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The Advanced Case Study for Investigation on Application of BIPV on Tall Building (초고층빌딩의 BIPV 적용성 검토를 위한 선진 사례 조사)

  • Lee, Jong-Min;Seok, Ho-Tae;Yang, Jeong-Hoon
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.155-160
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    • 2009
  • The increasingly high prices for oil, the exhaustion of fossil fuels as well as concern about global warming are driving rapid growth of alternative sources of energy in the world. The active solution for global environment and exhaustion of energy sources is to develop and popularize the technologies to use natural energy such as sunlight, wind, and water. PV(Photovoltaic) modules are efficient devices that has been considered a logical material for use in buildings. Recent advanced BIPV(Building Integrated PV) technology have rapidly made PVs suitable for direct integration into construction in the world. Recently, building has been higher and higher. Tall buildings have many advantages for BIPV such as wide facade area and no shading effect by the surrounding buildings. However. BIPV has not been applied for tall building facade yet. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to develop suitable BIPV for tall buildings and to put these technologies to practical use. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate unification of BIPV to curtain wall to apply BIPV on tall building through research into advanced application of overseas BIPV cases.

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Physical Properties of Matrix using Biomass Fly Ash an Industrial By-product (산업부산물인 바이오매스 플라이애시를 활용한 경화체의 물리적 특성)

  • Kim, Dae-Yeon;Cho, Eun-Seok;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2019.11a
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    • pp.21-22
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    • 2019
  • In order to prevent global warming according to fossil fuel use, countries around the world are making efforts through the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Climate Change Convention. In addition, in order to prepare for high oil prices, researches such as the development of various renewable energy are being conducted. At present, the domestic production rate of energy sources in Korea is low at 18.1%, and power plants using forest biomass are being constructed to meet the domestic situation where 63% of the land is a forest. In 2015, the global production of wood pellets, a raw material for wood-based biomass power generation, was 28 million tons, up 7.7% from 2014, and has increased tenfold over the last decade. This is a result of increased demand for biomass. Korea is also increasing every year. However, biomass fly ash, an industrial by-product generated by biomass energy generation, is now being disposed of entirely, and there is little research to utilize it. Therefore, this paper will use biomass fly ash, an industrial by-product, which is currently being discarded due to a lack of separate treatment methods, as an admixture concept to contribute to solving environmental problems, developing new admixtures, improving quality, and seeking recycling plans.

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Spray Characteristics for Specified Regions of High Pressure Swirl Injcetor in Gasoline Direct Injection Engine (가솔린 직접분사식 고압선회 분사기의 분무 영역별 분무 특성 고찰)

  • Song, Bhum-Keun;Kim, Won-Tae;Kang, Shin-Jae
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2003
  • According as the industry was developed, the pollution of the environment and atmosphere rose up to the surface. So, the focus is now concentrated on the engines of affinity for nature. And the investigators make more effort to the improvement in the performance of engines, depending to the prices of oil and the anxiety about the exhaustion of the fossil fuel go up. So the GDI engines head up for these necessities. In this experimental study, the spray flow characteristics for a commercial injector equipped in the present GDI engine were investigated, which had a strong influence on the engine performance and emissions. The experiment was performed at the injection pressures of 1, 3, 5 and 7MPa under the atmospheric condition. A PDPA system was used to specify the flow characteristics of the spray. Also, the global spray behavior classified into three regions as leading, main spray and vortex cloud region, was analyzed by using a visualization system. And the regions were compared with each other.

DC-DC Converter of Fixed Duty Ratio Method for 1kW Photovoltaic System (1kW급 태양광 발전용 고정 시비율 방식의 DC-DC 컨버터)

  • Yoo, Ho-Won;Jung, Yong-Min;Lim, Seung-Beom;Lee, Jun-Young;Hong, Soon-Chan
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.46-48
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    • 2008
  • A concern about micro grid connection system is elevated. The reason is that carbon dioxide emission is regionally restricted to prevent the drain of fossil fuel, high oil prices and global warming. The existing photovoltaic DC-DC converter is operated by the full-bridge method. However, the configuration is complicated because a phase shift method is required to raise an efficiency. A photovoltaic DC-DC converter connected with second layered half-bridge converter and boost converter is proposed in this paper. This proposed DC-DC converter is easy to control and has an advantage of reducing the size. Finally, the validity of the proposed converter is verified by the experimentation.

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A Study on the Application Cases Analysis of ESS(Energy Storage System) to Electric Power System (에너지 저장 시스템의 전력계통 적용 사례 분석)

  • Ko, Yun-Seok
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2016
  • Because a progressive tax of home electricity rates is charged and a continuous rise of industrial electricity rates is expected in order to solve the global warming, the high oil prices and the serious power shortage problem, the efforts to apply the energy storage systems which can significantly improve the energy usage efficiency to the smart grid are trying newly. In this study, characteristics of the secondary battery which can be used as energy storage devices, the structure and operation principle of a lithium-ion battery, and the concept of energy storage systems are research and analyzed. In addition, in this paper, the base technologies which are required to apply to the energy storage system to electric power system are established by studying about installation location and application methodology of energy storage system to electric power system.

Dispatching to Minimize Flow Time for Production Efficiency in Non-Identical Parallel Machines Environment with Rework (재작업이 존재하는 이종병렬기계에서 생산효율을 위해 공정소요시간 단축을 목적으로 하는 작업할당)

  • Seo, Jung-Ha;Ko, Hyo-Heon;Kim, Sung-Shick;Baek, Jun-Geol
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.367-381
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    • 2011
  • Reducing waste for the efficiency of production is becoming more important because of the rapidly changing market circumstances and the rising material and oil prices. The dispatching also has to consider the characteristic of production circumstance for the efficiency. The production circumstance has the non-identical parallel machines with rework rate since machines have different capabilities and deterioration levels in the real manufacturing field. This paper proposes a dispatching method, FTLR (Flow Time Loss Index with Rework Rate) for production efficiency. The goal of FTLR is to minimize flow time based on such production environments. FTLR predicts the flow time with rework rate. After assessing dominant position of expected flow time per each machine, FTLR performs dispatching to minimize flow time. Experiments compare various dispatch methods for evaluating FTLR with mean flow time, mean tardiness and max tardiness in queue.

