• 상하수도학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to estimate the applicability of a stable anaerobic digester using a separator membrane to the preprocessing thickening process. The results of the experiments showed about a 47.16% weight loss rate for the sludge under anaerobic condition, and about 41.17% under intermittent aeration condition. The concentrations of rejection water were $SCOD_{Cr}$ 25 mg/L, T-N 16.6 mg/L, and T-P 1.4 mg/L on the average under the intermittent aeration condition, which were lower than the concentrations of rejection water under an anaerobic condition. As for the factors affecting the reduction of the flux, correlation analyses of TTF, MLSS, $SCOD_{Cr}$, and $EPS_{Protein}$, $EPS_{Polysacchride}$ resulted in -0.97, -0.95, -0.84 and -0.86, -0.95, respectively, which showed that TTF had the highest correlation to the reduction of the flux. In addition, it was concluded that MLSS, $SCOD_{Cr}$ and $EPS_{Protein}$, $EPS_{Polysacchride}$ also have close correlations. The results are considered to show that, in the case of the process using a tubular membrane in the preprocessing process of an anaerobic digester, an intermittent aeration condition of the thickener considering the contamination of the membrane and load of rejection water is appropriate for the stable preprocessing process.

• 식물병연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.251-257
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• 2023

당근 검은잎마름병을 일으키는 Alternaria dauci의 병원성 검정을 위해서는 양과 질이 우수한 포자를 형성할 수 있는 조건의 표준화가 필요하다. 따라서 본 실험에서는 배지의 종류, 통기 처리, UV 처리 등이 A. dauci KACC42997의 포자 형성에 미치는 효과를 조사하였다. A. dauci KACC42997은 25℃, 암 상태의 PDA 배지에서 7일간 전배양하였다. 배지 상에 나타난 병원균의 공중 균사를 제거하고, 20℃에서 통기 처리와 12시간 주기의 UV 처리를 동시에 실시하며 5일간 배양하였을 때, 가장 많은 포자를 형성하였다. 확립 포자 형성 조건에서 평창, 구미, 제주 등 당근의 주요 재배지역에서 분리한 170개의 다양한 A. dauci 균주가 포자를 형성하는지의 여부를 확인한 결과, 20개 균주가 포자를 형성하지 못하였고, 88.2%의 균주는 포자를 형성하였다. 또한 지역 균주 집단 간의 포자 형성량에는 차이가 있었지만, 당근에 대한 병원성에는 차이가 없었다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.927-933
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• 2019

A lipid-enriched strain of Botryococcus braunii (UTEX 572) was cultivated in a semi-batch aeration tank to enhance biomass as well as to develop intracellular lipids and fatty acids. A 30 day period of incubation produced 1.39 g/L of biomass and 0.31 g/L of total lipids in the biomass. The grown biomass was pre-treated using several methods to extract the total lipid content efficiently: ultrasonication was found to yield the highest percentage of lipids-namely 19.8% per biomass. Direct heating of biomass in an autoclave also showed better performance than when using only conventional solvent extraction. To enhance the biomass harvest and lipid extraction efficiency, coagulation and flocculation steps were added to the extraction process. It is noteworthy that not only the solvent type but also the solvent/biomass ratio greatly affected efficiency. In addition, the moisture content of the harvested(wet) biomass affected the efficiency significantly. This study elucidated the need for future research on optimizing this extraction process.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.86-90
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• 2008

Water reuse of effluent is limited, due to bacteria and chromaticity or turbidity which may result in low perception of water quality. Consequently, this study showed a method in the reuse of treated wastewater by a diversified treatment method, with separation of centralized reformation of aeration tank into pre-treatment with minimum installation of facilities, and post-treatment, applying advanced oxidation treatment. A pilot plant experiment was performed using Sym-Bio process adopting an NADH Sensor without modification of the exiting aeration tank. The Dissolved Ozone Flotation process, which is an advanced oxidation process, to treat the remaining organics, nutrients, chromaticity, turbidity and bacteria. As a result in the Sym-Bio process, the biological treatment, even on the condition of single stage reaction tank, the treatment efficiencies of BOD, $COD_{Mn}$, $COD_{Cr}$, SS and T-N were 96.6%, 84.6%, 88.25%, 95.1% and 71.0%, respectively, while that for T-P was 25.0%, which required further treatment. In the Dissolved Ozone Flotation process, the advanced oxidation treatment, the treatment efficiencies of BOD, $COD_{Mn}$, $COD_{Cr}$, SS, T-N, T-P, chromaticity, turbidity, bacteria, coliforms were 78.9%, 34.6%, 28.7%, 48.0%, 70.4%, 82.4%, 84.0%, 74.5%, 99.8% and 99.4%, respectively.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.77-94
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• 2015

