• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.353-368
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• 2013

All Koreans had suffered heavily from municipal and industrial air pollution problems since 1960's to 1980's. However the levels of $SO_2$, CO, and Pb have been dramatically decreased since 1990's due to various air pollutants' reduction policies under the provisions of the 1978 Environmental Preservation Act and the 1990 Air Quality Preservation Act such as increasing the supply of low-sulfur fuel, the use of cleaner fuel, no use of solid fuel, and so on. Even though the national ambient air quality standard has been strengthened to protect public health and welfare, the levels of $NO_2$, $O_3$, and $PM_{10}$ frequently exceed the corresponding standards; for example, only 4 stations (1.7%) out of 239 nationwide monitoring stations satisfied the 24-hr based PM10 standard in 2011. Moreover, upto the present time, since there are serious underlying policies of economism and growth-first which can not be solely solved by the environmental laws, it is difficult to root out undesirable social evils such as public indifference, passive academic activities, complacent government bureaucracy, insufficient social responsibility of enterprise, and radical activities of environmental groups. The paper initially reviewed air pollution history of Korea with surveying various environmental factors affecting in/out-door air pollution in the past Korea. Further this study extensively investigated legal and political changes on air pollution control and management for the last 50 years, and then intensively discussed the present environment-related laws and policies unreasonably enforced in Korea. It is necessary to practically revise many outdated legal policies based on health-oriented thinking and on our current economic levels as well.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.33-36
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• 2017

China is suffering from severe air pollution especially fine $PM_{2.5}$ pollution. In 2015, the annual average $PM_{2.5}$ concentration of the 338 municipal cities was $50{\mu}g/m^3$, 78% cities at or above the prefectural level failed to comply with the $PM_{2.5}$ concentration standards. The $13^{th}$ Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development set the goal that the annual average concentration of $PM_{2.5}$ in the municipal cities which failed to attain the ambient air quality standards shall be decreased by 18% by 2020 (CCCPC, 2016). In this study, an air pollution control scenario during the $13^{th}$ Five-Year Plan period was proposed and the $SO_2$, $NO_x$ and PM emission reductions in response to different measures in 31 provincial-level regions mainland China by 2020 were estimated. The air quality in the target year (2020) was simulated using the WRF-CMAQ model. The results showed that by 2020, the emissions of $SO_2$, $NO_x$ and primary PM in mainland China will be reduced by 4.19 million tons, 3.94 million tons and 4.41 million tons, a drop of 23%, 21% and 25% respectively compared with that in 2015, and the annual average concentration of $PM_{2.5}$ will decrease by 19%. Coal-fired power plant contributes the most pollutant emission reduction.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.465-472
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• 2005

Objectives : The aim of this study was to assess the effect of air pollution on the daily respiratory symptoms of elementary school children in Seoul. Methods : Using the panel study design, we collected diary data for the children's respiratory symptoms during the 1st day$\sim$15th day of April, July, October and December in 2003 among the 2nd and 3rd grade elementary school students. We merged the respiratory symptom data with the ambient air pollution data that was monitored by Ministry of Environment. Using a generalized estimate equation, we evaluated the relationship between the daily symptoms of the subjects and the exposure to ai r pollution after controlling for various potential confounders. Results : The nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure of the current day significantly increased the upper respiratory symptoms (adjusted odds ratio=1.12, 95% CI=1.01-1.24) and the lower respiratory symptoms (adjusted odds ratio=1.18, 95% CI=1.06-1.31) in the elementary school children. The sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) exposure in the current day was associated with the lower respiratory symptoms (adjusted odds ratio=1.12, 95% CI=1.01-1.25 for SO2; adjusted odds ratio=1.16, 95% CI=1.02-1.32 for CO). Conclusions : We found that exposure to air pollution affects the daily respiratory symptoms in children. This study suggests that the effect on children's health? due to the short term changes in air pollution levels needs to be considered as an important public health problem.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.680-688
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• 2017

