Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology (수산해양기술연구)

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Energy self-sufficient electrolysis apparatus for sterilization of portable toilet in small vessels

소형선박에 설치 가능한 해상기인 오염원 멸균용 에너지 자급형 전기분해 장치 개발

  • Oh, Seung-Won (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Hahn, Min-Soo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Choi, Hae-Wook (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2012.06.15
  • Accepted : 2012.08.20
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

Marine caused pollution occurs mostly near coastal area and its main cause was known to be human feces issued from small vessels. To sterilize liquid pollutants from portable toilets of small vessels, an electrolysis treatment is judged to be the most economic and stable method considering an environment of its use. In this paper, we presents an electrolysis apparatus which is the most appropriate for sterilizing pollutants from portable toilets of small vessels and derives the minimum operating time of the apparatus for sterilizing norovirus which is a main target of marine caused pollution sources. In order to utilize renewable energy, we designed an apparatus which generates a renewable energy from solar cells. As a result, we could confirm the applicability of the proposed system with the results from experiments in three cases of different weather conditions.

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Acknowledgement

Grant : 해상기인 오염원 처리 기술 개발 과제

Supported by : 농림수산식품기술기획평가원

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