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On-road Air Pollution Characteristics around a Day-care Center in Urban Area (도심 어린이집 주변 도로상 대기오염도 특징)

  • Woo, Sung Ho;Lee, Seung-Bok;Kim, Kyung Hwan;Lee, Gwangjae;Ryu, Sung Hee;Kim, Jong Bum;Bae, Gwi-Nam
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.61-75
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    • 2014
  • Five on-road measurements were made using a mobile laboratory (ML) to characterize spatial and temporal air pollutant distributions over roads around a day-care center in urban area on 30 August 2013. Fixed monitoring was also done near the day-care center using the ML during the periods between on-road measurements. On-road air pollution monitoring route was classified into seven sections and three zones to identify severe polluted roads among many roads having different traffic volumes and directions. Typical pollutants emitted from vehicles such as $NO_x$, black carbon, particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and submicron particles including nanoparticles were monitored using real-time instruments. Peak concentration episodes were frequently observed during the on-road measurements and most peaks were simultaneously monitored at four pollutants. Colored on-road air pollution map for each pollutant provides an insight on spatial air pollution distribution, showing heavily polluted roads and sections. Average on-road $NO_x$ concentration of each run was similar to that monitored at the nearest roadside air monitoring station.

A Study on the Mercury Emission Characteristic and Comparison Tests for Applicability of Latest Mercury Measuring Methods - Focus on the Cement Kiln - (시멘트 소성시설에서의 수은 배출특성 및 최신 측정방법 적용성 평가 연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Chun;Kim, Hee-Jin;Kim, Jong-Hyeon;Kang, Dea-Il;Park, Jung-Min;Kim, Jeong-Hun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.241-250
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    • 2017
  • Recently, there has been growing interest in the emission characteristics and behavior of anthropogenic mercury compounds from emission sources. It is required to establish a standard for reliable mercury measurement method. Therefore, this study has evaluated the applicability of the new measurement method; Continuous Emission Monitoring (US EPA 30A, CEM). In addition, the reliability evaluation was conducted through Ontario Hydro Method (ASTM D6784, OHM) and Sorbent trap method (US EPA Method 30B). As a monitoring result for three months via CEM from cement kiln, the maximum mercury compounds concentration was about $600{\mu}g/Sm^3$. This is because of the various of raw materials and fuel, and the absence of mercury-control device. The mercury compounds concentrations of OHM, Sorbent trap and CEM were 13.64 $(3.33{\sim}32.41){\mu}g/Sm^3$, $13.94(5.97{\sim}23.44){\mu}g/Sm^3$ and $14.68(6.19{\sim}26.75){\mu}g/Sm^3$, respectively. The relative standard deviations (% RSD) of the three methods were 5.1~40.9%. The result of this study suggest that it is possible to apply the CEM in the cement kiln when, QA/QC such as calibration is verified.

Characteristics of Nonpoint Source Pollutant Loads from Forest watershed with Various Water Quality Sampling Frequencies (수질샘플빈도에 따른 산림유역의 비점원오염부하특성)

  • Shin, Min-Hwan;Shi, Yong-Chul;Heo, Sung-Gu;Lim, Kyoung-Jae;Choi, Joong-Dae
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.65-71
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    • 2008
  • A monsoon season monitoring data from June to September, 2005 of a small forested watershed located at the upstream of the North Han River system in Korea was conducted to analyze the flow variations, the NPS pollutant concentrations, and the pollution load characteristics with respect to sampling frequencies. During the 4-month period, 1,423 mm or 79.2% of annual rainfall(1,797 mm) were occurred and more than 77%, 54% and 68% of annual T-N, $NO_3$-N and T-P loads discharged. Flow rate was continuously measured with automatic velocity and water level meters and 58 water quality samples were taken and analyzed. It was analyzed that the flow volume by random measurement varied very widely and ranged from 79% to 218% of that of continuous measurement. It was recommended that flow measurement of small forested watersheds should be continuously measured with automated flow meters to precisely measure flow rates. Flow-weighted mean concentrations of T-N, $NO_3$-N and T-P during the period were 2.114 mg/L, 0.836 mg/L, and 0.136 mg/L, respectively. T-N, $NO_3$-N and T-P loads were sensitive to the number of samples. And it was analyzed that in order to measure the pollution load within the error of 10% to the true load, the rate of sampling frequency should be higher than 89.7% of the sample numbers that were required to compute the true pollution load. If it is compared to selected foreign research results, about 10 water samples for each rainfall event were needed to compute the pollution load within 10% error. It is unlikely in Korea and recommended that thorough NPS pollution monitoring studies are required to develop the standard monitoring procedures for reliable NPS pollution quantification.

Air Pollution Monitoring RF-Sensor System Trackable in Real Time (실시간 위치탐지 기능을 갖춘 대기오염 모니터링 RF-Sensor 시스템)

  • Kim, Jin-Young;Cho, Jang-Ho;Jeon, Il-Tae;Jung, Dal-Do;Kang, Joon-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2010
  • Air pollution monitoring has attracted a lot of interests because it affects directly to the human life quality. The most of the current air pollution monitoring stations use the expensive and bulky instruments and are only installed in the specific area. Therefore, it is difficult to install them to as many places as people need. In this work, we constructed a low price and small size Radio Frequency(RF) sensor system to solve this problem. This system also had the measurement range similar to the ones used in the air pollution forecast systems. This system had the sensor unit to measure the air quality, the central processing unit for air quality data acquisition, the power unit to supply the power to every units, and the RF unit for the wireless transmission and reception of the data. This system was easy to install in the field. We also added a GPS unit to track the position of the RF-sensor in real time by wireless communication. For the various measurements of the air pollution, we used CO, $O_3$, $NO_2$ sensors as gas sensors and also installed a dust sensor.

