• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 The 6th International Symposium of East Asian Resources Recycling Technology
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• pp.751-754
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• 2001

A possibility of using waste plastics as a source of secondary fuel in blast furnace has been of recent interest. The success of this process, however, will be critically dependent upon the optimization of operating systems. for instance, the supply of waste plastics must be reliable as well as economically attractive compared with conventional secondary fuels such as heavy oil, natural gas and pulverized coal. In this work, we put special importance on the improvement of the combustibility of waste plastics as a way to enhance energy efficiency in blast furnace. As experimental variables to approach this target, the effects of plastic particle size, blast temperature, and the level of oxygen enrichment were investigated using a custom-made blast model designed to simulate a real furnace. Lastly, the combustion efficiency of the mixture of waste plastics and pulverized coal was tested. The observations made from these experiments led us to the conclusion that with the increase of both blast temperature and the level of oxygen enrichment, and with the decrease of particle size, the combustibility of waste PE could be improved at a given distance from tuyere. Also it was found that the efficiency of coal combustion decreased with the addition of plastics; however, the combustion efficiency of mixture could be comparable at longer distance from tuyere.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 The 6th International Symposium of East Asian Resources Recycling Technology
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• pp.755-758
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• 2001

Most of the waste plastics are incinerated and landfilled now, leading to much environmental problems. The technology of injection into the blast furnace was developed as a useful recycling method of waste plastics, and applied to the actual operation in several ironmaking companies. We carried out the test operation to inject continuously the two kinds of waste plastics through four tuyeres of the Foundry blast furnace in POSCO by 130 ton of total amount. From this test operation, we analyzed the coke replacement ratio, the permeability, the heat load and other changes of furnace conditions with the injection of waste plastics into the blast furnace. Some trials based upon the theoretical approaches were applied to examine the efficiencies of blast furnace.

• 한국폐기물자원순환학회지
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.683-691
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• 2018

The plastic strategy adopted by the EU in January 2018 was established to implement circular economic policies and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) of the United Nations. The strategy includes the vision and implementation measures to achieve, which are primarily measures to improve recycling and increase demand for recycled plastics. The representative measures include the design that considers recycling possibilities, reinforcement of demand for recycled plastics, suppression of occurrence, and response to micro-plastics. The policies to implement these measures include legislative restrictions and economic measures (EPR, GPP). It is especially desirable that the policies are applied differently depending on the plastic product. The Korean government has established comprehensive measures for all stages from production to recycling, but those measures are not comprehensive compared to the EU's strategy. The reason is that the refusal of waste collection makes the Korean government establish the approach from the aspect of waste management instead of the implementation of a circular economy or SDGs like the EU. The countermeasures are aimed at achieving a 50% reduction in waste generation amount and a 70% recycling rate. It is considered that the possibility of achieving the goal will increase by examining the measures and policy means in the EU's plastics strategy.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 복합 재질 폐플라스틱(PA)을 이용한 폴리머콘크리트의 작업성, 경화시간 및 경화수축에 미치는 결합재 첨가량 및 PA 혼입량의 영향에 대하여 검토하였다. 그 결과 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 재활용한 폴리머콘크리트의 작업성은 결합재 첨가량, PA 혼입량 및 필러 혼입량의 증가에 따라 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 이용한 폴리머콘크리트의 경화시간은 촉매제 첨가량 및 양생온도의 증가에 따라 짧아지는 경향을 나타냈다. 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 이용한 폴리머콘크리트의 길이변화는 결합재 첨가량 및 PA 혼입량의 증가에 따라 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 본 연구 결과가 복합 재질 폐플라스틱 종말품의 재활용에 조금이나마 기여할 수 있을 것을 기대하며 향후 지속적인 연구개발을 통하여 더욱 광범위한 복합재질 폐플라스틱 종말품의 재활용이 이루어질 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.186.1-186.1
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• 2011

Most of waste plastics including waste vinyls have been recycled up to about 50% of waste production, 4.5 million ton per year in 2009. To fundamentally increase the recycled amounts of waste plastics to waste production, the energy utilization of waste plastics is inevitable. But the contents of PVC included in waste plastics can limit the use as a RPF and make the air pollutants such as HCl and dioxin when it burns in the combustion system. Accordingly the source dechlorination by using heating method can be applied to make low contents of HCl as less than 0.6%. In this study the twin screw reactor using heat medium was used for the source dechlorination. As results of study, it was considered that this system is effective for the industrilal application.