Water quality monitoring for flow rates and BOD/COD/T-N/T-P/SS/TOC concentrations has been conducted in Nakdong river tributaries since 2011. In this study concentrations and loading rates of BOD, T-P, and TOC were analyzed to evaluate water quality monitoring stations using accumulated data at 206 tributary monitoring stations in Nakdong river 2012 ~ 2016. Average concentration ranges for 206 monitoring stations were 0.3 ~ 6.4 mg/L, 0.025 ~ 1.562 mg/L, and 0.6 ~ 10.7 mg/L for BOD, T-P, and TOC, respectively. Additionally, average loading rate ranges were 0.96 ~ 46,040 kg/d, 0.087 ~ 1,834 kg/d, and 1.51 ~ 80,425 kg/d for BOD, T-P, and TOC, respectively. Average concentration for BOD, T-P, and TOC at each monitoring station was evaluated using ambient water quality standards of rivers and water quality regulation level for medium-sized management areas. Average loading rate and specific loading rate (loading rate/drainage basin area) for BOD, T-P, and TOC at each monitoring station was considered to evaluate monitoring stations using suggested classification (BOD, TOC: -1, 1 ~ 10, 10 ~ 100, 100 ~ 1,000, and 1,000 ~ kg/d; T-P: -0.1. 0.1 ~ 1, 1 ~ 10, 10 ~ 100, and 100 ~ kg/d) Using results of this study, various water quality status maps were provided, and three evaluation methods were suggested to determine priority monitoring stations in Nakdong river for rational water quality control and tributaries basin management.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2012

GRS is an effective urban ecology restoration technique that can manage a variety of environmental functions such as ecological restoration, rainwater spill control and island heat effect from a low-impact development standpoint that can be utilized in new construction and retrofits. Recently, quantitative evaluation studies, both domestic and abroad, in the areas related to these functions, including near-earth surface climate phenomenon, heavy rainwater regulation, thermal environment of buildings, have been actively underway, and there is a trend to standardize in the form of technological standards. In particular, centered on the advanced European countries, studies of standardizing the specific insulation capability of buildings with green system that comprehensively includes the green roof, from the perspective of replacing the exterior materials of existing buildings, are in progress. The limitation of related studies in the difficulties associated with deriving results that reflect material characteristics of continuously evolving systems due in part to not having sufficiently considered the main components of green system, mechanisms of vegetation, soils. This study attempts to derive, through EnergyPlus, the effects that the vegetation-related indicators such as vegetation height, FCV, etc. have on building energy load, by interpreting vegetation and soil mechanisms through plant canopy model and using an ecological standard indicator LAI that represent the condition of plant growth. Through this, the interpretations that assume green roof system as simple heat insulation will be complemented and a more practical building energy performance evaluation method that reflects numerical methods for heat fluxes phenomena that occur between ecology restoration systems comprised of plants and soil and the ambient space.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.179-197
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• 2012

This study presents the findings of the structural health monitoring and the real time system identification of one of the first large scale building instrumentations in Turkey for earthquake safety. Within this context, a thorough review of steps in the instrumentation, monitoring is presented and seismic performance evaluation of structures using both nonlinear pushover and nonlinear dynamic time history analysis is carried out. The sensor locations are determined using the optimal sensor placement techniques used in NASA for on orbit modal identification of large space structures. System identification is carried out via the stochastic subspace technique. The results of the study show that under ambient vibrations, stocky buildings can be substantially stiffer than what is predicted by the finite element models due to the presence of a large number of partitioning walls. However, in a severe earthquake, it will not be safe to rely on this resistance due to the fact that once the partitioning walls crack, the bare frame contributes to the lateral stiffness of the building alone. Consequently, the periods obtained from system identification will be closer to those obtained from the FE analysis. A technique to control the validity of the proportional damping assumption is employed that checks the presence of phase difference in displacements of different stories obtained from band pass filtered records and it is confirmed that the "proportional damping assumption" is valid for this structure. Two different techniques are implemented for identifying the influence of the soil structure interaction. The first technique uses the transfer function between the roof and the basement in both directions. The second technique uses a pre-whitening filter on the data obtained from both the basement and the roof. Subsequently the impulse response function is computed from the scaled cross correlation between the input and the output. The overall results showed that the structure will satisfy the life safety performance level in a future earthquake but some soil structure interaction effects should be expected in the North South direction.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2016

