• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.645-654
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• 1994

Photocatalytic oxidation conditions of reactant recirculation flow rate 275 mL/min, aeration rate 2 LPM and $UV+TiO_2+H_2O_2$(500 mg/L) proved to be appropriate for water including organic materials treatment. With increasing turbidity and suspended solids concentration, at turbidity 10 NTU-suspended solids concentration 29 mg/L the phenol degradation efficiency increased, which in turn decreased at turbidity 50 NTU-suspended solids concentration 170 mg/L, however no significant differences were observed, demonstrating similar results with those obtained at zero turbidity and suspended solids concentration. The degradation efficiency of phenol decreased with increasing influent phenol concentrations. The $UV+TiO_2+H_2O_2$ photocatalytic advanced oxidation process conducted is considered to be possibly applied to the drinking water treatment, and the post-treatment process of biological wastewater treatment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.459-459
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• 2011

전 세계적으로 이용 가능한 수자원이 한정되어 있는데 반해 기후변화, 인구증가에 따른 물 부족 사태는 심각해져 가고 있다. 이에 따른 대체수자원의 개발이 지속적으로 요구되고 있으며, 하수재 이용과 더불어 가장 큰 성장세를 보이고 있는 해수담수화는 이미 국내외에서 주요 용수 공급원으로 이용되고 있다. 하지만, 현재 국내에선 해수담수화 플랜트 기술 연구에 비해 해외 시장에 대한 연구는 미흡하기 때문에, 국내 기업의 해외시장 진출 지원이 취약한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 Frost & Sullivan의 2004년 자료를 기초로 하여 남부유럽, 북아프리카, 중동, 페르시아만 연안 6개국, 사우디아라비아 지역 37개 국가를 대상으로 해수담수화 수익성 평가를 하였다. 조사 기간은 2000년부터 2010년까지며, 각 지역별 연 수익금 및 증가율을 조사하였다. 조사 결과 5개 지역 모두 2010년까지 모두 증가 추세를 보였으며, 각 지역마다 증가율은 다르게 나타났다. 또한 분석 결과의 신뢰성 확보를 위해 Frost & Sullivan의 수익성 평가 자료와 Global Water Intelligence(GWI)에서 2010년도에 발간한 Desalination Market(2010)의 해수담수화 자본지출 (CAPEX)과 비교 분석하였다. 비교 분석한 지역은 5개 지역과 각 지역에서 한 개의 국가를 선정하여 총 5개 국가를 대상으로 하였으며, 기간은 2007년부터 2010년까지 비교 분석하였다. 분석 결과 2007년부터 2010년까지 북아프리카, 사우디아라비아를 제외한 해수담수화 수익금이 증가할 것으로 예측한 세 개 지역의 해수담수화 자본지출(CAPEX)이 모두 증가된 것으로 나타났으며, 비교기간 동안 해수담수화 수익금이 하강할 것으로 나타난 북아프리카의 알제리는 해수담수화 자본지출(CAPEX)이 실제로 하강했던 것으로 나타났다. 하지만, 사우디아라비아의 경우 해수담수화 수익금은 상승할 것으로 나타났으나, 자본지출금액은 하강한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 시장 증대 요인 및 억제 요인에 대한 조사 결과 해수담수화 시장 증대 요인은 5개 지역 모두 물 부족에 따른 영향이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났으며, 사우디아라비아의 경우 지하수자원 부족에 대한 영향이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이는 기후변화에 따른 강우사상 변화, 인구 증가에 따른 것으로 판단된다. 또한 시장 억제 요인으로는 남부유럽을 제외한 4개 지역이 정치적 분란인 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.889-893
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• 2010

