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Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in China

  • Erusalkina, Daria;Saphouvong, Linda
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.23-47
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    • 2022
  • Environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, and people gradually realize the harmfulness of environmental pollution, so they pay more and more attention to environmental problems. Also, the conflict between environmental issues and economic growth, and the renewable energy consumption is increasing. The emergence of renewable energy in China has improved the problem of energy shortages and further protects the environment. This article studied the renewable energy resources and the status quo of development and utilization, examined China's renewable energy development countermeasures and suggestions, and conducted an empirical analysis of the effect of renewable energy on economic growth in China. The empirical research concluded that energy consumption and renewable energy consumption have a positive and significant impact on economic growth, and the driving effect of traditional energy on GDP growth is still greater than the driving effect of renewable energy on GDP growth.

An Estimation of Quantity of Unused Energy of River Water, Seawater and Treated Sewage as Heat Source and Its Availability in Large Facilities (대규모 시설에서 이용가능한 미활용 에너지의 부존량과 그 이용 가능성에 관한 조사연구-하천수.해수.하수처리수를 중심으로)

  • Heo, Jae-Yeong
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.1
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    • pp.423-446
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    • 2003
  • While the demand for energy has shown a sharp increase recently, the supply seems to be limited by the fact that the conventional fossil fuel energy or nuclear energy has its own environmental problems such as, for example, global warming or nuclear waste disposal. To overcome such limited supply of energy, the utilization of natural thermal energy such as river water and seawater as well as treated sewage can be a substantial supplement. The potential use of the unused energy has become more and more feasible these days as the heat pump technology has been advanced. In the present study, the unused energy resources are estimated on regional and monthly basis for each resource by the method proposed here in order to establish the fundamental data for its utilization. The potential use of the unused energy is a1so discussed.

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A Study on Open BIM based Building Energy Evaluation based on Quantitative Factors

  • Kim, In-han;Jin, Jin;Choi, Jung-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.289-296
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    • 2010
  • Energy consumption by buildings accounts for a large part of the world‘s energy consumption. Methods to analyze building energy consumption before construction have been studied for decades. With BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology, architects can easily export building information to data models in order to analyze the design‘s effect on building energy efficiency. Although several BIM-based energy simulation applications are currently available, utilizing these applications for energy efficiency simulation is difficult. In this paper, by comparing existing BIM-based energy applications, the authors test the building energy efficiencies estimated by some BIM models, offer ideas and solutions to problems that appeared during the test process and propose new methods for BIM-based energy evaluation based on quantitative factors.

A BIM-based Design Method for Energy-Efficient Housing (BIM 기반의 저에너지 주거공간 설계 기법 연구)

  • Yoon, Seung-Hyun;Park, Nam-Hee;Choi, Jin-Won
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.187-192
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    • 2009
  • Nowadays, global warming and high oil prices were a threat to the survival of the whole human race. One of a solution to respond to these problems is to reduce energy consumption of building. By adopting energy-saving design, the dissemination of low energy building is required. Therefore, to improve energy efficiency while reducing the usage of the design method is necessary to study actively. BIM-based systems applied to buildings, scheduled to be built by reducing the amount of energy reduction technologies can be analyzed. Depending on various design and equipment to set energy savings goals, you can select an alternative. If it is possible to predict the energy efficiency from the initial stage of design and support designing low energy building, we would be able to expect improvement in the economics of housing due to the reduction of energy consumption.

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An Overview of Marine Renewable Energy (해양 신재생에너지의 고찰)

  • Kim, Young C.
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.433-438
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    • 2013
  • With the prospect of an increasing shortage of energy resources, there has been a growing interest in renewable alternative sources of energy. An increasing effort is being directed towards resolving the problems of extracting energy from the world's oceans, as they represent a vast potential source of renewable energy. This paper summarizes the extraction and conversion techniques of the ocean's energy resources, namely, energy derived from the ocean waves, tides, thermal gradients, and currents. For each energy extraction and conversion technique, case studies are discussed.

Basic Study on Geothermal System Application Possibility of a Detached House (단독주택의 지열시스템 적용 가능성에 대한 기초연구)

  • Shin, Hee-Il;Jang, Tea-Ik
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.794-800
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    • 2008
  • Due to high oil prices and global warming problems, researching an alternative energy source and decreasing the energy usage will be the key in the future. Unlike other alternative energy sources, geothermal energy is less dependent on the surrounding environment. Geothermal energy is the ideal energy source for buildings due to the simple and space saving installation. The system is semi permanent once it is installed and this will help reduce the energy usage in controlling the climate in buildings. Geothermal energy does not emit carbon dioxide and other gases that are harmful to the environment. Therefore geothermal energy will be the key in solving high oil prices and a decrease in fossil fuels by applying the geothermal energy system to detached house to counter future energy crisis.