Ultrafiltration membranes have several advantages over conventional drinking-water treatment. However, this technology presents major limitations, such as irreversible fouling and low removal of natural organic matter. Fouling depends heavily on the raw-water quality as well as on the operating conditions of the process, including flux, permeate recovery, pre-treatment, chemical cleaning, and backwashing. Starting with the premise that the optimisation of operating variables can improve membrane performance, different experiments were conducted in a pilot plant located in Granada (Spain). Several combinations of permeate and backwashing flow rates, backwashing frequencies, and aeration flow rates were tested for low-quality water coming from Genil River with the following results: the effluent quality did not depend on the combination of operating conditions chosen; and the membrane was effective for the removal of microorganisms, turbidity and suspended solids but the yields for the removal of dissolved organic carbon were extremely low. In addition, the threshold transmembrane pressure (-0.7 bar) was reached within a few hours and it was difficult to recover due to the low efficiency of the chemical cleanings. Moreover, greater transmembrane pressure due to fouling also increased the energy consumption, and it was not possible to lower it without compromising the permeate recovery. Finally, the intensification of aeration contributed positively to lengthening the operation times but again raised energy consumption. In light of these findings, the feasibility of ultrafiltration as a single treatment is questioned for low-quality influents.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.329-336
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• 2008

The pilot study was conducted to evaluate the applicability of air flotation(AF) processes combined with biological nutrient removal(BNR) for the retrofitting of conventional wastewater treatment facilities. The BNR system was operated in pre-denitrification and intermittent aeration; developed ceramic membrane diffusers were installed to separate the solid-liquid of activated sludge at the bottom of a flotation tank. Before performing a pilot scale study, the size distribution of microbubbles generated by silica or alumina-based ceramic membrane diffusers was tested to identify the ability of solid-liquid separation. According to the experimental results, the separation and thickening efficiency of the alumina-based ceramic membrane diffuser was higher than the silica-based ceramic membrane diffuser. In a $100m^3/d$ pilot plant, thickened and return sludge concentration was measured to be higher than 15,000mg SS/L, therefore, the MLSS in the bioreactor was maintained at over 3,000mg SS/L. The effluent quality of the AF-BNR process was 4.2mg/L, 3.7mg/L, 10.6mg/L and 1.6mg/L for $BOD_5$, SS, T-N and T-P, respectively. Lastly, it was revealed that the unit treatment cost by flotation process is lower than about $1won/m^3$ compared to a gravity sedimentation process.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.511-520
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• 2016

The most energy-demanding step of wastewater treatment is the aeration-dependent elimination of organic carbon. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) offer an alternative strategy in which carbon elimination is conducted by anaerobic microorganisms that transport respiratory electrons originating from carbon oxidation to an anode. Hence, chemical energy is directly transformed into electrical energy. In this study, the use and stability of barcode-containing exoelectrogenic model biofilms under non-axenic wastewater treatment conditions are described. Genomic barcodes were integrated in Shewanella oneidensis, Geobacter sulfurreducens, and G. metallireducens. These barcodes are unique for each strain and allow distinction between those cells and naturally occurring wild types as well as quantification of the amount of cells in a biofilm via multiplex qPCR. MFCs were pre-incubated with these three strains, and after 6 days the anodes were transferred into MFCs containing synthetic wastewater with 1% wastewater sludge. Over time, the system stabilized and the coulomb efficiency was constant. Overall, the initial synthetic biofilm community represented half of the anodic population at the end of the experimental timeline. The part of the community that contained a barcode was dominated by G. sulfurreducens cells (61.5%), while S. oneidensis and G. metallireducens cells comprised 10.5% and 17.9%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to describe the stability of a synthetic exoelectrogenic consortium under non-axenic conditions. The observed stability offers new possibilities for the application of synthetic biofilms and synthetically engineered organisms fed with non-sterile waste streams.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.439-446
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• 2014

Many studies on methane ($CH_4$) and nitrous oxide ($N_2O$) emissions from livestock industries have revealed that livestock production directly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through enteric fermentation and manure management, which causes negative impacts on animal environment sustainability. In the present study, three essential values for GHG emission were measured; i.e., i) maximum $CH_4$ producing capacity at mesophilic temperature ($37^{\circ}C$) from anaerobically stored manure in livestock category ($B_{0,KM}$, Korean livestock manure for $B_0$), ii) $EF_{3(s)}$ value representing an emission factor for direct $N_2O$ emissions from manure management system S in the country, kg $N_2O-N$ kg $N^{-1}$, at mesophilic ($37^{\circ}C$) and thermophilic ($55^{\circ}C$) temperatures, and iii) $N_{ex(T)}$ emissions showing annual N excretion for livestock category T, kg N $animal^{-1}$ $yr^{-1}$, from different livestock manure. Static incubation with and without aeration was performed to obtain the $N_2O$ and $CH_4$ emissions from each sample, respectively. Chemical compositions of pre- and post- incubated manure were analyzed. Contents of total solids (% TS) and volatile solid (% VS), and the ratio of carbon to nitrogen (C/N) decrease significantly in all the samples by C-containing biogas generation, whereas moisture content (%) and pH increased after incubation. A big difference of total nitrogen content was not observed in pre- and post-incubation during $CH_4$ and $N_2O$ emissions. $CH_4$ emissions (g $CH_4$ kg VS-1) from all the three manures (sows, layers and Korean cattle) were different and high C/N ratio resulted in high $CH_4$ emission. Similarly, $N_2O$ emission was found to be affected by % VS, pH, and temperature. The $B_{0,KM}$ values for sows, layers, and Korean cattle obtained at $37^{\circ}C$ are 0.0579, 0.0006, and 0.0828 $m^3$ $CH_4$ kg $VS^{-1}$, respectively, which are much less than the default values in IPCC guideline (GL) except the value from Korean cattle. For sows and Korean cattle, $N_{ex(T)}$ values of 7.67 and 28.19 kg N $yr^{-1}$, respectively, are 2.5 fold less than those values in IPCC GL as well. However, $N_{ex(T)}$ value of layers 0.63 kg N $yr^{-1}$ is very similar to the default value of 0.6 kg N $yr^{-1}$ in IPCC GLs for National greenhouse gas inventories for countries such as South Korea/Asia. The $EF_{3(s)}$ value obtained at $37^{\circ}C$ and $55^{\circ}C$ were found to be far less than the default value.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.124-129
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• 2003

