• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.236-246
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• 2014

해양심층수는 저온성, 미네랄성, 청정성 등의 고유의 특성이 산업활용의 포인트가 되고 있다. 우리나라의 경우, 2008년을 기점으로 해양심층수 산업이 형성되어 현재에 이르고 있으나, 산업의 성장기 정착과 성숙기 진입 단계에는 아직 이르지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 해양심층수 산업 정체의 요인으로는 먹는물 위주로 편중된 산업구조와 함께, 동일한 산업군과의 경쟁력이 미흡하여 산업계의 매출이 부진한데서 기인하는 것으로 분석되고 있다. 우리나라보다 먼저 해양심층수 자원개발과 산업을 안착시킨 일본 등의 국가는 공통적으로 해양심층수 자원의 고부가가치화 및 신산업 지원을 위한 방안으로 새로운 기술을 개발하고 해양심층수 자원의 응용범위를 확대하고 있다. 본 고는 해양심층수 주요개발 국가의 특허를 정량적으로 분석하여 이들 국가의 해양심층수 신기술 개발 경향을 분석하여 향후 우리나라 해양심층수 자원의 고부가가치 기술개발 방향과 전략에 대한 시사점과 비전을 제시하였다.

• 한국재난관리표준학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2010

재난 재해 발생시 즉각적인 식수 공급이 어려운 점과 재난을 대비한 생수비축의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 현장에서 비상시 식수생산이 가능한 휴대용 정수시스템을 개발하였다. 정수시스템은 필터, 펌프, 태양전지, 충전 컨트롤러, 케이스 등으로 구성되었으며, 휴대성과 무전원 상태에서도 작동이 가능하도록 비상용 배터리와 태양전지를 갖추어 시간과 장소에 제한없이 현장에서 식수공급이 이루어지도록 하였다. 개발된 휴대용 정수시스템은 현장 성능측정 실험을 수행하였으며 실험결과 정수된 물은 먹는 물 기준을 충족하였다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.56-68
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• 2013

Community drinking water (CDW), mostly naturally flowing groundwater, plays important roles in supplying drinking water for urban and rural residents in Korea. Over 1,600 CDW facilities are distributed throughout the country, many of them situated in the outskirts of metropolitan cities. A large proportion of Korean people have become dependent on CDW for drinking due to a distrust of piped water's quality and a strong belief in the special medicinal effects of some CDWs. However, administrative and official management and the control of CDW facilities have been inadequate when compared with the strict examination and control of commercial bottled water, which is physically treated groundwater from deep bedrock aquifers. In this study, even though signs of anthropogenic contamination were not generally found, the tested chemical compositions of selected CDWs featured high enrichment of some constituents including Ca, Mg, Na, and HCO3 with natural origins such as water-rock interactions. Careless consumption of particular CDWs, which has no scientific basis, will not guarantee health improvement. Consequently, more intensive management of CDW facilities and a long-term interdisciplinary examination of the health effects of CDWs are needed to effectively protect people's health.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 PET preform, 성형된 PET병, 그리고 PET병 생수에서 HS-SPME GC/MS를 통해 휘발성 물질을 동정하고 HDPE cap으로부터 생수에 이행된 2,4-DTBP의 이행량을 분석하였다. PET preform과 완성된 PET에서 nonanal과 decanal이 확인되었다. 이 물질들은 이취의 원인 물질로서 preform보다 PET병에서 농도가 더 높게 나타났으며, PET병에 대해 온도 증가에 따른 휘발성 물질을 분석한 결과 온도가 증가할수록 물질의 농도가 증가하였다. 특히 nonanal, vinyl benzoate, 그리고 decanal과 같이 온도에 민감한 휘발성 물질이 크게 증가하였다. 그리고 생수병의 HDPE cap에서 항산화제인 Irgafos 168을 정량한 결과 $206{\pm}20.1{\mu}g/g$의 농도를 나타내었다. 2,4-DTBP는 항산화제인 Irgafos 168의 분해 물질이므로 생수에서 검출된 2,4-DTBP는 cap에서 생수로 이행된 휘발성 물질로 확인되었으며 이행량은 $4.8{\pm}0.2{\mu}g/L$로 확인되었다. 따라서 PET병 생수의 관능학적 품질을 높이고 소비자의 안전을 위하여 PET 및 HDPE 제조 공정에서 가능한 온도를 낮게 제어하는 기술이 요구되며, 생수 제품의 유통 및 소비자 취급 시 적절한 온도 유지와 올바른 제품 보관을 통하여 저분자의 이취 원인 물질들을 줄이는 것이 중요할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2007

A new procedure for the concentration of nonoviruses from water samples has been developed. This procedure (calcium flocculation-citrate dissolution method) uses the following steps: virus flocculation formed by treatment with 1 M $CaCl_2$ and 1 M $Na_2HPO_4$, virus release by sodium citrate dissolution (0.3 M Na citrate, pH 3.5), and virus re-concentration by ultrafiltration. When reverse transcription (RT)-PCR was performed after the procedure, the overall detection sensitivity for seeded noroviruses in a one liter drinking water sample was as low as 1 RT-PCR unit, which is equal to a $10^{-6}$ dilution of the virus sample. This approach showed at least a 5-fold-higher sensitivity than the current method with its three steps of adsorption-elution-concentration. The newly developed procedure was used to test different brands of bottled drinking water from China for putative contamination with noroviruses. A total of 144 samples were analyzed; all of the samples were negative for norovirus specific nucleic acids.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.335-344
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• 2020

