Recently, the rotational solar tracker system is presented for the high electric efficiency. The horizontal rotation tracker is the structure for rotationg horizontally the most important part. However, it is difficult to secure the safety and maintenance in solar tracker systems. Therefore, this study suggests the reasonable structure type for horizontal rotational solar tracker through the strength reinforcement of the structure to ensure stability.

This study presents the tracker structural composition system for the effective angle variation of solar module. Also, the structural performance is evaluated through the structural modelling and analysis and the field application is considered.

The total electron content (TEC) using global positioning system (GPS) is analyzed to see the characteristics of ionosphere over King Sejong station (KSJ, geographic latitude 62°13′ S, longitude 58° 47′ W, corrected geomagnetic latitude 48° S) in Antarctic. The GPS operational ratio during the observational period between 2005 and 2009 is 90.1%. The annual variation of the daily mean TEC decreases from January 2005 to February 2009, but increase from the June 2009. In summer (December-February), the seasonal mean TEC values have the maximum of 26.2 ± 2.4 TEC unit (TECU) in 2005 and the minimum of 16.5 ± 2.8 TECU in 2009, and the annual differences decrease from 3.0 TECU (2005-2006) to 1.4 TECU (2008-2009). However, on November 2010, it significantly increases to 22.3 ± 2.8 TECU which is up to 5.8 TECU compared with 2009 in summer. In winter (June-August), the seasonal mean TEC slightly decreases from 13.7 ± 4.5 TECU in 2005 to 8.9 ± 0.6 TECU in 2008, and the annual difference is constantly about 1.6 TECU, and increases to 10.3 ± 1.8 TECU in 2009. The annual variations of diurnal amplitude show the seasonal features that are scattered in summer and the enhancements near equinoxes are apparent in the whole years. In contrast, the semidiurnal amplitudes show the disturbed annual peaks in winter and its enhancements near equinoxes are unapparent. The diurnal phases are not constant in winter and show near 12 local time (LT). The semidiurnal phases have a seasonal pattern between 00 LT and 06 LT. Consequently, the KSJ GPS TEC variations show the significant semidiurnal variation in summer from December to February under the solar minimum between 2005 and 2009. The feature is considered as the Weddell Sea anomaly of larger nighttime electron density than a daytime electron density that has been observed around the Antarctica peninsula.

Currently, the application of TiO2 photocatalyst has been focused on purification and treatment of wastewater. However, the use of conventional TiO2 slurry photocatalyst results in disadvantage of stirring during the reaction and of separation after the reaction. And the usage of artificial UV lamp has made the cost of photocatalyst treatment system high. Consequently, we studied that solar light/TiO2 film system was designed and developed in order to examine disinfection characteristics of sewage wastewater treatment. The optimum conditions for disinfection such as solar light intensity, characteristic of sewage wastewater, amounts of TiO2 and comparison of solar ligth/TiO2 systems with UV light/TiO2 system was examined. The results are as follows: (1) photocatalytic disinfection process with solar light in the presence of TiO2 film more effectively killed total coliform (TC) than solar light or TiO2 film absorption only. (2) The survival ratio of TC and residual ratio of organic material (BOD, CODcr) decreased with remain resistant material. (3) The survival ratio of TC and residual ratio of organic material (BOD, CODcr) decreased with the increase of amounts of TiO2. (4) TC survival ratio decreased linearly with increasing UV light intensity. (5) The disinfection effect of solar light/TiO2 slurry system decreased more than UV light/TiO2 film systems. (6) The disinfection reaction followed first-order kinetics. We suggest that solar light instead of using artificial UV light was conducted to investigate the applicability of alternative energy source in the disinfection of TC and the degradation of organic material.

태양열 집열판을 이용한 가온재배 실태를 조사 분석하고 그에 따른 문제점을 도출하여 해결방안을 모색, 향후 자연에너지 이용 기기제작 및 사용의 기초자료를 제공하고자 태양열 집열판을 이용한 20농가를 조사한 결과, 설치 비용은 18백만원/20a정도 소요되었으며, 주 재배작목은 토마토(30%)와 화훼(40%)였고, 포도, 고추, 오이, 상추 및 딸기 등도 일부 재배하고 있었다. 태양열이용 정보는 대부분 지도기관에서 얻고 있었으며, 연료절감 효과가 20%미만이라고 응답한 농가가 75%로 지도기관에서 조사한 대부분 20%이상과는 차이가 있었다. 연료절감 효과에 비하여 시설비의 과중과 시공업체의 기술부족이 문제점으로 나타나 이의 보완이 필요하였다.