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Optimum Installation Angle of Solar Collectors according to Region and Energy Consumption Patterns (지역 및 에너지소비패턴에 따른 태양열 집열기의 최적설치각 해석)

  • Jun, Yong-Joon;Park, Kyung-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2018
  • Solar energy depends on the altitude and azimuth of the sun, and the amount of energy collected on the slope depends on the latitude of the area being installed. However, since most solar heating systems are fixed to the ground, it is necessary to analyze the optimal installation angle from the early design stage. However, problems arise when energy consumption is not considered together because heating systems are not used in the summer In this study, the optimum installation angles of the solar collectors according to the latitude of the installation area are not simply determined by the amount of energy collected, but because the system is overheated due to climate change or energy usage patterns, And the amount of additional energy input.

A study on the calculation of carbon credit according to the supply temperature of cogeneration (열병합발전 공급온도에 따른 탄소 배출권 산정 연구)

  • Choi, SangMi;Kim, Minsung;Kim, Soyeon;Lim, JiHun;Jeong, SangHun
    • Plant Journal
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 2022
  • As GHG reduction becomes a major global issue, the importance and interest of ETS is increasing. Korea experienced positive effects of the system since the introduction of ETS in 2015, but also faced various problems. The focus of this study is on the issue of applying the ETS system to the group energy of industrial complexes. The group energy of industrial complexes is a unique industrial form of Korea that cannot be found in the world. Therefore, if the system is implemented in the same way as the preceding countries, it will inevitably cause problems. In particular, the group energy of industrial complexes has the characteristic that the conditions and amount of heat supplied are dtermined according to the demands of customers and the amount of power generation is determined accordingly. We investigated how differenct temperatures of heat produced in cogeneration affect carbon credit calculations.

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Examining Elementary School Students' Awareness about Socio-scientific Issues and Solutions about Environmental Topics by Using Their Drawings (이미지 분석을 통한 초등학생들의 환경 관련 사회적 문제(SSI)와 해결방법에 대한 인식조사)

  • Lee, Yoonjeong;Ju, Eunjeong;Jang, Shinho
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.111-122
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school students' awareness about socio-scientific issues and solutions about environmental topics by using their drawings. For this study, 489 students were participated in 3 provincial regions, Incheon, Dangjin and Pohang in Korea. The students participated in a drawing activity to express their ideas of the socio-scientific issues and solutions related to 'environmental problems.' The analysis of the data include that the students displayed most awareness towards air pollution, water pollution and trash problems. However, the global environmental problems such as global warming and climate change were perceived very low. The interesting thing was about 8% of the students, who drew global environmental problems, tried to explain their drawings using scientific knowledge. But they revealed misconceptions as well. For instance, they were not good at connecting their science knowledge with environmental problems. About 80% of the students drew the pictures, showing solutions in personal context. They mainly drew 3 kinds of solutions: 'Reduce trash', 'Preserve ecosystem' and 'Saving of resources & energy'. Most students suggested to administrate the action plans. About 19% of the students drew 'campaign to save the forest' or 'develop alternative energy' in social context. And only 1 student drew UN conference to solve the environmental problems in national context.

Magneto-Optical Recording in Near-Field using Elliptic Solid Immersion Lens (타원형 고체잠입렌즈를 이용한 근접장 광자기 기록)

  • 박재혁;이문도;박노철;박영필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.678-681
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    • 2003
  • In conventional optical data storage numerical aperture (NA) cannot be over 1 because of diffraction limit. To overcome this limitation. solid immersion lens(SIL) have produced a great interest in near-field optical data storage. In conventional optical recording method, the dual lens system using object lens and SIL had been studied generally. But the conventional SIL system has some critical problems that must be solved. The problems are heat, contamination. alignment of optical components and so on. To solve these problems. this work proposes enhanced SIL which has several advantages for mechanical and optical issues. This new SIL system named elliptic SIL(ESIL) can use evanescent energy in near-field more effectively. In addition. because of applying the inside recording unlike previous surface recording, ESIL can clear up the problems. The design and analysis of ESIL art executed by using CODE V. Also, in this paper we composed actual data recording system and achieved recording experiment by applying ESIL to magneto-optical recording. In conclusion. we analyze the improvement of aerial density and the reasonability of application to real data storage system.

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