• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.826-832
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• 2007

수돗물내의 불쾌한 이취미는 수도사업자에게 여러 가지 문제를 일으킨다. 비록 이취미는 건강상에 유해하지는 않지만 소비자들에게 수돗물의 안정성을 의심하게 되는 주된 요인이 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 낙동강 원수와 급속 모래여과 처리수에 함유된 geosmin에 대한 오존과 오존/과산화수소 공정에서 접촉시간별 제거경향을 조사한 결과, 오존 단독공정에 비하여 오존과 과산화수소 혼합공정이 오존 단독공정 보다 접촉시간별로 geosmin 제거율이 월등히 증가하였다. 오존과 과산화수소 투입농도에 따른 여과수 중의 geosmin과 2-MIB의 제거특성 평가에서 2-MIB 보다 geosmin이 오존 및 오존/과산화수소 공정에서 제거가 용이한 것으로 나타났다. 원수 및 여과수에 함유된 geosmin과 여과수에 함유된 2-MIB에 대해 오존 주입농도 $0.5\sim2.0$ mg/L 범위에서 오존과 과산화수소 주입비율 $(H_2O_2/O_3)$에 따른 각각의 반응 속도상수 k의 변화를 조사한 결과, 오존 및 오존과 과산화수소의 주입비율이 증가할수록 반응 속도상수 k가 급격히 증가하였으며 오존과 과산화수소의 주입비율이 어느 한계 이상에 도달하면 반응 속도상수 k는 더 이상 증가하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 오존 주입농도 $0.5\sim2.0$ mg/L 범위에서 오존 대비 과산화수소의 적정 주입비율($(H_2O_2/O_3)$ $1\sim2$ 사이인 것으로 나타났다. 급속 모래여과 처리수에서 보다는 오존과 OH 라디칼 소비물질이 많이 존재하는 원수에서의 반응속도 상수가 더 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 호존 주입농도별로 과산화수소 주입농도에 대한 급속 모래여과 처리수중의 geosmin이 제거되는 반감기를 조사한 결과, 오존과 과산화수소 주입농도가 증가할수록 geosmin의 반감기는 급격히 줄어들었으며, 오존만 2 mg/L 주입하여 geosmin을 산화시킨 경우보다 오존 2 mg/L와 과산화수소 10 mg/L를 함께 주입한 경우 반감기가 38.9분에서 4.6분으로 8.5배 정도 감소되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2018

This study was carried out in the Bukhan River in the summer of 2014 and 2015, to identify the relationship between geosmin and the morphological changes in Anabaena. Identification of Anabaena was conducted using morphological and molecular analyses. Anabaena in this study was similar to Anabaena circinalis, A. crass, and A. spiroides with regard to regular coils, vegetative cell, akinete shape, and size, hoever, it was distinguishabl from A. crass and A. spiroides because of its larger trichome coil size. Additionally, the sequences of phycocyanin (PC) gene from Anabaena showed a 99% genetic similarity with A. circinalis NIES-1647 strain. The coil diameter of trichome ranged from 106 to $899{\mu}m$, and the diameter and abundance showed an insignificant positive correlation (r=0.544, p<0.05). The result of relationship between the coil diameter and the cell number per 360-degree rotation was kept at $33.8{\pm}5.2$ cells per $100{\mu}m$ diameter despite variable diameter. The average geosmin concentrations in 2014 and 2015 were investigated to be 99 ng/L and 35 ng/L, respectively. A. circinalis cell density contributed considerably to the change in geosmin and was positively correlated with geosmin concentration (2014; r=0.599, p<0.01, 2015; r=0.559, p<0.01). Our results suggest that geosmin and coil diameter could be estimated with the help of cell density.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제62권6호
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• pp.453-457
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• 2018

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.523-529
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• 2008

