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Installation of Meteorological Mast for the Test Bed of Offshore Wind Power (서해 100MW 해상풍력 실증단지 기상타워 구축사례)

  • Ryu, Moosung;Kang, Keumseok;Kim, Jiyoung;Lee, Junshin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.55.2-55.2
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    • 2011
  • The final site of offshore wind power plant should be decided by comprehensive examination of various conditions such as wind resource, sea depth, geology, grid connection, social circumstance and environmental issue. Wind condition is typically regarded as the most important factor because wind energy increases in proportion to wind velocity and it directly relates to the amount of power output, efficiency of power plant and profitability. Advanced countries in the offshore wind power sector such as Denmark, UK and Germany, they are analyzing wind resource accurately by installing the meteorological mast in the ocean in order to get the optimal type of wind turbine and maximum generation efficiency. Also, it is made much of designing offshore power plant on the basis of actual measurement by met-mast and those wind farms have a chance to get the loan with reduced interest rate in project financing. In Korea, the HEMOSU-1 is installed in the ocean around Wido island to analyze wind resource of test bed of 100MW offshore wind power on october last year. This paper deals with the design and construction procedure of the first met-mast in Korea and also shows the site characteristics of test bed. Therefore, this paper will give useful information to local governments and private business sector who are trying to construct offshore wind farm and it can also be a good reference for the following projects of meteorological mast in near future.

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The Study of Economic Feasibility of Wood Pellet in Domestic Power Plants Sector (국내 발전부문에서의 목재펠릿 경제성 연구)

  • Jeong, Nam-Young;Kim, Lae-Hyun
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.251-257
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    • 2010
  • Korea have a plan to enforce the Renewable Portfolio Standard(RPS) in 2012 for climate change action and effective use of energy but because of lack of renewable energy resources and limits of technology development, it will be hard to fullfill a target for RPS obligation in domestic power generation sector and woodchip biomass cofiring with coal combustion is the one of the alternative methods of the goal. Woodchip biomass cofiring with coal combustion is easy to approach technical design and has competitiveness of $CO_2$ & renewble energy certificate benefit and also has much lower generation cost than any other renewable energy resources. Because of that reason, woodchip biomass cofiring with coal combustion should be needed to fullfill the goal for RPS obligation in domestic power generation sector with midlong-term direction.

The Novel Configuration of Integrated Network for Building Energy System (빌딩 에너지시스템 통합네트워크 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Won-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.229-234
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    • 2008
  • The new millennium has started with several innovations driven by fast evolution of the technologies in energy sector. A strong impulse towards the diffusion of new economical efficient technologies regulatory incentives related to energy production from renewable source and a small scale building trigeneration and to promotion of more sustainable environmental-friendly generation solutions, the evolution of electricity markets, more and more binding local emission constraints, and the need for improving the security of supply to reduce the energy system vulnerability. The 24 percentage energy quantify of total energy consumption consumes in commercial buildings and residential houses and the 30% portion of total $CO_2$ emissions covers also in the commercial buildings and residential houses sector. To cope with efficiently this energy sinuation in building sector, Building microgrid or building tooling, heating & power(BCHP) system has been interested in recent day due to meeting thermal and electric energy requirements efficiently and with appropriate energy quality. A multi agent system is a collective of intelligent agents that communicate with each other and work cooperatively to achieve common goals. Also, it is to medicate and coordinate communication between Control Areas and Security Coordinators for teal-time control of the BCHP system and the power pid. In this new circumstance, it is very important to integrate the power and energy delivery system and the information system(communication, networks, and intelligent equipment) that controls it. Therefore, development of smart control modules with open communication protocol and seamlessly interchange the data and information between control network and data network including extranet and intranet give a great meanings. We designed and developed the TCP/IP-CAN IED agent modules and ModBus./LonTalk/(TCP/IP) IED agent ones to configure the multi-agent system based smart energy network of commercial buildings and also intelligent algorithms for inverter fault diagnostics which ran be operated in control level or agent level network.

