• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.911-919
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• 2004

The purpose of this research was evaluated economical effect to apply alternative external carbon source. Conventional activated sludge process in municipal wastewater treatment plant was adapted and introduced to Biological nutrient removal processes to meet the newly enforced effluent quality standard for nutrient removal in Korea. Low $COD/NH_4^+-N$ ratio and higher nutrient concentration of influent characteristics force to inject external carbon source for denitrifying recycled nitrate. In the most case, methanol was used as external carbon source. But Methanol is expensive and very dangerous in handling. So we could find cheaper and safer external carbon source substituted methanol in last study. This alternative external carbon source is named RCS(recoverd carbon source) and a by-product of fine chemical product at chemical plant. When RCS was applied real municipal wastewater treatment plant, average $55\~65\%$ of T-N removal efficiency, 8.8mg/l of effluent T-N concentration, 11.3mg/l of effleunt COD concentration were obtained without effluent COD increase as against used methanol. To apply RCS in municipal wastewater treatment plant obtain approximately $\74.5%$ expenditure cost reduction in comparison with methanol dosage cost.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.284-290
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• 2016

Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology can be used to assess impacts on the environment that might be generated during treatment of wastewater and sludge treatment. In this work, LCA methodology was suggested to evaluate monthly environmental impact of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Two field scale WWTPs, A2/O process and conventional activated sludge process (CAS), were selected as target plants and the operational data were collected from those plants. As the function units, the unit volume of treated wastewater of $1m^3$ and 1 kg T-N eq. removed were selected. The environmental effect of target WWTPs operation were assessed as impact categories such as global warming potential, eutrophication potential, and so on. From monthly profiles of each index, it was shown that the environmental impact of WWTPs has seasonal patterns influenced by the influent flow rate variation causing higher impacts in winter than summer. This is due to the fact that there were no significant increase in the electricity consumption and chemical usage during the summer while the treated volume of wastewater was increased.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.145-152
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• 1993

An experimental research was conducted in order to study the treatability of leachate and a combined wastewater of municipal landfill leachate and municipal sewage. The landfill leachate was that of Nanjido landfill site, and the municipal sewage was obtained from Chungnang municipal sewage treatment plant of Seoul. Several sets of bench-scale sequencing batch reactor(SBR) were used as experimental apparatus. Specially investigated items in this experiment were the removal efficiency of substrate and the influence of the hydraulic retention time(HRT). The experiment lasted for about 8 months. The result are as follows ; 1) The characteristics of leachate were pH 7.4~8.1, BOD 280~450 mg/l, COD 1300 ~ 1350 mg/l, T-N 2021 ~2110 mg/1,7-P 2.7 ~3.2 mg/l, Cl-3540 ~4085 mg/l, and heavy metals are a very small amount. And the characteristics of sewage Ivere pH 6.9~7.3, BOD 78.4~129.3 mg/1, COD 121.2~305.0 mg/l, T-N 14.9~36.4 mg/l, T-P 1.3 ~5.9 mg/l. 2) The treatability of leachate alone was not treat well. So for the good treatment of leachate, it was necessary to deal with the pretreatment before biological treatment and a combined treatment of municipal serfage. 3) The various contents of the leachate were 5%, 10%, and 50% and the removal efficiency of COD was 86.0%, 82.8%, 60.6%, and 31.7%. The maximum content of the leachate which could be sucessfully treated by SBR in the combined treatment was 10% of that of sewage.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.267-276
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• 2010

