• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.10-17
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• 2011

Recently, electricity industry is facing high market uncertainty which has ever had and which increase risks in power market. In this study, we analyze risk factors such as discount rates, initial investment (overnight cost), plant factor, fuel cost, carbon price, etc, for the perspective of investor. For the analysis of risk factors, we used LCOE method. The results of this study show that renewable energy is more affected by plant factor and overnight cost than other risk factors. First, Renewable energy has higher proportion of overnight cost in the total investment than that of other technologies. Second, renewable energy is free of fuel cost and carbon price so plant factor is the most important factor, in other words, competitiveness of renewable energy depends on plant factor. Furthermore, we conducted economic feasibility of wind power and PV in domestic case study. The minimum requirement condition to get profitability is that plant factor 15% and overnight cost \6,000,000/kW and 26%, \2,200,000/kW for PV and Wind Power, respectively.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.257-268
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• 2024

Hydrogen serves as a clean energy source with potential applications across various sectors including electricity, transportation, and industry. In terms of policy and economic support, governmental policy backing and economic incentives are poised to accelerate the commercialization and expansion of hydrogen energy technologies. Hydrogen energy is set to become a cornerstone for a sustainable future energy system. Additionally, when constructing hydrogen production plants, economic aspects must be considered. The essence of hydrogen production plants lies in the electrolysis of water, a process that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrical energy. The initial capital expenditure (CAPEX) for hydrogen production plants can vary depending on the electrolysis technology employed. This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of hydrogen production technologies as well as to propose a method for predicting the CAPEX of hydrogen production plants.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.289-296
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• 2010

Energy consumption by buildings accounts for a large part of the world‘s energy consumption. Methods to analyze building energy consumption before construction have been studied for decades. With BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology, architects can easily export building information to data models in order to analyze the design‘s effect on building energy efficiency. Although several BIM-based energy simulation applications are currently available, utilizing these applications for energy efficiency simulation is difficult. In this paper, by comparing existing BIM-based energy applications, the authors test the building energy efficiencies estimated by some BIM models, offer ideas and solutions to problems that appeared during the test process and propose new methods for BIM-based energy evaluation based on quantitative factors.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.144-150
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• 1996

The Energy Efficiency Standards and Labelling Act, as amended by the Rational Energy Utilization Act, provides energy efficiency standards and labellings for six equipment categories(viz, refrigerators, air-conditioners, fluorescent lamps and ballasts, incandescent lamps, cars) authorizes the Ministry of Trade. Industry and Energy (MOTIE) to prescribe amended or new energy efficiency standards and labelling standards. This study was initiated by the KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research) in 1992. KIER's assessment of the appliance energy efficiency standards is designed to evaluate their statistical and engineering analysis according to Korean Industrial Standards(KS). And to make didtinction between the poor efficiency and good efficiency models. 5 grades are classified depending on their tested energy efficiency. This year, based on our analysis, MOTIE mandated updated standards for refrigerators, air-conditioners, Incandescent lamps, and fluorescent lamps.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.168-171
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• 2006

The Korean Solar Thermal Industry hopes to realize 1 Million Solar Thermal Roofs. According to the 2nd Renewable Basic Plan : 2003-2012 the Government showed a very aggressive Solar Thermal Deployment Plan including Solar Thermal Apartment Housings Program. Owing to the Vision Statement such as Million Solar Thermal Roofs Program Korean Solar thermal Industry also can bring another shinny days Especially the more solar thermal applications such as to the Apartment Housings and Green Villages could bring a sustainable Solar Society Korea The RPA Program by the 9 Major Non-Private Energy Corporal ions and the RPS Program for the Solar Thermal Energy shall be another useful policy for the realization of Million Solar Korea era.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.369-371
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• 2008

Environmental issue is one of the key factors to industry area using fossil fuels, because it accelerates the global warming. So it is supposed to reduce greenhouse gases around the developed nations of the world at times go. This issue is especially for the power industry. Under this background, CHP system that consists of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) system, such as natural power system (wind, solar) and fuel-cell, co-generation, also known as CHP (Combined heat and power), has been developed greatly during the last 10 years. This paper adopts optimal model using GAMS to develop methods for conducting an integrated assessment of MicroGrid system.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.38-57
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• 2017

이 보고서는 2019년, 2022년, 그리고 2040년에 가동에 들어가는 신규 발전원들의 균등화 발전 비용과 균등화 회피 비용의 평균값이 얼마나 되는지를 보여주는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이 보고서에 나온 자료는 Annual Energy Outlook 2017(AEO2017)를 작성하는 데 이용된 National Energy Modeling System(NEMS)에 있는 것들이다. 세 가지의 시나리오 중에서 2022년 가동에 들어가는 경우에 대해서만 본문에서 다루었고, 나머지 2019년과 2040년 가동에 들어가는 경우에 대해서는 각각 부록 A와 B에서 다루었다. 계산은 NEMS의 전력시장 모듈(EMM)에 들어 있는 미국의 22개 지역에 건설되는 발전 설비들을 대상으로 하고 있다. 이 보고서는 그 22개 지역 발전 설비들의 평균 균등화 발전 비용, 설비 용량을 고려한 가중 평균 비용, 지역 간 비용 편차, 그리고 균등화 회피 비용과 균등화 발전 비용의 차이 등을 계산하여 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of Radiation Industry
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• v.7 no.2_3
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• pp.121-126
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• 2013

The new algorithm technique is necessary to incorporate for analyzing and evaluating extreme condition like a nuclear accident. In this study, the combined methodology for measuring the three-dimensional space was compared with SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) and SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Feature) algorithm. The suggested method can be used for the acquisition of spatial information using the robot vision in the districted area of the nuclear facilities. As a result, these data would be helpful for identify the damaged part, degree of damage and determination of recovery sequences.

• Journal of Radiation Industry
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2009

The variation of MgO surfaces, in which fluorine was contained (F-MgO), by high energy electron-beam (EB) was studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Fluorine on the MgO surface was eliminated by EB treatment with the consequence that the electronic structures of Mg, O and C were varied. Moreover, as a result of oxidation of carbon species on the surface by high dose EB treatment (90 kGy), the concentration of carbonate and carboxyl species on the surface was increased. In this experiment, it was confirmed that the structure of oxidized metal surface can be adjusted by varying conditions of EB treatment (energy and dose). This result implies that EB can be applied for developing new catalysts.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 1999

The heat transportation from a complex of industry to a rural area needs more efficient method because the distance between them is usually more than 10km. Conventional heat transportation using steam or hot water via pipe line has limits in transportation distance (about 3-5 km) because of the heat loss and frictional loss in the pipe line. Metal hydride can absorb or discharge hydrogen through exothermic and endothermic reaction. After releasing hydrogen from metal hydride with heatings by waste heat from industry we can transport this hydrogen to the rural area via pipe line. In the urban areas other metal hydride reacts with this hydrogen and produces heat for heating. Cool heat is also obtained if it is possible to use metal hydride with low reaction temperature. So metal hydride can be used as a media for transportation, storage of heat. Some problems of the heat transportation using metal hydrides, and the example of heat transportation system were discussed.