• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.725-730
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• 2004

This paper has regarded mechanism design of cane-like passive type walking aid for the elderly using 3-RPS parallel manipulator. First, gait patterns of the elderly have been experimented. By means of motion capturing and image processing, we decided loaded forces and places of the cane when the elderly walked with a cane. Using these results we have developed a passive type walking aid. Second, the walking pattern has been simulated using dynamic analysis program, ADAMS and we find out the similarity between the real walking and the simulated walking. Finally after assuring the similarity, with adjusting the new mechanism design to the simulated walking we will decide whether the walking aid is safe and stable when the elderly walks with this cane-like walking aid. This paper will be basis for the development of the mechanism design applying 3-RPS parallel manipulator.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.467-477
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• 2009

Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a regulatory policy that requires the generation companies to increase the proportion of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, LFG, fuel cell, and small hydro. Recently, Korean government decided to increase the portion of renewable energy to 3% to total electricity generation by 2012 from the current level of 0.13%. To achieve this goal, an innovative plan for market competitiveness would be required in addition to the present Feed-In-Tariff (FIT). That is Korean government has taken it into consideration to introduce a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) as an alternative to FIT. This paper reviews the impact of RPS on the long-term fuel mix in 2020. The studies have been carried out with the GATE-PRO (Generation And Transmission Expansion PROgram) program, a mixed-integer non-linear program developed by Hongik university and Korea Energy Economics Institute. Detailed studies on long-term fuel mix in Korea have been carried out with four RPS scenarios of 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%. The important findings and comments on the results are given to provide an insight on future regulatory policies.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.203-205
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• 2005

A reactor protection system (RPS) plays the roles of generating the reactor trip signal and the engineered safety features (ESF) actuation signal when the monitored plant processes reach predefined limits. A Korean project group is developing a new digitalized RPS and the Cabinet Operator Module (COM) of the RPS which is used for the RPS integrity testing and monitoring by an equipment operator. A flat panel display (FPD) with a touch screen capability is provided as a main user interface for the RPS operation. To support the RPS COM user interface design, actually the FPD screen design, we developed a user interface style guide because the system designer could not properly deal with the many general human factors design guidelines. To develop the user interface style guide, various design guideline gatherings, a walk-though with a video recorder, guideline selection with respect to user interface design elements, determination of the properties of the design elements, discussion with the system designers, and a conversion of the properties into a screen design were carried out. This paper describes the process in detail and the findings in the course of the style guide development.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.49-68
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• 2014

In 2012, Korea adopted RPS after having implemented FIT for 10 years since 2002. We show how the choice of policy between RPS and FIT affects firm's choice of intermediate goods between a domestic and a foreign supplier, given the presence of transaction costs, When transaction costs are not sufficiently high, RPS is found to create a favorable environment for the domestic provider, which has comparative disadvantage initially, to be able to enter the market and to catch up with the foreign provider. The result implies that the Korean government's decision to implement RPS was optimal, given Korea's comparative disadvantage in green energy relative to major developed countries.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.301-319
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• 2012

The primary purpose of Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is to facilitate investment in renewable energy technology. Since emission trading program has similar purpose, it is conceivable to attempt to link RPS and emission trading program through interlinked markets. RPS in Korea with single REC and emission allowance markets has particular advantages for constructing linkages between two markets. This paper provides a real option model to examine investment effects of linkage of RPS to the trading program. Emission permit price and REC price are assumed to follow stochastic processes and renewable investment is irreversible. The result shows that linked market provides further incentive for renewable investment by raising managerial flexibility for power companies.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.138.2-138.2
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• 2010

