• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.139-147
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• 2004

We have isolated two bacterial strains, FM-02 and AL-02, which produced EPS from forest soil for the restoration of forest fire by promoting soil aggregation. FM-02 was found to be Gram negative rod and belong to Beta Proteobacterium sp. through 16s-rDNA sequence analysis, and AL-02 was Gram positive rod and showed 81% of similarity to Zoogloea sp. through the analysis of 16s-rDNA sequence. FM-02 and AL-02 produced about 1.8g and 8.3g of EPS, respectively, per 1L of culture as dry weight. Flocculation activity (FA) was also measured in two strains. FM-02 showed 2.31 FA against active carbon, and AL-02 showed 6.21 FA against kaolin clay. From these results, we expect that AL-02 strain will be applied as a good biological material for the reduction of forest soil erosion by wild and rain after fire through promoting coagulation of soil particles.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.603-607
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• 2006

최근 산불발생이 증가하고, 그에 따른 피해가 증가하고 있다. 또한 산불 발생지역의 토양침식으로 인한 2차적인 재해위험이 예상됨에 따라 산불 지역의 토양침식과 영향인자들에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 낙산사 산불지역의 산지사면에 10개의 소규모 조사구를 설치하고 강우에 따른 토사유출량을 조사하였다. 토양침식 매개변수를 강우인자(강우량, 강우강도, 강우에너지), 지형인자(면적, 사면경사, 사면길이, 길이경사인자), 식생인자(전체피복도, 식생지수), 토양인자(투수계수, 유효입경, 유기물함량, 토심)로 구분하여 각각의 토양침식에 대한 관계를 분석하고, 시간경과에 따른 토양침식의 관계도 분석하였다. 강우강도와 강우량이 커짐에 따라 토양침식민감도에 대한 식생피복도의 영향이 더욱 가중되며, 식생 회복이 빠른 지역과 그렇지 않은 지역에서의 시간경과에 따른 누적 토양침식량의 변화는 크게 차이를 보였다. 낙산사 산불지역에서의 강우에 따른 토양침식은 강우에너지와 식생피복도의 관계가 가장 높았다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.541-545
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• 2010

식생이 소실된 산불 피해 지역에서 유실되는 토양의 식생회복에 따른 정량적인 변화를 파악하고, 사면토양과 유실토양의 성분분석을 수행하여 이화학적 특성을 파악하고자 한다. 산불 이후 10개의 조사구에서 강우에 의해 유실토양의 양을 측정한 후 토양을 건조시켜 보관하였다. 토양의 입도분석, 유기물함량, 건조밀도 등을 조사하였다. 그리고 전처리한 토양수는 ICP를 이용하여 Fe, Mn, P, Al, Zn, Na, Mg, K, Ca의 성분분석을 수행하였다. 산불 이후 시간경과에 따른 조사구별 식생 회복은 빠른 지역과 느린 지역으로 크게 구분한다. 재생이 불량한 지역은 재생이 왕성한 지역에 비해 상대적으로 많은 양의 토양이 유실되었다. 사면토양의 성분분석 결과 재생불량 지역의 성분함량이 가장 작았으며, 재생왕성 지역은 비피해지에 비해 성분함량이 대체로 높았다. 유실토양의 성분분석 결과 식생회복이 느린 조사구에서 영양염류 함량이 대체로 낮았다. 그러나 식생회복이 느린 조사구에서 많은 양의 토양이 유실되기 때문에 정량적인 영양염류의 소실량은 가장 많았다. 따라서 지표식생이 없는 지역은 다량의 토양유실로 인해 다량의 영양염류가 소실되어 식생 재생을 더디게 만드는 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.51-60
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• 2017

Bottom ash(BA) from coal-fired power plants is burnt and remaining ash at high temperature. Since the BA is baked at high temperature, it is considered to be the same function as the elvan. Nowadays, the demand for mortar with far infrared rays, antibacteria, antifungus, deodorization, aridity and humidity function is increasing as the materials such as Hwangtoh(yellow soil) and elvan rather than general mortar. As a result of comparing the functionality of eco-friendly bio BA mortar with that of general mortar, the far infrared ray emissivity is about $0.02{\times}10^2W/m^2$ more and the deodorization function is about 26% or more. Even in the case of humidity control, BA motors showed about 1.8 times higher than general mortar, and more than 10% higher than the "good" standards of moisture absorption and damp proofing construction materials established by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 1990

A survey of Popju Temple district. was conducted using 70 sample plots of 500$m^2$ size. The classification by TWINSPAN and DCA ordination were applied to the study area in order to classify them into several groups based on woody plants and environmental variables. By both techniques. the plant com-munity were divided into six groups by the altitude and soil moisture. The successional trends of tree species seem to be from Pinus densiflora, Sorbus alnifolia through Quercus serrata to Carpinus laxiflora and from P. densiflora, Fraxinus sieboldiana through Q. mongolica in the canopy layer, and from Lespedeza cyrtobotrya, Rhus trichocarpa, Zanthoxylum schnifolium through Rhododendron mucronulatum, Corylus sieboldiana, Lindera obtusiloba, Magnclia sieboldii to Euonymus sieboldianus in the understory and shrub layer. The species diversity of the plant community in the burnt plot was decreased by the forest fire but the importance values of Quercus species were increased in above plot.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.485-495
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the functionality and lightfastness of the natural pigments according to the type of Seokganju used as Dancheong. The commercially available red iron-oxide-based natural pigments that are called Seokganju and Daija manufactured by traditional methods in Korea and Japan were selected. The analysis of the constituent minerals and constituents of 8 kinds of collected Seokganju showed that most of them contained hematite. There are two types of Seokganju according to the $Fe_2O_3$ contents. The type of Seokganju can be characterized not only using the main component but also from the burn-out processing. The chromaticity results for Seokganju with a high $Fe_2O_3$ concentration indicate dark red or grayish brown, while those for Seokganju with a low $Fe_2O_3$ concentration indicate yellowish red or yellowish brown. Samples were prepared by mixing with a glue solution and functional properties were evaluated based on the opacity and spreadability. Coated samples were used in the lightfastness test. The spreadability and opacity of the pigments were measured differently depending on the main component. Most Seokganju samples a showed slight color change until $9,000kJ/m^2$ but rapid color changes were detected after $18,000kJ/m^2$. In particular, burnt Seokganju showed superior lightfastness.

