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Activation method for biogas production from organic waste (긴급제언: 유기성폐기물 자원(바이오가스 생산) 활성화 방안)

  • Kwak, Che-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2010
  • The world economy is threatened by rising oil prices due to the depletion of resources, and climatic changes are intensified due to rapid increase of greenhouse gases emission. Global warming is recognized as a worldwide problem not only as national level one, collaborative efforts are in progress actively. The fact is that the development of new & renewable energy which can replace fossil fuel and preserve the environment is the key of the attention in accordance with "low carbon, green growth" policy of our government. Biogas is an energy source. And the best part of using biogas is that wastes are treated in its production process.

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Analysis of Wave Power Resources in the Southern Sea of Korea estimated by Using Hindcasted Wave Data (파랑 역추산 자료로부터 추정된 우리나라 남부해역의 파력 부존량 연구)

  • Kim, Gunwoo;Jeong, Weonmu;Park, Jinsoon;Lee, Gwangsu
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.235.2-235.2
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    • 2010
  • In this study, the wave power resources at the southern sea of Korea were estimated by using the hindcasted wave data of previous researches. The used data were wave heights, periods and directions which were hindcasted around the Korea peninsular from 1979 to 2003. The spatial resolution of the hindcasted data is $1/6^{\circ}$(about 18 km). In winter, the northwest monsoon increase the wave power, while the wave power around Korea peninsular is very small in spring. The maximum value of the annual mean wave power is about 13 kW/m at Gageo-do, Heuksan-do and western region of Jeju-do, while those at the southern sea of Korea is only 4 kW/m, which is relatively small. The wave power at Korean east sea is lower than that of Korean southern sea. We obtained the wave resources information, in a fine grid, at Gageo-do, Heuksan-do, and western sea of Jeju-do, by solving SWAN model with the boundary conditions of hindcasted wave data.

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Analysis of Biomass Energy Potential around Major Cities in South Korea (국내 주요도시 주변의 바이오매스 에너지 잠재량 분석)

  • Kook, Jin Woo;Lee, See Hoon
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.178-183
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    • 2015
  • Biomass is recognized as one of important renewable energy sources because it can be converted and used as solid, gaseous and liquid forms. Also, biomass is one of promising ways to solve the depletion of fossil fuels and global warming problems. The information about local biomass energy potentials and space energy densities can be powerfully utilized to determine the scale of biomass energy conversion plant and to analyze economic effects. The latest data on domestic biomass resources, such as agricultural, forestry, livestock and urban wastes, were collected from various government organizations and institutes and were analyzed to calculate biomass energy potential and space energy density. As local areas in South Korea to collect biomass resources increased, energy potentials increased, but space energy densities of total biomass decreased.

A new method to convert into seawater heat for the indoor air-conditioning resource (건물의 냉방을 위한 해수열 취득에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim Ki-Cheol;Lee Seong
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.883-890
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    • 2005
  • The industrial growth and the raised living quality have led to the massive energy consumption. As a result. the polluted environment and the limited amount of energy resources emerged as serious problems to be resolved in 21st century. Especially, in the case of Korea whose imported energy dependency rate is 98.2$\%$ in 2003 and constantly increasing every rear. more than 24$\%$ of overall energy consumption is for housing and commercial use. In order to cope with the shortage of natural energy resources, it is inevitable to develop alternative sustainable energy resources including seawater heat. so that they can replace existing resources. The heat transfer air velocity 3.5 m/s is proper to consideration with the body the pipe size 200A is more suitable than look due to the air velocity quantify and the ratio of pipe surface area. And the error between experimental data with simulation is below 5.34$\%$ so the suggested equation for calculating heat transfer capacity can be used. Therefore out of many methods utilizing seawater heat. this work Presents the efficiency of using sea water heat as a resource for air-conditioners which can be converted from the outside air through the air-to-heat conversion tube . Consequently. this method provides pretty reasonable energy efficiency.

Study on vertical variation of horizontal wind energy resources distribution using clustering analysis (군집분석을 통한 풍력자원 수평 공간 분포의 연직 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Jung;Lee, Hwa-Woon;Lee, Soon-Hwan;Kim, Dong-Hyuk;Jung, Woo-Sik;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.554-556
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    • 2009
  • Wind classification for exact estimation of wind energy resources was carried out using numerically simulated wind data for three years. The MM5(a fifth-generation Mesoscale Model), developed at Penn State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), was used to estimate the wind fields in this study. We also use a variant of the K-mean clustering to classify the wind district and define the relation between districts. Wind estimated at surface and 100 m high at Busan area is classified into the 10 and 7 classes, respectively. These discrepancies of wind districts pattern at surface and upper air meteorological data indicates the quantity of wind resources can be changed according to the level of wind data used in estimation. Therefore, the estimation of wind district classification by reasonable wind data is utilized to build the effective policy for wind energy dissemination.

