• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.287-288
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• 2003

식물은 자연 VOC(NVOC)의 가장 주요한 배출원이며, 대기중으로 유입되는 반응성이 강한 탄화수소의 배출원이다. 이러한 NVOC는 다소 늦게 알려진바 1970년대부터 그 중요성이 인식되기 시작했다(Dimitriades, 1981). 전 세계적으로는 NVOC의 배출량이 인위적인 것의 약 7배 정도에 이를 것으로 추정되고 있다. 특히, 우리나라의 경우는 전 국토의 65%가 산림으로 이루어져 있어 전국적인 규모로 볼때 NVOC의 양이 인위적인 VOC의 양을 휠씬 초과할 것이라고 판단된다. 그럼에도 불구하고 국내에서는 NVOC에 대한 정량적인 배출량 산출이 거의 없어 배출량 산정에 어려움이 많고, 외국 자료를 인용한 배출량 산출로 인해 자료의 신뢰성에도 논란의 여지가 많았다. (중략)

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.316-325
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• 2012

페인트제조시설에서 다량 발생하는 VOC/HAPs은 물질별 독성, 발암성 등의 특징으로 미량으로도 인체에 유해할 뿐만 아니라, 하절기 오존 생성과 악취 민원의 원인물질로 작용하고 있어 이들 시설에 대한 배출특성과 제어방안에 대한 연구가 시급한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 부산지역에 소재한 페인트제조시설 4개소를 선정하여 VOC/HAPs 주 배출공정 및 주요 오염물질을 도출하고 적절한 제어방안을 제시 하였으며, 천연소재인 Kapok fiber의 흡착 시험을 통하여 상용 흡착제로서의 적용 가능성을 평가하였다. 연구결과, 발생되는 VOC/HAPs의 60% 이상이 방지시설로 유입되지 않고 공장내부로 자연 휘발되어 외기로 확산되는 것으로 조사되었고 주요 물질로는 Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene이 70% 이상의 분포를 나타내었다. 주요 악취 원인물질은 A, B, C사는 Toluene, D사는 m/p-Xylene으로 나타났으며, 악취방지시설인 활성탄 흡착시설의 평균 제거효율은 66.2%로 평가되었다. 이 결과를 토대로 오염물질의 외부확산을 최소화하기 위한 방안으로 중앙제어식 환기장치의 설치 등 다양한 제어방안과 함께 실제 운영시설의 규모를 고려한 흡착시설의 규격, 흡착제량, 교체주기 등을 산출 제시하여 현장에 적용 가능하도록 하였다. 도출된 원인물질을 표준시료로 활용하여 유통 활성탄과 천연소재인 Kapok fiber의 Toluene 흡착시험을 실시한 결과, 활성탄의 제거율은 대부분 99% 이상 우수한 것으로 나타났으나 Kapok fiber는 Space Velocity의 차이에 따라 91.9%, 66.7%의 제거효율을 나타내어 Kapok fiber의 흡착능은 미흡한 것으로 나타났으나, 저렴한 소재 가격, 친환경성 등을 감안한다면 기초 흡착제로서의 적용은 가능한 것으로 판단되었고 향후 상용화에 필요한 추가연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1011-1016
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• 2006

Recently, volatile organic compound(VOC) has been noted as a main cause of air pollution. VOC, with its toxic and offensive odor, is hazardous to health. Furthermore indoor, underground and hish-rise buildings are preferable living spaces. People spend more than 80% of the day indoor, so indoor air pollution is a matter of importance. In Korea, from 2004, 10 types of indoor pollutants in public facilities have been identified. However, there is no standard for individual VOC, so the regulation has not yet effectively been carried out. In this study, we have studied on the diffusion of Benzene in a room using a numerical analysis for various air-controlled conditions consisted of door, window and ventilation system. This study investigates spatial concentration distribution and time-history of room-averaged benzene concentration for several cases. The results of this study show that when the room is ventilated by a small fan only for 30 minutes, the average concentration of benzene is decreased a very little, thus the impact to human body would be serious compared to the case of natural ventilation by window and door, In the case of natural ventilation by window and door, if the wind speed is higher than 0.5m/s, it takes small than 4 minutes for benzene to spread to the target concentration of $1.2mg/m^3$.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2014

백합나무 판재를 벽판재로 이용하기 위해 백합나무의 생재와 건조재에 대한 휘발성유기화합물(VOCs)과 알데히드류 방출 특성을 검토하였다. VOCs 및 formaldehyde를 포함한 aldehyde류의 방출량 측정은 다중이용시설 등의 실내공기질 관리법에 공시된 20 ${\ell}$ Chamber법에 따라 실시하였다. 백합나무의 생재 및 건조재에서는 30여 가지 이상의 VOCs가 검출되었다. 백합나무의 Total VOC 구성 비율 가운데 천연VOC (NVOC)의 비율은 11.1%로 다른 침엽수종과 비교하여 낮게 나타났다. 백합나무의 aldehyde류 분석 결과, 심재 및 변재에서 같은 3종(acetaldehyde, ketone, propionaldehyde)이 검출되었으며, formaldehyde의 방출량은 $4.01{\mu}g/m^3$ 이하로 나타났다. m-Tolualdehyde의 경우 백합나무 건조재의 심재에서만 $33.6{\mu}g/m^3$의 방출량을 보였으며, 심재와 변재 모두 ketone의 방출량이 가장 높게 나타났다. 백합나무 특유의 역한 냄새는 acetaldehyde와 propionaldehyde와 기타 VOCs에 의한 것으로 추정된다. 건조한 백합나무에서는 휘발성이 강한 ketone의 방출량이 증가하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제17권E2호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2001