Algal blooms in a local eutrophic lake often produces the musty and earthy taste & odor problems. Since the odor causing compounds(OCCs) including geosmin and 2-MIB have their own volatility, the OCCs can be removed from water by air stripping methods. Removal of TON(threshold odor number) as an index for OCCs could be fitted well with the first order equations($R^2=0.9$ above), where the air stripping coefficient of TON, k was in the range between 0.0055 and 0.0097 according to the aeration time. k within 30min aeration tests was 0.0097, while it was 0.0055 where the aeration time extended to 150min. With 15 mg/L of PAC, removal of TON was not simulated with 1st order equation within 30min aeration. Within 30min aeration, OCCs rather than geosmin and/or 2-MIB could be removed easily by air stripping or PAC adsorption, while OCCs such as geosmin and/or 2-MIB could be removed slowly by air stripping after 30min aeration. Geosmin and 2-MIB were not readily removed by air stripping(k of them were 0.0018~0.0047 and 0.0018~0.0034, respectively at different air flow rates). Geosmin could be removed by air stripping a little better than 2-MIB.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2017

녹조현상 발생시 남조류에 의하여 발생하는 이취미 물질인 Geosmin과 2-methylisoborneol(2-MIB)는 수돗물에 냄새를 유발하는 원인 물질로서 제거가 필요하다. 일반적으로 정수장에서는 이취미 물질의 제거를 위하여 활성탄을 사용하고 있으나 활성탄의 기공 분포와 활성탄의 입자크기가 이취미 물질 흡착제 미치는 영향에 대한 정보는 부족하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 다양한 활성탄의 기공분포와 활성탄의 입자 크기가 이 취미 물질 흡착에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 분말활성탄(PAC), 입상활성탄(GAC), 활성탄소섬유(ACF)의 이취미 물질 흡착을 비교한 결과, PAC > ACF > GAC 순서로 이취미물질 흡착제거효율이 높았다. 다양한 기공분포 특성을 갖는 분말활성탄들을 비교한 결과, 미세기공이 잘발달된 경우가 Geosmin과 2-MIB의 흡착에 유리한 것으로 나타났으며, 입자 크기의 경우에는 작을수록 Geosmin과 2-MIB의 흡착에 보다 효과적이었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.397-409
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• 2014

Algal problem in drinking water treatment is being gradually increased by causing deterioration of water supplies therefore, especially taste and odor compounds such as geosmin and 2-MIB occur mainly aesthetic problem by its unpleasant effects resulting in the subsequent onset of complaints from drinking water consumer. Recently, geosmin and 2-MIB are detected frequently at abnormally high concentration level. However, conventional water treatment without advanced water treatment processes such as adsorption and oxidation process, cannot remove these two compounds efficiently. Moreover, it is known that the advanced treatment processes i.e. adsorption and oxidation have also several limits to the removal of geosmin and 2-MIB. Therefore, the purpose of this study was not only to evaluate full scale nanofiltration membrane system with $300m^3/day$ of permeate capacity and 90% of recovery on the removal of geosmin and 2-MIB in spiked natural raw water sources at high feed concentration with a range of approximately 500 to 2,500 ng/L, but also to observe rejection property of the compounds within multi stage NF membrane system. Rejection rate of geosmin and 2-MIB by NF membrane process was 96% that is 4% of passage regardless of the feed water concentration which indicates NF membrane system with an operational values suggested in this research can be employed in drinking water treatment plant to control geosmin and 2-MIB of high concentration. But, according to results of regression analysis in this study it is recommended that feed water concentration of geosmin and 2-MIB would not exceed 220 and 300 ng/L respectively which is not to be perceived in drinking tap water. Also it suggests that the removal rate might be depended on an operating conditions such as feed water characteristics and membrane flux. When each stage of NF membrane system was evaluated relatively higher removal rate was observed at the conditions that is lower flux, higher DOC and TDS, i.e., $2^{nd}$ stage NF membrane systems, possibly due to an interaction mechanisms between compounds and cake layer on the membrane surfaces.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.2097-2104
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• 2000

자연계에서 발생하는 이취미 문제는 주로 조류나 박테리아와 같은 미생물의 신진대사에 기인한다. 이취미와 관련한 원인물질은 주로 MIB와 Geosmin으로서 이는 9ng/L와 4 ng/L의 아주 저농도에서도 흙과 곰팡이 냄새를 일으킨다. 정수처리공정에서는 분말활성탄을 이용한 이취미 유발물질 제어기술이 잘 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 단일성분과 이성분계에 있어서의 흡착등온실험을 통하여 최적의 PAC 투여량과 반응시간에 대하여 고찰하였으며 또한 원수를 이용하여 수중에 포함된 자연유기물질의 영향을 고찰하였다. 연구결과 자연유기물질의 유무에 관계없이 Geosmin의 흡착능이 우수하였으며, 자연유기물질이 존재할 경우 MIB와 Geosmin 모두 4배 정도의 흡착능 저하를 보였다. 초기농도 100ng/L 정도의 원수의 경우 99%의 제거율을 얻기 위해서는 PAC 투여량 20mg/L, 4시간 이상의 반응시간을 필요로 하였다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2015

