• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.261-269
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• 2014

This study focused on the performance of the newly developed hybrid filter system to capture fine particulate matter and mercury compounds in a coal-fired power plant. The hybrid filter system combining bag-filter and electrostatic precipitator had been developed to remove fine particulate matter. However, it would have a good performance to control mercury compounds as well. In Hybrid filter capture system, the total removal efficiency of total mercury compounds consisting of particulate mercury ($Hg_p$), oxidized mercury ($Hg^{2+}$), and elemental mercury ($Hg^0$) was 66.2%. The speciation of mercury compounds at inlet and outlet of Hybrid filter capture system were 1.3% and 0% of $Hg_p$, 85.2% and 68.1% of $Hg^0$, and 13.5% and 31.9% of $Hg^{2+}$, respectively. In hybrid filter capture system injected with 100% of flue-gas, the removal efficiency of total mercury was calculated to increase to 93.5%.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.170-175
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• 2005

자외선을 대체하여 형광등이나 자연광(햇빛)을 이용하여 $TiO_2$로 수은제거 실험을 수행하였다. 반응기는 내부의 $TiO_2$가 광원에 최대한 노출되도록 디자인하였으며 회전할 수 있게 하였다. 반응기 내부에 $TiO_2$와 유리비드를 섞어 넣어 기상수은과 흡착제와의 접촉면적을 최대화하였다. 광촉매가 가장 활성을 잘 보이는 UV black light뿐 아니라 실험에 사용된 모든 광원에서 99% 이상의 수은제거효율을 보였다. 인체에 무해하고 경제성이 좋은 형광등이나 태양광하에서도 99% 이상의 수은제거효율을 얻었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.497-501
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• 2005

This study deals with the removal of mercury species using a packed-bed column with spherical aminated chitosan material. These adsorbents revealed a high adsorption capacity for mercury species. Experiments with feed solutions of 10 ppm Hg dissolved in distilled water showed an excellent removal with a sharp increase of the filter effluent concentration after a total throughput of 900 bed volumes of feed water. Up to $95\%$ desorption was reached by using 3 bed volumes of 0.01 N EDTA solution. EDTA could be recovered by means of sulfuric acid with about $75\%$ efficiency. Almost the same results were obtained in repeated sorption and desorption experiments at identical conditions. The experiments demonstrated that the sorbents possessed practically no sorption capacity for alkaline earth ions ($Ca^{2+}\;and\;Mg^{2+}$). Their influence on the sorption of mercury was negligible. In experiments with spiked tap water of the Karlsruhe Research Centre and a feed mercury concentration of 0.01 mg/l, the breakthrough of Hg was observed only after a total throughput of about 6,000 bed volumes of feed water.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2010

The high temperature pleated filter bags which were used during this study were made of pleated nonwoven fabric of heat and acid resistant polysulfonate fibers which can withstand the heat up to $300^{\circ}C$ and have a filtration area which is 3 to 5 times larger than the conventional round filter bags. Cartridge module packed with 3 kind of the sulfur impregnated activated-carbon based sorbents were inserted in the inner of the pleated filter bag. This type of pleated filter bag was designed to remove not only the particulate matter but also the gaseous elemental mercury. The electrostatic precipitator part can enhance the particulate removal efficiency and reduce the pressure drop of the pleated filter bag by agglomerated particles to form a more porous dust layer on the surface of the pleated bag which is increased the filter bag cleaning efficiency. In addition, the most of particles are separated from the flue gas stream through the cyclone and the electrostatic precipitator part which were installed at the lower part and main body part of the convergence particulate collector, respectively. Thus reduce particulate loading of the high temperature pleated filter bags were applied in this study to analyze the removal characteristics of particulate matter and gaseous elemental mercury.

• Carbon letters
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2002

In the present research, we prepared the activated carbon (AC) sorbents to remove gas-phase mercury. The mercury adsorption of virgin AC, chemically treated AC and fly ash was performed. Sulfur impregnated and sulfuric acid impregnated ACs were used as the chemically treated ACs. A simulated flue gas was made of SOx, NOx and mercury vapor in nitrogen balance. A reduced mercury adsorption capacity was obtained with the simulated gas as compared with that containing only mercury vapor in nitrogen. With the simulated gas, the sulfuric acid treated AC showed the highest performance, but it might have the problem of corrosion due to the emission of sulfuric acid. It was also found that the high sulfur impregnated AC also released a portion of sulfur at $140^{\circ}C$. Thus, it was concluded that the low sulfur impregnated AC was suitable for the treatment of flue gas in terms of stability and efficiency.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2024

SiO₂-coated magnetic nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄@SiO₂ NPs) were modified by 3-nitrobenzelidenmalononitrile and used as green linkages for removal of Hg²⁺ form the wastewater. In this research, it has been attempted to refer to the harmful effects of mercury ions for living things and how to remove such ions using very easy and practical technique. This study shows that by optimizing the test conditions, the efficiency of the removal of harmful ions such as mercury from the water contaminated with these ions can be increased. Conditions such as temperature, speed of agitation, pH of solution were tested for removal of mercury ions. The advantages of this method over other methods listed in the article are the rapid and easy nanocry synthesis. The generated and modified Fe₃O₄@SiO₂ nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, fourier transform infrared and scanning electron microscopy spectroscopy. The results show that the synthesized magnetic nanoparticles have the excellent performance for the removal of mercury(II) ion from the waste water.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.479-484
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• 2006

