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Behavior Analysis of Discharged DIC Concentrated Seawater through Towed Pipe Injection from Ship

  • Kwon, Seong-Min;Kim, Kang-Min;Song, Hyeon-Woo;Lee, Joong-Woo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2019
  • Climate change is a very vital issue that can be no longer avoided. Korea has been a top-level country Iin dealing with carbon dioxide emissions since 1960. Many studies have been conducted to suppress or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions, which account for a large portion of greenhouse gases. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the most practical method of them, plays a significant role. However, these methods have the disadvantage of the limits of geographical distribution and high possibility of re-emission into the atmosphere. Recently, ocean storage has been studied using Accelerated Weathering of Limestone (AWL), a technique for storing carbon dioxide in the ocean as an alternative to CCS, an underground storage. AWL is a method of converting carbon dioxide into concentrated water in the form of bicarbonate ion and discharging it to the ocean to dilute and store it. It does not cause re-emission to the atmosphere, and the discharged concentrated water increases the alkalinity of the ocean to prevent marine acidification. The objective of this study was to understand the behavior of DIC (Dissolved Inorganic Carbon) including carbon dioxide during the ocean discharge of bicarbonate ion concentrated water in AWL method. This study area was set near Ulleung-do where sufficient water depth and operational efficiency were secured. CORMIX model was used to calculate the material diffusion by submerged discharge using ship.

Numerical Experiments Using Modified POM WAD with Computing Time Saving Technique (계산시간절약기법이 적용된 수정 POM WAD의 수치실험)

  • Park, Il Heum;Choi, Heung Bae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.72-82
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    • 2015
  • In order to effectively and economically apply the previous POM(Princeton Ocean Model) WAD(Wetting And Drying) to the coastal area, the POM WAD was modified such as the water elevation input of tidal harmonics in the open boundaries was included and a CTS(Computing Time Saving) technique was introduced to the model. The modified model was tested to the standing waves in the rectangular bay and the hydraulic experiments for the flow and heat diffusion in the 3D basin. The numerical results showed a good agreement with the analytical solutions of the standing waves and the observed values by the hydraulic experiments, respectively. And also when the modified model with the CTS technique was applied to Gwangyang Bay of Korea, the computing time was decreased by as much as 39.4%.

Development of Highly-Resolved, Coupled Modelling System for Predicting Initial Stage of Oil Spill (유출유의 초기 확산예측을 위한 고해상도 결합모형 개발)

  • Son, Sangyoung;Lee, Chilwoo;Yoon, Hyun-Doug;Jung, Tae Hwa
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.189-197
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    • 2017
  • The development and application of accurate numerical models is essential to promptly respond to early stage of oil spill incidents occurring in nearshore area. In this study, the coupled modelling system was developed by integrating the advection-diffusion-transformation model for oil slick with the Boussinesq model, which incorporates non-linear, discrete, turbulent and rotational effects of wavy flows for accurate representation of nearshore hydrodynamics. The developed model examined its applicability through the application into real coastal region with topographical complexity and characteristics of the resulting flow originated from it. The highly-resolved, coupled model developed in this study is believed to assist in establishing the disaster prevention system that can prepare effectively for oil disasters under extreme ocean climate conditions and thus minimize industrial, economical, and environmental damages.

Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Phytoplankton Blooms in Complex Ecosystems Off the Korean Coast from Satellite Ocean Color Observations

  • Ahn, Yu-Hwan;Shanmugam, Palanisamy;Chang, Kyung-Il;Moon, Jeong-Eon;Ryu, Joo-Hyung
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2005
  • Complex physical, chemical and biological interactions off the Korean coast created several striking patterns in the phytoplankton blooms, which became conspicuous during the measurements of ocean color from space. This study concentrated on analyzing the spatial and temporal aspects of phytoplankton chlorophyll variability in these areas using an integrated dataset from a Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) sensor, and Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensor. The results showed that chlorophyll concentrations were elevated in coastal and open ocean regions, with strong summer and fall blooms, which appeared to spread out in most of the enclosed bays and neighboring waters due to certain oceanographic processes. The chlorophyll concentration was observed to range between 3 and $54\;mg\;m^{-3}$ inside Jin-hae Bay and adjacent coastal bays and 0.5 and $8\;mg\;m^{-3}$ in the southeast sea offshore waters, this gradual decrease towards oceanic waters suggested physical transports of phytoplankton blooms from the shallow shelves to slope waters through the influence of the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) along the Tsushima Strait. Horizontal distribution of potential temperature $(\theta)$ and salinity (S) of water off the southeastern coast exhibited cold and low saline surface water $(\theta and warm and high saline subsurface water $({\theta}>12^{\circ}C; S>34.4)$ at 75dBar, corroborating TWC intrusion along the Tsushima Strait. An eastward branch of this current was called the East Korean Warm Current (EKWC), tracked with the help of CTD data and satellite-derived sea surface temperature, which often influenced the dynamics of mesoscale anticyclonic eddy fields off the Korean east coast during the summer season. The process of such mesoscale anticyclonic eddy features might have produced interior upwelling that could have shoaled and steepened the nutricline, enhancing phytoplankton population by advection or diffusion of nutrients in the vicinity of Ulleungdo in the East Sea.

One-D Model Prediction of Pollutant Transport at a Canal Network (수로망에서의 오염물질 확산의 1차원 예측)

  • Lee, Jung-Lyul;Hsiang Wang
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 1994
  • A one-dimensional numerical model has been developed through a Lagragian formulation, which is applicable to advection and diffusion of dissolved matters in storages. The study was conducted to the pollutants released into a canal network in Burnt Store Isles, Punta Gorda, Florida. USA. The hydrodynamic model was developed by using an implicit finite difference scheme. In the computational domain, the network system consists of prismatic channels and storages. The finger canals and small tributaries ale treated as storages in the simplified flow network The numerical results show relatively good agreement with field experiments.