Recently, the production of taste and odor (T&O) compounds is a common problem in water industry. Geosmin is one of the T&O components in drinking water. However, geosmin is hardly eliminated through the conventional water treatment systems. Among various advanced processes capable of removing geosmin, adsorption process using granular activated carbon (GAC) is the most commonly used process. As time passes, however GAC process changes into biological activated carbon (BAC) process. There is little information on the BAC process in the literature. In this study, we isolated and identified microorganisms existing within various BAC processes. The microbial concentrations of BAC processes examined were $3.5{\times}10^5$ colony forming units (CFU/g), $2.2{\times}10^6CFU/g$ and $7.0{\times}10^5CFU/g$ in the Seongnam plant, Goyang plant and Goryeong pilot plant, respectively. The dominant bacterial species were found to be Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Novosphingobium rosa and Afipia broomeae in each plants. Removal efficiencies of $3{\mu}g/L$ geosmin by the dominant species were 36.1%, 36.5% and 34.3% in mineral salts medium(MSM) where geosmin was a sole carbon source.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.12-24
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• 1994

The occurrence of objectionable tastes and odors in drinking water is a common and widespread problem. The most troublesome odors are usually those described as muddy or earthy-musty. Two organic compounds which have been implicated as the cause of earthy-musty odor problems in water are geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol. These earthy-musty organics have been shown to be metabolites of actinomycetes and blue green algae. The purpose of this paper is to describe adsorbability in removing these two oder causing compounds(geosmin and 2-MIB) upon various conditions like pH variation, adding humic acid and different activated carbon. The conclusion of this study are as followings. In batch test, carbon dosage is 10mg/100ml for geosmin and 15mg/100ml for 2-MIB. Both were in equilibrium state after 60 hours. In model simulation, F-P model described experiment data and modelling data appropriately in geosmin but F-S model not. In case of 2-MIB, models didn't describe relation between experiment and modelling data well. Two causative agents of earthy-musty odor compounds, geosmin and 2-MIB, are strongly adsorbed by activated carbon either coconut or brown. There appears to be no effect of pH (3,7,9) on adsorption of these two organics. Activated carbon proved to be more effective for removing geosmin than for removing 2-MIB. When activated carbon is. used in removing these two organics, the removal of these appeared to be adversely affected by back ground organic compounds, such as humic substances, due to competitive adsorption.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.225-235
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• 2015

During low-pressure membrane treatments of cyanobacterial cells, including microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF), there have reportedly been releases of intracellular compounds including cyanotoxins and compounds with an earthy-musty odor into the water, probably owing to cyanobacterial cell breakage retained on the membrane. However, to our knowledge, no information was reported regarding the effect of growth phase of cyanobacterial cells on the release of the intracellular compounds. In the present study, we used a geosmin-producing cyanobacterium, Anabaena smithii, to investigate the effect of the growth phase of the cyanobacterium on the release of intracellular geosmin during laboratory-scale MF experiments with the cells in either the logarithmic growth or stationary phase. Separate detection of damaged and intact cells revealed that the extent of cell breakage on the MF membrane was almost the same for logarithmic growth and stationary phase cells. However, whereas the geosmin concentration in the MF permeate increased after 3 h of filtration with cells in the logarithmic growth phase, it did not increase during filtration with cells in the stationary phase: the trend in the geosmin concentration in the MF permeate with time was much different between the logarithmic growth and stationary phases. Adsorption of geosmin to algogenic organic matter (AOM) retained on the MF membrane and/or pore blocking with the AOM were greater when the cells were in the stationary phase versus the logarithmic growth phase, the result being a decrease in the apparent release of intracellular geosmin from the stationary phase cells. In actual drinking water treatment plants employing membrane processes, more attention should be paid to the cyanobacterial cells in logarithmic growth phase than in stationary phase from a viewpoint of preventing the leakage of intracellular earthy-musty odor compounds to finished water.