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Sanitory Significance on Drinking Water Quality Standard (음체수 수질기준에 대한 위생학적 의의)

  • 김종택
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.58-62
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    • 1994
  • Until 1960 water pollution was caused by virus but now in according to industrial develop cent it has been continued environmental pollution by surfactant heavy metal, and hazardous chemical substance erst.. It is possible to Prevent contamination by virus owing to development of antibiotic but not to dissolve basely health effect by hazardous chemical substances because it takes very long time, about 5-40 years, average 20 years, in appearing a disease after exposure by then To maintain human life for 75 years, it need 55 ton of water. In the experiment of Public Health Institute, Tokyo, they reported that over 200 chemical substances can be detected in case of human being to drink tap water of Tokyo(1989) continuously. In our country, elevation of life style and development of industry result in increase of water use and overappreciation of pesticides in farm land a(sects drinking water quality. We estimated analytical item of drinking water hygienically by dividing into 5 groups such as physical effect item health hazardous inorganic item and health hazardous organic item ect. based on hygienic purpose.

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Study on the Mutagenicity of Drinking Water (음용수의 변이원성에 관한 조사연구)

  • 박지인;유춘만;위인선
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.68-73
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    • 1998
  • This is a study on the risk assessment of drinking water using mutagenicity testing. The tests have been carried with the raw water, treated water, and drinking water (tap water) in Kwangju and Mokpo areas. The Ames preincubation test was carried concentrating samples using by Sep-Pak PLUS cartriges in Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and TA98. The samples were tested with several chemical water quality analysis. The THMs have not been measured in raw water, but measured treated water and tap water at a value of 7.135-12.473 $\mu$g/l. It was observed that the number of revertants colonies increased in treated water and tap water on TA100 without S9 and showed weak mutagenicity on TA98 without S9. Indirect mutation was not seen in TA100 and TA98 with S9. The results indicated that formed substances of treatment process's of water that increased mutagenicity.

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A Study on the guidelines for Tasty and Healthy Drinking Water Supply (청정급수를 위한 쾌적수질기준 설정에 관한 기초조사 연구)

  • 금영환;문량조;유재근
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.106-125
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    • 1995
  • Recently, in accordance with elevation of life style and economics, the public demand became increasingly concerned about drinking water quality. Without an adequate supply of safe water, healthy and comfortable life could not exist. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide the guidelines and the basic informations to enable supply of clean, tasty and healthy drinking water acceptable for various demands. We analyzed the quality of tap water, mineral water, purified tap water using home tap water purifier. And we researched on the sense of the public complaint over the tap water. We proposed several items relating to the comfortableness of water quality and the target value. Also we presented a case of water supply system for purity and the points at problem The items and target value are as follows 1. turbidity : not more than 1 degree 2. dry residue : $30~200{\;}mg/{\ell}$ 3. hardness : $10~100mg/{\ell}$ 4. free carbon dioxide : not more than $20mg/{\ell}$ 5. $KMnO_{4}$ consumption not more than $3mg/{\ell}$ 6. odor threshold not abnormal 7. residual chlorine : not more than $0.4mg/{\ell}$ 8. water temperature' not more than $20^{\circ}C$ 9. manganese : not more than $0.01mg/{\ell}$ 10. iron : not more than $0.02mg/{\ell}$ 11. aluminum : not more than $0.1mg/{\ell}$

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Variations of Disinfection By-products in a Chlorinated Drinking Water Distribution System

