• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.225-228
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• 2000

대류권내에 존재하는 질소산화물(NO$_{y}$ )은 지구대기의 대기화학변화에 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. NO$_{x}$는 대류권 하층에서 광화학 과정에 관여하여 탄화수소와 함께 오존(O$_3$)을 포함한 광화학스모그를 발생시키는 역할을 한다. 또한 질소산화물 중 아산화질소($N_2$O)는 매우 안정한 기체로서 NO$_{x}$처럼 대류권내에서 활발한 화학 반응에 관여하지는 않지만, 메탄(CH$_4$), 이산화탄소($CO_2$), 오존(O$_3$) 등과 함께 지구온난화에 기여하는 온실기체로서 지구기후변화와 밀접하게 연관되어 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.34-39
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• 2006

1. 철도, 도로, 항공, 해운 등 교통수단별 현황을 조사한 결과, 현재까지의 교통정책이 도로교통 우선 위주였기 때문에 철도는 뛰어난 환경성 및 경제성을 가지고 있음에도 불구하고 수송분담율이 비교적 저조한 편이었다. 그러나, 향후 정부의 사회기반시설 구축에 있어서 국가 기간 철도망 확대와 대도시 지하철 및 경량전철 건설을 통한 도심철도망과 간선철도망의 연결 등을 통하여 철도의 이용이 훨씬 용이해질 것으로 보이며 이에 따라 철도의 이용률도 크게 상승할 것으로 예상된다. 2. 교통수단별 일반현황은 다음과 같다. 1) 철도교통은 여객수송량이 다소 증가하고 있는 추세였는데, 2004년 KTX의 개통으로 인하여 여객수송량이 급증하였으나, 화물수송은 약간 감소하는 추세이다. 2) 도로교통은 공로의 경우 이용량이 크게 감소하고 있으나, 자가용의 경우에는 승용차의 급증에 의하여 도로의 분담률이 증가하고 있다. 그러나, 도로망의 확충이 자동차의 증가량을 따르지 못하는 것과 자동차가 도시에 밀집됨에 따른 교통체증에 따라 자가용 차량의 1일 평균 주행거리가 짧아지는 등 수송량이 크게 증가하지는 않고 있다. 3. 각 교통수단별 환경경제성을 조사한 결과는 다음과 같았다. 1) 단위수송량당 에너지 소비율은 여객의 경우 철도가 75.97kcal/인 km에 불과한 반면에 버스는 415.43, 택시는 1,192.24kcal/인 km에 달하여 각각 철도의 5.5배 및 15.7배나 많은 에너지를 소비하는 것으로 나타났다. 화물의 경우에도 철도는 105.98kcal/톤 km에 불과한 반면에 도로는 1,674.21kcal/톤 km에 달하여 철도의 무려 15.8배의 에너지를 사용하는 것으로 나타나, 철도가 에너지 효율성 면에서 도로 교통수단보다 월등히 앞서는 친환경적이면서 경제적인 교통수단임을 알 수 있다. 2) 도로와 철도의 단위수송량 당 CO의 배출량은 도로가 1,531.2kg/백만인 km로 철도의 167.4kg/백만인 km에 비하여 9배나 되었다. 그러나, 탄화수소의 경우는 도로가 216.5kg/백만인 km으로 철도의 68.0kg/백만인 km의 3배를 넘는다. 미세먼지의 경우는 도로가 철도보다 약간 더 많은 수준이었으나, NOx와 $SO_2$는 오히려 철도가 오히려 약간 더 높게 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

배기가스의 규제가 전 세계적으로 강화되고 있는 가운데, 경유사용 디젤기관은 가솔린기관 보다 열효율이 높고 온실가스인 $CO_2$ 배출량이 적은 장점이 있으나, PM(입자상 물질)과 NO$_{x}$가 다량 배출되는 단점이 있다. 이들의 저감책으로서, 엔진개량, 연료분사장치의 고압화와 전자제어화, 배기 후처리기술의 적용 등 디젤기관의 고효율성을 손상시키지 않으면서, 배기공해를 대폭 저감하려는 연구가 활발히 추진되고 있으며, 한편으로는 디젤기관의 대체연료에 대한 연구가 활발히 추진되고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.498-506
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• 2007

To reduce the vehicular emissions of air pollutants, various traffic control programs (TCPs) have been used. In 2002, two TCPs have been implemented in Seoul and Busan, respectively. In this study, based on the study results on the effectiveness of the TCP in Seoul (Kim et al., 2005) and Busan (Lee et al., 2006), emission reduction by the TCP in Seoul was estimated and their contribution to the ambient air pollutants' concentrations was discussed. During the TCP period in 2002 at Seoul, emissions of air pollutants were reduced by 35% for CO and $NO_2$, 80% for HC, 23% for $PM_{10}$, and 24% for $SO_2$. Vehicular emission reduction affected the ambient concentrations significantly for $NO_2$. However, for $SO_2$, vehicular emission reduction did not affect the ambient concentration significantly. For $PM_{10}$, vehicular emission reduction did not affect the ambient concentration significantly if considering fugitive emissions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.928-941
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• 2016

Energy consumption of today's wired data networks is driven by access networks. Today, green networking has become a issue to reduce energy wastes and $CO_2$ emission by adding energy managing mechanism to wired data networks. However, energy consumption and environmental impacts of wired access networks are largely unknown. In addition, there is a lack of general and quantitative valuation basis of energy use of large-scale access networks and $CO_2$ emissions from them. This paper compared and analyzed limits of existing models estimating energy consumption of access networks and it proposed a model to estimate energy consumption of large-scale access networks by top-down approach. In addition, this work presented models that assess environmental(anti-greening) impacts of access networks using results from our models. The performance evaluation of the proposed models are achieved by comparing with previous models based on existing investigated materials and actual measured values in accordance with real cases.

