• 제목/요약/키워드: climate applications

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과냉각 열교환기 용량 변화에 따른 인젝션 히트펌프의 성능 특성 (Performance Characteristics of a Vapor Injection Heat Pump System with Different Sub-cooler Capacity)

  • 최종민;박용정;강신형
    • 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2014
  • One major breakthrough in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning has been the development of heat pumps. Heat pump systems offer economic alternatives for recovering heat from different sources for use in various industrial, commercial and residential applications. In recent years, the heat pump has been tipped to have a very good potential for hot water production. This paper investigated the performance of a vapor injection heat pump with the variation of sub-cooler capacity at heating mode. The heating capacity of the vapor injection heat pump slightly increased with an increment of sub-cooler capacity, while COP didn't increase continuously. The 20% capacity of sub-cooler comparing with system capacity could be used as a standard to select sub-cooler capacity.

Environmental Monitoring Using Comfort Sensing System

  • Na, Dae-Suk;Kang, Jeong-Ho;Park, Se-Kwang
    • 센서학회지
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.24-33
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    • 2003
  • This research is about a comfort sensing system for human environmental monitoring using a one-bodied humidity and temperature sensor and an air flow sensor. The thermal comfort that a human being feels in indoor environment has been known to be influenced mostly by six parameters, i.e. air temperature, radiation, air flow, humidity, activity level and clothing thermal resistance. Considering an environmental monitoring, we have designed and fabricated a one-bodied humidity and temperature sensor and an air flow sensor that detect air relative humidity, temperature and air flow in human environment using surface micromachining technologies. Micro-controller calculates a PMV (predicted mean vote) and CSV (comfort sensing vote) with sensing signals and display a PMV on LCD (liquid crystal display) for human comfort on indoor climate. Our work has demonstrated that a comfort sensing system can provide an effective means of measuring and monitoring the indoor comfort sensing index of a human being. Experimental results with simulated environment clearly suggest that our comfort sensing system can be used in many applications such as air conditioning system, feedback controlling in automobile, home and hospital etc..

Preliminary Study of Deep Learning-based Precipitation

  • Kim, Hee-Un;Bae, Tae-Suk
    • 한국측량학회지
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    • 제35권5호
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    • pp.423-430
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    • 2017
  • Recently, data analysis research has been carried out using the deep learning technique in various fields such as image interpretation and/or classification. Various types of algorithms are being developed for many applications. In this paper, we propose a precipitation prediction algorithm based on deep learning with high accuracy in order to take care of the possible severe damage caused by climate change. Since the geographical and seasonal characteristics of Korea are clearly distinct, the meteorological factors have repetitive patterns in a time series. Since the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) is a powerful algorithm for consecutive data, it was used to predict precipitation in this study. For the numerical test, we calculated the PWV (Precipitable Water Vapor) based on the tropospheric delay of the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals, and then applied the deep learning technique to the precipitation prediction. The GNSS data was processed by scientific software with the troposphere model of Saastamoinen and the Niell mapping function. The RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) of the precipitation prediction based on LSTM performs better than that of ANN (Artificial Neural Network). By adding GNSS-based PWV as a feature, the over-fitting that is a latent problem of deep learning was prevented considerably as discussed in this study.

A Review on Monitoring the Everglades Wetlands in the Southern Florida Using Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Observations

  • Hong, Sang-Hoon;Wdowinski, Shimon
    • 대한원격탐사학회지
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    • 제33권4호
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    • pp.377-390
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    • 2017
  • Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations have been widely and successfully applied to acquire invaluable temporal and spatial information on wetlands, which are unique environments and regarded as important ecosystems. One of the best studied wetland area is Everglades, which is located in southern Florida, USA. As a World Heritage Site, the Everglades is the largest natural and subtropical wilderness in the United States. The Everglades wetlands have been threatened by anthropogenic activities such as urban expansion and agricultural development, as well as by natural processes, as sea level changes due to climate change. In order to conserve this unique wetland environment, various restoration plans have been implemented. In this review paper, we summarize the main studies using space-based SAR observations for monitoring the Everglades. The paper is composed of the following two sections: (1) review of backscattered amplitude analysis and observations, and (2) review of interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis and applications. This study also provides an overview of a wetland InSAR technique and space-based SAR sensors. The goal of this review paper is to provide a comprehensive summary of space-based SAR monitoring of wetlands, using the Everglades wetlands as a case study.

배면 통기유로를 가지는 태양광 발전시스템의 발전효율과 열전달의 관계 (Relationships between Electric Power Generation of PV System and Heat Transfer which has Free Air Ventilation Duct)

  • 김명준;채규훈
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • 제34권5호
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    • pp.625-631
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    • 2010
  • 최근 몇 년간 에너지 위기에 대한 우려가 급격히 증가하고 있으며, 방대한 에너지소비에 따른 환경오염도 큰 문제로 대두되고 있다. 사회적으로 에너지 위기가 고조되고 있는 가운데 새로운 에너지나 신재생에너지에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 문제를 해결하는 하나의 수단으로 태양에너지를 적극적으로 이용하기 위한 태양광발전시스템의 발전효율을 상승시키는 일환으로 대류열전달의 향상을 도모한 실험을 수행한 결과를 정리한 논문이다.

