• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.139-145
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• 2022

Development in advanced separation processes leads to the significant advancement in polymeric membrane preparation methodology. Therefore, present research investigated the preparation and characterization of cellulose acetate membrane by phase inversion separation method to determine optimized operating parameters. Prepared CA membrane's performance was been analyzed in terms of % rejection and flux. Investigation was conducted to study effect of different parameters such as polymer concentration, evaporation rate, thickness of film, coagulation bath properties, temperature of polymer solution and of the coagulation bath etc. CA membrane was fabricated by taking polymer concentration 10wt% and 11wt% with zero second evaporation time and varying film thickness over non-woven polyester fabric. Effect of coagulation bath temperature (CBT) and casting solution temperature were also been studied. The experimental results from SEM showed that the surface morphology had been changed with polymer r concentration, coagulation bath and casting solution temperature, etc. Lower polymer concentration leads to lower precipitation time giving porous membrane. The prepared membrane was tested for advanced waste water treatment of relevant effluent stream in pilot plant to study flux and rejection behavior of the membrane.

• 공업화학
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1164-1173
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• 1996

현재 국내에서 가동중인 원자력발전소 공급용 핵연료 분말제조 공정에서 발생되는 폐액의 물성과 처리방법에 대한 연구가 수행되었다. 중수로형과 경수로형 발생 폐액에 함유된 우라늄을 회수/처리하기 위하여, 공히 폐액 속의 탄산이온의 제거가 필수적이다. 중수로형은 ADU 형태로 경수로형의 경우 $UO_4$ 화합물 형태로 처리하는 것이, 최종 폐액의 우라늄 농도를 최소화할 수 있었다. 처리후 폐액의 우라늄 농도는 중수로형 폐액의 경우, 폐액을 가열하여 ADU를 제조한 후 여액에 lime을 처리하는 방법으로 1ppm까지, 경수로형 폐액의 경우 $UO_4{\cdot}2NH_4F$형태로 우라늄을 침전시킬 경우 0.8ppm까지 여액중의 우라늄 농도를 낮출 수 있었다. 최적 처리조건은 중수로형 폐액의 경우 $101^{\circ}C$까지 단순 가열방법이, 경수로형 폐액의 경우 가열한 후 $60^{\circ}C$에서 암모니아로 pH를 9.5로 조절한 후 과산화수소 용액을 첨가하여 1시간 반응시키는 경우로 나타났다. 폐액으로부터 회수된 우라늄 화합물은, 중수로형 폐액인 경우 pH가 낮을수록 회수된 ADU 입자의 크기가 증가하였으며, 경수로형 폐액인 경우 회수된 uranium peroxide 화합물을 공기분위기에서 열분해시킨 결과 기존의 AUC 분말이 열분해되어 나타내는 특성과 동일한 특성을 보임에 따라 핵연료분말 제조공정으로 recycle이 가능한 것으로 판단되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1206-1212
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• 2022

Cold-crucible induction melting (CCIM) technology has been intensively studied as an advanced vitrification process for the immobilization of highly radioactive waste. This technology uses high-frequency induction to melt a glass matrix and waste, while the outer surface of the crucible is water-cooled, resulting in the formation of a frozen glass layer (skull). In this study, for the fabrication of borosilicate glass waste form, CCIM operation test with 60 kg of glass per batch was conducted using surrogate wastes composed of Cs, Sr, and Nd as a representative of highly radioactive nuclides generated during spent nuclear fuel management. A 60 kg-scale glass waste form was successfully fabricated through melting and draining processes using a CCIM system, and its physicochemical properties were analyzed. In particular, to enhance the controllability and reliability of the draining process, an air-cooling drain control method that can control draining through air-cooling near drain holes was developed, and its validity for draining control was verified. The method can offer controllability on various draining processes, such as molten salt or molten metal draining processes, and can be applied to a process requiring high throughput draining.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2015

