• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.264-273
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• 2017

In order to be able to predict the maximum Annual Energy Production (AEP) for tidal power plants, an AEP optimization tool based on Evolutionary Algorithms was developed by ANDRITZ HYDRO. This tool can simulate all operating modes of the units (bi-directional turbine, pump and sluicing mode) and provide the optimal plant operation that maximizes the AEP to the control system. For the Swansea Bay Tidal Power Plant, the AEP optimization evaluated all different hydraulic and operating concepts and defined the optimal concept that led to a significant AEP increase. A comparison between the optimal plant operation provided by the AEP optimization and the full load operating strategy is presented in the paper, highlighting the advantage of the method in providing the maximum AEP.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2015

Thrust-ring-pump is a kind of extreme-low specific speed centrifugal pump with special structure as numerous restrictions from thrust bearing and operation conditions of hydro-generator units. Because the oil circulatory and cooling system with thrust-ring-pump has a lot of advantages in maintenance and compactness in structure, it has widely been used in large and medium-sized hydro-generator units. Since the diameter and the speed of the thrust ring is limited by the generator set, the matching relationship between the flow passage inside the thrust ring (equivalent to impeller) and oil bath (equivalent to volute) has great influence on hydrodynamic performance of thrust-ring-pump. On another hand, the head and flow rate are varying with the operation conditions of hydro-generator units and the oil circulatory and cooling system. As so far, the empirical calculation method is employed during the actual engineering design, in order to guarantee the operating performance of the oil circulatory and cooling system with thrust-ring-pump at different conditions, a collaborative hydrodynamic design and optimization is purposed in this paper. Firstly, the head and flow rate at different conditions are decided by 1D flow numerical simulation of the oil circulatory and cooling system. Secondly, the flow passages of thrust-ring-pump are empirically designed under the restrictions of diameter and the speed of the thrust ring according to the head and flow rate from the simulation. Thirdly, the flow passage geometry matching optimization between thrust ring and oil bath is implemented by means of 3D flow simulation and performance prediction. Then, the pumps and the oil circulatory and cooling system are collaborative hydrodynamic optimized with predicted head-flow rate curve and the efficiency-flow rate curve of thrust-ring-pump. The presented methodology has been adopted by DFEM in design process of thrust-ring-pump and it shown can effectively improve the performance of whole system.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.409-419
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• 2016

As a major energy consumption province, the issue about the carbon emissions in Hebei Province, China has been concerned by the government. The carbon emissions can be effectively reduced due to a more rational energy consumption structure. Thus, in this paper the constraint of low carbon emissions is considered as a foundation and four energies--coal, petroleum, natural gas and electricity including wind power, nuclear power and hydro-power etc are selected as the main analysis objects of the adjustment of energy structure. This paper takes energy cost minimum and carbon trading cost minimum as the objective functions based on the economic growth, energy saving and emission reduction targets and constructs an optimization model of energy consumption structure. And empirical research about energy consumption structure optimization in 2015 and 2020 is carried out based on the energy consumption data in Hebei Province, China during the period 1995-2013, which indicates that the energy consumption in Hebei dominated by coal cannot be replaced in the next seven years, from 2014 to 2020, when the coal consumption proportion is still up to 85.93%. Finally, the corresponding policy suggestions are put forward, according to the results of the energy structure optimization in Hebei Province.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.128-136
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• 2016

BACKGROUND: Hydrothermal carbonization reaction is the thermo-chemical energy conversion technology for producing the solid fuel of high carbon density from organic wastes. The hydrothermal carbonization reaction is accompanied by the thermal hydrolysis reaction which converse particulate organic matters to soluble forms (hydro-thermal hydrolysate). Recently, hydrothermal carbonization is adopted as a pre-treatment technology to improve anaerobic digestion efficiency. This research was carried out to assess the effects of hydro-thermal reaction temperature on the methane potential and anaerobic biodegradability in the thermal hydrolysate of organic sludge generating from the wastewater treatment plant of poultry slaughterhouse .METHODS AND RESULTS: Wastewater treatment sludge cake of poultry slaughterhouse was treated in the different hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 170, 180, 190, 200, and 220℃. Theoretical and experimental methane potential for each hydro-thermal hydrolysate were measured. Then, the organic substance fractions of hydro-thermal hydrolysate were characterized by the optimization of the parallel first order kinetics model. The increase of hydro-thermal reaction temperature from 170℃ to 220℃ caused the enhancement of hydrolysis efficiency. And the methane potential showed the maximum value of 0.381 Nm³ kg^-1-VS_added in the hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 190℃. Biodegradable volatile solid(VSB) content have accounted for 66.41% in 170℃, 72.70% in 180℃, 79.78% in 190℃, 67.05% in 200℃, and 70.31% in 220℃, respectively. The persistent VS content increased with hydro-thermal reaction temperature, which occupied 0.18% for 170℃, 2.96% for 180℃, 6.32% for 190℃, 17.52% for 200℃, and 20.55% for 220℃.CONCLUSION: Biodegradable volatile solid showed the highest amount in the hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 190℃, and then, the optimum hydro-thermal reaction temperature for organic sludge was assessed as 190℃ in the aspect of the methane production. The rise of hydro-thermal reaction temperature caused increase of persistent organic matter content.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.125-142
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• 2012

