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Decolorization of Dyeing Wastewater with Use of Chitosan Materials

  • Xin, Chen;Sun, Hui-Li;Pan, Jia-Hui
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.221-226
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    • 2006
  • More attention has been paid to the research on decolorization of dyeing wastewater nowadays. In this study, an investigation into the decolorization of dyeing wastewater was conducted using a combination of coagulant, carboxymethyl chitosan (NOCC) and coagulant aid, polyscrylamide (PAM). The factors influencing the decolorization efficiency, such as pH value, coagulant and the dosages of coagulant, were discussed. The results showed that using PAM as coagulant aid could reach a high decolorization efficiency compared with using NOCC alone. The optimal conditions were pH 2.3, 480 mg/L for NOCC, and 4-8 mg/L for PAM. Under the optimum conditions, the rate of decolorization could achieve 99%, and the removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) could achieve 90%. In addition, the membrane processes with chitosan/rare-earth-metals could enhance the decolorization rate of Direct Black FF to 94.7%, and Indanthren Red F3B to 98.2%, respectively.

Taxonomy of Black Coral Family Myriopathidae (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from Korea

  • Moon, Hye-Won;Song, Jun-Im
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.251-263
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    • 2008
  • Eight species and four genera belonging to two families of antipatharians have been reported in Korea. In the present study, the major specimens were collected from the coastal areas of Jejudo Island from 2005 to 2006, and the other ones which have been deposited in the Natural History Museum and the Department of Life Science, Ewha Womans University during the period from 1965 to 2004 were reexamined. As a result of this work, four species, Myriopathes bifaria, M. stechowi, M. ulex and Plumapathes pennacea are new to Korean antipatharian fauna. In this study, total six species including previously recorded species of the family Myriopathidae were described. And the distribution range of Myriopathes lata was turned out to be expanded from southwestern sea to the eastern sea, up to Ulleungdo Is. of Korea. Especially, the sexuality and the gonadal stage of M. lata which are collected during their reproduction period were also determined by means of histological analysis.

Aesthetic Value of Korean National Parks' Landscape: Its Appreciation and Protection Strategies (국립공원 경관 가치의 증진방안)

  • Park, Kyeong
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.369-382
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    • 2003
  • Natural resources managers have considered the landscape without detailed consideration of aesthetic values of the landscape and geomorphological significance of unique landforms. Since EIA system was introduced in 1981, values associated with landscape protection have been neglected at best compared with those values traditionally attributed to environmental protection, including clean air, water quality and species protection. Black top highways are being built without consideration of harmful effects to the sea cliffs. Sea walls and tetrapod are being installed to protect the coastal towns and fish markets for tourist. However, beach itself are experiencing accelerated erosion due to the shortage of proper coastal engineering expertise. Hotels and condominiums are under construction on a massive scale around the national parks, which substitute the scenic ridges with concrete profiles. To protect the scenic beauty of national parks, their design and construction material should be more harmonious with the surroundings. Therefore, visual impact assessment should be applied both within the national park boundary and beyond to enhance the aesthetic values of national parks.

Pathogenicity of Iridovirus against Marine Fish and Its Detection in Culturing Seawater (Iridovirus의 해산 양식어류에 대한 병원성과 사육수에서의 검출)

  • Jeong, Joon-Bum;Jeong, Hyun-Do
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.20-25
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    • 2008
  • The susceptibility of five different marine fish to iridovirus IVS-1 infection was analyzed and found a higher the cumulative mortality in the order of rock bream (Oplegnathus fasciatus), red sea bream (Pagrus major), sea perch (Lateolabrax sp.), rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) and black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli). However, the concentrations of virus in the infected spleens of these species did not differ significantly. To determine the release of iridovirus from infected fish into culturing seawater, rock bream were challenged with iridovirus IVS-1 and the concentration of virus in the water was analyzed using PCR. Over the 10 days of the analysis, the linear relationship between the number of dead fish and viral DNA concentration found in culturing seawater should be considered direct evidence of horizontal iridovirus transmission.

First Record of Three Barracudina Fishes (Aulopiformes: Teleostei) in Korean Waters

  • Kim, Jin-Koo;Park, Jeong-Ho;Choi, Jung-Hwa;Choi, Kwang-Ho;Choi, Yeong-Min;Chang, Dae-Soo;Kim, Young-Seop
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2007
  • Three barracudina fishes (Paralepididae) were newly recorded from the southern sea of Korea. Lestidium prolixum is characterized by a single band of luminous ducts on the midventral line and absence of a papilla anterior to the eye. Lestrolepis intermedia and L. japonica are similar in having a black papilla immediately in front of the eye and two bands of luminous ducts on the midventral line. However, the dorsal fin of L. intermedia is located more posterior along the body than that of L. japonica, and L. intermedia have larger number of anal fin rays 42 (vs. 36-40) and vertebrae 95 (vs. 86-87) than L. japonica.

