• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.348-359
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• 2006

The city of Mokpo suffers lowland inundation damages by sea water flooding even without harsh weather like a typhoon, due to the low level urban infrastructure facilities, oceanic environmental changes by constructions of seadike/seawall and sea level rise caused by global warming. This study performs constructing the simulation system which employs the MIKE21 software. And the system is applied to several typhoon- induced surges which had resulted in inundation at Mokpo. Virtual situation of flooding is simulated in case 59 cm of surge height, which had been occurred actually by RUSA(0215), coincides with Approx. H.H.W. Then the water level of 545 cm corresponds to the extreme high water level(544 cm) for 10 year return period after the construction of Geumho seawall. The results show rapid and broad inundation at Inner-Port, requiring additional preparations for flood protections.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.273-283
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• 2010

Emergent process or behaviour can be seen in many places, from any multicellular biological organism to traffic patterns, cities or organizational phenomena in computer simulations. Similarly, the concept of 'Green IT' refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise inevitably among groups due to environmental concerns in real world. Green IT has good possibility to evolve as very chaotic system, in which the number of interactions between components increases geometrically with the number of components, thus potentially allowing for many new types of behaviour to emerge. However, when Green IT system regards as a complexity one, there exits some attractors to derive and control the system. In this context, this paper presents a new model based on type-2 fuzzy logic system to identify and assess the attractors of Green IT system which correspond to Reach-Richness matrix of Green IT.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.120-125
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• 2007

Burning the fossil fuel in the thermal power plants causes green house gas emission. Monitoring of CO2 emission of the thermal power plants is growing more important because the amount produced by them is more than 20 percent of national total emission. This paper proposes a method to calculate the amount of the CO2 emission w.r.t. generator[MW] output using the input-output coefficients of the thermal power plants. The power flow computation together with the CO2 emission calculation are demonstrated in a sample power system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

The global warming due to greenhouse gases is now the hottest issue all over the world. The world has been under $CO_2$ war since the Kyoto Protocol was opened for signature on December 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. The Kyoto Protocol now covers more than 164 countries globally as of July 2006. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their $CO_2$ emissions, or engage in emissions trading. Korea is also expected to obey the Protocol starting in 2013, which will give a serious shock especially to the electric power industry. The power plants burning the fossil fuel produce more than 20 percent of national total $CO_2$ emission. This paper resents the calculation of the amount and cost of $CO_2$ emission w.r.t. generator MW output and its application to power system operation. The $CO_2$ emission function is derived using the input-output coefficients of the thermal power plants. The optimal power system operation considering $CO_2$ emission and its cost is demonstrated on a five-bus sample power system.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 1992

In this energy and environment conscious age, methanol has come to attention increasingly since the well established process is commercially available to produce methanol from abundant low grade carbonaceous resources ; methane, carbon dioxide, coal and biomass etc. Methanol is a Clean energy source which is a readily storable and transportable liquid. It is elaborated to correlate power generation, city gas and chemical feed stocks including transportation fuel, enhancing the national efficiency of resource utilization as well as reducing the environmental problems for the future via C1 technology. It is emphasized that $CO_2$ could be used to produce methanol as a mean of hydrogen storage as in the nature, which will alleviate the environmental problem such as green house effect.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.97-106
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• 2010

Environmental issues resulting from climate change and energy crises have become global issues, and cycling has gained greater popularity for sustainable transportation. Though many cities are trying to build bicycle roads, it is not easy to implement bicycle roads because there is little available space for bicycle facilities. Therefore, road diets have become more popular in Korea. However, there has been no intensive research to date of their impacts. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects of road diets and construction of bike lanes. Every benefit, including energy benefit, environmental benefit, and health benefit is considered, while only time savings benefit has been considered in previous studies. The benefit analysis for the Seoul metropolitan area as a case study shows that road diets have a (1) time saving benefit for only five percent of the mode share and (2) enough total benefit even if bicycle mode share is less than two percent.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.495-503
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• 2000

