• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2019년도 학술발표회
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• pp.149-149
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• 2019

Gross Primary production (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET) are the two critical components of carbon and water cycle respectively, linking the terrestrial surface and ecosystem with the atmosphere. The ratio between GPP to ET is called ecosystem water use efficiency (EWUE) and its quantification at the forest site helps to understand the impact of climate change due to large scale anthropogenic activities such as deforestation and irrigation. This study was conducted at the FLUXNET forest site CN-Qia (2003-2005) using Community land model (CLM 5.0). We simulated carbon and water fluxes including GPP, ecosystem respiration (ER), and ET using climatic variables as forcing dataset for 30 years (1981-2010). Model results were validated with the FLUXNET tower observations. The correlation showed better performance with values of 0.65, 0.77, and 0.63 for GPP, ER, and ET, respectively. The model underestimated the results with minimum bias of -0.04, -1.67, and -0.40 for GPP, ER, and ET, respectively. Effect of climate 'CLIM' and '$CO_2$' were analyzed based on EWUE and its trend was evaluated in the study period. The positive trend of EWUE was observed in the whole period from 1981-2010, and the trend showed further increase when simulated with rising $CO_2$. The time period were divided into two parts, from 1981-2000 and from 2001 to 2010, to identify the warming effect on EWUE. The first period showed the similar increasing trend of EWUE, but the second period showed slightly decreasing trend. This might be associated with the increase in ET in the wet temperate forest site due to increase in climate warming. Water use efficiency defined by transpiration (TR) (TWUE), and inherent-TR based WUE (IT-WUE) were also discussed. This research provides the evidence to climate warming and emphasized the importance of long term planning for management of water resources and evaporative demand in irrigation, deforestation and other anthropogenic activities.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2021

Microalgae are primary producers of aquatic ecosystems, securing biodiversity and health of the ecosystem and contributing to reducing the impact of climate change through carbon dioxide fixation. Also, they are useful biomass that can be used as biological resources for producing valuable industrial products. However, harvesting process, which is the separation of microalgal biomass from mixed liquor, is an important bottleneck in use of valorization of microalgae as a bioresource accounting for 20 to 30% of the total production cost. This study investigates the applicability of sewage sludge-derived extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) as bioflucculant for harvesting microalgae. We compared the flocculation characteristics of microalgae using EPSs extracted from sewage sludge by three methods. The flocculation efficiency of microalgae is closely related to the carbohydrate and protein concentrations of EPS. Heat-extracted EPS contains the highest carbohydrate and protein concentrations and can be a best-suited bioflocculant for microalgae recovery with 87.2% flocculation efficiency. Injection of bioflocculant improved the flocculation efficiency of all three different algal strains, Chlorella Vulgaris, Chlamydomonas Asymmetrica, Scenedesmus sp., however the improvement was more significant when it was used for flocculation of Chlamydomonas Asymmetrica with flagella.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.587-595
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• 2000

국내 하수처리장에 적용되는 BNR(Biological Nutrients Removal) 공정의 효율저하 원인은 유입원수의 낮은 C/N비와 탄소 (Carbon source) 부족이 가장 큰 것으로 지적되어 왔다. 탄소원의 효율적인 공급을 위해 1차 슬러지 산 발효조(Acid fermenter)를 이용하여 SCFAs(Short-Chain Fatty Acids) 생성을 유도할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 side-stream의 산 발효조와 조합된 $A_2/O$ 프로세스를 운전하여 영양염류 제거에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 그 결과 산 발효조의 최대 SCFAs생성은 중온상의 SRT 4~5일에서 약 3.000mg/L(as COD), 대략 0.10~0.16 mg SCFA(as COD)/mg 1차 슬러지(as COD)로 나타났다. 또한 생성된 SCFAs의 성상비는 Acetic, Propionic, (iso)Butyric 및 (iso)Valeric이 1, 0.7, 0.5 그리고 0.6 순으로 나타났다. BNR공정의 side-stream 산 발효조 적용에 의한 영양염류 제거효율은 크게 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. T-N은 인공하수(R1)의 경우 35% 정도의 낮은 처리효율을 나타냈으나 인공 SCFA 주입(R2) 및 발효산물 투입(R3)의 경우 제거효율 74%, 76%로 크게 향상되는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 Phosphate 는 R1의 경우 45% 의 처리효율을 나타냈으나 R2, R3의 경우 73~74% 정도로 양호한 처리효율을 나타냈다. 이는 발효산물 및 SCFA 주입에 의해 혐기조에서 인의 방출 및 호기조에서 과잉섭취가 잘 이루어졌기 때문으로 R3의 경우 인의 방출율은 $0.34g\;PO_4-P/g$ COD로 기존 연구와 비교해서 유사한 것으로 나타났다.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2015

