• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.216-223
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• 2017

Chemicals are an indispensable element of modern society to the extent that more than 15 million species are commercially available worldwide. However, among them are chemicals whose toxicityposes a threat to public health and the environment, as illustrated by past cases of chemical accidents, which revealed their danger to human life. Chemical accidents can spread and cause huge damage in a short time because of their characteristics. Therefore, it is important to do as much as possible to prevent them in advance and to respond promptly after an accident. The legal system pertaining to domestic chemical substances is the "Toxic Chemical Control Act", which is made up of the "Act on the Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals" and the "Chemical Control Act" since 2015. Under this law, the Comprehensive Chemical Information System and Chemical Substance Data Processing system were established and are still operating;however, chemical accidents are still occurring. These systems are comprehensive information systems aimed at providing chemical information rather than acting as chemical response systems, which has limited the effectiveness of accident response. This study is intended to analyze the information management systems, response management systems and the basis of chemical substance management support for hazardous chemicals and suggest ways to improve the legal system for developing and operating chemical response systemswithin a municipality.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.129-135
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• 2022

The official analytical method for the analysis of harmful heavy metals in Meju, distributed in Korea, employs a strong acid to decompose the organic components. This analysis is time consuming and harmful to the users and/or the environment. This study aimed to develop a new pre-treatment technology using laser ablation, to rapidly analyze harmful heavy metals without using strong acids. The results obtained from this method were validated by the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation guideline (NIFDS, 2016). Moreover, a comparison of the two methods showed that the analytical time for 55 Meju samples was shortened by 96% or more in the new method. The results showed no significant difference in the recovery ranging from 90-120%. The proposed method proved suitable for detecting harmful heavy metals in Meju.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.136-148
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• 2006

A foundry makes various machinery parts made by iron. For manufacturing machinery parts, they usually uses wooden mold with molding sand and pour the molten iron into wooden mold through inlet. A foundry have many processes including Furan process, In Furan process workers prepares a wooden mold in the molding sand. So they fixes wooden mold in sand housing and then they fill the molding sand in the sand housing. Molding sand should be sticky enough to sustain the shape of wooden mold, so several materials are needed to prepare the suitable molding sand. The first step of Furan process is making the molding sand with molding sand and Voltaic Organic Compounds (VOC) and the second step of Furan process is pour the molding sand into the wooden molding housing. This two step of process generated noxious VOC and various size of dust. So the process is very dirty and dangerous one. Because of these, Workers frequently shrink out of the plant. The company related with foundry usually faced on the difficult situation for engagement and always have shortage of hiring problem. Through this study, we developed a system which removes toxic VOC and dust simultaneously. We design and construct real system and install it at real plant. Before setting up this system, the working surroundings VOC (for formaldehyde) 15 ppm and Dust(for $PM_{10}$) $8,000{\mu}g/m^3$. After setting up this system, working surroundings is improved by VOC (for formaldehyde) 0 ppm, Dust(for $PM_{10}$) $4{\mu}g/m^3$, and the work evasion factor is removed. So we contribute to solve hiring problem of this company and increasing the productivity also.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.5-13
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• 2021

Ammonia, primarily originating from urinary urea of the livestock manure, is known to play as a major precursor of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generation which leads to a decrease in air quality and to harmful effects on public health. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of acetohydroxamic acid (AHA) addition on inhibition of ammonia conversion from urea. The experiment was performed at different urea concentration (500-4,000 mg Urea-N/L), AHA concentration (0-4,000 mg AHA/L), pHs (pH 6-10), and temperature (10-35℃). The result showed that the urease inhibition efficiency increased at higher concentration of AHA. However, the specific urease inhibition activity decreased at higher pH, showing 867.1±6.7 Unit/g AHA at pH 6 and 1,167.9±17.4 Unit/g AHA at pH 10, respectively. Decreased urease inhibition efficiency at both AHA and control was observed at higher temperature. This finding indicates that AHA can be used as the urease inhibitor for reducing ammonia emission in the management of livestock manure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.551-556
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• 2012

