• 한국습지학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2007

The rapid development of economy in China at the expense of consuming huge amount of energy and resources, water resource in particular, which has resulted in the production and discharge of increasing amount of wastewater to the water environment. In order to effectively control the increasing water pollution trend, the State Council has stipulated that all the cities with population over 500,000 should reach wastewater treatment rate of 60% by 2005, and all the cities should reach the rate of 60% by 2010, of which Capital Beijing and all the province capital cities and important tourism cities should reach 70% then. By the end of 2005, of the 661 cities in China, 393 have built and operated municipal wastewater treatments with a total number of 790 sets, total treatment capacity of $80.91{\times}106m^3/d$ and total treatment rate of > 48%. Other 73 cities have started the construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants, and other 168 cities have started to prepare, planning and design of wastewater treatment plants. Most of municipal wastewater treatment plants in big cities in China operate normally and perform well with good quality of effluent in terms of wastewater treatment train, but the sewage sludge treatment is usually poor with big problems. It has been found that the small scale WWTPs using activated sludge process in the towns are usually operated and maintained abnormally because of lack of fund, skilled operators and energy. It is therefore suggested that the small scale MWWTPs in small cities and towns adopt appropriate technologies, of which the most available ones are multi-stage ponds, constructed wetlands and the combination of them for further purification and reuse of treated wastewater.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2017

Many sewage treatment plants have applied the advanced technology of chemical coagulant system to remove phosporus in Korea. However there are some problems for the injection of optimum coagulant dosage. In order to solve these problems, the research related to the more cost-effective automatic total phosphorus coagulation control system using an EC(Electrical Conductivity) have been in progress. This study was conducted by the same process and operation method as the Lab-scale for public small town sewage treatment plant. First, it confirmed the correlation among the EC, PO4-P and coagulant dosage in the Lab-scale MSBR(Membrane Sequencing Batch Reactor) process. Next, it analyzed that correlation coefficient of EC and the coagulant dosage was 0.92 in the Full-scale MSBR process. As a result, not only T-P removal efficiency was doubled but also it satisfied the effluent water quality standard in a stable manner. In addition, by applying the automatic control system using the EC, compared to the fixed coagulant injection system the coagulant dosage could be reduced by 28%.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 버려지는 연탄재를 하수처리에 이용하여 그 처리효율 및 활용성 등을 조사하였다. 본 연탄재 공법에 의해 처리된 처리수의 $BOD_5$, CODcr, SS 등은 각각 1.1 (mg/L), 9.5 (mg/L), 3.8(mg/L)를 나타내며 원수와 비교하여 99%, 92.7%, 96.3%의 처리효율을 보여주었다. 본 연탄재공법에 의한 처리수의 총 세균 및 대장균에 대한 제거효율은 각각 평균 9 (cfu/ml) 및 1.2 (cfu/ml)로 나타나 기존의 하수처리장 방류수와 비교하여 괄목할만한 감소효과를 보여주었다. 한편, 1년 이상의 장기적 운전실험에서는 변함없는 높은 처리효율의 유지와 함께 계절별 처리효율의 변동폭이 매우 낮았으며, 슬러지발생이 차단되는 효과를 보여주었다. 본 연탄재공법은 연탄재를 재활용함은 물론, 높은 처리효율과 슬러지의 발생을 감소시킴으로써 환경친화적인 공법이라 할 수 있으며, 중소규모의 하수처리 및 처리수의 재활용에 매우 유용할 것으로 사료되는 바이다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.363-370
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• 2013

소수력발전은 하수처리장 에너지 자립을 위한 효과적인 대안이다. 본 연구는 유량변동이 크고 유효낙차가 낮은 중소형 하수처리장(기흥레스피아) 적용을 위해 피치조절형 세미카플란(semi-kaplan) 마이크로수력발전의 적용 타당성을 평가하였다. 가변피치 semi-kaplan 수차는 유량조절을 위한 가이드베인은 생략하고 피치조절형 런너를 장착하여 기계적 결함은 줄이면서 유량변동이 큰 처리장에 특화된 기술이다. 마이크로수력발전 시스템은 설계조건(유량 0.35 $m^3/s$, 유효낙차 4.7 m)에서 90.2%의 수차효율 달성이 가능하였고 발전용량은 13.4 kW로 산정되었다. 설비가동률 74%로 가동 시 연간 약 86.8 MWh 에너지 생산을 통해 2.1%의 에너지 자립이 가능하고 이는 연간 49톤의 $CO_2$ 감축효과와 맞먹는다. 경제성 평가결과 초기 건설공사비가 200,000,000원 이하인 경우에는 내부수익률은 6.1%, 순현가는 15,539,000원, 편익-비용률은 1.08, 투자회수년은 15.5년으로 경제성이 충분한 것으로 나타났다.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1992