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A Study on the Anti-lcing Performance Evaluation and Design Guide for Weather-Tight Door of the Vessels Operating in Cold Region (빙해선박 풍우밀문의 결빙방지 성능평가 및 설계기준에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Young-Kyo;Jung, Young-Jun
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.450-457
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    • 2013
  • For the design guide of a vessel operating in cold region, numerical analysis was carried out to evaluate the weather-tight door which installed the heating cables by using ANSYS 13.0 Transient Thermal. The numerical analysis was performed by considering Advection-Diffusion equation. This study based on the experimental results of 'A study on Anti-Icing Technique for Weather-Tight Door of Ice-Strengthened Vessels'(Jeong, et al., 2011a) in KIOST. For validation of the numerical analysis results, the cold chamber experimental data measured by the heat sensors in certain location of the weather-tight door was used. The external environmental temperature which varies from $5^{\circ}C$ to $-55^{\circ}C$ was considered in numerical analysis. Also three different heating cables which have the heat capacity of 33W/m, 45W/m and 66W/m were adapted for the design parameters to be the most efficient and guidelines for anti-icing design of the weather tight door.

Diffusion Analysis for Optimal Design of Ocean Outfall System (해양방류시스템 최적설계를 위한 확산해석)

  • Jung, T.S.;Kang, S.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.124-132
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    • 2009
  • The optimal type and discharging position of ocean outfall of wastewater have been determined by hydrodynamic modeling, near-field dilution modeling, and far-field dispersion modeling. Tide and tidal currents have been simulated by a finite element hydrodynamic model showing good agreements with field observations. Based on the hydrodynamic simulation results candidates of ocean outfall position were preliminary determined. Submerged single port and submerged multi-port diffuser were selected as discharging system alternatives and finally designed by considering tide, tidal currents and water depth. Initial dilution of wastewater discharged from the designed ports has been estimated by CORMIX system. A 2-dimensional random-walk dispersion model has been employed to simulate far-field dispersion of discharged wastewater.

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Study on the Design of a High Condensing LED Searchlight

  • Kim, Tae-Seong;Kim, Jin-Wook;Kim, Sun-Jae;Kil, Gyung-Suk
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.201-205
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    • 2015
  • This paper dealt with the condensing technology of an LED light source that uses a parabolic reflector to replace a searchlight equipped with a xenon lamp. A ray-tracing simulation was conducted to analyze the influence of the diameter of the reflector and the size of the light source on light condensing. The combination of a parabolic reflector with a diameter of 620 mm and a focal distance of 220 mm, and a 9 mm multi-chip package (MCP) with a luminous flux of 7,000 lm showed the narrowest beam angle. The luminous intensity at the center was measured at 7.7×106 cd. The distance between the light source and the point where the illuminance was 1 lx was calculated to be 2.8 km. The power consumption of the system was 95 W, which is only 9.5% of that of the 1 kW xenon searchlight, and the beam angle was 1.03°. In a site experiment, it was confirmed that the light ray reflected from the LED searchlight proceeds forward without any diffusion because of the narrow beam angle.

Evaluation of the Behavior of Dredged Materials in Ocean Dumping Area

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Kim, Kang-Min;Kim, Hyung-Chul;Lee, Joong-Woo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.9
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    • pp.755-762
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    • 2006
  • When we consider to develop a new harbor, the most important factor, we think, is the lowest water depth of waterway and approaching channel for safe navigation of vessel. The existing harbors have been being dredged to meet the international trend of jumbo sized vessels by adopting the new design criteria. As the dredged materials over the expected at the design level were common and there are still lack of land based reclamation area, we have no choice to discharge the dredged materials in open sea area In this study, we analysed the behavior of discharged materials at the dumping area of offshore, which were collected from the dredging work at the waterway in Busan New Port. We measured the tidal currents and analyzed the waters of dumping site after the dumping work. These were used to evaluate the numerical models. Suspended Solids(SS) were introduced to the diffusion model. Because of the characteristic of the dumping site, the speed of initial diffusion and settle down of the discharged materials was so fast. Therefore, we believe that the dumped materials do not cause a significant impact to the marine environment.

Vertical distribution of suspended sediment concentration - A case study in Cu Lao Dung Coastal Areas (Vietnam)

  • Tien H. Le Nguyen;Phuoc H. Vo Luong
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.313-324
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    • 2023
  • The vertical distribution of suspended sediments in the mangrove-mud coast is complicated due to the characterization of cohesive sediment properties, and the influence of hydrodynamic factors. In this study, the time-evolution of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in water depth is simulated by a one-dimensional model. The model applies in-situ data measured in October 2014 at the outer station in Cu Lao Dung coastal areas, Soc Trang, Vietnam. In the model, parameters which have influence on vertical distribution of SSC include the settling velocity Ws and the diffusion coefficient Kz. The settling velocity depends on the cohesive sediment properties, and the diffusion coefficient depends on the wave-current dynamics. The settling velocity is determined by the settling column experiment in the laboratory, which is a constant of 1.8 × 10-4 ms-1. Two hydrodynamic conditions are simulated including a strong current condition and a strong wave condition. Both simulations show that the SSC near the bottom is much higher than ones at the surface due to higher turbulence at the bottom. At the bottom layer, the SSC is strongly influenced by the current.