• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.56-67
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• 1995

This study was carried out to observe how composting reaction proceed in the optimum composting condition and to understand the characteristics of final compost, when swine feces was amended with different bulking material. Sawdust, rice straw, and rice hull were selected as bulking materials and each of these was mixed with swine feces to obtain the optimum range of moisture contents and C:N ratio. To grasp the influence of newspaper on cornposting reaction when it flew into the composting site intentionally or accidentally, another composting reaction using newspaper as a bulking material was studied. In this experiment, raw material mixes containing the same amount of organic materials were put into 4 composting reactors and composted in the same environmental condition for 3 weeks from Aug. 1, 1994 to Aug. 22, 1994. The followings are the main results of this study. 1. The maximum temperatures reached at during cornposting reaction were 53.8$\circ$C, 51.9$\circ$C, 52.7$\circ$C, and 52.1$\circ$C in the reactor using sawdust, rice straw, rice hull, and newspaper as a bulking material respectively: Thermophilic temperatures were maintained for 72, 108, 108, and 111 hours in each reactor. Mean temperatures of reactors using sawdust, rice straw, rice hull, or newspaper as a bulking materials were 39.7$\circ$C, 39.5$\circ$C, 41.3$\circ$C, and 40.3$\circ$C, but no significant difference between these mean temperatures was observed(p>0.05). Each composter showed significant difference from room temperature(p<0.01), and the mean difference between them was 9.4$\circ$C. 2. Ash contents of each reactor increased rapidly in order of rice straw, rice hull, newspaper, and sawdust according to the pattern of second order function. This rate of increase seemed to result from structural characteristics of a bulking material. The absolute values of second order coefficient of these regression functions were 0.0199, 0.0159, 0.0157, and 0.0144 in each reactor using rice straw, rice hull, newspaper, or sawdust as a bulking material. 3. C:N ratio decreased as the reaction proceeded. Degree of decrease was in order of rice straw, rice hull, newspaper, and sawdust. This sequence was consistent with the increase rate of ash content. The ratios of initial C:N ratio to final C:N ratio were 0.45, 0.53, 0.64, and 0.75 in each reactor using rice straw, rice hull, newspaper, and sawdust as a bulking material respectively. From this ratios, it was possible to infer that all the composting reactions were completed. 4. Fertilizer content containing in the final compost was 1.61~2.20% of N, and 0.35~0.54% of P in dry weight base. According to the classification standard for compost constituent by Higgins, all composts had the intermediate grade of N, but below the low grade of P excepting the newspaper amended compost(fall into the range of the low grade). 5. Heavy metal contents contained in the composts were analyzed. In case of Cd, the range of 0.58~1.11 $\mu$g/g was observed, and in case of Pb, the range of 24.76~39.53 $\mu$g/g was observed(in wet weight base). These values are below the permissible heavy metal level for compost of foreign countries.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.35-43
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• 1997

A study on the effect of the biodegradability of the composting bulking agent in the swine manurecomposting was carried out in a batch system. The purpose of this study is to prove the effect of the biodegradability of the composting-bulking agent on the efficiency of the composting. In this study, it is the lignins: Klason-Lignin in the volatile solid that the index of the biodegradability of the composting-material mixes which are pig manure-rice straw pig manure-sawdusts pig manuremixture of rice and ricestraw (2:1) pig manure-mixture of rice and sawdust (1:1). It was carried out in the same condition (moisture contents, air supply rate, C/N ratio, initial input weight, porosity-structure) except the biodegradability of the raw material mixes. One of the results from this study is that the biodegradability of the bulking agent in the sense of the VS lignin content is not an insignificant factor in composting reaction. The less contents of the lignin in VS, the more efficiencies of the cornposting reaction in use of these parameters for the degree of the reaction: temperature, the trends of the ash contents, the change pattern of the C/N ratio. Under some assumptions, it is able to induce rough model on the relation of the VS lignin contents with the efficiency of the degradability. In this model, the biodegradability of the bulking agent is not an insignificant factor however, it is flexible within some degrees of range.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.510-518
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• 2005

In this study, we investigated whether PLGA microspheres in combination with hyaluronic acid (HA) gel have appropriate properties as a bulking agent for urologic injection therapies and whether the implantation of PLGA microspheres and HA gel induces angiogenesis in the newly formed tissues. In order to investigate whether this bulking agent is injectable, this material was injected through 24-gauge needles into the subcutaneous dorsum of the mouse. The bulking agent was easily injected without needle obstruction. Histological analyses of the hybrid tissues at 2 weeks showed that host cells at the surrounding tissues migrated into the spaces between the implanted PLGA microspheres and formed tissue-like structures. An inflammatory response to the implants was mild at 2 weeks and diminished at 8 weeks. Importantly, extensive ingrowth of blood vessels was observed in the hybrid tissues formed by the injection of PLGA microspheres and HA, whereas blood vessels rarely formed in the hybrid tissues formed by the injection of PLGA microspheres only. The implant volume was conserved for almost the entire implantation period. Histological analyses of the distant organs of the bulking agent-implanted animals, such as the lungs, liver, heart, brain, kidney, and spleen, showed no evidence of the injected microsphere migration. These results show that PLGA microspheres in combination with HA possess the appropriate characteristics for a bulking agent for urologic injection therapies and induce extensive blood vessel formation in the hybrid tissues.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 1994