Since 1960's along with industrialization and urbanization, economic growth has been . achieved, however, at the same time, environmental condition has been seriously deteriorated. . Currently, volume of wastewater has been increasing at annual rate of 7% in sewage and 20% in industrial wastewater. However, the nation's sewage treatment serves only 33% of the municipal wastewater as of 1991. Major portion of air pollutants comes from combustion of oil and coal which comprise 81% of total energy use and emission gases from motor vehicles increasing at an accelerated rate. It is known that Korea generates the highest amount of waste per capta. Nevertheless, it is not sufficient to reduce the volume of waste by means of resources recovery and recycling. Recognizing the importance of global environmental problems such as ozone layer depletion, global warming and acid rain, international society has been making various efforts since the 1972 Stockholm conference. In particular, it is expected that the Rio conference which has adopted the Rio declaration and Agenda 21 will form a crucial turning point of the emerging new world order after the Cold War confrontation. To cope with such issues as domestic pollution and global environmental problems, the fundamental national policy aims at harmonizing "environmental protection and sustainable development". The Ministry of Environment has recently set up a mid-term comprehensive plan which includes annual targets for environmental protection. According to the government plan, gradual improvement of various environmental conditions and specific measures to achieve them is planned in time frame. Additional sewage treatment plants will be constructed in urban areas with the target to treat 65% of the nation's municipal sewage by 1996. Supply of clean fuels such as LNG will also be expanded starting from large cities as a cleaner substitute energy for coal and oil. In parallel with expansion of LNG, emphasis will be placed on installation of stack monitoring system. Due to the relatively limited land, government's basic policy for solid waste treatment is to develop large scale landfill facilities rather than small sized ones. Thirty three regional areas have been designated for the purpose of waste management. For each of these regions, big scale landfill site is going to be developed. To increase the rate of waste recycling the government is planning to reinforce separate collection system and to provide industries with economic incentives. As a part of meeting the changing situation on global environmental problems after UNCED, and accommodation regulatory measures stipulated in the global environmental conventions and protocols, national policy will try to alter industrial and economic structure so as to mitigate the increasing trends of energy consumption, by encouraging energy conservation and efficiency. In this regard, more attention will be given to the policy on the development of the cleaner technology. Ultimately, these policies and programs will contribute greatly to improving the current state of national public health.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.250-257
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• 2006

The objective of this study is to propose an alternative process for the small sewage treatment plants in rural communities. A biofilter has been used for biological wastewater treatment, which is becoming the alternative to the conventional activated sludge system. The proposed process used in this study, which is packed with floating media (i.e. expanded polystylene), has advantages of biofilter system and alternative flow system and they are incorporated into one process. Pilot and bench scale studies were performed using domestic wastewater. In the results of pilot plant study, it was observed that the stable effluent water quality was achieved and it met the present effluent criteria of suspended solid (SS), organic matters, T-N and T-P. In the study for determination of the cycle of backwashing, it was observed that the cycle of backwashing depended on BOD loading rates of influents. In the BOD loading rates of $0.5kg\;BOD/m^3{\cdot}day$ and $1.0kg\;BOD/m^3{\cdot}day$, the backwashing cycle of 28 hour and 16 hour were needed, respectively. The optimum backwashing time was 120~80 seconds at the media expansion rate of 50%. In the removal of SS, organic matters, T-N and T-P, SS removal was rather achieved by physical filtration than biological mechanism and the removal of organic matters except for SS, T-N and T-P were mainly rather achieved by biological mechanism than physical filtration. In bench-scale study, the effects of recirculation rate was investigated on removal of SS, TCOD, T-N and T-P. It was observed that the recirculation made removal efficiencies of SS, TCOD, T-N and T-P increased. Especially, in T-N removal, the increase of T-N removal efficiency of 40% was observed in the reicirculation rate of 1Q compared with 0Q.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.506-519
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• 1996

