• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.191-204
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• 2010

Recently, the CO2 emission and energy consumption have become critical global issues to decide the future of nations. Especially, the spread of IT products and the increased use of internet and web applications result in the energy consumption and CO2 emission of IT industry though information technologies drive global economic growth. EU, the United States, Japan and other developed countries are using IT related environmental regulations such as WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), RoHS(Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substance), REACH(Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals) and EuP(Energy using Product), and have established systematic green business/IT strategies to enhance the competitiveness of IT industry. For example, the Japan government proposed the "Green IT initiative" for being compatible with economic growth and environmental protection. Not only energy saving technologies but energy saving systems have been developed for accomplishing sustainable development. Korea's CO2 emission and energy consumption continuously have grown at comparatively high rates. They are related to its industrial structure depending on high energy-consuming industries such as iron and steel Industry, automotive industry, shipbuilding industry, semiconductor industry, and so on. In particular, export proportion of IT manufacturing is quite high in Korea. For example, the global market share of the semiconductor such as DRAM was about 80% in 2008. Accordingly, Korea needs to establish a systematic strategy to respond to the global environmental regulations and to maintain competitiveness in the IT industry. However, green competitiveness of Korea ranked 11th among 15 major countries and R&D budget for green technology is not large enough to develop energy-saving technologies for infrastructure and value chain of low-carbon society though that grows at high rates. Moreover, there are no concrete action plans in Korea. This research aims to deduce the priorities of the Korean green business/IT strategies to use multi attribute weighted average method. We selected a panel of 19 experts who work at the green business related firms such as HP, IBM, Fujitsu and so on, and selected six assessment indices such as the urgency of the technology development, the technology gap between Korea and the developed countries, the effect of import substitution, the spillover effect of technology, the market growth, and the export potential of the package or stand-alone products by existing literature review. We submitted questionnaires at approximately weekly intervals to them for priorities of the green business/IT strategies. The strategies broadly classify as follows. The first strategy which consists of the green business/IT policy and standardization, process and performance management and IT industry and legislative alignment relates to government's role in the green economy. The second strategy relates to IT to support environment sustainability such as the travel and ways of working management, printer output and recycling, intelligent building, printer rationalization and collaboration and connectivity. The last strategy relates to green IT systems, services and usage such as the data center consolidation and energy management, hardware recycle decommission, server and storage virtualization, device power management, and service supplier management. All the questionnaires were assessed via a five-point Likert scale ranging from "very little" to "very large." Our findings show that the IT to support environment sustainability is prior to the other strategies. In detail, the green business /IT policy and standardization is the most important in the government's role. The strategies of intelligent building and the travel and ways of working management are prior to the others for supporting environment sustainability. Finally, the strategies for the data center consolidation and energy management and server and storage virtualization have the huge influence for green IT systems, services and usage This research results the following implications. The amount of energy consumption and CO2 emissions of IT equipment including electrical business equipment will need to be clearly indicated in order to manage the effect of green business/IT strategy. And it is necessary to develop tools that measure the performance of green business/IT by each step. Additionally, intelligent building could grow up in energy-saving, growth of low carbon and related industries together. It is necessary to expand the affect of virtualization though adjusting and controlling the relationship between the management teams.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.585-598
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• 1997

