and heating energy use in homes and confirmed the amount of carbon emissions according to its consumptions. In order to reduce the carbon generation from housing constructions, such as Passive House concept of buildings or low energy buildings, we must adjust its applications best fit to our conditions. And technical elements should be applied to improve our conditions, and the methodology should be actively sought. Most of all, each individual's recongnition who uses these elements is more important than any other solutions.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2012

The amount of energy consumption in the buildings is approximately 20% of domestic energy consumption. The Carbon Point Program have been published on reduction of greenhouse gas emission in buildings under the paradigm of 'Low Carbon Green Growth'. This study focuses on the effect of 'Carbon Point Program' for residential buildings in Daegu. The amount of electricity and waterwork consumption and information of households were investigated to analyse the effect of carbon point program. The samples are situated in Deagu and are apartment in Bukgu and Suseonggu. The $CO_2$ emission is analysed by factors of energy resource and household organization between before participating and after participating in Carbon Point Program. The participation type has a difference of voluntary participation in Suseonggu and passive participation in Bukgu. Based on this investigation, average amount of $CO_2$ emission was reduced from voluntary participation households but all of them did not. To promote the effect of Carbon Point Program, this study proposes that needing the plans to raise will and activity of reducing carbon and to help participation which have disadvantage against achieving reduction.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.530-537
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• 2010

By development of renewable energy and more efficient facilities in an increasingly deregulated electricity market, the operation cost of distributed generation (DG) is becoming more competitive. International environmental regulations of the leaking carbon become effective to reinforce global efforts for a low-carbon paradigm. Through increased DG, operators of DG are able to supply electric power to customers who are connected directly to DG as well as loads that are connected to entire network. In this situation, a community energy system (CES) with DGs is a new participant in the energy market. DG's purchase price from the market is different from the DG's sales price to the market due to transmission service charges and other costs. Therefore, CES who owns DGs has to control the produced electric power per hourly period in order to maximize profit. Considering the international environment regulations, CE will be an important element to decide the marginal cost of generators as well as the classified fuel unit cost and unit's efficiency. This paper introduces the optimal operation of CES's DG connected to the distribution network considering CE. The purpose of optimization is to maximize the profit of CES. A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) will be used to solve this complicated problem. The optimal operation of DG represented in this paper would guide CES and system operators in determining the decision making criteria.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2014

정보화와 IT의 급속한 발전으로 iT가 환경 문제를 유발하는 요인으로 작용하고 있으나, 그린 iT기술이 저탄소 녹색성장을 실현할 수 있는 핵심 기술로 인식되어 전력소비를 최소화하는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 그린 iT가 자연환경에 초점을 맞춘 새로운 패러다임이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 녹색성장을 이루기 위해 요구되는 다양한 iT 기술현황을 조사하여 국내외의 탄소 배출량 감소를 위한 다양한 방법을 연구하고 그린 PC를 이용한 탄소배출량 감축효과를 연구하기 위하여 일반 PC와 그린 PC의 전압, 전류, 전력사용량을 HPM-300A 측정기를 이용하여 일반 PC와 그린 PC의 전력사용량차를 측정하여 그린 PC가 배출하는 $CO_2$의 배출량과 일반 PC의 $CO_2$ 배출량의 차이를 계산하여 $CO_2$ 배출 감축효과를 측정하였고, 녹색성장효과를 측정하였다. 그 결과 그린 PC의 $CO_2$ 배출 감소효과는 1년에 11.5Kg의 감축효과를 가져올 수 있으며 녹색성장효과는 1년에 소나무를 2.3그루를 적게 심는 효과를 얻을 수 있다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권2호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2018

This study organizes scenarios on the power supply and demand plans considering the uncertainties and the portion of distributed energy resources. In analysing the scenarios, it estimates total electricity supply cost in the social aspect, natural gas demand and air pollutants emission including carbon dioxide. Also the analysis is performed to estimate the marginal cost of carbon dioxide reduction for the fuel switching from coal to liquified natural gas. In result, the social cost could be decreased by replacing some portion of renewable energy by LNG-based combined heat and power and delaying the construction of large base-load generators such as coal and nuclear plants. The marginal carbon dioxide reduction cost by fuel switching is in plausible range for fuel switching to be an option for carbon dioxide emission reduction when the social cost is considered.

