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Decomposition Analysis of Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions by Industry Classification for Korea's GHG Reduction Targets (감축목표 업종 분류체계에 따른 산업부문의 에너지 소비 및 온실가스 배출 요인 분해 분석)

  • Park, Nyun-Bae;Shim, SungHee
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.189-224
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    • 2015
  • To meet sectoral emission target by 2020 and prepare for the emission trading scheme from 2015, decomposition analysis of energy consumption and GHG emission is required by 18 subsectors in industry sector where emission targets are established. Log Mean Divisia Index decomposition method was used to analyze factors' effects on energy and emission in the industry sector and by 18 subsectors from 2004 to 2011. Industrial energy consumption was increased due to the production effect and energy intensity effect. However structure effect contributes to the decrease of energy consumption. In terms of emissions (including indirect emission due to electricity consumption) in the industry sector, only structure effect contributed to the emission reduction. Factors' effects by subsectors were different. Cement industry, which is included at Nonmetal shows different results from those of Nonmetal industry and machinery industry, which is a subsector of Fabricated Metal, was also similar. In this regard, we should not apply the policy implications from decomposition analysis of aggregated industry such as Nonmetal or Fabricated Metal to its subsectors uniformly and develop a differentiated policy for each subsector industry.

Comparison of Environment, Growth, and Management Performance of the Standard Cut Chrysanthemum 'Jinba' in Conventional and Smart Farms

  • Roh, Yong Seung;Yoo, Yong Kweon
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.655-665
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    • 2020
  • Background and objective: This study was conducted to compare the cultivation environment, growth of cut flowers, and management performance of conventional farms and smart farms growing the standard cut chrysanthemum, 'Jinba'. Methods: Conventional and smart farms were selected, and facility information, cultivation environment, cut flower growth, and management performance were investigated. Results: The conventional and smart farms were located in Muan, Jeollanam-do, and conventional farming involved cultivating with soil culture in a plastic greenhouse, while the smart farm was cultivating with hydroponics in a plastic greenhouse. The conventional farm did not have sensors for environmental measurement such as light intensity and temperature and pH and EC sensors for fertigation, and all systems, including roof window, side window, thermal screen, and shading curtain, were operated manually. On the other hand, the smart farm was equipped with sensors for measuring the environment and nutrient solution, and was automatically controlled. The day and night mean temperatures, relative humidity, and solar radiation in the facilities of the conventional and the smart farm were managed similarly. But in the floral differentiation stage, the floral differentiation was delayed, as the night temperature of conventional farm was managed as low as 17.7℃ which was lower than smart farm. Accordingly, the harvest of cut flowers by the conventional farm was delayed to 35 days later than that of the smart farm. Also, soil moisture and EC of the conventional farm were unnecessarily kept higher than those of the smart farm in the early growth stage, and then were maintained relatively low during the period after floral differentiation, when a lot of water and nutrients were required. Therefore, growth of cut flower, cut flower length, number of leaves, flower diameter, and weight were poorer in the conventional farm than in the smart farm. In terms of management performance, yield and sales price were 10% and 38% higher for the smart farm than for the conventional farm, respectively. Also, the net income was 2,298 thousand won more for the smart farm than for the conventional farm. Conclusion: It was suggested that the improved growth of cut flowers and high management performance of the smart farm were due to precise environment management for growth by the automatic control and sensor.

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS technology for monitoring coastal changes in estuary area of the Red river system, Vietnam

  • Lan, Pham Thi;Son, Tong Si;Gunasekara, Kavinda;Nhan, Nguyen Thi;Hien, La Phu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.31 no.6_2
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    • pp.529-538
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    • 2013
  • Coastline is the most dynamic part of seascape since its shape is affected by various factors. Coastal zone is an area with immense geological, geomorphological and ecological interest. Monitoring coastal change is very important for safe navigation, coastal resource management. This paper shows a result of monitoring coastal morphological changes using Remote Sensing and GIS. Study was carried out to obtain intensity of erosion, deposition and sand bar movement in the Red River Delta. Satellite images of ALOS/AVNIR-2 and Landsat were used for the monitoring of coastal morphological changes over the period of 1975 to 2009. Band rationing and threshold technique was used for the coastline extraction. Tidal levels at the time of image acquisition varied from -0.89m to 2.87m. Therefore, coastline from another image at a different tidal level in the same year was considered to get the corrected coastline by interpolation technique. A series of points were generated along the coastal line from 1975 image and were established as reference points to see the change in later periods. The changes were measured in Euclidean distances from these reference points. Positive values represented deposition to the sea and negative values are erosion. The result showed that the Red river delta area expanded to the sea 3500m in Red river mouth, and 2873m in Thai Binh river mouth from 1975 to 2009. The erosion process occurred continuously from 1975 up to now with the average magnitude 23.77m/year from 1975 to 1989 and 7.85m/year from 2001 to 2009 in Giao Thuy area. From 1975 to 2009, total 1095.2ha of settlement area was eroded by sea. On the other hand, land expanded to the sea in 4786.24ha of mangrove and 1673.98ha of aquaculture.

