• 설비공학논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.383-391
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• 2010

In this study, HFC152a, HFC134a/HFC152a and HC290/HFC134a/HFC152a mixtures are studied for the supplementary and alternative refrigerants for HFC134a used in automobile air-conditioners. Due to the high global warming potential of HFC134a, it has to be phased out in the long run. Thermodynamic performance of these refrigerants are measured in a bench tester of 3.5 kW capacity with an open type compressor under both summer and winter conditions. Test results show that the coefficient of performance (COP) and capacity of pure HFC152a and HFC134a/HFC152a mixture are 9.1~12% and 7% higher than those of HFC134a. As for the HC290/HFC134a/HFC152a, the COP is up to 9.5% higher than that of HFC134a with 1~2% of HC290 while that is up to 6.1% lower than that of HFC134a with 5% HC290. The capacity of the ternary mixture, however, is 8.6% higher than that of HFC134a at all compositions tested. The compressor discharge temperatures of all refrigerants tested are $6{\sim}10^{\circ}C$ higher than that of HFC134a. For all refrigerants, the amount of charge is reduced up to 32% due to the decrease in liquid density. Overall, these refrigerants provide good performance with reasonable energy savings with less environmental problem and thus can be used as long term alternatives for automobile air-conditioners.

• 한국폐기물자원순환학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.518-527
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• 2017

The development of renewable energy is currently strongly required to address environmental problems such as global warming. In particular, biomass is highlighted due to its advantages. When using biomass as an energy source, the conversion process is essential. Fast pyrolysis, which is a thermochemical conversion method, is a known method of producing bio-oil. Therefore, various studies were conducted with fast pyrolysis. Most studies were conducted under a lab-scale process. Hence, scaling up is required for commercialization. However, it is difficult to find studies that address the process analysis, even though this is essential for developing a scaled-up plant. Hence, the present study carries out the process analysis of biomass pyrolysis. The fast pyrolysis system includes a biomass feeder, fast pyrolyzer, cyclone, condenser, and electrostatic precipitator (ESP). A two-stage, semi-global reaction mechanism was applied to simulate the fast pyrolysis reaction and a circulating fluidized bed reactor was selected as the fast pyrolyzer. All the equipment in the process was modeled based on heat and mass balance equations. In this study, process analysis was conducted with various reaction temperatures and residence times. The two-stage, semi-global reaction mechanism for circulating fluidized-bed reactor can be applied to simulate a scaled-up plant.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.186-194
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 중규모 해양모형을 이용하여 주어진 한반도 주변 대기경계조건에 대한 해양모형의 반응을 연구하였다. 연구는 크게 스핀업(spin-up) 실험과 재현(reproduction) 실험으로 나뉘는데, 스핀업 실험은 해양모형을 스핀업시켜 기후학적 월평균 해양상태로 유도하는 실험으로 월평균 대기상태를 경계조건으로 하여 해양모형을 장기적분하였다. 재현 실험은 1980년${\sim}$1998년 동안(19년)의 한반도 주변 해역의 해양변동을 재현하고자 한 실험으로 이를 위하여 스핀업 마지막 해의 해양상태를 모형의 초기상태로 하고 그 기간 동안의 월평균 기상 자료를 경계조건으로 해양모형에 적용하여 19년간 적분하였다. 스핀업 실험에서 모형은 동해지역에서의 동한 해류의 이안, 극전선대(polar front)형성 그리고 소규모 에디들에 의한 냉수대의 형성과 황해지역에서의 연안역과 중앙부 사이에 남북으로 형성되는 수온전선 대 그리고 역풍류(Upwind Current)의 변화에 기인한 순환 구조의 계절적인 변동 등 한반도 주변해역에서 나타나는 특징적인 순환들을 잘 모사하였다. 또한 1982${\sim}$98년까지에 대한 재현 실험에서는 주어진 대기 경계조건에 따른 해면온도의 변동성과 기간동안 약 0.5$^{\circ}$C의 해면온도 아노말리의 상승을 관측과 유사하게 모사하였다. 따라서 실험은 모형이 주어진 경계조건에 대하여 해양의 평균적인 상태 뿐만 아니라 변동성도 잘 모사하고 있음을 보여주었다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.233-243
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• 2011

