• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.681-685
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• 2013

A pilot-scale sand-box experiment was performed in order to investigate the effect of cross-flow velocity on the clogging of the filter sand in a model filtration pond. The clogging phenomenon was observed during the operation with the cross-flow varied in stages in a range of 0~40 cm/sec, and the experimental result was analyzed using a numerical code. Results showed that the cross-flow velocity in this range had no influence on the development of clogging and that clogging occurred mostly on the filter-surface. It was found that while the production rate decreased from $5m^3/m^2-day$ to $3m^3/m^2-day$ the clogging coefficient of the top 50 cm layer increased up to about 30,000 sec, which corresponded to 87% of the clogging coefficient of the total 2.4 m layer. Of the clogging coefficient of the top 50 cm layer, surface clogging constituted 90% while the other 10% was intermediate clogging. It was also found that the surface clogging increased while the intermediate clogging remained constant as the operation continued, and that filtrate turbidity along the filtration depth remained constant in spite of the increase in clogging.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1996-2000
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• 2010

국내 시설원예 면적은 2005년 기준 52,022ha에 달하고 있으며 약 23%에 해당하는 12,000ha는 겨울철에 난방기를 가동하여 원예작물을 생산하고 있다. 농업용 난방기의 보급은 가온재배 면적의 증가와 더불어 급신장하고 있어 농업용 면세유 중 경유 공급액 약 9,260억원 중 62%에 해당하는 1,350,000톤이 시설원예 난방에 사용된 것으로 추산되고 있다. 지속적인 유가 상승으로 시설재배 농가의 경영이 악화되고 있어 최근 히트펌프를 이용한 냉난방시스템에 대한 연구가 수행되고 있다. 시설원예 냉난방에 사용되는 히트펌프의 열원은 다양하게 적용할 수 있으나 강변에 위치하고 있는 시설원예단지의 경우 연 중 풍부한 유량과 안정적인 수온을 얻을 수 있는 강변여과수는 매우 매력적인 열원이다. 본 연구에서는 시범지역으로 남강댐 하류에 위치하고 있는 진주지역의 시설원예단지와 낙동강 유역의 구미지역 시설원예단지의 두 곳에 대하여 1일 $1,000m^3$의 강변여과수 개발에 대한 조사를 수행하였다. 육안 및 현장여건에 대한 조사를 수행하고 인근 지하수 사용현황에 대한 조사를 실시하였다. 진주지역의 경우 일부 농가에서 지하수를 사용하고 있었으나 1일 8~10시간 취수에 최대 취수량은 약 $120m^3$ 정도였다. 반면, 구미지역의 경우 1999년 구미첨단원예농단 조성사업의 일환으로 양액재배에 농업용수를 공급할 목적으로 지하수 개발이 실시되었으며 최근 인근 국화축제를 개최하는 지역에서 신규로 지하수를 개발하여 사용 중이었다. 전기비저항 탐사를 실시한 결과 진주지역은 지하 약 6~17m 지점에 대수층이 존재하는 것으로 판단되었고, 구미지역은 지하 약 10~20m 지점에 대수층이 존재할 가능성이 있지만 지하 20m 지점부터는 대수층의 가능성이 높은 것으로 판단되었다. 두 지역에 각각 두 공을 시추하여 조사한 결과, 구미지역의 경우 수면높이가 지하 약 10m이고 각각 2.5m와 4.6m의 모래자갈층을 형성하고 있어 $1,000m^3$/일의 취수량 개발이 원활하지 않을 것으로 판단되었다. 한편, 진주지역은 수면높이가 지하 약 3m이고 각각 3.5m와 6.5m의 모래자갈층을 형성하고 있어 $1,000m^3$/일의 취수량 개발이 가능할 것으로 판단되었다. 현장 시추조사 및 기존관정 조사결과, 구미지역에 비하여 진주지역이 지하수 물량 확보가 상대적으로 용이하고 신규 굴착 가능지점이 다수 분포하고 있어 연구지점으로 활용하는데 유리할 것으로 판단되었다. 따라서 진주지역에 여과수열원 확보를 위해 2곳의 양수관정을 설치하고 히트펌프를 이용하여 시설원예의 냉난방을 실시할 예정이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.518-524
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• 2013

A pilot-scale test-bed was operated employing three soils with different grain sizes dredged from the Nakdong River to obtain the design and operation parameters of the multi-purpose filtration pond, such as the filtrate productivity of the filter sand, the appropriate removal period of the surface clogging and the contaminant removal efficiency. The cross-flow velocities were applied stepwise ranging from 0 to 40 cm/sec in order to simulate the various velocities in the artificial stream of the pond. Results showed that a filtrate production rate of 5~3 $m^3/m^2-day$ was maintained by removing the surface clogging every 7 to 13 days and that the filtrate quality was not affected by the factors of the filtrate production rate, the grain size of the filter sand and the cross-flow velocity. Results also showed that most of the removal occurred within 50 cm of the top soil and that the removal efficiencies with the filtration distance of 2.4 m were 80~95% for turbidity, 20~30% for COD, 75~90% for BOD, 5~20% for total nitrogen and 20~60% for total phosphorus, which suggested that particulate matters had a high removal efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.895-905
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• 2000

