Energy and energy consumption play an important role in strategies for socio-economic development of the country. In 1995, Vietnam officially entered the 500 kV North-South transmission power line exploits, with a full length of 1,487 km. The purpose of this study is to investigate the breakpoint and the transition effect of energy consumption to economic growth in Vietnam during the period of 1980-1994, and 1995-2016. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach and the Bounds test are used to test for the presence of cointegration, whereas the Toda and Yamamoto procedure Granger causality test is used for the direction of causality. The result of the Bounds test validates the existence of cointegration among the included variables. The empirical results provide evidence that energy consumption has a positive impact on the economic growth of Vietnam in the long run. The causality test shows that there is bi-directional causality between energy consumption and economic growth, supported feedback hypothesis. There is a breakpoint in 1995 and the contribution of energy consumption in economic growth in the period of 1995-2016 is lower than the stage 1980-1994. This study suggests Government authorities explore new sources of energy to achieve sustainable economic development in the long run.

Environmental awareness and its relation to the development of economy has garnered increased attention in recent years. Researchers, over the years, have argued that sustainable development warrants for minimizing environmental degradation since one depends on the other. This study analyzes the relationship between environmental degradation (carbon emission taken as proxy for degradation), economic growth, total energy consumption and industrial production index growth in Bangladesh from year 1998 to 2013. This study uses Vector Autoregression (VAR) Model and variance decomposition of VAR to analyze the effect of these variables on carbon emission and vice-versa. The findings of VAR model suggest that industrial production and GDP per capita has significant relationship with carbon emission. Further analysis through variance decomposition shows carbon emission has consistent impact on industrial production over time, whereas, industrial production has high impact on emission in the short run which fades in the long run which is consistent with Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. Carbon emission rising along with GDP per capita and at the same time having low impact in the long run on industrial index indicates there may be other sources of pollution introduced with the rise in income of the economy over time.

국내 자원의 절약과 재활용 촉진에 관한 법률에 근거한 생산자책임재활용제도(EPR System)의 대상 품목인 폐형광등은 2017년 기준 재활용 의무율은 35.6%로 책정되었으며 한국환경공단에 따르면 2015년 기준 형광등의 출고량은 약 18 천톤 정도로 나타났으나 공제조합과 재활용업 간의 재활용 위･탁 계약의 미체결로 인해 폐형광등의 실제 재활용율은 약 5.0%로 재활용 의무율을 달성하지 못하고 있는 실정이다(｢생산자책임재활용제도 시행 13년｣ 운영성평가, 한국환경공단, 2017). 폐기물로 발생되는 폐형광등에 관한 선행연구에 따르면 폐형광등에 포함된 수은은 대부분 형광분말에 포함되어 있어 이를 적절하게 처리할 필요가 있다. 또한, 형광분말에는 희유금속(이트륨, 유로퓸 등)이 포함되어 있어 형광분말에 포함된 수은을 제거하여 희유금속을 회수하여 희유금속을 필요로 하는 산업체 등에서 활용할 수 있다. 이를 위하여 폐형광등 형광분말에 포함된 수은을 제거하기 위하여 Pilot plant 규모의 폐형광등 형광분말 증류 실험을 실시하였다. 실험의 원료는 경기도 K대학에 설치된 Pilot plant 규모의 폐형광등 재활용 공정에서 회수되는 폐형광등 형광분말을 사용하였다. Pilot plant 규모의 폐형광등 형광분말의 수은증류 실험의 조건으로 증류온도는 400~600℃로 변화시켰고 각 온도에서 증류장치 내 체류시간을 1~8시간으로 변화시켰다. 본 연구에서는 각 실험조건에서 회수되는 형광분말의 수은함량을 분석하였고 증류온도와 체류시간에 따른 수은함량을 비교하여 반응속도를 고찰하였다. 또한, 각 실험조건에서 소모되는 에너지양을 비교하여 Pilot plant 규모의 폐형광등 형광분말 증류장치의 최적 에너지 사용량을 평가하고자 하였다.

Wastewater treatment plant(WWTP) has been recognized as a high energy consuming plant. Usually many WWTPs has been operated in the excessive operation conditions in order to maintain stable wastewater treatment. The energy required at WWTPs consists of various subparts such as pumping, aeration, and office maintenance. For management of energy comes from process operation, it can be useful to operators to provide some information about energy variations according to the adjustment of operational variables. In this study, multiple regression analysis was used to establish an energy estimation model. The independent variables for estimation energy were selected among operational variables. The R2 value in the regression analysis appeared 0.68, and performance of the electric power prediction model had less than ±5% error.