우리나라에서 발생되는 음식쓰레기는 퇴비화 처리시 높은 수분함량과 낮은 C/N비를 적정 수준으로 조절하기 위해 bulking agent를 첨가함이 필수적이며 그의 정확한 첨가량을 계산하는 것은 퇴비화에 소요되는 비용을 결정하는데 중요한 요소로 적용하게 된다(Hay et al., 1998). 그러나 bulking agent의 첨가량을 계산하기 위한 기준지표 중의 하나인 C/N비의 경우 혼합되는 bulking agent의 분해정도가 고려되지 않은 총 탄소와 질소의 비에 기준하여 적정 첨가비율이 정해지고 있기 때문에 실제 요구되는 탄소와 질소의 양을 초과 또는 미달하는 경우가 발생될 수 있으며, 이는 곧 bulking agent의 과다첨가 또는 반응속도 저하로 인한 처리비용의 상승과 직결될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 음식쓰레기의 퇴비화를 위한 bulking agent의 정확한 첨가량을 정량적으로 제시하기 위하여 bulking agent의 첨가로 인한 반응향상 여부와 그 원인을 분석하여 이를 바탕으로 적정 첨가량 결정법을 제안하였다. 그 결과 실질적으로 분해가능한 탄소원을 포함하고 있는 쌀밥의 첨가는 C/N비가 낮은 음식쓰레기의 퇴비화반응을 향상시킬 수 있으나, 분해가 쉽지 않은 톱밥을 bulking agent로 첨가할 경우는 음식쓰레기의 탄소원을 제공함으로써 반응을 향상시킨다기 보다는 음식쓰레기의 통기성을 개선하여 줌으로써 활발한 퇴비화 반응을 유도한다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서, bulking agent는 그 첨가량을 많이 할수록 퇴비화반응에 유리하며, 일반적인 적정 C/N비값 이상의 첨가율에서도 반응 향상이 가능한 것으로 예상된다. 또한 bulking agent 첨가량의 증가로 인한 통기성의 향상효과는 해당 조건하에서의 적정 수분함량값 증가요소로 작용하는 것으로 나타나 이를 종합적으로 고려한 bulking agent첨가량 결정이 필요함을 알 수 있었다. 이상과 같은 실험적 분석의 결과를 종합할 때, 음식쓰레기 100g당 78g의 톱밥을 첨가하여 C/N비를 25 수분함량을 56%로 각각 조절하는 것이 본 연구에서 다루어진 음식쓰레기의 활발한 퇴비화를 위해서는 적절하며, 이러한 첨가량의 계산법은 실제 퇴비화시설의 적정 운전을 위해서 적용함이 바람직한 것으로 판단되었다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.644-647
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• 2003

Materials currently used as an injectable bulking agent in the dermatologic and urologic fields revealed several drawbacks such as particles migration, inflammatory reaction, allergic reaction, rapid volume shrinkage, and necessity of a donor site. In this study, we have developed injectable biomaterial comprising poly (DL- lactide-co-glycolide)(PLGA) and hyaluronic acid gel to overcome these problems. PLGA is a biocompatible synthetic material and hyaluronic acid is a common substance found in living organisms. We examined the feasibility of injection through needle and tested biocompatibility in animal model. After transplantation, injected sites and distant organs were examined histologically to verify a new tissue formation, inflammation, and particles migrations. Injected volume was maintained approximately 80 percent for 2 months. Results demonstrated that the developed material was injectable through various gauges of needles and induced a new bulking tissue formation without serious inflammatory reaction.

• 한국환경보건학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경보건학회 2003년도 Challenges and Achievements in Environmental Health
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• pp.208-212
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• 2003

This study was performed to examine the effects of chaff as bulking materials on temperature, pH, weight and volume reduction and salinity in aerobic composting of food wastes. Volume ratios of food wastes to chaff in reactor Control, Ch-1, Ch-2, Ch-3 and Ch-4 were 4:0, 4:1, 4:2, 4:3 and 4:4, respectively. Reactors were operated for 24 days with 1 hour stirring by 1 rpm and 2 hours aeration per day. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wastes to chaff resulted in the ascending of the highest reaction temperature and the elongation of the high temperature reaction period. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wastes to chaff resulted in the more fast time of pH ascending. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wastes to chaff resulted in the more fast consistency in the weight and volume reduction rates. Salinities were condensed by reaction days. The final salinity of Control was 2.79%, and the final range of salinities of chaff mixtures was 2.18 - 2.37%.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2001

