• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.362-373
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• 2012

The ship recycling industry is growing rapidly. It is estimated that the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) decision to phase-out single hull tankers by 2015 will result in hundreds of ships requiring disposal. At present, the ship recycling industry is predominantly based in South Asia. Due to the bad practice of current scrapping procedure, the paper will highlight the harm occurring to health, safety and environment. The efforts of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) which led to the signing of the Hong Kong International Convention are also reviewed. The criteria and standards required to reduce the risk and damage to the environment are discussed and a proposed plan for the safe scrapping of ships is then presented. A technological and economic study for the ship recycling in Egypt is carried out as a case study. This includes the ship recycling facility size and layout. The equipment and staff required to operate the facility are also evaluated. A cost analysis is then carried out. This includes site development, human resources, machineries and equipment. A fuzzy logic approach is used to assess the benefits of the ship breaking yard. The use of the fuzzy logic approach is found suitable to make decisions for the ship breaking industry. Based on given constraints, the proposed model has proved capable of assessing the profit and the internal rate of return.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.555-558
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• 2008

For trying to frontal attack of new solution by fusion of technical tasks and conditions with it's solving methods of the essential tasks of marine resource development and environmental conservation in addition with elements of electronic high-technologies, the skimmer robot was proposed by using of oil spill disaster prevention and its disposal system with sequentially circular collection type of magnetic oil spill adsorbent powder and fabrics on the electronic barge robot for the scheme of sustainable development of environment-friendly technology. It was verified from the experiment of electronic barge robot demonstrator that the skimmer system of magnetic oil spill adsorbent powder and fabrics was very effective and useful technique to collect oil spill samples. At this point, the barge-based electronic remote control was very useful system operating easily on the marine fields to skim oil spill with dangerous toxic substances of crude oil and very harmful to human. Therefore, fusion technology proposed in this study combined with electronic and marine technology is the novel contributable technology for developing marine environmental conservation and environment-friendly disaster prevention, and also its management techniques.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2006

현재 대기중 $CO_2$ 농도를 감소시키기 위하여 $CO_2$를 해양에 격리 처리하고자 하는 방안이 모색되고 있으나 이러한 방안은 해양생물 및 생태계에 미치는 영향 정도에 따라 그 실현가능성이 결정될 것이다. 본 연구에서는 $CO_2$ 해양격리 처리와 관련하여 수행되어온 연구들을 정리하고, $CO_2$ 농도가 높아진 해양환경에서의 해양생물 특히 어류를 대상으로 수행된 최근의 연구결과를 정리하였다. $CO_2$ 농도의 증가는 어류에 있어 산염기조절, 호흡순환기적 조절 등과 같은 생리적 기능에 영향을 끼치고 결국 어류의 폐사를 초래할 것이다. $CO_2$가 해양생물에게 어떠한 영향을 미치는가에 대한 연구는 주로 천해어종을 대상으로 하여 진행되어 왔으나 향후의 연구는 천해어종에 대한 연구결과를 바탕으로 $CO_2$가 실제로 격리 처리되는 심해에서 $CO_2$에 대한 생물들의 응답에 관하여 조사할 필요가 있다.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.179-202
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• 2013

Bisphenol A and other alkylphenols are widely used in plastic and other industrial consumer products. Release of these compounds into the aquatic environment during their manufacture, use and disposal has been a great scientific and public concern due to their toxicity at high concentrations and endocrine disrupting effects at low concentration on aquatic wildlife and human beings. This paper reviews the published data and researches on the environmental occurrence, distribution, health effects and analytical techniques of bisphenol A and alkylphenols. The aim is to provide an overview of the current understanding about bisphenol A and alkylphenols in the environment and the difficulties faced today in order to establish standard and systematic environmental analysis and assessment process for these endocrine disruptor compounds.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2000

All crude oil carries a little of water, sand, and mineral sediment molecules tightly bounded with hydrocarbons. The result is the gradual precipitation of these heavier elements into thick, granular petroleum by products known as crude oil sludge. The oily sludges in ship tanks and in storage facilities have to be treated efficiently in order to keep the security and the capacity of storage facilities, to protect a serious environmental pollution, and to retrieve lost resource. The oily sludge treatment system should be designed to satisfy requirements mentioned in safe work condition. As a basic study, in this paper, an oily sludge treatment system by ultrasonic waves was proposed. Then, the features of ultrasonic energy and recovery of sludge with ultrasonic waves are investigated by experiments. As results, we found that ultrasonic waves are a new energy to flow oil sludge environment-friendly in safe work condition. In addition, it was shown that ultrasonic energy is more efficient than thermal energy in treating oil sludge, and that the volume of wastes for disposal is reduced remarkably.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2006