Due to global climate change, mega-droughts have occurred frequently. Since long-term droughts make it difficult to secure the water resources, water supply needs to be restricted in a reasonable manner. In the event of limited water supply, the waterworks need to develop a restricted water supply strategy. This study showed that analyzing daily water supply could be used to respond to the first stage of a drought. According to an analysis of Korea's major water authorities, there was about 7~21% of room for daily minimum water supply in case of a drought. Restricting the water supply by lowering pressure is a good strategy for local water authorities with high water leakage rate since leakage is inversely dependent with pressure. For this method, it is necessary to quantify water deficiency and pressure at each node using a simulation. Since DDA-based software is not possible to predict changes in demand at nodes with pressure reduction, WaterGEMS, a PDA software, was used to quantitatively predict water shortages and pressures at each node. Locations where water is deficient need to install booster pumps or to be dispatched with water tank truck and bottled water. Without these support, lowering pressure could not be an option for water works. This paper suggests a method for waterworks to plan a drought by lowering pressure to restrict water supply using daily water supply analysis and PDA based simulation.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.1107-1108
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• 2006

As expanding municipal and industrial areas since started the economic development plan in earnest in 1970's, the water resource, mainly river surface water has been seriously polluted. Nevertheless, being upgraded in their treatment technologies for the drinking water, the safety has been issued one of crucially social problem in Korea. The water authorities has tried to improve the quality such as amending the drinking water quality standard to be monitored; hazardous chemicals and microorganis have been added and now 55 items, before 47 items, since in 2002. The Water Authorities of Seoul, the capital city of Korea, planned to assess the safty of drinking water quality after amended the standard. This study was conducted to assess the risk due to polluted chemicals including 21 heavy metals, VOCs, pesticides, PAHs, DBPs and organic chemicals among the regulated items. The risk assessment were undertaken hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response assessment and risk characterization. For the exposoure assessment, tap water, bottled water and purified water were sampled and analyzed in February, 2004. Risk characterization of detected chemicals was categorized into carcinogenecity and noncarcinogenecity, and estimated the excess of carcinogens and compapared with the reference dose (RfD) of noncarcinogenns. The excess risk of carcinogens from samples were considered comparatively in the acceptable levels; $10^{-6}$ for cancer risk and hazard quotient (HQ) 1.0 for noncancer risk. The deteced levels were estimated in $10^{-5}{\sim}10^{-6}$ of cancer risk and below 1.0 of HQ of noncancer risk. While three kinds of water were determined within the acceptal levels, DBPs were detected in tap water and purified were and some undesireable chemicals such as more fluoride detected rather than the quality stanadard. For the drinking water safety, it shoud be continuously monitored, assessed and managed as well risk communiction between the authoritis and public.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.3437-3442
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• 2011

An on-line flow injection analysis with dual pre-concentration method was developed to determine the ultra trace tri and hexavalent chromium in water. In this system, the cation and anion pre-concentration columns were combined with a 10-port injection valve and then used to separate and concentrate Cr (III) and Cr (VI) selectively. The two species of concentrated chromium were sequentially eluted and determined by using HCl-KCl buffer of pH 1.8 as an eluent. Cr (III) was oxidized by hydrogen peroxide to Cr (VI). It was detected spectrophotometrically at 548 nm by complexation with DPC (diphenylcarbazide). Several factors such as concentration of $H_2O_2$, DPC and coil length in reaction condition were optimized. The linear range for Cr (III) and Cr (VI) was 0.1-50 ${\mu}g$/L. The limit of detections ($3{\sigma}$) of Cr (III) and Cr (VI) were 52 ng/L and 44 ng/L under the optimized FIA system, and their recoveries 98% and 103%, respectively. This method was applied to analyze contamination level of chromium species in tap water, groundwater and bottled water.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.513-524
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• 2020

Objective: The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the environmental and biological exposure of local residents who consumed arsenic-contaminated drinking water for less than one year. Methods: As a part of water quality inspections for small-scale water supply facilities, surveys were conducted of residents of two villages that exceeded the arsenic threshold for drinking water. The environmental impact survey consisted of surveys on water quality, soil, and crops in the surveyed area. Biological monitoring was performed by measuring the separation of arsenic species in urine and total arsenic in hair. Results: In the results of biological monitoring, the concentrations of AsIII and AsV were 0.08 and 0.16 ㎍/L, respectively. MMA and DMA were 0.87 and 36.19 ㎍/L. There was no statistically significant difference between the group who drank arsenic-removed groundwater or water from the small-scale supply facility and the group who drank tap water, purified water, or commercial bottled water. Some of the water samples exceeded the arsenic threshold for drinking water. There were no samples in the soil or rice that exceeded the acceptable threshold. Conclusion: In the case of short-term exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water for less than one year, there were no significant problems of concern from the evaluation of biological monitoring after arsenic was removed.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2013

Vietnam is a developing country with the rate around 5%-6% per year, especially in urban areas. Rapidly developed urban areas lead to stress for infrastructure and the water supply is also stressed. In Hanoi city, total water capacity from the manufactories is around one million cubic meters per day and almost the entire main water source is groundwater but it is not enough to supply all of Hanoi's people, especially in the summer. A demo project is implemented in Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE) to produce drinking water by using the rainwater and membrane system and supply for people. In this project, rainwater is collected on the rooftop of the lecture building with an area of around $500m^2$ and $100m^3$ volumetric rainwater tanks. Afterwards, the rainwater is treated by the micro-membrane system and supplied to the tap water. Total cost for construction, technology and operation in the first year is around USD 48,558. In the long-term (15 yr) if HUCE invests in the same system, with $20m^3$ volumetric storage tank, it can provide drinking water for 500 staffs in every year. The cost of investment and operation for this system is lower than 30% compared to buying bottled water with the price USD 1.8/bottle. The drinking water parameters after treatment are pH, 7.3-7.75; turbidity, 0.6-0.8 NUT; total dissolved solids, 60-89 mg/L; coliform, 0; heavy metal similar with water quality in the bottle water in Vietnam.