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Designing Study on Techno-Economic Assessment of Solar Photovoltaic Mini-Grid Project in Nepal

  • Poudel, Prasis;Bae, Sang-Hyun;Jang, Bongseog
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2022
  • This paper presents the comprehensive feasibility study of solar mini-grid project located in Bajhang District, Sudur Paschim Province, Nepal. The study has been conducted with the aim of developing a suitable size solar mini-grid system to meet electricity demand of proposed settlements of the village people. The study forecasts that the estimated average daily peak power consumption of load is about 20kW and average daily energy demand of load is about 100-150kWh/day in the base year 2022. The shared ratio of productive end uses is about 25% of the total power consumption and about 27% of the total energy demand, which will be used for small business/income generation activities and required 45kWp size solar power generation mini-grid system. The estimated project cost for the proposed 45kW solar mini-grid system technology, including 3 years of operation & maintenance, as well as power distribution network up to end user's premises is about 0.24 million USD. It is concluded that 45kWp photovoltaic mini-grid is feasible for the location.

Formation Strategy of Renewable Energy Sources for High Mountain Off-grid System Considering Sustainability (지속가능성을 고려한 산악지역 독립망 전력시스템의 신재생 에너지원 구성 전략)

  • Ahn, Sung-Hoon;Lee, Kyung-Tae;Bhandari, Binayak;Lee, Gil-Yong;Lee, Caroline Sun-Yong;Song, Chul-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.29 no.9
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    • pp.958-963
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    • 2012
  • Characteristics of off-grid hybrid renewable energy sources for high mountain villages are discussed. Considering reliability of electric power generation, Photovoltaic (PV)-wind hybrid and PV-hydro hybrid system are suggested. Connecting two or more villages with these hybrid systems, an extended hybrid off-grid can be formed. Sustainability of entire system is important in design of off-grid system, and income generation of the village people using the electricity should be considered.

A Modified Multiple Depth First Search Algorithm for Grid Mapping Using Mini-Robots Khepera

  • El-Ghoul, Sally;Hussein, Ashraf S.;Wahab, M. S. Abdel;Witkowski, U.;Ruckert, U.
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.321-338
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a Modified Multiple Depth First Search algorithm for the exploration of the indoor environments occupied with obstacles in random distribution. The proposed algorithm was designed and implemented to employ one or a team of Khepera II mini robots for the exploration process. In case of multi-robots, the BlueCore2 External Bluetooth module was used to establish wireless networks with one master robot and one up to three slaves. Messages are sent and received via the module's Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) interface. Real exploration experiments were performed using locally developed teleworkbench with various autonomy features. In addition, computer simulation tool was also developed to simulate the exploration experiments with one master robot and one up to ten slaves. Computer simulations were in good agreement with the real experiments for the considered cases of one to one up to three networks. Results of the MMDFS for single robot exhibited 46% reduction in the needed number of steps for exploring environments with obstacles in comparison with other algorithms, namely the Ants algorithm and the original MDFS algorithm. This reduction reaches 71% whenever exploring open areas. Finally, results performed using multi-robots exhibited more reduction in the needed number of exploration steps.

Modeling of Solar/Hydrogen/DEGS Hybrid System for Stand Alone Applications of a Large Store

  • Hong, Won-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.57-68
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    • 2013
  • The market for distributed power generation based on renewable energy is increasing, particularly for standalone mini-grid applications in developing countries with limited energy resources. Stand-alone power systems (SAPS) are of special interest combined with renewable energy design in areas not connected to the electric grid. Traditionally, such systems have been powered by diesel engine generator sets (DEGS), but also hybrid systems with photovoltaic and/or wind energy conversion systems (WECS) are becoming quite common nowadays. Hybrid energy systems can now be used to generate energy consumed in remote areas and stand-alone microgrids. This paper describes the design, simulation and feasibility study of a hybrid energy system for a stand-alone power system. A simulated model is developed to investigate the design and performance of stand-alone hydrogen renewable energy systems. The analysis presented here is based on transient system simulation program (TRNSYS) with realistic ventilation load of a large store. Design of a hybrid energy system is site specific and depends on the resources available and the load demand.

Energy Storage System Application for a Mini-Grid with Renewable Energy Sources (신재생 에너지원이 포함된 미니그리드에서의 에너지 저장장치 적용 연구)

  • Song, Ji-Young;Lee, Han-Sang;Lee, Kye-Byung;Jang, Gil-Soo;Kwon, Se-Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.470_471
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    • 2009
  • When renewable energy sources fluctuated severely are connected with power system, as conventional plants compensate electrical output with a slow response it causes a frequency and voltage problems. In this paper, we can show that the power system can be operated reliably by connecting with the energy storage which has a fast response time through controlling charge or discharge of energy storage.

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Generation of Mini-compacted Thin Film Hybrid Package by Ceramic Ball Grid Array (CBGA를 통한 초소형/박형 박막하이브리드 패키지 구현)

  • 김상희
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 1995
  • 박막제조 기술 및 BGA패캐지를 이용하여 Wellcom 2000 system 소요 OCU Board 의 집적화를 구현하였다. 기존 PCB에 실장되는 소자 일부를 2 Channel BGA 패캐지로 모 듈화한 결과 약 1/6로 소형화시킬수 있었으며 8 Channel의 모율화는 현재 진행중인 다층 구조의 제조 기술 개발과 아울러 BGA 패캐지로 실현이 가능하며 1/10로집접화할수 있음을 알수 있었다. 또한 PCB위에 Bare Chip을 실장하여 Wire Bonding 한 COB를 구현하여 CBGGA의 PCB실장과 함께한 모듈을 형성해 보았다. CBGA패캐지에 Ball Shear Test, In Circuit Test 온도 환경주기시험(TCT) 진동시험을 통하여 신뢰성을 입증하였다. 이때 CBGA의 Coplanarity(3.2%) 증진을 위하여 Ceramic Pad에 선택적인 도금 방식을 개발적용 하였다.

