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Circular Fresnel POF(Plastic Optical Fiber) Daylighting System Performance Evaluation Study (원형 프레넬 집광형 POF 주광 조명시스템 성능 평가 연구)

  • Kang, Eun-Chul;Choi, Yong-Jun;Yoon, Kwang-Sik;Lee, Euy-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 2011
  • CF(Circular Fresnel) POF(Plastic Optical Fiber) daylighting system is a beam daylighting system utilizing solar direct beam radiation. In this study, a CF POF daylighting system has been introduced, developed and applied to KIER test buildings. The CF POF daylighting system consists of three parts: light collector, light transmitter and light diffuser. The light collector includes a Circular Fresnel lens focusing solar direct illuminance by sun tracking. The light transmitter contains the POF cable which has light transmission loss of 4.5% per meter. The light diffuser has about 80% diffuser efficiency. This study aims to evaluate of POF daylighting system performance. At the results of a CFPOF system performance evaluation, the theoretical CFPOF system efficiency was 41.9% and the actual CFPOF system efficiency at the KIER test building was 37.5%. The difference was due partly to the connecting efficiency.

A Comparative Study on Heating Energy Consumption for Apartment Based on the Annually Strengthened Criteria of Insulation (공동주택 연도별 단열기준 강화에 따른 에너지소요량 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Won;Chung, Kwang-Seop;Kim, Young-Il;Kim, Sung-Min
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2013
  • Energy consumption is closely related to our lives. As Korea has four seasons, heating and cooling system is considered as essential facilities for the residential buildings. Accordingly, the government has continuously strengthened the design criteria to improve energy for new and existing building to save energy. The most important factor in the energy efficiency analysis for apartment is the heat transmission coefficient, and the value is significantly different as the heating energy amount is greatly different according to the window area ratio versus facade area ratio. Therefore, it is time to conduct continuous set-up for goal to enhance efficiency and restriction on window area ratio versus facade area ratio.

The Study on the Project Delivery System for Vitalizing the Green Remodeling (그린리모델링 사업 활성화를 위한 발주방식 제안)

  • Nam, Sunghoon;Kim, Kyungrai
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2017
  • Aging buildings over 15 years reaches about 74% of 177 thousand buildings in Domestic public buildings. Due to the aging building, the energy loss is a serious problem. In order to reduce the energy usage through improving the energy efficiency on the existing buildings, the government & the local autonomous entity conduct the energy efficiency projects through the remodeling, repairing & equipment replacement on the existing buildings. The green remodeling is applied to the existing public buildings in recently revised the act on the creation and support of green building. However, the standard is not obvious that the work scope of green remodeling, financing and project delivery method. This paper propose is to suggest project delivery system for vitalizing the green remodeling. Green remodeling is defined on basis of the occurring work under project life cycle based on the existing building process and the financing method for owners and companies and the project delivery system according to work scope of green remodeling are proposed in this paper

A Study on the Regeneration Efficiency of the Electric Forklift Using the Variable Hydraulic Motor (가변 유압모터를 이용한 전동지게차 리프트회생 효율에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Yong Soo;Yu, Ying-Xiao;Yun, Jin Su;Do, Tri Cuong;Han, Sung Min;Shin, Jung Woo;Yu, Choong Mok;Ahn, Kyoung Kwan
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2020
  • In modern society, the energy-saving problem of industrial vehicles is economically and environmentally critical. Energy savings using the potential energy of forklifts are one of the viable solutions to resolving this problem. The basic concept of this study is to operate the hydraulic motor and recharge the battery using the flow rate from the cylinder when loading heavy objects and lowering the fork. To save energy, the torque and rotational speed of the generator should be optimized according to the load and descent speed to increase efficiency. To this end, we propose a system that optimizes energy saving efficiency by controlling the swashplate angle of the variable hydraulic motor through the GA(Genetic-Algorithm). The results were verified by building and comparing fixed motor models and variable motor models using the AMEsim. The results of the study show that the proposed optimized swashplate angle increases the energy saving efficiency by approximately 6%-8%, depending on the working conditions.

A Study on the Method about the Economic Feasibility Estimation Considering Renewable Energy (신재생에너지원을 고려한 집단에너지 경제성평가 방법론에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hye-Kyeong;Choi, Young-Jun;Choi, In-Sun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.372-374
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    • 2008
  • Korea classified into a development country when UNFCCC was concluded in 1995. So Korea doesn't have a GHG reduction duty until 2012. As the UNFCCC is strengthened, recently there is a growing interest in renewable energy and energy usage efficiency improvement for reducing GHG emission. It is associated with CES and renewable energy. CES is a total energy (heat, cooling and power)supplier in aggregated demand zone like a hotel, building, hospital and redevelopment district using CHP and it improves energy usage efficiency. At present, renewable energy is needed for GHG reduction duty but renewable energy doesn't have economic feasibility. So renewable energy is needed various support system to popularize which is a FIT and RPS. Especially RPS is carrying out instead of FIT in many advanced country and it will be inroduced in Korea. RPS is a duty which electricity service provider must guarantee renewable energy as much as specific ratio of total capacity. Therefore this study conducts an economic feasibility estimation of CES considering renewable energy when RPS will introduced in the future.