In this study the average air temperature in April at Taegu city is analyzed and forecasted by applying an intervention model of stochastic analysis. As it is unavailable to get the data of carbon dioxide emission from a city in Korea, the points of intervention have been decided from the analysis of the data observed to be the years of 1947 and 1970. As a result of the study the mean temperature of April in Taegu city is shown to increase for a long time in the future and will also remain 0.015$^{\circ}C$/year even after 70 years from now. Even though the air temperature changes in the future will vary depending on the future exhaustion of carbon dioxide, a significant increase of air temperature cannot be avoided if the emission of carbon dioxide continues at today's level.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1322-1326
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• 2007

지구 온난화에 의한 엘리뇨, 라니냐의 발생은 한반도에 커다란 기후변화를 가져왔다. 이러한 변화는 연간 총 강우량은 크게 변화하지 않았지만 강우강도가 증가하고, 태풍의 규모가 커지는 등 홍수방어의 측면에서 상당한 어려움을 야기하고 있다. 2006년 태풍 '에위니아'와 이에 뒤이은 태풍과 중국 북부지방의 기단이 장마전선을 형성하며 사상 최고의 강우강도를 기록한 집중호우는 미래의 기후조건이 극단의 사상으로 변화하고 있으며 이에 따른 구조적/비구조적 대책이 요구됨을 단적으로 드러내는 예이다. 이러한 집중호우들의 결과로 발생하는 제방붕괴 등으로 인한 홍수범람은 수많은 인명과 재산의 피해를 발생시키고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 500년 빈도 홍수유출에 의한 제방붕괴모의를 실시하고 강원도 원주시에 대한 침수심과 범람범위를 도출하고, 해당 침수지역의 홍수위험강도(침수심${\times}$유속)를 구하였고, FEMA에서 제시한 바 있는 Downstream Hazard Classification Guidelines(USBR, 1988)의 사람 및 가옥에 대한 위험 정도를 도출하였으며, 이 자료들을 근간으로 하여 침수심과 범람범위의 정보를 포함하고 있던 범람지도와 지역별 홍수의 세기를 표현하는 홍수위험 정보를 GIS Tool(ArcView, ArcGIS, CAD 등)들을 이용하여 표출함으로써 좀 더 효율적이고 체계적인 홍수지도를 작성하였다. 본 연구의 결과로 작성된 홍수위험정보 지도(침수심, 유속분포도, 홍수위험강도)는 주민의 대피 이동시나 대피지구 선정, 홍수로부터 발생하는 피해에 대한 최적화된 대응 대비, 도시개발계획 수립시 개발지역의 선정 등에 기초자료로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다. 다양한 정보를 포함하고 있는 홍수정보 지도의 작성을 통해 기존 침수깊이와 범람범위의 1차적인 정보에서 수립할 수 있었던 계획이 가질 수 있었던 한계점을 좀 더 향상된 정보를 이용하여 극복함으로써 효율적이고 체계적인 치수 방재 계획수립이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1-12
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• 2014

Today, scale of a disaster becomes huge, all the available resources should be mobilized to control the disaster situation, and situations of the disaster site is broadcasted by the various media on a real-time basis. Accordingly, The commander of the disaster site should manage the situation taking all the factors into consideration. Despite the importance of the factors affecting the command of disaster site, there are not much research on this topic. This study utilizes METT-TC(Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain and weather, Time available, and Civilian considerations) which is applied in a combat situation by the military area and proposes MORT-TEC(Mission, Object, Resources available, Terrain and weather, Time available, Exercise, and Civilian considerations) as factors affecting the effective command of disaster site. These factors are applied to the Sewol Ferry Incidents and policy implications which can help researchers and practitioners in the area are suggested.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.56-62
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• 2013

The biomass resources is one of promising ways to solve energy exhaustion issues and global warming issues at the same time. To evaluate domestic biomass resources potential such as agricultural wastes, forestry wastes, livestock wastes and municipal solid wastes, statistics data from various organizations were collected and analyzed in this study. Also, space energy densities of each districts in Korea were calculated and analyzed. The results from the evaluation of biomass energy potential and space energy densities in Korea might be useful to estimate the availability of biomass energy conversion processes and to choice a appropriate process to convert domestic biomass into energy.