Clean development mechanism (CDM) validity study was conducted to suggest better and more adaptable CDM scenario on water treatment plant (WTP). Potential four scenarios for CDM project; improvement of intake pumping efficiency, hydro power plant construction, solar panel construction and system optimization of mechanical mixing process were evaluated on S-WTP in Korea. Net present value (NPV) of each scenario was estimated based on sensitivity analysis with the variable factors to investigate the CDM validity percentile. Hydro power plant construction was the best option for CDM business with 97.76% validity and $1,127,069 mean profit by 9,813 $tonsCO_2e$/yr reduction. CDM validity on improvement of intake pumping efficiency was 90.2% with $124,305 mean profit by huge amount of $CO_2$ mitigation (10,347 $tonsCO_2e$/yr). System optimization of mechanical mixing process reduced 15% of energy consumption (3,184 $tonsCO_2e$/yr) and its CDM validity and mean profit was 77.25% and $23,942, respectively. Solar panel construction could make the effect of 14,094 $tonsCO_2$ mitigation annually and its CDM validity and mean profit was 64.68% and $228,487, respectively.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.739-746
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• 1994

This paper present an efficient methodology to solve the unit commitment problem for large scaled power system which involves various type of generation. We introduce the global optimization approach to coordinate the thermal type, hydro type and pumped storage type generation. To overcome the shortcomings in dynamic programming for thermal unit commitment, an improved heurisitic method using lambda(λ) was proposed, Hydro and pumped type allocation was Solved by analytical approach using λ which exculde undisirable iteration for satisfying the energy usage constraints. The case studies for proposed algorithm are proven by sample system and KEPCO practical system, which produced very resonable both computing requirements and convergency.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.733-744
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• 2000

불확실한 저수지 유입량과 수요량 때문에 최적의 저수지 조작기준은 정량화하기 쉽지 않다. 그렇지만 저수지 조작에 일정 수요를 충족시키면서 모의 발생시킨 유입량 시계열을 반영함으로써 음해 추계적 최적화 접근법을 이용하면 조작기준은 작성 가능하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 한강수계 7개 저수지 계통에 적절하도록 수력발전 최대화를 선형추적으로 모형화하고 최적제어를 이용하여 최적조작을 수행하였다. 이 때 2001년 수도권 용수수요를 만족시키도록 한 최적 조작 모형에는 다지점 마코브 모형에 의해 모의 발생된 유입량 자료가 입력된다. 그리고 최적 결과에 대하여 회구 분석과 통계 분석을 수행하여 월별 조작기준을 작성하고 계절별 저수위별 확률을 제시하였다. 이때 상대적으로 저수용량이 커서 조절능력이 좋은 화천댐, 소양강댐, 충주댐은 저류와 방류의 회귀 관계가 잘 형성되었다. 작성된 조작기준으로 실제 운영 기간동안에 대하여 모의조작을 수행하여 그 효율성을 검증하였다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.579-591
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• 1999

저수지의 시스템 조작은 수자원 계획 또는 관리 측면에서 저수지 설계 뿐 아니라 운영 기준을 마련하기 위해서 필수적이다. 한편 수자원 체계가 확장되고 복잡해짐에 따라 시스템 조작기법 또한 진보적인 방법이 요구된다. 이에 따라 다양한 기법이 도입되어 시스템 조작에 적용되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 최대 규모인 한강수계 저수지 계통의 시스템 조작에 최적제어이론인 선형추적 모형을 적용하여 이용 가능성을 평가한다. 이때 한강 수계 저수지 계통은 수력발전 사용수량을 통하여 하류에 용수를 공급함으로써 수도권의 용수공급을 담당하고 있다. 이에 이수측면의 수자원 이용을 극대화하기 위해서 수력발전 최대화에 조작 목적을 두고 용수공급은 제약조건으로 하여 우선적으로 공급하도록 선형추적 모형을 설계하고 최적 제어율의 유도 및 적용을 통하여 저수지 조작을 수행한다. 이때 조작은 화천댐, 소양강댐, 춘천댐, 의암댐, 청평댐, 충주댐, 팔당댐 등 주요 7개 댐을 포함하고 월단위로 21년간을 수행한다. 그리고 조작결과는 수력발전과 용수공급 및 보장수량 측면에서 분석되고 조작 연산 효율성이 검토된다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.1940-1949
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• 2015

This paper presents an Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) to solve short-term hydrothermal scheduling (STHS) problem with non-convex fuel cost function and a variety of operational constraints related to hydro and thermal units. The operators of the conventional PSO are dynamically controlled using exponential functions for better exploration and exploitation of the search space. The overall methodology efficiently regulates the velocity of particles during their flight and results in substantial improvement in the conventional PSO. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested for STHS of two standard test generating systems while considering several operational constraints like system power balance constraints, power generation limit constraints, reservoir storage volume limit constraints, water discharge rate limit constraints, water dynamic balance constraints, initial and end reservoir storage volume limit constraints, valve-point loading effect, etc. The application results show that the proposed EPSO method is capable to solve the hard combinatorial constraint optimization problems very efficiently.

• 한국자원공학회지
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.517-526
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• 2018

본 연구는 가학광산 오염토양 정화를 위해 토양 세척 최적조건을 수립하는데 목적이 있다. 연구지역 내 토양은 다양한 중금속에 의해 오염되어 있는데 특히 구리, 납, 아연의 농도가 높게 나타난다. 염산을 활용한 세척실험 결과 1 M의 농도로 30분 세척 시 중금속의 제거 효과가 가장 좋게 나타났다. 전체 토양의 38%는 1.18 mm 이상의 굵은 입자로 오염도가 상대적으로 낮으나 0.075 mm 이하의 작은 입자들은 오염도가 높아 고농도의 염산용액과 긴 세척시간에도 불구하고 오염도를 기준치 이내로 낮추기 어려웠다. 따라서 오염도가 높고, 중금속 농도 저감이 어려운 작은 토양입자들을 토양세척 이전에 물리적인 방법으로 분리할 필요가 있는 것으로 판단된다. 습식 사이클론을 활용한 연속식 토양세척 실험 결과 20% 이상의 미립자를 제거한 경우 오염토양의 중금속 농도를 기준치 이내로 저감시킬 수 있었다.