• KIEAE Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2012

The Earth's surface temperature still continues to rise, and extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves, drought, and precipitation have been repeated every year. It is reported that international communities attribute the main cause of the Earth's surface temperature rise to the excessive use of the fossil energy. Recently, the damage caused by climate change is getting worse, and the place where we live is suffering the most. Cities have been continuously growing not only meeting the basic functions of human habitation, work and leisure but also being places for various economic and social activities. But Cities, the victims of climate change, have grown only considering human needs and convenience rather than predicting their physical and ecological systems(Albedo effects, urban microclimate, resources and energy of the circulatory system, etc). In other words, the cities offer the cause of the problems of climate change, and even worsen the extreme weather phenomena without coping with them. Therefore, it is urgent priorities to protect the climate, to prevent the causes of the extreme weather phenomena and to enhance the adaptive capacity for the worse weather events. This study is to derive the concept for adapting to these climate changes which can make cities escape from exposure to these climate change impacts and make themselves safer places to live. And it analyzes some European cities and present developing models to implement planning methods. In this study, the concept of the climate adaptive cities will be suggested to prepare the adaptation measures for urban planners, and climate change adaptation models will be presented by analyzing some preliminary cases.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2012

In this study, the influence of decentralized rainwater management over the changes in evapotranspiration was analyzed. The analysis method was obtained by establishing the decentralized rainwater management plan according to different scenarios, and subsequently examined evapotranspiration in the plan. Scenario 1 refers to the analysis of the existing situation, in which was 100% of a parking lot is asphalt pavement. In Scenario 2, the pavement of the parking surface in the parking lot is replaced with lawn blocks. In Scenario 3, some asphalt pavement was removed to establish a flower-bed type infiltration system to allow rainwater to permeate. In Scenario 4, infiltration and storage of rain water would be achieved by transforming the parking surface into lawn blocks, keeping the asphalt for the parking road while establishing a vegetation strip. The amount of evapotranspiration of the target site was analyzed with a water budget analysis program (CAT) using the 2001 meteorological data for each scenario According to the analysis values of S2 and S3, it was found that evapotranspiration is critically affected by the amount of area replaced with pervious area in the total target site. An energy equivalent to 680kWh is required for 1 ton of water to evaporate. Hence, it can be seen that the active inducement of evapotranspiration in urban area makes a positive contribution not only to heat island mitigation, but also to the small-scale water circulation process in a city.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2013

최근 기후 온난화, 오존층 파괴, 열대림의 감소, 사막화 등의 환경문제가 이미 한 국가 문제를 넘어 범세계적인 지구환경문제로 대두되면서 이를 해결하기 위한 국제적인 관심과 노력이 다양하게 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 원격탐사 기법을 이용하여 도시의 녹지증가를 정량적으로 산출하고, 온도 추출을 통해 도시의 온도변화를 파악하고자 하였다. 2002년 5월과 2009년 5월 Landsat TM영상을 이용하여 연구대상지의 녹지 면적변화와 열변화를 분석하였으며, 도심의 지표면 온도를 추출하기 위해 Landsat TM 열적외선 영역센서인 Band 6의 분광밝기정도를 이용하여 표면온도분포를 산출하였다. 연구결과, 도심지 녹지의 면적이 $2.97km^2$ 증가하였으며, 도시의 지표온도가 약$0.6^{\circ}C{\sim}0.8^{\circ}C$ 낮아졌음을 제시하였다. 향후 원격탐사 및 실측자료를 바탕으로 도심 온도변화에 대한 추가적인 연구가 이루어진다면 도시환경문제 해결에 크게 기여할 것이다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2008

