Analysis of the factors affecting carbon emissions and absorption on a university campus – focusing on Pusan National University in Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juchul Jung ◽  
Gyoungjun Ha ◽  
Kyungwan Bae
Author(s):  
Solongo Shagdarsuren ◽  
Ulambayar Batchuluun ◽  
Daniel Lindbergh Lang

A decline in number of credit hours of English courses for English-majoring students at National University of Mongolia is forcing teachers and students to focus on how to learn English more effectively and what factors would affect that process within credit hours allowed at the university. However, the English teaching class hours in Mongolian secondary schools have been increasing for the last few years, due to the interest in learning English as a foreign language, and resulting in a growth in the demand for English teachers. This study has a goal to investigate into motivation of English-majoring students towards learning English and the factors affecting them to be demotivated. Twenty students studying English as a major at National University of Mongolia, Erdenet School completed the research questionnaire  which intended to discover English learning motivation through 12 items and attended focus group interview with 5 questions to find internal and external demotivating factors in 2019-2020 academic year. The students had instrumental orientation and demonstrated a strong desire to learn English. Furthermore, they were demotivated by their teachers’ and classmates’ attitudes and living conditions. The researchers suggested some recommendations based on the study findings. 


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Allen ◽  
Moncef Krarti

Distributed electric generation systems are increasingly considered to offset energy costs and carbon emissions of large building complexes. College campuses, with their physical compactness, and diversity in building loads, present a common application for distributed generation systems. This paper presents the analysis approach and the main results of a feasibility study of a distributed generation system to supply electric and thermal energy for a large university campus, incorporating energy efficiency measures, to reduce carbon emissions at minimal life cycle cost. The presented study uses a load profile developed based on calibrated detailed simulation energy models for prototypical campus buildings. The calibration analysis is carried out using measured energy consumption data, at the individual building level, and the whole-campus level. Several combinations of distributed generation options are evaluated, using an hourly optimization analysis tool, to meet the entire campus hourly electrical and thermal loads. Proposed efficiency measures and distributed generation options are evaluated using different indicators, including life cycle cost and carbon emissions. The analysis results indicate that implementing energy efficiency measures to reduce electrical and thermal loads before implementing distributed generation options is the most cost-effective approach to reducing the campus’s energy-related carbon emissions. The results of the study are summarized to guide college campuses and managers of other urban districts as they adapt to a changing energy landscape.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 4492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baral ◽  
Basnyat ◽  
Gauli ◽  
Paudel ◽  
Upadhyaya ◽  
...  

Fuelwood is the primary source of energy in Nepal, where 87.1% of the total energy is derived from wood, making it the major source for carbon emissions. This study explores the factors affecting the fuelwood consumption, the amount of carbon emissions including the potential for carbon sequestration in community forests, taking a case study of Kankali Community Forest Users Group (CFUG) of Chitwan district of Nepal. Interviews with 217 households revealed that 60% of the households still depend on fuelwood for cooking, which apparently emits approximately 13.68 tons of carbon dioxide annually. The emission, however, varies with the economic status of the households; poor households rely exclusively on fuelwood for cooking and therefore emit greater amount of carbon. Similarly, the carbon emission was also found to be directly proportional to the family size and livestock holding, and inversely proportional to landholding and per capita income. A more conservation-oriented forest management along with activities to support livelihood has contributed to lower carbon emissions. Interestingly, the poverty-energy trap seemed to have a distinct gender dimension. We argue that CFUGs need to invest in income-generating activities for local users, and especially for women of low-income households, in order to reduce current carbon emission.


2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
BK Saha ◽  
MS Jahan ◽  
MA Hossain

The investigation was conducted on morphometrics, length-weight relationship and ecological factors of the freshwater apple snail, Pila globosa (Swainson, 1822) in the habitat of Rajshahi University Campus. The length of shell (SL) (40.09 ± 16.08 mm), length of spire (SPL) (7.63 ± 2.61mm), length of base (LB) (32.52 ± 13.58 mm), width of shell (SW) (37.39 ± 15.72 mm), length of aperture (AL) (27.83 ± 10.42mm) and width of aperture (AW) (16.6 ± 6.46mm) in combined sex were observed. The obesity indices of male were higher than those of female (male =1.10 ± 0.03, female = 1.04 ±  0.01). The total weight in wet condition (TWW) (27.25 ± 25.25g) in combined sex was also recorded. The regression lines between SL/SPL (SL=1.2925+0.1580 SPL), SL/BL (SL = -1.2831 + 0.8432 BL), SL/SW (SL=1.7367+0.9760 SW), SL/AL (SL=1.9303+ 0.6460 AL), SL/AW (SL=0.5239+0.4011 AW), SL/TWW (SL= -3.4225+2.9290 TWW) and  SW/TWW (SW=3.1353+2.8060 TWW) in combined sexes were linear, positive and highly significant. Ecological factors from observed value (Ko) of combined sex and from calculated value (Kc) of combined sex were 29.53 ± 4.26 and 29.29 ± 0.95, respectively. Kn values of combined sex were found to be 1.009 ± 0.137Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 51(2), 121-128, 2016


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Jiang ◽  
Ya-Lin Lei ◽  
Yong-Zhi Yang ◽  
Fang Wang

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-min Wang ◽  
Yu-fang Shi ◽  
Xue Zhao ◽  
Xue-ting Zhang

Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is a typical developed region in China. The development of economy has brought lots of carbon emissions. To explore an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, we applied the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model to find drivers behind carbon emission from 2003 to 2013. Results showed that, in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, economic output was main contributor to carbon emissions. Then we utilized the decoupling model to comprehensively analyze the relationship between economic output and carbon emission. Based on the two-level model, results indicated the following: (1) Industry sector accounted for almost 80% of energy consumption in whole region. The reduced proportion of industrial GDP will directly reduce the carbon emissions. (2) The carbon factor for CO2/energy in whole region was higher than that of Beijing and Tianjin but lower than that of Hebei. The impact of energy structure on carbon emission depends largely on the proportion of coal in industry. (3) The energy intensity in whole region decreased from 0.79 in 2003 to 0.40 in 2013 (unit: tons of standard coal/ten thousand yuan), which was lower than national average. (4) The cumulative effects of industrial structure, energy structure, and energy intensity were negative, positive, and negative, respectively.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 3030-3034
Author(s):  
Nai Ping Zhu ◽  
Qi Zhao ◽  
Yang Shen

For the purpose of encouraging enterprises to save energy and reduce emissions from the internal demand and providing insight and inspiration to future study,this article not only describes the carbon finance coefficient model based on factors related to carbon finance but also establishes cost estimation model of carbon emissions according to the factors affecting the cost of carbon emissions and carbon finance coefficient.The resulted shows that carbon emissions currency cost namely the monetary costs of carbon emissions is the market value and the currency value of carbon emissions cost based on the financial market conditions.The result of the present work introduces that the cost of carbon emission has a correlation with prevention costs,cost control,carbon content,industrial added value,carbon finance index and so on so that governments and enterprises should take some measures such as perfecting carbon finance system and setting up the cost control of system consciousness to reduce the cost of carbon emissions and protect our environment.


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