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Estimation Method of Potential Biomass Resources in Korea (국내 바이오매스 자원 잠재량 산정방법)

  • Lee, Joon-Pyo;Hwang, Kyung-Ran;Park, Soon-Chul
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.332-336
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    • 2008
  • The resource potentials biomass resources of South Korea are estimated as Preliminary stage using relevant National statistics. Biomass resources possibly be collected, used and converted to bioenergy in Korea are forest biomass, agricultural residue, livestock manure and municipal solid wastes. The potential biomass resources are classifying into total potential, available potential and technically feasible biomass resources, Total potential biomass resources in Korea are estimated to be around 140million tons of oil equivalent (toe). Available potentials are estimated to be around 11million annually. The technically feasible biomass resources with current technologies are estimated to be 2.3million toe annually. These estimated values are the minimum of all potentials since they are all estimated from explicit statistics. Although actually there exist huge amount of biomass on the land as well as in the sea, potential resources for bioenergy are believed to be limited. The potentials are to be inclosed with the improvement of bioenergy technologies.

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Case Study : Assessment of Small Hydropower Potential Using Runoff Measurements (관측 유량 자료를 이용한 소수력 잠재량 평가에 대한 사례연구)

  • Jung, Sung-Eun;Kim, Jin-Young;Kang, Yong-Heack;Kim, Hung-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.43-54
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    • 2018
  • In this study, we assessed dependency of small hydropower potentials on the two different runoff such as the estimated runoff based on the rainfall amounts and measured runoff. The hydpropower potentials were evaluated using actural power generations taken from Deoksong, Hanseok, and Socheon small hydropower plants over Han and Nakdong river basins, respectively. As a result of comparing the actual power generation amount with the potential amount based on the rainfall amount and the estimated amount based on the observed flow amount by each small hydroelectric power plant, the degree of latent small hydro energy by the observed flow was confirmed to be high. It is confirmed that the potential hydroelectric power generation rate is estimated to be about average 30%Point higher than the actual generation amount as a result of the measured flow rate rather than using the rainfall amount. Based on this, a method for improving the degree of the actual generation amount is proposed.

Resource Assessment of Tidal Current Energy Using API in Korea (API를 적용한 국내 조류에너지 잠재량 추정)

  • Jo, Chul-Hee;Lee, Kang-Hee;Cho, Bong-Kun;Hwang, Su-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 2016
  • The west and south coastal regions of Korea are known to be of strong tidal current speed. With the increasing demand for renewable energies, the resource assessment has been a crucial issue which should be conducted before any detail planning and development of the potential sites for tidal current farm. Although there are several results of resource assessment of tidal current energy in Korea, the resource assessment method is not officially announced. This undefined methodology makes the results unreliable and useless. Recently new renewable energy potential definition has been announced by KIER (Korea Institute of Energy Research). This categorizes energy potential as four steps; theoretical, geographical, technical and market potentials. This paper describes the resource assessment of tidal current power in Korea based on API (Averaged Power Intercepted). The results show that the Incheon-Gyeonggi and Jeollanam-do are very promising areas for tidal current power in Korea.

Interfacial Electrical Studies on Adhesion of Hematite Particle to Polyester Fabric and its Removal from the Fabric(Part I) -The interaction energy between particle and fabric- (Polyester직물에의 Hematite입자의 부착과 제거에 관한 계면전기적 고찰(제1보) -기질과 입자간의 상호작용에너지-)

  • Kang, In-Sook;Kim, Sung-Reon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.380-390
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    • 1993
  • Effect of interfacial electrical conditions on adhesion of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particles to PET fabric and the removal of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particles from PET fabric, were investigated as functions of pH, electrolyte and ionic strength. The ${\zeta}$ potential of PET fiber and ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particles in the electrolyte solution were measured by streaming potential and microelectrophoresis methods respectively. The potential energy of interaction between ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particles and PET fabric were calculated by using the heterocoagulation theory for a sphere-plate model. The negative ${\zeta}$ potential of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particle and PET fiber increased with pH, and then decreased certain pH and isoelectric points of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particles and PET fiber were pH 6.5 and pH 3.5, respectively. The negative ${\zeta}$ potential of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particle and PET fiber affected by electrolytes, were relatively high with polyanion electrolytes in solutions and were low with neutral salts. However, at surfactant solution, ${\zeta}$ potential was levelled off. The influence of the ionic strength on the ${\zeta}$ potential of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particle was small but the negative ${\zeta}$ potential of PET fiber increased with the ionic strength. In the presence of anionic surfactant, the ${\zeta}$ potential of ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particle and PET fiber increased regardless of solution conditions. The interaction energy between ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$ particle and PET fabric increased with pH. The interaction energy was relatively high with polyanion electrolytes in solution, and the influence of ionic strength on the interaction energy was small, and the effective thickness of electrical double layer increased with decreasing the ionic strength.

