• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.335-350
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• 2013

With the efforts to development of renewable energy technologies, and increasing awareness to environmental issues, the usage of wood pallets has been increasing every year since the introduction of wood pallet technology to the domestic market. until 2009, majority usage of pellet boiler was in the residential houses. In an effort to increase the distribution of wood pellet boiler to cultivation facilities with high usage of fuels, The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has launched a distribution project of wood pellet boiler for fuel usage as a part of the agricultural and fishery energy efficiency projects. Although only small number of farms with a heat-culturing facility have replaced from conventional boiler to pellet boiler. Although part of reason for low usage of pallet boiler is lack of understanding and information of it, the main reasons are high initial cost and uncertainty of its cost efficiency. Also, most people from agricultural industry don't realize it's significance in terms of environmental benefit due to lack of understanding in 'resource circulation' and 'adopting to climate change'. In this study, first, we did a cost-efficiency analysis of the farm which uses a diesel boiler to grow cucumber, tomato, paprika. Then we replaced the diesel boiler to a pallet boiler and measured its cost-efficiency again. By comparing the cost-efficiency of the diesel boiler with the pellet boiler, we analyzed the economic viability of pellet boiler. Then we analyzed viability of pallet boiler usage in terms of 'resource circulation' and 'adopting to climate change'. As a result of our analysis, we have found out that under the current system of government support, the energy usage varies depends of the types crops grown and the higher the energy use, the more cost efficient it is to use the pallet boiler. Also, it is economically viable to use the pallet boiler in terms of 'resource circulation' and 'adopting to climate change'.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.344-359
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• 2019

Effects of various types of zeolite on the catalytic performance of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of bio-oil obtained from waste larch wood pyrolysis were investigated herein. Bifunctional catalysts were prepared via wet impregnation. The catalysts were characterized through XRD, BET, and SEM. Experimental results demonstrated that HDO enhanced the fuel properties of waste wood bio-oil, such as higher heating values (HHV) (20.4-28.3 MJ/kg) than bio-oil (13.7 MJ/kg). Water content (from 19.3 in bio-oil to 3.1-16.6 wt% in heavy oils), the total acid number (from 150 in bio-oil to 28-77 mg KOH/g oil in heavy oils), and viscosity (from 103 in bio-oil to $40-69mm^2/s$ in heavy oils) also improved post HDO. In our experiments, depending on the zeolite support, NiFe/HBeta exhibited a high Si/Al ratio of 38 with a high specific surface area ($545.1m^2/g$), and, based on the yield of heavy oil (18.3-18.9 wt%) and HHV (22.4-25.2 MJ/kg), its performance was not significantly affected by temperature and solvent concentration variations. In contrast, NiFe/zeolite Y, which had a low Si/Al ratio of 5.2, exhibited the highest improved quality for heavy oil at high temperature, with an HHV of 28.3 MJ/kg at $350^{\circ}C$ with 25 wt% of solvent.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제98권4호
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• pp.426-434
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• 2009

본 연구는 우드칩과 우드펠릿의 전과정평가에 의한 각 공정별 비용 정보를 취합하여 최적 공정을 도출하고, 생산자 입장에서의 이윤과 소비자 입장에서의 효율성을 비교하고자 수행되었다. 비용은 기회비용에 준거하여 적용하였다. 분석 결과, 우드칩이 우드펠릿보다 생산비용이 저렴했고, 우드칩 생산비용이 가장 저렴한 공정은 현장에서 파쇄하여 소비처로 판매하는 공정으로 나타났다. 우드펠릿의 경우에는 현장에서 수집한 산물을 펠릿공장으로 운송하여 펠릿타이징하는 공정의 생산비용이 가장 낮게 나타났다. 판매수입에서 비용을 뺀 이윤은 우드칩이 우드펠릿보다 약간 더 높게 나타났다. 가격 대비 동일한 발열량을 얻기 위한 조건은 우드펠릿의 가격이 우드칩의 그것보다 약 1.27배일 때이다. 현실적으로 우드칩은 생산자 입장에서의 파쇄 현장이 분산됨에 따른 파쇄기 이동비용의 증가, 그리고 현장 주변에 소비처가 없음에 따른 저장비용의 증가 가능성이 높을 뿐만 아니라 이용자 입장에서의 부피가 큰 연료 저장 시설, 연료 보충에 따른 추가적인 노동 발생, 우드펠릿보다 더 많은 양의 재 발생으로 인한 잦은 처리, 우드칩의 자체 습기로 인한 하절기 부패의 가능성, 동절기 결빙 등의 불편함이 있다.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2016

Our aim was to identify the potential of reed stalk as a raw materials for biomass pellet production. Compared to woody biomass, reed stalk contained significant levels of ash. The holocellulose content of reed stalk was similar to that of larch, but the lignin content of reed stalk was lower than that of larch. In the elemental analysis, chlorine content of reed stalk was much higher than that of larch, and satisfied only the mixed biomass pellet B of European non-woody pellet standards(EN 14961-6). In quantitative analysis of the ash, heavy metals contents of reed stalk satisfied European non-woody pellet standards. Higher heating value of oven-dried reed stalk pellet was slightly lower than that of larch wood pellet. The durability of reed stalk pellet was lower than that of larch wood pellet. The results of this study indicate that reed stalk might be used as a raw material of mixed biomass pellet B.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.159-165
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• 1999