Tap Water Quality in Seoul Metropolitan Area (수도권상수도의 수질-문제점과 대책)

  • 김동치
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 1990
  • Current analyses of tap water in Seoul metropolitan area prove the water is still safe, despite the Pollution of raw water source. However, it also significantly suggests that a feasibility study of apply, additional advanced technology to existing water treatment processes is needed in order to cope with future pollution. Also, the monitoring of water quality within private, multi-household buildings is important as the monitoring of public water distribution system.

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Preliminary Survey for the Design of the Air Pollution Monitoring System in Antarctic Area (남극지역의 대기오염 측정체계 구축을 위한 기초조사)

  • 김선태;홍성민;정의석;김성근
    • Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.65-66
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    • 2000
  • 남극은 지리적인 원거리성과 혹독한 자연환경 등으로 문명에 의한 오염이 지구상에서 가장 적은 곳이며, 현재 우리가 거주하고 있는 각 대륙을 이해하는데 많은 기여를 하고 있다고 할 수 있다. 특히, 남극대륙을 대상으로 기상 및 기후학적인 관점에서 많은 연구가 수행되어 지고 있으며, 최근에는 지구온난화와 문제와 관련하여 남극대륙의 배경농도 측정 및 monitoring에 관심이 집중되고 있다. (중략)

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On-line identification of the toxicological substance in the water system using Baysian technique (베이지언 기법을 이용한 수계 내의 독성물질 판단)

  • Jung, Ha-Kyu;Jung, Jong-Hyuk;Lee, Hyun-Wook;Kwon, Won-Tae;Kim, Sang-Gil;Jeon, Sook-Lye
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3122-3127
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    • 2007
  • Water resource can be examined using biological sensors. Algae has been one of the biological sensors used to evaluate and monitor the water pollution. The monitoring system, however, could determine whether the examined water was safe or not. It needs additional expensive chemical test to figure out the cause of the water pollution. In this study, an endeavor is given to identify the toxicant in the water using the shape of the chlorophyll fluorescence induction curve(FIC) from algae using monitoring system. Fundamental curves are obtained from the experiments with specified amount of toxicant. Baysian method is utilized to determine the unknown toxicant in the water by comparing it with the fundamental curves. The results shows that the proposed method works fairly well.

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On-line identification of the toxicological substance in the water system using Baysian technique (베이지언 기법을 이용한 수계 내의 독성물질 판단)

  • Jung, Ha Kyu;Jung, Jong Hyuk;Lee, Hyun Wook;Kwon, Won Tae;Kim, Sang Gil;Jeon, Sook Lye
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2008
  • Water resource can be examined using biological sensors. Algae has been one of the biological sensors used to evaluate and to monitor the water pollution. The monitoring system, however, has not been used to determine what kind of the toxicological substance is in the water. It needs additional expensive chemical test to figure out the cause of the water pollution. In this study, an endeavor is made to identify the toxicant in the water using the shape of the chlorophyll fluorescence induction curve(FIC) from algae using monitoring system. Fundamental curves are obtained from the experiments with specified amount of toxicant. Baysian method is utilized to determine the unknown toxicant in the water by comparing it with the fundamental curves. The results shows that the proposed method works fairly well.

Construction of the Automatic Water Quality Monitoring System for the Saemankeum (새만금해역 자동수질모니터링시스템 구축)

  • Kim, Won-Jang;Park, Sang-Hyun;Lee, Hyung-Joo;Lee, Kwang-Ya
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.441-444
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    • 2002
  • In recent, industrialization increases the level of pollution load in sea areas, and the inflows of pollutants to public sea areas cause sudden and wide-range of influence to the water quality and the ecosystem. To prepare for these kinds of unpredictable water pollution issues, the necessity is emerging to build an automatic water quality monitoring system, which can monitor and alarm the water quality changes of the subject sea areas. For the ongoing installation plan of the automatic water quality monitoring system around the Saemankeum sea area, this report compares and analyzes its installation conditions as well as the physical and chemical characteristics of the in-situ type and the water-sampling type of the automatic water quality monitoring equipments, and subjects to provide elementary data for the system installation in the Saemankeum.

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Water Quality Management System for a Farm Village Stream -watershed monitoring and the system design- (농촌마을 하천의 수질관리 시스템 - 시험유역 조사 및 시스템 설계 -)

  • 정하우;최진용
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study Is to develop water quality management system fort a farm village stream. The framework design of the system and the ecological monitoring of a test watershed were carried out, The system consists of GIS(Geographic Information System ), database, pollution source management, water quality and hydrologic analysis. Suri watershed located on Idong, Yongin city, Kyunggi Province, was selected as the test watershed for the application of the system. The fifteen's monitoring stations were chooses at up- and down-stream of the watershed. The results of an aquatic ecological monitoring were analyzed by the GPI(Group Pollution Index) method. The GPI revealed that water quality was varied within the stream. GPI and DO map for the watershed stream were developed, These maps facilitated to analyze the spatial distribution of the water quality.

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