Many plants have been improved to adapt the target of the biological treatment processes changed from organics to nutrients since the water quality criteria of effluent was reinforced and included T-N and T-P for the municipal wastewater treatment plant. To meet the criteria of T-N and T-P, the conventional biological reactor such as aeration tank in activated sludge system is changed to the BNR (biological nutrient removal) processes, which are typically divided into three units as anaerobic, anoxic and oxic tank. Therefore, the solid separation process should be redesigned to fit the BNR processes in case of the application of the DAF (dissolved air flotation) process as an alternatives because the solid-liquid separation characteristics of microbial flocs produced in the BNR processes are also different from that of activated sludge system as well. The results of this study revealed that the microbial floc of the anaerobic tank was the hardest to be separated among the three steps of the unit tanks for the BNR processes. On the contrary, the oxic tank was best for the removal efficiency of nutrients as well as suspended solid. In addition, the removal efficiency of nutrients was much improved under the chemical coagulation treatment though coagulation was not indispensable with a respect to the solid separation. On the other hand, in spited that the separation time for the microbial floc from the BNR processes were similar to the typical particles like clay flocs, over $2.32{\times}10^3$ ppm of air volume concentration was required to keep back the break-up of the bubble-floc agglomerates.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2012

The coupling of anaerobic biological process and membrane separation could provide excellent suspended solids removal and better biomass retention for wastewater treatment. This coupling improves the biological treatment process while allowing for the recovery of energy through biogas. This review gives a basic description of the anaerobic wastewater treatment process, summarizes the state of the art of anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs), and describes the current research trends and needs for the development of AnMBRs. The research interest on AnMBR has grown over the conventional anaerobic processes such as upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB). Studies on AnMBRs have developed different reactor configurations to enhance performances. The AnMBR performances have achieved comparable status to other high rate anaerobic reactors. AnMBR is highly suitable for application with thermophilic anaerobic process to enhance performances. Studies indicate that the applications of AnMBR are not only limited to the high strength industrial wastewater treatment, but also for the municipal wastewater treatment. In recent years, there is a significant progress in the membrane fouling studies, which is a major concern in AnMBR application.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

Two microbial communities of activated sludge in the same municipal wastewater, but treated with different systems, were studied and compared using molecular microbiological approaches. The bacterial 16S rDNA sequences from 124 clones were analyzed, however, the majority of them were not closely related to any known species, and found to belong to 8 different phylogenetic groups and 3 different unidentified groups. The relative frequencies of each group were similar between the two microbial communities. Fingerprinting using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) showed that the putative Nitrospira-related populations were more diverse and quantitatively higher in the KNR process system than in the other system using a conventional activated sludge process. The relationship between the bacterial community composition and the higher removal efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus in the KNR process is discussed.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.207-214
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• 2013

화석연료의 매장량 한계와 해로운 영향으로 인하여 이를 대신할 대체 에너지연구가 요구되고 있다. 최근, 미세조류를 통한 바이오에너지 생산이 주목을 받고 있으며, 도시하수를 영양원으로 이용하여 미세조류를 배양하는 것은 생산비용을 낮추는 좋은 대안이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 옥외 수질정화 배양 시스템(Small Scale Raceway Pond; SSRP)을 이용하여 적용했다. 실험에 사용한 도시하수는 하수종말처리장의 1차 침전지를 거친 유입수를 이용하였으며, 토착 미세조류를 SSRP에서 배양하였다. 체류시간 6일 운전 후 TN, TP, $NH_3-N$의 평균 제거 효율은 77.77%, 63.55%, 89.02%로 각각 나타났다. 또한 미세조류 내의 지질함량은 평균 19.51%로 나타났으며, FAME는 주로 18:n인 linolenate, linoleate로 이루어져 있음을 확인하였다. 18S rRNA 유전자 분석과 현미경 관찰을 통하여 녹조류인 Chlorella와 Scenedesmus가 우점하는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과를 통하여 도시하수는 미세조류 배양에 필요한 질소와 인을 제공할 수 있으며, 미세조류를 이용한 SSRP를 통하여 정화될 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다. 또한 미세조류 배양을 통해 얻어진 바이오매스는 바이오디젤 전환을 통하여 상업화될 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1281-1286
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• 2008

