• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.401-409
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• 2009

The results of particulate matters level and heavy metal concentration, which surveyed in Gwang-Yang, Dang-Jin steel industry area, are as follows; The $PM_{2.5}$, $PM_{10}$ of exposure area are $22.3{\mu}g/m^3$, $40.4{\mu}g/m^3$ each in Kum-Ho dong, and $28.1{\mu}g/m^3$, 51.5 each in Jung dong. The $PM_{2.5}$, $PM_{10}$ of control area are $16.4{\mu}g/m^3$, $29.5{\mu}g/m^3$ each in Bonggang-myeon. The level is higher in exposure area than control area. In case of Dang Jin, the concentration of $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{2.5}$ is higher in exposure area than control area ($PM_{2.5}-20.4{\mu}g/m^3$, $PM_{10}-39.2{\mu}g/m^3$). The Pb level of Dang Jin area is higher in exposure area ($0.13{\mu}g/m^3$) than control area ($0.1{\mu}g/m^3$) and both Gwang-Yang and Dang-Jin area lower level than the Guideline level of Korea EPA.

• 분석과학
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.209-218
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• 2016

제주도 한라산 1100고지에서 2011~2012년에 PM₁₀과 PM_2.5 미세먼지를 채취하여 이온 및 원소 성분을 분석한 결과로부터 대기 미세먼지 조성과 배출원 특성을 조사하였다. 연구기간의 PM₁₀과 PM_2.5 질량농도는 각각 22.0±13.1 µg/m³, 11.3±6.1 µg/m³로 수도권지역의 2.4~2.6 배 낮은 수준을 보였다. 2차 오염물질(nss-SO₄²⁻, NH₄⁺, NO₃⁻)의 조성은 PM₁₀과 PM_2.5에서 각각 85.5 %, 91.3 %로 가장 높았고, 다음으로 해양기원 성분(Na⁺, Cl⁻, Mg²⁺), 유기산 이온(HCOO⁻, CH₃COO⁻), 토양성분(nss-Ca²⁺) 순으로 높은 조성비를 나타내었다. 또한 PM₁₀ 원소성분은 토양기원 성분들(Al, Fe, Ca)이 50.9%로 해양기원 및 인위적기원 성분에 비해 더 높은 경향을 보였다. 미세먼지의 산성화에는 주로 황산과 질산이 영향을 미치고, 이들 무기산의 중화에는 PM_2.5에서 주로 암모니아, PM₁₀에서 주로 탄산칼슘에 의해 일어나는 것으로 조사되었다. 역궤적 군집분석에 의해 기류 유입경로를 확인한 결과 47 %가 중국대륙으로부터 유입되었고, 특 히 NO₃⁻과 nss-Ca²⁺ 성분은 중국에서 기류가 유입되었을 때 높은 농도를 나타내었다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제62권6호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2020

Emission factors for ammonia and particulate matters (PMs) from livestock buildings are of increasing importance in view of the environmental protection. While the existing emission factors were determined based on the emission inventory of other countries, in situ measurement of emission factors is required to construct an accurate emission inventory for Korea. This study is to report measurements of ammonia and PMs emissions from mechanically-ventilated pig houses, which are common types of pig barns in Korea. Ventilation rates and concentrations of ammonia and PMs were measured at the ventilation outlets of a weaner unit, a growing pig unit and a fattening pig unit to calculated the emission factors. The PMs emission was characterized with different aerodynamic diameters (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, and total suspended particulates (TSP)). The measured ammonia emission factors for weaners, growing pigs and fattening pigs were 0.225, 0.869 and 1.679 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively, showing linear increase with pigs' age. The PMs emission factors for three growing stages were 0.023, 0.237 and 0.241 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for TSP, 0.017, 0.072 and 0.223 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for PM₁₀, and 0.011, 0.016 and 0.151 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for PM_2.5. PMs emissions were increased with pigs' age due to increasing feed supply and animal movement. The measured emission factors were smaller than those of the existing emission inventory indicating that the existing ones overestimate the emissions from pig buildings and also suggesting that long-term in situ monitoring at various livestock buildings is required to construct the accurate emission inventory.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.77-82
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• 2005