The water quality in the rural areas is degrading due to a variety of causes such as the increase of the urban sewage and industrial wastes, the disposal of solid wastes, the growth of livestock waste, the growth of leisure facilities, the establishment of agricultural industry estates and etc. The water pollutants are scarce while the effluent is increasing from wide scattered sources. The technology specifically designed for the rural wastes water treatment plant needs to be implemented with improvement of agricultural water quality. 1. An integrated management measures against water pollution sources. The prevention of water pollution is the best measures in the environmental pollution. Hence, the most effective measures needs to be against the sources. Small-scale water treatment plants needs to be constructed in each village in the rural areas. As for the industrial effluent, the effluent discharge needs to be strictly monitored. Government subsidy for the establishment of treatment plant for livestock wastes is necessary. 2. The establishment of national-wide network for agricultural water quality. The network for agricultural water quality have been operated to conserve the agricultural water quality, and to develop management policies by the assessment of water pollution in the rural areas. The results of agricultural water quality network indicates that the water quality is degrading not only around urban areas but also in the distant rural areas, and the water quality at the pumping stations and weirs is worse than that of reservoirs. 3. The legal, systematic, and technical approaches for the agricultural water quality management. The actions currently implemented for the improvement of agricultural water quality involve temporary measures such as the improvement of irrigation facilities. These contingency measures are not effective in the long-term, and sometimes bring secondary pollution. Therefore, integrated measures covering the whole water environment such as the flow, quality, river morphology, aquatic ecosystem, and the surrounding environment, need be invented and implemented. Besides, the legal, systematic, and technical frameworks for the management are not fully established so far. The technology for the treatment of rural water pollution should be refined afterwards, and the research for the development of rural waste water treatment plant should be carried out.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.172-172
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• 2011

Anaerobic digestion(AD) has successfully been used for many applications that have conclusively demonstrated its ability to recycle biogenic wastes. AD has been successfully applied in industrial waste water treatment, stabilsation of sewage sludge, landfill management and recycling of biowaste and agricultural wastes as manure, energy crops. During AD, i.e. organic materials are decomposed by anaerobic forming bacteria and fina1ly converted to excellent fertilizer and biogas which is primarily composed of methane(CH4) and carbon dioxide(CO2) with smaller amounts of hydrogen sulfide(H2S) and ammonia(NH3), trace gases such as hydrogen(H2), nitrogen(N2), carbon monoxide(CO), oxygen(O2) and contain dust particles and siloxanes. The production and utilisation of biogas has several environmental advantages such as i)a renewable energy source, ii)reduction the release of methane to the atomsphere, iii)use as a substitute for fossil fuels. In utilisation of biogas, most of biogas produced from small scale plant e.g. farm-scale AD plant are used to provide as energy source for cooking and lighting, in most of the industrialised countries for energy recovery, environmental and safety reasons are used in combined heat and power(CHP) engines or as a supplement to natural. In particular, biogas to use as vehicle fuel or for grid injection there different biogas treatment steps are necessary, it is important to have a high energy content in biogas with biogas purification and upgrading. The energy content of biogas is in direct proportion to the methane content and by removing trace gases and carbon dioxide in the purification and upgrading process the energy content of biogas in increased. The process of purification and upgrading biogas generates new possibilities for its use since it can then replace natural gas, which is used extensively in many countries, However, those technologies add to the costs of biogas production. It is important to have an optimized purification and upgrading process in terms of low energy consumption and high efficiency giving high methane content in the upgraded gas. A number of technologies for purification and upgrading of biogas have been developed to use as a vehicle fuel or grid injection during the passed twenty years, and several technologies exist today and they are continually being improved. The biomethane which is produced from the purification and the upgrading process of biogas has gained increased attention due to rising oil and natural gas prices and increasing targets for renewable fuel quotes in many countries. New plants are continually being built and the number of biomethane plants was around 100 in 2009.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2023