Improving Energy Self-sufficiency in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant using Renewable Energy Production (능동적 신재생에너지 생산을 통한 하수처리장 에너지자립화 향상)

  • Kang, Ji-Hoon;Chae, Kyu-Jung;Kim, Dong-Soo;Yang, Hee-Jung;An, Yeong-Seop;Kim, Won-Kyoung;Kim, Jeong-Hyeon;Park, Dong-Eul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.643-643
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    • 2012
  • Increasing energy prices and growing concerns about global warming address the need to improve energy self-sufficiency in many industrial and municipal sectors. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are representative of energy-consuming facilities in Korea, accounting for 5% of national energy consumption. We present renewable energy technologies and energy self-sufficiency scenarios in a municipal WWTP ($30,000m^3d^{-1}$) located in Yongin, South Korea. By employing photovoltaics (PV, 135 kW), small hydropower turbine (10 kW), and thermal energy from treated effluent (25 RT: refrigeration ton) within the WWTP, a total of 142 tonne of oil equivalent (toe) of energy was estimated to be generated, accounting for $365ton\;CO_2\;yr^{-1}$ of greenhouse gas emission reduction. Core renewable technologies under consideration include 1) hybrid solar PV system consisting of fixed PV, dual-axis PV, and building integrated PV, 2) low-head small hydropower plant specifically designed for treated effluent, 3) effluent heat recovery system for heating and air conditioning. In addition to these core technologies, smart operation and management scheme will be presented for enhancing overall energy savings and distribution within the WWTP.

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Economic Analysis of High-tech Glass Greenhouse through the Convergence of New Renewable Energy -Focusing on the Convergence of Geothermal and Solar Power- (신.재생에너지 융합을 통한 첨단 유리온실의 경제성 분석 -지열과 태양광 융합을 중심으로-)

  • Chung, Jong-Hwa;Yoon, Sung-Yi
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.593-610
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    • 2014
  • The whole world concentrates on the reduction of greenhouse gas to effectively cope with policy toward global climate change. To effectively react to climate change, even the agricultural sector requires construction of new farming systems that utilizes new and renewable energy because of rising oil prices and regulations for greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, we need to fuse the new and renewable energy with the horticulture sector of which the light and heat energy cost accounts for great part, moreover, efforts and researches should me done which can increase income of farmers through reducing carbon dioxide and energy cost in agricultural production expenses. Therefore, this study analyzes economic feasibility and applicability of fusing geothermal heat pump and solar power facilities with high-tech glass greenhouse. As a result, it is concluded that there surely are an applicability and economic feasibility if we apply new development system that can be an alternative for problems of securing premises of existing geothermal heat pump and the RPS system as a power generation company in case of solar power. Therefore, using this analysis data, if new empirical studies fusing and implementing agriculture sector with new and renewable energy fields proliferate and be applied to actual rural and agricultural field, it will increase actual income and will become a new advanced agricultural system that effectively deals with world-wide environmental problems.

Effect of Atmospheric Pressure Difference with Altitude on the Induced Airflow Velocity in a Vertical Closed Conduit (수직 공간 내에서 고도변화에 따른 기압차로 인한 기류현상 예측에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Kwang-Seop;Kim, Chul-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.409-416
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    • 2009
  • On 21st century, global warming is the most serious environmental problem threatening the existence of lives on the earth. One of the serious reasons of this nature phenomena was due to the greenhouse effect by carbon dioxide mainly produced with the combustion process of hydro-carbon fuel. and it is mostly produced. In the high oil prices age, intensification of energy efficiency promotion in the building sector is required. Windows are dominating large percentage whole building loads, and are regarding as the primary target of energy efficiency. The purpose of this research is on the obtaining of the renewable energy source in the skyscrape buildings in the metropolitan area. The air movement is happens due to the atmospheric pressure differences in the air. Due to this simple physical theory, it is easily expected to obtain the useful renewable nature energy through the high -raised vertical air stack installed in a tall building. However, there is one problem that should be resolved which is called air-hole effect in the sky -scrape buildings.

On the Inflation and its Modifications in the Era of Global Pandemic: The Case of Some ADB Countries

  • CHARAIA, Vakhtang;PAPAVA, Vladimer
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.7-17
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    • 2022
  • The article discusses the problems caused by inflation in the developing Asia-Pacific region during the time of the worldwide pandemic and suggests innovative solutions to the problem. The reality is that some of the commodity groups from the consumer basket (e.g., non-seasonal fruits, electronics, furniture, hotel, and restaurant services, etc.) fail to reflect the needs of the low-income earners, which make the majority in developing countries. At the same time, the inflation targeting regime has become outdated and not reliable, because of uncontrolled exogenic factors (imported inflation, fluctuation in oil prices, supply chain disruption, Russia-Ukraine war, etc.) prevailing on endogenic factors and thus making it impossible to control the price stability, especially in developing countries. Since, the old-fashioned inflation index and inflation targeting mechanisms regrettably fail to fully reflect both the society and governmental/central banks' expectations, based on which we first should have better care and second create better policies; we propose to use a combination of already well-known indexes and policies, with the new statistical indicators, which reflects price fluctuations on the medication, utilities, and nutrition.