• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

Thermal energy storage is defined as the temporary storage of thermal energy at high or low temperatures for later use in need. The energy storage can reduce the time or rate mismatch between energy supply and demand, and thus it plays an important role in conserving energy and improving the efficiency of energy utilization, especially for renewable energy sources which provide energy intermittently. Underground thermal energy storage (UTES) can have additional advantages in energy efficiency thanks to low thermal conductivity and high heat capacity of surrounding rock mass. In this paper, we introduced the technologies of underground thermal energy storage and rock caverns for hot water storage in Sweden.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.923-931
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• 2022

An increasing global population requires a greater food supply, and accordingly there is demand for enhanced production of rice, as a major crop plant that covers half of the world's population. Rice production in arid area is extremely difficult due to poor soil fertility, salinity, deficit of irrigation water, and weather conditions. The aim of the present study was to determine whether various fertilization recipes could provide a countermeasure to allow rice production while also providing soil amendment such as soil pH adjustment. The study was conducted at an experimental field of the United Arab-Emirates (UAE) from January to April, 2022. Rice seedlings (cv. Asemi, alkaline-resistant) were transplanted in plastic containers, and different types of water and nutrient managements were employed as follows: water management (flooding and aerobic for NPKs treatment group) and nutrient management (NPKs, slow release fertilizers [SRFs] and SRFs + NPK-1 treatment groups with flooding). Water and nutrient management did not show any effect on soil pH adjustment. Rice growth was significantly enhanced in the flooding compared to the aerobic condition, whereas the effect of nutrient management clearly differed among the treatment groups, with SRFs + NPK-1 showing the best results followed by SRFs and NPKs. Most of the fertilization groups markedly accumulated soluble sugars in the shoots and grains of rice plants, but concomitantly a decrease in the roots. Overall, the level of starch showed a tendency of relatively slight perturbation by fertilization. Taken together, the results indicate that soil physical structure should be preferentially amended to find the key for suitable rice production.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.53-57
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• 2006

현재, 많은 분야에서 데이터 모델링을 지원하는 GIS관련 프로그램으로 ArcObject 컴포넌트를 제안하고 있다. 특히 수자원분야에서 유역과 하천네트워크의 정확하고 효과적인 표현을 위해 ArcHydro Model이 개발되었으며 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 안성군 고삼면의 안고용수구역을 대상으로 ArcHydro Model을 이용하여 관개 네트워크를 구성하기 위해 유역경계, 하천망, 수리시설물의 위치도, 수혜구역도 등의 기본 공간자료들을 구축하고, 이 자료들을 이용하여 수리시설물에 따른 수혜구역을 가시적으로 확인가능하도록 하기 위해 하천의 위상관계를 정립하고 공간자료간의 연계성을 구성하였다. 또한 수리시설물의 농업용수 수요공급량의 정량적인 정보를 획득하기 위하여 ArcHydro Model에 한국농촌공사에서 개발한 AWDS (Agricultural Water Demand and Supply Estimation System. 농촌용수 수요공급량 시스템)와 연계하고, 시설물정보, 수요량분석, 공급량분석을 할 수 있는 메뉴를 구성하여 그 정보를 획득하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 1999

It is difficult to keep the balance of supply and demand for natural aggregates in recent years, because natural resources have become to be almost exhausted. Crushed stone is already used for coarse aggregate instead of river gravel at present. Now, crushed sand or sea sand should be used for fine aggregate, because natural sand also has been exhausted with a few exceptions around Nakdong River. The sea sand has a lot of problems which are the corrosion of reinforcement bars, the investment of facility for cleansing salt and the cost increase due to the insufficiency of industrial water. Therefore, it is necessary to produce and to utilize the crushed sand very actively, but some material properties which are related to water absorption, strength and chemical durability, prevent from determining the generalized criteria because its rocks make much differences in its physical and chemical characteristics. In this paper, fundamental physical properties of crushed sand, which comes from Daegu Subway construction fields, have been investigated for the usability on basic material of concrete. The optimum replacement ratio and the strength estimation method of crushed sand replacing natural sand also have been presented here through the compressive strength test of ready-mixed concrete cylinders.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.172-172
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• 2016