Recently, people's rising interests toward a 'well-being' lifestyle together with research contributions are accelerating the concerns regarding indoor air pollution making indoor air quality management an emerging environmental challenge of the era. The Ministry of Environment began to regulate the air quality of railway stations last year. The newly established 'Indoor Air Quality Act' covers 17 facilities whereas only underground subway stations and underground markets were regulated by previous 'Underground Air Quality Management Act' of 1996. In this study, we carried out the measurement of temperature, relative humidity, CO(carbon monooxide), $CO_2$(carbon dioxide), HCHO(formaldehyde), PM-10(particulate matters), and VOCs(volatile organic compounds) in underground subway stations. Based on the obtained results, we will suggest a way to improve the indoor air quality of the subway stations.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.989-993
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• 2007

It was intended in this study to seek for the measures to utilize the USN technique, which has high usability due to low price and low power consumption, in air quality monitoring. As a method, the sensors of temperature, humidity, particulate matters (PM10), and carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) were installed in the self-manufactured sensor nodes; the nodes were installed in the waiting rooms and platforms of a subway station and the measurements were collected at real time with use of a computer which micro gateway was built in. Collected data was to be processed by the statistics program installed in the computer; the collected data is to be used in managing the air quality of stations after transmission to the ventilation system of ventilation chambers.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.439-458
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• 2005

An automated analysis system for water soluble constituents in $PM_{2.5}$ has been developed. The system consists of a high capacity multi tube diffusion scrubber (MTDS), a low temperature particle impactor (LTPI), and two ion (anion and cation) chromatography (IC) systems. Atmospheric particles have been collected by passing sample air through a thermostated MTDS followed by a LTPI. This system allows simultaneous measurements of soluble ions in $PM_{2.5}$ at 30 minutes interval. At the air sampling flow rate of 1.0L/min, the detection limits of the overall system are in the order of tens of $ng/m^3$. This system has been successfully used for the measurement of particulate components of Seoul air from April 2003 to January 2004. $SO_4^{2-},\;NO_3^-,\;NH_4^+,\;NO_2^-,\;Cl^-,\;Na^+,\;K^+,\;Ca^{2+},\;and\;Mg^{2+}$ are the major ionic species for $PM_{2.5}$ at Seoul. Among them, $SO_4^{2-},\;NO_3^-\;and\;NH_4^+$ are the most abundant ions, contributed up to $86\%$ of the total and the concentrations were higher than those in any other urban sites in the world except for Chinese cities. There are high pollutant episodes which contribute about $15\~20\%$ of annual average values of the major ions. During the episode, the all parcels were transported from the asian continent and $PM_{2.5}$ were significantly neutralized. This suggests that aged and long range transported pollutants caused the high pollutant episodes. They showed a distinct daily and seasonal variations:they showed a peak in the early morning caused by the night-time accumulation of particulate matters. Atmospheric reactions including gas-to-particle reactions and inter-particle reactions and meteorological parameters including relative humidity and ambient temperature were described with related to the $PM_{2.5}$ 5 concentrations. All of the ionic species showed higher concentrations during the spring than those for summer and winter.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.139-158
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• 2017

CMAQ (Community Multiscale Air Quality Model) simulations were carried out to estimate the potential range of contributions on surface $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) with the gaseous precursors and Primary Particulate Matters(PPM) available from a recent national emissions inventory. In detail, on top of a base simulation utilizing the 2013 Clean Air Policy Supporting System (CAPSS) emission inventory, a set of Brute Force Method (BFM) simulations after reducing anthropogenic $NO_x$, $SO_2$, $NH_3$, VOCs, and PPM emissions released from area, mobile, and point sources in SMA by 50% were performed in turn. Modeling results show that zero-out contributions(ZOC) of $NH_3$ and PPM emissions from SMA are as high as $4{\sim}5{\mu}g/m^3$ over the region during the modeling period. On the contrary, ZOC of local $NO_x$ and $SO_2$ emissions to SMA $PM_{2.5}$ are less than $1{\mu}g/m^3$. Moreover, model analyses indicate that a wintertime $NO_x$ reduction at least up to 50% increases SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations, probably due to increased HNO3 formation and conversion to aerosols under more abundant ozone and radical conditions after the $NO_x$ reduction. However, a nation-wide $NO_x$ reduction decreased SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations even during winter, which implies that nation-wide reductions would be more effective to curtail SMA $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations than localized efforts.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2010

