Many countries have introduced new imported food safety measures, following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. This study was conducted to evaluate the measures contents and effects on food trades values. Eight percent of members were notified the introduced measures to the World Trade Organization. The measures’ contents were banning imports, enhancing inspection and adding certification requirement. The covered regions were some prefectures, entire Japan or all affected countries. European Union introduced a measure that subjecting foods originating from 12 prefectures to import at designated ports with required certification. The measures were amended 8 times until March 2014 to apply listed foods from 15 prefectures. The trade value of fishery products and miscellaneous foods were affected. Australia introduced a measure that required additional inspection of dairy, fishery and plants products from 13 prefectures with subsequent amendments. The trade value had no effect in tested foods. Chinese Taipei introduced a temporary import ban for all foods from 6 prefectures. Trade values for fruits were affected. The United States issued an import alert for detention without examination for listed prefectures and goods without introducing new measures. Although no specific products were affected, trade values for all foods were affected.

Global warming has pressured companies to put a greater emphasis on environment management which allows them to reduce environmental impact and costs of their operations. In Korea, the coal-fired power plants take a large account of electricity generation at 31.7% of the total electricity usage in 2014. Thus, environmental impact of coal-fired power plants is significant. This paper illustrated how to compute environmental impact and costs in electricity generation at a coal-fired power plant using MFCA methodology. Compared to the traditional accounting, an advantage of MFCA is to provide information on electricity generation costs and environmental wastes incurring throughout the production process of electricity. Based on MFCA, the coal-fired power plant was able to reduce production cost of electricity by 52.3%, and environmental wastes by 47.7%. As a result, MFCA seemed to be an effective tool in environmental management for power plants.

세계적으로 급증하는 전력수요에대처하고, CO2 배출을 줄이고자 인구가 밀집되어 있는 도 심지에 복합화력 발전소가 건설되고 있다. 환경규제가 계속적으로 강화됨에 따라 NOx 배출량을 줄이고 자 저 NOx 버너, SCR 등 여러 가지 설비들을 설치하고 있다. 본 연구는 경기도 고양시 소재의 일산열병합발전소 1개소에서 배출되는 질소산화물을 TMS를 이용하 여 배출계수를 산정하여 이를 전산유체동역학(CFD)에 적용하여 질소산화물의 거동을 살펴보고, 현장 실 측 결과와 비교 검토하였다. 실측 기간 중 측정 시간에 따른 주 풍향․풍속의 순간적인 변화로 인해 실측 결과와 CFD 모델링 결과 의 차이가 나타날 수 있으나, 모델링 결과와 실측 결과는 대부분 예측지점에서 유사한 농도로 나타났다. 향후 주변농도를 고려한 기여농도를 산출하여 실측농도에 가까운 예측농도 도출이 가능 할 것으로 판단 된다.

Most of steam power plants in Korea are using the method of heating the feed water whenever the ambient temperature around the power plant area below 5°C to prevent freezing water flowing in the pipe in winter time. But this kind of heat supplying system is not useful to save energy. If we take the method that the temperature of the each pipe is controled by direct measure of temperature by attaching sensor on the outside surface of the feed water tubes, then we can expect that a plenty of energy can be saved. In this study, the computer simulation is used to compare the energy consumption loads of both systems. Energy saving rate is calculated for the location of Incheon area in winter season. Four convection heat transfer coefficients for the ambient air and three initial flowing water temperature inside the tube were used. The result shows that the temperature control system using sensor represents more than 95% of energy saving rate in Incheon area. Even in the severe January weather condition, the energy saving rate is almost 75% in two days basis and even 83% in one day basis.

This study presents a structural safety analysis method for a plant annunciator panel under the seismic effect. Seismic qualification analysis for the nuclear plant annunciator panel is carried out to confirm the structural integrity and the results are represented by required response spectra. For the numerical analysis, finite element method is adopted. Mode combinations are also used to obtain the reliability of the spectrum analysis. The analysis results shows that the nuclear plant annunciator panel is designed as a dynamically rigid assembly, without any resonance frequency blow 33Hz. The calculated stress of the nuclear plant annunciator panel is much less than yield stress of used steel.

Various efforts have been explored to save the cost in many industrial fields. In order to recover the residual thermal energy from the flue gas, an extreme high efficiency heat exchanger is planning to install at a power plant. The gas temperature will be reduced to 40°C from 115°C. Thus gas buoyancy decreases, and dispersion of nitrogen oxides is expected to deteriorate as increasing relative humidity. In this study, the conversion of nitrogen monoxide to nitrogen dioxide and dispersion regime are investigated through computational modeling. Nitrogen dioxide which indicates 0.1 ppm at 85 m from the ground could be propagated to 620 m at 115°C of the flue gas, whilst when cooled down to 40°C, it expands up to 750 m. The ground level influence area showed more expansion of dispersion, approximately to 930 m.