  • Lee, Soo-Hyung;Park, Jeong-Kun;Lee, Hyung-Jun;Kim, He-Kap
    • Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2000
  • The chlorination of municipal drinking water supplies leads to the formation of so-called disinfection by-products(DBPs), many of which have been reported to cause harmful health effects based on animal studies. This study was conducted: 1) to observe seasonal changes in the major DBPs at four sampling sites on a drinking water distribution system located in Chunchon, Kangwon Do; and 2) to examine the effects of major water quality parameters on the formation of DBPs. During the field sampling, the water temperature, pH, and total and free chlorine residuals were all measured. The water samples were then analyzed for total organic carbon(TOC) and eight disinfection by-products in the laboratory. Chloroform, dichloroacetic acid, and trichloroacetic acid were the major constituents of the measured DBPs. The concentrations of the total DBPs were highest in fall, particularly in October, and lowest in summer. The concentrations of the total DBPs increased with increasing TOC concentrations. Multiple regression analyses showed that the concentrations of chloroform, bromodichloromethane, and chloral hydrate were linearly correlated with the pH. Other water parameters were not included in the regression equations. Accordingly, these results suggest that TOC and pH are both important factors in the formation of DBPs.

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Evaluation of Biodegradation Characteristics of Haloacetic Acids by a Biofilm in a Drinking Water Distribution System (상수관망에서 생물막에 의한 Haloacetic Acids 생물분해 특성 평가)

  • Son, Hee-Jong;Kim, Do-Hwan;Han, Young-Rip;Choi, Young-Ik
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.1635-1642
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    • 2014
  • Haloacetic acids (HAAs) concentrations have been observed to decreased at drinking water distribution system extremities. This decrease is associated with microbiological degradation by pipe wall biofilm. The objective of this study was to evaluate HAAs degradation in a drinking water system in the presence of a biofilm and to identify the factors that influence this degradation. Degradation of monochloroacetic acid (MCAA), dichloroacetic acid (DCAA) and trichloroacetic acid (TCAA) was observed in a simulated distribution system. The results obtained showed that different parameters came into play simultaneously in the degradation of HAAs, including retention time, water temperature, biomass, and composition of organic matter. Seasonal variations had a major effect on HAAs degradation and biomass quantity (ATP concentration) was lower by 25% in the winter compared with the summer.

Reaction coefficient assessment and rechlorination optimization for chlorine residual equalization in water distribution networks (상수도 잔류염소농도 균등화를 위한 반응계수 추정 및 염소 재투입 최적화)

  • Jeong, Gimoon;Kang, Doosun;Hwang, Taemun
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.55 no.spc1
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    • pp.1197-1210
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    • 2022
  • Recently, users' complaints on drinking water quality are increasing according to emerging interest in the drinking water service issues such as pipe aging and various water quality accidents. In the case of drinking water quality complaints, not only the water pollution but also the inconvenience on the chlorine residual for disinfection are included, thus various efforts, such as rechlorination treatment, are being attempted in order to keep the chlorine concentration supplied evenly. In this research, for a more accurate water quality simulation of water distribution network, the water quality reaction coefficients were estimated, and an optimization method of chlorination/ rechlorination scheduling was proposed consideirng satisfaction of water quality standards and chlorine residual equalization. The proposed method was applied to a large-scale real water network, and various chlorination schemes were comparatively analyzed through the grid search algorithm and optimized based on the suitability and uniformity of supplied chlorine residual concentration.

IoT-Based Automatic Water Quality Monitoring System with Optimized Neural Network

  • Anusha Bamini A M;Chitra R;Saurabh Agarwal;Hyunsung Kim;Punitha Stephan;Thompson Stephan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.46-63
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    • 2024
  • One of the biggest dangers in the globe is water contamination. Water is a necessity for human survival. In most cities, the digging of borewells is restricted. In some cities, the borewell is allowed for only drinking water. Hence, the scarcity of drinking water is a vital issue for industries and villas. Most of the water sources in and around the cities are also polluted, and it will cause significant health issues. Real-time quality observation is necessary to guarantee a secure supply of drinking water. We offer a model of a low-cost system of monitoring real-time water quality using IoT to address this issue. The potential for supporting the real world has expanded with the introduction of IoT and other sensors. Multiple sensors make up the suggested system, which is utilized to identify the physical and chemical features of the water. Various sensors can measure the parameters such as temperature, pH, and turbidity. The core controller can process the values measured by sensors. An Arduino model is implemented in the core controller. The sensor data is forwarded to the cloud database using a WI-FI setup. The observed data will be transferred and stored in a cloud-based database for further processing. It wasn't easy to analyze the water quality every time. Hence, an Optimized Neural Network-based automation system identifies water quality from remote locations. The performance of the feed-forward neural network classifier is further enhanced with a hybrid GA- PSO algorithm. The optimized neural network outperforms water quality prediction applications and yields 91% accuracy. The accuracy of the developed model is increased by 20% because of optimizing network parameters compared to the traditional feed-forward neural network. Significant improvement in precision and recall is also evidenced in the proposed work.

