• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.5D
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• pp.695-703
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• 2008

China water market has huge potential for increased use of BOT mode and one of the most attractive markets of doing business. However, the current China water BOT market shows that many foreign companies are retreating from the market while Chinese water companies fast growing. From the view no domestic companies have track records in China BOT water market, the research identified twenty market access barriers in terms of construction laws, regulations, BOT-related policy and the recent market situation. These are evaluated based on interview results with 10 professionals direct or indirect having a China water BOT experience. All the factors are found to be highly influential to foreign company's decision on the market participation. Among those, no fixed return policy and low water price, difficulty in water price adjustment and approval, and no government guarantees, all directly related to the project viability and under the control of government, were the most critical factors, implying government's role is the key in increasing the market competition by attracting more foreign participation on the market. In addition, new construction law regulating foreign EPC contractor's construction work, namely Decree 113, and requirement of applying competitive bidding in selecting EPC contractor in a BOT project are also considered signigicant barriers on foreign participation, which contradicts international norm and therefore necessitates an adjustment on current decision process in domestic companies.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.129-135
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• 2016

This study verified the water saving effect in case of raising water rate depends on water rate awareness. The study results showed that the perceived appropriacy of government aid(p<.001), home water rate(p<.01), water rate pricing system, water rate, water rate diffrences depend on use and area(p<.05) significantly affected the degree of agreement of raising water rate. Also, education, residence, member of household, occipation, monthly household income, monthly water rate significantly affected the degree of agreement of raising water rate, consumer behavior for saving water. This study provided implication for water rate pricing policy by analyzing the water saving effect in case of raising water rate depends on water rate awareness and revealing the determinants of the degree of agreement of raising water rate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.269-274
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• 2006

전국 176개 지자체의 5개년 자료를 이용하여 생활용수의 가격탄력성을 분석 하였다. 기존의 연구에 비해 상대적으로 낮은 결과가 도출되었다. 수도요금 10% 인상에 수요량은 0.5% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 수도요금 인상을 통해 수요량 절감을 달성할 수 있을지 여부는 불투명해 보인다. 따라서 탄력성이 있다는 결론이 자칫 수돗물 값을 몇 % 인상시키면 댐 몇 개가 필요 없다는 식의 논리는 위험한 생각이다. 물 값의 역할은 물수요 절감뿐 아니라 향후 공급에 요구되는 비용의 회복과 시설의 효과적인 유지 및 관리비용임을 명심해야 한다. 국가 정책의 수립을 위해서는 정상적인 가격체계의 도입과 함께 보다 객관적인 연구가 요구된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.656-657
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• 2011

산업사회의 급속한 발전과 생활수준 향상에 따라 전력수요 및 공급전망에 대한 인식이 점차 강조되고 있다. 에너지자원이 부족한 우리나라는 전체 에너지의 약 97%를 수입에 의존하고 있으므로 전력공급의 정확한 수요예측을 통해서 안정적, 경제적으로 전력을 공급해야 한다. 2001년 전력산업구조개편에 따라 전력시장은 발전부문만 시장에 참여하여 경쟁하는 발전경쟁체제로 발전사업자의 입찰량과 전력거래소의 전력수요 예측 결과를 이용하여 시간대별 전력시장가격을 결정하는 가격결정발전 계획을 수립하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 청정 녹색에너지로 피크시간대에 발전하여 주파수 조절을 담당함으로써 전력계통에 크게 기여하고 있는 수력 발전기의 최적 입찰 전략 및 수력발전 사업계획에 활용할 수 있는 전력거래가격 전망 전략을 제시하여 수력발전사업자의 수익 증대와 전력시장 가격 안정화에 기여하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.16-27
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• 2002

Recently, the attraction for water-based ink is increasing, Because Solvent ink, based on organic solvent, cause bad effect on environment and rise the cost. Instead of organic solvent that cause environment pollution as well as cost-rise by rise of petroleum price, Binder based on alkali-soluble resin is popular and studied by many other country. However, in domestic, research and development for alkali-soluble resin is not like, because of lack of understanding environmental pollution and safety, therefor alkali-soluble resin development and research for the properties of the water-based ink used by alkali-soluble resin is not study very well. In this paper, we studied dispersion of carbon black in acrylic resin solution and the properties of water-based ink used by carbon black and acrylic binder.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.705-712
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• 2009

