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Binary Power plant using unused thermal energy and Neural Network Controllers (미활용 열에너지를 이용한 바이너리 발전과 신경망 제어)

  • Han, Kun-Young;Park, Sung-Dae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.25 no.10
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    • pp.1302-1309
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    • 2021
  • Recently, the Korean Government announced the Korean New Deal as a national development strategy to overcome the economic recession from the pandemic crisis and lead the global action against structural changes. In the Korean New Deal, the Green New Deal related with the energy aims to achieve net-zero emissions and accelerates the transition towards a low-carbon and green economy. To this end, the government plans to promote an increased use of renewable energy in the society at large. This paper introduces a binary power generation using unused low-grade thermal energy to accelerate the transition towards a low-carbon and green economy and examines a control system based on Neural Network which is capable maintenance at low-cost by an unmanned automated operation in actual power generation environment. It is expected that the realization of binary power generation accelerates introduction of renewable energy along with solar and wind power.

Compact Binary Power plant using unused thermal energy and Neural Network Controllers (미이용 열에너지를 이용한 소형 바이너리 발전과 신경망 제어기)

  • Han, Kun-Young;Jeong, Seok-Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.557-560
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    • 2021
  • In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Korean Government announced the Korean New Deal as a national development strategy to overcome the economic recession from the pandemic crisis and lead the global action aginst sturctural changes. The Green New Deal related with the energy aims to achieve net-zero emissions and accelerates the transition towards a low-carbon and green economy. To this end, the government plans to promete an increased use of renewable energy in the the society at large. This paper introduces a compact-binary power plant using unused thermal energy and a control system based on Neural Network in order to accelerate the transition towards a low-carbon and green economy. It is expected that he compact-binary power plant accelerate introduction of renewable energy along with solar and wind power.

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Two-Stage Spectrum Sensing Scheme Using Fuzzy Logic for Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Satrio, Cahyo Tri;Jaeshin, Jang
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2016
  • Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks allows secondary users to sense the unused spectrum without causing interference to primary users. Cognitive radio requires more accurate sensing results from unused portions of the spectrum. Accurate spectrum sensing techniques can reduce the probability of false alarms and misdetection. In this paper, a two-stage spectrum sensing scheme is proposed for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. In the first stage, spectrum sensing is executed for each secondary user using energy detection based on double adaptive thresholds to determine the spectrum condition. If the energy value lies between two thresholds, a fuzzy logic scheme is applied to determine the channel conditions more accurately. In the second stage, a fusion center combines the results of each secondary user and uses a fuzzy logic scheme for combining all decisions. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides increased sensing accuracy by about 20% in some cases.

Effects of Pipe Network Materials and Distance on Unused Energy Source System Performance for Large-scale Horticulture Facilities (배관 재질 및 길이에 따른 대규모 시설원예단지용 미활용 에너지 시스템의 성능 평가)

  • Lee, Jae-Ho;Yoon, Yeo-Beom;Hyun, In-Tak;Lee, Kwang Ho
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.119-125
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    • 2014
  • This study investigated the effects of pipe network materials and distance on system performance utilizing unused energy sources in large-scale horticulture facility. For this, the modeling was performed with a 100 m long and 100 m wide rectangular shaped glass house having an area of 1ha ($10,000m^2$) using EnergyPlus software. The heat sources considered were air source, geothermal heat, power plant waste heat, sea water heat, and river water. The temperature variation of the fluid with regard to pipe material and distance from the heat source and the resultant heat pump electricity consumptions were calculated. It turned out that the fluid temperature reaching the heat pump increased as the distance from the heat source increased in case of sea water and river water, which have higher temperatures than the surrounding soil, improving the heat pump efficiency. It was vice versa in case of the power plant waste heat. In addition, pipe material of PVC showed the smallest effect on the system performance variation due to the lowest thermal conductivity, compared to PB and HDPE.

High-efficiency Agricultural Heater and Smart Control System Utilizing Heat Pipe (히트파이프를 활용한 농업용 고효율난방기 및 스마트 제어시스템)

  • Kim, Eung-Kon;Lim, Chang-Gyoon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1151-1158
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    • 2017
  • The Effluent Heat Pipe integral with the heater is a device that recreates unused thermal energy from the plant in winter, and thus reuses unused energy before releasing the exhaust heat. Through the establishment of facility horticulture and glass greenhouses, we identified the problems of our agricultural heaters, and we proposed efficient agricultural efficiency and smart control systems for optimum agricultural efficiency and smart house.

Effects of recycling on the biomechanical characteristics of retrieved orthodontic miniscrews

  • Yun, Soon-Dong;Choi, Sung-Hwan;Cha, Jung-Yul;Yu, Hyung-Seog;Kim, Kwang-Mahn;Kim, Jin;Hwang, Chung-Ju
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.238-247
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to compare recycled and unused orthodontic miniscrews to determine the feasibility of reuse. The comparisons included both miniscrews with machined surfaces (MS), and those with etched surfaces (ES). Methods: Retrieved MS and ES were further divided into three subgroups according to the assigned recycling procedure: group A, air-water spray; group B, mechanical cleaning; and group C, mechanical and chemical cleaning. Unused screws were used as controls. Scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry, insertion time and maximum insertion torque measurements in artificial bone, and biological responses in the form of periotest values (PTV), bone-implant contact ratio (BIC), and bone volume ratio (BV) were assessed. Results: Morphological changes after recycling mainly occurred at the screw tip, and the cortical bone penetration success rate of recycled screws was lower than that of unused screws. Retrieved ES needed more thorough cleaning than retrieved MS to produce a surface composition similar to that of unused screws. There were no significant differences in PTV or BIC between recycled and unused screws, while the BV of the former was significantly lower than that of the latter (p < 0.05). Conclusions: These results indicate that reuse of recycled orthodontic miniscrews may not be feasible from the biomechanical aspect.

Performance Variations of River Water Source Heat Pump System According to Heat Exchanger Capacity Variations (열교환기 용량변화에 따른 하천수열원 열펌프의 성능 변화)

  • Park, Seong-Ryong;Baik, Young-Jin;Kim, Hee-Hwan;Lee, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.1530-1535
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    • 2003
  • The utilization of unused energy is important because it can afford to offer a chance to increase energy efficiency of a heat pump system. One of the promising unused energy sources is river water. It can be used as a heat source in both heating and cooling effectively with its superior features as a secondary working fluids. In this study, the performance of a 5HP heat pump system using river water as a heat source is investigated by both experiment and simulation. According to system simulation results, performance improvement of condenser seems more effective than that of evaporator for better $COP_H$. The serial connection is also preferred among several methods to improve plate type heat exchanger performance. The experimental results show that the hot water of $50{\sim}60^{\circ}C$ can be acquired from water heat source of $5{\sim}9^{\circ}C$ with $COP_H$ of $2.7{\sim}3.5$.

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