• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.455-455
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• 2021

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as an environmental impact assessment tool has received increasing attention over the years. Unlike the water footprint (WF) and carbon footprint (CF) assessments whose focus is only on a single environmental aspect, the LCA systematically analyzes the different impacts along the entire life cycle, making possible the identification of potential environmental tradeoffs. In Korea, LCA has drawn much attention from both industry and academia since the mid-90s. However, the level of Korea-related LCA studies with respect to different sectors in the past 20 years has not been analyzed. This study, therefore, sought to assess the status of environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies in Korea, with a view to understanding the current level of sustainability reporting and identify potential research gaps. Online searches of English written articles published between 2000 and 2019 were conducted on Google, Google scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science databases using the Keywords "life cycle assessment", "lca", and "Korea." At the end of the search, about 88 LCA related studies were identified for Korea within the study period. Majority of these studies focused on the construction (49%) and energy (31%) sectors with fewer environmental studies on the transportation (9%), manufacturing (8%), agriculture (2%), and information and communication (1%) industries. Based on publication trend, results show that LCA studies in Korea have been on the rise in the past 20 years, even though the number of publications has not followed a constant pace. In comparison with the economic sectors of the country, reports show an inadequacy in the coverage of major industries of growing economic relevance like the tourism, health, and agriculture, suggesting a need to further increase and improve LCA related studies in these sectors.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2019

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between water resources, energy demand, food production, and environmental pollutants in selected SAARC nations, namely, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, during the period of 1990-2016. The results show that water, energy, and food (WEF) resources substantially affected air quality in the form of high mass carbon emissions, fossil fuel energy demand, methane discharges, nitrous oxide emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions in these countries. Food production and food deficit largely increase $CO_2$ emissions due to unsustainable production and malnutrition, while land use under cereal production increases $CH_4$ and $N_2O$ emissions. Electricity production escalates $CO_2$ emissions and fossil emissions across countries. The results support the carbon EKC hypothesis, while monotonic increasing function exists in case of fossil fuel energy. The study emphasizes the need to ensure environmental sustainability agenda by adopting cleaner production technologies in WEF resources.

• 공업화학
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.163-169
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• 2006

현재 한국의 폐LIBs 소각시스템에 대한 환경적인 측면들을 규명하고, 개선시키기 위해서 전과정평가를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 대부분 연구에서는 생략이 되었던 소각재의 매립과 관련된 환경영향도 평가되었다. 전기 생산과정과 소각공정으로부터 배출되는 $CO_{2}$와 소각공정에서 대기와 수계로 배출되는 중금속에 의한 환경영향이 전체 환경영향의 약 90%를 차지하였다. 특히, 중금속의 배출에 의한 환경영향이 압도적인데, 이를 개선시키기 위해서는 폐LIBs 와 같이 중금속의 함량이 높은 폐기물은 일반폐기물과 분리하여 소각하는 것이 필요하다. 반면에 소각 후에 발생되는 소각재에 의한 환경영향은 미미하였다. 이는 소각재가 소각과정을 거치면서 이미 안정한 산화물을 형성한 것에 기인한다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.74-82
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• 2022

Improving long-term performance in highway projects is an imperative goal for public administrations. Project delivery and procurement methods might provide an opportunity to align design and construction processes with this goal. Previous studies have explored whether project delivery methods impact the long-term performance of highway projects. However, these studies did not focus specifically on how core elements within the procurement might relate to long-term performance. Thus, this research aims to fill this gap by exploring to what extent and how long-term evaluation criteria are considered in design-build best-value procurement of highway projects. To this end, content analysis was conducted on 100 projects procured between 2009 and 2019 by 19 DOTs across the U.S. The analysis of 365 evaluation criteria found that (1) roughly 11% of them related to long-term performance. (2) The weight given to these criteria in the overall technical proposal was lower than 30%. (3) Sixty-five percent (65%) of long-term evaluation criteria focused on design while 15% related to materials and technology, respectively. The results of this study are a first steppingstone to initiate a deep exploration of the relationship between procurement practices and actual project performance. Currently, with sustainability and life cycle assessments being top concerns in infrastructure projects, this line of research might be of particular interest to DOTs and highway agencies across the U.S. and worldwide.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2014

As time passes, the aging of the plant building, the building's energy performance degradation than the initial plan does not express a situation could arise. This year, the certification of buildings certified in 2009 has expired for measures such as the situation required. In this study, management of national and international green building certification and re-certification was compared in two ways. First, the evaluation of green building certification system management assessments were compared. Second, the green building certification system for the re-certification analysis. As a result, G-SEED was not reflected life-cycle of building in management assessment and the commissioning of G-SEED is the UK and the U.S and other concepts of evaluation. In addition, the re-certification system is insufficient about substantial energy consumption of buildings. In this study, the revised the management assessments in conjunction with the re-certification system to manage the building is proposed to improve. In addition, the current evaluation of the existing building certification "existing building" and "building the first certified" as it is more efficient to separate the information into assessment was judged. Green building certification system to meet the purpose of management and operation, and disposal phases of the building to promote energy conservation and sustainability in order to the management a systematic and detailed evaluation and re-certification system developed for the revision of the specific items required and future research want to continue.

• 공업화학
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.291-298
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• 2023

본 연구는 가축분뇨를 가스화 하여 연료 가스를 생산하는 공정의 경제성과 탄소배출 관점에서의 지속가능성을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 고려한 가스화 공정은 가스화 시설, 연료가스 정제 시설 및 생산 가스를 수요처를 수송하기 위한 파이프 라인의 설치까지 전체 시설을 고려하여 해당 기술의 현실적인 타당성을 평가하였다. 해당 연구는 실험 결과를 반영하는 ASPEN PLUS 시뮬레이션을 토대로 도출되었다. 경제성 및 CO₂ 전 주기 평가 결과, 축분 가스화를 통해 얻어진 연로가스는 발열량은 낮지만, 높은 수소 함량으로 천연가스와 가격적으로 경쟁력이 있다는 결과를 확인하였다. 특히, 탄소 배출 측면에서 높은 수소 함량으로 연료를 연소하였을 때 발열량당 배출되는 이산화탄소의 양이 천연가스에 비해 낮아 탄소 배출량 감축에 기여할 수 있다는 점을 확인하였다. 또한 다양한 시나리오 분석을 통해 외부 요인 및 정책적 요인에 따른 경제성을 확인하였고, 재무 재표 분석을 통해 해당 기술을 실질적인 사업화 가능성을 평가하였다.