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A Study on Establishing Infrastructure Plans to Introduce an Energy Efficiency Resource Standards - Based on the Energy Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency Potential - (에너지효율향상의무화제도의 국내 도입을 위한 기반구축 연구 - 에너지수요관리제도 및 절감률 산정 중심으로 -)

  • Hong, Sung-Jun;Choi, Bong-Ha;Lee, Deok-Ki;Park, Soo-Uk;Won, Jong-Ryul
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.241-247
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    • 2010
  • An Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS) is a simple, market-based mechanism to encourage more efficient generation, transmission, and use of electricity, natural gas and heat. An EERS consists of electric, gas and/or heating energy savings targets for utilities, often with flexibility to achieve the target through a market-based trading system. In this paper, we make persons acquainted with EERS programs of foreign countries in these days. And we analyze domestic energy demand side management (DSM) programs in order to introduce an EERS program into the country successfully. Energy efficiency potential calculated in 2007 is one of the important factors for establishing an EERS program domestically. This study may provide basic data to set the amount of energy saving when an EERS program would be phased in.

Risk Management and Governmental Investment on New & Renewable Energy (Risk Management 관점에서 신재생에너지 투자)

  • Ahn, Eun-Young
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.360-363
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    • 2006
  • Regester & Larkin(2005) suggest the issue and risk lifecycle analysis method in risk management, made up of the potential, emerging, current, crisis, and dormant stages. Investment on New & Renewable Energy is meaningful in effect ive risk management for diminishing or reducing the shock of a energy current, at the potential stage. In this study, we survey the risk of traditional fossil fuel projects and develop the risk analysis model for new & renewable energy projects specially geothermal energy resources and gas-hydrate resources.

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Assessment of Potentiality of Renewable Energy Based Urban Forms (도시 형태에 따른 신재생에너지 잠재성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, A-Rum;Chung, Min-Hee;Rhee, Eon-Ku
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.22-32
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    • 2010
  • The world is facing environmental problem described as climate change and exhaustion of fossil fuel. In order to solve theses problems, importance of renewable energy is extremely growing. For stable energy supply, it is need to apply hybrid renewable energy systems in urban-scale, because some renewable energy system' outputs are greatly influenced by climatic condition. Especially, solar irradiation and wind velocity are influenced by urban geometric environment as well as climatic condition. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the renewable energy potential according as urban form. This study aims to evaluate the potential of solar energy and wind energy in urban-scale and classify urban type according as characteristics of urban forms. The results of this study will be used to develop renewable energy system application guidelines for urban and energy planning.

The Influence of Confining Parameters on the Ground State Properties of Interacting Electrons in a Two-dimensional Quantum Dot with Gaussian Potential

  • Gulveren, Berna
    • Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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    • v.73 no.11
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    • pp.1612-1618
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    • 2018
  • In this work, the ground-state properties of an interacting electron gas confined in a two-dimensional quantum dot system with the Gaussian potential ${\upsilon}(r)=V_0(1-{\exp}(-r^2/p))$, where $V_0$ and p are confinement parameters, are determined numerically by using the Thomas-Fermi approximation. The shape of the potential is modified by changing the $V_0$ and the p values, and the influence of the confining potential on the system's properties, such as the chemical energy, the density profile, the kinetic energy, the confining energy, etc., is analyzed for both the non-interacting and the interacting cases. The results are compared with those calculated for a harmonic potential, and excellent agreement is obtained in the limit of high p values for both the non-interacting and the interacting cases.

Designing Fault-Tolerant Gaits for Quadruped Robots Using Energy Stability Margins (에너지 안정여유도를 이용한 사족 보행 로봇의 내고장성 걸음새)

  • Yang, Jung-Min
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.55 no.7
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2006
  • This paper proposes a novel fault-tolerant gait for Quadruped robots using energy stability margins. The previously developed fault-tolerant gaits for quadruped robots have a drawback of having marginal stability margin, which may lead to tumbling. In the process of tumbling, the potential energy of the center of gravity goes through a maximum. The larger the difference between the potential energy of the center of gravity of the initial position and that of this maximum, the less the robot tumbles. Hence this difference of potential energy, dubbed as Energy Stability Margin (ESM), can be regarded as the stability margin. In this paper, a novel fault-tolerant gait is presented which gives positive ESM to a quadruped robot suffering from a locked joint failure. Positive ESM is obtained by adjusting foot positions between leg swing sequences. The advantage of the proposed fault-tolerant gait is demonstrated in a case study where a quadruped robot with a failed leg walks on a even slope.

Waste-to-Energy and Landfill Gas Utilization Potential in Indonesia

  • Yurnaidi, Zulfikar
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.313-320
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    • 2009
  • Indonesian Ministry of Environment estimates that each year 170 cities and regencies in Indonesia produce 45,764,354.30 $m^3$ or approximately 11,441,091.08 ton of solid waste. Unfortunately, unsustainable management system has created a severe waste problem, hazardous to health and environment. This paper deals with the problem and offers some solutions. They are 3R (Reduce Reuse and Recycle), waste-to-energy concept and landfill gas (LFG) utilization. While 3R policy has been adopted by the government, the remaining two technologies are still dormant. Thus the paper provides a complete yet compact analysis of technology, economics, and environment aspect of waste-to-energy and LFG. Given the facts of waste production and management in Indonesia, the purpose is to encourage Government of Indonesia and other stake holders (including international community) to explore and exploit this potential. Potential of reducing waste negative externality while receiving extra revenue. Two bird with a stone.

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