Removal of elemental mercury $(Hg^0)$ with the reactive species produced from dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) was studied. We investigated the effect of operating parameters such as the applied voltage, residence time, initial concentration and co-existence of other pollutants. The removal of $(Hg^0)$ was significantly promoted by an increase in the applied voltage of the DBD reactor system. It is important to note that at the same input power, the removal efficiency of $(Hg^0)$ was much higher than that of NO gas. These results imply that if the DBD system is used as a NOx treatment facility, it is capable of removing $(Hg^0)$ simultaneously with NOx.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2016

The adsorption of inorganic mercury, Hg (II), in aqueous solution has been investigated to evaluate the effectiveness of synthesized gold (Au) nanoparticle-coated silica as sorbent in comparison with activated carbon and Au-coated sand. The synthesis of the Au-coated silica was confirmed by x-ray diffraction (Bragg reflections at $38.2^{\circ}$, $44.4^{\circ}$, $64.6^{\circ}$, and $77.5^{\circ}$) and the Au loading on silica surface was $6.91{\pm}1.14mg/g$. The synthesized Au-coated silica performed an average Hg adsorption efficiency of ~96 (${\pm}2.61$) % with KD value of 9.96 (${\pm}0.32$) L/g. The adsorption kinetics of Hg(II) on to Au-coated silica closely follows a pseudo-second order reaction where it is found out to have an initial adsorption rate of $4.73g/{\mu}g/min/$ and overall rate constant of $4.73{\times}10^{-4}g/{\mu}g/min/$. Au-coated silica particles are effective in removing Hg (II) in aqueous solutions due to their relatively high KD values, rapid adsorption rate, and high overall efficiency that can even decrease mercury levels below the recommended concentrations in drinking water.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.268-274
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• 2010

유해대기오염물질인 중금속의 배출은 그 위해성으로 인해 엄격한 법적 규제를 하는 등 지대한 관심이 기우려지고 있다. 무연탄을 사용하는 상용 화력발전시설로부터 배출되는 중금속의 농도 및 배출특성에 대한 연구를 실시하였다. 대상 발전시설은 순환 유동층 연소로, 싸이클론, 보일러, 전기집진기 설비로 구성되었고 가스상 수은을 포함한 주요 중금속의 농도를 측정하기 위해 분진과 가스상 시료를 전기집진기(ESP) 전단과 연돌에서 측정하였다. 총 먼지량(TPM), PM-10, PM-2.5와 같은 입자상 물질의 배출량은 ESP 전단에서 각각 23,274, 9,555, $7,790mg/Sm^3$로 매우 높았으며, 이는 예측했던 바와 같이 미분탄 화력발전소보다 높은 수치였다. 그러나 ESP에 의한 먼지의 제거효율이 높기 때문에 연돌에서의 총 먼지량은 $0.16mg/Sm^3$ 정도였다. 마찬가지로 중금속 배출량 또한 ESP에서 높은 제거효율을 보였다. 입도분포와 입경 범위 별 중금속 농축 정도에 대한 데이터를 살펴볼 때 일부 금속의 농도는 작은 입경 범위에서 더 농축된 것을 보여 입자의 크기와 상관관계를 지어 볼 수 있었다. 수은의 경우 다른 금속들과 다르게 높은 휘발성 때문에 대부분이 가스 상태로 배출되며 그로 인하여 수은의 제거효율은 68% 정도로 다른 중금속들에 대한 제거효율보다 낮았다. ESP를 지나면서 수은 화학종이 원소수은에서 산화수은으로 변하는 것이 확인되었으며, 그로 인하여 습식세정탑이 설비된 다른 석탄 화력발전소에서는 원소 수은이 지배적인 데 반해 본 시설의 경우 연돌에서 총 수은의 절반 정도만 원소수은이었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.219-228
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• 2012

Problems due to the taste and odor in drinking water are common in treatment facilities around the world. Taste and odor are perceived by the public as the primary indicators of the safely and acceptability of drinking water, and are mainly caused by the presence of two semi-volatile compounds-2-methylisoborneol(2-MIB) and geosmin. Conventional treatment processes in water treatment plants, such as coagulation, sedimentation and chlorination have been found to be ineffective for the removal of 2-MIB and geosmin. Pulse UV system is a new UV irradiation system that is a non-mercury lamp-based alternative to currently used continuous wave systems for water disinfection. This study shows pulse UV system to be effective in treatment of these two compounds. Geosmin removal efficiency of UV process alone achieved approximately 70% at 10sec contact time. 2-MIB removal efficiency of UV only process achieved approximately 60% at 10sec contact time. The addition of $H_{2}O_{2}$ 7mg/L increased geosmin and 2-MIB removal efficiency upto approximately 94% and 91%, respectively.