Recognition of damage pattern and evolution in CFRP cable with a novel bonding anchorage by acoustic emission

  • Wu, Jingyu;Lan, Chengming;Xian, Guijun;Li, Hui
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.421-433
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    • 2018
  • Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) cable has good mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. However, the anchorage of CFRP cable is a big issue due to the anisotropic property of CFRP material. In this article, a high-efficient bonding anchorage with novel configuration is developed for CFRP cables. The acoustic emission (AE) technique is employed to evaluate the performance of anchorage in the fatigue test and post-fatigue ultimate bearing capacity test. The obtained AE signals are analyzed by using a combination of unsupervised K-means clustering and supervised K-nearest neighbor classification (K-NN) for quantifying the performance of the anchorage and damage evolutions. An AE feature vector (including both frequency and energy characteristics of AE signal) for clustering analysis is proposed and the under-sampling approaches are employed to regress the influence of the imbalanced classes distribution in AE dataset for improving clustering quality. The results indicate that four classes exist in AE dataset, which correspond to the shear deformation of potting compound, matrix cracking, fiber-matrix debonding and fiber fracture in CFRP bars. The AE intensity released by the deformation of potting compound is very slight during the whole loading process and no obvious premature damage observed in CFRP bars aroused by anchorage effect at relative low stress level, indicating the anchorage configuration in this study is reliable.

A Study on Damage Factors and Causes of Natural Forest in Regional Ecological Network at Chungnam Province (충남 광역생태네트워크 자연녹지의 훼손 인자 및 원인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Mun;Cho, Yong-Hyeon;Kim, Kwang Dong;Lee, Minwoo;Kim, Jinki;Choi, Jung-Kwon;Kim, Won-Tae;Yun, Chung-Weon;Kang, Hee-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.97-110
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    • 2015
  • This study aimed to classify damaged lands, to find what are the damage factors affecting the studied area, and to present a prescription in order to provide some benefit for the restoration of Regional Ecological Network at Chungnam province. Finally we classified damaged lands from 1st to 4th damaged lands according to relative intensity of damage. The main damage factors for the First Damage Lands were humus horizon, soil hardness and plant species richness. In the Second Damage Lands, those were soil hardness, plant species richness, number of plants and dominant plant species. In the Third Damage Lands, those were humus horizon, soil hardness, plant species richness, number of plants and dominant plant species. In the Fourth Damage Lands, those were humus horizon, organic matter, soil hardness, EC, T-N content, plant species richness, number of plants and dominant plant species. In every cases, the damage of soil and vegetation was originated due to development carried out by human being. The changes in soil condition were not big enough for it to affect plant growth, however, degradation of vegetation was still severe.

Isolation of an Arthrospira platensis Mutant Induced by Electron Beam Irradiation and its Characterization (전자빔 조사를 통해 유도된 Arthrospira platensis 변이주 분리 및 특성 분석)

  • Choi, Soo-Jeong;Lee, Jae-Hwa
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.569-574
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    • 2015
  • Arthrospira platensis has high lipid and pigment (such as chlorophyll and carotenoid) contents and thus evaluated as an important resource in functional food production. The cell growth rate and pigment concentration of EM24 increased by approximately 1.2-fold than those of the wild-type strain (WT). Fluorescence intensity levels in EM24, which were quantified with a lipid triolein standard curve, also increased by approximately 1.5-fold than those in WT (62.9 mg/Lvs. 38.9 mg/L). The analysis of fatty acid profiles indicated that the gamma-linoleic acid level in EM24 increased by 1.5-fold than that in WT.

Pyrolysis oil refining by Fly-ash absorption (Fly-ash 흡착기법을 이용한 열분해유 정제)

