• 신재생에너지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2012

The extensible supply of New & Renewable energy resources desperately needs to counter the high dependence on imported energy, recent high oil prices and the Climate Change Conference, and the government has operated the 'Renewable Portfolio Standard' (RPS) as one of the renewable energy policy from 2012. By analyzing the operation case of combined heat and power plant using the woodchip biomass, we drew the price of wood chip fuel, plant capacity factor, electricity selling price, heat selling price and LCOE value. After analyzing the economic feasibility of 3MWe combined heat and power plant based on the operating performance, the minimum of economic feasibility has appeared to be secured according to the internal rate of return (IRR) is 6.34% and the net present value (NPV) is 3.6 billion won as of 20 years life time after installation, and after analyzing the cases of the economic feasibility of the price of wood chip, plant capacity factor, electricity and heat selling price are changed, the economic feasibility is valuable when the price of wood chip is over 64,000 won/ton, NPV is minus, and the capacity factor is above 46.9%, the electricity selling price is 116 won/kWh and the heat selling price is above 75,600 won/Gcal. When going over the new installation hereafter, we need the detailed review of the woodchip storage and woodchip feeding system rather than the steam-turbine and boiler which have been inspected many times, the reason why is it's hard to secure the suitable quality (constant size) of woodchip by the lack of understanding about it as a fuel because of the domestic poor condition and the calorific value of woodchip is seriously volatile compared with other fuels.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2017년도 학술발표회
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• pp.251-251
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• 2017

전 세계적으로 기후변화 및 다양한 삶의 패턴이 변화되면서 예상되는 자원의 부족을 해결하기 위한 많은 노력이 진행되고 있다. 특히 범 국가적으로 지속가능한 자원안보 실현을 위한 적정 솔루션을 제공하고 자원의 연계에 따른 효율성과 효과성을 극대화하기 위해 물, 에너지, 식량의 연계를 통한 기술을 개발하고 적용하고 있으나, 아직까지 국가단위의 대규모 사례는 부족하며, Community Scale의 형태로 진행되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 국내에서의 물, 에너지, 식량의 연계 기술을 도출하기 위해 국외에서 진행되고 있는 기술에 대한 현황과 효과를 분석하여 국내의 적용방안에 대해 분석하고자 한다. 국외의 사례로는 프랑스 전력공사(EDF)에서는 2000년 초반 기존의 규정대로 물공급을 지속하면 발전에 어려움이 발생하는 것을 인식하여, 주요 농업 관개시설과 물절약협약을 체결하고 물절약에 따른 금전적 보상대책을 마련하였다. 이를 통해 물 절약의 30%는 기존의 관행과 관리방식의 변화에 의해 이루어졌고, 약 70%는 효율적 물 사용기술을 통해 절감효과를 도출하였다. 또한 관개용수와 발전량의 효율적 물사용을 통해 3억2,500만$m^3$에서 2억3,500만$m^3$ 으로의 절감효과를 달성할 수 있었다. 오스틴 수도회사, 텍사스 가수 서비스, 오스틴 에너지 회사 등 텍사스의 3개회사가 상호 협약을 통해 다가구 에너지 및 물효율 프로그램을 개발하고 자원을 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 주택을 개조하여, 연간 470만 kWh의 전기와 3,785만 리터의 물을 절약하고 있다. 베트남 Red강의 경우 베트남의 근대화 및 산업화를 위해 많은 물과 전기가 필요함에 따라 물사용량을 규제하였고 이로 인해 농작물 재배를 고려하여 장기적이고 다방면적인 전략을 도출하였다. 정유회사 CHEVRON에서는 미국 캘리포니아에서 오일 1배럴을 생산할 때마다 10배럴의 물을 생산하여 오일생산 과정에 이용하며 $182km^2$ 면적의 농장에 농업용수를 공급할 수 있었다. 특히, California 오일 추출과정에서 물과 오일을 분리하고 그 과정에서 발생한 물을 재이용하기 위하여 수처리과정을 통하여 매일 $2,650m^3$의 물 생산하게 되었다. 이러한 외국의 사례들을 바탕으로 하여 국내에서도 다양한 형태의 넥서스 기술을 접목하여 미래에 예측되는 자원 부족을 선제적으로 대응하는 방안을 수립할 때이다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2016