하수처리과정에서 온실가스인 N$_2$O가 발생하는데, N$_2$O의 지구온난화 기여율은 CO$_2$의 310배에 달한다. 본 연구에서는 하수처리공정에 따라 온실가스 배출계수가 어떤 차이를 보이는지를 분석하기위해 운전 중인 4개의 하수처리공정을 대상으로 조사하였다. 배출계수 산정을 위한 시료채취는 Flux Chamber를 이용하였으며, N$_2$O 정량은 6 port gas sampling valve가 장착된 Agilent사의 GC로 분석하였으며, 검출기는 ECD를 사용하였다. 하수처리공정별 오염물질 유입 부하에 대한 N$_2$O 배출계수 산정결과 5-stage공정은 0.94 g-N$_2$O/kg-TN으로 가장 낮았으며, 다음으로 활성슬러지공정이 2.65 g-N$_2$O/kg-TN, Denipho공정이 9.30 g-N$_2$O/kg-TN, 그리고 SBR공정이 26.73 g-N$_2$O/kg-TN으로 가장 높게 나타났다. 하수처리에서 N$_2$O 배출량 감소를 위해서는 조사대상 시설 중 5-stage 공정이 가장 적절한 것으로 평가하였다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.501-507
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• 2017

산업하수 내 함유된 고농도 중금속(니켈)은 하수처리장 질산화율 감소의 원인으로 지목되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고농도 니켈을 함유한 산업하수의 질산화율 분석 및 개선 방안을 도출하고자 실험실 규모 반응조 운전을 실시하였다. 운전 결과를 고농도 니켈을 함유한 경우 질산화율은 20% 내외로 낮은 범위를 보였지만, 저농도 니켈이 유입되었을 경우 질산화율이 향상(70% 이상)되었다. 질산화율의 차이를 보인 주요 원인은 니켈이 반응조 내 미생물의 활성을 감소시킨 것으로 AUR과 SNR 분석을 통해 나타났다. 또한 고농도 니켈이 유입될 경우, 체류시간 증가와 더불어 질산화율이 증가하였다. 즉, 고농도 중금속(니켈)을 함유한 하수의 경우 미생물 관리 및 체류시간 증가를 통해 안정적인 질산화율을 확보할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권11호
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• pp.318-327
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• 2017

Background: A typical sewage treatment plant is designed for organic and nutrient removal from municipal sewage water and not targeted to eliminate micropollutants such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and nano-sized metals which become a big concern for sustainable human and ecological system and are mainly discharged from sewage treatment plant. Therefore, despite contaminant removal by wastewater treatment processes, there are still remaining environmental risks by untreated pollutants in STP (sewage treatment plant) effluents. This study performed aquatic toxicity tests of raw wastewater and treated effluents in two sewage treatment plants to evaluate toxicity reduction by wastewater treatment process and analyze concentration of contaminants to reveal potential toxic factors in STP effluents. Methods: Water samples were collected from each treatment steps of two STPs, and acute and chronic toxicity tests were conducted following USEPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) and OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) guidelines. Endpoints were immobility for mortality and reproduction effect for estrogenicity. Results: Acute $EC_{50}s$ (median effective concentration) of influents for Seungki (SK) and Jungnang (JN) STPs are $54.13{\pm}32.64%$ and $30.38{\pm}24.96%$, respectively, and reduced to $96.49{\pm}7.84%$ and 100%. Acute toxicity reduction was clearly correlated with SS (suspended solids) concentration because of filter feeding characteristics of test organisms. Chronic toxicity tests revealed that lethal effect was reduced and low concentration of influents showed higher number of neonates. However, toxicity reduction was not related to nutrient removal. Fecundity effect positively increased in treated wastewater compared to that in raw wastewater, and no significant differences were observed compared to the control group in JN final effluent implying potential effects of estrogenic compounds in the STP effluents. Conclusions: Conventional wastewater treatment process reduced some organics and nutritional compounds from wastewater, and it results in toxicity reduction in lethal effect and positive reproductive effect but not showing correlation. Unknown estrogenic compounds could be a reason causing the increase of brood size. This study suggests that pharmaceutical residues and nanoparticles in STP effluents are one of the major micropollutants and underline as one of estrogenic effect factors.