과거부터 현재까지 한반도의 온난화는 전 지구적 온난화에 비하여 심하였으며, 미래에도 더욱 심할 것으로 예상되고 있다. 기후변화에 따른 온도상승은 보통 벼 수량을 감소시키고 품질 저하를 야기하는데, 이 양상은 벼 생육기간 및 그에 따른 생육온도에 크게 영향을 받으며, 벼 생육기간 및 생육온도 또한 이앙 및 파종시기와 같은 재배시기에 조정에 의해 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 연구는 미래 기후변화 및 그에 따른 재배시기 조정 여부가 현재 우리나라 벼 품종의 생태형별 생육기간과 생육온도에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 수행하였으며, 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 벼 생육모델 ORYZA2000을 이용하여 오대벼, 일품벼, 화성벼의 파종부터 출수기까지의 생육기간을 예측하였을 때 예측값이 관측값의 약 84% 설명할 수 있는 것으로 나타났는데, 예측오차 중 상당부분은 작물모형 자체의 문제보다는 육묘기 생육온도에 대한 정보부재 또는 불확실성 때문이며, 예측값과 관측값의 회귀직선과 1:1선 거의 일치하기 때문에 미래 기후변화 조건에서의 벼 생육기간 변화를 예측하는데 큰 문제가 없을 것으로 판단되었다. 2. 조생종은 전체 57개 지역 중 55개, 중생종은 51개, 중 만생종은 40개 지역에서 최적파종기가 설정되었는데, 전체적으로 최적파종기는 생육기간이 짧은 조생종에서 비교적 늦고, 생육기간이 긴 중만생종에서 빠른 경향이었으며, 벼 생태형에 관계없이 지구온난화가 진전될수록 최적파종기가 늦어지는 경향이었다. 3. 재배시기를 고정하였을 경우 지구온난화가 진전되면서 벼 출수기와 그에 따른 출수전 생육일수가 빨라졌는데, 조 중생종에 비해 중만생종의 생육기간이 크게 단축되는 경향이었고, 출수후 생육기간은 벼 생태형간 차이 없이 10일 정도 단축되었으며, 출수전에 비해 출수후 생육기간 단축 정도가 컸다. 4. 최적파종기를 기준으로 벼 재배시기를 조정하였을 경우 지구온난화가 진전되면서 출수기는 늦어졌으며, 출수후 생육기간 및 생육온도는 변화가 없었다. 재배시기를 고정하였을 때에 비해 출수전 생육온도는 크게 상승하였고, 생육기간은 크게 단축되었는데, 조 중만 생종에 비해 중만생종에서 그 경향이 심하였으며, 생육온도에 비해 생육기간 변화의 지역간 편차가 크게 나타났다. 5. 결론적으로 지구온난화가 진점됨에 따라 벼 생육온도가 상승하고 생육기간이 단축되어 벼 수량성 및 품질저하가 우려 되었는데, 특히 생육기간 단축이 큰 중만 생종의 피해가 클 것으로 예상되었으며, 기후변화에 따른 재배시기 조정은 벼 수량성 및 품질 결정에 영향력이 큰 등숙기간의 온도환경을 개선할 수 있지만 출수전 생육기간이 크게 단축되어 여전히 벼 수량성 감소를 경감시키는데 한계가 있는 것으로 판단되었다. 따라서 미래 기후변화에 대응하여 더욱 적극적인 재배기술과 품종개발이 요구된다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2008

Recent industrial development and technological breakthroughs have made our life much more convenient, however, at the cost of environmental degradation resulting from indiscreet focus on development in combination of disregard of impact on eco system. Notably, global warming is one of the most serious environmental issues, triggering attention for environmental protection in Korea and elsewhere. To address such issues, nations around the world are beefing up environmental regulatory framework such as UNFCCC(United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) to tackle environmental challenges from global perspective. Against the backdrop, Korea has been engaging actively in global initiatives to reduce climate change, ratifying UNFCCC in 1993 and the Kyoto Protocol in October, 2002. However, unlike the government responding to environmental degradation in earnest, construction industry is far from making efforts to reduce wastes. Construction waste is a source of environmental deterioration world wide and adds to the aggregate cost that construction companies should assume. Korean construction firms also need to develop initiative aggressively to respond to changes in environmental policies and reduce construction costs. Therefore, this study aims at examining sources of wastes in construction sites and suggest solution in order to prod local construction companies to develop countermeasures.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2012

