• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.44-53
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• 2011

Membrane bio-reactor (MBR) has several advantages over the conventional activated sludge process, including a high biomass, low sludge production, and better permeate quality. Therefore, the MBR have gained popularity for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. However the MBR usually were used for sewage and low streng th wastewater treatment because of membrane fouling problem and limitation of oxygen transfer into biomass. In this study, the hybrid process combining MBR and pure oxygen was tested for high strength organic wastewater treatment in the COD loading range from 2 to $10kgCOD/m^3{\cdot}day$. The hybrid process, membrane coupled pure oxygen high compact reactor (MPHCR), had been operated for one year and operation parameters, the effect of COD loading, MLSS concentration and the location of membrane module were studied for membrane fouling characteristic. Also membrane resistance test and the component of foulant was analyzed to investigate what is specific foulant in the MBR.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2006

In this study, the treatment of domestic wastewater in a field-scale membrane submerged intermittently aerated activated sludge process($210m^3/day$) was investigated under difference aeration methods. Operating temperature was 5.4 to 25.0 and membrane used in this study is a polyethylene hollow fiber membrane(pore size $0.4{\mu}m$). The range of operating flux was $9.7{\sim}24.4l/m^2-h$ and membrane permeates periodically operated for 7min followed idle for 3 min. The results showed that MIA(modified intermittent aeration) was more efficient in nitrogen and phosphorus removal. The removal efficiencies of T-N and T-P were 73.0% and 69.6% for CIA(conventional intermittent aeration) and 57.5%, 58.6% for MIA (modified intermittent aeration). With application of modified intermittent aeration, DO reached nearly Omg/l within 10 minutes after air off. Organics of influent could be entirely consumed to the denitrification and the P-release without the influence by remained DO in intermittent aeration reactor. Therefore, newly developed KSMBR(Kowaco-KMS-Ssangyoung Membrane Bio-Reactor) process with modified intermittent aeration can be one of the useful process for stable nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2001

A lab-scale submerged membrane bio-reactor (MBR) with intermittent aeration was carried out for investigating the behavior of soluble microbial products (SMP). The SMP concentration of mixed liquor at Run 1 accumulated immediately at the end of running and biodegradable SMP converted into non-biodegradable SMP, but it did not occurred at the Run 2 and 3. The SMP formation coefficient (k) at the anoxic phase was a little higher than oxic phase, and the lowest k was investigated at Run 3. The combination of biological denitrification with the MBR Process was advantageous in the prevention of membrane bio-fouling.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2006

There is a possibility of the production of the air bubbles in membrane pores due to the reduction in pressure during membrane filtration. The effect of fine air bubbles from dissolved gases on microfiltration was investigated in the submerged membrane bio-reactor (SMBR). The $R_{air}$ (air bubble resistance) was defined as the filtration resistance due to the air bubbles formed from the gasification of dissolved gases. From the results of filtration tests using pure water with changes in the dissolved oxygen concentration, the air bubbles from dissolved gases were confirmed to act as a foulant and; thus, increase the filtration resistance. The standard pore blocking and cake filtration models, SPBM and CFM, respectively, were applied to investigate the mechanism of air bubble fouling on a hollow fiber membrane. However, the application of the SPBM and CFM were limited in explaining the mechanism due to the properties of air bubble. With a simple comparison of the different filtration resistances, the $R_{air}$ portion was below 1% of the total filtration resistance during sludge filtration. Therefore, the air bubbles from dissolved gases would only be a minor foulant in the SMBR. However, under the conditions of a high gasification rate from dissolved gases, the effect of air bubble fouling should be considered in microfiltration.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.365-369
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• 2004

Submerged membrane bio-reactor equipped with a hollow fiber microfiltration was applied to reuse weaving wastewater of water jet loom, where two parameters such as the concentration of MLSS and the flux were controlled. While the flux at the concentration of MLSS around 900mg/L was constantly kept over 0.4m/d and 0.8m/d in a short time, the stable flux at around 300mg/L of MLSS was shown at the 8 days later. Regardless of MLSS and flux, BOD, CODcr and Turbidity of the permeate were 1~2mg/L, 7~10mg/L and below 1 NTU, which were 85~90%, 87~90% and 98% of removal efficiency, respectively. The stable operation without fouling was achieved because the contents of ECP were smaller than those of common MBR processes and the composition(saccharide/protein) was kept constantly. In this study, 0.5~1.0m/d of flux and 400~900mg/L of MLSS were considered as the most recommendable operating condition for the reuse of weaving wastewater.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.2125-2134
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• 2000

