• Membrane Journal
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.519-527
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• 2017

Membrane fouling is the main issue hindering the expansion of low pressure membrane processes for surface water treatment. Therefore, applying periodic hydraulic cleaning for fouling control should be well optimized. Better understanding of membrane fouling associated with periodic hydraulic cleaning would be useful to optimize membrane cleaning strategies. By comparing experimental permeability data with the classical Hermia blocking laws, this study aims at analyzing membrane fouling and understanding dominant fouling mechanisms occurring when filtering a synthetic surface water solution with a pressurized membrane process during six filtration cycles of 30 min each, separated with cyclic cleaning of 1 min by backwashing and forward flushing separately and combined. When applying single cleaning technique, membrane fouling during the first cycles was controlled by complete blocking mechanism while the last cycles were dominated by cake formation. Nevertheless, when combining cleaning technique better membrane regeneration was obtained and fouling was mainly due to cake formation.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2016

Organic fouling observed in submerged membrane filtration as a pretreatment for seawater desalination increases energy consumption for membrane operation because of requiring frequent chemical cleaning and membrane replacement. In membrane pretreatment for seawater facing with algae blooms, membrane fouling was observed in submerged microfiltration using sodium alginate model compound which is one of the main components of extracellular polymeric substances. Without aeration, aglinate fouling increased with its concentration while aeration reduced the alginate fouling effectively regardless of its concentration tested. In the absence of aeration, alingate fouling tended to be decreased with increasing calcium concentration. However, this effectiveness was reduced by increasing sodium chloride concentration. At high concentration of sodium chloride and calcium similar to the seawater conditions, aeration reduced initial fouling. However, as time progressed, the effect of increased airflow rate on fouling reduction was not significant, implying that optimum airflow rate to control alginate fouling in submerged microfiltration can exist.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.276-283
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• 2019

In this study, The experiments of the confirmation of the fouling phenomena in CDI process and the establishment of its removal process conditions were carried out. The foulant concentrations of humic acid sodium salt (HA) added to the feed solution were 5, 10, 15 mg/L, respectively. The occurrence of fouling under the certain adsorption/desorption conditions could be confirmed with an increase in adsorption and desorption concentration curve over time. Both the voltage and time in adsorption and desorption processes were changed to eliminate the fouled pollutants. Typically, the fouling removal condition was found at the adsorption condition 1.2 V/5 min and the desorption condition -3 V/2 min, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.382.1-382.1
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• 2016

비등 열전달 시스템은 각종 발전 시스템, 열교환기, 냉방 및 냉동 시스템과 같이 다양한 산업에서 이용되며 매우 중요시 되고 있다. 또한 비등 열전달 시스템에서의 임계 열유속은 열전달 시스템의 한계 및 안정성을 나타내는 중요한 인자이다. 따라서 비등 열전달 시스템의 성능을 높이기 위해 임계 열유속을 향상시키려는 연구 및 개발이 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 최근에는 작동유체를 나노유체로 사용할 경우 임계 열유속을 크게 향상 시킬 수 있다고 보고되었다. 하지만 작동유체를 나노유체로 사용할 경우 나노입자가 열전달 표면에 침착되는 현상을 유발하며 열전달 시스템의 성능을 감소시킬 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 산화 처리된 그래핀 나노유체의 파울링 현상에 따른 열적 특성을 분석해 보았다. 그 결과 산화 처리된 그래핀 나노 파울링은 유속과 파울링을 위한 코팅시간이 증가할수록 산화 처리된 그래핀 나노유체의 임계 열유속이 크게 증가하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 하지만 임계 열유속은 증가하나 비등 열전달 표면의 온도가 크게 증가하고 있음을 확인하였다. 그리고 열전달 계수는 유동이 없는 순수 물 비등 열전달 계수와 비교하여 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.836-847
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• 1995

파울링은 열교환기에 형성되는 열저항으로 에너지 손실에 많은 영향을 미친다. 그러나 파울링은 그 예측이나 감소 또는 제거가 매우 어려운 것으로 인식되어 왔다. 작동유체자체를 철결하게 유지함으로써 파울링을 감소할 수도 있으나 작동유체 자체의 특성 때문에 본질적으로 작동유체를 청결하게 유지할 수 없는 경우가 대부분이다. 즉, 폐열 회수의 대상이 되는 액체가 하천수나 생 활하수인 경우 작동액체를 청결하게 유지함으로써 파을링을 저감시피는 방법은 타당치 않다.일 본의 폐얼회수 프로젝트와 담수화 프로젝트에서 특이한 점은 두 가지 프로젝트에서 열교환기면의 파울링 문제 해경을 전열 촉진의 내용과 거의 비슷한 비중으로 다루고 있다는 점이다. 파울링은 오래 전부터 열시스템설계자의 주요 관심사였으나 큰 진전은 없었다. 그러나 현재는 주변기술이 발달로 더 이상 연구 불가능 영역은 아닐 듯 싶다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.371-380
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• 2013

