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Mitigating Hazards by Better Designing a Recycling Program: Lessons Learned from South Korea

  • Kim, Kyung Woo;Song, Minsun
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.17-36
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    • 2015
  • As an effort of mitigating hazards, pro-environmental programs have been vigorously activated with regard to solid waste recycling. It is beneficial for both the environment and resource saving, but implementation and enforcement are hard to achieve voluntarily. The South Korean Government first implemented the Deposit Refund System (DRS) and later the Extended Producer Responsibility Program (EPR) to reduce waste and encourage recycling in South Korea. Un-der the DRS, producers would pay for recycling the wastes of the products. The government then repealed the DRS and implemented the EPR program. Under this program, the producers recycle as much as the Ministry of Environment determines or pay a penalty for an excessive amount of the waste. In the broader perspective of disaster management, such policy programs can mitigate environmental hazards. This paper compares those two programs that facilitated the level of recycling, focusing on how such programs regulate producers and how they were operated from the perspective of implementation and enforcement.

A Fundamental Study on the Performance Predition of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (재생골재 콘크리트의 성능 예측에 관한 기초적 연구)

  • Choi Maeng-Ki;Park Hee-Gon;Park Sun-Gil;Lee Jae-Sam;Lee Young-Do;Jung Sang-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.93-96
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    • 2006
  • As the importance of recycled materials is being emphasized more in the Korean construction market, the production quality has been improved to a significantly high level. Compared to the high quality, however, there are used very limitedly. Among recycled construction materials, recycled aggregates produced through the retreatment of waste concrete are drawing attention because of lack of natural aggregate and heightened consciousness of resource saving and environmental protection and, as a consequence, they are close to natural aggregates in terms of production technology and quality. Despite the high quality and productivity, however, the utilization of recycled aggregates is very low.

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A Comparative Study of Tensile Strength of Architectural Membrane using Basalt Fiber (현무암섬유 기반 건축용 막재의 강도 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Hyeon;Shin, Hyeon-Uk;Song, Hun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.149-150
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    • 2016
  • The membrane structure is being applied in structures for various uses for its many advantages as permeableness, lightweightness, constructability, resource saving, and management cost reduction, and the usage is being expanded. However, despite the development of membrane structure, the standard for architectural membrane performance that considered fire safety is still inadequate. Therefore, this study applied basalt fiber with flame resistance on architectural membrane. Also, this study confirmed the membrane applicability of basalt fiber through comparison with existing architectural membrane.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Waterless Urinal System (설비 측면에서 본 물 안 쓰는 소변기의 특성 고찰)

  • Go, Mu-Hwan;Seo, Gi-Won;Kim, Yun-Jung
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.506-510
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    • 2008
  • The most important thing in the restroom is the saving water resource and the removing bad odor. Due to the waste of water and the inefficient operating system, the current urinal receptacles have been gradually replaced by the waterless urinal receptacles in the advanced countries. Therefore, this study investigated the advantages, the characteristics, and the expected problems of the current and the waterless urinal systems. Based on the comparisons between the two urinal systems from this study, the plumbing engineers can positively consider the replacement of the current urinal receptacles with the waterless ones.

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Industrial Infrastructure Technologies for the Methane Energy-based Society and the Role of Microwaves

  • Katori, Yoshishige
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.256-262
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    • 2010
  • This paper discussed the following. 1. After reaching the final phase of an oil-based society, a resource-saving and -recycling "Methane Energy-based Society" will come about because of limited natural resources. 2. Industrial Infrastructure Technologies which support the Methane Energy-based Society will cause a paradigm shift in the area of industrial, transportation and civilian sectors. 3. The Non-communication application technology of microwaves plays an important role as one of the core element technologies which comprise new industrial infrastructure technologies.

