• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.427-432
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• 2016

The purpose of the research was to examine the utilization of waste bittern from salt farm as a source for producing magnesium (Mg). In this work, a precipitation process for recovering Mg, where Mg is precipitated as $Mg(OH)_2$ by the addition of NaOH solution, was investigated. At the NaOH/Mg molar ratios of 2.70 : 1 to 2.75 : 1 and pH 9.5-10, > 99% of Mg could be precipitated from the bittern. The molar concentration of NaOH solution added as an alkaline reagent had no significant influence on the recovery efficiency of Mg precipitate. The particle size of Mg precipitate was strongly affected by the flow rate of caustic addition. The faster the flow rate of caustic addition, the smaller particles were formed. The Mg precipitate recovered was 100-120 g per 1 L of bittern and contained 94% $Mg(OH)_2$ after washing with water. Our results showed that the bittern can be used as a potential resource for Mg production.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.44-51
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• 2000

Red mud is generated as a by-product in the production of $Al(OH)_{3}/Al_2O_3$ from bauxite ore. In this study the pellet-type adsorbents have been made from the red mud, and their adsorption capacities of heavy metal ions have been tested. The pellet-type adsorbents were synthesized to utilize the excellent adsorption capacity of the powder-type adsorbent for industrial application. The pellet-type adsorbents were prepared by mixing several kinds of additives with the red mud. It is found that the pellet-type adsorbent, made by sintering a mixture of red mud (96.0 wt%), polypropylene (2.5%), fly ash (0.5 w%), and sodium metasilicate(1.0 wt%) at $1200^{\circ}C$ for 30 minutes, has the highest adsorption capacity. in this work, the two kinds of pellet-type adsorbents (bead-type, crushed-type) were prepared. The crushed-type adsorbent was found to show a better adsorption/desorption performance than the bead-type adsorbent. The crushed-type adsorbent showed a good adsorption capacity of $Pb^{2+}$ like the powder-type adsorbent.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.27-33
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• 2015

EAFD (Electric Arc Furnace Dust) is considered as pernicious pollutant, assigned hazardous waste. Since this dust is a by-product of industry, it contains valuable metals such as Fe, Zn, Ni, Cu which can be turned into resources by recycling process. In this study, hydrometallurgical process was applied to recover Zn from Electric Arc Furnace Dusts. The result showed 95% Zn recovery at 3M $H_2SO_4$, Solids/Liquid ratio 1:2 and aeration of 1.8L/min for 2hr. However there was 80% Zn recovery at lower $H_2SO_4$ concentration apply for pilot scale plant.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.581-588
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• 2009

An amount of electric arc furnace slag, by-products generated in iron manufacture, is being increased. Therefore, it is required to recycle the electric arc furnace slag. Currently, it is possible to use the electric arc furnace slag as the aggregates of the concrete through the insurance of volume stability but not in the past because of the expansibility of f-CaO and f-MgO. In this study, simple beam tests via Ichinose method were performed to estimate the bond properties of reinforced concrete (RC) beams using the electric arc furnace slag. The results of the test showed that the showed that specimens using the electric arc furnace oxidizing slag aggregates have similar or more bond capacity relative to the specimen of natural aggregates. Especially, bond capacity of the specimens using the slag aggregates was almost one and a half times higher than a specimen using natural aggregates.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.31-37
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• 2015

Ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS) which is by-product of steel industry has been recycled as a cement admixture though the other steel slags are used as aggregates. In this study, the electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) was used as a cement admixture after the reduction of iron oxide in the slag at the interface of molten slag and water quenching. Consequently, the reformed EAFS (REAFS) had higher grindability than that of granulated blast furnace slag. And in mortar tests, the strength properties of specimens using REAFS were 98% of plain specimens of GGBFS upto 20% replacement ratio of GGBFS with REAFS.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.35-39
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• 2002

최근, 산업의 발달로 인하여 생활수준이 향상되어 대량생산과 대량소비현상이 발생하고 도시의 밀집도가 높아 단위 면적당 거주하는 인구가 증가되면서 거주지역에서 발생되는 부산물이 현저히 증가되어 환경측면에서 복합적인 환경문제에 직면해 있다. 최근까지 대책마련에 고심하고 있는 도시에서 발생된 다량의 쓰레기 처리문제는 경제적인 측면에서 몇 년 전 까지는 대부분을 매립에 의존해 왔으나, 매립 방식에 의존하였으나 지가 및 공사설비의 상승, 일부 비위생적으로 조성된 매립장에서 배출되는 침출수 및 악취 등의 환경오염이 심각한 사회문제로 대두되면서 매립장의 확보나 증설은 해당 지역주민의 반발로 지방자치단체의 골치 아픈 과제로 등장하였다. 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위해, 최근에는 매립지 확보의 어려움과 환경보존을 위하여 쓰레기를 정적이고 위생적으로 처리하기 위하여, 소각시설이 표 1과 같이 증가하고 있으나 소각 때 발생하는 다이옥신 등 인체에 치명적인 오염을 유발시키기 때문에 소각로 건설에 대한 환경운동단체와 주민들의 반발이 거세게 제기되고 있는 현실이다. 이러한 영향에 의해 앞으로는 소각보다는 쓰레기 자체를 감량.재사용.재활용하는 처리방식이 표 1과 같이 증가되는 현실이다. 쓰레기를 소각하는 것은 제 2오염을 유발시키고, 소각장 건설비용과 유지관리에 많은 예산이 소요된다. 쓰레기소각장을 건설할 때, 인근주민이나 환경단체로부터 반대의견에 직면하게 되는데, 그 사유는 쓰레기 처리과정의 전 단계인 반입.공급 과정에서 악취발생과, 후단계인 소각설비에서 발생되는 배출가스 오염원을 완전히 제거하라는 것이다. 최근에는 소각장의 설계.시공과정에서 최대한 악취발생과 확산을 억제하는 시설에 투자를 하고 있으며, 또한 주민 편익 시설과 부대 복리 후생시설은 소각시설 주변지역 주민틀의 소각시설에 대한 부정적 이미지를 불식시키며, 외부 방문객이나 운영 관리 요원들에게 쾌적한 환경조성과 업무효율 및 근무환경의 개선에 일익을 담당하고 있다. 본 고는 환경 친화적인 쓰레기 소각장을 설계하는 측면에서 1998년도에 턴키방식으로 발주되었고 2001년 12월에 준공하여 운전하고 있는 경기도 구리시 자원회수시설의 환기설비에 적용된 설계 및 시공개념을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.18 no.5 s.95
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• pp.687-693
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• 2006