Recently, various studies for reducing GHG and energy consumption are increasing in the world. In this study, the previous studies were analyzed to improve reduction methods and propose alternatives in terms of global competitiveness and environmental protection. The result shows systematic research and policy support are necessary to reduce GHG and energy consumption in maintenance field of infrastructure

The university is one of the main energy consumption facilities and thereby releases a large amount of greenhouse gas (GHG). Accordingly, efforts for reducing energy consumption and GHG have been established in many local as well as international universities. However, it has been limited to energy consumption and GHG, and has not included air pollution (AP). Therefore, we estimated GHG and AP integrated emissions from the energy consumed by Seoul National University of Science and Technology during the years between 2010 and 2012. In addition, the effect of alternative energy use scenario was analysed. We estimated GHG using IPCC guideline and Guidelines for Local Government Greenhouse Inventories, and AP using APEMEP/EEA Emission Inventory Guidebook 2013 and Air Pollutants Calculation Manual. The estimated annual average GHG emission was 11,420 tonCO2eq, of which 27% was direct emissions from fuel combustion sectors, including stationary and mobile source, and the remaining 73% was indirect emissions from purchased electricity and purchased water supply. The estimated annual average AP emission was 7,757 kgAP, of which the total amount was from direct emissions only. The annual GHG emissions from city gas and purchased electricity usage per unit area (m2) of the university buildings were estimated as 15.4 kgCO2eq/m2 and 42.4 tonCO2eq/m2 and those per person enrolled in the university were 210 kgCO2eq/capita and 577 kgCO2eq/capita. Alternative energy use scenarios revealed that the use of all alternative energy sources including solar energy, electric car and rain water reuse applicable to the university could reduce as much as 9.4% of the annual GHG and 34% of AP integrated emissions, saving approximately 400 million won per year, corresponding to 14% of the university energy budget.

This paper examined energy consumption distribution by process and energy production-effect of MBT facilities inKorea. Generally, facilities that use fossil fuels for drying consumed energy about 70~80% in drying and exhaust gasestreatment process and energy distribution was heavily affected a position of drying and a kind of fuel. Energy production-effect by the ratio of input-energy to output-energy ranged from 4.54 to 9.60, however, if generation efficiency is reflected,it was standardized to low levels from 3.10~3.77. So we were able to confirm that the superiority of energy production-effect between facilities is not considerable.

우리나라는 태권도의 종주국임에도 불구하고 신체활동량과 그에 따른 에너지 소모량에 대한 기초연구가 미흡하며 이에 대한 연구가 시급한 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 센서(SenseWear® PRO2 Armband)를 이용하여 태권도의 신체활동 량을 획득하였고, Inbody 520을 통하여 체성분 데이터를 획득 하였으며, CT로 하체부위(허벅지)를 스캔하여 허벅지 근육면적 데이터를 추출하였다. 획득된 데이터를 이용하여 허벅지 둘레와 근육면적의 상관관계, 허벅지 근육면적과 분 당 에너지 소모량의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 분석결과 실험자 8명의 평균 허벅지 근육면적은 132.79 cm2 였으며, 무 릎뼈(Pattela) 위 20 cm의 평균 허벅지 전체 면적은 178.79 cm2이었다. 실험자들의 허벅지 둘레와 근육면적은 상관 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 실험자들의 평균 분당 에너지 소모량은 6.94 칼로리였으며, 허벅지 근육면적과 평균 분 당 에너지 소모량도 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

고 고형분함량 감자 생산을 위한 수확시기를 예측하는 데 있어 에너지 소모량의 추정에 대한 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 각 지역별로 포장의 파종시기부터 수확시기까지 최근 5년간(2005년~2009년) 평균기온, 강수량, 상대습도, 일조시간, 바람, 지중온도 등의 농업환경을 조사한 결과 파종기 저온피해와 괴경비대기 장마기간을 회피한다면 가공용 원료감자는 가공품 생산에 필요시마다 물량을 수급하기 때문에 만숙재배를 하지 않아 품종의존도가 낮아 수확시기의 환경에 대한 비중이 큰 것으로 판단되었다. 2. 파종시기부터 출현까지에는 지중온도에 영향을 많이 받아 지역별 편차가 심해 시뮬레이션에서는 출현시기를 기준으로 감자의 수확적기를 예측하는 것이 바람직하였다. 3 수확시기를 예측하기 위한 생장모형은 Tp=Tm~cdotWmTpWmTm를 사용하고, 생장량 Wm을 계상하는 기본 생장모형은 Wm=~intmtf(x)dt 를 사용하였다. 4. 기본 생장모형을 통해 Wm을 계상할 때는 광합성율(δA )과 식물체내 에너지 소모(δE ) 개념을 적용해야 보다 정밀한 수확시기를 예측할 수 있었으며, 식물체내 에너지 소모에 대한 정의는 기후변화에 대응하여 농업환경에 대처하는 식물체내 에너지 소모를 계상하는 것으로 최근 5년간(2005년~2009년) 수확시기에 따라 고형분함량을 측정한 결과 광합성율만 계상할 때 보다 에너지 소모개념을 적용한 것이 효과적이었다.