A Study on the Improvement of G-SEED through Analysis of Previous Studies on School Facilities (학교시설의 녹색건축인증제 개선을 위한 문헌분석에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Yo-Sun;Ryu, Soo-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2014
  • Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design(G-SEED) has been implemented for the realization of sustainable development and resource-saving and eco-friendly buildings from 2002. Studies about the green buildings are made actively and is being developed through constant revision. However, study results of green building have not been fully reflected in the standard. Therefore, this study analyzes the previous studies about G-SEED for school facilities and check the degree of to reflect the problems and improvements suggested in previous studies. This study will be a reference of future revision Substantial problems and requirements are not reflected in revision standard. Proposed improvement requirements are classed as to improve the items(establish specific standards, supplementation), strengthen standards(designate the prerequisite items), propose a new evaluation method, add new items. delete exist items and adjust the score. Therefore, future revision of G-SEED for school facilities should reflect the results of previous studies.

DDoS Defense Using the Exhaustiveness of Attackers (공격자의 자원소진특성을 이용한 분산서비스불능화 (DDoS) 공격에 대한 방어)

  • Jeong, Choong-Kyo
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.27 no.B
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2007
  • A novel DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) defense technique, Exaustiveness-Based Detection, is proposed in this work. It dispenses with the network congestion and the unfairness between users of the Defense-by-Offense technique by incorporating a kind of simple Detect-and-Block scheme (user identification), still improving the effectiveness of the defense in comparison to the original Defense-by-Offense technique. It uses SYN cookies to identify users in the granularity of ip address and to prevent ip address spoofing by the attacker. There can be, however, some probability of false negative (denying service to good clients), if the attacker wisely adapt to the new technique by saving some portion of its bandwidth resource and later mimicking good clients. Quantitative analysis the requirement for the good clients to be safe from the false negative is provided and a procedure to design the server capacity is explained.

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Strategies for Application and Introduction of Activity Based Costing for Korean Hospitals (병원 활동기준원가계산 모형의 적용방식과 도입전략)

  • Sun, Seung-Hoon
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.96-128
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    • 1999
  • This research has a purpose to develop strategies for application and introduction of activitiy based costing for Korean hospitals. A 700 bed-sized general hospital in Taejon was chosen to conduct this study. The conventional costing and ABC methods were simultaneously applied to the Obstetrics & Gynecology department, using data surveyed from June 21 to 30, 1998. The difference of two costing methods' results were analyzed and ABC's superiority was recognized. It showed that the new ABC model was more rational, fair, and objective in allocating indirect costs. The strategies to introduce ABC model to hospitals were suggested as followings: 1)a committee to manage ABC should be organized; 2)education for the employees about costing and cost saving should be provided; 3)the computerized ABC program should be developed; and 4)more advanced and rigourous methods to identify activities and measure the resource consumption should be developed.

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Energy Demand Management Algoritm for Buildings and Application Procedure (건물군 에너지 수요관리 알고리즘 및 적용 절차)

  • Kim, Jeong-Uk
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents an advanced energy demand management for buildings. It is important to aggregate a various demand side resource which is controllable on demand response environment. Previous demand side algorithm for building is mostly restricted on single building. In this paper, we suggest energy demand management algorithm for many buildings. And, this paper shows the procedure to apply suggested demand management algorithm.

Reliability Modeling of Direct Current Power Feeding Systems for Green Data Center

  • Choi, Jung Yul
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.704-711
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    • 2013
  • Data center is an information hub and resource for information-centric society. Since data center houses hundreds to ten thousands servers, networking and communication equipment, and supporting systems energy saving is one of the hottest issues for green data center. Among several solutions for green data center this paper introduces higher voltage direct current (DC) power feeding system. Contrary to legacy alternating current (AC) power feeding system equipped with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), higher voltage DC power feeding system is reported to be a more energy efficient and reliable solution for green data center thanks to less AC/DC and DC/AC conversions. Main focus of this paper is on reliability issue for reliable and continuous operation of higher voltage DC power feeding system. We present different types of configuration of the power feeding systems according to the level of reliability. We analyze the reliability of the power feeding systems based on M/M/1/N+1/N+1 queueing model. Operation of the power feeding system in case of failure is also presented.