The Stone Powder Sludge(below SPS) is the by-product from the process that translates stone power of 8mm under as crushed fine aggregate. It is the sludge as like cake that has average particle size of $7{\mu}m$, absorbing water content of 20 to 60%, and $SiO_2$ content of 60% over. Because of high water content of SPS, it is not only difficult to handle, transport, and recycle, but also makes worse the economical efficiency due to high energy consuming to drying. This study is aim to recycle SPS as it is without drying. Target product is the lightweight foamed concrete that is made from the slurry mixed with pulverized mineral compounds and foams through hydro-thermal reaction of CaO and $SiO_2$. Although in the commercial lightweight foamed concrete CaO source is the cement and $SiO_2$ source is high purity silica powder with $SiO_2$ of 90%, we tried to use the SPS as $SiO_2$ source. From the experiments with factors such as foam addition rate and replacement proportion of SPS, we find that the lightweight foamed concrete with SPS shows the same trends as the density and strength of lightweight foamed concrete increases according to decrease of foam addition rate. But in the same condition, the lightweight foamed concrete with SPS is superior strength and density to that with high purity silica. This trends is distinguished according to increase of replacement proportion of SPS, also the analysis of XRF shows that the hydro thermal reaction translates SPS to tobermorite. Although SPS has low $SiO_2$ contents, the lightweight foamed concrete with SPS has superior strength and density, because it reacts well with CaO due to extremely fine particles. We conclude that it is possible to replace the high purity silica as SPS in the lightweight foamed concrete experimentally.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.183-190
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• 1999

This paper investigated the possibility of appling to concrete through fundamental experiment for garnet, which was industrial wastes generated in kyung pook region, in aspects of development of new materials and recycling of industrial wastes due to shortage of natural resources. Consequently, garnet powder showed the possibility of admixture as showed in the chemical composition because the content of silica and alumina in relation to pozzolanic activity was about 50%. The time of setting was more or less diminished as the increasing of replacement ratio of garnet. In flow test, flow values tended to increase to some degree as the increasing of replacement ratio of garnet. Therefore, application of garnet was expected to improve the workability of concrete. The compressive strength of mortar replaced by garnet was respectively increased as compared with plain mortar and the maximum strength was showed in replaced by 10%, however a little different to the change of W/B ratio. Also, the possibility of admixture to reduce the amount of cement and to improve the property of concrete was showed as the strength of mortar replaced by garnet was comparable to that by existing admixture(silica fume, fly-ash).

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2012

Recently, industrial by-products are exponentially growing because energy consumption is increasing due to rapid industrial development and improved living standards. The purpose of this study is to determine the proper mixing ratio to meet the liner conditions(must be less than $1{\times}10^{-7}$cm/sec), using pond ash and bentonite as liner. As the result of the compaction test, depending on the increase mixing ratio of bentonite, the maximum dry unit weight was decreased but the optimum moisture content was tended to be increased at the compaction curve. As the result of the permeability test, depending on the increase mixing ratio of bentonite, the coefficient of permeability showed tendency to be decreased in the form of index and the tendency was caused by the hydration reactions filling the void of the pond ash. When the mixing ratio of bentonite was approximately over 15%, it was satisfied with the land fill liner conditions. In other words, it is necessary to consider other mixtures containing the cement or another material in the economical aspect for application of the pond ash.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.159-164
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• 2015

This study investigated the environmental risk for up-cycling of air-cooled ladle furnace slag (LFS) and evaluated the mortar compressive strength of binary and ternary blended cements using LFS of 3, 5, 10 wt%. Based on the Soil Environment Conservation Act standard, there was no environmental risk of the up-cycling of LFS. Results of mortar compressive strength assesment showed that the compressive strength of two blended cements using LFS of lower than 5 wt% was about 1.1 times superior to that of un-substituted cement (ordinary portland cement, OPC); however the compressive strength of those with LFS of 10 wt% decreased with 10% compared with that of OPC.