This study analyzed the energy consumption of a building pump system that was originally equipped with a primary-secondary zone pump system. Using the HYSYS program the energy consumption of the primary pump system was compared with the primary-secondary zone pump system. The primary-secondary zone pump system consumes less energy than the originally designed primary pump system. When the distance between the machine room and each building is assumed to be equal, the primary pump system can be more efficient than the primary-secondary zone pump system with decreasing the distance. When the distance is 120 m, the primary system consumes less total annual energy than the primary-secondary zone pump system and saves 2,773 kWh. The suggested energy evaluation program can be useful if the designer seeks a more efficient pump system.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제31권9호
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• pp.502-510
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• 2021

Hierarchically porous carbon materials with high nitrogen functionalities are extensively studied as high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials. In this study, nitrogen-doped porous carbon textile (N-PCT) with hierarchical pore structures is prepared as an electrode material for supercapacitors from a waste cotton T-shirt (WCT). Porous carbon textile (PCT) is first prepared from WCT by two-step heat treatment of stabilization and carbonization. The PCT is then nitrogen-doped with urea at various concentrations. The obtained N-PCT is found to have multi-modal pore structures with a high specific surface area of 1,299 m² g^-1 and large total pore volume of 1.01 cm³ g^-1. The N-PCT-based electrode shows excellent electrochemical performance in a 3-electrode system, such as a specific capacitance of 235 F g^-1 at 1 A g^-1, excellent cycling stability of 100 % at 5 A g^-1 after 1,000 cycles, and a power density of 2,500 W kg^-1 at an energy density of 3.593 Wh kg^-1. Thus, the prepared N-PCT can be used as an electrode material for supercapacitors.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.389-396
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• 2019

The electrical energy consumption (EEC) in removal of NO by a $UV/H_2O_2$ oxidation process was introduced and related to removal efficiency of this gas. The absorption-reaction of NO was conducted in a bubble column reactor in the presence of $SO_2$. The variation in NO removal efficiency was investigated for various process parameters including NO and $SO_2$ inlet concentrations, initial concentration of $H_2O_2$ solution and gas flow rate. EEC values were obtained in these different conditions. The removal efficiency was increased from about 22% to 54.7% when $H_2O_2$ concentration increased from 0.1 to 1.5 M, while EEC decreased by about 70%. However, further increase in $H_2O_2$ concentration, from 1.5 to 2, had no significant effect on NO absorption and EEC. An increase in NO inlet concentration, from 200 to 500 ppm, decreased its removal efficiency by about 10%. However, EEC increased from $2.9{\times}10^{-2}$ to $3.9{\times}10^{-2}kWh/m^3$. Results also revealed that the presence of $SO_2$ had negative effect on NO removal percentage and EEC values. Some experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of $H_2O_2$ solution pH. The changing of pH of oxidation-absorption medium in the ranges between 3 to 10, had positive and negative effects on removal efficiency depending on pH value.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.57-69
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• 2022

This study analyzes the fuel conditions and environmental effects of converting heating in rural villages that rely on fossil fuels into wood fuel. In particular, we tried to derive the most important considerations when using wooden chips as fuel in aging agricultural villages where various variables such as weather, facility characteristics, fuel quality, and maintenance capabilities work. Above all, an experiment was conducted by comparing it with oak trees to determine whether Italian poplar, a representative attribute water created to supply fuel wood in Korea, is suitable for heating fuel. Through experiments, 1) Even though the supply of poplar wood chips during 10 hours of operation was 60.74 kg less than that of hardwood chips, the production of hot water was 140 kWh higher. 2) The higher the exhaust gas temperature, the proportional (increase) oxygen concentration and inversely (decrease) PM and CO emissions. 3) Poplar has twice as much ash content as hardwood and three times more fine dust has been detected, but it meets all the standards for wood quality at the Korea Forest Science Institute. 4) Under the condition that there is a difference in water content (7.7%), hardwood cost 1.13 times more wood chips per 1 MWh than poplar, and even if the water content is corrected equally, hardwood cost 1.05 times more per 1 MWh than poplar. 5) In conclusion, it was proved that the fuel possibility, economic possibility, and environmental possibility of poplar wood chips are sufficient.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1892-1912
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• 2022

