• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Applied Microbiology Conference
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• 1979.10a
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• pp.239-240
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• 1979

인구가 증대되고 상공업이 발전하여감에 따라 산업폐기물·생활폐기물의 량은 증대되고 따라서 환경은 이들폐기물의 축적에 의하여 점점 오염되어가고 있다. 오염원의 구성성분은 유기물이 대부분이고 이들은 궁극에는 분해되어 자연에 환원될 것이나 산화·분해되는 과정에서 지구상에 퇴적되어 인간생활에 유해한 환경으로 변하는 것을 방지하는 것이 과제로 등장하고 있는 것이다. 이과정에서 수동적인 방지보다 한발 나아가 이를 재자원화시키므로써 자연에로 환원되는 도중에 참아 있는 유용성분을 이용하고 또 이용성이 높은 형태의 물질로 변환시키고자하는 연구가 세계여러나라에서 행해지고 있다. 이리한 연구는 자원이 부족되어가고 있는 20세기의 후반인 오늘날에 와서는 그 주요도가 심히 재인식되고 있는 것이다. 이러한 관점에서 우선 선행되어야 하는 것은 유기성폐기물의 이용가능한 량이 얼마나 되나 하는 문제이고 그다음은 이들을 어떠한 형태로 변환시켜 재자원화시킬 수 있나를 살펴보는것이 순서가 되겠다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.359-363
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• 2011

현재 4대강 유역개발과 하천 정비 등 관련된 대규모 토목공사가 진행되고 있다. 친환경적인 수자원 정비를 가능하게 하는 친환경 콘크리트 제품의 개발은 환경오염 방지 및 환경보전에 있어서 필수적이다. 현재 국내에서는 콘크리트에 다양한 자원 순환형 재료를 적용하고 있지만, 적극적 친환경 콘크리트의 연구는 아직 미미한 상태이다. 본 논문에서는 친환경적인 수자원 정비를 가능하게 하는 콘크리트의 필요성과 활용측면에 대해 논해 보고자 한다. 또한 국내외 관련 기술현황을 비교하여 현 콘크리트 제품 개발 산업에 적용방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.5-11
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• 1997

It presents the amounts of used plastics praduccd in recent years in comparison with the total municipal waste sewage produced in lapan. 'Ex needs of appropriate policies and guidelines to handle various used plastic mzterials are presened and haw such policies and guidelines are currently being mapped out in Japan is also described.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.67-76
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• 2022

The furniture industry has a high possibility to create value-added and a high potential to create new occupations due to the characteristics of the industry, which mainly consists of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, the used furniture, which has sufficient reuse value, is also crushed and used as solid refuse fuel (SRF) recently. Besides, the number of waste treatment companies continues to decrease, and it occurs congestion of wood waste. As a way to solve the issue, a business model development of remanufacturing used furniture can be suggested as an alternative due to its high circular economic efficiency. Remanufacturing business including furniture industry creates positive effects in various aspects such as economic, environmental and job creation. In other words, remanufacturing is an effective recycling way to reduce input resources and energy in the production process. The results of economic analysis show that the expected annual revenue from the single worker furniture remanufacturing site was 104 million won which is 3.11 times more than the average income of a single-worker household in Korea and its B/C ratio was estimated about 30 which means high business feasibility. Revenue through furniture remanufacturing also showed 320 times higher than that of SRF production from the perspective of weight. In addition, it is shown that the GHGs reduction from the furniture remanufacturing is 2.2 ton CO₂-eq. per year, which is similar to the amount of GHGs absorption effect of 937 pine trees or 622 Korean oak trees annually. Thus the results of this study demonstrate that it is important to adopt an appropriate recycling method considering the economic and environmental effects at the end-of-life stage.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.251-258
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• 2022

In the cement industry, in order to reduce CO₂ emissions, technology for raw materials substitution and conversion, technology for improving process efficiency of utilizing low-carbon new heat sources, and technology for collecting and recycling process-generated CO₂ are being developed. In this study, we conducted a basic experiment to contribute to the development of CSC that can store CO₂ as carbonate minerals among process-generated CO₂ capture and recycling technologies. Three types of CSC clinker with different SiO₂/(CaO+SiO₂) molar ratios were prepared with the clinker raw material formulation, and the characteristics of the clinker were analyzed. As a result of analysis and observation of CSC clinker, wollastonite and rankinite were formed. In addition, as a result of the carbonation test of the CSC paste, it was confirmed that calcite was produced as a carbonation product. The lower the SiO₂/(CaO+SiO₂) molar ratio in the CSC clinker chemical composition, the lower the wollastonite production amount, and the higher the rankinite production amount. And the amount of calcite production increased with the progress of carbonation of the CSC paste specimen. It is judged that rankinite is more reactive in mineralizing CO₂ than wollastonite.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.12-18
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• 2023