The International Maritime Organization(IMO) adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments in 2004 to prevent the transfer of aquatic organisms via ballast water. Forty ballast water treatment systems were granted final approval. A variety of techniques have been developed for ballast water treatment including UV treatment, indirect or direct electrolysis, ozone treatment, chemical compounds and plasma-arc method. In particular, using plasma and ozone nano-bubble treatments have been attracted in the fields. However, these treatment systems have a problem such as remained toxic substance, demand for high power source, low efficiency, ets. In this paper, we present our strilization results obtained from membrane type electrolytic-reduction treatment system The core of an electrolysis unit is an electrochemical cell, which is filled with pure water and has two electrodes connected with an external power supply. At a certain voltage, which is called critical voltage, between both electrodes, the electrodes start to produce hydrogen gas at the negatively biased electrode and oxygen gas at the positively biased electrode. The amount of gases produced per unit time is directly related to the current that passes through the electrochemical cell. From the results, we could confirm the sterilization effect of bacteria such as S. aureus, E. Coli and demonstrate the mechanism of sterilization phenomena by electrolytic-reduction treatment system.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.88-93
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• 2011

To resolve the problem which is demand and supply imbalance of fine aggregate by the shortage of natural fine aggregate and the environment regulations, the studies for the application of recycled fine aggregate made from waste concrete have been recently carried out. The objective of this study is to shed light on the mechanical properties and durability performance of concrete using recycle fine aggregate with various water to cement ratios and unit water contents. And it is intend to propose the fundamental data for structural application of recycled concrete. In particular, the effects according to the variations of water to cement ratios and unit water contents in recycled concrete with recycled fine aggregate replacement of 100 percent are discussed by the test results, such as air content, slump, time of set, compressive strength, tensile strength, carbonation, chloride penetration.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.435-435
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• 2017

최근 태국 짜오프라야강 유역의 물 부족 문제 해결을 위해 한국 정부와 태국 정부간 G2G사업으로 "태국 짜오프라야강 유역과 인근 유역 연계 수자원개발 마스터플랜 수립"이 추진되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 장기간 가뭄 등으로 물 부족 문제가 심각한 태국 짜오프라야강 유역에 대하여 다각적인 추가용수 공급방안을 검토하고 이를 토대로 수자원 장기 종합계획을 수립하기 위한 태국 짜오프라야강 유역의 물수급 현황 및 향후 전망을 분석하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 ModSim 8.5 모형을 통해 물수급 현황 및 전망을 분석하였으며 대상유역은 짜오프라야강 유역과 인접한 유역 7개 유역(Ping, Wang, Yom, Nan, Sakae Krang, Pasak, Chao Phraya)을 대상으로 하였으며 총 유역면적은 $195,718km^2$로 우리나라 면적의 2배에 달한다. 또한 물수지 분석을 위한 입력자료 구축은 총 30년간(1986년 1월 1일 ~ 2013년 12월 31일)의 소유역별 자연유입량, 용수수요량(생활, 공업, 농업) 및 환경유량으로 구축하였으며 대상유역의 대규모 시설물인 19개소의 댐에 대한 제원도 태국 현지 기관을 통해 확보하여 물수지 분석에 적용하였다. 물수지 분석시 적용된 용수수요량에 대한 공급우선순위는 환경유량, 생할용수, 공업용수, 농업용수순이며 동일 용수의 경우 상류에 위치한 수요량에 우선순위를 우선적으로 부여하였다. 각 수요량에 대한 회귀율은 태국 물수급 해석 조건에 맞춰 환경유량 100%, 생공용수 0%, 농업용수 50%로 적용하였다. 연구결과, 2015년을 대상으로 분석한 불수급 현황은 생공용수의 경우, Ping과 Wang 유역에서만 수요량 대비 10~30%정도 부족량이 발생한데 반해 농업용수의 경우, 전 유역에서 약 20~40% 정도의 부족량이 발생하고 있으며 2025년 및 2035년을 대상으로 분석한 물수급 전망은 2015년 현황과 유사하나 부족량의 심도를 더욱 커지고 범위도 넓어지는 경향을 나타내고 있으며 농업용수의 경우 전유역에서 약 20~50%정도의 부족량이 발생하였으며 가장 극한 부족이 발생한 소유역은 80%까지도 발생될 것으로 전망되었다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.665-675
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• 2002