본 연구는 매립지에서 발생되는 침출수를 배출허용기준 이내로 처리함은 물론 경제적인 처리 공정을 개발하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 현장 pilot test 이전에 최적 공정 선정과 장치 설계인자를 도출하기 위해 실험실에서 기초실험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 개발하고자하는 처리공정은 역삼투시스템을 이용하는 공정인데 전처리로서 침지형분리막 생물반응기를 이용하였으며, 역삼투시스템에서 발생되는 농축수는 매립가스를 열원으로 하는 직화식 증발기를 이용하여 처리하는 공정이다. 실험결과 침지형분리막 생물반응기에서 SS, $BOD_5$, $COD_{cr}$, $NH_4{^+}-N$은 각각 99.0%, 43.0%, 12.9%, 48.5%, 18.7%의 제거효율을 보였다. 역삼투시스템온 $BOD_5$, $COD_{cr}$, $NH_4{^+}-N$, T-N을 각각 97.5%, 97.6%, 79.7%, 85.4% 제거할 수 있었다. 증발기는 $COD_{cr}$, $NH_4{^+}-N$, T-N을 각각 90.5%, 50.6%, 63.3% 제거할 수 있었으나 배출허용기준 이내로 처리하기는 어려운 것으로 나타나 응축수는 역삼투시스템 전단으로 보내서 전처리수와 함께 처리되어야할 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.51-61
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• 2018

In this study, effluent water was produced through Submerged Membrane Bio-Reactor(SMBR) process, which is a simple system and decomposes organic matter contained in wastewater with biological treatment process and performs solid-liquid separation, Especially, ozone oxidation treatment process is applied to effluent water containing fluorescent whitening agent, which is a trace pollutant which is not removed by biological treatment, and influences the quality of reused water. The concentration of $COD_{Cr}$ in the SMBR was $449.3mg/{\ell}-COD_{Cr}$, and the concentration of permeate water was $100.3mg/{\ell}-COD_{Cr}$. The removal efficiency was about 70.1%. The amount of ozone required for the removal of the fluorescent whitening agent in the permeated water in SMBR was $6.67g-O_3/min$, and the amount of ozone required to remove $COD_{Mn}$ relative to the permeate water was calculated to remove $0.997mg-COD_{Mn}$ for 1mg of $O_3$.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.865-870
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• 2006

The behavior and influence of EPS on membrane fouling by changing of hydraulic retention time was investigated, using lab. scale submerged membrane bio-reactor, which was operated with gravitational filtration and fed supernatant of primary sedimentation in waste water treatment plant as influent. The membrane was adopted micro-filter of polyethylene hollow fiber. EPS was analysed as polysaccharides and protein especially, into soluble and bound EPS separately. The concentration of soluble EPS was increased at short HRT, then membrane fouling was rapidly progressed and flux was depressed. The most of EPS clogged membrane pore were polysaccharides, while protein was important parameter affected on membrane fouling because of it's more accumulating in the more term operating.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2001

Submerged Membrane Bio-Reacter(SMBR) process was used to food wastewater treatment. From laboratory pilot-scale experiment data, it was confirmed that this process was very effective process for organics, suspended solid, and N, P treatment. It was found that BOD and COD removal rate were obtained 90% and 92%, respectively, for 150 days operation. Organics loading rate did not affect to the removal efficiency because MLSS concentration in aerobic tank was highly maintained. IN the case of first reactor operated with anoxic and second reactor operated as aerobic, T-N, T-P removal rate were obtained 93% and 95%, respectively. It was shown that removal efficiency could be maintained stable due to the complete removal of SS and sludge production decreased with increasing of sludge retention time.

• 공업화학
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.401-408
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• 2014

분리막 생물반응기에서 산기량 제어는 반응기 내 유체흐름과 특히 막표면 근방에서의 전단응력을 변화시켜 막오염 감소 및 에너지 절약을 구현하는 중요 독립변수 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 원통형 생물 반응기 중심에 침지형 평막을 장착하고 하부에서 공기가 공급되는 3차원적 시스템에 대하여 "COMSOL"프로그램을 사용하여 수치해석하였다. 용액의 점도, 온도는 일정하다고 가정했으며 투과액 부피와 산기량의 비인 $SAD_p$를 변수로 사용하였다. 유속센서, 동영상 이미지분석으로 측정한 유속과 수치해석 결과는 11% 이내에서 일치함을 확인하였다. 반응기 내 유체의 흐름은 산기관과 막모듈 구간에서 급격하게 증가하였으나 막모듈을 지나면서 감소하였으며 반응조 벽에서 중심축 방향으로 갈수록 유속이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 막 표면에서 계산된 전단응력은 하단 중앙부가 가장 크게 나타났으며 산기량이 증가할수록 전단응력이 증가하였다. 특히 산기량을 0.15에서 0.25 L/min로 증가할 경우 크게 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다.