With the massive demand and growth of cloud computing, virtualization plays an important role in providing services to end-users efficiently. However, with the increase in services over Cloud Computing, it is becoming more challenging to manage and run multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) in Cloud Computing because of excessive power consumption. It is thus important to overcome these challenges by adopting an efficient technique to manage and monitor the status of VMs in a cloud environment. Reduction of power/energy consumption can be done by managing VMs more effectively in the datacenters of the cloud environment by switching between the active and inactive states of a VM. As a result, energy consumption reduces carbon emissions, leading to green cloud computing. The proposed Efficient Dynamic VM Scheduling approach minimizes Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and manages VM migration by lowering the energy consumption effectively along with the balanced load. In the proposed work, VM Scheduling for Efficient Dynamically Migrated VM (VMS-EDMVM) approach first detects the over-utilized host using the Modified Weighted Linear Regression (MWLR) algorithm and along with the dynamic utilization model for an underutilized host. Maximum Power Reduction and Reduced Time (MPRRT) approach has been developed for the VM selection followed by a two-phase Best-Fit CPU, BW (BFCB) VM Scheduling mechanism which is simulated in CloudSim based on the adaptive utilization threshold base. The proposed work achieved a Power consumption of 108.45 kWh, and the total SLA violation was 0.1%. The VM migration count was reduced to 2,202 times, revealing better performance as compared to other methods mentioned in this paper.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.7-18
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• 2022

Secondary batteries used in electric vehicles have a potential risk of ignition and explosion. Various safety measures are being taken to prevent these risks. A numerical study was performed using a computational fluid dynamics code on the cases where pressure relief vents that can reduce the blast overpressures of batteries were installed in the through-compression test room, short-circuit drop test room, combustion test room, and immersion test room in facilities rleated to battery used in electric vehicles. This study was conducted using the weight of TNT equivalent to the energy release from the battery, where the the thermal runaway energy was set to 324,000 kJ for the capacity of the lithium-ion battery was 90 kWh and the state of charge (SOC) of the battery of 100%. The explosion energy of TNT (△H_TNT) generally has a range of 4,437 to 4,765 kJ/kg, and a value of 4,500 kJ/kg was thus used in this study. The dimensionless explosion efficiency coefficient was defined as 15% assuming the most unfavorable condition, and the TNT equivalent mass was calculated to be 11 kg. The internal explosion generated in a test room shows the very complex propagation behavior of blast waves. The shock wave generated after the explosion creates reflected shock waves on all inner surfaces. If the internally reflected shock waves are not effectively released to the outside, the overpressures inside are increased or maintained due to the continuous reflection and superposition from the inside for a long time. Blast simulations for internal explosion targeting four test rooms with pressure relief vents installed were herein conducted. It was found that that the maximum blast overpressure of 34.69 bar occurred on the rear wall of the immersion test room, and the smallest blast overpressure was calculated to be 3.58 bar on the side wall of the short-circuit drop test room.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.369-378
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• 2022

The recycling of solid waste materials to fabricate carbon-based electrode materials is of great interest for low-cost green supercapacitors. In this study, porous carbon foam (PCF) was prepared from waste floral foam (WFF) as an electrode material for supercapacitors. WFF was directly carbonized at various temperatures of 600, 800, and 1,000 ℃ under an inert atmosphere. The WFF-derived PCF (C-WFF) was found to have a specific surface area of 458.99 m²/g with multi-modal pore structures. The supercapacitive behavior of the prepared C-WFF was evaluated using a three-electrode system in a 6 M KOH aqueous electrolyte. As a result, the prepared C-WFF as an active material showed a high specific capacitance of 206 F/g at 1 A/g, a rate capability of 36.4 % at 20 A/g, a specific power density of 2,500 W/kg at an energy density of 2.68 Wh/kg, and a cycle stability of 99.96 % at 20 A/g after 10,000 cycles. These results indicate that the C-WFF prepared from WFF could be a promising candidate as an electrode material for high-performance green supercapacitors.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2002

변장 14.0 cm와 16.5 cm인 소나무 정각재의 가열판진공건조와 고주파진공건조간의 건조속도, 함수율분포와 비(比)에너지를 비교하였다. 고주파진공건조는 가열판진공건조보다 건조속도 및 변장이 건조속도에 미치는 영향이 컸었다. 가열판진공건조 목재의 재장방향, 두께방향과 폭방향의 함수율분포는 볼록 형태를 나타내었고, 고주파진공건조 목재는 오목 형태를 나타내었다. 가열판진공건조 목재의 폭방향과 두께방향간의 수분경사는 유사하였으나 고주파진공건조 목재의 경우는 폭방향의 수분경사가 두께방향보다 완만하였다. 가열판진공건조와 고주파 진공건조의 비(比)에너지곡선은 함수율이 감소할수록 증가하는 경향을 나타내었고, 가열판진공건조의 비(比)는 고주파진공건조보다 컸었다.