2005년부터 실시된 음식물류 폐기물의 직매립 금지로 도시생활폐기물의 조성은 최근 급변하였다. 이에 본 연구에서는 동일한 중소도시에서 2004, 2005, 2007년에 년1회씩 도시생활폐기물을 수거하여 폐기물의 물리화학적 조성을 조사하고, 이로부터 음식물류 폐기물의 직매립 금지정책이 도시생활폐기물의 성상변화에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 음식물류 폐기물의 직매립 금지로 생활폐기물 중의 음식물류의 함량은 급격히 감소하여 5.5 % 수준으로 낮아졌으며, 종이류가 50.6 %, 비닐/플라스틱이 22.6 %로 증가하였다. 겉보기 밀도는 약 50 % 감소하여 효과적인 폐기물 수거 및 처분을 위해서는 부피저감과 소각의 필요성이 제기되었다. 전체 폐기물 중의 수분함량은 15.9 %로 2004년도에 비하여 30.5 % 감소하였으며, 폐기물의 저위발열량은 직매립 금지 후 약 2배 가까이 증가하여 3565.6kcal/kg의 값을 나타내었다. 음식물류 폐기물의 직매립 금지 조치로 매립지 침출수 원수 수질이 개선되는 등 긍정적인 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.681-686
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• 2017

태양광 모듈에서 태양전지를 연결해주는 인터커넥터로 리본 솔더로 SnPbAg가 사용되고, 옥외 태양광 발전에 장기간 노출시 리본의 부식으로 인한 열화가 흔히 관찰된다. 이러한 부식현상으로 인하여 리본과 태양전지의 접합이 약해져 접촉저항이 증가하고, 또한 리본 자체의 직렬 저항이 증가하게 되어 태양전지의 전압 전류 곡선에서 충진률 손실로 출력이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 리본의 부식을 완화시킬 수 있는 방법으로 희생양극법을 이용하여 순수 알루미늄 및 아연, 알루미늄, 아연 그리고 마그네슘의 합금을 이용한 5가지 희생양극 소재의 부식에 의한 열화 저감을 연구하였다. 전기화학적 방법으로 희생양극 소재의 개방회로 전위와 폐쇄회로 전위를 측정하였고, 포텐시오다이나믹 분극 곡선을 측정하고, 영저항전류계를 이용하여 리본과 소재간의 갈바닉 전류를 측정하였다. 또한, 아세트산과, NaCl에 리본과 희생양극 소재의 부착 전후의 침지시험과 4셀 미니모듈로 제작한 후 1500시간 고온고습 시험 전후 출력을 평가하였다. 그 결과 Al-3Mg와 Al-3Zn-1Mg의 희생양극 소재가 부식속도가 느리고, 출력저하를 저감시킬 뿐만 아니라 장기 안정성에도 효과적인 것으로 평가된다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2012

In recent years, a demand for precision-welding is increasing in wide industrial fields for getting a high quality welded structures. Although laser welding is commonly used for precision-welding, gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding is also attempted as a precision-welding due to the cost benefit. However, welding heat causes an uneven temperature distribution leading to welding deformation. Since it causes geometric errors and degrades product quality, welding distortion recently rises as an important issue in the field of automobile parts. To control welding deformation, it is needed to design in shapes that can maximize stiffness against deformation during welding; control the welding sequence; minimize heat input; and weld allowing reverse deformation; etc. Thus it is necessary to find the one, among such approaches, that can minimize the deformation range by mathematical analysis and understand how effective it would be when it is actually used in industrial fields. This study performs analyses by numerical calculations and experiments for the De-Tent Lever, one of transmission part that requires precision the most among automobile parts, as the subject of experiment. Decrease in welding deformation is required for this part, since there is currently a trouble in guaranteeing precision due to angular deformation by welding between boss and plate. Finally the ways to minimize welding deformation has been suggested in this study through analyses on it.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.3236-3246
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• 2021

Lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident directed that multiple failures should be considered more seriously rather than single failure in the licensing bases and safety cases because attempts to take accident management measures could be unsuccessful under the high radiation environment aggravated by multiple failures, such as complete loss of electric power, uncontrollable loss of coolant inventory, failure of essential safety function recovery. In the case of the complete loss of electric power called station blackout (SBO), if there is no mitigation action for recovering safety functions, the reactor core would be overheated, and severe fuel damage could be anticipated due to the failure of the active heat sink. In such a transient condition at CANDU-6 plants, the seal failure of the primary heat transport (PHT) pumps can facilitate a consequent increase in the fuel sheath temperature and eventually lead to degradation of the fuel integrity. Therefore, it is necessary to specify the regulatory guidelines for multiple failures on a licensing basis so that licensees should prepare the accident management measures to prevent or mitigate accident conditions. In order to explore the efficiency of implementing accident management strategies for CANDU-6 plants, this study proposed a realistic accident analysis approach on the SBO transient with multiple-failure sequences such as seal failure of PHT pumps without operator's recovery actions. In this regard, a comparative study for two PHT pump seal failure modes with and without coolant seal leakage was conducted using a best-estimate code to precisely investigate the behaviors of thermal-hydraulic parameters during transient conditions. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis for different PHT pump seal leakage rates was also carried out to examine the effect of leakage rate on the system responses. This study is expected to provide the technical bases to the accident management strategy for unmitigated transient conditions with multiple failures.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제65권3호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2023

A flash drought is a rapid-onset drought that develops over a short period of time as weather and environmental factors change rapidly, unlike general droughts, due to meteorological abnormalities. Abnormally high evapotranspiration rates and rapid declines in soil moisture increase vegetation stress. In addition, crop yields may decrease due to flash droughts during crop growth and may damage agricultural and economic ecosystems. In this study, Flash Drought Intensity Index (FDII) based on soil moisture data from Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE) was used to analyze flash drought. FDII, which is calculated using soil moisture percentile, is expressed by multiplying two factors: the rate of intensification and the drought severity. FDII was developed for domestic flash drought events from 2014 to 2018. The flash drought that occurred in 2018, Chungcheongbuk-do showed the highest FDII. FDII was higher in heat wave flash drought than in precipitation deficit flash drought. The results of this study show that FDII is reliable flash drought analysis tool and can be applied to quantitatively analyze the characteristics of flash drought in South Korea.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제36권5_4호
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• pp.1179-1194
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 지상기상센서가 설치되지 않은 미 관측지점의 기온정보를 추정하기 위하여 K-최근접 이웃, 랜덤 포레스트, 신경망 알고리즘을 대상으로 위성영상을 이용하여 기온자료를 산출하고 그 정확성을 평가·분석하고자 하였다. 위성영상자료는 2019년에 취득된 Landsat-8과 MODIS Aqua/Terra을 이용하였으며, 기상자료는 기상청과 산림청의 AWS/ASOS 자료를 이용하였다. 또한 추정 정확도를 향상시키기 위하여 수치표면 모델, 일사량, 경사방향, 경사도를 생성하여 이용하였다. 머신러닝 알고리즘 정확도 비교는 10-fold 교차검증을 통하여 R²(결정계수) 및 RMSE(평균제곱근오차)의 통계량을 계산하여 대상지역별 추정결과를 비교하였다. 그 결과 신경망 알고리즘이 R²=0.805, RMSE=0.508로 세 알고리즘 중 가장 안정적인 결과를 나타내었다. 신경망 알고리즘을 구축된 위성영상 데이터셋에 적용하여 2019년 6월부터 9월까지의 평균기온 지도를 생성할 수 있었으며 세밀한 기온 정보를 관측할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 연구 성과는 폭염 대응 정책, 열섬완화 연구 등 국가재난안전 관리에 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.3086-3091
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• 2007

When a molten corium is relocated in a lower head of a reactor vessel, the ERVC (External Reactor Vessel Cooling) system is actuated as coolant is supplied into a reactor cavity to remove a decay heat from the molten corium during a severe accident. To achieve this severe accident mitigation strategy, the two-phase natural circulation flow in the annular gap between the external reactor vessel and the insulation should be formed sufficiently by designing the coolant inlet/outlet area and gap size adequately on the insulation device. For this reason, one-dimensional natural circulation flow tests were conducted to estimate the natural circulation flow under the ERVC condition of APR1400. The experimental facility is one-dimensional and scaled-down as the half height and 1/238 rectangular channel area of the APR1400 reactor vessel. As the water inlet area increased, the natural circulation mass flow rate asymptotically increased, that is, it converged at a specific value. And the circulation mass flow rate also increased as the outlet area, injected air flow rate, and outlet height increased. But the circulation mass flow rate was not changed along with the external water level variation if the water level was higher than the outlet height.