• Journal of Appropriate Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2020

Medical waste is any kind of waste that contains infectious material and recommended not to be transferred for infection control. As a means of disposal, incineration has better points than dumping or landfill in the quantity reduction, odorless and nonhazardous. However, open burning and incineration of health care wastes under bad circumstances, can result in the emission of environmental pollutants to air. A burial of biological waste brings pollution of soil and water. Most of sub divisional hospitals in Fiji transfer their medical wastes to divisional hospitals for incineration. In 2011, 62,518 kg of medical waste was incinerated in the three divisional hospitals. However, some medical wastes are considered as general waste and burnt or sent to landfill site, some are buried on site in some sub-divisional hospitals. In this regards, urgent education is necessary for awareness promotion to relevant personnel in medical waste treatment. On site incineration using small scale incinerator is more recommended than transportation of medical wastes treatment in Fiji. Moreover, remotely controllable and fixable small scale of incinerator is more desirable in sub-divisional hospitals. It is recommended that Fiji government to set up a legal framework for medical waste management (MWM), to develop specific guidelines for MWM, to set up a training system for MWM to ensure that all relevant personnel are trained, to develop a monitoring and supervision system for MWM, to clarify the future financing of MWM activities, and to improve the MWM infrastructure.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.149-156
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• 2005

This study was conducted to elucidate the relationship between the aboveground vegetation structure and fine roots of the topsoil (<15m), and thereafter to obtain the regression models for the estimation of the fine roots of the topsoil using the aboveground vegetation values in the burned forest areas, Korea. The FRT (fine roots of the top soil) as well as the aboveground vegetation structure showed spatial variation in the earlier successional stages after forest fire. The fine roots (<2 mm) of the topsoil in the earlier successional stages than the first 3 year after forest fire showed the range from 3 to 166 g $DM/m^2$. The FRT in the naturally regenerated sites and planted sites after forest fire was closely correlated with the vegetation indices, especially lvc, representing the development status of the aboveground vegetation. The FRT in the terrace seeding work sites after forest fire was closely correlated with year elapsed after terrace seeding work. The FRT in the terrace seeding work sites showed the much higher values because of the vigorous growth of grass species than the other sites. In the naturally regenerated sites, the FRT showed the parabola form according to the increment of aboveground vegetation value (Ivc). Although the aboveground vegetation value (Ivc) showed a tendency to increase logarithmically during the secondary succession after forest fire, the estimated fine roots of the topsoil was depicted the parabola form showing the gradual increment until the first 15 years and slight decrease thereafter. Decrease of FRT in the later successional stage showing the high vegetation value may be caused by increment of the woody species contribution to the vegetation value (Ivc). Our results represented that the aboveground vegetation value (Ivc) can be used to the estimation of the fine roots of the topsoil in burned forest areas.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 1970

Forest fires often destory forests that have taken years to grow in a few minutes. Forest fire therefore, is an important problem in forest management and have caused heavy losses to the nations economy. In order to resolve this problem many investigations have been made in many countries. However, ecological studies on the forest after accidental fire have not yet been made in Korea. In order to conduct such a study, a burned area on Mt. Samak which is located at Dukduwon-ri, Seo-myon, Chunsung-gun, Kangwon-do, was chosen as experimental plot in 1967. The remaining seeds were collected from the burned area, and investigations on their germination rate and their productivity were made comparing to those of the seeds of undemaged area, and following results were obtained. 1. The number of seed collected from the control plots were 740 while it was 537 from the test plots (Table 3, 4). It was considered that this difference between burned and unburned area was mainly due to the fact that some of the seeds had been burnt by the fire, and the unfavorable environmental conditions in the burned area was also considered to be a reason. In the germination rate in the control plots showed 28.1% while it was 3.2% in the test plots. This difference was considered to be due to complete loss of viability of the seed by burning and high heat. 2. In the test plots, sixteen seeds of the Alnus japonica were collected and six of these seeds germinated (index number 100) which was the highest germination rate among the species of collected seeds. From these results, it was considered that a high temperature (above $150^{\circ}C$) caused reduction of the germination rate (Quadrat. 1.2). Seeds of Carex lanceolata var. Nana, were appeared much more in the higher plots than in the lower plots and it seemed to be due to the fact that the forest floor plants were much more abundant in the lower plots than in the higher plots which is covered with shrubbery. And some small seeds midght be able to avoid the effect of fire being burried in the soil or under the gravel. 3. With Pinus densiflora, 43 seeds were collected, and 11 of these germinated in the control plots. However in the test plots, 11 seeds were collected and no seed germinated. This shows that the Pinus densiflora was the weakest in resisting to heat among the observed species in this study. 4. Without exception the germination rate showed a higher index in the herbs than in the woody plants and it is believed that the herbs produced more seed than the wood plants because of the abundance of herbs colony.