• 펄프종이기술
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2014

Renewable Portfolio Standards(RPS) is a regulation that requires a renewable energy generated from eco-friendly energy sources such as biomass, wind, solar, and geothermal. The RPS mechanism generally is an obligatory policy that places on electricity supply companies to produce a designated fraction of their electricity from renewable energies. The domestic companies to supply electricity largely rely on wood pellets in order to implement the RPS in spite of undesirable situation of lack of wood resources in Korea. This means that the electricity supply companies in Korea must explore new biomass as an alternative to wood. Palm kernel shell (PKS) and empty fruit bunch (EFB) as oil palm wastes can be used as raw materials used for making pellets after their thermochemical treatment like torrefaction. Torrefaction is a pretreatment process which serves to improve the properties including heating value and energy densification of these oil palm wastes through a mild pyrolysis at temperature typically ranging between 200 and $300^{\circ}C$ in the absence of oxygen under atmospheric pressure. Torrefaction of oil palms wastes at above $200^{\circ}C$ contributed to the increase of fixed carbon with the decrease of volatile matters, leading to the improvement of their calorific values over 20.9 MJ/kg (=5,000 kcal/kg) up to 25.1 MJ/kg (=6,000 kcal/kg). In particular, EFB sensitively responded to torrefaction because of its physical properties like fiber bundles, compared to PKS and hardwood chips. In conclusion, torrefaction treatment of PKS and EFB can greatly contribute to the implement of RPS of the electricity supply companies in Korea through the increased co-firing biomass with coal.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.258-265
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• 2014

목구조물 접합부에 기존 드리프트핀(Drift pin)을 대체하고자 단판이나 합판을 유리섬유강화플라스틱(GFRP: Glass fiber reinforced plastic)과 복합 적층시킨 GFRP보강적층목재핀을 제작하였다. 더불어 GFRP보강적층목재핀을 사용하여 집성재 접합부의 인장형 전단내력 시험을 실시하였다. GFRP 배열에 따른 보강적층목재핀의 휨강도 시험결과 GFRP를 각층에 1장씩 삽입한 시험편(Type-A)이 가장 양호한 성능을 발휘하였다. 또한 압체압력 $1.96N/mm^2$, 온도 $150^{\circ}C$에서 한 시간 열압하여 고밀화한 시험편이 고밀화하지 않은 시험편과 비교하여 휨강도 성능이 1.57배 향상됨을 확인하였으며, 하중방향에 따라 Edgewise가 Flatwise보다 3.51배 높은 성능을 발휘하였다. 시험을 통해 가장 양호한 성능을 보인 Type-A 보강적층목재핀을 이용하여 전단내력 시험을 실시하였다. 접합구의 종류와 접합판의 종류를 달리하여 시험한 결과 드리프트핀과 강판을 적용한 시험체(Type-DS)와 비교하여 GFRP보강적층목재핀과 GFRP보강목재적층판을 적용한 시험체(Type-WL)가 1.12배 높은 전단내력이 측정되었으며 최대하중 이후에도 매우 양호한 인성이 관찰되었다.