• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.1073-1078
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• 2013

This paper presents the results of the electrochemical treatment of chemical oxygen demand(COD) and total nitrogen(T-N) compounds in the wastewater generated from flue gas desulfurization process by using a lab-scale electrolyzer. With the increase in the applied current from 0.6 Ah/L to 1.2 Ah/L, the COD removal efficiency rapidly increases from 74.5% to 96%, and the T-N removal efficiency slightly increases from 37.2% to 44.9%. Therefore, it is expected that an electrochemical treatment technique will be able to decrease the amount of chemicals used for reducing the COD and T-N in wastewater of the desulfurization process compared to the conventional chemical treatment technique.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.203-208
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• 1998

A simple on-line measurement system consisting of a conventional peristaltic pump, a HPLC-type heater, and a flow-through spectrophotometer is introduced for the determination of chemical oxygen demand(CODI. The system was configured such that the reaction mixture in the highly concentrated surffuric acrid medium flowing through the PTFE reaction tubing was heated at 150℃ and the absorbance of dichromate was continuously moutored at 445 m. The same addation principle as in the standard procedure was employed akcept the use of CoSO4 as a new effective catalyst. To test the system, potassium hydrogen phthalate was selected as a COD standard material. With suitably optimized reaction condition, the applicable concentration range depends on the concentration of potassium dichromate in the oxidizing reagent. With 2.0×10-3 M and 5.0×10-4M dichromate, the linear dynamic range was observed up to 400 ppm and 100 ppm, respectively. The standards in the Unear ranges were shown to be completely oxidized, which was confirmed with sodium oxalate or Mohr's salt. In all cases, the typical reproduclbility for betweenruns was 2% or less. The proposed measurement system provides the valuable in- formation for the further development of automated analysis system based on the present standard procedure.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1411-1424
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• 2007

Long-term trends and distribution patterns of water quality were investigated in the Asan coastal areas of Yellow Sea, Korea from 1975 to 2005. Water samples were collected at 3 stations and physicochemical parameters were analyzed including water temperature, salinity, suspended solids(SS), chemical oxygen demand(COD), dissolved oxygen(DO) and nutrients. Spatial distribution patterns were not clear among stations but the seasonal variations were distinct except COD, SS and nitrate. The trend analysis by principal component analysis(PCA) during twenty years revealed the significant variations in water quality in the study area, Annual water qualities were clearly discriminated into 4 clusters by PCA; year cluster 1988-1991, 1994-1997, and 1992-1993/1998-2005. By this multi-variate analysis we can summarize the annual trends as the followings; salinity, suspended solids and dissolved oxygen tended to increase from late 1980's, increased pH and COD from 1992, and decreased salinity and increased nitrogen and COD from 1990 due to the runoff frow agricultural lands causing eutrophication.

• 청정기술
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.302-310
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• 2019

호기조와 혐기/무산소조를 직렬로 연결한 인공습지를 이용하여 크게 오염된 하천수를 처리하였다. 호기조는 자연 공기 배출 시스템을 통하여 공기가 연속적으로 공급되어 호기성 상태가 유지되었다. 인공습지의 성능에 영향을 미치는 최적의 영향인자를 조사하기 위하여 체류시간을 다르게 한 5개의 파일럿 플랜트를 사용하였다. 호기조에서 BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)와 COD (chemical oxygen demand)의 제거율은 1차 반응 속도식을 나타내었고, COD 제거 속도 상수는 BOD보다 약간 낮았다. 온도 의존성은 COD (θ = 1.0079)와 BOD (θ = 1.0083)제거에 대한 값이 거의 동일했으나 T-N 제거의 온도 의존성(θ_N)은 1.0189로 다소 높게 나타났다. SS제거율은 98%로 높았고 수력학적 부하 속도(Q/A)가 증가함에 따라 제거 효율이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 혐기/무산소조에서 BOD와 COD 제거의 주요 메커니즘은 호기조와 완전히 다르게 나타났다. 혐기/무산소조에서 COD와 COD는 생물학적 탈질을 위한 탄소원으로 공급되었고 T-P는 혐기/무산소조 내의 orthophosphate와 자갈 사이의 양이온 교환에 의해 제거되는 것으로 조사되었다. 인공습지는 여과된 고형물에 의해 막힘 없이 성공적으로 운영되었고 고형물들은 매우 빠르게 연속적으로 분해되었다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2016

Sediment is a useful natural source but deteriorated continually by anthropogenic and industrial sources. Therefore, it is imperative to search a suitable method for improving or restoring sediment quality. Sediment has been tested to identify the effects of some external agents on a polluted area for 28 days. Chemical analysis and total viable counts (TVC) test have been conducted for 4 days interval to assess their performance. The analyses of chemical oxygen demand (COD), acid volatile sulfide (AVS), total phosphorous (T-P), total nitrogen (T-N) indicate that the chemical agents was more efficient to improve sediment quality whereas the microbial agent was more efficient for nutrient releasing from sediment. Oxygen releasing property of the chemical agent was thought to be providing with more congenial environment for the higher growth of the bacterial community than the direct application of microbial agents.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.548-557
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• 2015