음식물쓰레기를 원료로 제조한 퇴비(이하 음식물쓰레기퇴비라 한다)의 경우 염분함량이 높고 이물질이 섞여 있어 생산된 퇴비가 원활히 사용되지 못하고 적체되는 문제점이 발생하고 있어, 수요의 확대가 필요한 실정이다. 축분을 원료로 퇴비를 제조하는 경우 수분조절제로 쓰이는 톱밥의 가격이 높아 톱밥의 대체재로 개발이 요구되는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 음식물쓰레기와 톱밥(수분조절제)을 원료로 제조한 퇴비를 축분의 수분조절제로 사용하기 위한 가능성을 파악하기 위하여 수행하였다. 실험방법은 호기성으로 유지되도록 공기가 공급되는 4개의 퇴비화 장치에 음식물+톱밥, 축분+톱밥, 음식물+부숙퇴비, 축분+부숙퇴비의 시료를 투입하여 퇴비화 진행상태와 온도, pH, 함수율, 중금속 항목 등을 조사하였다. 실험결과 음식물쓰레기를 자원화 후 발생되는 부숙퇴비를(음식물과 톱밥이 퇴비화된 물질을 의미함) 음식물과 가축분에 수분조절제로 투입하여 혼합한 함수율은 음식물이 72~77%, 축분은 64~65%로 나타나 적정 퇴비화 진행을 촉진하기 위해서는 건조하여 사용하는 것이 필요하다고 판단되었으며 부숙퇴비를 음식물쓰레기의 수분조절제로 사용하는 경우 부산물퇴비 기준인 염분1%를 맞추기가 어려웠으나 가축분의 희석효과로 인하여 부숙된 퇴비의 염분농도가 낮아져 기준이하로 유지가 가능한 것으로 나타나 부숙퇴비를 이용하여 염분문제를 해결할 수 있는 가능성을 발견하였다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2003

This study was performed to examine the effects of chaff as a bulking material on temperature, pH, weight and volume reduction and salinity in aerobic composting of food wastes. Volume ratios of food wastes to chaff in reactor of Control, Ch-1. Ch-2, Ch-3 and Ch-4 were 4:0, 4:1, 4:2, 4:3 and 4:4. respectively. Reactors were operated for 24 days with 1 hour stirring by 1 rpm and 2 hours aeration per day. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wasted to chaff resulted in the reaction at higher reaction temperature and the elongation of the high temperature reaction period. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wastes to chaff resulted in the more faster pH increase. The lowering of the volume ratio of food wastes to chaff resulted in the more faster reduction in the weight and the volume of wastes. Salinities were condensed by reaction days. The final salinity of Control and the final range of salinities of chaff mixtures were 2.79%, and 2.18~2.37%. respectively.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2017

At present, in India, handling of solid waste has become a major challenge for the municipal authorities. Composting of solid waste, especially organic waste, can be one of the solutions to tackle the issue of handling solid waste. The present study is focused on agitated piles composting of flower waste (FW). Five combinations of FW with dry leaves (DL) and cow dung (CD) were prepared to conduct the study. Significant changes were observed due to the addition of bulking agent. The bulking material helps to reduce the production of leachate and also to maintain the aerobic condition within the piles. The reduction of total organic carbon was 21% in FW composting which increased by 36.48% during the composting of FW on addition of DL and CD. On the 120th day of composting, the pH of pile five (70 kg FW + 20 kg CD + 15 kg DL) was 7.33, electrical conductivity 2.77 mS/cm, total organic carbon 26.9%, total nitrogen 2.2%, and C:N ratio was 12. Appropriate proportion of waste mixture played an important role in providing favorable conditions for the microbial transformation of flower waste to stabilized compost. Finally, FW with the combination of CD and DL was found to be successful during pile composting.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.353-358
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• 2006

This study was performed to evaluate the effects of input ratios of bulking material in aerobic composting of food wastes on variation of colony forming units of heterotrophic bacteria. Wood chips were used as a bulking material. Volume ratios of food wastes to wood chips in reactor of Control, WC-1 and WC-2 were 10/0, 10/5 and 10/10, respectively. Reactors were operated for 24 days with 1hour stirring by 1rpm and 2 hours of the forced aeration per day. WC-2 reached high temperature range faster than WC-1, and the maximum temperature of WC-2 was higher than that of WC-1. This means that the reaction velocity of composting of WC-2 was faster than that of WC-1. Judging from the profile of pH changes, composting of WC-1 proceeded slowly and continuously. Composting of WC-2 proceeded rapidly in the former half reaction period, and kept steady state of high pH in the latter half reaction period. Namely, composting of WC-2 was nearly completed in the former half reaction period. In the case of WC-1 and WC-2. the maximum temperature was followed by the rapid pH increase in 2-3 days, and this was followed by the maximum Colony Forming Units(CFU) in 3 days. But, these three items of WC-2 always appeared faster and higher than those of WC-1.