• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2003

Although clay can sorb significant amounts of inorganic contaminants from soils and wastewater, the hydration of exchangeable cations in clay minerals makes it hydrophilic at the clay mineral surfaces and interlayers. Thus, natural clays are often ineffective in complexing and stabilizing toxic organic contaminants in soils and groundwater environment. But, substituting these hydrated cations with cationic surfactant such as QAC(Quaternary ammonium Compound) can change the natural clay from hydrophilic to hydropobic. Furthermore functionalized organoclay can act as a powerful dual function sorbent for both toxic metals and organic compounds. It also can be used as landfill clay liners, slurry walls, nano-composite materials, petroleum tank farms, waste treatment, and filter systems. To use this modified clay minerals effectively, it is required to understand the fundamental chemistry of organoclay, synthetic procedures, its engineering application, bioavailability of sorbed ion-clay complex, and potential risk of organoclay. In this review, we investigate the use, application and historical background of the organoclay in remediation technology. The state-of-the-art of organoclay research is also discussed. Finally, we suggest some future implications of organoclay in environmental research.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.217-222
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• 1998

Organics matters including algae are the major contaminants of Nak-dong river and it's concentration Is more Increasing now. The use of coagulants has been Incresed for the effective treatment of drinking water, and aluminum coagulants have been the most widely used in raw water treatment. However, when inorganic metal coagulant is excessively used for long period, it would result in secondary problems, such as increasing sludge production, enhancing the cost of water treatment process, and increasing concentration of residual metal, especially aluminum. Therefore, recently. in order to reduce the use of metal coagulant and enhance the coagulation effectiveness, several alternative coagulants, such as polymeric Inorganic coagulants and organic polymers, have been used In water treatment plants. The objectives of thins research were (11 to determine optimum dosage concentration and compare the coajuiation efnciency at various pH ranees with alum alone, alum+cationic polymer, and alum+anlonlc polymer, (21 to evaluate the amount of alum reduced by using organic polymer, (31 to maximize removal officiency of organic matter and minimize the concentration of residual aluminum.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.266-272
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• 2010

국내 유통되고 있는 농산물에 대한 비소 함량을 확인하여 국민의 식품별 섭취량을 고려한 비소 위해성을 평가하였다. 총 비소 함량은 microwave장치를 이용해 전처리한 후 ICP/MS로 측정하였으며, 농산물 중 유기 (AsC, AsB, MMA, DMA) 및 무기비소 (As(III), As(V)) 함량을 측정하기 위해 50% 메탄올을 이용한 액액추출법과 이온교환크로마토그래피를 활용한 HPLC-ICP/MS법을 사용하였다. 비소 함량 실태조사를 위해 국내 유통 중인 농산물 20개 품목, 329건을 수거하였으며, 농산물 중 총 비소 함량은 0.001~0.718 mg/kg인 반면 무기 및 유기비소 함량은 모든 시료에서 검출한계 이하이었다. 노출 및 위해평가를 위해 농산물별 섭취를 통한 비소 노출량을 산출한 후, JECFA에서 설정한 PTWI값 대비 위해도를 평가하였으며 비소의 PTWI 는 무기비소로써 15 ${\mu}g$/kg b.w./week이다. 쌀을 제외한 농산물 섭취를 통한 총 비소 및 무기비소의 중간노출량은 0.0002~0.012, 0.0001~0.001 ${\mu}g$/kg b.w./day 이었으며, 이는 PTWI 대비 0.01~0.5%, 0.002~0.1%에 해당 하였다. 쌀을 통한 총 비소 및 무기비소 중간노출량은 0.603, 0.041 ${\mu}g$/kg b.w./day이었으며, 각각 PTWI 대비 28.1%, 1.9%에 해당하였다. 따라서, 국내 유통되는 농산물 섭취를 통한 비소의 노출량은 JECFA의 안전권고치보다 낮았으며, 우리나라 국민은 농산물에 존재하는 비소의 위해성으로부터 안전한 것으로 사료된다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.123-146
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• 2014

Safe water has becoming a competitive resource in many parts of the world due to increasing population, prolonged droughts, climate change etc. The development of economical and stable materials and methods for providing the fresh water in adequate amounts is the need of the water industry. Nanomaterials have unique characteristics e.g., large surface areas, size, shape, and dimensions etc. that make them particularly attractive for removing various contaminants from polluted waters. Nanotechnology based multifunctional and highly efficient membrane processes are providing affordable solutions in the new era that do not rely on large infrastructures or centralizes systems. The objective of the current study is to review the possible applications of the membrane based nanomaterials/composites for the removal of various contaminations from polluted waters. The article will briefly overview the availability and practice of different nanomaterials based membranes for removal of bacteria and viruses, organic compounds and inorganic solutes etc. present in surface water, ground water, seawater and/or industrial water. Finally, recommendations are made based on the current practices of nanofiltration membranes in water industry for a stand-alone membrane filtration system in removing various types of contaminants from polluted waters.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2005년도 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOIL & GROUNDWATER ENVIRONMENT
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• pp.145-146
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• 2005