Background : Although there are growing concerns about the adverse health effect of air pollution, not much evidence on health effect of current air pollution level had been accumulated yet in Korea. This study was designed to evaluate the chronic health effect of ai. pollution using Korean Medical Insurance Corporation (KMIC) data and air quality data. Medical insurance data in Korea have some drawback in accuracy, but they do have some strength especially in their national coverage, in having unified ID system and individual information which enables various data linkage and chronic health effect study. Method : This study utilized the data of Korean Environmental Surveillance System Study (Surveillance Study), which consist of asthma, acute bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), cardiovascular diseases (congestive heart failure and ischemic heart disease), all cancers, accidents and congenital anomaly, i. e., mainly potential environmental diseases. We reconstructed a nested case-control study wit5h Surveillance Study data and air pollution data in Korea. Among 1,037,210 insured who completed? questionnaire and physical examination in 1992, disease free (for chronic respiratory disease and cancer) persons, between the age of 35-64 with smoking status information were selected to reconstruct cohort of 564,991 persons. The cohort was followed-up to 1995 (1992-5) and the subjects who had the diseases in Surveillance Study were selected. Finally, the patients, with address information and available air pollution data, left to be 'final subjects' Cases were defined to all lung cancer cases (424) and COPD admission cases (89), while control groups are determined to all other patients than two case groups among 'final subjects'. That is, cases are putative chronic environmental diseases, while controls are mainly acute environmental diseases. for exposure, Air quality data in 73 monitoring sites between 1991 - 1993 were analyzed to surrogate air pollution exposure level of located areas (58 areas). Five major air pollutants data, TSP, $O_3,\;SO_2$, CO, NOx was available and the area means were applied to the residents of the local area. 3-year arithmetic mean value, the counts of days violating both long-term and shot-term standards during the period were used as indices of exposure. Multiple logistic regression model was applied. All analyses were performed adjusting for current and past smoking history, age, gender. Results : Plain arithmetic means of pollutants level did not succeed in revealing any relation to the risk of lung cancer or COPD, while the cumulative counts of non-at-tainment days did. All pollutants indices failed to show significant positive findings with COPD excess. Lung cancer risks were significantly and consistently associated with the increase of $O_3$ and CO exceedance counts (to corrected error level -0.017) and less strongly and consistently with $SO_2$ and TSP. $SO_2$ and TSP showed weaker and less consistent relationship. $O_3$ and CO were estimated to increase the risks of lung cancer by 2.04 and 1.46 respectively, the maximal probable risks, derived from comparing more polluted area (95%) with cleaner area (5%). Conclusions : Although not decisive due to potential misclassication of exposure, these results wert drawn by relatively conservative interpretation, and could be used as an evidence of chronic health effect especially for lung cancer. $O_3$ might be a candidate for promoter of lung cancer, while CO should be considered as surrogated measure of motor vehicle emissions. The control selection in this study could have been less appropriate for COPD, and further evaluation with another setting might be necessary.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.365-384
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• 2012

Microalgae are photosynthetic microorganisms that are highly productive in the presence of basic renewable natural sources (light, $CO_2$, water and nutrients). They can synthesize lipids, carbohydrates and proteins in a small number of days. Subsequently, these carbon-captured products can be processed into both biofuels and valuable co-products. Additionally, microalgae would be an ideal feedstock for replacing land-based food crops with cellular products as high energy density transportation fuels. These microscopic organisms could contribute a significant amount of renewable energy on a global scale. In Korea, microalgae biofuel research was common in the early 1990s. The research activities were unfortunately stopped due to limited governmental funds and low petroleum prices. Interest in algal biofuels in Korea has been growing recently due to an increased concern over oil prices, energy security, greenhouse gas emissions, and the potential for other biofuel feedstock to compete for limited agricultural resources. The high productivity of microalgae suggests that much of the Korean transportation fuel requirements can be met by biofuels at a production cost competitive with the increasing cost of petroleum seen in early 2008. At this time, the development of microlalgal biomass production technology remains in its infancy. This study reviewed microalgae culture systems and biomass production, harvesting, oil extraction, conversion, and technoeconomical bottlenecks. Many technical and economic barriers to using microalgal biofuels need to be overcome before mass production of microalgal-derived fuel substitutes is possible. However, serious efforts to overcome these barriers could become a large-scale commercial reality. Overall, this study provides a brief overview of the past few decades of global microalgal research.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.409-416
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• 2011

차량에 의한 대기오염을 실제 주행 조건에서 시간과 공간에 구애받지 않고 실시간으로 측정하기 위하여 이동형 배출가스 측정장치 (MEL)가 제작되었다. 미니밴 차량에 배출가스 측정을 위한 장비와 입자의 수 농도 및 입경분포 측정을 위한 FMPS, CPC가 탑재되었다. 차량 전단에 장착되는 흡입 샘플링 포트를 사용하여 여러 종류의 차량 추적 실험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 MEL의 구축 과정 및 디젤, CNG, LPG 연료를 사용하는 버스를 추적 실험한 결과를 나타내었다. 배출가스의 희석비는 추적차량의 엔진 배기 NOx 및 MEL 차량에서 샘플링 되는 NOx의 비로 계산하였다. 디젤버스에서 배출되는 입자의 대부분은 300 nm 이하의 크기이며 입경분포의 피크값은 30~60 nm 사이에 위치하였다. 하지만, 가스연료인 CNG와 LPG를 사용하는 버스에서 배출되는 입자들은 극미세입자 영역인 50 nm 이하로 측정되었다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2021