전 세계적으로 기후변화에 따른 주기적인 가뭄 현상과 기상 이변으로 인해 물 부족 사태는 심각해져 가고 있으며(UNEP은 물 기근에 시달리는 세계 도시 곳곳에 사는 많은 사람들은 2000년 5억 명에서 2025년 40억 명까지 증가할 것이라고 추측하였다), 산업화 이후 인구의 증가와 산업의 발달에 따른 삶의 질을 향상시키기 위한 물의 수요 또한 증가하고 있는 추세다. 그러나 인간이 사용 가능한 수자원은 지구상에 존재하는 물의 3% 이내로 한정되어 있으며 산업발달 및 도시화에 따른 지표수의 바다로의 유출 또한 빨라져 지하수개발, 하수재이용, 인공강우 및 해수담수화 등의 대체수자원의 개발이 요구되는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 Global Water Intelligence(GWI)의 자료를 기초로 하여 중동 및 북아프리카 지역 20개 국가를 대상으로 생활 용수 자본지출 추세, 공업용수 수요 시장규모 성장추세, 이용가능한 수자원 및 그에 따른 사용 중인 수자원 비율, 2007년 기준 물 부족 인구, 2011년~2016년 물 부족 인구를 조사 및 분석하였다. 용도별 생활용수 공업 용수의 추세 분석 기간은 2008년부터 2016년까지 실시하였으며 평균 연감 증가 백분율 5%이상 국가를 선정하였다. 중동 및 북아프리카 지역 20개 국가 중 18개 국가가 생활용수 자본지출 연감 증가 백분율 5%이상의 높은 수요 전망을 보였으며, 공업용수 수요 시장 전망은 높은 성장성을 보이며 큰 규모의 주요 2개 국가가 선정되었다. 또한 20개 국가 각각의 이용 가능한 수자원 및 그에 따른 사용 중인 수자원 비율, 2006년 기준물 부족 인구, 2011~2016년 물 부족 인구를 조사한 결과 전체 20개 국가 모두 물 부족 국가로 산정되었으며, 20개 국가 모두 해안지역에 위치해 있어 해수담수화 시설의 건설 가능성이 높은 지역인 것을 확인하였다. 조사한 중동 및 북아프리카 지역 중 많은 수의 국가가 물 부족 현상에 시달리고 있으며 물 수요 시장 전망 또한 증가할 것으로 나타나 대체수자원의 필요성은 증대될 것으로 판단되며 그에 따라 본 연구는 향후 국내 기업들이 세계 해수담수화 시장에 진출하는데 있어 진출 전략 마련에 기초가 될 것이라고 판단된다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.339-348
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• 2021

This paper aims to analyze the production efficiency in Korea's ten service sectors using DEA and its determinants utilizing a truncated-Tobit regression model and a censored-Tobit regression model in 2010-2019. This paper found: First, the Korean service sector's production efficiency in general has been significantly low and polarized. Especially, the inefficiency resulted from the scale inefficiency in the 'sewerage waste management industry.' Second, in the determinants analysis, the results show the positive effect of the investment and R&D expenses on technical efficiency, while FDI and lobbying expenses illustrate the negative impact. Moreover, it seems that the larger the industry, the higher the efficiency. Thus, the future Korean government's economic policy for the service sectors requires a mixed and integrated policy of the macroeconomic aspect such as active investment and R&D activities with microeconomic aspect including a convergence of FDI and human capital.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.1B
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• pp.51-60
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• 2006

Water quality improvement in mattress/filter system using porous material like slag from industrial activity and zeolite that has been studied for environment improvement and pollution abatement is very useful in polluted stagnant stream channel. Slag is consisted of CaO, $SiO_2$, $Al_2O_3$ and $Fe_2O_3$. Slag with large specific surface area of porosity has been used such as sludge settling and adsorptive materials. Because slag is porous, it can be used for purification filter. As slag is used as filled materials of mattress/filter system and the system has good advantages for the waste water treatment, water recycling, and the improvement of water quality at the same time and so on. Because zeolite has much advantage of cation exchange, adsorption, catalyst and dehydration characteristics, It is used for environment improvement of livestock farms, treatment of artificial sewage and waste water, improvement of drinking water quality, radioactive waste disposal and radioactive material pollution control. In this study, according to verifying effects of water quality improvement of fill materials by porosity that 38.6%, 45.8% and 49.8% respectively in the stagnant stream channel, water quality monitoring of inflow and outflow was conducted on pH, DO, BOD, COD, SS, T-N and T-P. Mattress/filter system was able to accelerate water quality improvement by biofilter as waste water flows through gap of mattress/filter fill materials and by contact catalysis, absorption, catabolism by biofilm. Mattress/filter system used slag and zeolite forms biofilm easily and accelerates adsorption of organic matter. As a result, mattress/filter system increases water self-purification and accelerates water quality improvement available for stream water clean-up.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.210-215
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• 2004

Porous ceramics for water-permeable paving brick was prepared by the sintering of mixed materials comprising of sewage sludge ash, waste porcelain fragment, waste glaze and low-grade clay at 1,000$^{\circ}C$ for 2 h, and the physical $.$mechanical properties, the permeability and the freeze-thaw resistance of specimens with preparation parameters were investigated. The physical mechanical properties were increased in specimens while porosity and permeability were decreased with increasing sewage sludge ash content and sintering temperature on the properties of specimens showed the opposite results. The bulk density, porosity, compressive strength and permeability (passed charge) of 30A60F specimens with 30 wt% of sewage sludge ash content, waste porcelain fragment size with 1∼2 mm and sintered at 1,000$^{\circ}C$ for 2 h were 2.17, 46.2%, 221 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 3,150 coulombs, respectively. The permeability was increased with increasing waste porcelain fragment size, however compressive strength was decreased. The freeze-thaw resistance of 30A60F specimen with 1∼2 mm of fragment size was superior to that of the other specimens. The 30A60F specimens can be used for the water-permeable paving brick with the high permeability and adequate strength. The heavy metals included in the all specimens showed lower than the standard level.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1103-1111
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• 2009