Recently, the production of taste and odor (T&O) compounds is a common problem in water industry. Geosmin is one of the T&O components in drinking water. However, geosmin is hardly eliminated through the conventional water treatment systems. Among various advanced processes capable of removing geosmin, adsorption process using granular activated carbon (GAC) is the most commonly used process. As time passes, however GAC process changes into biological activated carbon (BAC) process. There is little information on the BAC process in the literature. In this study, we isolated and identified microorganisms existing within various BAC processes. The microbial concentrations of BAC processes examined were $3.5{\times}10^5$ colony forming units (CFU/g), $2.2{\times}10^6CFU/g$ and $7.0{\times}10^5CFU/g$ in the Seongnam plant, Goyang plant and Goryeong pilot plant, respectively. The dominant bacterial species were found to be Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Novosphingobium rosa and Afipia broomeae in each plants. Removal efficiencies of $3{\mu}g/L$ geosmin by the dominant species were 36.1%, 36.5% and 34.3% in mineral salts medium(MSM) where geosmin was a sole carbon source.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제39권10호
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• pp.556-560
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• 2017

Microcystis sp.로 수화된 원수에 대해 전염소 처리시 발생하는 문제점과 응집보조제로 polyamine을 투입하였을 때의 응집 및 여과공정에서의 효과를 수중의 입자상 물질의 분포로 평가하였다. Microcystis sp.로 수화된 원수를 전염소 처리하면 Microcystis sp. 군집이 각각의 세포들로 분산되어 응집에 불리한 것으로 나타났다. 응집보조제로 polyamine을 이용하면 응집제 단독으로 응집하는 경우에 비해 탁도와 입자성 물질 제거에 효과적이었으며, 특히 직경 $5{\mu}m$ 이하의 입자상 물질의 제거에 탁월하였다. Microcystis sp.로 수화된 상수원수를 이용하는 정수장에서는 전염소 처리를 배제하고 정수장을 운영하는 방법이 후단공정에서 입자상 물질의 제거 및 관리에 효율적이었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.323-329
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• 2007

There is no certain definition about advanced drinking water treatment but it is generally known as activated carbon process, membrane process or ozone process which can remove non-conventional pollutants such as taste and odor compounds, and micro-pollutants. There are more than 20 processes related to activated carbon as adsorber or biological activated carbon in Korea. The saturated carbon by pollutants can be reused by reactivation. However, the effect of reactivation on activated carbon is not well-understood in terms of changing physical properties of carbon to adsorption capacity of natural organic matter (NOM). In this study, the effects of reactivation on physical properties of activated carbon were investigated by isotherm and breakthrough of NOM. Ash content was increased from 8% to 13.3%. Iodine number is commonly used as an indicator for performance of reactivation. The iodine number was decreased about 20% after reactivating twice. The degree of reactivation can be evaluated by not only iodine number but also apparent density.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.618-625
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• 2008

Advanced Phase Isolation Ditch (APID) process was studied to develop economic retrofitting technology, for the plants where retrofitting of common activated sludge process is required. In this study, to evaluate the effluent BOD, SS, T-N, and T-P concentrations as process capable and stable parameters for treating municipal wastewater, a demonstration plant was installed and operated in the existing sewage treatment plant of P city. During this study, the average effluent BOD, SS, T-N, and T-P concentrations were 4.56, 5.20, 9.30, and 1.75 mg/L at the conventional mode and 3.95, 3.17, 7.65, and 1.18 mg/L at the modified mode. The modified mode (BOD: 3.69, SS: 3.19, T-N: 1.27, and T-P: 0.69) increased the process capability more than the conventional mode (BOD: 1.80, SS: 1.05, T-N: 2.17, and T-P: 0.15) in this study. If process capability over 1.0, this process is capable and stable to treat wastewater. Therefore, newly developed APID process with modified intermittent aeration mode can be one of the useful processes for stable organic matter and nutrients removal.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.349-355
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• 2018