The state changes of ocean covered over 70% of earth surface are one of the greatest factor of weather catastrophe. Recently weather extraordinary events are followed by steep increase of sea water temperature and scientists in various fields are studying and warning the weather changes. In this paper, floating buoy is developed to monitor ocean environments via Orbcomm satellite and a method is proposed to increase measurement accuracy of sea water temperature with common low price temperature sensor. Experimental results are presented to illustrate the usability and effectiveness of the developed system. A web-based real time monitoring system is built to monitor ocean environmental information such as sea and air temperature, salinity according to the position of buoy through the internet for user convenience.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.855-859
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• 2007

It is essential to obtain accurate and highly reliable streamflow data for water resources planning, evaluation and management as well as design of hydraulic structures. A new discharge estimation method, which is named 'non-dimensional velocity distribution and index-velocity method,' was proposed in this research. This method showed very close channel discharges which were calculated with the exiting velocity-area method. When velocity-area method is used to estimate channel discharge, it is required to observe point velocities at every desired point and vertical using a current meter like Price-AA. However 'non-dimensional velocity distribution and index-velocity method' is used, it become optional to observe point velocities at every desired point and vertical. But this method can not be applied for the cases of very complex and strongly asymmetric channel cross-sections because non-dimensional velocity distribution by entropy concept may be quite biased from that of natural rivers.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.11-19
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• 2003

This study intends to predict prospective defects and establish the plan of Preventive Maintenance through research and analysis of defect occurrences and their repair costs in the public equipment of ‘H’ apartment house from 1998 to 2001. According to results of the analysis, more than 90% of defects and their repair costs for 4 years of the building have occurred in heating, hot water and water supply equipments. In case of specific classification in each equipment, more than 60% of defects were found at hot water pipes and heating pipes, and their repair costs covered more than 60% of the total defect costs. After two repairs by ‘Preventive Maintenance’ had been performed in the year 1998, total defects and defects of each equipment each yew have increased in number from 1999 to 2001. But total repair costs and repair costs of each equipment have not increased as time has gone by, because repair costs have relationship with the price of materials and labor, the part of defect and the scale of repair.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.377-397
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• 2004

The objectives of this study are to find out, the fact-analysis of environmental friendly farm households around the Chuam Dam through the sample survey, 2) the developing strategies to improve the EPA on the assumption that is the conservation of Chuam Dam's water quality. The data used in this study comes from 75 sample farm households. The developing strategies to improve the EPA around Chuam Dam was found out that the efficiency measure of land utilization around CImam Dam, producing of high quality and safety agricultural products, promoting of the EPA connected with tourist agriculture, improving of the EPA products and supporting of price and income. In conclusion, there must be strategic measures to increase the income of environmental friendly farmers and to conserve the Chuam Dam's water quality.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.48-54
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• 1998

Korea becomes one of the countries which suffer from water shortage. It is expected that its water shortage in the early 2000's will be more than 10% of the annual demand. The shortage problem is more serious in the coastal areas where many industry complex locate. To solve the shortage problem, seawater desalination gets more attention as an alternative water supply source since Korea is surrounded by sea on its three sides. For potential application of seawater desalination in Korea, an economic analysis was conducted using cost data for the plants in the Middle Ease areas, The United states and others. The study is to provide a basis for the government to establish a strategy for promoting seawater desalination in Korea. It is discussed that the Reverse Osmosis (RO) process gets cheaper over times than the thermal processes of Multi-stage Flash Distillation (MSF) and Multi Effect Distillation (ME), especially in case where the capacity is less than about 50,000 ton/day. The unit cost of RO seawater is analyzed about US$1.35/ton in 1990 price. Since the Desalination plant can be operated regardless of weather conditions, industries in Korea's coastal areas which suffer from frequent droughts and water shortages are recommended to look into this option with more attention.