• Title/Summary/Keyword: Ocean Pollution

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파랑 에너지 변환을 위한 월파제어구조물의 월파량 산정 실험 (Experimental Study on Wave Overtopping Rate of Wave Overtopping Control Structure for Wave Energy Conversion)

  • 신승호;홍기용
    • 한국해양공학회지
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    • 제19권6호통권67호
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2005
  • Wave energy has been considered to be one of the most promising energy resources for the future, as it is pollution-free and an abundant natural resource. However, since it has drawbacks of non-stationary energy density, it is necessary to change the wave energy into a simple concentrated energy. Progressive waves in a coastal area can be amplified, swashed, and overtopped by a wave overtopping control structure. By conserving the quantity of overflow in a reservoir, the kinetic energy of the waves can be converted to the potential energy with a hydraulic head above the mean sea level. The potential energy in the form of a hydraulic head can be utilized to produce electric power, similar to hydro-electric power generation. This study aims to find the most optimal shape of wave overtopping structure for maximum overtopping volume of sea water; for this purpose, we carried out the wave overtopping experiment in a wave tank, under both regular and irregular wave conditions.

GUI 기반 해양오염원 정보제공 SIMULAIOR 구현에 관한 연구 I (A Study on Realizing the GUI Based Ocean Pollutant Information Simulator I)

  • 노준혁;윤성환;김명훈;윤범상
    • 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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    • 제5권3호
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2002
  • 기름유출이나 적조 등에 의한 해양오염사고가 빈번하게 발생되고 있고, 이들을 처리하기 위한 방제작업이 수행되고 있다. 효과적인 방제작업을 수행하기 위해서는 오염원의 거동을 방제자가 신속히 예측하여 오염원의 확산을 막아야한다. 본 연구는 해양오염원의 이동예측을 방제자가 손쉽게 수행 할 수 있는 프로그램 개발에 관한 내용이다. 본 논문에서는 GUI 기법을 이용하여 연구중인 ODM(Oil Diffusion Modelling)의 구성과 내용에 관하여 소개하였다. ODM은 전ㆍ후 처리부분과 수치해석 부분으로 나뉘어 있으며 윈도우 환경으로 구성되어 방제담당자가 손쉽게 프로그램을 작동시켜 결과를 확인 할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구가 계속 진행됨으로서 보다 편리한 확산예측 프로그램이 개발될 것으로 기대한다.

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임해도시 실업계 고등학교 학생의 해양환경에 대한 관심과 개선방안 (Concern and Improvement of the Ocean Environment by Vocational High School Students in a Seaside City)

  • 김삼곤;옥미경
    • 수산해양교육연구
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to prepare the way for the prevention and improvement of the ocean environment pollution and destruction by researching and analyzing the degree of interests in the ocean environment which the students of seaside vocational high schools have. The concerns of this study are as follows: 1. The vocational high school students in the seaside cities of Busan and Pohang have recognized that the ocean is the object of the highest potential of development and that through the degree of their recognition that they should better preserve the ocean environment prior to a high degree of local seaside development. 2. Although they have recognized that the ocean environment has a great influence on the life of people, their interests in the environment is low. Also, it is shown that they get their knowledge and information through TV. 3. They've understood that the main factor of ocean contamination concerns the home and the causes of ocean contamination are sewage and waste material from daily life. Moreover, their answers reveal that they believe that they should participate in a sanitization activity for the ocean environment voluntarily and put trash into nearby trash cans as opposed to inconsiderately throwing away trash on the beach. 4. Their answers also show that they recognize the elements that can best preserve the ocean environment start at home and with government, and school services through experience activities are the most effective for the education of the ocean environment.

USING SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY TO MAP OIL SPILLS IN THE EAST CHINA SEA

  • Shi, Lijian;Ivanov, Andrei Yu.;He, Mingxia;Zhao, Chaofang
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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    • pp.981-984
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    • 2006
  • Oil pollution of the ocean is a major environmental problem, especially in its coastal zones. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) flown on satellites, such as ERS-2 and Envisat, has been proved to be a useful tool in oil spill monitoring due to its wide coverage, day and night, and all-weather capability. The total 120 SAR images containing oil spill over the East China Sea were collected and analyzed, ranging in date from July 23, 2002 to November 11, 2005. After preprocessed, SAR images were segmented by adaptive threshold method. The oil spill images were incorporated into GIS after distinguished from look-like phenomena, finally we presented the oil spills distribution map for the East China Sea. The wide-swath and quick-looks SAR imagery for mapping of oil spill distribution over large marine areas were proved to be useful when full resolution data are not available. After the temporal and spatial distribution of the oil spills were analyzed, we found that most of oil spills were distributed along the main ship routes, which means the illegal discharge by ships, and the occurrence of oil spill detected on SAR images acquired during morning and summer is much higher than during evening and winter.