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Radiation Monitoring in the Residential Environment: Time Dependencies of Air Dose Rate and 137Cs Inventory

  • Yoshimura, Kazuya;Nakama, Shigeo;Fujiwara, Kenso
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.30-38
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    • 2022
  • Background: Residential areas have some factors on the external exposure of residents, who usually spend a long time in these areas. Although various survey has been carried out by the government or the research institutions after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the mechanism of radiocesium inventory in the terrestrial zone has not been cleared. To better evaluate the radiation environment, this study investigated the temporal changes in air dose rate and 137Cs inventories (Bq/m2) in residential areas and agricultural fields. Materials and Methods: Air dose rate and 137Cs inventories were investigated in residential areas located in an evacuation zone at 5-8 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. From December 2014 to September 2018, the air dose rate distribution was investigated through a walking survey (backpack survey), which was conducted by operators carrying a γ-ray detector on their backs. Additionally, from December 2014 to January 2021, the 137Cs inventories on paved and permeable grounds were also measured using a portable γ-ray detector. Results and Discussion: In the areas where decontamination was not performed, the air dose rate decreased faster in residential areas than in agricultural fields. Moreover, the 137Cs inventory on paved surfaces decreased with time owing to the horizontal wash-off, while the 137Cs inventory on permeable surfaces decreased dramatically owing to the decontamination activities. Conclusion: These findings suggest that the horizontal wash-off of 137Cs on paved surfaces facilitated the air dose rate decrease in residential areas to a greater extent compared with agricultural fields, in which the air dose rate decreased because of the vertical migration of 137Cs. Results of this study can explain the faster environmental restoration in a residential environment reported by previous studies.

An Estimation of Direct and Indirect GHG-AP Integrated Emissions from Energy Sector in Seoul (2010) (서울시 에너지부문 직·간접 온실가스-대기오염 통합 배출량(2010) 산정)

  • Jung, Jaehyung;Kwon, O-Yul
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.150-160
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    • 2014
  • Greenhouse gas (GHG) and Air Pollution (AP) emission inventories have been constructed and estimated independently up-to-date in Seoul. It causes difficulty in GHG and AP integrated management due to a difference in emission inventories. In this study, we constructed GHG and AP integrated emission inventories for direct and indirect sources in Seoul during the year 2010 in Energy activities for estimating GHG and AP emissions were derived from IPCC guideline, guidelines for local government greenhouse inventories, air pollutants calculation manual, and Indirect Emission Factors (IEF) reported by Korea Power Exchange. The annual GHG emission was estimated as 50,530,566 $tonCO_{2eq}$, of which 54.8% resulted from direct sources and the remaining 45.2% from indirect sources. Among direct sources, transportation sector emitted the largest GHG, accounting for 47.3% of the total emission from direct sources. As with indirect sources, purchased electricity sector only emitted 98.6% of the total emission from indirect sources. The annual AP emission was estimated as 283,701 tonAP, of which 85.9% was contributed by the combined AP emissions of transportation and fugitive sectors. Estimation of individual air pollutant showed that the largest source were transportation sector for CO, $NO_x$, TSP, $PM_{10}$ and NH3, non-energy sector for $SO_x$, and fugitive sector for VOCs. This study found some limitations in estimating GHG and AP integrated emissions, such as nonconforming emission inventories between GHG and AP, and no indirect AP emission factor of purchased electricity, and so on. Those should be further studied and improved for more effective GHG and AP integrated management.

Elasticities in Electricity Demand for Industrial Sector (산업용 전력수요의 탄력성 분석)

  • Na, In Gang;Seo, Jung Hwan
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.333-347
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    • 2000
  • We employed various econometic methods to estimate the production index elasticity and the price elasticity of elecricity demand in Korea and compared the forecasting power of those methods. Cointegration models (ADL model, Engle-Granger model, Full Informtion Maximum Likelihood method by Johansen and Juselius) and Dynamic OLS by Stock and Watson were considered. The forecasting power test shows that Dynamic OLS has the best forecasting power. According to Dynamic OLS, the production index elasticity and the price elasticity of electricity demand in Korea are 0.13 and -0.40, respectively.

