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Solar Power Plant Location Analysis Using GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (GIS와 계층분석법을 이용한 태양광 발전소 입지 분석)

  • LEE, Ki-Rim;LEE, Won-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2015
  • The interest in renewable energy which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions has risen in the world including Korea. In Korea, solar energy generation accounts for a major percentage of electricity production using renewable energy and the solar power plants have been increasingly installed in Korea. The problem is, however, that researches on the location selection of solar power plants are unreasonably insufficient although the photovoltaic technology of the domestic solar power plants has been evolving. Thus, advanced solar energy technology could not be fully used. What is more, the indiscriminate installation of the solar power plants seriously damages the nature environment. In this study, conditions of the power plants location are analyzed in consideration of the social, cultural, environmental, economic factors and the optimum location is selected by visualizing and weighing various factors through the analytic hierarchy process. This study shows that the problem caused by the indiscriminate installation of a solar power plant could be prevented by determining the location after considering the influence of several factors. This paper would be helpful not only for the selection of location for solar plant installation in progress, but also for taking follow-up measures on the existing solar power plants placed wrongly.

The technical-economic study of solar PV and renewable energy (태양광에너지 중심의 신재생에너지 기술경제학 모델링 연구)

  • Lee, Munsu;Lee, Minjin;Lee, Younghee
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.136.1-136.1
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    • 2011
  • An energy modeling analysis method currently has been considered as a new approach for energy policy research, because the importance of renewable energy use has been emphasized more and more. This study used RETScreen model as a clean energy decision making methodology for adaptation to climate change and elimination of various pollutions. This modeling method includes five step standard analysis; energy model, cost analysis, GHG analysis, financial analysis, and sensitivity & risk analysis and it also assesses both conventional and modern energy sources and technologies. This methodology for the photovoltaic(PV) energy modeling is used to evaluate the energy production, financial performance and GHG emissions reduction of photovoltaic projects. In addition, the PV application systems are classified into three basic applications; On-grid system, Off-grid system and water pumping system. This study assesses the renewable energy techno-economic modeling method with the feasibility analysis result of 10 MW PV power plant in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. Furthermore this study stresses the importance of renewable energy model research by applying to domestic PV power plant which is now in preparation.

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Investigation of Al Back Contact and BSF Formation by In-situ TEM for Silicon Solar Cells

  • Park, Sungeun;Song, Jooyoung;Tark, Sung Ju;Kim, Young Do;Choi, Chel-Jong;Kwon, Soonwoo;Yoon, Sewang;Kim, Donghwan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.38.1-38.1
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    • 2010
  • The trend to thinner crystalline silicon solar wafers in production of solar cells investigates re-evolution of back surface field (BSF) formation. We have studied mechanisms of back contact formation in Al evaporation and screen printed Al paste for Si solar cells by TEM analysis. We observed that Si diffuse into Al during heat up. The Si diffusion process made vacancies in Si wafer. The Al began to seep into the Si wafer (Al spike). During heat down, the Al spike were shrink which causes the doped region (BSF).

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Low Carbon and Green Growth Cave Lightings with SOLAR-LED System (SOLAR-LED 시스템과 저탄소녹색동굴조명)

  • Soh, Dea-Wha;Kang, Sang-Tack;Soh, Hyun-Jun
    • Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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    • no.95
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2009
  • Global village warming and carbon dioxide CO2 gas, and the human efforts for their healing and necessary alternative technology would be much more difficult things than that of making necessary funds and efforts to lay to sleep angry nature on the earth. The limited natural resources of fossil fuel would be dried up in several decades, and the intensity of diplomatic negotiations for natural resource guarantee among countries may be showed looking alike an war. The drain of fossil fuel called a new word of alternative policy like an environment-friendly green-growth, and the solar-cell and lighting technology for the solar energy applications were developed still more repeatedly day by day from oil lantern to LED high-tech illumination in great economy. Therefore, it was studied that the low-carbon green-growth illumination technology in cave applications with SOLAR-LED system which was produced and unified in connection with solar-cell and LED from the semiconductor production technology, and it was also clarified in necessary with useful cave lighting in heatless and with no photosynthesis of plant production in underground space.

Evaluation of Energy Production for a Small Wind Turbine Installed in an Island Area (도서지역 소형풍력발전기 에너지 발생량 평가)

  • Jang, Choon-Man;Lee, Jong-Sung;Jeon, Wan-Ho;Lim, Tae-Gyun
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.558-565
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents how to determine AEP(Annual Energy Production) by a small wind turbine in DuckjeokDo island. Evaluation of AEP is introduced to make a self-contained island including renewable energy sources of wind, solar, and tidal energy. To determine the AEP in DuckjeokDo island, a local wind data is analyzed using the annual wind data from Korea Institute of Energy Research firstly. After the wind data is separated in 12-direction, a mean wind speed at each direction is determined. And then, a small wind turbine power curve is selected by introducing the capacity of a small wind turbine and the energy production of the wind turbine according to each wind direction. Finally, total annual wind energy production for each small wind turbine can be evaluated using the local wind density and local energy production considering a mechanical energy loss. Throughout the analytic study, it is found that the AEP of DuckjeokDo island is about 2.02MWh/y and 3.47MWh/y per a 1kW small wind turbine installed at the altitude of 10 m and 21m, respectively.