본 연구에서 인증을 위한 표준가스 종류의 변화가 대형 천연가스 엔진에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위해 전부하 시험과 WHTC 모드 시험 조건에서 엔진 성능 및 배기 특성을 비교하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 실험에 사용된 연료는 표준 가스 두 종류(G_r, G₂₃)와 시중에 유통되고 있는 천연가스, 총 3종류를 적용하였다. 연료 조성이 다른 3가지 천연가스의 실험결과 엔진 성능 특성은 질소 함유율이 높은 G₂₃ 연료에 대해서 토크, 연료소모율, 열효율 결과가 모두 다른 연료에 비해 악화되는 결과를 보였다. 또한 인증시험모드인 WHTC 모드에서 평가하였을 때, G₂₃ 연료를 적용한 경우 다른 두 연료에 비해 이산화탄소 및 일산화탄소 배출량은 감소하고 메탄, 질소산화물 및 입자상물질의 개수 배출량은 증가하여 질소산화물의 경우 EURO VI 규제치를 만족할 수 없었다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2004

본 시험은 육계에서 생균제의 효과를 구명하고자 사료와 음수에 혼합 생균제를 수준별로 첨가하여 5주간 사양시험을 시행하였다. 처리구는 Bacillus sp., Lactobacillus sp., Saccharomyces sp., Rhdobacter sp., Aspergillus sp. 균으로 이루어진 혼합 생균제를 사료에 0, $0.2\%$ 수준으로 첨가하였고, 음수에는 0, 0.1, $1.0\%$ 수준으로 급여하였다. 시험사료는 조단백질 함량을 전, 후기 각각 $21.5\%$와 $19.0\%$로 하였고, 에너지는 전, 후기 3,100 kcal/kg 수준으로 배합하였다. 조사항목은 생산능력을 주간별로 측정하였고, 시험 종료시 혈중 콜레스테롤 함량, 회장과 맹장의 내용물에서 E. coli, Salmonella, Lactobacillus 균수, 분에서 암모니아와 이산화탄소 가스 발생 량을 조사하였다. 본 시험의 결과, 생균제를 사료에 첨가하여 급여한 D $0.2\%$ 급여구는 D $0\%$ 급여구와 비교하여 증체량, 사료섭취량, 사료요구율이 모든 조사기간에서 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 사료 급여구간에 혈중 총콜레스테롤, HDL, LDL-cholesterol 및 중성지방의 함량은 통계적인 차이는 없었지만, 음수 급여구에서 DW $1.0\%$ 처리구의 혈중 총콜레스테롤 함량은 DW $0\%$ 처리구에 비하여 유의적으로 감소하였다. (P<0.05). 또한 중성지방 함량은 DW $0.1\%$ 처리구에서 DW $0\%$ 처리구에 비하여 현저하게 감소하였지만(p<0.05), HDL과 LDL-cholesterol의 함량은 차이가 없었다. 장내 미생물인 E. coli, Salmonella, Lacfobacillu 균수는 회장과 맹장에서 사료와 음수 급여시 차이가 없었다. 계분의 암모니아와 이산화탄소 발생량은 사료 급여시 D $0\%$와D $0.2\%$ 처리구간에 차이가 없었지만, 음수 급여시 DW $0.1\%$ 처리구는 다른 처리구에 비하여 암모니아 가스 배출량이 유의하게 감소하였다(P<0.05). 한편, 이산화탄소 발생량은 DW 처리구간에 차이가 없었다. 이러한 실험 결과, 생균제의 급여는 육계의 생산성과 장내 미생물의 변화에는 영향을 미치지 않았으나 음수로 급여시 혈중 콜레스테롤과 중성지방의 함량을 감소시켰고, 분내 암모니아 가스 발생량을 감소시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.55-93
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• 2012

