• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.35-44
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• 2020

Currently, various policies regarding ecofriendly vehicles are being proposed to reduce carbon emissions. In this study, the required areas for charging electric vehicle (EV) batteries using electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) power plants were estimated. First, approximately 2.4 million battery EVs, which represented 10% of the total number of vehicles, consume approximately 404 GWh. Second, the power required for charging batteries is approximately 0.3 GW, and the site area of the PV power plant is 4.62 ㎢, which accounts for 0.005% of the national territory. Third, from the available sites of buildings based on the region, Jeju alone consumes approximately 0.2%, while the rest of the region requires approximately 0.1%. Fourth, Seoul, which has the smallest available area of mountains and farmlands, utilizes 0.34% of the site for PV power plants, while the other parts of the region use less than 0.1%. The results of this study confirmed that the area of the PV power plant site for producing battery-charging power generated through the supply of EVs is very small. Therefore, it is desirable to analyze and implement more specific plans, such as efficient land use, forest damage minimization, and safe maintenance, to expand renewable energy, including PV power.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 2005

This study has been performed on the mechanism of heat transfer between stratospheric airship and its surroundings while the airship is staying in the air at the altitude of 20km. The computational grid of airship has been generated and the results influenced by the number and the shape of grids have been compared. The temperature distributions have been obtained through this thermal analysis considering three modes of heat transfer - conduction, convection and radiation - in stratospheric conditions. Based on the airship's surface and inner temperature variations, the influence of temperature distributions on the helium envelope and the payload has been predicted.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.99-106
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• 2011

Since the solar energy resource is the main input for sizing any solar photovoltaic system, it is essential to utilize the solar radiation data as an application and development of solar energy system increase. It will be necessary to understand and evaluate the insolation data. The Korea Institute of Energy Research(KIER) has begun collecting horizontal global insolation data since May, 1982 at 16 different locations in Korea and for the more detailed analysis, images taken by geostationary satellite may be used to estimate solar irradiance fluxes at earth"s surface. It is based on the empirical correlation between a satellite derived cloud index and the irradiance at the ground. From the results, the measured data has been collected at 16 different stations and estimated using satellite at 23 different stations over the South Korea from 1982 to 2009. The Result of analysis shows that the annual-average daily global radiation on the horizontal surface is 3.56 kWh/ $m^2$/day and estimated solar radiation fluxes show reliable results for estimating the global radiation with average deviation of -7.27 to +3.65% from the measured values.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.577-585
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• 2010

This paper is a part of developing a software that predicts the infrared signal emitted from a ground object by considering solar irradiation. The radiance emitted from a surface can be calculated by using the temperature and optical characteristics of the surface object. The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is defined as the ratio of reflected radiance to incident irradiance. It is a very important surface reflection property that decides the reflected radiance from the object. In this paper, the spectral radiance received by a remote sensor over the mid-wave infrared(MWIR), and the long-wave infrared(LWIR) regions are computed and compared each other for several different materials. The results show that the optical surface properties such as the BRDF and the emissivity of the object surface can play a major role in generating the infrared signatures of various objects, and the largest infrared signal may reach up to 10 times the smallest one when the infrared signals obtained from a flat plate with different surface conditions under the sun light.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.19-29
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• 2016

Whilst there are growing interests in pursuing energy efficiency and zero-energy buildings in built environment, it is widely recognised that Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) is one of the most promising and required technologies to achieve these goals in recent years. Although BIPV is a broadly utilized technique in variety of fields in built environments, it is required that generation of BIVP should be analysed and calculated by external specialists. The aim of this research is to focus on developing a new diagram for prediction of the pre-estimation model in early design stage to harness solar radiation data, PV types, slopes, azimuth and so forth. The results of this study show as follows: 1) We analysed 162 districts in a national level and the examined areas were categorised into five zones. The standard deviation of the results was 2.9 per cent; 2) The increased value of solar radiation on a vertical plane in five categorised zones was 42kWh/m3, and the result was similar to the average value of 43.8kWh/m3; and 3) The pre-estimation of diagram was developed based on the categorisation of zones and azimuth as well as the results of the developed diagram showed little difference compared to the previously utilised method. The suggested diagram in this paper will contribute to estimate BIPV without any external contribution to calculate the value. Even though the result of this study shows little difference, it is required to investigate a number of different variables such as BIPV types, modules, slope angle and so forth in order to develop an integrated pre-estimation diagram.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.591-596
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• 2012

