• Clean Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.89-97
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to find the optimum condition of the high removal efficiency of water pollutant as sewage treatment technology using a filtering bed charged with porous sintering-pellet which was planted with hydrophytes. Experiment was carried out by changing concentration of water pollutants(COD, T-N, T-P), kind of hydrophyte, kinds of filtering material and size, and HRT. The result of removal efficiency was obtained as following: COD removal 73.8~87.1% for input concentration range of 50~450mg/L, T-N removal 61.3~77.3% for input concentration range of 7~124mg/L, T-P removal 89.5~99.1% for input concentration ranger of 3~27mg/L. In a comparative experiment of three kinds of hydrophyte(Iris pseudoacorus, Phragmites communis $T_{RIN}$., Oenanthe javanica Dc.), the best removal efficiency of COD and T-N was gained with Iris pse-udoacorus, and Phragmites communis $T_{RIN}$ showed better result than two hydrophytes for the removal efficiency of T-P. In a comparative experiment of four kinds of filtering-materials, the removal efficiencies were in the order of porous sintering-pellet, gravel, nonused-tire and nonused-concrete. It was found that for the porous sintering-pellet, the smaller its diameter, the better its result. In the filtering bed in which was charged with porous sintering-pellets of 5mm diameter and planted with Iris pseudoacorus, the removal efficiency of COD, T-N and T-P were over 80%, 70% and 90% under the concentration of COD 250mg/L, T-N 70mg/L and T-P 15mg/L for 24hrs treatment. Thus, we concluded that a filtering bed charged with porous sintering-pellet and planted with hydrophytes will be suitable for treatment of sewage water as a pro-natural treatment technology.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.727-733
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• 2009

This study was performed to investigate the physical characteristics like compressive strength, permeability, porosity and the water quality removal characteristics of permeable concrete pavement filled with microbial-soil sheet to remove SS, organic matter and nutrients in artificial rainfall. As a result, it can show the removal efficiency is SS 90~95%, COD 85~93%, BOD 80~83%, T-N 61~75%, T-P 71~78% on WAPS I(W1) and WAPS II(W2). Therefore, permeable concrete pavement filled with microbial-soil sheet shows higher removal efficiency(SS 10%, organic matter and nutrients 30%) than a conventional porous concrete(W3). By filling microbial-soil sheet to permeable concrete pavement, we confirm that the function and efficiency are improved significantly and that a naturally-friendly facility can be developed and applied to treat non-point sources.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2024

Concrete, as a porous construction material, permits chloride penetration from outside, which yields corrosion in embedded steel. In the study, an accelerated corrosion technique (ICM: Impressed current method) was adopted for rapid corrosion formation with 10 Volt of potential, and corrosion amou nt was controlled u p to 10.0 %. Corrosion amou nt had a linear relationship with cumulative corrosion current and increased with a quadratic function of accelerating period due to cracking. Regarding bond strength test, OPC concrete showed rapid drop of bond strength over 3.0 % of corrosion weight ratio, however slag concrete with 30 % replacement ratio showed a level of 51.4~71.6 % of corrosion ratio to OPC concrete with keeping residual bond strength.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.33-39
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• 2016

Generally, thermal analysis of spent fuel storage cask has been conducted using the porous media and effective thermal conductivity model to simplify the structural complexity of spent fuel assemblies. As the fuel assembly is composed of two regions; active fuel region corresponding to UO2 pellets and unactive fuel region corresponding to the top and bottom nozzle, the heat transfer performance can be influenced depending on porous media application at these regions. In this study, numerical analysis on concrete storage cask of spent fuel was performed to investigate heat transfer effects for two cases; one was porous media application only to active fuel region(case 1) and the other one was porous media to whole length of fuel assembly(case 2). Using computational fluid dynamics code, the three dimensional, 1/4 symmetry model was constructed. For two cases, maximum temperatures for each component were evaluated below the allowable limits. For the case 1, maximum temperatures for fuel cladding, neutron absorber and baskets inside the canister were slightly higher than those for the case 2. In particular, even though the helium flows with low velocity due to buoyant forces occurred at the top and bottom of unactive fuel region, treating only active fuel region as the porous media was ineffective in respect of the heat removal performance of concrete storage cask, implying a conservative result.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.19 no.4 s.65
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• pp.28-34
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• 2005

In the study application of volcanic scoria concrete to artificial reefs is investigated. Volcanic scoria is a natural volcanic product that shows light weight, mil/i-porous, and far-infrared irradiation characteristics. The properties of volcanic scoria concrete using Jeju scoria aggregate are evaluated by conducting a comprehensive series of tests on strength and void ratio. It is concluded that the volcanic scoria concrete has the sufficient strength of 4MPa-13MPa and adequate void ratio of $12\%-35\%$ to be accepted as artificial reef concrete. The field experiments are performed through observation by scuba diver's at the Seogwipo coast. Porous specimen and plane concrete specimen are prepared for comparison purposes. Seasonal changes of soft coral on the two series of test specimens were have been observed from Apr. 9, 2004 to Mar. 18, 2005. The soft coral is well grown on the porous specimen however there are no significant changes on the conventional plain concrete specimen. Thus it is concluded that the volcanic scoria concrete is highly suitable as artificial reef concrete.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.18 no.4 s.94
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• pp.517-526
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• 2006