• Journal of Korea Planning Association
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.87-99
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of municipal sustainability policy efforts on citywide $CO_2$ emissions. 25 cities in the U.S.A., which offer data on $CO_2$ emissions and are included in the top 50 largest cities in the U.S.A. according to its estimated population, were selected as study cities. This study utilizes the Sustainable Cities Seriously Index of Portney and selects data for the index at the city level. For analysis, this study employs correlation analysis, and OLS regression analysis. The results show that each city has around 30 sustainability policies and emits $12.76tCO_2$ per year on average. In addition, when the number of sustainability policies increases by one, the amount of $CO_2$ per capita decreases by $0.7tCO_2$. This means that the more cities employ sustainability policies, the less $CO_2$ those cities emit. The results of this study support the idea that active efforts on behalf of municipal governments toward the development of sustainability policies are needed to handle citywide $CO_2$ emissions.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.40-51
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• 2015

This study is to estimate the viability of aerobic stabilization technology for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from landfills in Korea. In this study, methane emissions were estimated by applying Landfill gas estimation model (LandGEM) to Y landfill in Korea. By comparison of an anaerobic condition (baseline) and an aerobic condition, the amount of $CO_2eq$ savings was calculated. The $CO_2eq$ savings take place inside the landfilled waste during aeration due to the conversion of previously anaerobic biodegradation to aerobic processes, releasing mainly $CO_2$. It was demonstrated that 86.6% of the total GHG emissions occurring under anaerobic conditions could be reduced by aerobic stabilization technology. This means the aerobic stabilization technology could reduce environmental contamination through early stabilization and GHG emissions considerably at the same time. Therefore, the aerobic stabilization technology is one of the optimal technologies that could be employed to domestic landfill sites to achieve sustainable landfill.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.1157-1163
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• 2012

This study was performed a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) among three rice production systems in order to analyze the difference of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and environment impacts. Its life cycle inventory (LCI) database (DB) was established using data obtained from interview with conventional, without agricultural chemical and organic farming at Gunsan and Iksan, Jeonbuk province in 2011. According to the result of LCI analysis, $CO_2$ was mostly emitted from fertilizer production process and rice cropping phase. $CH_4$ and $N_2O$ were almost emitted from rice cultivation phase. The value of carbon footprint to produce 1 kg rice (unhulled) on conventional rice production system was 1.01E+00 kg $CO_2$-eq. $kg^{-1}$ and it was the highest value among three rice production systems. The value of carbon footprints on without agricultural chemical and organic rice production systems were 5.37E-01 $CO_2$-eq. $kg^{-1}$ and 6.58E-01 $CO_2$-eq. $kg^{-1}$, respectively. Without agricultural chemical rice production system whose input amount was the smallest had the lowest value of carbon footprint. Although the yield of rice from organic farming was the lowest, its value of carbon footprint less than that of conventional farming. Because there is no compound fertilizer inputs in organic farming. Compound fertilizer production and methane emission during rice cultivation were the main factor to GHGs emission in conventional and without agricultural chemical rice production systems. In organic rice production system, the main factors to GHGs emission were using fossil fuel on machine operation and methane emission from rice paddy field.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.737-744
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• 2012

A mobile emission laboratory (MEL) was designed to measure the amount of traffic pollutants, with high temporal and spatial resolution under real conditions. Equipment for the gas-phase measurements of CO, NOx, $CO_2$, and THC and for the measurement of the number, concentration, and size distribution of fine and ultra-fine particles by an FMPS and CPC was placed in a minivan. The exhausts of different types of vehicles can be sampled by an MEL. This paper describes the technical details of the MEL and presents data from the experiment in which a car chases passenger vehicles fuelled by diesel and gasoline. The particle number concentration in the exhaust of the diesel vehicle was higher than that of the gasoline vehicle. However, the diesel vehicle with a DPF emitted fewer particles than the vehicle equipped with a gasoline direct injection engine, with particle diameters over 50 nm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.834-840
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• 2018

In this study, the characteristics of air pollutant emissions from ships' engines have been investigated by conducting E2 and E3 cycle mode tests. A engine 360Ps (Doosan L126TIH engine) and 400kW dynamometer Horiba-Schenck were utilized for engine tests. The FTIR analyzer and SPC were used to measure exhaust gas (NOx, SOx etc.) and PM (particulate matter), respectively. The results showed that the emissions of THC and CO produced from engine were increased with the increase of sulfur content in fuel oils at E2 and E3 cycle modes. The kinetic viscosity of the fuel increased as the sulfur content of the fuel increased, thereby the specific fuel oil consumption (SFC) of the engine improved. This result is considered to be due to improved combustion conditions due to increased average diameters of sprayed particles and due to increased kinetic viscosity under constant fuel injection pressure in this study. In the case of NOx emission, this study showed no significant change in amount of sulfur content.