It is very closely related with the reliability of the pipe network to predict pipe burst and diminish burst effect in water distribution system. Most of the engineers have not consider pipe layout and the effect of pipe burst in conservative pipe network design. In this study, The effect of pipe burst in the network is analyzed with respect to pipe network geometric topology and the method of increasing the system reliability is presented by reducing pipe-burst effect. In existing pipe system, it is only designed to the closed loop system but in case of each pipe burst, it cannot transmit appropriate water to consumers and occurs severe hydraulic head drop in many nodes. The techniques developed in this study allow proper pipe diameter and pipe layout to pipe system through the analysis of pipe-burst effect. Thus, when each pipe is bursted, pipe system is prevented from severe pressure head drop in demand nodes and can supply stable flowrate to consumer.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.421-428
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• 2014

For the analysis of water supply network, demand-driven and pressure-driven analysis methods have been proposed. Of the two methods, demand-driven analysis (DDA) can only be used in a normal operation condition to evaluate hydraulic status of a pipe network. Under abnormal conditions, i.e., unexpected pipe destruction, or abnormal low pressure conditions, pressure-driven analysis (PDA) method should be used to estimate the suppliable flowrate at each node in a network. In order to carry out the pressure-driven analysis, head-outflow relationship (HOR), which estimates flowrate at a certain pressure at each node, should be first determined. Most previous studies empirically suggested that each node possesses its own characteristic head-outflow relationship, which, therefore, requires verification by using actual field data for proper application in PDA modeling. In this study, a model pipe network was constructed, and various operation scenarios of normal and abnormal conditions, which cannot be realized in real pipe networks, were established. Using the model network, data on pressure and flowrate at each node were obtained at each operation condition. Using the data obtained, previously proposed HOR equations were evaluated. In addition, head-outflow relationship at each node was analyzed especially under multiple pipe destruction events. By analyzing the experimental data obtained from the model network, it was found that flowrate reduction corresponding to a certain pressure drop (by pipe destruction at one or multiple points on the network) followed intrinsic head-outflow relationship of each node. By comparing the experimentally obtained head-outflow relationship with various HOR equations proposed by previous studies, the one proposed by Wagner et al. showed the best agreement with the exponential parameter, m of 3.0.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.687-693
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• 2019

As the hydrogen fuel cell market is expanded starting from hydrogen electric vehicle and power generation field, the demand for fuel cells and hydrogen increases recently. Therefore, research works on fuel cell durability and fuel efficiency are required in order to activate the fuel cell market and commercialization. A dead-ended anode system was used in this study to optimize the fuel cell performance and fuel efficiency. The effect of purge condition according to the applied current and hydrogen supply pressure on the fuel cell performance were evaluated. In addition, the influence of water back diffusion on the different electrolyte membrane thickness was analyzed. The accumulated water was purged with a solenoid valve in the case of 3% voltage decrease in the dead-ended anode system. The experiment was performed with the hydrogen supply pressure of 0.1~0.5 bar and purge duration of 0.1~1 second. A maximum fuel efficiency of 98.9% was achieved under the purge duration of 0.1 s and hydrogen supply pressure of 0.1 bar with a NR 211 (25.4 um) membrane. However, the fuel cell performance decreased in a long-term operation due to some frequent flooding. The fuel efficiency and purge interval increased due to decreased back diffusion rates of the water and nitrogen with a NR 212 (50.8 um) membrane.