Recently, the efficient management system for photovoltaic power plants has been required due to the continuously increasing construction of photovoltaic power plants. In this paper, we propose a cloud-based intelligent management system for many photovoltaic power plants. The proposed system stores the measured data of power plants using Hadoop HBase which is a column-oriented database, and processes the calculations of performance, efficiency, and prediction the amount of power generation by parallel processing based on Map-Reduce model. And, Web-based data visualization module allows the administrator to provide information in various forms.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.28-34
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• 2019

Solar energy is one of the most abundant renewable energy sources on Earth but there are restrictions on the use of solar thermal energy due to the time-discrepancy between the solar-rich season and heating demand. In Europe and Canada, a seasonal solar thermal energy storage (SSTES), which stores the abundant solar heat in the summer and uses the heat for the winter heating load, is used. Recently, SSTES has been introduced in Korea and empirical studies are actively underway. In this study, a $2,000m^2$ flat plate type solar collector and $20,000m^2$ of borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) were studied for a greenhouse in Hwaseong City, which has a heating load of 2,164 GJ/year. To predict the dynamic performance of the system over time, it was simulated using the TRNSYS 18 program, and the solar fraction of the system with the control conditions was investigated. As a result, the solar BTES system proposed in this study showed an average solar fraction of approximately 60% for 5 years when differential temperature control was applied to both collecting solar thermal energy and discharging BTES. The proposed system simplified the configuration and control method of the solar BTES system and secured its performance.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.176-184
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• 2010

The power simulator for a LEO satellite is a useful tool to analyze mission validity and energy balance for various mission scenarios by estimating power generation, power consumption, depth of discharge, bus voltage, charging/discharging current, etc. In this paper, it is described the calculation algorithm of the solar array (SA) power, the satellite load power and the battery modeling method to develop a satellite power simulation. To simulate the SA power generation, three different operation modes (DET, MPPT, CV) of SAR (Solar Array Regulator) are considered with a SA model. The satellite load power is estimated using the satellite unit power database, the unit on/off configuration at some satellite operation modes. The bus voltage and battery charging/discharging current at the specific DoD (Depth of Discharge) are calculated based on the battery characteristics. By this satellite power simulator, it can be conveniently analyzed the energy balance and the validity of a planned mission of a LEO satellite.

• KIPE Magazine
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.32-39
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• 2010

최근 그린에너지 시대의 급작스런 도래와 더불어 전력산업의 패러다임 변화에 따라 전기에너지의 고효율 사용과 지능형 전력망 기술인 스마트그리드가 국가차원의 저탄소 녹색성장의 중추 산업분야가 될 전망이다. 이와 더불어 그린홈, 그린빌딩, 그린ICT, 신재생에너지 및 전기자동차를 망라하는 고효율 에너지 네트워크 인프라로 직류배전이 부각되고 있다. 최근 태양광, 연료전지 등 직류 기반의 분산전원 보급의 활성화, 정보화 확산으로 인해 직류를 필요로 하는 정보통신기기의 대폭확대, 전기자동차 보급에 따른 전력저장장치의 확산, LED와 같은 조명부하의 확대 등 변화된 환경 속에 전체 시스템 에너지 효율화, 전력품질의 개선을 위해 교류(AC)가 아닌 직류(DC)로 공급하는 직류배전의 도입 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본고에서는 미래 직류전력시스템의 예측 및 당사가 2009년 말 그린홈에 직류배전을 구축한 실증사례를 소개하고 현재 조기 상용화를 목표로 기술개발을 진행 중인 그린빌딩 적용을 위한 저압 직류배전기술의 개념 및 구현기술을 제안하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2012

Recently, an optics-based concentrator for solar concentration has been a key issue in development of photovoltaic systems. In the present study, a new, simple, easily producible planar concentrator based on a light guide system is proposed. In this device, solar light is concentrated by microprism optical patterns guiding the light, mainly through total reflection and refraction. The main design variables of the concentrator are the geometric concentration ratio ($R_c$) and the ${\Theta}_1$ and ${\Theta}_2$ of the microprism pattern. Ray tracing was simulated using commercial software, SPEOS, and the optical efficiencies of the light guide solar concentrator were predicted in each case. The predicted maximum optical efficiencies are 65.60%, 54.78%, and 46.78%, respectively, for $R_c$ values of 4, 5, and 6. The variation of the optical efficiencies according to ${\Theta}_1$, ${\Theta}_2$, and the incline angle of the incident light were predicted.