본 연구는 하수처리장에서 발생되는 생슬러지와 잉여슬러지를 대상으로 열적가용화 공정의 적용성을 평가하였다. 열적가용화 효율 및 특성평가는 각 슬러지를 대상으로 $100{\sim}220^{\circ}C$ 온도범위에서 30분간 전처리를 수행한 후 실시되었다. 그 결과, 가용화 온도가 상승함에 따라 $SCOD_{Cr}$, $NH_4{^+}$, VFAs 농도가 증가하는 경향을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 COD 가용화효율 평가 결과, 온도 상승에 비례하는 경향이 나타나 열적가용화에 의해 가수분해 및 산발표 단계를 촉진시킨 것으로 판단된다. BMP (Biochemical Methane Potential) 실험을 통해 생슬러지의 경우 $220^{\circ}C$에서 가장 높은 biogas 생산량을 보여주었으나, 증가율은 5.6%로 열적가용화에 의한 효과가 미미한 것으로 나타났다. 반면 잉여슬러지의 경우 최대 38.8% ( $180^{\circ}C$) 증가하여, 열적가용화 공정은 잉여슬러지에 대한 적용성이 더욱 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• ALGAE
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.121-137
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• 2015

Studies on carbon flux in the oceans have been highlighted in recent years due to increasing awareness about climate change, but the coastal ecosystem remains one of the unexplored fields in this regard. In this study, the dynamics of carbon flux in a vegetative coastal ecosystem were examined by an evaluation of net and gross ecosystem production (NEP and GEP) and $CO_2$ exchange rates (net ecosystem exchange, NEE). To estimate NEP and GEP, community production and respiration were measured along different habitat types (eelgrass and macroalgal beds, shallow and deep sedimentary, and deep rocky shore) at Gwangyang Bay, Korea from 20 June to 20 July 2007. Vegetative areas showed significantly higher ecosystem production than the other habitat types. Specifically, eelgrass beds had the highest daily GEP ($6.97{\pm}0.02g\;C\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$), with a large amount of biomass and high productivity of eelgrass, whereas the outer macroalgal vegetation had the lowest GEP ($0.97{\pm}0.04g\;C\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$). In addition, macroalgal vegetation showed the highest daily NEP ($3.31{\pm}0.45g\;C\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$) due to its highest P : R ratio (2.33). Furthermore, the eelgrass beds acted as a $CO_2$ sink through the air-seawater interface according to NEE data, with a carbon sink rate of $0.63mg\;C\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$. Overall, ecosystem production was found to be extremely high in the vegetated systems (eelgrass and macroalgal beds), which occupy a relatively small area compared to the unvegetated systems according to our conceptual diagram of a carbon-flux box model. These results indicate that the vegetative ecosystems showed significantly high capturing efficiency of inorganic carbon through coastal primary production.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2015

Curvularia lunata is an important maize foliar fungal pathogen that distributes widely in maize growing area in China, and several key pathogenic factors have been isolated. An yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) library is a very useful platform to further unravel novel pathogenic factors in C. lunata. To construct a high-quality full length-expression cDNA library from the C. lunata for application to pathogenesis-related protein-protein interaction screening, total RNA was extracted. The SMART (Switching Mechanism At 5' end of the RNA Transcript) technique was used for cDNA synthesis. Double-stranded cDNA was ligated into the pGADT7-Rec vector with Herring Testes Carrier DNA using homologous recombination method. The ligation mixture was transformed into competent yeast AH109 cells to construct the primary cDNA library. Eventually, a high qualitative library was successfully established according to an evaluation on quality. The transformation efficiency was about $6.39{\times}10^5$ transformants/$3{\mu}g$ pGADT7-Rec. The titer of the primary cDNA library was $2.5{\times}10^8cfu/mL$. The numbers for the cDNA library was $2.46{\times}10^5$. Randomly picked clones show that the recombination rate was 88.24%. Gel electrophoresis results indicated that the fragments ranged from 0.4 kb to 3.0 kb. Melanin synthesis protein Brn1 (1,3,8-hydroxynaphthalene reductase) was used as a "bait" to test the sufficiency of the Y2H library. As a result, a cDNA clone encoding VelB protein that was known to be involved in the regulation of diverse cellular processes, including control of secondary metabolism containing melanin and toxin production in many filamentous fungi was identified. Further study on the exact role of the VelB gene is underway.