In this study, in order to utilize waste concrete powder(WCP) which is occurred in manufacturing high quality recycled aggregate as an admixture for self-compacting concrete(SCC), the properties of cement paste, mortar, and concrete that were mixed two types of WCP, 928 and 1,360 $cm^2/g$ of surface area, were analyzed. As a result of experiment, we have found that WCP was a porous material with angle. When WCP was utilized as an admixture for SCC, its flowability and viscosity increased in proportion to the increase of a replacement ratio, and that a replacement ratio of WCP was proper within 15%. The compressive strength at 28 days mixed respectively with WCP2, 15 and 30%, showed about 36 and 28 MPa, and it showed a similar trend with a function suggested in CEB-FIP for the relationship of compressive strength and elastic modulus. According to the results, it is judged that WCP2 can be utilized as an mineral admixture of normal strength SCC.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.140-145
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• 2015

This study focused on the development of a fundamental technology for coating of concrete surface using slime produced from bacteria. To assign self-purification ability and improve durability performance of concrete, Rhodobater capsulatus that generates slime were selected and absorption technology for the selected bacteria was then examined. From the production of slime and growth activity of the bacteria, the optimum medium for Rhodobater capsulatus can be recommended as maltose. Furthermore, image analysis showed that high porous resin powder is more effective for absorption of the Rhodobater capsulatus than the other materials tested.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2003

Sandwich panel is composed of the facing sheets which support the external load, the cellular core with the low thermal conductivity and the adhesive agent to bond them. The cellular core was produced by binding lightweight cellular aggregates with cement and two types of acrylic base St/BA emulsion were added with a view to improving the workability ion due to high absorption of light weight aggregate and to develope more strength, respectively. This investigation is to comprehend the effect of the addition of two types of St/BA on thermal conductivity, calorific value and exhaustion content of noxious gas in addition re compressive and flexural strength. Flexural strength of the specimen made with St/BA-2 ranged 20kgf/cm2 to 25kgf/cm2 and was about 50% to 100% as high as that of the non-fiber specimen. Thermal conductivity was recorded from 2.0 to 3.0 kcal/mh$^{\circ}C$ and calorific value of St/BA modified specimen was much lower than that of commercial sandwich panel core of EPS and urethane. Careful caution has to be taken because generation of noxious gas such as CO, NO and SO2 tend to increase with addition of polymer cement ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2005.05b
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• pp.464-468
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• 2005

산업활동으로 인해 발생하는 슬래그 등의 폐기물을 적절히 처리하는 방법으로서는 저비용 처리형태와 자연계에서 슬래그 등의 특성을 고려한 Filter 기능을 수행할 수 있도록 수질이 악화된 하천이나 정체수역에 투입시켜 수질을 개선시킬 수 있는 방법의 도입이 필요하다. 현재 POSCO에서 발생하는 슬래그와 폐콘크리트의 화학적 성분은 주로 $CaO,\;SiO_2,\;Al_2O_3,\;Fe_2O_3$ 등으로 이루어져 있으며, 침전유발물질 및 흡착성물질이 공존하고 있다. 다공질 형태의 비표면적을 가지고 있어서 정화용 필터로 이용하기에 좋은 이점을 가지고 있다. 슬래그나 폐콘크리트를 Mattress/Filter 채움재 및 수질정화용 여재로 활용하면 폐기물처리, 자원 재활용 그리고 수질 환경 개선의 세 가지 효과를 동시에 얻을 수 있는 방법이 된다. 본 연구에서는 슬래그와 폐콘크리트를 활용한 정체수역에서 정화시스템의 정화특성을 조사하기 위하여 유입수와 유출수의 pH, 용존산소, 질소, 인 등을 측정하여 비교하였다. 수질개선을 위한 Mattress/Filter 시스템의 기본개념은 하천의 오염된 물이 Mattress/Filter의 공극사이를 통과하면서 채움재에 형성된 생물막이 수질 개선과정에서 나타나는 접촉작용, 생물 흡착작용, 생물산화의 분해작용 등을 촉진시키도록 하였다. Mattress/Filter를 이용한 수중 수질개선시스템에서 채움재로 제철폐기물인 슬래그와 건설폐기물인 폐콘크리트를 사용함으로써 Mattress/Filter의 다공성 및 넓은 표면적이라는 특성에 따른 물리적$\cdot$화학적$\cdot$생물학적 작용이 촉진되고 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 그 결과 정체수역에 설치한 Mattress/Filter는 다공질 속에서 쉽게 생물막을 형성시키고 유기물의 흡착을 촉진시켜 오염물질을 정화하는데 필요한 자정작용의 효과 증대와 수질개선을 촉진시킬 수 있는 자연생태적 하천정화시스템임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Since the cement industry is expected to face serious setbacks in the near future associated with environmental concerns. With the advent of new technologies and increased public awareness about global environmental issues, the cement industry is actively seeking to adopt new technologies as part of an effort to diversity its resources. This study is designed to assess the fundamental properties of zeolite cement concrete which consists mainly of natural zeolite, which is known for removal of and harmful gas, ion exchange capacity removing cation contaminant including heavy metals and ammonia, absorptive capacity and molecular sieving effect together with excellent insulation capacity as a porous material, and recently draws much attention for its possibility as an alternative material to cement. The study was conducted to show the compressive strength of concrete, slump, bleeding and air volume according to the changes of natural zeolite and alkali activator(NaOH). As a result of measuring the compressive strength of natural zeolite concrete, it was almost 40MPa and displayed similar to general concrete in the tests of slump, bleeding and air volume, with which it was considered that it may be used as a future high performance, high performance construction material.