Accounting for the Atmospheric Stability in Wind Resource Variations and Its Impacts on the Power Generation by Concentric Equivalent Wind Speed (동심원 등가풍속을 이용한 대기안정도에 따른 풍력자원 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Geon-Hwa;Kim, Dong-Hyeok;Lee, Hwa-Woon;Park, Soon-Young;Yoo, Jung-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.49-61
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    • 2016
  • The power production using hub height wind speed tends to be overestimated than actual power production. It is because the hub height wind speed cannot represent vertical wind shear and blade tip loss that aerodynamics characteristic on the wind turbine. The commercial CFD model WindSim is used to compare and analyze each power production. A classification of atmospheric stability is accomplished by Monin-Obukhov length. The concentric wind speed constantly represents low value than horizontal equivalent wind speed or hub height wind speed, and also relevant to power production. The difference between hub height wind speed and concentric equivalent wind speed is higher in nighttime than daytime. Under the strongly convective state, power production is lower than under the stable state, especially using the concentric equivalent wind speed. Using the concentric equivalent wind speed considering vertical wind shear and blade tip loss is well estimated to decide suitable area for constructing wind farm.

An Analysis of Problems and the Current Status of Renewable Energy System in Buildings (건축물 신재생에너지원의 이용 현황 및 문제점 분석)

  • Jang, Hyang-In;Seong, Yoon-Bok;Cho, Young-Hum;Kim, Yong-Shik;Jo, Jae-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to investigate the usage of the renewable energy systems installed in buildings and make suggestions for the effective management. In this regard, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 1)design and construction, 2) operation and management, 3) user satisfaction and improvements about the renewable energy systems in buildings. Findings from this study can be summarized as follows; a lack of the basic information about systems, non-use of energy management systems, the differences in the features by energy source, and a lack of expertise of managers. The requirements to resolved these problems include the integrated management of various electric heat sources including a renewable energy source, an operation schedule based on the prediction of production and consumption, and so on. Furthermore the necessity of multiplex energy sources management system was confirmed and the basic data needed to establish the targets of this system were obtained.

Numerical Analysis on Heat Gain of Liquid from Ambient Air with Various Fin Heights and Pitches of Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger in Hybrid Solar Collector (핀-튜브 열교환 구조를 갖는 복합집열기에서 핀 높이 및 간격에 따른 공기열 이용 액체 가열 성능에 관한 수치해석 연구)

  • Choi, Hwi-Ung;Fatkhur, Rokhman;Lyu, Nam-Jin;Yoon, Jung-In;Son, Chang-Hyo;Choi, Kwang-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2016
  • Solar assisted heat pump system uses solar thermal energy as a heat source of evaporator of heat pump. So, COP can be enhanced as well as collector efficiency. For improving performance of this system, some research about hybrid solar collector that has fin-and-tube heat exchanger has been conducted. This collector can get a thermal energy from ambient air for liquid heating, so heated liquid can be used as a heat source of evaporator in heat pump even the solar radiation is not enough. In this study, numerical analysis was conducted for confirming heat gain of liquid according to fin height and pitch of fin-and-tube heat exchanger in collector. As a result, higher heat gain was obtained on lower fin height and narrow fin pitch, but the pressure drop also increased with increment of heat gain. Thus the JF factor considering both heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop was investigated and the maximum value was shown when the fin height and pitch were 40mm and 45mm. So it is considered that this installation condition has a highest heat transfer improvement when comparing with pressure drop. However heat gain of liquid at this condition was less than the other installation conditions of fin pitch on same height. Then, after establishing a proper minimum heat gain of liquid, actual production and experiment of collector will be conducted with fin height and pitch showing maximum JF factor and satisfying selected minimum heat gain of liquid on the basis of results of this study.

Economic Feasibility Comparison of Overseas Green Ammonia Project Using Renewable Energy (신재생 에너지를 이용한 해외 그린 암모니아 프로젝트에 대한 경제성 비교)

  • Hyun-Chang Shin;Hak-Soo Mok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.547-553
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    • 2024
  • Hydrogen is considered a key energy source to achieve carbon neutrality through the global goal of 'Net Zero'. Due to limitations in domestic green hydrogen production, Korean companies are interested in importing green hydrogen produced overseas. Because Australia and the Middle East possess high-quality renewable energy resources, they are attracting attention as suitable regions for producing green hydrogen using renewable energy. The cost of constructing and operating a green ammonia plant varies depending on the region. In this study, an economic feasibility comparison of green ammonia plant construction in Australia and the Middle East is conducted. Through this, it is expected to contribute to the economic analysis and feasibility analysis of the project to import hydrogen in the form of green ammonia into Korea.