선박이나 해양구조물(海洋構造物)로부터의 폐기물(廢棄物)의 해양투기를 규제하는 런던협약(協約) 당사국들은 지난 2004년 동 협약 당사국회의에서 선박으로부터 화물관련폐기물의 배출을 허용하는 국제규범이 국가별로 다양하게 해석되고 있어서 이로 인해 해양환경이 손상 받을 가능성에 주목하였다. 런던협약 당사국회의는 런던협약과 선박으로부터의 폐기물의 배출을 관장하는 MARPOL 73/78 (부속서 V)의 두 국제규범간의 "폐기물의 해양배출 및 투기에 관한 사안" 관할범위를 명확하게 구분하기 위해 MARPOL 73/78을 관장하는 국제해사기구의 해양환경위원회와 공동 작업반을 구성하였다. 화물(貨物)관련폐기물의 해양처분에 관한 규제는 국가별로 달라서, 일부 국가들은 해양처분을 허용하지 않고 대신 항만폐기물수용시설에 배출하도록 하고 있으나 일부 국가들은 해양에 배출할 수 있도록 허용하고 있다. 국제적으로는 런던협약 등 다자간환경협정(多者間環境協定)들은 대안이 있는 경우에는 환경규제를 강화하는 경향을 보이고 있다. 본 소고는 이러한 국제적인 논의 동향에 대처하고 우리나라 해양환경보전을 위하여 화물관련폐기물 중 화물잔류물을 대상으로 먼저 선박으로부터의 폐기물의 배출을 규율하는 법제에 대해 고찰하고, 화물관련폐기물의 해양처분으로 인한 해양환경영향을 구체적으로 검토하기 위하여 화물잔류물 중 산적화물(散積貨物)인 석탄의 선창 잔류물의 해양처분에 대한 환경영향을 사례로서 분석하였다. 화물잔류물의 해양투입처분으로 인한 해양환경영향은 화물잔류물의 총량과 동 화물잔류물에 함유된 유해물질의 종류와 함량에 의하여 결정되게 된다. 해양환경보전을 위하여서는 화물잔류물을 해양에 투입처분하지 않는 것이 최상의 관리 방안이다. 따라서 화물잔류물의 해양처분 수요는 항만폐기물수용시설의 가용성에 반비례하게 된다. 우리나라도 항만폐기물수용시설을 추가적으로 확충하여 선박기인 운영으로 인한 해양환경오염을 감축하여 나가야 할 것이다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2017

A penalized VIC method offers an efficient hybrid particle-mesh algorithm to simulate an incompressible viscous flow passing a solid body in an infinite domain. In this manner, the computational domain needs to be restricted to a relatively small region to reduce computational cost which would be very high in case of using a large domain. In this paper, we present how to dispose of far-field particles to avoid an unnecessarily large computational domain. The present approach constraints expansion of the domain and thus prevents the incremental computational cost. To validate the numerical approach, a flow around an impulsively started sphere was simulated for Reynolds numbers of 100 and 1000.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2007

To explore limiting factors of spring bloom caused by waste disposal after dumping activity commenced in the Yellow Sea, we used a 1-dimensional temperature-ecological coupled model. The vertical structure of temperature and vertical diffusivity (Kh) are calculated by the temperature model with sea surface temperature using the 2.5 layers turbulence closure scheme. The ecological model applied results at the temperature model consisted of five state variables (DIN, DIP, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and detritus) forced by photosynthetically available radiation. We simulate year-to-year variations of plankton and nutrients using the coupled model from 1998 to 2000 and compare results of the model with observed data. It turned out that temperature is the growth factor of spring bloom in dumping area. During the winter the weak stratification made sufficient supply of the accumulated nutrients from the sea bed into the upper water column and led to the bloom in the coming spring. Radiation also turned out to be another important factor of spring bloom in the study area. Insufficient radiation of March 1999 showed low chlorophyll-a concentration despite sufficient nutrients in the surface.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.233-244
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• 2007

Nine surface sediments from Masan Bay and Gadeog Channel were taken for grain size and geochemical and foraminiferal analyses in August 2002. The sediments consist of mud with 7.29-8.54 $\phi$ in mean grain size. Average concentrations of Al, Fe and Mn are higher in Gadeog Channel than those in Masan Bay. On the other hand, average concentrations of Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd, Cr, Ni and V are higher in Masan Bay than those in the channel. The latter group of elements show the highest concentration at station M4, off the outfall of treated wastewater disposal. Eighty-one foraminiferal species are identified in total assemblages, including 21 species of living populations. The number of individuals, species number, species diversity and equitability in Masan Bay have lower values than those in Gadeog Channel. The foraminiferal fauna off the outfall is relatively poor. Compared to geochemical and foraminiferal data obtained in 1996, heavy metals are more enriched, and the characteristics of foraminifera are little changed. These features indicate that the pollution of Masan Bay has not been reduced.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.455-460
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• 2022

Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3; BP-3) is a compound used in sunscreens and enters the oceans due to improper disposal. It is known to disrupt the endocrine signaling in marine organisms, leading to immune and reproductive abnormalities in corals, shellfish and fishes. In this study, we investigated the effects of different concentrations of BP-3 (0, 10, 100 and 1,000 ㎍/L) on the fertilized eggs and hatched larvae of Oplegnathus fasciatus. The morphological changes and hatching and survival rates during embryo development were assessed. In addition, the levels of triiodothyronine (T3) were also measured. The hatched larvae exposed to BP-3 at concentrations of 10 and 100 ㎍/L for 24 h displayed malformation of the tail. After 36 h of exposure to BP-3, spinal deformity was observed at all tested concentrations. The hatching rate was significantly low when exposed to 100 ㎍/L of BP-3. A high levels of T3 was observed when the larvae were exposed to BP-3 at a concentration of 1,000 ㎍/L for 96 h (the end of the experiment). This may be related to increased size of larvae at 1,000 ㎍/L BP-3. In conclusion, our results suggested that BP-3 may interfere with embryo development, resulting in a reduction in hatching rate and malformation of larvae.