Development of a drift-flux model based core thermal-hydraulics code for efficient high-fidelity multiphysics calculation

  • Lee, Jaejin;Facchini, Alberto;Joo, Han Gyu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.1487-1503
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    • 2019
  • The methods and performance of a pin-level nuclear reactor core thermal-hydraulics (T/H) code ESCOT employing the drift-flux model are presented. This code aims at providing an accurate yet fast core thermal-hydraulics solution capability to high-fidelity multiphysics core analysis systems targeting massively parallel computing platforms. The four equation drift-flux model is adopted for two-phase calculations, and numerical solutions are obtained by applying the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and the Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equation (SIMPLE)-like algorithm in a staggered grid system. Constitutive models involving turbulent mixing, pressure drop, and vapor generation are employed to simulate key phenomena in subchannel-scale analyses. ESCOT is parallelized by a domain decomposition scheme that involves both radial and axial decomposition to enable highly parallelized execution. The ESCOT solutions are validated through the applications to various experiments which include CNEN $4{\times}4$, Weiss et al. two assemblies, PNNL $2{\times}6$, RPI $2{\times}2$ air-water, and PSBT covering single/two-phase and unheated/heated conditions. The parameters of interest for validation include various flow characteristics such as turbulent mixing, spacer grid pressure drop, cross-flow, reverse flow, buoyancy effect, void drift, and bubble generation. For all the validation tests, ESCOT shows good agreements with measured data in the extent comparable to those of other subchannel-scale codes: COBRA-TF, MATRA and/or CUPID. The execution performance is examined with a mini-sized whole core consisting of 89 fuel assemblies and for an OPR1000 core. It turns out that it is about 1.5 times faster than a subchannel code based on the two-fluid three field model and the axial domain decomposition scheme works as well as the radial one yielding a steady-state solution for the OPR1000 core within 30 s with 104 processors.

Prediction of a hit drama with a pattern analysis on early viewing ratings (초기 시청시간 패턴 분석을 통한 대흥행 드라마 예측)

  • Nam, Kihwan;Seong, Nohyoon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.33-49
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    • 2018
  • The impact of TV Drama success on TV Rating and the channel promotion effectiveness is very high. The cultural and business impact has been also demonstrated through the Korean Wave. Therefore, the early prediction of the blockbuster success of TV Drama is very important from the strategic perspective of the media industry. Previous studies have tried to predict the audience ratings and success of drama based on various methods. However, most of the studies have made simple predictions using intuitive methods such as the main actor and time zone. These studies have limitations in predicting. In this study, we propose a model for predicting the popularity of drama by analyzing the customer's viewing pattern based on various theories. This is not only a theoretical contribution but also has a contribution from the practical point of view that can be used in actual broadcasting companies. In this study, we collected data of 280 TV mini-series dramas, broadcasted over the terrestrial channels for 10 years from 2003 to 2012. From the data, we selected the most highly ranked and the least highly ranked 45 TV drama and analyzed the viewing patterns of them by 11-step. The various assumptions and conditions for modeling are based on existing studies, or by the opinions of actual broadcasters and by data mining techniques. Then, we developed a prediction model by measuring the viewing-time distance (difference) using Euclidean and Correlation method, which is termed in our study similarity (the sum of distance). Through the similarity measure, we predicted the success of dramas from the viewer's initial viewing-time pattern distribution using 1~5 episodes. In order to confirm that the model is shaken according to the measurement method, various distance measurement methods were applied and the model was checked for its dryness. And when the model was established, we could make a more predictive model using a grid search. Furthermore, we classified the viewers who had watched TV drama more than 70% of the total airtime as the "passionate viewer" when a new drama is broadcasted. Then we compared the drama's passionate viewer percentage the most highly ranked and the least highly ranked dramas. So that we can determine the possibility of blockbuster TV mini-series. We find that the initial viewing-time pattern is the key factor for the prediction of blockbuster dramas. From our model, block-buster dramas were correctly classified with the 75.47% accuracy with the initial viewing-time pattern analysis. This paper shows high prediction rate while suggesting audience rating method different from existing ones. Currently, broadcasters rely heavily on some famous actors called so-called star systems, so they are in more severe competition than ever due to rising production costs of broadcasting programs, long-term recession, aggressive investment in comprehensive programming channels and large corporations. Everyone is in a financially difficult situation. The basic revenue model of these broadcasters is advertising, and the execution of advertising is based on audience rating as a basic index. In the drama, there is uncertainty in the drama market that it is difficult to forecast the demand due to the nature of the commodity, while the drama market has a high financial contribution in the success of various contents of the broadcasting company. Therefore, to minimize the risk of failure. Thus, by analyzing the distribution of the first-time viewing time, it can be a practical help to establish a response strategy (organization/ marketing/story change, etc.) of the related company. Also, in this paper, we found that the behavior of the audience is crucial to the success of the program. In this paper, we define TV viewing as a measure of how enthusiastically watching TV is watched. We can predict the success of the program successfully by calculating the loyalty of the customer with the hot blood. This way of calculating loyalty can also be used to calculate loyalty to various platforms. It can also be used for marketing programs such as highlights, script previews, making movies, characters, games, and other marketing projects.