This study was performed to investigate the removal efficiencies of pollutants at various filtration rates and the quality of the filtered water along the depth of filter media during treatment of a BNR process effluent by a dual-media gravitational rapid filtration. The results of the experiments at filtration rates of 200, 300 and 400 m/day using the effluent of a pilot scale 4-stage BNR plant showed that turbidity of the filtered water was below 2.6 NTU, satisfying the Korean standard for water for reuse. Even though the SS removal efficiency deteriorated as the filtration rate increased, the average SS concentration of the filtered water was 1.3 mg/L at all filtration rates. Simultaneous biological nitrification and denitrification was observed with nitrification efficiencies of 17.4, 18.8 and 14.3%, and denitrification efficiencies of 32.3, 27.7 and 21.4% respectively at filtration rates of 200, 300 and 400 m/day. At the latter period of each filtration cycle, the effluent T-P concentration was higher than influent T-P concentration by 6.1 to 21.4% due to phosphorous release under DO-deficient condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.346-349
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• 2004

광주시 관내 폐수배출시설 방류수 6지점과 대형 건축물 오수 처리시설 방류수 4지점 및 중수 처리 재이용수, 건물 옹벽 지하수 2지점의 수질을 분석하여 중수로써 재이용 가능 여부를 조사한 결과 폐수 배출시설 방류수의 경우 조립금속제품 제조시설, 축전지제조시설 및 타이어제조시설이 대체적으로 중수도의 수질기준을 만족하고 있어 현재의 방류수를 그대로 중수로 이용 가능하리라 판단된다. 오수 처리시설 방류수의 경우 4지점 모두 유기물질은 물론 색도, 탁도 등 대부분의 항목이 중수도 수질기준을 초과하여 현재의 방류수 자체를 중수로 사용하기는 불가능 할 것으로 판단되며, 이들 방류수를 중수로 재이용하고자 한다면 모래 여과조나 활성탄 여과조, 소독시설 등 중수 처리시설을 설치하여야 할 것으로 판단된다. 오수처리시설 방류수를 중수 처리하여 재이용 하고 있는 중수의 경우 대부분 중수도의 수질기준을 만족하였으나, 색도와 탁도, 대장균군의 경우 일부 상당히 불안정한 수질을 보였으나 현재 화장실 세정수로 이용하고 있는데 색도 외에는 별다른 문제가 없는 것으로 나타났고, 대형빌딩 옹벽에서 흘러나오는 지하수의 경우 일반세균과 질산성 질소를 제외하고는 모두 먹는물 수질기준에 적합한 것으로 나타나 현재의 지하수를 그대로 청소용수나 화장실 세정수 등의 중수로 재활용해도 충분하다고 판단되며, 활성탄 여과조와 소독 시설 등의 추가시설을 갖춘다면 먹는 물로도 사용이 가능하리라 보며, 수량적인 측면에서도 1일 발생량이 100~400톤 이상이므로 충분히 경제성이 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.957-964
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• 2009

Sand tank experiments were performed along with on-site supplier experiments in order to obtain design factors for the raw-water supply system in floodplain filtration. Results of the sand tank experiment elucidated that the infiltration rate was approximately proportional to the soil permeability and was not significantly influenced by short periods of rest. The average daily infiltration rate calculated by taking both flood and rest periods into account increased with increasing flood period, and was observed to reach an asymptote. Under the conditions of this study, the maximum infiltration rates obtained for both Daegu and Mulgeum soils with 15 min/ 30 min of rest/flood periods were 6.3 m/day and 1.4 m/day respectively, which were 42% and 70% of their hydraulic conductivities, respectively. The process of soil filtration resulted in a gradual decrease of hydraulic conductivity; a decrease of 27% was observed for the soil of Mulgeum over a period of 8 days. From the data obtained from the supplier experiment, it was evident that the radius of the flooded area increased as the supply rate increased for soils of Gumi and Sangju, however, there was an inverse correlation between hydraulic conductivity and the rate of increase in the radius. Results also showed that the time required to cover the entire soil surface with water, in other words, the time to reach the maximum flood radius from the commencement of the water emission was as short as 3 to 4 minutes for all the soils. Also, the average infiltration rate for the entire flood period did not change significantly when the rest period was shorter than an hour.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.311-319
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• 1999

