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Performance Assessment of Building Envelopes I: Double Skin Facade (외피 친환경 성능평가 I: 이중외피)

  • Kim, Deuk-Woo;Park, Cheol-Soo
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2009
  • Many countries have been interested in sustainable development of buildings for environmental preservation. Thus it is significant to assess building envelopes in terms of $CO_2$ emissions owing to Kyoto Protocol. In this paper, a Double Skin Facade(DSF) installed in a general office building was assessed by $CO_2$ emissions(one of the performance-based assessment). To predict $CO_2$ emissions caused by the building energy consumption, the dynamic simulation program(Energy Plus) and $CO_2$ emission factor was used. Because DSF has various airflow regimes, pre-simulation runs were conducted to decide proximate optimal airflow regimes depending on seasonal variation. It is shown that the DSF can achieve 17.1-36.5% of annual energy savings.

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Life Cycle Assessment for National Electricity Generation Systems (국가전력생산 시스템에 대한 전 과정 영향평가)

  • 김태운;김성호;정환삼;하재주;민경란;고순현
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.353-358
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    • 2004
  • In recent, the trends in national energy Policy are established in the context of the integrated risk estimation for various national electricity generating options. The approach takes account of health, environmental, economic, and social aspects of electricity generation systems. In the present work, nuclear, coal, and LNG sources are chosen because these hold more than 90% of national total electricity generation in a descending order. A life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is used for comparing environmental impacts of these options during the life cycle such as construction, operation as well as disposal stages. Here, the LCA consists of life cycle inventory analysis, classification/selection process of impact categories, characterization process, and normalization process of each category. LCA can be an useful tool for environmental impact assessment of future national energy options. At the planning stage of future energy Policies, the results of LCA would be taken into consideration. According to data update at the construction and disposal stages, the LCA needs to be conducted iteratively.

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Application of Life Cycle Assessment into the Apartment Housing and Calculation of the Energy Consumption and $CO_2$ Emission (전과정평가를 이용한 공동주택의 에너지소비량과 이산화탄소 배출량 산정)

  • Jung, Bo-Ra;Lee, Ha-Shik;Choi, Young-Oh;Lee, Kang-Hee
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.235-240
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    • 2008
  • The environment has played a key role to improve the living condition and develop the industry. In building industries, we should consider the environment and mitigate the environmental affect. For mitigating the its affect, various areas of building technology have been developed and applied into filed work. In addition, the process in applying into field requires to conduct the assessment of the environmental affect and improve its applied technology. A lot of assessment methods are proposed in evaluate the building condition such as post-occupancy evaluation, life cycle management and life cycle assessment. Among these assessment methods, life cycle assessment is effectively utilized the environmental affect in building life cycle. Therefore, this paper aimed at analyzing the energy consumption and $CO_2$ emission in building life cycle, using the life cycle assessment and application of the example in apartment housing. This study shows that the maintenance and the production of building materials stage shares most of the amount of energy consumption and $CO_2$ emission and therefore plays an important role to planning the building in terms of the life cycle. Second, the other stages brings about a very small amount. It is important to decide the building shape and contents to mitigate the environmental affect in terms of material, volume, the pattern of the energy use and others.

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Reliability assessment of ERA-Interim/MERRA reanalysis data for the offshore wind resource assessment (해상풍력자원 평가를 위한 ERA-Interim/MERRA 재해석 데이터 신뢰성 평가)

  • Byun, Jong-Ki;Son, Jin-Hyuk;Ko, Kyung-Nam
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2016
  • An investigation on reliability of reanalysis wind data was conducted using the met mast wind data at four coastal regions, Jeju Island. Shinchang, Handong, Udo and Gangjeong sites were chosen for the met mast sites, and ERA-Interim and MERRA reanalysis data at two points on the sea around Jeju Island were analyzed for creating Wind Statistics of WindPRO software. Reliability of reanalysis wind data was assessed by comparing the statistics from the met mast wind data with those from Wind Statistics of WindPRO software. The relative error was calculated for annual average wind speed, wind power density and annual energy production. In addition, Weibull wind speed distribution and monthly energy production were analyzed in detail. As a result, ERA-Interim reanalysis data was more suitable for wind resource assessment than MERRA reanalysis data.

Integrated risk assessment method for spent fuel road transportation accident under complex environment

  • Tao, Longlong;Chen, Liwei;Long, Pengcheng;Chen, Chunhua;Wang, Jin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.393-398
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    • 2021
  • Current risk assessment of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) transportation has the problem of the incomplete risk factors consideration and the general particle diffusion model utilization. In this paper, the accident frequency calculation and the detailed simulation of the accident consequences are coupled by the integrated risk assessment method. The "man-machine-environment" three-dimensional comprehensive risk indicator system is established and quantified to characterize the frequency of the transportation accidents. Consideration of vegetation, building and turbulence effect, the standard k-ε model is updated to simulate radioactive consequence of leakage accidents under complex terrain. The developed method is applied to assess the risk of the leakage accident in the scene of the typical domestic SNF Road Transportation (SNFRT). The critical risk factors and their impacts on the dispersion of the radionuclide are obtained.