Fatigue is known to detrimentally affect a person's performance. Also, fatigue may reduce effectiveness and efficiency of marine officers and crew members. The purpose of this research is to understand on the status of the marine officers' fatigue. In this study, we carried out the questionnaire survey which is related to the marine officers' fatigue factors such as work, sleep and rest hour or period, sleepiness, casual factor, fatigue symptom, etc. The questionnaire contained 25 questions and it was distributed among 1,033 marine officers(deck officers 607 and engineers 426). The results of this survey show that marine officers' fatigue is a casual factor in marine accidents such as collisions, groundings and there was a fatigue difference between deck officers and engineers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.307-308
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 공사현장 작업자의 실질적 영향을 미치는 요소들을 고려하여 인공지능기반의 실시간 위험성 추정 기법을 개발하였다. 기존 재난안전학 또는 안전공학에서는 위험성평가를 실시하여 강도·빈도에 의하여 위험성을 추정하고 도출된 값을 통해 위험한 정도를 분류하는 경우가 많다. 그러나 대부분의 공사현장에서는 정적인 위험성평가를 통해 해당 유해위험요인을 근거로 형식적인 위험성평가가 이루어지고 있기 때문에 대부분의 사고 후 증빙 자료로만 활용되고 있는 것이 현실이다. 이 위험성평가를 진행하면서 변화하는 환경의 유해위험을 실시간으로 반영할 수 없게 되고, 이는 실질적인 작업자의 안전을 보장해 주지 못하는 문제를 발생시킨다. 이러한 점에서 위험성평가와 더불어 실질적인 안전한 작업장을 만들기 위해서 작업자의 건강정보 및 실시간 공사현장의 영상정보에 기반한 위험성 추정 기법은 실질적 안전사고를 예방하는 방법론 중 하나가 될 수 있다. 작업자의 건강정보는 개개인 맞춤형 건강 데이터에 근거한 해석이 가능하고 실시간 공사현장 영상은 작업 중 발생할 수 있는 돌발상황에 대비하기위해 사용된다. 이러한 위험성 추정 방법은 다양한 공사현장의 위험성 추정 기법으로 사용될 수 있다. 이로 인해 높은 정확도의 위험성 추정 수치를 얻을 수 있으며, 이는 실질적안 안전 예방활동에 있어서 매우 중요하게 작용한다. 위험성 추정 수치 예제를 통하여 본 논문에서 제시된 위험성 추정 방법론이 타당함을 확인하였다. 본 논문에는 기존 위험성평가에 더해 작업자의 건강정보 및 공사현장 실시간 영상정보를 이용하여 실질적인 작업자 안전을 위한 예방 방법을 제시하였다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.165-196
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• 2008

This paper reports a quantitative meta analysis of the economic impacts of localized noxious and contaminated sites. Using either hedonic property value or stated preference methods, economists have studied the effects of contamination or noxious activities, or the benefits realized from their elimination, on real estate prices at more than 40 sites. In support of wise public and private investments in environmental quality, most of these studies aim to inform decision makers about the benefits of remediation and cleanup. Their results vary considerably, but there has been no previous systematic effort to analyze the differences and identify shared insights. This study uses established methods of meta analysis to identify points of agreement and differences in this body of literature. The studies are characterized by the type of site, modeling approach, geographic extent of impacts, data features, and other key factors that underlie their value estimates. The impact estimates are normalized as proportional effects on property values. This study attempts to discover whether the estimated economic impacts of contamination or noxious activity differ according to these characteristics of the studies, and whether anything general can be said about the economic consequences of site contamination and remediation. Bivariate, multivariate, and logit techniques are applied to the data. The results suggest that the property value is the most sensitive to water base contamination, published case studies result in systematically greater environmental value than those in unpublished reports, and real estate markets show responses to environmental condition changes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2012.03a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2012