우리나라에서 에너지정책은 다양한 에너지 관련 계획들을 통해 구체화된다. 그런데 최근 비전으로서의 성격이 강한 상위계획에서 설정되는 부문별 목표가 지속적으로 상향 조정됨에 따라 상위계획과의 정합성을 유지해야 할 필요가 있는 (실행계획으로서의) 하위계획 수립에서 왜곡이 발생하고 있다. 이와 더불어 개별 하위계획 자체도 미래의 불확실성에 대응하여 계획의 유연성을 확보하는 측면에서 한계를 보이고 있다. 이러한 문제들은 잠재적으로 막대한 사회적 비용을 초래할 위험을 내포하고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 우리나라 에너지 계획의 수립 집행과 관련한 개선방안의 논의에 실증적인 근거를 제시하기 위해 실행계획 가운데 가장 중요하게 인식되고 있는 전력수급기본계획을 주된 분석대상으로 삼아, 전력수급기본계획 자체의 문제, 전력수급기본계획과 상위계획 간 정합성을 유지하는 과정에서 발생할 수 있는 문제를 논리적으로 설명하고, 현실적인 상황을 가정하여 그러한 문제들이 초래할 수 있는 사회적 비용의 규모를 추정하였다. 분석 결과, 전력수급기본계획 수립 시 최대전력이 실적치보다 7%(15%) 적게 추정되는 경우 2020년 기준으로 연간 발전비용이 약 2,860억원(1조 2,160억원) 증가하며, 이러한 사회적 비용은 상위계획인 국가에너지기본계획에서 설정한 미래 전력수요 목표치에 맞추어 전력수급기본계획이 수립 집행되는 경우에도 유사하게 발생함을 보였다. 또한 상위계획인 온실가스 감축 마스터플랜에서 전력부문에 부과하는 감축목표량이 과도하게 설정되어 탄소배출비용이 0일 경우의 적정 전원구성에서 발생하는 온실가스 배출량의 5%를 추가 감축해야 하는 경우에도 연간 발전비용은 2020년 기준으로 약 9,150억원 증가한다. 반면, 우리나라의 경우 전원별 경제성에 큰 차이가 존재하는 특성으로 인해 전력수급기본계획 수립 시 미래 $CO_2$ 가격의 불확실성이 초래하는 잠재적인 사회적 비용의 크기는 매우 작은 수준으로 분석되었다.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.232-243
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• 2018

The construction, development and maintenance of an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable campus involves the integration of measuring tools and technical information that invites and encourages the community to know the actual state to generate positive actions for reducing the negative impacts over the local environment. At the Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Campus $Bogot{\acute{a}}$, a public area with daily traffic of more than 25000 people, the Environmental Management Bureau has committed with the monitoring of the noise pollution and air quality, as support to the campaigns aiming to reduce the pollutant emissions associated to the student's activities and campus operation. The target of this study is based in the implementation of mobile air quality and sonometry monitoring equipment, the mapping of the actual air quality and noise pollution inside the university campus as a novel methodology for a sub-area inside a megacity. This results and mapping are proposed as planning tool for the institution administrative sections. A mobile Kunak$^{(R)}$ Air & OPC air monitoring station with the capability to measure particulate matter $PM_{10}$, $PM_{2.5}$, Ozone ($O_3$), Sulfur Oxide ($SO_2$), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Nitrogen Oxide ($NO_2$) as well as Temperature, Relative Humidity and Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the data georeferenciation; and a sonometer Cirrus$^{(R)}$ 162B Class 2 were used to perform the measurements. The measurements took place in conditions of academic activity and without it, with the aim of identify the impacts generated by the campus operation. Using the free code geographical information software QGIS$^{(R)}$ 2.18, the maps of each variable measured were developed, and the impacts generated by the operation of the campus were identified qualitative and quantitively. For the measured variables, an increase of around 21% for the $L_{Aeq}$ noise level and around 80% to 90% for air pollution were detected during the operation period.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.310-325
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• 2024

Glyconutrients help in the body's cell communication. Glyconutrients and synbiotics are promising options for improving immune function. Therefore, we hypothesized that combining synbiotics and glyconutrients will enhance pig nutrient utilization. 150 pigs (Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc), initially weighing 58.85 ± 3.30 kg of live body weight (BW) were utilized to determine the effects of synbiotics-glyconutrients (SGN) on the pigs' performance, feed efficiency, gas emission, pork traits, and composition of fatty acids. The pigs were matched by BW and sex and chosen at random to 1 of 3 diet treatments: control = Basal diet; TRT1 = Basal diet + SGN 0.15%; TRT2 = Basal diet + SGN 0.30%%. The trials were conducted in two phases (weeks 1-5 and weeks 5-10). The average daily gain was increased in pigs fed a basal diet with SGN (p = 0.036) in weeks 5-10. However, the apparent total tract digestibility of dry matter, nitrogen, and gross energy did not differ among the treatments (p > 0.05). Dietary treatments had no effect on NH₃, H₂S, methyl mercaptans, acetic acids, and CO₂ emissions (p > 0.05). Improvement in drip loss on day 7 (p = 0.053) and tendency in the cooking loss were observed (p = 0.070) in a group fed basal diets and SGN at 0.30% inclusion level. The group supplemented with 0.30% of SGN had higher levels of palmitoleic acid (C16:1), margaric acid (C17:0), omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6 fatty acid, and ω-6: ω-3 ratio (p = 0.034, 0.020, 0.025, 0.007, and 0.003, respectively) in the fat of finishing pigs. Furthermore, group supplemented with 0.30% of SGN improved margaric acid (C17:0), linoleic acid (C18:2n6c), arachidic acid (C20:0), omega 6 fatty acid, omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, unsaturated fatty acid, and monounsaturated fatty acid (p = 0.037, 0.05, 0.0142, 0.036, 0.033, 0.020, and 0.045, respectively) in the lean tissues of finishing pigs compared to pigs fed with the control diets. In conclusion, the combination of probiotics, prebiotics, and glyconutrients led to higher average daily gain, improved the quality of pork, and more favorable fatty acid composition. Therefore, these results contributed to a better understanding of the potential of SGN combinations as a feed additive for pigs.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.605-619
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• 2014