This study interrogated multi-layer heterojunction anodes were interrogated for potential applications to water treatment. The multi-layer anodes with outer layers of $SnO_2/Bi_2O_3$ and/or $TiO_2/Bi_2O_3$ onto $IrO_2/Ta_2O_5$ electrodes were prepared by thermal decomposition and characterized in terms of reactive chlorine species (RCS) generation in 50 mM NaCl solutions. The $IrO_2/Ta_2O_5$ layer on Ti substrate (Anode 1) primarily served as an electron shuttle. The current efficiency (CE) and energy efficiency (EE) for RCS generation were significantly enhanced by the further coating of $SnO_2/Bi_2O_3$ (Anode 2) and $TiO_2/Bi_2O_3$ (Anode 3) layers onto the Anode 1, despite moderate losses in electrical conductivity and active surface area. The CE of the Anode 3 was found to show the highest RCS generation rate, whereas the multi-junction architecture (Anode 4, sequential coating of $IrO_2/Ta_2O_5$, $SnO_2/Bi_2O_3$, and $TiO_2/Bi_2O_3$) showed marginal improvement. The microscopic observations indicated that the outer $TiO_2/Bi_2O_3$ could form a crack-free layer by an incorporation of anatase $TiO_2$ particles, potentially increasing the service life of the anode. The results of this study are expected to broaden the usage of dimensionally stable anodes in water treatment with an enhanced RCS generation and lifetime.

• 멤브레인
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.72-83
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• 2011

고탁도 원수의 고도정수처리를 위해 관형 세라믹 정밀여과막 외부와 원통형 막 모듈 내부 사이의 공간에 광촉매를 충전한 혼성 모듈을 사용하였다. 광촉매는 PP (polypropylene) 구(bead)에 $TiO_2$ 분말을 플라즈마 화학증착(chemical vapor deposition) 공정으로 코팅한 것이다. 정수 원수 중 자연산 유기물(NOM)과 미세 무기 입자를 대체하기 위해, 휴믹산(humic acid)과 카올린(kaolin) 모사용액을 대상으로 하였다. 혼성공정에서 막오염을 최소화하기 위해 10분 주기로 10초 동안 물 역세척을 시행하였다. 휴믹산을 10 mg/L부터 2 mg/L로 변화시킴에 따라, 막오염에 의한 저항($R_f$)이 감소하고 J가 증가하여 2 mg/L에서 가장 높은 총여과부피($V_T$)를 얻었다. 탁도 및 $UV_{254}$ 흡광도의 처리효율은 각각 98.5% 및 85.7% 이상이었다. MF 공정 및 MF + $TiO_2$ 공정, MF + $TiO_2$ + UV 공정의 막여과 및 광촉매 흡착, 광산화의 처리 분율을 알아본 결과, 광촉매 흡착과 광산화에 의해 탁도는 거의 처리되지 않았으나, 광촉매 흡착 및 광산화에 의한 휴믹산 처리 분율은 각각 10.7, 8.6% 이상이었다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2000

The use of photo-catalytic processes in pollution abatement and resource has a significant economic importance. Therefore, the applications of photochemical oxidation of secondary effluent driven by UV, TiO2, TiO2/UV, H2O2/UV and TiO2/H2O2/UV, have been investigated in order to treat the secondary effluent from municipal sewage. Various experimental parameters such as BOD, CODcr, Nurbidity, total P, and SPC were examined in each photo-catalytic reaction system. The results showed that the application of single oxidant such as UV, TiO2 only has a minor effect on parameters reduction (CODcr, BOD, etc) to treat the secondary effluent, whereas the combinations of oxidants increase the removal efficiency. The best removal efficiency in every parameters was achieved by the combination of TiO2, H2O2 and UV. It was also found that the optimum amount of TiO2 for the treatment was 1g/ι to achieve water reuse standard. From the results, the photocatalytic reaction system can be an alternative as a post-treatment to treat the secondary effluent from municipal sewage.