This study investigated environmental assessments of leachate containing formaldehyde from medium density fiberboard (MDF) disposed in laboratory-scale simulated landfills. Environmental impact assessment of leachate was conducted by measuring formaldehyde, toxicity, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), bacterial enumeration, and pH. Amount of formaldehyde in leachate from MDF in soil decreased to the level of soil only treatment by 28 days, and toxicity decreased as the amount of formaldehyde decreased. BOD and COD levels in leachate from the treatments containing MDF exceeded permissible discharge levels of BOD or COD throughout the experimental period. The pH levels of all treatment were within permissible discharge range except on day 0. Fewer bacteria were observed in leachate from MDF in soil treatment than other treatments (MDF only, cured UF resin in soil, and soil only). Consequently, the leachate from disposal of MDF in soil detrimentally affect on environment. However, soil buffered formaldehyde leaching and pH on leachate in this study. Waste MDF may be required the pre-water soaking treatment for leaching formaldehyde to reclaim on land.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.625-629
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• 2013

The objective of this study is to develop and evaluate simple and multiple regression models for Total Organic Carbon (TOC) concentration estimation in stream flow. For development (using water quality data in 2012) and evaluation (using water quality data in 2011) of regression models, we used water quality data from downstream of Yeongsan river basin during 2011 and 2012, and correlation analysis between TOC and water quality parameters was conducted. The concentrations of TOC were positively correlated with Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), TN (Total Nitrogen), Water Temperature (WT) and Electric Conductivity (EC). From these results, simple and multiple regression models for TOC estimation were developed as follows : $TOC=0.5809{\times}BOD+3.1557$, $TOC=0.4365{\times}COD+1.3731$. As a result of the application evaluation of the developed regression models, the multiple regression model was found to estimate TOC better than simple regression models.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.289-296
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• 2017

Pulp and paper industry produces large volumes of wastewater and residual sludge waste, resulting in many issues in relation to wastewater treatment and sludge disposal. Contaminants in pulp and paper wastewater include effluent solids, sediments, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and biological oxygen demand (BOD), which should be treated by wastewater treatment processes such as coagulation and biological treatment. However, few works have been attempted to predict the treatment efficiency of pulp and paper wastewater. Accordingly, this study presented empirical models based on experimental data in laboratory-scale coagulation tests and compared them with statistical models such as artificial neural network (ANN). Results showed that the water quality parameters such as turbidity, suspended solids, COD, and UVA can be predicted using either linear or expoential regression models. Nevertheless, the accuracies for turbidity and UVA predictions were relatively lower than those for SS and COD. On the other hand, ANN showed higher accuracies than the emprical models for all water parameters. However, it seems that two kinds of models should be used together to provide more accurate information on the treatment efficiency of pulp and paper wastewater.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.339-349
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• 2015

Experiments were carried out using granular activated carbon (GAC) adsorption techniques to treat wastewater contaminated with organic compounds caused by diverse human activities. Two techniques were assessed: adsorbent GAC prepared from coconut shell (GACC) and adsorbent GAC from palm shell (GACP). A comparison of these two techniques was undertaken to identify ways to improve the efficiency of the treatment process. Analysis of the processed wastewater showed that with GACC the removal efficiency of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), turbidity, total suspended solids (TSS) and total dissolved solids (TDS) was 65, 60, 82, 82 and 8.7%, respectively, while in the case of GACP, the removal efficiency was 55, 60, 81, 91 and 22%, respectively. It can therefore be concluded that GACC is more effective than GACP for BOD removal, while GACP is better than GACC for TSS and TDS removal. It was also found that for COD and turbidity almost the same results were achieved by the two techniques. In addition, it was observed that both GACC and GACP reduced pH value to 7.9 after 24 hrs. Moreover, the optimal time period for removal of BOD and TDS was 1 hr and 3 hrs, respectively, for both techniques.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.449-458
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• 2011

불법 오물 투기는 정부가 당면한 시급한 문제들 중의 하나이다. 최근 들어 관련기관들은 실시간으로 연속적으로 수질의 상태를 감지 할 수 있는 화학적 산소요구량 자동측정기를 강과 하천 등에 설치하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시계열 간섭모형을 이용하여 화학적 산소요구량 자동측정기로부터 발생하는 데이터를 분석하여 투기시점이라고 여겨지는 이상점을 탐지하는 알고리즘을 R언어를 이용하여 구현한다. R을 이용한 알고리즘을 통해 단계별 계산에서 수동 작업을 피할 수 있기 때문에 알고리즘의 자동화를 달성할 수 있고, 한 단계 더 나아가 모의실험에서 사용될 수 있을 것이다.