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Global technologies for the removal of water scaling & water recovery - Department of Energy (DOE) USA

  • Ramakrishna, Chilakala;Thriveni, Thenepalli;Whan, Ahn Ji
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we reported the current technologies of water scaling removal and also water recovery from the flue gases, which are funded by Department of Energy (DOE), USA. Globally, water resources are limited due to the climate change. The potential impacts of climate change is food and water shortages. In the $21^{st}$ century, water shortages and pollution are expected to become more acute as populations grow and concentrate in cities. At present, the water stress increases over 62.0 ~ 75.8% of total water basin area and decreases over 19.7 ~ 29.0%. Many renewable energy sources demand secure water resources. Water is critical for successful climate change mitigation, as many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions depend on reliable access to water resources. Water hardness is one of the major challenge to coal power plants. Department of energy (DOE) funded and encouraged for the development of advanced technologies for the removal of hardness of water (scaling) and also water recovery from the flue gases from coal power plants.

A Study on System Retrofit of Complex Energy System (복합에너지시스템의 성능개선에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Hun;Moon, Chae-Joo;Chang, Young-Hak
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2021
  • The application of renewable energies such as wind and solar has become an inevitable choice for many countries in order to achieve the reduction of greenhouse gases and healthy economic development. However, due to the intermittent characteristics of renewable energy, the issue with integrating a larger proportion of renewable energy into the grid becomes more prominent. A complex energy system, usually consists of two or more renewable energy sources used together to provide increased system efficiency as well as greater balance in energy supply. Compared with the power system, control and optimization of the complex energy system become more difficult in terms of modeling, operation, and planning. The main purpose of the complex energy system retrofit for samado island with microgrid system is to coordinate the operation with various distributed energy resources, energy storage systems, and power grids to ensure its reliability, while reducing the operating costs and achieving the optimal economic benefits. This paper suggests the improved complex energy system of samado island with optimal microgrid system. The results of test operation show about 12% lower SOC variation band of ESS, elimination of operation limit in PV and reduction of operation time in diesel generator.

Location Analysis for Developing Small Hydropower Using Geo-Spatial Information System (지형공간정보체계를 활용한 소수력 개발의 입지분석)

  • Yi, Choong-Sung;Kim, Kil-Ho;Lee, Jin-Hee;Shim, Myung-Pil
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.40 no.12
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    • pp.985-994
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    • 2007
  • Small hydropower is the one of the cleanest one among new and renewable energy with less green house gas emissions. Recently, the necessity of developing small hydropower is emerging since its remaining potential resources in this country are abundant. However, a survey or research on the small hydropower development has been hardly performed since the 1990#s. These circumstances encourages a systematic approach for the small hydropower development. The purpose of this study is to propose a methodology of the location analysis for developing small hydropower. To this end, constraint and location criteria with weights are established and quantification method of each factor is presented. Especially, the analysis procedure is established on the basis of GSIS. Also the study focus on raising the objectivity and precision of analysis by developing system model with automatic search. The proposed methodology is applied to Bochung stream in Keum Riverbasin. The result selects the four and two locations of dam type and run-of-river type respectively. This study will be beneficial to the future activation of small hydropower development as a fundamental work.

Distribution and Variation Characteristic of Solar Radiation Resources in Korea (국내 태양복사 분포 및 변화특성)

  • Jo, Dok-Ki;Yun, Chang-Yeol;Kim, Kwang-Deuk;Kang, Young-Heak
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.200.1-200.1
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    • 2010
  • Solar energy is one of the most promising energy resources in the future. For the application and dissemination of solar energy technologies in various fields, reliable data sets of solar irradiation are needed for engineers, researchers, businessmen, and policy makers. Global horizontal solar radiation is needed for the use of flat plate collector, solar domestic hot water system, photovoltaic devices and passive systems like green house. In many countries, solar radiation data accumulated for more then 40 or 50 years and typical weather data are published with average of more then 30 years. In Korea, those global total radiations are measured for about 30 years. With the connections of computer network, measured data could be transmitted to the central control system at key station through Ethernet lines. The data acquisition systems are connected to be automatically controlled by the monitoring network. Global horizontal solar radiation data 16 locations were measured and averaged from 1982 to 2008.

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