Provisional Classification of Temperate Sea Bass, the Genus Lateolabrax (Pisces : Moronidae) from Korea (한국산 농어속 어류의 분류학적 검토)

  • Kim, Chi-Hong;Jun, Je-Cheon
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.108-113
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    • 1997
  • Korean temperate sea bass was examined for the taxonomically review. Based on the color pattern on the body sides and some morphometric characters, it was classified as two species, Lateolabrax japonicus and Lateolabrax sp.. Lateolabrax japonicus was redescribed and Lateolabrax sp. was provisionally described. Lateolabrax sp. is similar to L. japonicus, but differs from it by having some black spots on the body sides, fewer number of gill rakers, larger eye, higher position of the pored lateral line scales, and wider secondary body depth.

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A New Record of Satyrichthys welchi (Peristediidae, Teleostei) from Pohang in the Southern East Sea of Korea (한국 동해 남부 포항 연안에서 황성대과 어류, Satyrichthys welchi의 첫 출현)

  • Sohn, Min-Soo;Kim, Jin-Koo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.782-786
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    • 2021
  • A single specimen (244.2 mm in standard length) of Satyrichthys welchi was collected from Pohang in the southern East Sea of Korea in March 2021. This species is characterized by the following morphological combination: 4 lip barbels, 3 chin barbels, antrose spines on upper lateral low of posterior bony plate and equal parietal bones. S. welchi was morphologically similar to its congeneric species, S. laticeps, but is clearly distinguished in presence of dusky black spots on dorsal fin (present in S. welchi vs. absent in S. laticeps). We propose a new Korean name "Gi-JeomByeol-Seong-Dae" for the species S. welchi.

Lithologic and Structural Controls and Geochemistry of Uranium Deposition in the Ogcheon Black-Slate Formation (옥천대(沃川帶) 우라늄광층(鑛層)의 구조규제(構造規制) 및 지구화학적(地球化學的) 특성연구(特性硏究))

  • Lee, Dai Sung;Yun, Suckew;Lee, Jong Hyeog;Kim, Jeong Taeg
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.19 no.spc
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 1986
  • Structural, radioactive, petrological, petrochemical, mineralogical and stable isotopic study as well as the review of previous studies of the uranium-bearing slates in the Ogcheon sequence were carried out to examine the lithological and structural controls, and geochemical environment in the uranium deposition in the sequence. And the study was extended to the coal-bearing formation (Jangseong Series-Permian) to compare the geochemical and sedimentologic aspects of uranium chemistry between Ogcheon and Hambaegsan areas. The results obtained are as follows: 1. The uranium mineralization occurs in the carbonaceous black slates of the middle to lower Guryongsan formation and its equivalents in the Ogcheon sequence. In general, two or three uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds are found with about 1 to 1.5km stratigraphic interval and they extend from Chungju to Jinsan for 90km in distance, with intermittent igneous intrusions and structural Jisturbances. Average thickness of the beds ranges from 20 to 1,500m. 2. These carbonaceous slate beds were folded by a strong $F_1$-fold and were refolded by subsequent $F_1$-fold, nearly co-axial with the $F_1$, resulting in a repeated occurrence of similar slate. The carbonaceous beds were swelled in hing zones and were shrinked or thined out in limb by the these foldings. Minor faulting and brecciation of the carbonaceous beds were followed causing metamorphism of these beds and secondary migration and alteration of uranium minerals and their close associations. 3. Uranium-rich zones with high radioactive anomalies are found in Chungju, Deogpyong-Yongyuri, MiwonBoun, Daejeon-Geumsan areas in the range of 500~3,700 cps (corresponds to 0.017~0.087%U). These zones continue along strike of the beds for several tens to a few hundred meters but also discontinue with swelling and pinches at places that should be analogously developed toward underground in their vertical extentions. The drilling surveyings in those area, more than 120 holes, indicate that the depth-frequency to uranium rich bed ranging 40~160 meter is greater. 4. The features that higher radioactive anomalies occur particularly from the carbonaceous beds among the argillaceous lithologic units, are well demonstrated on the cross sections of the lithology and radioactive values of the major uranium deposits in the Ogcheon zone. However, one anomalous radioactive zone is found in a l:ornfels bed in Samgoe, near Daejeon city. This is interpreted as a thermal metamorphic effect by which original uranium contents in the underlying black slate were migrated into the hornfels bed. 5. Principal minerals of the uranium-bearing black slates are quartz, sericite, biotite and chlorite, and as to chemical composition of the black slates, $Al_2O_3$ contents appear to be much lower than the average values by its clarke suggesting that the Changri basin has rather proximal to its source area. 6. The uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds contain minor amounts of phosphorite minerals, pyrite, pyrrhotite and other sulfides but not contain iron oxides. Vanadium. Molybdenum, Barium, Nickel, Zirconium, Lead, Cromium and fixed Carbon, and some other heavy metals appear to be positive by correlative with uranium in their concentrations, suggesting a possibility of their genetic relationships. The estimated pH and Eh of the slate suggests an euxenic marine to organic-rich saline water environment during uranium was deposited in the middle part of Ogcheon zone. 7. The Carboniferous shale of Jangseong Series(Sadong Series) of Permian in Hambaegsan area having low radioactivity and in fluvial to beach deposits is entirely different in geochemical property and depositional environment from the middle part of Ogcheon zone, so-called "Pibanryong-Type Ogcheon Zone". 8. Synthesizing various data obtained by several aspects of research on uranium mineralization in the studied sequence, it is concluded that the processes of uranium deposition were incorporated with rich organic precipitation by which soluble uranyl ions, $U{_2}^{+{+}}$ were organochemically complexed and carried down to the pre-Ogcheon sea bottoms formed in transitional environment, from Red Sea type basin to Black Sea type basin. Decomposition of the organic matter under reducing conditions to hydrogen sulfide, which reduced the $UO{_2}^{+2}$ ions to the insoluble uranium dioxide($UO_2$), on the other side the heavy metals are precipitated as sulfides. 9. The EPMA study on the identification of uraninite and others and the genetic interpretation of uranium bearing slates by isotopic values of this work are given separately by Yun, S. in 1984.

