• Photonics industry news
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• s.38
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• pp.10-13
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• 2007

현재 조명용 LED 광원모듈의 세계시장규모는 약 200억불로 Osram, GE, Philips 등의 다국적기업이 시장의 70-80%를 독점하고 있으며, 국내업체는 기술력 부족 등으로 세계 시장진입을 못하고 있는 실정이다. 국내시장 규모는 약 6,000억원 규모로 약 80%이상을 Osram, GE, Philips 등으로부터 수입하고 있는 실정이다. 특히, 백색조명용 LED 광원모듈은 세계적으로 기술개발 단계이거나 시장진입 초기로서 동 개발제품의 기술을 국내업체가 이전해 온다면 반도체 조명시장 조기진입 및 세계시장 선점에도 크게 기여 할 것으로 예상된다. 우리나라에서도 차기 LED조명시장을 염두에 두고 한국광기술원을 중심으로 연구에 박차를 가하고 있다. LED/반도체조명연구사업부가 개발한 2,500 루멘급 백색조명용 LED 광원모듈 시제품의 개발 성공은 백색조명용 LED 광원모듈의 핵심 원천기술 확보에 한발 더 나아가 결과이며, 시제품 개발결과가 조명제품으로 이어진다면 2010년에는 3,000억원의 무역역조가 개선될 것으로 전망하고 있다. 또한, 국내 최초로 개발된 3mW급 380nm UV(자외선) LED는 위폐감지기, 살균기 등 의료.환경.바이오산업 등에 적용 가능하며, 조명용 백색 LED 제작을 위한 펌핑광원으로 활용이 가능하다. 아울러 20mW 급 380nm UV LED 개발이 완료되는 2008년에는 반도체조명산업과 의료/환경산업 등에 활용되어 약 연 10억불 이상의 수입대체 효과를 가져 올 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 한국광기술원 LED/반도체조명연구사업부는 다양한 LED 광원모듈의 연구개발을 통해 원천기술을 확보하고 LED광원 모듈의 국산화에 일익을 담당하고 있다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.3-16
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• 2017

Chemical catalyst products are applied to various fields such as petrochemical process, air pollution prevention facility and automobile exhaust gas purifier. The domestic and overseas chemical catalyst market is increasing every year, and the amount of waste catalyst generated thereby is also increasing. Most of the used chemical catalyst products, such as desulfurized waste catalysts and automobile waste catalysts containing valuable metals are important recyclable resources from a substitute resource point of view. The recycling processes for recovering valuable metals have been commercialized through some urban mining companies, and SCR denitration catalysts have been recycled through some remanufacturing companies. In this paper, the amount of domestic production and recycling of major catalyst products have thus been investigated and analyzed so as to be used as basic data for establishing industrial support policy for recycling of used chemical catalyst products. Also tasks for promoting the recycling of used chemical catalyst products are suggested.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.9-18
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• 2017

Recently, the amount of electronic scrap is rapidly increasing due to the rapid growth of the electronics industry. Among the components of electronic scrap, the printed circuit board(PCB) is an important recycling target which includes common metals, precious metals, and rare metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, nickel and so on. In Korea, however, PCB recycling technologies are mainly commercialized by some major companies, and other process quantities are not accurately counted. According to present situation, several urban mining companies, research institutes, and universities are conducting research on recovery of valuable metals from PCBs and/or reusing them as raw materials that is different from existing commercialization process developed by major companies. In this study, we analyzed not only current status of collection/disposal process and recycling of waste PCBs in Korea but also the trend of recycling technologies in order to help resource circulation from waste PCBs become more active.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.92-101
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• 2021

The status of waste generation and recycling in 32 countries in the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States was investigated and summarized to encourage overseas market expansion for domestic urban mining industries. Among the 32 EU countries, Germany has the highest amount of material consumption and generates the largest quantity of waste. Minerals such as mine and soil wastes constitute the largest type of waste in the EU. With respect to waste treatment techniques, landfill and recycling are applied to 39% and 38% of the waste, respectively, implying the necessity to promote recycling. Japan's total waste generation declined recently to less than 400 million tons. The largest amount of waste is generated by the manufacturing industries. The proportion of total recycled waste is estimated to be slightly over 50%, but the proportions are greater than 90% for metal scrap and 60% for waste plastics. The amount of waste produced in the United States recently exceeded 265 million tons; 52.1% of the waste is landfilled, while only 25.1% is recycled. Therefore, the recycling industry has to be developed further.