• 청정기술
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.182-192
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• 2022

This study provides an overview of the production costs of methane and hydrogen via water electrolysis-based hydrogen production followed by a methanation based methane production technology utilizing CO₂ from external sources. The study shows a comparative way for economic optimization of green methane generation using excess free electricity from renewable sources. The study initially developed the overall process on the Aspen Plus simulation tool. Aspen Plus estimated the capital expenditure for most of the equipment except for the methanation reactor and electrolyzer. The capital expenditure, the operating expenditure and the feed cost were used in a discounted cash flow based economic model for the methane production cost estimation. The study compared different reactor configurations as well. The same model was also used for a hydrogen production cost estimation. The optimized economic model estimated a methane production cost of $11.22/mcf when the plant is operating for 4000 hr/year and electricity is available for zero cost. Furthermore, a hydrogen production cost of $2.45/GJ was obtained. A sensitivity analysis was performed for the methane production cost as the electrolyzer cost varies across different electrolyzer types. A sensitivity study was also performed for the changing electricity cost, the number of operation hours per year and the plant capacity. The estimated levelized cost of methane (LCOM) in this study was less than or comparable with the existing studies available in the literature.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.75-98
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• 2017

This paper aims to estimate the social discount rate (SDR) rather than dig into its theoretical foundation. As SDRs can be derived by investigating both the rate of return on investment and the social time preference rate, we estimate the marginal productivity of both private and public capital and the time preference rate based on the Euler equation. In order to provide a single representative SDR, the weighted averages of the marginal productivity and time preference rate, whose weights are determined by the flow of funds data reflecting the social demand of funds, are presented. Based on the empirical results, we argue that the marginal productivity of private capital stands in the middle of the 3% range while that of public capital varies from 4.5% to 8.6%, with the time preference rate showing a decreasing trend from 3.2% in the early 2000s to 1.2% by around 2030. The single representative SDR or the weighted SDR is estimated to be approximately 3.0~4.5% and expected to continue its downward trend for the foreseeable future.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.215-228
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• 2006

세계경제공간은 교통 정보통신의 기술혁신과 국제교역의 자유화 그리고 지역화의 강화로 생산제품의 교역뿐만아니라, 생산요소인 자본, 기술, 노동 등이 국경을 넘어 세계 모든 나라로 자유로이 이동하는 국제화(globalization) 과정이 더욱 확대되고 있다. 세계화된 경제공간에서 핵심부 기업들은 저렴한 생산요소, 특히 저임금 노동력을 찾아 주변 부국가로 자본을 수출하는 동시에 주변부국가로부터 노동력을 유인함으로서 자본과 노동의 국제화를 가져오고 있다. 1980년대 이후 세계에서 가장 역동적인 경제성장으로 세계 3극(triad) 경제체계에서 하나의 축으로 등장한 동아시아는 지역 내 국가간 발전격차에 따른 생산요소비용과 소득수준 차이로 자본은 들른 노동이동의 지역화와 자본과 노동이동의 방향 그리고 이주 노동자의 특성에 많은 변화를 보였다. 우선, 지리적 인접성과 문화 역사적 유사성을 바탕으로 동남아시아와 동북아시아로 구분되어 진행되어왔던 지역 내 노동이동이 동아시아로 통합되고 있다. 그리고 지역 내 노동이동은 자본이동과는 역으로 소득이 높은 국가로의 단계적 이동구조를 보이고 있다. 마지막으로 자본유입이 많은 국가에는 기업내부 이동 노동자가, 자본유입이 적은 국가에는 일반 단순노동자가 유입되는 특성을 보이고 있다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.511-516
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• 2008

Since 1989, Advanced drinking water treatment processes began to build in Korea, especially the water treatment plants around the Nak-dong river stream due to sequential pollutant accidents. Moreover, Advanced drinking water treatment processes, ozone and GAC, are again to be built in water treatment plants around Han-river stream to control taste and odor, micro pollutants. However, there are still a lot of discussion to decide the processes to apply for advanced treatment. Thus there are still need to understand clearly on the cost evaluation of each advanced treatment processes. The cost evaluation was accomplished based on the data of six water treatment plants which are currently being either operating or constructing. Exceptionally, PAC(Powdered Activated Carbon) process was evaluated with cost estimation from construction company. The capital cost per unit volume of ozone process was significantly decreased as the treatment capacity increased. The capital cost was in the order of GAC, ozone and GAC. The operation cost decreased in the order of PAC, GAC and ozone. The total cost considering present value shows that ozone process covers 84% of ozone and GAC process for $30,000m^3/d$ capacity while it covers less than 35% for over 140 thousands $m^3/d$ capacity. Comparing GAC only, and ozone/GAC process, ozone/GAC process is more cost effective for high capacity water treatment plant.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.861-872
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• 2021

This study examines the relationship between board characteristics and capital structure. Data was collected from the annual reports of listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand, from 2015 to 2017, which totaled 1,264 firm-year observations. The study uses multiple regression analysis to analyses the data by using independent variables, including board size, outside directors, managerial ownership, CEO duality, frequency of board meetings, board experience, and gender to measure board characteristics and the total debt ratio for capital structure. Research findings show that the more independent the directors are, the lower the cost of debt financing is, as they control the management team more strictly about debt financing than directors with less independence do. Additionally, the results reveal that the higher the percentage of managerial ownership, the higher the level of leverage and debt financing, whereas board size and board meetings have a negative relationship to capital structure. Further research showed that firm size, growth opportunities and corporate governance rating all had a positive significant impact on capital structure. The findings of this study suggest that the presence of proper corporate governance leads to better funding mechanisms as it ensures that the company is in a better position to obtain external funding.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.171-183
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• 2014