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A Study on the Performance Comparisons of Air Type BIPVT Collector Applied on Roofs and Facades (건물 적용 유형별 공기식 BIPVT 유닛의 전기 및 열성능 비교에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Jun-Gu;Kim, Jin-Hee;Kim, Jun-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.56-62
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    • 2010
  • The integration of PV modules into building facades or roof could raise their temperature that results in the reduction of PV system's electrical power generation. Hot air can be extracted from the space between PV modules and building envelope, and used for heating in buildings. PV/thermal collectors, or more generally known as PVT collectors, are devices that operate simultaneously to convert solar energy from the sun into two other useful energies, namely, electricity and heat. This paper compares the experimental performance of BIPVT((Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal) collectors that applied on building roof and facade. There are four different cases: a roof-integrated PVT type and a facade-integrated PVT type, the base models with an air gap between the PV module and the surface, and the improved models for each types with aluminum fins attached to the PV modules. The accumulated thermal energy of the roof-integrated type was 15.8% higher than the facade-integrated regardless of fin attachment. The accumulated electrical energy of the roof-integrated type was 7.6% higher, compared to that of the facade-integrated. The efficiency differences among the collectors may be due to the fact that the pins absorbed heat from the PV module and emitted it to air layer.

Survey Study of Optimal Cooling Equipment Capacity of the Large Hospitals in Busan City (부산지역 대형병원 냉방장비의 용량설정 실태조사)

  • Lee, Ji-Weon;Chin, Kyung-Il;Kim, Se-Hwan
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2014
  • The basic factors determining the amount of energy used in hospital buildings are weather conditions and building factors. But the real energy consumer is central plant equipment such as boilers and chillers that produce thermal energy for heating and cooling. Inaccurate decision of the primary equipment's size can cause a high initial-cost, an excessive equipment space, a wasted energy by low operation-efficiency and shortening of the machine's life. In this reason, the decision of optimal size for central plant equipment is very important. There are several factors for the decision such as an operation factor, a factor (equipment factor), piping losses and a simultaneous usage factor applied in the sizing process except a basic cooling load. But there is no standard method for applying those factors. Usually, factors are applied individually by an experience or custom of each engineer. In this study, the authors emphasize the meaning and the problem of those factors, examine them by analyzing factors which were applied to actual practices, and propose the recommendation value of safety, load, operation factors and application methods.

A Strategies to Improve the Natural Ventilation Performance at Underground Parking Lot in Multi-Residential Buildings (공동주택 지하주차장의 자연환기성능 향상방안에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Jung-Min;Lee, Joong-Hoon;Song, Jong-Eui;Jung, Jung-Hwa;Song, Doo-Sam
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2011
  • Energy efficiency and indoor air quality have become main issue to develop healthy and sustainable building in these days. As an effort to reduce the energy consumption in multi-residential building, many attempts as like passive design strategies and renewable energy as well as active control method are tried. However, underground parking lot in multi-residential building seldom adopt the sustainable strategies and only mechanical system is installed as usual. Moreover, the mechanical system installed in underground parking lot is rarely operated due to the electric demand for operation after completion. In this study, as an energy efficient measure, natural ventilation system using stack effect as a driving force for underground parking lot will be proposed and the performance of the suggested system will be analyzed by simulation method.

A study on the proposal of environmental capacity criterion method for windows system in buildings (창호시스템의 환경성능평가기법 정립에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Doo-Sung;Kim, Eun-Gyu;Cho, Kyun-Hyong
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2004
  • This research investigates the life-cycle energy consumption of the windows used for the building's exterior cladding, and its environmental potential aspects by utilizing the LCA. The research scope has taken account of the entire life-cycle of the windows from the extraction of raw materials to its disposal, of which given sample building type is an apartment building. Results gained from the LCA of the windows as one of the steps in analysis reflects the current global interest and analysis trend towards the world's environmental issue on all fields of industry including the architectural industry, of which its newly established standards of architectural windows can further promote more environmentally sustainable factor compared to the previous analysis (focused more on energy efficiency assessment of the use stage).

A Study on LED Control System for Object Detecting based on Zigbee Network in BEMS (BEMS용 Zigbee 네트워크 기반 객체감지형 LED 조명 제어 시스템에 관한연구)

  • Ko, Kwangseok;Lee, JungHoon;Cha, Jaesang
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2013
  • A building energy-saving have been increased worldwide interest. There is continuing research on IT technology for efficient management of BEMS. Recently, It is able to control of LED and to maximize energy savings to the development of LED lighting technology. We propose the security image processing system to improve efficiency and we implement the real-time status monitoring system to surveil the object in the building energy management system. In this paper, we proposed the system of LED control using Zigbee network for connect the server. User is able to control LED light and monitering by the desktop. We implemented LED light control software on the based of Real-time monitering and LED control. Also detect human body movement.