In recent years there have been growing interests in the potential environmental effects of global climate change. Of specific interests is the role that climate change may play in altering natural volatile organic compound.(NVOC) emissions from trees and the subsequent impact of this perturbation on air quality and ozone formation. A novel vegetation enclosure chamber method was designed and constructed of Tedlar in order to estimate more accurate and precise NVOC emission rates of either small whole plants or the branches of large trees. The enclosure chamber was initially tested in the laboratory and also successfully evaluated in the field. Overall precision for this enclosure was estimated as RSD<10%(n=9). The overall errors associated with the enclosure method in a laboratory system might be relatively small (say<$\pm$15%); however, they might be rather large(say$\pm$40%) in a field-based system. Two consecutive samples were collected on each sampling day from the two pine species during the test period. Slash pine studies showed that the absolute percentage difference between the first and second samples varied from 0.33 to 29%. The percent differences between consecutive emission for loblolly pines varied from 0.74 to 24.2%.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.685-691
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• 2000

In order to provide basis for an accurate concentration determination of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) in air, four different institutions participated in simultaneous measurements of several VOC species under the experimental scheme of the Measurement and Analysis Division(MAD) of the Korea Society for Atmospheric Environment(KOSAE). Two types of experiments were undertaken by collecting and analyzing ambient air samples from the 7th floor of Natural Science Building, Han Tang University during two day periods of the late May 1998. The first typer of experiment was conducted as five consecutive experiments at 2-hour intervals by two institutions. On the other hand. the second type of experiment was performed as two -10hr sampling by three different institutions. The data obtained from different type of experiments were examined using various statistical approaches. In general, the results of these experiments indicated that the VOC data produced by a number of Korean institutions be fairly agreeable.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.616-623
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• 2010

Recently, interests in indoor air quality (IAQ) have been increased; however, a number of researchers have mainly focused on anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (AVOC) emitted from building materials. Therefore, the properties of natural VOC (NVOC) and anthropogenic VOC (AVOC) emitted from wood-based panels was investigated in this work. VOCs emitted from these panels were sampled through Tenax TA/Cabotrap and analyzed by GC-MS and GC-FID. Comparisons were made concerning TVOC, NVOC, and composition ratios of NVOC. It was revealed that TVOC emission rates of midium density fiber (MDF) were the highest. Besides, it was found that emissions of NVOC from wood-based panels were much higher than those of anthropogenic AVOC except for plywood of Oceania timber. It was also observed that the composition ratio of NVOC emitted from plywood of Pinus radiata was the highest as 65% of TVOC. Major NVOC components were monoterpene compounds such as $\alpha$-pinene, $\beta$-pinene, d-limonene, camphene and $\alpha$-terpinene. It was concluded that the composition rates of VOCs emitted from building materials were clearly different according to the raw materials and manufacturing methods.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2015

In order to prevent decay, distortion, bending, twist on wood products such as wooden furnitures, variety of coating materials were developed and used so far. The coating materials for wood finishing can be synthesized by natural resource or petroleum. However, these coating materials can cause contamination of indoor air quality due to emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this study, commercialized coating materials for wood finishing such as varnish, coat, and stain were evaluated on emission characteristics of VOCs. Among the varnish, eco-friendly products had about 15~46% lower TVOC emission ($1,042{\mu}g/m^2h{\sim}3,257{\mu}g/m^2h$, respectively, than typical product ($7,100{\mu}g/m^2h$). Natural resource based coating material showed lowest TVOC emission level. However, one of natural resource based waterborne stain showed higher TVOC emission level because waterborne stain already contained higher amount of natural VOC. Oil-based stain might not be suitable for indoor use on interior wall and furniture due to exceed amount of TVOC. Based on results, natural resource based coat or waterborne stain are recommenced to use on wood products.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2007

In order to investigate the compositions and the emission rates of monoterpenes emitted from coniferous trees, those from Larix leptoleis (Sieb, et Zucc.) Gordon were measured. In spring and summer, the major monoterpenes were ${\alpha}-terpinene,\;{\alpha}-pinene$, myrcene; however, ${\alpha}-pinene\;and\;{\alpha}-terpinene$ were most abundant in fall. The total mean monoterpene emission rates were $0.455\;({\mu}gC/gdw/hr)$ during the whole period. The higher monoterpene emission rates were found in fall compared to those in spring and summer. In addition, the slopes (${\beta}\;value$) between emission rate and temperature were two times lower in fall than those in spring and summer. It was also found that Larix leptoleis (Sieb. et Zucc.) Cordon had lower monoterpene emission rates than P. densiflora and P. rigida.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2005년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.114-116
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• 2005

Natural attenuation has been actively studied and often selected as final clean-up process in remediation of contaminated ground-water and soil for the last decade. Accordingly, understanding of natural processes affecting the fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface becomes important for a success of implementation of the natural remediation strategy, Contaminant advection and diffusion processes in the unsaturated zone are naturally related to environmental changes in the atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure changes affecting the transport of contaminants in the subsurface are investigated in this study. Moisture content, trichloroethylene (TCE) concentration, temperature, and pressure variations in the subsurface were measured for the July, August, November, and December 2001 at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. These data were used for a one-phase flow and one-component transport model in simulating the soil-gas flow and accordingly the TCE transport in the subsurface in accordance with the atmosphere pressure variations at the surface. The soil-gas velocities during the sampling periods varied with a magnitude of $10^{-6}\;to\;10^{-7}\;m\;s^{-1}$ at land surface. The TCE advection fluxes at land surface were several orders of magnitude smaller than the TCE diffusion fluxes. A sensitivy analysis indicated that advection fluxes were more sensitive to changes in geo-environmental conditions compared to diffusion fluxes. Of all the parameters investigated in this study, moisture content has the most significant effect on TCE advection and diffusion fluxes.