Distributed planning and decision making can be beneficial from the robustness, adaptability and fault tolerance in multi-robot systems. Distributed mechanisms have not been employed in three dimensional transportation systems namely aerial and underwater environments. This paper presents a distributed cooperation mechanism on multi robot transportation problem in three dimensional environments. The cooperation mechanism is based on artificial capital market, a newly introduced market based negotiation protocol. In the proposed mechanism contributing in transportation task is defined as asset. Each robot is considered as an investor who decides if he is going to invest on some assets. The decision is made based on environmental constraint including fuel limitation and distances those are modeled as capital and cost. Simulations show effectiveness of the algorithm in terms of robustness, speed and adaptability.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2023

Business is an important entity in every economy with its role in job creation, budget contribution, and national output. It can be said that enterprises are also one of the leading units that play a key role in implementing digital transformation, grasping science and technology, and improving labor productivity. Developing a team of enterprises that are both strong in quantity and strong in quality is an urgent requirement in many countries, including Vietnam. Vietnam is a developing country and home to many textile and garment enterprises operating due to the advantages of cheap labor and a large market, the textile and garment industry is capable of creating many jobs for the economy. Studying the factors affecting corporate financial performance across 250 textile and garment enterprises in Hanoi capital and Bac Ninh province, the research results show that when enterprises have the ability to mobilize capital, the cost is cheap, appropriate, and optimal, most businesses often achieve higher business efficiency and financial performance. In contrast, enterprises that are difficult to raise capital in the economy often achieve low financial efficiency and financial performance. The study also confirms the role of human capital in enterprises, enterprises with high human capital often achieve high profits.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.1293-1300
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• 2011

물 냉각기의 응축기와 증발기의 형상(길이, 관 직경, 관수, 통로 수)은 설비비용에 관련된 열전달 면적과 운전비용에 관련된 압력강하와의 조화로 결정될 수 있다. 물 냉각기 (냉동사이클)의 쉘-관 형상의 열교환기(응축기와 증발기)의 관 내부로 물이 통과할 때, 주어진 냉각부하와 요구조건을 만족하면서, 물 압력강하가 작은 설계조건에 초점을 맞추었다. 상업용 강화튜브의 사용과 상용 소프트웨어를 사용한 해석결과의 검증으로 실용성과 신뢰성 확보를 도모하였다. 해석결과, 관 통로 수를 적게, 관 직경을 크게, 관 수를 많게 선정하면, 관 길이를 짧게 하므로 물측 압력강하를 줄일 수 있었다. 그러나, 관수가 특정값보다 많을 때는 오히려 작은 관 직경을 사용하는 것이, 내부열저항의 감소로 인한 단위 길이 당 총열저항 감소 때문에, 관 길이를 짧게 하여 설비비용을 줄일 수 있었다.

• 벤처혁신연구
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2018

국내 자동차부품기업의 효율성 분석에 대한 연구들은 투입자산 대비 매출액등 성과창출의 크기를 산출변수로 하는 연구들이 대다수였다. 그러나 기업의 성과지표인 매출액, 영업이익, 당기순이익 등은 비용구조와 직접적인 연관이 있고, 이러한 비용구조는 기업의 자산구조와 자본구조의 변동에 의해 영향을 받는다. 결국, 적절한 투자를 통해 효율적 경영성과를 창출하는 것은 효율적 자본조달이 동시에 이루어 져야 할 것이다. 본 연구는 이러한 점에 착안하여 현대기아자동차에 차제부품을 납품하는 1차 협력업체 33개를 대상으로 기업이 창출한 매출액등 성과지표 대비 조달자본의 효율성을 측정하고자 한다. 효율성을 평가하는 방법 중 비모수적 방법으로 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 것이 선형계획법에 기반한 DEA모형이다, 그러나, 효율적 프론티어에 기반한 DEA모형은 효율성에 하향적 영향을 주는 변수를 그대로 사용할 수 없는 한계를 지니고 있다. 이로 인해 자본조달과 관련된 차입금, 총부채등에 대한 변수를 직접적으로 고려하기에는 부적합하다. 본 연구에서는 한계점을 개선하기 위해 Worst Practice DEA를 이용하여 자본조달 측면의 효율성을 측정하였으며 국내 자동차 부품기업의 자본조달 측면의 효율성 개선 방향을 제시하였다.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.97-103
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• 2005

Building costs means capital costs which include cost of land, costs of acquiring and preparing the site, construction costs, professional fees, furnishings, cost of financing the project. and cost of management required to run and maintenance the building for use. There are several phases that determine the building costs : design phase, construction phase, and operation & maintenance phase. So, the cost of work could be set against the examining the full range of complexities that a building program might contain. To solve this problem, it needs to compute building cost systematically. This is still in the development stage, awaiting the organization of rational cost data base. The method of cost saving by cost control could be constituted by detailed knowledge of building costs for all possible combinations of components and subsystems that can be assembled into integration model of cost factor on each phase of project development. The model of cost saving in each building phase is available for procedures of cost control of building systems.