최근 산업환경 변화에 순응하는 환경 친화적 소재를 사용하여 자동차, 선박, 철도 등 수송용 인테리어 내장재를 구성하는 기술로서, 난연성 및 기계적 물성 유지 기술, 그리고 실내 쾌적감을 부여하기 위한 감성기술 및 심미적 요소를 부여하는 디자인 기술이 가미된 복합 기능화 기술개발이 구되고 있다. 기존의 자동차용 시트 제품은 대부분 PU Foam을 시트원단에 불꽃으로 Lamination 하는 방식으로 제조되었으며, 이러한 제조 방식은 많은 공정을 거치게 되고 PU Foam을 제조하는 공정 및 불꽃으로 Lamination 하는 공정에서 많은 환경유해가스가 발생하는 등 환경적으로도 많은 문제점을 감수하면서 생산하는 방식이다. 또한 각종 원단의 표피재로 많이 사용되고 있는 PU와 PVC의 경우 제조과정에서 용제와 가소제 사용 등으로 인해 환경적으로 많은 문제점이 있으며, 이를 대체하기 위한 노력이 많은 부분에서 이루어지고 있지만, 마땅히 대체할 소재를 찾지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 실리콘수지는 기존의 PU와 PVC를 대체할 수 있는 소재로서 각광받고 있으며, 응용기술 개발을 통해 충분히 적용이 가능한 소재라고 판단된다. 본 연구에서 개발하고자 하는 기술은 난연성을 가진 실리콘 내장 표피재에 불꽃으로 Lamination하는 공정을 배제한 친환경 PUD Foam을 바로 Back Coating함으로써 일체형 고 기능 친환경 제품을 개발함으로써 친환경 복합화 기술 및 SEAT 원단과 표피재의 일체형 모듈화 공법개발을 이루고자 한다.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.67-90
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to develop indoor air quality management strategies regarding indoor air pollutants while considering various factors affecting indoor pollutants concentration. The Integrated Indoor Air Quality model(IIAQ) developed by Seoul National University is used for this study. The IIAQ model is a tool that can provide an integrated view to indoor environmental pollution by simulating suggested scenarios. The results of the modeling are used to assess health risk. The concentrations that are used for the risk characterization are weighted concentrations based on the period of time in each place and existing Indoor Air Quality(IAQ) standards. The estimated concentration of toluene and formaldehyde for 10 years through the IIAQ model was 207.3 $ug/m^3$ and 36.4 $ug/m^3$ in indoors, and 55.9 $ug/m^3$ and 8.62 $ug/m^3$ in outdoors. These concentrations are lower than the existing IAQ standards. The estimated carcinogenic risk of formaldehyde is up to 1.05E-03 for the adult male group and exceeds 1E-06 for all receptor groups. This value means that cancer could affect one person out of 1000. The estimated non-carcinogenic risk of toluene was lower than 1, which means that there was no serious non- carcinogenic risk. The result of modeling shows that using low emitting indoor sources is the most effective strategy for both formaldehyde and toluene. This risk assessment suggests that the total exposure levels of existing IAQ standards may cause serious carcinogenic risk. In order to avoid uncontrolled risk, it is suggested that the current IAQ standards should be adjusted by taking into account the total amount of exposure from all exposure pathways from indoor and outdoor sources.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.379-382
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• 2003

Construction concrete needs to maintain suitable environment which contains temperature and humidity etc. Then concrete shows own strength. The environment is not regular and contains many variables. Especially the climate element occupies many parts of variables. We have the climate environment which goes down to $-4^{\circ}C$. The factor that obstruct to construction is the failure at a construction progress. But it must be processed to be scheduled. Therefore we have to do the special care for factor of climate that obstruct to construction. We must make assurance doubly sure at the quality of concrete. We need maintenance of temperature and humidity for the hardening until the requirement period after a concrete pured in. We must do the care of curing sufficiently not to take the influence of injurious activity. This causes strength of concrete. Specific method of curing is according to each situation which is environment element. We wish to analyze curing course in construction of concrete at the paper. Also we wish to predict the problem as to consider curing and suggest the improvement plan through the paper.