Evaluation of Haloacetic Acid Formation Potential in Drinking Water Treatment Process by Fraction Technique (정수처리 공정에서 용존 유기물질 분류에 의한 haloacetic acid 생성능 평가)

  • Son, Hee-Jong;Hwang, Young-Do;Ryu, Dong-Choon;Jung, Chul-Woo;Lee, Gun;Son, Hyeng-Sik
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.1655-1662
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    • 2014
  • A comprehensive fractionation technique was applied to a set of water samples obtained along drinking water treatment process with ozonation and biological activated carbon (BAC) process to obtain detailed profiles of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and to evaluate the haloacetic acid (HAA) formation potentials of these DOM fractions. The results indicated that coagulation-sedimentation-sand filtration treatment showed limited ability to remove hydrophilic fraction (28%), while removal of hydrophobic and transphilic fraction were 57% and 40%, respectively. And ozonation and BAC treatment showed limited ability to remove hydrophobic fractions (6%), while removal of hydrophilic and transphilic fractions were 25% and 18%. The haloacetic acid formation potential (HAAFP)/dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of hydrophilic fraction was the highest along the treatment train and HAAFP/DOC of hydrophilic fraction was higher than hydrophobic and transphilic fraction as 23%~30%, because of better removal for hydrophobic fraction both in concentration and reactivity.

Treatability Prediction Method for Nanofiltration Systems in Drinking Water Treatments (정수처리에 이용되는 나노여과막시스템의 성능예측방법 확립)

  • Kang, Meea;Itoh, Masaki
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.572-581
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    • 2005
  • This research is conducted to develop predictable method of real scale nanofiltration treatability with small scale nanofiltration experiments. As a result of comparing calculated values with measured values, they are in a good agreement for the concentrations in filtered water and concentrated water. The results of that are not affected by change of system recovery from 20% to 95%. The proposed method is produced using constant recovery of elements, that is, no considering the pressure change. we can predict filtrated flux and contaminant concentrations with the method. The method has the following steps. (1) Calculate recovery of each element with water quality level after fixing recovery elements, (2) Predict system recovery with recovery of elements in 1, 2, 3, and 4 banks, (3) Run small scale nanofiltration experiments in predicted water quality and (4) Simulate large scale nanofiltration system for forecasting actual water quality. As the cost for nanofiltration pretest will reduced if we use the proposed method, it will be a promising method for introducing nanofiltration to supply safe drinking water.

A Study on the Factors Quality Evaluation of the Drinking Water Service in Incheon Metropolitan City (인천시 상수도서비스 품질평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Geon-Su;Lee, Ki-Dong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2015
  • This study is to evaluate the public drinking water service systematically, to improve customer satisfaction level, also overcoming the limitations of the existing method often relying on the satisfaction measurement subjectively. Thorough the rigid quality control of the service and its effect on civil affairs administration, we conclude that quality of the public service has an influences on the customers' satisfaction, which play a role to intensify the confidence and support of the civil administration by its appropriate management. Thus quality control management itself has its own value in that the satisfaction and confidence of the service result from the quality. The new model can be utilized as a Service Quality Index for the public drinking water service. To enhance the customers' satisfaction and confidence of the water suppliers, it is very useful that they reflect the customers' needs exactly through the service quality control regularly.