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the emission characteristics for various alternative fuels in a 2.0 liter 4-cylinder turbo-charged diesel engine. The conventional diesel fuel, neat GTL (Gas to Liquid), blends of diesel and biodiesel(BD20), and blends of GTL and biodiesel(G+BD20 and G+BD40) were applied, and their emission characteristics were compared at various steady-state engine operating conditions. A noticeable reduction of exhaust emissions compared to conventional diesel fuel, except for NOx emission, was observed for G+BD40, where there is a maximum 30% averaged reduction for gaseous emissions (THC and CO) and 70% for PM mass concentrations. When comparing PM size distributions for biodiesel blended fuels, the PM number concentration in accumulation mode, where the diameter of PM is greater than 50 nm, decreased due to additional oxygen content in the biodiesel fuel; in nucleation mode, where the diameter of PM is less than 50nm, there was a slight increase or decrease in the PM number concentration depending on the amount of oxygen available in the combustion chamber.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

Carbon black, a particulate form of pure elemental carbon, is an industrial chemical with the high potential of occupational exposure. Although the relationship between exposure to particulate matters (PM) and cardiovascular diseases is well established, the cardiovascular risk of carbon black has not been characterized clearly. In this study, the cytotoxicity of carbon black to vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells were examined to investigate the potential vascular toxicity of carbon black. Carbon black with distinct particle size, N330 (primary size, 28~36 nm) and N990 (250~350 nm) were treated to A-10, rat aortic smooth muscle cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cell line, ECV304, and cell viability was assessed by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage assay. Treatment of carbon black N990 resulted in the significant reduction of viability in A-10 cells at 100 ${\mu}g$/ml, the highest concentration tested, while N330 failed to cause cell death. Cytotoxicity to ECV304 cells was induced only by N330 at higher concentration, 200 ${\mu}g$/ml, suggesting that ECV304 cells were relatively resistant to carbon black. Treatment of 100 ${\mu}g$/ml N990 led to the elevation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) detected by dichlorodihydrofluorescein (DCF) in A-10 cells. Pretreatment of antioxidants, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and sulforaphane restored decreased viability of N990-treated A-10 cells, and N-acetylcysteine, but not sulforaphane, attenuated N990-induced ROS generation in A-10 cells. Taken together, present study shows that carbon black is cytotoxic to vascular cells, and the generation of reactive oxygen contributes to the development of cytotoxicity. ROS scavenging antioxidant could be a potential strategy to attenuate the toxicity induced by carbon black exposure.

• 공업화학
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.84-89
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• 2020

초미세먼지로 분류되는 PM_2.5 (particulate matter under 2.5 ㎛) 중에서도 특히 sub-micron 입자(0.1~1.0 ㎛)의 먼지는 브라운 운동(Brownian motion)으로 집진장치의 효율에 한계를 준다. 따라서 수산화나트륨으로 활성화된 알루미늄산나트륨(NaAlO₂)을 응집제(coagulant)로 선택하여 석탄을 사용하는 유동층 보일러에서 석탄의 회분에 포함된 칼륨(K)과 PM_2.5의 입도분포의 거동과 영향을 확인하고자 했다. 그리고 응집제를 석탄의 무게대비 1,200 : 1 비율로 석탄에 혼합 및 분사하면서 정상 운전하는 중에 보일러의 싸이클론에서의 미세먼지(FP)와 전기집진기에서의 미세먼지(EP)를 포집 및 고찰하였다. 포집한 미세먼지를 입도분석기를 이용하여 입도분포(%)를 분석한 결과 FP에서 평균 4.87%에서 0.51%로 변화를 보임으로써 89.53% 감소하였다. EP에서의 평균 3.46%에서 0.40%로 변화를 보임으로써 88.57% 감소하였다. 포집한 미세먼지를 XRP로 칼륨을 추적한 결과 칼륨의 변화율은 FP에서 평균 1.65%에서 1.87%로 13.33% 증가하고, EP에서 평균 1.65%에서 2.03%로 17.68% 증가하였다. TMS에 의해서 확인된 총 미세먼지 농도(mg/㎥)는 1차는 2.6 mg/㎥에서 1.7~1.9 mg/㎥로 26.9~34.6% 감소하였으며, 2차는 평균 2.9 mg/㎥에서 1.7~1.9 mg/㎥로 33.3~40.4%가 감소하였다. 따라서 본 연구의 응집제가 PM_2.5 초미세먼지 입자의 크기와 그로 인한 집진장치효율에 크게 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인하였다.