This study derived the analysis results of alternatives for integrated watershed management under urbanization and climate change scenarios. Climate change and urbanization scenarios were obtained by using SDSM (Statistical Downscaling Method) model and ICM (Impervious Cover Model), respectively. Alternatives for the Anyangcheon watershed are reuse of wastewater treatment plant effluent, and redevelopment of existing reservoir. Flow and BOD concentration duration curves were derived by using HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program - Fortran) model. As a result, low flow ($Q_{99},\;Q_{95},\;Q_{90}$) and BOD concentration ($Q_{10},\;Q_5,\;Q_1$) were very sensitive to the alternatives comparing to high flow($C_{30},\;C_{10},\;C_1$). Although urbanization makes the hydrological cycle distorted, effective alternatives can reduce its damage. The numbers of days to satisfy the instreamflow requirements and target water quality were also sensitive to urbanization. This result showed that the climate change and urbanization should be considered in the water resources/watershed and environmental planning.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.866-871
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• 2006

The nutrient recovery in phosphate crystallization process was investigated by using laboratory scale uptlow reactors, adopting sequencing batch type configuration. The industrial waste lime was used as potential cation source with magnesium salt($MgCl_2$) as control. The research was focused on its successful application in a novel integrated sludge treatment process, which is comprised of a high performance fermenter followed by a crystallization reactor. In the struvite precipitation test using synthetic wastewater first, which has the similar characteristics with the real fermentation effluent, the considerable nutrient removal(about 60%) in both ammonia and phosphate was observed within $0.5{\sim}1$ hr of retention time. The results also revealed that a minor amount(<5%) of ammonia stripping naturally occurred due to the alkaline(pH 9) characteristic in feed substrate. Stripping of $CO_2$ by air did not increase the struvite precipitation rate but it led to increased ammonia removal. In the second experiment using the fermentation effluent, the optimal dosage of magnesium salt for struvite precipitation was 0.86 g Mg $g^{-1}$ P, similar to the mass ratio of the struvite. The optimal dosage of waste lime was 0.3 g $L^{-1}$, resulting in 80% of $NH_4-N$ and 41% of $PO_4-P$ removal, at about 3 hrs of retention time. In the microscopic analysis, amorphous crystals were mainly observed in the settled solids with waste lime but prism-like crystals were observed with magnesium salt. Based on mass balance analysis for an integrated sludge treatment process(fermenter followed by crystallization reactor) for full-scale application(treatment capacity Q=158,880 $m^3\;d^{-1}$), nutrient recycle loading from the crystallization reactor effluent to the main liquid stream would be significantly reduced(0.13 g N and 0.19 g P per $m^3$ of wastewater, respectively). The results of the experiment reveal therefore that the reuse of waste lime, already an industrial waste, in a nutrient recovery system has various advantages such as higher economical benefits and sustainable treatment of the industrial waste.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.414-419
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• 2019

JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) is a human pathogenic virus belonging to the family Polyomaviridae, a viral group containing dsDNA nucleic acid. A recent recommendation is to apply the presence of JCPyV as a fecal indicator for water contamination in environments like sewage, and techniques to monitor JCPyV in water are being proposed. To date, the conventional PCR system has been applied as a diagnostic method for detecting JCPyV. There is a need for a more rapid and sensitive JCPyV diagnostic detection method in clinical and environmental samples. In this study, we developed a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) primer set for the detection of JCPyV. Our results indicate that the LAMP method using a specific primer set shows about 10-fold higher detection sensitivity than the conventional PCR system. The effectiveness of the LAMP method developed in this study has been validated by PCR product digestion using the HaeIII restriction enzyme. We, therefore, propose that the LAMP method using a specific primer set can be applied as a rapid and sensitive detection method for monitoring JCPyV in clinical and environmental samples.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.277-289
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• 2011

Since 1980s, wastewater treatment facilities in Korea have been rapidly expanded by 90 percent as the government invested them continuously. Considering social and environmental factors such as the needs of alternative water resources for water shortages, energy saving and new energy production sources for decrease of greenhouse gases, and the demand for the improvement of the water quality in rivers and lakes, advanced technologies in wastewater treatment are essential in the 21st century. In this aspect, new conceptual technology is systematically combined with the advanced treatment technology such as the control and treatment technology of hazardous and toxic material, customized reusing skill, and energy saving/recovery technology. The new R&D project for advanced technology of wastewater treatment and reuse will focus on these advanced technologies which will improve the water quality and foster the competitiveness in world environmental markets, building a solid foundation particularly in the market of developing countries. The project will be divided up into high quality reusing of wastewater, energy self-sufficiency, and integrated management system. It will be carried out for five years, 2011~2015, as Phase I.