온실가스 저감과 안정적인 에너지 확보를 위해, 정부는 신재생에너지 지원사업 정책을 보급보조사업(그린홈 100만호 사업, 일반보급보조사업, 지방보급사업)과 기반보조사업(발전차액지원제도, RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard)시범사업)으로 나누어 수행하고 있다. 특히 최근 개정된 "신에너지 및 재생에너지 개발 이용 보급 촉진법"에서는 RPS도입을 염두에 두고, 1차에너지 공급 중 신재생에너지 공급의무 비율은 2015년까지 13%, 특히 태양에너지는 2015년 1,209GWh라는 목표를 제시하고 있다. 신재생에너지보급이 지역적 특성을 갖고, 신재생에너지원별 비용측면의 경쟁력에 차이가 남에 따라, 향후 RPS 도입시 예상되는 지역별 경쟁력 평가는 중요한 의미를 가질 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구는 이러한 목적에 따라 우선 그린홈 100만호 사업, 일반 및 지방보급사업의 경우, 설비용량 당 투자비의 분포를 살펴보았다. 그린홈 100만호 사업의 설비용량 당 투자비는 평균($\bar{X}$) 6,449,032원/KW, 표본오차(s) 358,743으로 나타났다. 낮은 설비용량 당 투자비를 가지는 사업설비는 경남(4,256,667원/KW), 광주(4,331,333원/KW) 등에 분포하였다. 그린홈 100만호 사업 이외의 survey 데이터는 다소 불비한 측면이 있으나 일반 및 지방보급사업의 경우, 지역별 설비용량 당 투자비 분포에 대한 평균($\bar{X}$)은 9,145,692원/KW, 9,336,695원/KW, 표본오차(S) 2,154,263, 470,945로 나타났다. 발전차액지원제도의 경우, 지역별 설비보급에 대한 분포는 전남 389개 사업설비의 소용량 사업이 집중적인 지원을 받고 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 에너지관리공단의 2009년 전수조사 내부자료인 국내 태양광사업의 현황을 분석함으로써, 태양광 사업에 가중치를 적용하는 RPS 도입 시, 보급경쟁력을 비교 분석하여 지역별, 설비별 사업투자를 위한 기초적인 가이드라인을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 연구과정에서 확인된 데이터 오류 및 자료 부재의 문제점 등은 향후 합당한 지역별, 설비별 비교분석을 위해 보완되어야 할 부분으로 지적한다.

• 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.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.847-853
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• 2013

The genus Hemerocallis (family Xanthorthoeaceae) is a herbaceous species, some of which are very important in herbal medicines. We evaluated the rps16-trnK region of the chloroplast DNA of a representative sample of eight taxa in Korea to estimate phylogenetic relationships within the taxa of this genus. Due to differences in the number of inserted nucleotides, the aligned data for Hemerocallis ranged from 729 (H. aurantiaca) to 742 nucleotides (H. fulva var. kwanso), with a mean of 736. Although several small indels and 20 inserts were present, sequence variation within the Hemerocallis genus was mostly due to nucleotide substitutions. All rps16-trnK trees generated in Korea exhibited a well-solved topology, with high bootstrap support, irrespective of the methods (parsimony) and the setting used. The node of H. minor and H. littorea was strongly supported, with a high bootstrap value in three trees, and these two taxa were sistered with H. thunbergii. The number of chromosomes was not congruent with that found in a previous study with RAPD, but the number was in agreement with the results of this study.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.1305-1310
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• 2013

Dill (Anethum graveolens L.) is an annual herb with a long history and it is mainly used as a spice and as a medicine that is effective as a digestive aid, a sedative, and a narcotic, and that helps remove bad breath. Dill grows wild in the districts along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, West Asia, China, and Korea. An estimate of the phylogenetic relationships within dill accessions in 20 countries was inferred using data from the rps16-trnK3-intergenic spacer. The aligned data sets for dill ranged from 747 to 779 nucleotides (bp) as a result of the differences in the insert/delete nucleotides. The sequence variation within the dill accessions was mostly due to nucleotide substitutions, although several small insertions and deletions can be found. Among 100 accessions from 20 countries, the Eastern Asia accessions were more closely related to the North American accessions than to the Central Asia and European accessions. Although some accessions were not congruent completely with geographical locations, the dill accessions with rps16-trnK analysis resulted in plants with better-resolved clades.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.51-83
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• 2022

Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), one of the most commonly adopted regulation for renewable energy expansion since 2012, has the obvious advantage of inducing competition in power generation source and alleviating the government's financial burden. However, the abuse of credit multipliers and the use of national Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) have resulted in the distortion of RPS as a quantitative control policy. Just as no face value 10 years ago can hold its real value, this paper highlights for the first time that 27.8% of total renewable obligations over the total RPS period were not actually met due to REC inflation and the consequent decline in the value of renewable energy generation. In addition, the distortion of face/real value of REC causes problems in interoperability with other government policies such as RE100 and Emission Trading System.