광촉매 산화반응으로 인한 난분해성 유기오염물질의 분해효율을 증가시키기 위하여 산화반응의 매개체인 $TiO_2$ 광촉매의 새로운 제조방법을 개발하였고, 이를 이용하여 TCE의 효과적인 분해를 위한 광촉매 산화반응조의 최적 운영인자를 도출하였다. $TiO_2$ 광촉매는 해교제(Davan-C 0.24 wt%)와 결합제(PVA 0.16 wt%)를 첨가하여 슬립 캐스팅 방법으로 제조하였다. 촉매의 특성 변화에 따른 실험결과로 TCE 수용액의 분해효율이 가장 좋은 촉매의 상태는 $TiO_2$ 코팅 횟수가 1회이고 $TiO_2$ 슬립의 두께가 1 mm인 촉매로 확인되었다. 촉매 사용시간에 따른 비교에서는 사용시간이 250 시간인 촉매가 새로이 제작하여 사용한 촉매의 TCE분해효율보다 20% 정도 감소되었다. 광촉매 산화반응조의 물리적 운영인자 도출을 위한 실험결과로 산소의 전처리와 재순환을 실시하면 그렇지 않은 경우보다 TCE 분해효율이 증가되었다. 촉매의 단위 표면적당 수용액의 부피비가 $1.47\;mL/cm^2$ 이하에서 높은 TCE 분해효율을 보였으며 UV 광량의 조절시 광량이 $225\;W/cm^2{\times}100$에서 75.8%의 최대 TCE 분해효율을 보였다. TCE의 초기 농도를 조절했을 경우에는 농도가 2 mg/L 이하인 경우에 TCE의 분해효율이 높았다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시한 방법으로 제조한 촉매를 이용하여 적절한 UV 광량과 상기한 운영조건하에 광촉매 산화반응조를 운영한다면 정수 및 폐수에 함유된 난분해성 유기성 오염물질을 제거하기 위한 공정으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.276-285
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• 2006

오염 하천수 수질개선 연구를 위해 pilot plant 규모의 호기성 생물여과 공정을 이용하여 실제원수를 적용한 경우 유입 공기량을 $0.1m^3air/m^2min$으로 고정하고 EBCT를 90, 60, 45, 30 min으로 운전 시 입자성 물질(SS, Turbidity, Chl.-a)의 경우 EBCT와 관계없이 80% 이상의 처리효율을 나타냈으며 암모니아성 질소의 경우 85% 이상의 처리효율을 보였다. BOD의 경우 하천수수질 환경기준 III-IV 급수로 유입되어 I 급수 미만으로 유출되 본 처리 공법 사용 시 생물학적 안정성을 충분히 확보할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다. $COD_{Mn}$의 경우 약 60%의 제거효율을 보여 BOD 제거율에 비해 효율이 저하되는 것으로 나타났는데 이러한 원인을 규명한 결과 전체 COD 물질 중 30% 정도가 반응기 내부에 clogging된 조류에 의해서 발생되는 것으로 조사되었으며 이들 조류기원성 유기물들의 기질 비 소비율이 $0.0245mg{\cdot}COD_{Mn}/mg{\cdot}VSS{\cdot}day$로 생물학적 분해가 거의 되지 않는 것으로 나타나 이에 대한 대책으로 부분역세(partial backwashing)에 대한 필요성이 요구되었다. 이에 부분역세(상부 1 m 여재에 대한 1일 1회 역세)를 통해 BOD 5.5%, $COD_{Mn}$ 10% 정도의 제거율 상승을 얻을 수 있었고 이를 통해 생물학적으로 좀더 안정된 원수 확보가 가능해졌으며 역세 기간의 연장으로 역세수 절감 및 유량 확보 효과를 가져 올 것으로 판단된다.