This article reviews the papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during 2013. It is intended to understand the status of current research in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation, and indoor environments of buildings and plant facilities. Conclusions are as follows. (1) The research works on the thermal and fluid engineering have been reviewed as groups of fluid machinery, pipes and relative parts including orifices, dampers and ducts, fuel cells and power plants, cooling and air-conditioning, heat and mass transfer, two phase flow, and the flow around buildings and structures. Research issues dealing with home appliances, flows around buildings, nuclear power plant, and manufacturing processes are newly added in thermal and fluid engineering research area. (2) Research works on heat transfer area have been reviewed in the categories of heat transfer characteristics, pool boiling and condensing heat transfer and industrial heat exchangers. Researches on heat transfer characteristics included the results for general analytical model for desiccant wheels, the effects of water absorption on the thermal conductivity of insulation materials, thermal properties of Octadecane/xGnP shape-stabilized phase change materials and $CO_2$ and $CO_2$-Hydrate mixture, effect of ground source heat pump system, the heat flux meter location for the performance test of a refrigerator vacuum insulation panel, a parallel flow evaporator for a heat pump dryer, the condensation risk assessment of vacuum multi-layer glass and triple glass, optimization of a forced convection type PCM refrigeration module, surface temperature sensor using fluorescent nanoporous thin film. In the area of pool boiling and condensing heat transfer, researches on ammonia inside horizontal smooth small tube, R1234yf on various enhanced surfaces, HFC32/HFC152a on a plain surface, spray cooling up to critical heat flux on a low-fin enhanced surface were actively carried out. In the area of industrial heat exchangers, researches on a fin tube type adsorber, the mass-transfer kinetics of a fin-tube-type adsorption bed, fin-and-tube heat exchangers having sine wave fins and oval tubes, louvered fin heat exchanger were performed. (3) In the field of refrigeration, studies are categorized into three groups namely refrigeration cycle, refrigerant and modeling and control. In the category of refrigeration cycle, studies were focused on the enhancement or optimization of experimental or commercial systems including a R410a VRF(Various Refrigerant Flow) heat pump, a R134a 2-stage screw heat pump and a R134a double-heat source automotive air-conditioner system. In the category of refrigerant, studies were carried out for the application of alternative refrigerants or refrigeration technologies including $CO_2$ water heaters, a R1234yf automotive air-conditioner, a R436b water cooler and a thermoelectric refrigerator. In the category of modeling and control, theoretical and experimental studies were carried out to predict the performance of various thermal and control systems including the long-term energy analysis of a geo-thermal heat pump system coupled to cast-in-place energy piles, the dynamic simulation of a water heater-coupled hybrid heat pump and the numerical simulation of an integral optimum regulating controller for a system heat pump. (4) In building mechanical system research fields, twenty one studies were conducted to achieve effective design of the mechanical systems, and also to maximize the energy efficiency of buildings. The topics of the studies included heating and cooling, HVAC system, ventilation, and renewable energies in the buildings. Proposed designs, performance tests using numerical methods and experiments provide useful information and key data which can improve the energy efficiency of the buildings. (5) The field of architectural environment is mostly focused on indoor environment and building energy. The main researches of indoor environment are related to infiltration, ventilation, leak flow and airtightness performance in residential building. The subjects of building energy are worked on energy saving, operation method and optimum operation of building energy systems. The remained studies are related to the special facility such as cleanroom, internet data center and biosafety laboratory. water supply and drain system, defining standard input variables of BIM (Building Information Modeling) for facility management system, estimating capability and providing operation guidelines of subway station as shelter for refuge and evaluation of pollutant emissions from furniture-like products.