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Assessment of a rain barrel sharing network in Korea using storage-reliability-yield relationship

저류용량-신뢰도-수요량 관계를 이용한 레인배럴 공유 네트워크의 국내 성능 평가

  • Kwon, Youjeong (Department of Civil Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Seo, Yongwon (Department of Civil Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Park, Chang Kun (Department of Civil Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University)
  • 권유정 (영남대학교 공과대학 건설시스템공학과) ;
  • 서용원 (영남대학교 공과대학 건설시스템공학과) ;
  • 박창근 (가톨릭관동대학교 토목공학과)
  • Received : 2020.08.27
  • Accepted : 2020.09.18
  • Published : 2020.11.30
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Abstract

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that the amount of precipitation in South Korea would increase regardless of the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Moreover, the temporal and spatial rainfall variation would also increase in the future. Due to the geographic allocation of Korea, more than 80% of the annual precipitation occurs in the wet season from early July to late September. It is expected that the average precipitation in this period will increase from the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) scenario projections. These predictions imply an increased variability of available water resources. Rainwater harvesting system is widely used as an alternative water resources today. This study introduces a RBSN (rain barrel sharing network) as an efficient way to utilize alternative water resources under the RCP scenarios. The concept of RBSN combines individual rainwater harvesting system to a sharing network, which make the whole system more reliable. This study evaluated a RBSN in South Korea composed of four users based on a storage-reliability-yield (SRY) relationship. The study area comprises all 17 provincal areas in South Korea. The result showed a huge benefit from a RBSN in Korea under the historical rainfall condition. Even in the climate change condition, the results showed that a RBSN is still beneficial but the changes in reliability are different depending on provinces in Korea. The results of this study shows that a RBSN is a very effective and alternative measure that can deal with the impacts of climate change in the near future.

본 연구에서는 강수를 대체수원으로 효과적으로 이용할 수 있는 방안의 하나로 빗물집수시스템을 공유하는 RBSN (Rain Barrel Sharing Network)을 소개하고, 현 상태 및 미래 기후변화 조건하에서의 효율에 대해 평가하였다. 우리나라 17개 특별시, 광역시 및 도를 대상으로 RBSN를 적용했을 때 미적용시와 비교하여 신뢰도, 회복탄력도 및 취약도의 변화를 분석하고, 지역별, RCP 시나리오별로 비교 검토하였다. 검토결과 현 기후조건하에서도 RBSN을 통해 평균 60%이상의 빗물집수시설의 필요 저류용량을 저감할 수 있는 것으로 검토되었으며, 기후변화 조건하에서는 이러한 효용이 지역별로 다른 양상으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 향후 빗물집수시설의 공동 이용에 대한 필요성이 더욱 부각될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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