• Carbon letters
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.196-200
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• 2006

Graphite has hexagonal closed packing structure with two bonding characteristics of van der Waals bonding between the carbon layers at c axis, and covalent bonding in the carbon layer at a and b axis. Graphite has high tolerant to the extreme conditions of high temperature and neutron irradiations rather than any other materials of metals and ceramics. However, carbon elements easily react with oxygen at as low as 400C. Considering the increasing production of today of hydrogen and electricity with a nuclear reactor, study of oxidation characteristics of graphite is very important, and essential for the life evaluation and design of the nuclear reactor. Since the oxidation behaviors of graphite are dependent on the shapes of testing specimen, critical care is required for evaluation of nuclear reactor graphite materials. In this work, oxidation rate and amounts of the isotropic graphite (IG-110, Toyo Carbon), currently being used for the Koran nuclear reactor, are investigated at various temperature. Oxidation process or principle of graphite was figured out by measuring the oxidation rate, and relation between oxidation rate and sample shape are understood. In the oxidation process, shape effect of volume, surface area, and surface to volume ratio are investigated at $600^{\circ}C$, based on the sample of ASTM C 1179-91.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.178-187
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• 2019

Due to the increasing demand of high rank coal, the use of low rank coal, which has economically advantage, is rising in various industries using carbonaceous solid fuels. In addition, the severe disaster of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions is becoming more serious. The Republic of Korea set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting the use of biomass from the Paris International Climate Change Conference and the 8th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand. In line with these worldwide trends, this paper focuses on investigating the combustibility of high rank coal Carboone, low rank coal Adaro from Indonesia, Baganuur from Mongolia and, In biomass, wood pellet and herbaceous type Kenaf were simulated as kinetic reactivity model. The accuracy of the pore development model were compared with experimental result and analyzed using carbon conversion and tau with grain model, random pore model, and flexibility-enhanced random pore model. In row lank coal and biomass, FERPM is well-matched kinetic model than GM and RPM to using numerical simulations.

• 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.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.528-534
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• 2019

본 연구는 중국이 저탄소 경제를 제안한 지 10 여년이 지난 1985년부터 2016년까지의 중국의 탄소 배출과 탄소 배출에 영향을 주는 요인에 대해 분석한다. 중국은 동 기간 동안 산업 발전이 빠르게 진행되었으며 탄소 배출과 관련된 여러 가지 문제가 나타났고, 이제 저탄소 경제가 중국 경제 발전의 주요 과제가 되었다. 본 연구는 저탄소 경제이론 및 산업계에 영향을 미치는 요인을 바탕으로 중국의 조사 연감에서 관련 데이터를 선택하였다. 시계열 모형을 사용하여 중국의 탄소 배출에 대한 영향요소를 분석하였다. 관련 산업의 혁신이 계속되면서 전기와 같은 그린에너지의 사용을 증가 시켰지만, 석탄은 여전히 소모된 에너지에서 가장 큰 비중을 차지하고 있다. 에너지 사용효율이 증가하고 산업연구 개발 투자 강도가 해마다 증가하였지만 탄소 배출도 매년 증가하고 있다. 탄소 배출에 영향을 미치는 가장 큰 요인은 산업이라는 고정관념이 있으나, 본 논문을 통해 중국의 탄소 배출에 대한 산업의 영향이 점차 감소하고 있음을 발견했다. 또한 공업에서의 탄소 배출을 통제하는 동시에 기술개발을 계속 향상시키고, 다른 업종의 탄소 배출도 중시해야 하는 것이 전체 탄소 배출을 감소시키기 위해 필수라는 점을 발견하였다. 실증연구 결과를 기반으로, 데이터의 본질부터 시작하여 고정관념을 바꿀 수 있다면 저탄소 지속발전 경제에 좀 더 빨리 도달하게 될 것이다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2020

The difficulty of securing freshwater sources is increasing with global climate change. On the other hand, seawater is less affected by climate change and regarded as a stable water source. For utilizing seawater as freshwater, seawater desalination technologies should be employed to reduce the concentration of salts. However, current desalination technologies might accelerate climate change and create problems for the ecosystem. The desalination technologies consume higher energy than conventional water treatment technologies, increase carbon footprint with high electricity use, and discharge high salinity of concentrate to the ocean. Thus, it is critical to developing green desalination technologies for sustainable desalination in the era of climate change. The energy consumption of desalination can be lowered by minimizing pump irreversibility, reducing feed salinity, and harvesting osmotic energy. Also, the carbon footprint can be reduced by employing renewable energy sources to the desalination system. Furthermore, the volume of concentrate discharge can be minimized by recovering valuable minerals from high-salinity concentrate. The future green seawater desalination can be achieved by the advancement of desalination technologies, the employment of renewable energy, and the utilization of concentrate.