In 2018, the demand for silver (referred to as Ag) in the electrical and electronics sector was 249 million tons. The demand stood at 81 million tons in the solar module production sector. Currently, due to the rapid increase in solar module installation, the demand for silver is increasing drastically in Korea. However, Korea's natural metal resources and reserves are insufficient in comparison to their consumption, and the domestic silver ore self-sufficiency rate was as low as 2.2% as of 2021. This implies that a recycling technology is necessary to recover valuable metal resources contained in the waste plating solution generated in the metal industry. Therefore, this study compared and analyzed, the results of the impact evaluation through life cycle assessment according to an improvement in the process of recovery of valuable metals in the waste plating solution. The process improvement resulted in reducing GWP (Global Warming Potential) and ADP(Abiotic Depletion Potential) by 50% and 67%, respectively. The GWP of electricity and industrial water was reduced by 98% and 93%, respectively, which significantly contributed to the minimization of energy and water consumption. Thus, the improvement in recycling technology has a high potential to reduce chemical and energy use and improve resource productivity in the urban mining industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2011.03a
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• pp.70-70
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• 2011

최근 산업 발달에 의한 환경문제와 석유자원 감소에 따라 섬유시장에는 Eco-friendly 바람이 강하게 불고 있으며 리싸이클 제품이 급부상하고 있다. 폴리에스터계 고분자 제품, 그 중에서도 PET 병의 재자원화를 살펴보면 기계적, 열적으로 처리하여 물질을 바꾸지 않고서 회수하는 방법인 Mechanical Recycling과 원료를 분해하여 회수하는 방법인 Chemical Recycling이 있다. 이러한 리싸이클을 통하여 에너지 절감, 저탄소, 유해물질 감소, 환경정화 및 폐기물 감소로 환경부하가 완화되며, 자원의 효율적 재사용이 가능하다. 리싸이클 PET 섬유제품은 의류 인테리어용과 같은 한정된 용도뿐만 아니라 자동차용 부품소재 및 내장 부품 등 산업용으로도 사용가능하다. 본 연구에서는 리싸이클 PET로 제직한 직물에 정련과 호발가공을 하여 이러한 전처리에 따른 물리적 열적 특성의 변화를 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 정련과 호발가공을 한 리싸이클 PET 직물의 인장 인열 강도가 미처리 직물과 비교하여 감소하는 결과를 보였으며 마모 파열강도는 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 반면에 TGA와 DSC를 이용한 열분석 결과 열적 특성 및 결정화도는 일부 차이를 나타내었다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.3-16
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• 2012

In order to review the technological modulus of the recycling of urban mine resources and non-ferrous smelting process in Korea, key point of recycling process, physical separation, non-ferrous smelting process, unit operation for the recycling technology, recycling process of LS-Nikko Copper and Korea Zinc were studied. Finally, metal recycling processes of the typical non-ferrous smelters in Japan such sa DOWA Holdings and JX Holdings were compared with those of LS-Nikko Copper and Korea Zinc.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2019

Lifetime of Si photovoltaics modules are about 25 years and a large amount of waste modules are expected to be discharged in the near future. Therefore, the extraction and collection of valuable metals out of discharged Si modules will be one of the important technologies. In this study, we demonstrated that supercritical $CO_2$ extraction method can be effectively used to remove Cu, one of the abundant elements in the module, as well as its oxide form, $Cu_2O$. Especially, we proved that the addition of hexane as co-solvent is effective for the removal of both materials. The optimal ratio of $CO_2$ and hexane was 4:1 at a fixed temperature and pressure of $250^{\circ}C$ and 250 bar, respectively. In addition, it was proven that the removal of $Cu_2O$ was preceded via reduction of $Cu_2O$ to Cu.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.13-22
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• 2016

This study is aimed at compare and evaluate the environmental impact of End-of-Life Vehicle(ELV) on the eco-friendly technology dismantling and recycling system, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. In this study, it was analyzed for the environmental impacts of raw materials, disassemble process, recycle parts separation and waste treatment into the process of ELV treatment by greenhouse gas and resource consumption, etc. Through this study, the indoor rail type dismantling technology were recycling rate applied on the alternate system was increased by approximately 8%. As a result, it was 3 to 88% by improving the environmental impact category. In addition, the added benefit of approximately 8 - 62% in pre-market occurred through the recycling rate, improve parts reuse rate of ELV. Through the results of this study, legal compliance, improved reuse and recycling ratio, used parts market reach, enable exports has identified the need for the effort that the dissemination and diffusion of eco-friendly technology.