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Feasibility study of the energy supply system for horticulture facility using dynamic energy simulation (동적 에너지 시뮬레이션을 이용한 시설원예용 에너지 공급시스템의 경제성 분석)

  • Yu, Min-Gyung;Cho, Jeong-Heum;Nam, Yujin
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.15 no.1
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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.

Analysis of City Level Energy Usage in Busan (부산시 도시차원에서의 에너지 사용 현황 분석)

  • Kim, Nam-Wook;Hong, Jin-Young;Park, Yool
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.1185-1190
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    • 2009
  • Korea is an industrial country that overspends energy and has a policy that is more focused on a supply side. When an urban developmental program is to set up, surveys are carried out only with the respect to electricity, telecommunication, gas, and heating sources. Based on the existing survey results, the problems related to the supply side are being dealt with more importantly and the quantities of those supplies are estimated only by each energy source. The aim of this study is to provide basic information on energy consumption patterns of a diverse comsumer groups including industry, transportation, commerce, public and household to plan diverse energy policies. Through this basic information, it may be possible to analyze the energy consumption pattern by each consumer group and provide data for setting up efficient energy policies by the government. The energy consumption map that are analyzed and developed by the data obtained from Busan municipal area will be deposited and used as a part of the national energy statistics.

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Detailed Analysis on Operation Characteristics and Cooling Energy Saving Effect of Chiller Staging in an Office Building (사무소 건물에서 냉동기의 대수제어를 통한 냉동기 거동 특성 및 에너지 절감 효과 분석)

  • Seo, Byeong-Mo;Son, Jeong-Eun;Lee, Kwang Ho
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2016
  • Commercial buildings account for a significant proportion of the total building energy use in Korea, and cooling energy, in turn, accounts for the largest proportion of total energy consumption in commercial buildings. Under this circumstance, chiller staging is considered to be a reasonable and practical solution for cooling energy saving. In this study, the part-load ratio and the operating characteristics of a vapor compression chiller were analysed within an office building. In addition, energy consumption among different chiller staging schemes was comparatively analysed. As a result, significant proportions of total operating hours, cooling load and energy consumption turned out to be in the part load ratio range from 0% through 50%, and thus energy consumption was significantly affected by the chiller COP at low part-load conditions, indicating that the chiller operation at the part-load is an important factor in commercial buildings. In addition, utilizing a sequential chiller staging scheme can reduce the annual cooling energy usage by more than 10.3% compared to operating a single chiller.

A Development and Evaluation of an Web-based Apartment Buildings Energy Information System (웹 기반의 공동주택 에너지 정보시스템 개발 및 시험평가)

  • Kim, Jong-Yeob;Hwang, Ha-Jin;Lee, Jong-Sung
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.249-261
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    • 2012
  • The energy use of building operational stage is about 25% of total energy supply in Korea. The intensification of insulation at the design stage and the efficient instruments were used to reduce energy use of the buildings. These efforts are limited at the energy saving side, the residents voluntarily participation in the energy-conservation is more effective. To achieve this purpose, energy use information program (of the individual users) has been developed to lead the energy users actively participating in the energy-conservation program to share at the web. Also, by investigating the necessity and the will of usage of the program and applying a pilot program, the collectability of valid data and the usability have been evaluated.

Study on Design Technology of Heat Pump Cycle for High Temperature Performance (고온 생산용 열펌프 사이클 설계)

  • Kim, Jong-Ryul;Kim, Seok-Young;Kim, Yong-Min;Lee, Kong-Hoon;Kim, Ook-Joong;Yi, Sung-Chul;Jung, Chi-Young;Kim, Jong-Ryeol
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.228-233
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    • 2010
  • About 55% of total energy is consumed in the industrial division. The industrial heat pump application will show magnificent energy saving effect as well as higher cost efficiency because of larger energy consuming volume of each facility and longer operation hour and higher stability against seasonal temperature change. Over 90% of dryer for industrial usage has hot wind heat source and hot wind dryer is the representative type covering 68.7% while its 30 ~ 50% lower heat efficiency causes lots of energy loss by exhaust air. Re-usage of exhaust air can improve energy efficiency of dryer because 68% heat energy or 78% of hot air lose in exhaust air. Therefore, high temperature heat pump dryer can be the best alternative. Comparing to the existing dryer with 30% ~ 50% energy efficiency, newly developing high temperature heat pump dryer will enhance energy efficiency up to 60% ~ 80% efficiency. In this paper, heat pump system for high temperature was designed, constructed and tested. The results have shown that system COPh is estimated as 3.3.