Though MBR process has many advantages, the greatest risk factors in operating MBR process are occurrence of membrane fouling and decrease of flux. It is very difficult to find exact mechanism due to complex influence by many effects, although there have been recently many studies of membrane fouling. The purposes of this study are firstly evaluating bioreactor of lab-scale and micro-filtration hollow fiber membrane, secondly investigating correlation between foulants affecting membrane performance and membrane fouling, and lastly evaluating various parameters affecting fouling and applicability of membrane fouling reducer. This study found that TMP was increasing rapidly and showed 0.32 bar and the average of flux was 88 LMH. EPS concentration tends not to change much above MLSS concentration (6,000 mg/L). However, EPS concentration variation is wide below MLSS concentration (6,000 mg/L). Also, from results of membrane surface condition and element analysis using SEM/EDX, carbon and fluorine were founded to be the highest percentage in membrane because of characteristics of membrane material. In operating continuously, inorganic fouling was generated by increase of these inorganic substances such as $Al^{3+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$. Lastly, the best filtration performance was obtained for 0.03 mg MFR/mg MLSS by results of particle size, zeta potential, $SCOD_{cr}$, EPS and MLSS concentration.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.609-616
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• 2019

When the fouling of a vessel occurs, its resistance at sea increases and there is a corresponding increase in fuel consumption. The maintenance cost of the vessel also increases because it is time-consuming to remove the fouling. To solve this problem and minimize environmental contamination of sea-water, there have been recent developments in anti-fouling paints as self-polishing copolymers that not include toxic elements such as tin. When these conventional techniques are applied to vessels, polishing is promoted during the operation whereby friction or vibration with seawater occurs. This leads to enhanced anti-fouling performance. However, when fouling is intensified such as during an anchorage, there is no flow of seawater and polishing is suppressed. This leads to a deterioration of the performance of anti-fouling. To solve these problems, we developed a system that induces vibration in a vessel during anchorage. As such, the deterioration of polishing due to insuf icient flow of seawater is inhibited. The reliability of the ultrasonic antifouling system was evaluated by calculating its repeatability. The removal efficiency of fouling of the proposed system was qualitatively evaluated using test specimens. The test revealed that the value of the coefficient of variation for the reproducibility of the frequency and amplitude was 0.2 % and 4.0 % on average. The degree of fouling of the specimens was the highest at 73.3 g in the No.5 sepcimen. Moreover, efficiency of fouling removal was 93.2 % on average compared to the specimens without the proposed system.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.131-137
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• 2020

In this study, effect of inorganic particles on organic fouling was investigated by a laboratory-scaled pressurized membrane filtration. In order to cause organic fouling, sodium alginate (SA) was used as a feed solution. Regardless of the presence of inorganic SiO₂ particles, the complete pore blocking played an important role in determining the fouling rate during the initial period of membrane filtration. However, the formation of cake layer resulted in the membrane fouling more dominantly as filtration time progressed. In the presence of inorganic particles, both specific cake resistance and compressibility associated with the membrane fouling formed were relatively lower than that without SiO₂ particles. Membrane fouling was more severe at constant flux mode of filtration than that observed at constant pressure mode probably due to the concomitant increase of compressibility of fouling layer with transmembrane pressure (TMP). It was found that the presence of SA and SiO₂ particles in feed solution provided the synergistic effect on the hydraulic backwashing to reduce membrane fouling as compared to the SA solution alone without the inorganic particles.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.1183-1191
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• 2000

Operating conditions for reduction of membrane fouling in treatment of dissolved organic matter by UF membrane process were investigated by pilot-scale plant using various operating conditions. As inlet pressure increased, increament of transmembrane pressure and flux decline were faster. The reason was due to the increase in adsorption of dissolved organic matter and the development of cake layer compression on the membrane surface. When efficient pressure (the difference of pressure between backwash and transmembrane pressures) was high, small amount of pollutant was retained on the membrane surface. When backwash was frequently conducted, low concentration of pollutant was maintained in recycling water. Therefore, backwash could be efficiently conducted with high efficient pressure and high frequency. Fouling rate was correlated with backwash and inlet pressures, recovery rate and cumulative permeated volume. Among the operating parameters backwash pressure was most closely related to fouling rate and inlet pressure was next to backwash pressure. It seems that the fouling was strongly related to pressure which leads to the cake layer compression and adsorption of dissolved organic matter.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.342-349
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• 2020

In this study, we suggest conditions to reduce fouling in capacitive deionization (CDI) caused by alginic acid sodium salt, one of the most common fouling-causing substances in natural water and wastewater management. First, NaCl is used as feed material, which is selected as the control of the experiment. As expected, fouling phenomena is not observed from NaCl. On the other hand, when alginic acid sodium salt is added to the inlet, the fouling phenomena can be observed. In order to minimize the fouling phenomena, the feed concentration of alginic acid sodium salt, applied potential during desorption process, and duration of applied potential to our CDI cell are controlled. With 7 mg/L of feed stream concentration, CDI performed using 1.2 V for 1 min during adsorption followed by desorption with -2 V for 1 min exhibited the highest alginic acid salt removal efficiency reaching 50.07%.