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Sampling Procedure of Black-tailed Gull (Larus crassirostris)'s eggs in National Environmental Specimen Bank for Monitoring Long-term Marine Environmental Pollution (해양 환경오염 모니터링을 위한 국가환경시료은행 괭이갈매기(Larus crassirostris) 알 시료 채취 절차)

  • Lee, Jangho;Lee, Jongchun;Lee, Sang Hee;Kim, Myungjin;Lee, Eugene;Han, Areum
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.745-751
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    • 2013
  • Environmental Specimen Banks (ESBs) have been established widely in the world since 1979 for monitoring long-term bio-accumulation of environmental pollutants. The ESBs perform the retrospective analysis of representative biological samples collected regularly and store them in cryogenic condition. In Korea, National Environmental Specimen Bank (NESB) was established in 2009. Since then, NESB had prepared the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the seven kinds of specimens (Red Pine (Pinus densiflora), Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), and etc.) for monitoring the effect of environmental pollution on the terrestrial ecosystem and river ecosystem. In 2012, NESB added Black-tailed Gull (Larus crassirostris)'s eggs to the list of the environmental specimen for monitoring marine environmental pollution. In this study, we sampled the eggs of the Black-tailed Gull on two islands (Baekryeongdo of the West Sea and Hongdo of the South Sea). Especially, we selected eggs which remained in the early stages of embryo development for certifying the consistent and stable monitoring for environmental pollutants in egg contents. However, it was not considered to classify an order of eggs per clutch in this study. It is known that the concentration variations of pollutants exist among eggs in one clutch. Therefore, it is needed to consider the positions of eggs in the laying sequences to meet the objective of bioaccumulation monitoring. We collected 30 eggs in each site but the amount may be insufficient to achieve storage target (over 2,000 g). Therefore, we need to consider an optimal sampling size.

The quality and sensory characteristics of tofu with various levels of black garlic extract (흑마늘 추출물 첨가 두부의 품질특성)

  • Sim, Hye-Jin;Hwang, Cho-Rong;Kang, Min-Jung;Kim, Gyeong-Min;Shin, Jung-Hye
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.688-693
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    • 2014
  • The quality and sensory characteristics of tofu were investigated with various levels of black garlic extract (BE) added to it in 0, 1, 3, 5 and 7%-weight soymilk, before it was coagulated with $MgCl_2$ (MC, BEM-A, BEM-B, BEM-C and BEM-D) and concentrated to $8^{\circ}Brix$ deep ground sea-like water (SC, BES-A, BES-B, BES-C and BES-D). The overall acceptability of the tofu samples was higher (SC > BES-A > BEM-A) than that of the other samples. The addition of BE was influenced by the color, flavor and taste of the tofu, and the more BE was added, the tougher the tofu became. The tofu yield with various amounts of black garlic extract did not significantly differ among the samples. The pH range was 5.61~6.15 and decreased as more BE was added, whereas the turbidity increased. Also, the L value of the tofu decreased as more BE was added. The a value showed a tendency opposite that of the L value. The b value did not significantly differ among the samples. The texture profile analysis of the tofus showed that the hardness, chewiness, and gumminess significantly increased as more BE was added. In conclusion, it was found that the addition of 1% BE will improve the quality and sensory characteristics of tofu.