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1548-1550
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• 2000

The effect of air pollution on the distribution facilities was investigated. In order to evaluate the pollution level in the metropolitan area, contaminated specimens were analyzed with various technique such as ICP-AES, EA, and so on. The contaminants on the surface of the distribution line or insulators were combined with approximately 10 percent of organic and 90 percent of inorganic materials. We found out that the electric facilities were affected by the contaminants on the surface of the facilities.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2007

There is a growing interest to develop a new cleaning technology to overcome the disadvantages of wet cleaning technologies such as environmental pollution and the cleaning difficulty of contaminants on integrated circuits. Laser cleaning is a potential technology to remove various pollutants on a wafer surface. However, there is no fundamental data about cleaning efficiencies and cleaning mechanisms of contaminants on a wafer surface using a laser cleaning technology. Therefore, the cleaning characteristics of a wafer surface using an excimer laser were investigated in this study. Fingerprint consisting of inorganic and organic materials was chosen as a representative of pollutants and the effectiveness of a laser irradiation on a wafer cleaning has been investigated qualitatively and quantitatively. The results have shown that cleaning degree is proportional to the laser irradiation time and repetition rate, and quantitative analysis conducted by an image processing method also have shown the same trend. Furthermore, the cleaning efficiency of a wafer contaminated by fingerprint strongly depended on a photothermal cleaning mechanism and the species were removed in order of hydrophilic and hydrophobic contaminants by laser irradiation.

• 한국환경기술학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.543-549
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• 2018

본 연구는 정수처리장의 유기막의 처리수와 원수의 블렌딩된 혼합시료를 이용하여 무기막 처리 시 flux의 량에 따른 처리 효율을 실험실 수준에서 규명하였다. 각각의 설정된 블렌딩과 flux의 값에 따라 어떠한 성능을 내는지 고찰하고, 이를 바탕으로 각 측정항목에 따른 최고의 효율을 도출하였다. 처리원수의 수질과 처리량에 따라 서로 다른 처리효율을 보였으며, 특히 탁도제거에 큰 효율을 보였다. 또한 $UV_{254}$의 경우 처리 원수와 flux에 따른 제거 효율이 최대 69 %에서 최소 48 %로 원수의 농도에 따라 다른 제거율을 보였으며, TOC와 DOC의 경우 원수의 값이 낮아 처리 효율이 최대 22 %와 28 %의 값을 나타내었다. 이상의 결과는 무기막 공정에서 오염물질이 효과적으로 제거되는 최적의 공정이 존재함을 시사하며, 대상 원수와 운전조건에 따른 최적화가 필요함을 보인다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2006년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.16-19
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• 2006

Humin is the insoluble fraction of humic materials and play an important roles in the irreversible sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants onto soil particles. However, there have been limited knowledge about the sorption and chemical properties of humin due to the difficulties in its separation from the inorganic matrix(mainly clays and oxides). In this study, do-ashed humin was isolated from a soil sample after removing free lipid and alkali-soluble humic fractions followed by dissolution of mineral matrix with 2% HF, and characterized by elemental analysis, C-13 NMR spectroscopic method. Sorption behavior of 1-naphthol with humin was also investigated from aqueous solution. C-13 NMR spectra indicate that humin molecules are mainly made up of aliphatic carbon including carbohydrate, methylene chain etc.. Sorption intensity for 1-naphthol was increased as organic carbon content of humin increased and log Koc values for the 1-naphthol sorption were determined to be ${\sim}3.12$

• 환경생물
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2002

Benthic organisms dwell in sediment-water interface that contains significant amount of organic and inorganic contaminants. Their feeding behavior is highly related with sediment itself and pore water in the sediments, especially in ease of deposit feeder (i.e. polychaete, amphipod). The acid volatile sulfide (AVS) is one of the important binding phases of sediment-bound metals in addition to organic matter and Fe and Mn oxide fractions in sediments, particularly in anoxic sediments. The AVS model is a powerful tool to predict metal bioavailability and bioaccumulation in benthic organisms considering SEM/AVS mole ratios in surficial sediments. However, several biogeochemical factors must be considered to use AVS model in the sediment-bound metal bioavailability.