농업지역에서 발생하는 비점오염물질은 타 지역에 비해 넓은 면적에서 배출되기 때문에 수질관리를 위해서는 발생원 제어와 배출수 관리와 같은 다양한 오염원 저감대책이 필요하며, 이를 위해서는 유역특성을 고려한 오염원별 배출량 및 최적관리방안에 따른 수질개선 효과를 정량적으로 파악할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구는 Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN(HSPF)모델을 활용하여 유역내 오염원별 부하 및 주요 오염원저감방안에 대한 수질개선효과를 분석하여 농업지역의 비점오염관리대책 수립 지원을 목적으로 하였다. 연구지역은 경남 창녕군 계성천 유역으로 전체 면적대비 농업지역이 약 26.13%로 산림을 제외하고 지배적인 토지이용을 가지며, 주요 오염원은 농업활동에 기인하는 화학비료 및 액비살포와 축사에서 발생하여 야적 또는 농지에 살포되는 축분을 포함하고 있다. 계성천 유역에 대한 HSPF 모델 구축시 화학비료와 액비 사용량, 소규모 축사의 축분 발생량과 공공하수처리장, 분뇨처리장, 마을하수도 및 개인오수처리시설 등 점오염원 영향을 고려하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 영양염류의 식생흡수, 침적, 흡탈착, 깊은침투에 의한 손실 등 상세 순환기작모의가 가능하도록 NITR 및 PHOS모듈을 활용하였다. 구축된 모델은 유역말단의 2015~2020년 측정값을 토대로 보·검정을 수행하였으며 모델이 유량 및 수질을 적절히 모의하는 것을 확인하였다. 오염저감시나리오는 농업비점관리(배수물꼬관리, 완효성비료와 사용), 축산비점관리(액비저감, 소규모 축사 축분관리), 생활계오염원제어(개인오수처리시설 관리) 등 세 부문으로 구분하고, 달성기간에 따라 단기, 중기, 및 장기로 구분하여 부문별로 단계별 저감대책을 구성하였다. 개별시나리오 모의 결과 수질개선에 효과는 완효성비료의 대체사용>배수물꼬관리>소규모축사 축분관리 순으로 나타났다. 유역 전반에 모든 관리방안을 적용하였을 때 장기적으로 TN, TP의 연간부하량은 각각 40.6%, 41.1%, 연평균 농도는 각각 35.1%, 29.2% 감소되는 효과를 보였다. 본 연구를 통하여 농업활동 우세 유역에서의 다양한 오염원 저감시나리오별 수질개선효과에 대한 예측 및 이에 기반한 오염관리대책 우선순위 도출을 위한 합리적인 방법론을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.296-306
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• 2021

탄성도는 하나의 변수 변화에 따른 다른 변수의 변화되는 양상을 정량적인 수치로 해석하는 통계적 기법으로 상관성 분석 이상의 정보를 제공하여 기후변화 연구에 다양하게 활용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 낙동강 주요 지류를 대상으로 기온과 수질 자료를 이용하여 탄성도를 산정하고 기온에 대한 수질의 민감도 분석을 수행하였다. 또한, T-Test 결과를 이용하여 탄성도에 대한 신뢰구간을 산정하고 탄성도의 유효성을 검토하였다. 탄성도의 강도는 여름 > 가을 > 봄> 겨울 순으로 높은 강도를 나타내고 있으며 방향은 음과 양의 탄성도가 함께 있는 지역적 특성을 나타내고 있다. 월별 관측자료를 대상으로 계층적 군집 분석을 수행 후 5개 군집으로 분류하였으며 평행좌표 그래프를 이용하여 군집 별 특성을 시각적으로 분석하였다. 주요 지류의 경우 인구밀도가 상대적으로 높고 주변에 하수처리장, 소규모 축사, 농업 활동 등의 복잡한 영향 인자로 인해 기온 탄성도의 방향과 강도는 지역적 특성을 나타내고 있다. 특히, TP의 경우 기온변화에 따른 조류성장과 사멸로 발생하는 생태계의 영양물질 순환에 따라 큰 지역적 변동성을 나타내고 있다. 낙동강 주요 지류의 기온 탄성도는 약 이상이고 유의수준 5%에서 타당하므로 기온변화에 따른 수질 변동이 존재하는 것으로 분석되었다.