상온에서 기체로 존재하는 기존의 에틸렌 작용억제제인 1-MCP와 달리 상온에서 액상으로 존재하여 분무살포가 가능한 에틸렌 작용억제제를 개발할 목적으로 cyclopropene 유도체의 하나로서 2-decylcyclopropene-1-carboxylic acid ethyl ester(DCPE)를 합성하여 부유 단감을 대상으로 그 처리효과를 분석하였다. $4{\cdot}10^{-4}$ M의 DCPE를 수확 전에 분무살포 처리한 단감을 수확하여 45일간 저온저장한 후 상온($20^{\circ}C$)에 1주간 방치하면서 성숙 관련 지표의 변화를 조사한 결과, 에틸렌의 작용에 의해 유발되는 과육 연화의 진행이 효과적으로 지연되었으며, 그 억제 효과는 1 ppm의 1-MCP 처리와 대등한 수준이었다. 또한 DCPE는 적어도 한달간 성분 손실 없이 냉장 보관이 가능하였다. 따라서 DCPE는 단감 과실의 수확 후 과육의 연화를 지연시키는 약제로의 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.857-861
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• 2010

매년 대도시 지역과 그 주변에 오존농도가 환경기준을 초과하는 빈도가 증가하여 오존주의보 발령횟수가 증가하는 추세이다. 따라서 오존의 전구물질인 VOCs에 대한 제어과정이 시급한 실정이다. 국내에서 발생되는 폐기물 중 소각재와 하수슬러지는 발생량이 증가됨에 따라 그 처리 방안이 요구되고 있다. 소각재와 다른 폐기물을 이용하여 건축외장재를 제조하여 소각재 중의 유해중금속을 안정화시키고 제조한 외장재로 대기 중의 VOCs를 흡착, 제거할 수 있다면 환경 부하 저하, 자원 재활용 및 VOCs control이라는 면에서 매우 유용할 것으로 판단된다. 제조한 외장재의 VOC 흡착특성을 알아보기 위해 벤젠 흡착실험과 SEM분석, BET분석을 수행하였고 외장재의 흡착특성을 유지하기 위해 광촉매 코팅을 하여 그 효과를 알아보았다. 실험결과 벤젠 제거 능력은 74~96%로 높게 나타났고 제조한 외장재의 표면에는 다양한 공극이 발달되어 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 외장재의 환경안정성을 알아보기 위해 중금속 용출실험을 수행한 결과 중금속이 안정화 되어 용출양이 현저히 감소한 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.747-752
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• 2011

Wireless technology has enabled farmers monitor and control protected production environment more efficiently. Utilization of USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) devices also brought benefits due to reduced wiring and central data handling requirements. However, wireless communication loses signal under unfavorable conditions (e.g., blocked signal path, low signal intensity). In this paper, performance of commercial wireless communication devices were evaluated for application to protected crop production. Two different models of wireless communication devices were tested. Sensors used in the study were weather units installed outside and top of a greenhouse (wind velocity and direction, precipitation, temperature and humidity), inside ambient condition units (temperature, humidity, $CO_2$, and light intensity), and irrigation status units (irrigation flow and pressure, and soil water content). Performance of wireless communication was evaluated with and without crop. For a 2.4 GHz device, communication distance was decreased by about 10% when crops were present between the transmitting and receiving antennas installed on the ground, and the best performance was obtained when the antennas were installed 2 m above the crop canopy. When tested in a greenhouse, center of a greenhouse was chosen as the location of receiving antenna. The results would provide information useful for implementation of wireless environment monitoring system for protected crop production using USN devices.

• 물과 미래
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.115-121
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• 1994

하구수리계에 있어서 점착성류사의 운동은 응결과 응집(aggregation) 현상에 의해 크게 좌우되며, 이들 현상에 의하여 의결된 입자들의 크기, 모양, 강도는 그 퇴적율과 그리고 부유류사와 오염물질의 변동과정에 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 Brownian 운동에 의해 지배되는 이동성 부유영역과 중력에 의해 지배되는 정체성 부유영역으로 분리하여 점착성입자들의 응집과 응결과정을 모의하였다. 이동성 부유영역에 있어서는 Smoluchowski 모형중 입자들의 무작위 회전을 이용한 최대연쇄 모형으로 응집물질의 사영들을 도출하였으며, 그 회전반경에 의해 사영들의 쪽거리 차원을 구하였다. 저에성 부유영역에서의 응집물질(Brownian 영역을 벗어나 침강하는 응집물질)는 비구형 입자들의 침강으로 간주되어진다. 최종 침강속도 차이로 이들 응집물들은 재차 충돌, 결합하여 보다 큰 응집 입자들을 형성하며, 이들 최종 응집입자들의 사영이 모의되어진다. 최대 Feret's 직경과 Minkowski's sausage logic 개념들을 이용하여 모의되어진 사영들의 둘레 길이에 대하여 쪽거리 차원들을 구하였다.