• 대한추나의학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.125-139
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• 2002

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to review and summarize about occupational medicine and to applicate the occupational medicine to oriental medicine. Methods : We investigated several books, articles and related internet sites to know occupational medicine's present conditions in Korea and other countries, and researched the plan on oriental medical participation in the industrial health. Results and Conclusion : The conclusions are as follows, 1. Recent years, industrialization has changed working environment and health condition in workplace, so industrial health service has became important part. 2. Occupational medicine has the purpose of protection. prevention, fitness, health management, medical treatment. rehabilitation, and primary medical service. The range of occupational medicine is enlarged mental, social good health and social, economical production capacity recently. 3. After research each country's occupational medicine, we can know the purpose is same, but the system and work contents are different one another. 4. Oriental medical participation in the industrial health has various benefits, satisfaction of workers, efficiency of cost, and increasing rate of medical treatment through the western and oriental medical cooperation.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.711-717
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• 2017

Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma is a new technique for use in environmental pollutant degradation, which is characterized by the production of hydroxyl radicals as the primary degradation species. Due to the short lifetime of the chemically active species generated during the plasma reaction, the dissolution of the plasma gas has a significant effect on the reaction performance. The plasma reaction performance can be enhanced by combining the basic plasma reactor with a homogenizer system in which the bubbles are destroyed and turned into micro-bubbles. For this purpose, the improvement of the dissolution of plasma gas was evaluated by measuring the RNO (N-dimethyl-4-nitrosoaniline, an indicator of the generation of OH radicals). Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of the diameter, rotation speed, and height of the homogenizer, pore size, and number of the diffuser and the applied voltage on the plasma reaction. The results showed that the RNO removal efficiency of the plasma reactor combined with a homogenizer is two times higher than that of the conventional one. The optimum rotor size and rotation speed of the homogenizer were 15.1 mm, and 19,700 rpm, respectively. Except for the lowest pore size distribution of $10-16{\mu}m$, the pore size of the diffuser showed little effect on RNO removal.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.195-207
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• 2012

Fuel consumption in fisheries is a primary concern due to environmental effects and costs to fishermen. Much research has been carried out to reduce the fuel consumption related to fishing operations. The fuel consumption of fishing gear during fishing operation is generally related to hydrodynamic resistance on the gear. This research demonstrates a new approach using numerical methods to reduce fuel consumption. The results from the simulation were verified with results that mirrored the model experiments. By designing the fishing gear using drawing software, the whole and partial resistance force on the gear can be calculated as a result of simulations. The simulation results will suggest suitable materials or gear structure for reducing the hydrodynamic forces on the gear while maintaining the performance of the gear. Furthermore, the efficiency of low energy used trawl as economic point of view will be dealt. This research will helpful to reduce the GHG emissions from fishing operations and lead to reduce fishing costs due to fuel savings.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회 제20권2호
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• pp.565-568
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• 2008

플라이애쉬는 상대적으로 낮은 초기 강도 발현율에 의해서 고로슬래그 미분말에 비하여 사용이제한적이다. 따라서 플라이애쉬는 우수한 경제성과 많은 발생량에도 불구하고 많은 양이 활용되지 못하고 매립되고 있다.본 연구에서는 자극제가 플라이애쉬를 사용한 콘크리트의 성능에 미치는 영향을 확인하고 플라이애쉬의 활용 증대 가능성을 검토하였다. 연구 결과 자극제를 사용한 플라이애쉬 콘크리트가 동일 슬럼프, 공기량 및 로스를 가지면서 일반적인 혼화제를 사용한 콘크리트보다 압축강도가 높게 나타났으며 다양한 요인에서의 자극제의 성능 발현을 검증할 경우 자극제를 사용한 플라이애쉬 콘크리트의 현장 적용 확대가 가능할 것으로 사료된다.