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뉴스초점 - 해파리의 이상증식과 피해현황 (Unusual population explosion af the jellyfish and damage status)

  • 강영승
    • 기술사
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    • 제43권1호
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    • pp.46-49
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    • 2010
  • Sea temperature rise by global warming, depletion of fishery resources and ocean pollution have caused unusual population explosion of the jellyfish, The blooming of jellyfish have brought social problem and economic damage, Therefore the interdisciplinary study of jellyfish by scientists and countermeasure are needed.

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Variation in Microbial Biomass and Community Structure in Sediments of Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan/East Sea), as Estimated from Fatty Acid Biomarkers

  • Zhukova Natalia V.
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • 제40권3호
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    • pp.145-153
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    • 2005
  • Variation in the microbial biomass and community structure found in sediment of heavily polluted bays and the adjacent unpolluted areas were examined using phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Total microbial biomass and microbial community structure were responding to environmental determinants, sediment grain size, depth of sediment, and pollution due to petroleum hydrocarbons. The marker fatty acids of microeukaryotes and prokaryotes - aerobic, anaerobic, and sulfate-reducing bacteria - were detected in sediments of the areas studied. Analysis of the fatty acid profiles revealed wide variations in the community structure in sediments, depending on the extent of pollution, sediment depth, and sediment grain size. The abundance of specific bacterial fatty acids points to the dominance of prokaryotic organisms, whose composition differed among the stations. Fatty acid distributions in sediments suggest the high contribution of aerobic bacteria. Sediments of polluted sites were significantly enriched with anaerobic bacteria in comparison with clean areas. The contribution of this bacterial group increased with the depth of sediments. Anaerobic bacteria were predominantly present in muddy sediments, as evidenced from the fatty acid profiles. Relatively high concentrations of marker fatty acids of sulfate-reducing bacteria were associated with organic pollution in this site. Specific fatty acids of microeukaryotes were more abundant in surface sediments than in deeper sediment layers. Among the microeukaryotes, diatoms were an important component. Significant amounts of bacterial biomass, the predominance of bacterial biomarker fatty acids with abundance of anaerobic and sulfate-reducing bacteria are indicative of a prokaryotic consortium responsive to organic pollution.

오일 회수를 위한 폐로프와 폐어망 열분해 장치 개발에 대한 연구 (A Study on the Pyrolysis System Development for Oil Recovery from Waste Fishing Nets and Ropes)

  • 김용섭;유정석
    • 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2001
  • 현재 우리 나라 해양 환경 오염의 실태는 매우 심각하다. 또한 이로 인한 피해가 수산 양식 및 선박의 안전 운항에 많은 지장을 초래하고 있다. 그 동안 이를 해결하기 위한 대책의 일환으로 오염원인 해양 폐기물을 수거하여 소각한 후 매립하는 방법을 주로 사용하여 왔다. 하지만 이 방법에는 몇 가지 문제점들이 있다. 먼저 해양 폐기물 중에서 가연성 물질의 대부분은 고분자 화합물로서 이를 소각하기 위해서는 별도로 고안된 장치가 필요하고 배기에 의한 대기 오염의 우려가 있다. 또한 매립은 폐기물 그 자체가 자연분해가 거의 불가능하며 침출수에 의한 토양 오염이 우려된다. 따라서 최근에는 이러한 고분자 폐기물을 열분해하여 오일을 회수함으로써 자원을 재활용하고 2차 오염도 일으키지 않는 처리 방법에 대한 연구가 활발하게 수행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고분자 해양 폐기물을 열분해하여 오일을 회수하기 위한 장치를 개발하기 위하여 폐기물의 물리적ㆍ화학적 특성 및 승온 속도 변화가 폐기물의 감량특성에 미치는 영향 등을 조사하였다. 그리고 폐기물을 승온 속도 변화에 따라 열분해하여 회수된 오일과 비응축 가스의 비율을 실험함으로써 가장 많은 오일이 회수되는 조건을 밝혀내기도 하였다. 끝으로 열분해 오일 회수 장치에 대한 경제성 논란을 검증하기 위하여 이 장치에 대한 경제성 평가를 수행함으로써 개발의 성공 여부를 확신할 수 있게 되었다.

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