Recently, all of the world are facing with a serious environmental crisis of global warming due to excessive energy consumptions. The Korean Government, taking over 97% of dependence on foreign energy, has made various efforts on reducing energy and greenhouse gas emission under the motto of "Low-Carbon Green Growth". Since the building sector takes 24% of domestic energy consumption, many design standards and regulations on saving energy in new buildings have been established. However, applications of energy saving designs and techniques on the remodeling process at deteriorated buildings including educational ones have been lack. Under a situation where the number of deteriorated schools accounts for up to 50%, this paper evaluated the performances of factors for reducing energy at deteriorated middle school buildings through an energy simulation tool on a standard school model. As a result, among factors of insulation, window's SHGC, southern louver, indoor setup temperature, and system efficiency, all other factors except window's SHGC and southern louver proved contribute to reduce energy at deteriorated middle school buildings, compared with the baseline energy consumption.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.236.1-236.1
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• 2010

Due to global warming, the need to secure an alternative resource has become more important nationally. Due to the high tidal range of up to 9.7m on the west coast of Korea, numerous tidal current projects are being planned and constructed. The rotor, which initially converts the energy, is a very important component because it affects the efficiency of the entire system, and its performance is determined by various design variables. In this paper, a design guideline of current generating HAT rotor and acceptable field rotor in offshore environment is proposed. To design HAT rotor model, wind mill rotor design principles and turbine theories were applied based on a field HAT rotor experimental data. To verify the compatibility of the rotor design method and to analyze the properties of design factors, 3D CFD model was designed and analysed by ANSYS CFX. The analysis results and findings are summarized in the paper.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2013

Nowadays, excessive using of fossil fuel contributes to global warming. Also, this phenomenon increases steadily. Therefore forest biomass from logging residues has received attention. The goal of this study was to determine the sustainability and economic feasibility of forest-biomass energy source. Accordingly, forest biomass resource was calculated, and harvesting and transporting machines which can be used in investing area were chosen, when using forest biomass as energy source. And then through these data, the harvesting cost was decided. The forest biomass resource calculated, thinned trees and logging residues, was 37,330.23 $m^3$ and 14,073.60 ton, respectively. When harvesting timber in each sub-compartment, the average thinned trees yield was 120.73 $m^3$, and tree logging residues was 402.80 ton. The use of tower yarder as harvesting and transporting equipments in study area was 85.4% and 66.7%, respectively, in up hill and down hill yarding. The average harvesting cost of biomass in the possibility area of timber yarding operation was expensive as 81,757 won/$m^3$, 85,434 won/m3 and 50,003 won/ton, respectively, in thinned trees and logging residue. If using data from this research analysis, tree could be felled by choosing sub-compartment.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2017

The world today has reached a certain level where it is impossible to get the quality education at the tertiary level without the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT has made life better, communication easier and faster, teaching and learning more practical through computers and other technology based learning tools. However, despite these benefits ICT has equally contributed immensely to environmental problems. Therefore there is the need to use ICT resources efficiently in universities for environmental sustainability so as to save both the university environment and the world at large from the effects of global warming. This paper evaluates the carbon footprints from the use of ICT devices and comes up with a proposed green ICT framework to reduce the carbon footprints in universities. The framework contains techniques and approaches to achieve greenness in the data center, personal computers (PCs) and monitors, and printing in order to make ICT more environmentally friendly, cheaper, safer and ultimately more efficient. Concerned experts in their respective departments at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) Malaysia evaluated the proposed framework. It was found to be effective for achieving efficiency, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.259-265
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• 2016

We analyzed diurnal variations in the surface air temperature using the high density urban climate observation network of Daegu in summer, 2013. We compared the time elements, which are characterized by the diurnal variation of surface air temperature. The warming and cooling rates in rural areas are faster than in urban areas. It is mainly due to the difference of surface heat capacity. In addition, local wind circulation also affects the discrepancy of thermal spatiotemporal distribution in Daegu. Namely, the valley and mountain breezes affect diurnal variation of horizontal distribution of air temperature. During daytimes, the air(valley breeze) flows up from urban located at lowlands to higher altitudes of rural areas. The temperature of valley breeze rises gradually as it flows from lowland to upland. Hence the difference of air temperature decreases between urban and rural areas. At nighttime, the mountains cool more rapidly than do low-lying areas, so the air(mountain breeze) becomes denser and sinks toward the valleys(lowlands). As the result, the air temperature becomes lower in rural areas than in urban areas.