• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.665-675
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• 2010

The effects of chemical binders (ladle slag, ordinary portland cement (OPC), hydroxyapatite and calcium hydroxide) on the solidification/stabilization of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in sewage sludge were evaluated by chemical leaching tests such as EDTA extraction, TCLP and sequential extraction. The results of EDTA extraction showed that heavy metal concentrations in sewage sludge were highly reduced after solidification/stabilization with slag, cement or calcium hydroxide. However, EDTA interrupted solidification/stabilization of heavy metals by hydroxyapatite. The TCLP-extracted heavy metal concentrations in sewage sludge after solidification/stabilization with chemical amendments were highly reduced. However, Cu concentration in the sewage sludge solidified/stabilized with slag, cement or calcium hydroxide increased because the pH of TCLP solution was higher than 7. Mixtures of sludge 1 : slag 0.2 : calcium hydroxide 0.1 (wt ratio) showed the least leachability in batch TCLP and EDTA extraction. The results of sequential extraction (SM&T, formaly BCR) indicated that the distribution of heavy metals changed from exchangable and carbonate fractions to strongly bound organic fraction. It was found that maximum leachate concentrations of Ba, Cd, Cr and Pb from sewage sludge amended with slag and calcium hydroxide were far below US EPA TCLP regulations.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.227-235
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• 1993

This study was carried out to evaluate the possibility of composting for organic solid waste from restaurants and domestics. Small three vessels were prepared which were conditioned to semianaerobic, convectional and air-blowed type. During the experiment period for 4 months, the values of volatile solid(VS) %, moisture % and carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio of the wastes in the vessels were stabilized, 80 % to 40-50 %, 80 % to 48-55 % and 18 to 8-10, respectively. On the basis of VS % and C/N ratio, the reactions were more adaptable to 2nd order formula than to 1st order one, Reaction rate constant of the 3 vessels were estimated, $4.96{\times}10^{-5}(day^{-1})$ in the semianaerobic type, $5.82{\times}10^{-5}(day^{-1})$ in the convectional type and $8.42{\times}10^{-5}(day^{-1})$ in the air-blowed type on VS. Compared reaction rate constants(k), it can be said that composting period shorten if air is supplied artificially and that vessels simular to those of this study are useful for household organic waste at the backyards.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.389-397
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• 2001

The effect of sludge digestion on the leaching efficiency of heavy metals from sludge by bioleaching with Thiobacillus thiooxidans MET was investigated. The used sludges were a non- and anaerobically digested. The leaching efficiency of heavy metals was strongly dependent on the pH of the sludge solution rather than the sludge condition and stolid concentration. The lower the pH the more heavy metal was leached from 3.0 of pH. The sequent orders of leaching heavy metals were Zn, Cu, and Cr. Although the buffering capacity of non-digested sludge was similar to anaerobically digested sludge, the pH decrease rate of the anaerobically digested sludge solution was faster than that of the non-digested sludge solution due to the higher sulfur oxidation rate of T. thiooxidans MET in the anaerobically digested sludge. The amount of leached heavy metals from the anaerobically digested sludge showed higher than that of non-digested sludge at the same pH value. This result might be caused by the difference of the insoluble metal types, which were contained in the sludge. An increase in sludge solids concentration decreased the leaching efficiency of heavy metals in the range of solids concentration 10 g/L to 70 g/L. The optimum ratio of S° to sludge stolid was 0.1 in both the sludge. The bioleaching process of heavy metals with T. thiooxidans MET showed the disinfecting effect over 90% as well as the reduction effect in sludge weight of 20%.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.5-14
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• 2006