태양광에너지 중심의 신재생에너지 기술경제학 모델링 연구 (The technical-economic study of solar PV and renewable energy)

  • 이문수;이민진;이영희
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.136.1-136.1
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    • 2011
  • An energy modeling analysis method currently has been considered as a new approach for energy policy research, because the importance of renewable energy use has been emphasized more and more. This study used RETScreen model as a clean energy decision making methodology for adaptation to climate change and elimination of various pollutions. This modeling method includes five step standard analysis; energy model, cost analysis, GHG analysis, financial analysis, and sensitivity & risk analysis and it also assesses both conventional and modern energy sources and technologies. This methodology for the photovoltaic(PV) energy modeling is used to evaluate the energy production, financial performance and GHG emissions reduction of photovoltaic projects. In addition, the PV application systems are classified into three basic applications; On-grid system, Off-grid system and water pumping system. This study assesses the renewable energy techno-economic modeling method with the feasibility analysis result of 10 MW PV power plant in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. Furthermore this study stresses the importance of renewable energy model research by applying to domestic PV power plant which is now in preparation.

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Korea@Home 에이전트를 위한 사용자패턴기반의 로컬 스케줄링기법 (Local Scheduling method based on the User Pattern for Korea@Home Agent)

  • 최지현;김미경;최장원
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2007년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.226-230
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    • 2007
  • 우리나라의 컴퓨터 보유율과 인터넷사용률은 세계1위를 자랑한다. 2002년 이래로 운영되어 오고 있는 코리아앳홈(이하 Korea@Home)프로젝트는 우리나라가 보유한 풍부한 컴퓨팅 자원들을 모아서 대규모 응용에 활용하고자 하는 것이다. 이미 많은 회원들을 확보하고 있으며, 현재 신약개발과 기후예측 등의 응용을 수행하고 있다. 코리아앳홈 회원들이 자신의 컴퓨터 자원을 제공하는데 있어 사용자들에게 불편을 주지 않기 위해 자원제공자들의 기여 패턴을 분석하여 사용자가 컴퓨터를 사용하지 않는 시간에 따라 에이전트t의 작업을 수행하도록 하는 스케줄링 방법을 제안한다

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Construction of bivariate asymmetric copulas

  • Mukherjee, Saikat;Lee, Youngsaeng;Kim, Jong-Min;Jang, Jun;Park, Jeong-Soo
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.217-234
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    • 2018
  • Copulas are a tool for constructing multivariate distributions and formalizing the dependence structure between random variables. From copula literature review, there are a few asymmetric copulas available so far while data collected from the real world often exhibit asymmetric nature. This necessitates developing asymmetric copulas. In this study, we discuss a method to construct a new class of bivariate asymmetric copulas based on products of symmetric (sometimes asymmetric) copulas with powered arguments in order to determine if the proposed construction can offer an added value for modeling asymmetric bivariate data. With these newly constructed copulas, we investigate dependence properties and measure of association between random variables. In addition, the test of symmetry of data and the estimation of hyper-parameters by the maximum likelihood method are discussed. With two real example such as car rental data and economic indicators data, we perform the goodness-of-fit test of our proposed asymmetric copulas. For these data, some of the proposed models turned out to be successful whereas the existing copulas were mostly unsuccessful. The method of presented here can be useful in fields such as finance, climate and social science.

Investigation and utilization of unique natural products from endemic tree species in Taiwan

  • Chu, Fang-Hua
    • 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국자원식물학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.23-23
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    • 2018
  • Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, located on tropical and subtropical climate zones with abundant biological resources. According to the latest version of the Flora of Taiwan, there are 4339 species of vascular plants including 1054 endemic species. First, Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides), named after its native island of Taiwan, have been isolated more than 500 secondary metabolites, including lignans, terpenoids, steroids, and flavonoids. Several of the metabolites are reported to have antibacterial, antifungal, antimite, antitermite and antitumor activities. In order to investigate plant secondary metabolic diversity toward industrial applications, we established deep transcriptome resources for non-model plants and fungi to produce terpenoid metabolites of economic importance. Second, many plants of Lauraceae have been utilized in folk medicine for their exciting bioactivities. The twigs and leaves from 27 tree species of Lauraceae grown in Taiwan were performed to evaluate potential bioactivity. The leaves of Cinnamomum osmophloeum are traditionally used in folk medicines, and many biological activities have been identified, such as antibacterial, antifungal, antitermite, antidiabetic, antihyperuricemia, antiinflammatory, and antioxidant activities. However, C. osmophloeum has nine chemotypes with various secondary metabolite profiles. In order to efficiently produce active compounds, we established the genetic markers to identify the chemotype plants. Finally, Cinnamomum kanehirae is the host of the medicinal mushroom Antrodia cinnamomea. Several in vivo and in vitro studies indicated that A. cinnamomea possesses a diverse range of biological activities. Because of the potential pharmacological application, we established the transformation system to enhance the triterpenoid contents production.

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A review of nanomaterials based membranes for removal of contaminants from polluted waters

  • Amin, Muhammad T.;Alazba, Abdulrahman A.
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.123-146
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    • 2014
  • Safe water has becoming a competitive resource in many parts of the world due to increasing population, prolonged droughts, climate change etc. The development of economical and stable materials and methods for providing the fresh water in adequate amounts is the need of the water industry. Nanomaterials have unique characteristics e.g., large surface areas, size, shape, and dimensions etc. that make them particularly attractive for removing various contaminants from polluted waters. Nanotechnology based multifunctional and highly efficient membrane processes are providing affordable solutions in the new era that do not rely on large infrastructures or centralizes systems. The objective of the current study is to review the possible applications of the membrane based nanomaterials/composites for the removal of various contaminations from polluted waters. The article will briefly overview the availability and practice of different nanomaterials based membranes for removal of bacteria and viruses, organic compounds and inorganic solutes etc. present in surface water, ground water, seawater and/or industrial water. Finally, recommendations are made based on the current practices of nanofiltration membranes in water industry for a stand-alone membrane filtration system in removing various types of contaminants from polluted waters.