Experimental studies have been performed to observe the basic phenomena of waste bed combustion in MSW incinerator. A reduced scale apparatus was utilized to simulate the combustion behavior in real plant with 1-dimensional transient behavior at the experimental setup, which uses wet cubic wood with ash content as simulated waste. LHV (lower heating value) of solid fuel, fuel particle size and flow rate of combustion air were taken as important parameters of the bed combustion. For the quantitative analysis, FPR (flame propagation rate), TBT (total burn-out time) and PBT (particle burn-out time) was defined. LHV represent the capability of heat release of the fuel, so that a higher LHV results in faster reaction rate of the fuel bed, which is shown by higher FPR. Fuel particle size is related with surface area per unit mass as well as heat and mass transfer coefficient. As the particle size increases the FPR decreases owing to decreasing specific surface area. Air injection supplies oxygen to the reaction zone. However oversupply of combustion air increases convection cooling of the bed and possibly extinguishes the flame.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2015

Recently, the usage of renewable energy system has been recommended because of the energy saving and depletion of fossil fuel. Especially, ground source heat pump system(GSHP) has a high efficiency by using annual stable ground temperature. Also, wood pellet is low cost and a high calorific value compared to fossil fuel. However, only small number of farms have applied renewable energy system to horticultural facility because of a high initial costs and uncertainty of its cost efficiency. In this study, in order to analyze the feasibility for the horticulture, TRNSYS simulation based on the standard horticultural facility was conducted in different weather and covering material conditions. Then, comparative feasibility analysis of each energy supplying system was conducted. As a result, we have found out that a high initial cost of renewable energy system was recovered by the economics of the energy cost. Due to the energy cost reduction, the payback periods were 10-11 years in the case of GSHP and 4-6 years in the case of wood pellet boiler.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.88-98
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• 1980

원통형 관속을 흐르는 뜨거운 단상 유체의 응고 과정을 해석적인 방법과 실험적인 방법으로 연구 하였다. 파라핀초와 Wood's Metal을 뜨거운 유체로 사용하여 일련의 실험을 하였다. 이 실험 데이터로 부룩해븐 연구소에서 개발한 응고과정에 대한 기존 준정적 수리해석 모델을 증명하였다. 또한 이 실험결과, 수직관속을 순간적으로 흐르며 응고하는 과정에 미치는 여러가지 매개변수의 영향에 관한 자료를 얻게 되었다. 이 실험에 사용한 기구와 실험 방법 도 아울러 기술하였다. 녹은 유체의 순간적으로 흘러내리는 양에 대한 수학적 모델의 예측 결과를 실험데이터와 비교하기 위해 도표로 제시하였다. 또한, 수학적 모델을 고속증식로(LMFBR)에 사고가 일어 났을 경우에 응용하여 보았다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2011

본 연구는 고체가연물의 초기 점화 및 화재성장과정에서의 발열량을 정량적으로 측정하고 가연물에 따른 화재성장특성 파악하고자 한다. 실험에 적용된 고체가연물은 단일/이중 목재크립, 단일/이중 쿠션, 카페트/목재크립이며 화재발달 단계에서 화재성장특성을 시간 제곱 화재성장 시나리오와 비교분석하고 고체가 연물의 화재성장 계수를 정량화 하였다. 고체가연물의 연소과정에서 소모되는 연료의 질량과 방출되는 총열에너지 개념을 이용하여 가연물의 평균 유효연소율을 평가하였으며 환기 및 화재조건의 영향을 분석하여 화재해석시 화재시나리오를 설정하는데 있어서 실질적인 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

바이오매스로부터의 고밀화연료는 북미와 유럽에서 신재생에너지로서 널리 이용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 일본잎갈나무와 현사시나무를 피스톤 프레스를 이용하여 브리켓을 제조하였으며, 연료적 특성 및 고밀화 특성을 밝히고자 압력, 가압시간, 수종 및 목분 크기가 브리켓의 특성에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 상온에서 110~170 MPa의 압력을 가해 제조된 일본잎갈나무와 현사시나무 브리켓의 4주간 경과 후의 밀도는 0.66~0.94 g/$cm^3$이고, 적정 가압시간은 12초이며, 제조 압력이 증가하면 브리켓의 밀도는 직선적으로 증가하였다. 일본잎갈나무 브리켓이 현사시나무 브리켓보다 밀도가 컸으며, 목분의 크기가 클수록 브리켓의 밀도가 컸다.

• 도시과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2019

The land treatment of sewage sludge is necessary because sewage sludge is increasing year by year. Therefore the research of sewage sludge solidification is underway as one of the land treatment methods. However, the problem with existing sewage sludge solidification is that the moisture content of sewage sludge is high and the dewaterability is low. Because of high drying cost the efficiency of energy production is low and the calorific value is insufficient. So the disposer is supplied with a filtration and caloric aid for improving dewaterability and calorific value. In this study, it is aimed to improve the fuel value of sewage sludge by confirming the feasibility of waste wood as a filtration and caloric aid. The dewaterability was measured by CST-test and the calorific value was measured by bomb calorimeter. As a result the dewaterability and calorific value are improved in all of the samples. The dewaterability was improved as the waste wood was added in the sewage sludge. By adjusting the waste wood adding rate into the sewage sludge the dewaterability and calorific value of sewage sludge will be improved. This study confirmed possibility of the waste wood used as filtration and caloric aid.