Generally, the sediments contain significant water, clay, colloidal fraction and contaminants, and can result in soft strata with high initial void, and its potential hazards in subsurface environments exist. Electrokinetic technique has been used in sedimentation for volume reduction of slurry tailing wastes and in remediation for extraction of contaminants from contaminated soils. In this research, the coupled effects of sedimentation and remediation of contaminated sediments are focused using electrokinetic sedimentation and remediation techniques from experimental aspects. A series of laboratory experiments including variable conditions such as initial solid content of the specimen, concentration level of the contaminant, and magnitude of applied voltage are performed with the contaminated sediment specimens mixed with ethylene glycol. Commercially available high specification Kaolin was used to simulate slurried sediment. From the test results, the settlement of specimen increases with increasing of applied voltage and decreasing of solid content and contamination level. The density of specimen increases due to settlement of specimen in the process of electrokinetic sedimentation and decreases due to extraction of organic contaminant in the process of electrokinetic remediation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.305-306
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• 2016

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.124-129
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• 1999

지난 몇 십년간 생물계 폐기물 호기성 처리의 경제적이고 실용적인 공법으로 가축분뇨처리에 적용되어온 유기성 폐자원의 호기성 분해공정은 축산환경 보전, 지력증강 자원의 고갈 및 지구온난화문제 등에 의해서 더욱 주목받아 오고 있다. 특히, 기존의 호기성 고형폐기물 처리시설에서 저투입, 고효율의 처리시설을 개발하여 보다 많은 숙성퇴비를 얻을 수 있는 통기퇴적식 퇴비화 시설은 강제통풍 통기방식으로 호기성 미생물의 분해시간을 단축하고 암모니아가스 휘산을 저감하는 등의 탁월한 처리효율을 나타내었다(Brinton et al., 1995). (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2015

In this study, evaluating the system to reuse the sludge by improving such shortcomings as well as focusing on value using as fuel, instead of a simple process were assessed. Molding time required for 1ton of material is 31.8 ~ 115.0 minutes and power consumption per 1ton of material was estimated at 79.6kW and the shape of solid waste completed was in 22mm-long & wide square. It's 14mm, when converting solid waste in sectional area, which was acceptable to quality standard requiring 50mm or less. As a result of reviewing the quality of solid waste produced in this test, caloric value at sludge-waste mixing ration, 2 : 8 was 3,941kal/kg and, 8:2 was 4,924 kal/kg in maximum.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.576-582
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• 1993

In order to investigate the inhibition of anaerobic digestion with alcohol-distillery wastes, batch anaerobic digestion experiments were conducted. Both naked-barley based and rice based alcohol-distillery wastes were separated into soluble organic fractions and suspended solids fraction using diafiltration with ceramic membranes. Each fraction of retentates and permeates, and the raw alcohol-distillery wastes were used as feeds for the anaerobic digestion study. The suspended solids fraction from the naked-barley stillages had produced much more propionic acid than the soluble organic fractions or raw alcohol-distillery wastes. The inhibition of anaerobic digestion for naked-barley alcohol-distillery wastes may be due to the higher productions of propionic acid with solids fraction of the wastes.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.54-59
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• 2009

The level manufacturing technique for refuse derived fuel (RDF) is possible to produce them itself by a domestic process which is appropriate in Korea. However, very few facilities were used for industrial combustible waste. The objective of this research is to develop the technique for refuse plastic fuel (RPF) of industrial waste. RPFs were prepared by mixing of plastic, paper and wood based on amount of regional waste. The physical properties of the RPFs prepared were investigated. RPFs prepared at mixing ratio(plastic : paper : wood) of 87.55% : 8.15% : 4.3% show the highest lower heating values in wet-base (LHVW) and the LHVW decreases as the mixing ratio of paper and wood increases.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.6-9
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• 2015

In this study, the behavior of densification of copper powders during high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature is investigated using the finite element method. The simulation results show that the center of the workpiece is the first to reach the true density of copper during the compressive stage because the pressure is higher at the center than the periphery. Subsequently, whole workpiece reaches true density after compression due to the high pressure. In addition, the effective strain is increased along the radius during torsional stage. After one rotation, the periphery shows that the effective strain is increased up to 25, which is extensive deformation. These high pressure and severe strain do not only play a key role in consolidation of copper powders but also make the matrix harder by grain refinement.