Assessment of the potential for the design of marine renewable energy systems

  • Duthoit, Maxime;Falzarano, Jeffrey
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.119-166
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    • 2018
  • The assessment of the potential for the design of marine renewable energy systems is reviewed and the current situation for marine renewable energy is promising. The most studied forms of marine renewable energy are ocean wind energy, ocean wave energy and tidal energy. Wind turbine generators include mostly horizontal axis type and vertical axis type. But also more exotic ideas such as a kite design. Wave energy devices consist of designs converting wave oscillations in electric power via a power take off equipment. Such equipment can take multiple forms to be more efficient. Nevertheless, the technology alone cannot be the only step towards marine renewable energy. Many other steps must be overcome: policy, environment, manpower as well as consumption habits. After reviewing the current conditions of marine renewable energy development, the authors analyzed the key factors for developing a strong marine renewable energy industry and pointed out the huge potential of marine renewable energy.

In Vivo Counting of $^{241}$ Am and Uranium in Human Lungs

  • Lee, Tae-Young;Kim, Jong-Soo;Chang, Si-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1996.05d
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    • pp.17-22
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    • 1996
  • Individual internal monitoring program by in-vivo measurement technique at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute includes the capability for the assessment of uranium and americium lung burdens. This capability is an important part of the health and safety program. This article addresses the lung burden assessment portion of our in vivo measurement capabilities.

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Comparison and Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Building Energy Rating Systems (국내외 건물 에너지성능 인증제도 비교, 분석)

  • Song, Seung-Yeong;Lee, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2007
  • With the increase in the demand for sustainable and environment-friendly development all over the world, it becomes an urgent issue for Korea to reduce $CO_2$ emission. Since building industry accounts for about 40% of international energy and resource consumption and $30{\sim}40%$ of $CO_2$ emission, it is essential to prepare for energy-efficient building. This study aims to seek for improvement direction for a domestic Building Energy Efficiency Rating System through the comparison with foreign systems. Two foreign building energy rating systems which have the similar application scope with domestic one, HERS(Home Energy Rating System) and SAP(Standard Assessment Procedure)2005 were selected. As compared with foreign systems, we intended to suggest improvement direction for effective application of Building Energy Efficiency Rating System in Korea.

Validation of a Real-Time Dose Assessment System over Complex Terrain (복잡한 지형상에서 실시간 피폭해석 시스템 검증)

  • Suh, Kyung-Suk;Kim, Eun-Han;Hwang, Won-Tae;Choi, Young-Gil;Han, Moon-Hee;Jung, Sung-Tae
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 1999
  • A real-time dose assessment system(FADAS : Following Accident Dose Assessment System) has been developed for the real-time accident consequence assessment against a nuclear accident. Field tracer experiment near Younggwang nuclear power plant was performed to improve the accuracy of developed system and to parameterize the site-specific parameters into the FADAS. The mean values and turbulent components of wind profile obtained through field experiment have been reflected to FADAS with site-specific conditions. The simulated results of diffusion model agreed well with the measured data through tracer experiment. The developed system is being used as a basic module of emergency preparedness system in Korea. The diffusion model which can be reflected site-specific parameters will be improved through field experiments continuously.

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Development and Application of Radiological Risk Assessment Program RADCONS (방사능위해성평가 프로그램 RADCONS의 개발 및 적용)

  • Jeong, Hyojoon;Park, Misun;Hwang, Wontae;Kim, Eunhan;Han, Moonhee
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2013
  • RADCONS Ver. 1.0 (RADiological CONSequence Assessment Program) was developed for radiological risk assessment in this study. A Gaussian plume model was used to analyze the fate and transport of radionuclides released into the air in case of accidents. Both single meterological data and time series meterological data can be used in RADCONS. To assess the radiological risk of the early phase after an accident, ED (Effective Dose) estimated by both deterministic and probabilistic approaches are presented. These EDs by deterministic and probabilistic will be helpful to efficient decision making for decision makers. External doses from deposited materials by time are presented for quantifying the effects of mid and late phases of an accident. A radiological risk assessment was conducted using RADCONS for an accident scenario of 1 Ci of Cs-137. The maximum of ED for radii of 1,000 meters from the accident point was 8.51E-4 mSv. After Monte-Carlo simulation, considering the uncertainty of the breathing rate and dispersion parameters, the average ED was 8.49E-4, and the 95 percentile was 1.10E-3. A data base of the dose coefficients and a sampling module of the meteorological data will be modified to improve the user's convenience in the next version.