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Guideline on Security Measures and Implementation of Power System Utilizing AI Technology (인공지능을 적용한 전력 시스템을 위한 보안 가이드라인)

  • Choi, Inji;Jang, Minhae;Choi, Moonsuk
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.399-404
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    • 2020
  • There are many attempts to apply AI technology to diagnose facilities or improve the work efficiency of the power industry. The emergence of new machine learning technologies, such as deep learning, is accelerating the digital transformation of the power sector. The problem is that traditional power systems face security risks when adopting state-of-the-art AI systems. This adoption has convergence characteristics and reveals new cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities to the power system. This paper deals with the security measures and implementations of the power system using machine learning. Through building a commercial facility operations forecasting system using machine learning technology utilizing power big data, this paper identifies and addresses security vulnerabilities that must compensated to protect customer information and power system safety. Furthermore, it provides security guidelines by generalizing security measures to be considered when applying AI.

Corruption in Korean Organizations: Prevention Measures from Cultural Perspectives (한국 조직의 부패: 문화적 관점에서의 예방책)

  • Jun, In-Woo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.157-166
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    • 2020
  • This study examines the status of major corruption in the public and private sectors in Korea. This study adopts the secondary data analysis method, and uses 'The Status of Corruption in Korean Society' released by Ipsos in March 2019. The annual difference analysis is conducted to examine the trend of major corruption, and the results are as follows. First, in the public sector, the number of conspicuous crimes, such as bribery, has decreased, but intelligent crimes that are not easily detected, such as abuse of authority, are increasing. In the private sector, embezzlement was on the decline, but breach of trust remained at a certain level. Second, from 2003 to 2017, the average annual change rate of major corruption in the public sector was 8.0%, while the private sector was 1.8%. Third, the public sector has seen a slight increase in corruption except in 2015, but the private sector has been declining since 2014. This study is different as it makes academic contributions by offering three anti-corruption measures; changing the culture of high power distance, changing the culture of low corruption perception, and abolishing the culture of impunity. Empirical studies using primary data that separate the two groups are required.

Long-Term Generation Expansion Strategies for the Reduction of $CO_2$ Emission in Korea (지구온난화 가스 배출 감소를 위한 장기 전원개발계획 전략)

  • Kim, K.I.;Park, J.B.;Kim, K.H.;Lee, S.C.;Park, K.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1997.07c
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    • pp.1083-1087
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    • 1997
  • Every effort is now being exerted in industrialized and developing countries to reduce emission of greenhouse gases from electric power sector. In this paper, we provide supply-side resource mix strategies in the long-term generation expansion planning under the expected greenhouse gas regulations. Under the environmental regulations, we explore the least-cost generation expansion plan of Korea and determine the composition of future resource mixes. Our analysis is performed on the basis of the revised WASP package which can evaluate emission of carbon dioxide from each power plant. The evaluation process of carbon dioxide emissions, which can consider the efficiency and operating conditions of each generator simultaneously, has been incorporated into the probabilistic production cost simulation module of WASP.

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Power performance Testing of Small Wind Turbine Generator System (소형 풍력발전시스템의 출력성능검사)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Ki;Kim, Byeong-Min;Yoo, Neung-Soo
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.31 no.A
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2011
  • In this study, procedures, a power performance testing system of Wind Turbine System Research Center of Kangwon National University is introduced. Test prodedures and results are presented on a stand-alone vertical-axis 200W wind turbine manufactured by Geum-Poong Energy Inc.. Power performance test is performed according to IEC standard. The test results are compared with the power performance standard. Also, the effects of normalization and disturbed sectors are considered.

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