Active VM Consolidation for Cloud Data Centers under Energy Saving Approach

  • Saxena, Shailesh;Khan, Mohammad Zubair;Singh, Ravendra;Noorwali, Abdulfattah
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.345-353
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    • 2021
  • Cloud computing represent a new era of computing that's forms through the combination of service-oriented architecture (SOA), Internet and grid computing with virtualization technology. Virtualization is a concept through which every cloud is enable to provide on-demand services to the users. Most IT service provider adopt cloud based services for their users to meet the high demand of computation, as it is most flexible, reliable and scalable technology. Energy based performance tradeoff become the main challenge in cloud computing, as its acceptance and popularity increases day by day. Cloud data centers required a huge amount of power supply to the virtualization of servers for maintain on- demand high computing. High power demand increase the energy cost of service providers as well as it also harm the environment through the emission of CO2. An optimization of cloud computing based on energy-performance tradeoff is required to obtain the balance between energy saving and QoS (quality of services) policies of cloud. A study about power usage of resources in cloud data centers based on workload assign to them, says that an idle server consume near about 50% of its peak utilization power [1]. Therefore, more number of underutilized servers in any cloud data center is responsible to reduce the energy performance tradeoff. To handle this issue, a lots of research proposed as energy efficient algorithms for minimize the consumption of energy and also maintain the SLA (service level agreement) at a satisfactory level. VM (virtual machine) consolidation is one such technique that ensured about the balance of energy based SLA. In the scope of this paper, we explore reinforcement with fuzzy logic (RFL) for VM consolidation to achieve energy based SLA. In this proposed RFL based active VM consolidation, the primary objective is to manage physical server (PS) nodes in order to avoid over-utilized and under-utilized, and to optimize the placement of VMs. A dynamic threshold (based on RFL) is proposed for over-utilized PS detection. For over-utilized PS, a VM selection policy based on fuzzy logic is proposed, which selects VM for migration to maintain the balance of SLA. Additionally, it incorporate VM placement policy through categorization of non-overutilized servers as- balanced, under-utilized and critical. CloudSim toolkit is used to simulate the proposed work on real-world work load traces of CoMon Project define by PlanetLab. Simulation results shows that the proposed policies is most energy efficient compared to others in terms of reduction in both electricity usage and SLA violation.

A Clustering Method Considering the Threshold of Energy Consumption Model in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크에서 에너지 소모 모델의 임계값을 고려한 클러스터링 기법)

  • Kim, Jin-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.3950-3957
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    • 2010
  • Wireless sensor network is composed of sensor node with limited sources, and to maintain and repair is vexatious once made up. Accordingly it is important matter to maximize the network lifetime by minimizing the energy consumption in wireless sensor network, and utilizing the limited sources efficiently. In this paper, I propose a technique arranging the cluster number with efficiency in clustering method to optimize the energy consumption. The energy usage needed for wireless transmission varies in distance(threshold). This technique reduces the energy consumption considering the threshold when arranging the cluster number. I verify that the clustering method organized through the valid processes outperform the LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) in total energy consumption.

Power Sharing and Cost Optimization of Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Academic Research Building

  • Singh, Anand;Baredar, Prashant
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.1511-1518
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    • 2017
  • Renewable energy hybrid systems look into the process of choosing the finest arrangement of components and their sizing with suitable operation approach to deliver effective, consistent and cost effective energy source. This paper presents hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) solar photovoltaic, downdraft biomass gasifier, and fuel cell based generation system. HRES electrical power to supply the electrical load demand of academic research building sited in $23^{\circ}12^{\prime}N$ latitude and $77^{\circ}24^{\prime}E$ longitude, India. Fuzzy logic programming discover the most effective capital and replacement value on components of HRES. The cause regarding fuzzy logic rule usage on HOMER pro (Hybrid optimization model for multiple energy resources) software program finds the optimum performance of HRES. HRES is designed as well as simulated to average energy demand 56.52 kWh/day with a peak energy demand 4.4 kW. The results shows the fuel cell and battery bank are the most significant modules of the HRES to meet load demand at late night and early morning hours. The total power generation of HRES is 23,794 kWh/year to the supply of the load demand is 20,631 kWh/year with 0% capacity shortage.

A Study on the Application Cases Analysis of ESS(Energy Storage System) to Electric Power System (에너지 저장 시스템의 전력계통 적용 사례 분석)

  • Ko, Yun-Seok
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2016
  • Because a progressive tax of home electricity rates is charged and a continuous rise of industrial electricity rates is expected in order to solve the global warming, the high oil prices and the serious power shortage problem, the efforts to apply the energy storage systems which can significantly improve the energy usage efficiency to the smart grid are trying newly. In this study, characteristics of the secondary battery which can be used as energy storage devices, the structure and operation principle of a lithium-ion battery, and the concept of energy storage systems are research and analyzed. In addition, in this paper, the base technologies which are required to apply to the energy storage system to electric power system are established by studying about installation location and application methodology of energy storage system to electric power system.

A Study on the Housing Energy's Consumption and Saving Consciousness on the Housing Tenure (주택점유형태별 주택에너지의 소비 및 절약의식에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Chi-Hung;Yoo, Jung-Hyun
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.395-406
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze of the home energy consumption and conservation awareness, usage patterns and policy directions for housing energy-saving house by three types of houses tenure. The results of analysis is : First, there is existed to the difference in average by each housing tenure types. Second, the residents of sales apartment and tenants of private and public rental apartment are practices in the energy consumption and conservation Third, the behavior between residents of sale-housing and the tenants of private and rental housing on the energy-saving behavior items is existed with behavioral differences. Finally, the consumer-oriented incentives method in the future housing energy' policy direction might be used more efficient and effective than others