Membrane separation process is considered as an alternative of conventional water purification system using coagulationㆍsedimentation＋sand filtration. In this study, it was examined that the application possibility of Hollowfiber Microfiltration membrane for water purification process. A $20m^3/day$ scale pilot plant was used for studying the possibility of long-term operation and the stability of water quality under the optimum conditions, 0.03m/h permeate flux, filtration for 10 minutes, pause for 2 minutes(including air-scrubbing for 30 seconds), obtained by lab-scale experiment. As a result, it was proved stability of pilot plant over one year and filtrate quality(Turbidity. SS etc). Therefore, it was proved that membrane separation process using Hollowfiber Microfiltration membrane can be applied for water purification system

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.359-364
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• 2012

In order to prevent the decrease in well efficiencies due to friction in the axial flow in long, large-diameter laterals, a multi-diameter lateral was devised and tested through lab-scale sand-box experiments to assess its performance. In the experiment, three different production rates were applied over the multi-diameter and the three single-diameter laterals to obtain the hydraulic head distributions for each, which was used to assess the performance of the laterals. Results elucidated that the multi-diameter lateral reduced the material cost by more than a third, in comparison to the single-diameter lateral, while maintaining the production rate at higher than 93%, proving its superiority. Furthermore, results indicated that exit velocities exceeding 0.8 m/sec in horizontal wells tended to distort the hydraulic head distribution near the exit, providing evidence of its inefficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.237-245
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• 2017

This study was aimed at investigating effluent water quality and proposing reuse possibilities for 12 sewage treatment plants discharged more than $5,000m^3/day$ in order to recycle the sewage treatment plant effluent of Jeollabuk-do effectively. Additionally, a laboratory scale test for reprocessing water discharge was performed. Categories of reclaimed sewage water reuse were divided into 7 topics and analyzed a total of 28 items including 16 heavy metals based on water quality standard. As a results, color, BOD, TN, chloride and Electrical Conductivity (EC) exceeded reused water quality standard. In particular, color and TN exceeded in 8 and 5 sewage treatment plants, respectively. The value of chloride and EC were high in sewage treatment plants including the food and industrial wastewater. At 4 sewage treatment plants were possible to reuse without re-treatment. The laboratory scale test was conducted to SandFilter (SF)-Granular Activated Carbon (GAC)-MicroFiltraion (MF)-Reverse Osmosis (RO). Both the removal efficiencies and economic feasibility of total E. coli., color and Suspended Solid (SS) suited in case using the SF-GAC treatment method. The removal of chloride and EC had little effect in the case of SF-GAC-MF system, but RO showed over 90% of removal efficiency. After using SF-GAC process only, the concentration of $UV_{254}$ decreased sharply from 0.3651 /cm to 0.0306 /cm and it showed over 92% of removal efficiency rate. In conclusion, for the effective reuse of sewage discharged water, water quality and the surrounding terrain of treatment plants should be all taken into account. If it needed for the reprocessing, both the selection for treatment and economic combination treatment methods will have to be considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2002.09a
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• pp.339-342
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• 2002

지하수의 인공함양특성을 해석하기 위한 기초조사로서 대구 낙동강변의 강변여과수 개발지역인 충적층내에 부존하는 자연수의 지구화학적 특성을 살펴보았다. 특히 관측공 중 한 공에는 다중패커시스템 (Multi-packer system)을 설치하여 보다 체계적인 심도별 변화를 살펴보았다. 전체적으로 시추공 및 지표수에 대한 현장측정자료는 시기별로 큰 차이를 보이지 않지만 EC값의 경우 장기양수시험이 시작된 시기부터 급격히 낮아지는 경향을 보인다. 연구지역의 자연수는 Ca-HCO$_3$형에서부터 Ca-SO$_4$형에 속하며 특히 미량원소로서 Mn의 함량이 매우 높게 나타나고 있다. 인위적 오염의 지표인 NO$_3$함량은 현재 양수정에서 ~10mg/L 정도의 함량을 보이고 있으며 이밖에 다중패커가 설치된 관측공의 경우 최상부 (6m)에서 ~40mg/L의 높은 함량을 보여준다. 다중패커시스템에 의해 채취된 시료에 대해 심도에 따른 변화를 살려보면 Na, Ca, Mg, HCO$_3$의 함량이 심도에 따라 증가하고 있고, 음이온 중 Cl과 SO$_4$의 경우는 맨 하부구간일 18m에서 채취된 시료들이 시료채취시기와 관계없이 매우 낮은 값을 보인다. 미량원소의 경우 문제가 되는 Mn은 시료채취시기와 관계없이 중간구간인 13.5m구간에서 특히 많은 함량을 보이고 있다. 따라서 강변 여과수로 개발하기 위한 장기양수시험에 있어서 높은 Mn 및 NO$_3$함량에 대한 보다 체계적인 연구와 충적층을 구성하고 있는 모래층, 자갈층, 암반층에 대한 추가 연구가 필요한 것으로 판단된다.