• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.350-355
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• 2013

본 연구는 음료용 자동판매기의 냉매인 HFC-134a의 사용 및 폐기단계 탈루배출특성을 파악코자 하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 국내 제품인 음료용 폐자동판매기 47대의 HFC-134a 냉매를 상업용 냉매 회수기를 사용 회수하였고, 잔류량을 측정하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 사용단계 탈루배출모델은 1차 동역학에 기초한 것으로 탈루율은 잔류 냉매 압력 즉 잔류량에 비례한다는 가정을 도입 적용하였다. 음료용 폐자동판매기의 배출시점에서의 잔류량과 사용기간 정보를 활용하여 탈루배출계수를 간접적으로 $6.9{\pm}0.7$ %/yr으로 결정하였고 이는 1대당 연간 11.6 g의 HFC-134a가 배출되는 것에 해당된다. 한편 음료용 폐자동판매기 냉매 평균 잔류율은 $62.5{\pm}2.2%$이었으며, 이는 1대당 잠재 탈루량을 144.8 g으로 결정할 수 있다. 음료용 자동판매기에서 회수한 폐냉매 성분 분석 결과가 신냉매와 거의 유사하여 폐냉매의 재사용이 가능할 것으로 여겨진다. 그러나 냉매회수 과정에서 압축기 오일이 30% 정도 포함되기 때문에 냉매 재사용을 위해서는 오일 분리가 필요하다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2012

This paper presents the short-term and long-term measures to determine the fugitive dust concentration in a contaminated site, which is a crucial step for the determination of particulate emission factor (PEF) for risk assessment. As a long-term measure, USEPA method employing Q/C value (inverse of the ratio of the geometric mean air concentration to the emission flux at center of a 0.5-acre square source) seems to be suitable as it reflects regional-specific meteorological conditions. However, it requires nation-wide database collection and interpretation. Use of ASTM method is an alternative as a short-term measure. The method is readily field-applicable as PEF calculation equation is simple and input parameters can be easily derived at the site of interest as well without the nation-wide efforts. Using ASTM method, PEF at the Former Janghang Smelter Site was determined. According to various mode of aggregate size distribution and fractions of vegetative cover, which are the most important factors in PEF calculation, PEF values at the Former Janghang Smelter Site varied greatly. When the mode of aggregate size distribution was set at 0.25 mm, PEF values at the Former Janghang Smelter Site was 5~20 times higher than the default PEF value (i.e., 35 ${\mu}g/m^3$) shown in the current Korean Soil Contamination Risk Assessment Guidance. On contrast, when the mode was set at 2 mm, PEF values at the Former Janghang Smelter Site was 160~640 times lower than the default PEF value in the Korean Guidance.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.596-611
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• 2007

Resuspended dust from paved roads in Seoul and Incheon metropolitan areas is regarded as one of the major $PM_{10}$ sources in these areas, according to the recent emission estimates using the emission factors compiled in AP-42. It is well known that the AP-42 model for estimating $PM_{10}$ emissions from paved roads requires information on silt loadings of particular paved roads. The conventional AP-42 method (vacuum swept method) for road silt sampling, however, is expensive, time consuming, and dangerous. These drawbacks led us to develop a Mobile Dust Monitoring System (MDMS) capable of doing real time measurements of silt loading of paved roads, thereby we could get higher resolution silt loading data both in terms of time and space without too much human efforts and danger. In this study, for the real-time measurement of silt loading of paved roads, the principle used in the TRAKER method of U.S. Desert Research Institute was employed and the entire sampling systems including data acquisition system were designed for theses purpose and mounted on a SUV. The correlation between the silt loading measured by vacuum swept method and the speed corrected ${\Delta}Dust$ was derived for the vehicle-based silt loading measurements, and then the variations of silt loading on paved roads were surveyed using the MDMS in test routes of Seoul and Incheon. From the results of real-time measurements, temporal and spatial variations of silt loading data together with the existence of hot spots were observed for paved roads in Seoul and Incheon. The result of this study will be employed to estimate fugitive dust emissions from paved roads.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2020

Exposure assessment methodology for outdoor air inhalation pathways (i.e., inhalation of volatile compounds and fugitive dust in outdoor air) was investigated. Default values of several parameters currently used in Korea (e.g., Q/C; inverse value of concentration per unit flux, and frs; soil fraction in PM10) may not be suitable and lack site-specificity, as they have been adopted from the risk assessment guidance of the United States or the Netherlands. Such limitation can be addressed to a certain degree by incorporating the volatilization factor (VF) and the particulate emission factor (PEF) with Box model. This approach was applied to an exposure assessment of a site contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons in Korea. The result indicated that the suggested methodology led to more accurate site-specific exposure assessment for outdoor inhalation pathways. Further work to establish methodology to determine site-specific Q/C values in Korea needs to be done to secure the reliability of the exposure assessment for outdoor air inhalation pathways.