  • Im, EunJung;Kim, SungHyun;Chun, ByungHee;SunWoo, Hwan;Jeong, IckCheol
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.222-222
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    • 2011
  • Plastic product is increasing by the growth of its demand and most of refused plastics are incinerated or reclaimed. However, the refused plastic is not easily decomposed and has the environmental problem with its various toxic gas in case of incineration. Therefore, many countries such as USA, Japan, Germany and other developed industrial countries as well as Korea are interested in studying the recyclable resource of refused plastic. The macromolecular waste pyrolysis has the advantage of collecting of raw materials in high price and can at least get fuel gas or oil with high heat capacity. It also discharges low waste gas and low toxic gas including SOx, NOx and HCl heavy metals. However, pyrolyzed oil includes enough excess unsaturated hydrocarbons to form tar, which can cause the nozzle of engines to plug when pyrolyzed oil is used as fuel. Activated carbon was proven to have prominent adsorption capability among the other adsorbents that were mainly composed of carbon. This study examined the possibility of application in activated charcoal of its solid formation by analysing the feature of pyrolysis which is one of the chemical recycling methods and getting chemical analysis of the product and activated energy. Analyze the element of the oil produced by pyrolysis using GC-MS. The experiment of tar adsorption using fly-ash showed that fly-ash improved the optical intensity of pyrolyzed oil and decreased oxygen compounds in the pyrolyzed oil.

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A Multi-level Study on the Effect of Servant Leadership and HRM Control Types on Job Burnout (서번트리더십과 인사관리 유형이 직무소진에 미치는 영향에 관한 다층분석)

  • Lee, Choel-Ki;Pyo, Min-Ho;Lee, Dong-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.55-70
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    • 2017
  • In order to understand job burnout, it is necessary to consider not only the working environment according to the market environment but also the social situation of the team or the organization. This study analyzed the effects of job demands and job resources on job burnout based on JD-R theory. In other words, the team-level variables, servant leadership and HRM control types, were tested for the effect of moderating the individual workload, emotional labor and job burnout. The results of empirical analysis showed that the higher the self-efficacy, the less job burnout, whereas the higher the workload and emotional labor, the more job burnout. Second, the more positive the team level input and result oriented HRM are, the less positive regression relation of workload and job burnout is. Finally, it was found that the intensity of the regression relation of negative self-efficacy and job burnout was amplified in the team with servant leadership.

The study for calculating the geometric average height of Deacon equation suitable to the domestic wind correction methodology. (국내풍속보정에 적합한 Deacon 방정식의 기하평균높이 산정방법에 대한 연구)

  • Cheang, Eui-Heang;Moon, Chae-Joo;Jeong, Moon-Seon;Jo, Kyu-Pan;Park, Gui-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2010
  • The main cause of global warming is carbon dioxide generated from the use of fossil fuels, and active research on the reduction of carbon is in progress to slow down the increasing global warming. Wind turbines generate electricity from kinetic energy of wind and are considered as representative for an energy source that helps to reduce carbon emission. Since the kinetic energy of wind is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, the intensity of wind affects wind farm construction validity the most. Therefore, to organize a wind farm, validity analysis should be conducted first through measurement of the wind resources. To facilitate the approval and permission and reduce installation cost, measuring sensors should be installed at locations below the actual wind turbine hub. Wind conditions change in shape with air density, and air density is most affected by the variable sterrain and surface type. So the magnitude of wind speed depends on the ground altitude. If wind conditions are measured at a location below the wind turbine hub, the wind speed has to be extrapolated to the hub height. This correction of wind speed according to height is done with the Deacon equation used in the statistical analysis of previously observed data. In this study, the optimal Deacon equation parameter was obtained through the analysis of the correction of the wind speed error with the Deacon equation based on the characteristics of terrain.

Investigation of Food Quality Characterization of Processing By-product (Frame Muscle) from the Sea Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (해수산 무지개송어(Oncorhynchus mykiss) 가공부산물(프레임육)의 식품학적 품질 특성 조사)

  • Kang, Sang In;Heu, Min Soo;Choi, Byeong Dae;Kim, Ki Hyun;Kim, Yong Jung;Kim, Jin-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.26-35
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    • 2015
  • This study compared the meat quality of sea rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss frame muscle (S-FR-TY) and fillet (S-FI-TY) with the frame muscle of freshwater rainbow trout (F-FR). There was a difference of < 1% in the proximate composition of S-FR-TY vs. S-FI-TY, and of S-FR-TY vs. F-FR. The Hunter a value of F-FR-TY was lower compared with that of F-FR cultured in Jecheon (F-FR-JC), but higher than that of F-FR cultured in Pyeongtaek (F-FR-PT). However, no difference in the Hunter a value of S-FR-TY compared with any other F-FR was observed. The odor intensity of S-FR-TY was lower compared with that of F-FR, while the taste of S-FR-TY was milder than that of S-FI-TY, but stronger than that of F-FR. Although its total amino acid content was lower, the essential amino acid content of S-FR-TY was higher compared with S-FI-TY; the potassium content of S-FR-TY was also significantly greater. S-FR-TY contained high levels of nutritional and functional components, such as anserine, lysine, threonine, and eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid. These results suggest that S-FR-TY could be used as a resource of canned food or fish jerky for children.