• 공업화학
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.201-206
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• 1992

Annual amount of plastics waste including rubber and leather waste, generated in 1990 was about 2,600,000 tons. Amount of generation of plastics waste has rapidly increased, but fractions of recycling and incineration have gradually decreased. Recently, two-stage incinerator, consisting of gasifier and gas combustor, draws much attention in Korea. Plastics are gasified in the starved air condition in the gasifier and produced gas is fired in the combustor. Combustion of produced gas is much easier than that of solid plastics, and produces a little pollutants. Standardzation of technology and process automation are still needed, but this incineration technology is in the commercial stage. Next topic concerned with this two-stage incineration will be how to treat complex plastics waste including toxic substances generated from automobiles and household appliances. Pyrolysis, realized by indirect heating in inert atmosphere, can provide high-quality products with minimum emissions. Many plastics are easily decomposed into oil in pyrolysis conditions, which can be utilized as chemical feedstocks, or gasoline or kerosene depending on feed materials and operating conditions. This has been demonstrated in several pilot-scale tests performed in Japan, Germany, etc. Easy removal of HCl from PVC is one of the most decisive merits of pyrolysis process. But in general, further efforts should be made for the process to obtain marketability. The future of pyrolysis process depends on public concern about environmental problems and oil prices.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 The 6th International Symposium of East Asian Resources Recycling Technology
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• pp.236-239
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• 2001

In this study, the compound materials of GRT/plastics (HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE, PP and PS) were developed. Their tensile strength, strain at yield and flexural modulus according to the change in CRT content were measured. And, the physical properties of the compound materials that the GRT content was changed in the waste vinyl HDPE and pure HDPE were measured, compared and analyzed. If tile GRT is added to PE plastics, the physical properties were superior to those of PP and PS, and in the case of HDPE, the waste vinyl HDPE had superior physical properties by the GRT content to the pure HDPE.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 재활용한 폴리머콘크리트의 압축, 휨 및 충격강도, 흡수율 및 동결융해저항성에 미치는 결합재 첨가량 및 PA 혼입량의 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 그 결과 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 재활용한 폴리머콘크리트의 압축, 휨 및 충격강도는 PA 혼입량에 관계없이, 결합재 첨가량 및 충전제 혼입량의 증가에 따라 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 하지만, PA 혼입량의 증가에 따라서는 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 재활용한 폴리머콘크리트의 흡수율은 PA 혼입량에 관계없이, 결합재 첨가량의 증가에 따라 감소하는 경향을 나타냈다. 하지만 PA 혼입량의 증가에 따라서는 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 복합 재질 폐플라스틱을 재활용한 폴리머콘크리트의 내구성 지수는 결합재 첨가량의 증가에 따라 증가하였으나, PA 혼입량에 따라서는 감소하는 경향을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 The 6th International Symposium of East Asian Resources Recycling Technology
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• pp.597-601
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• 2001

Waste plastics amount is more than 3.5 million tons and 30% of industrial waste in 1998, Korea but recycling rate of industrial waste plastics is quite low because the material separation technology from the mixed waste plastic powders is not commercially available so far. This study covers the triboelectrostatic separation of polyvinylchloride (PVC) materials collection chambers and controllers. PVC and PET powders can be imparted negative and positive surface charges, respectively, due to the difference of triboelectric charging series between particles and particles in the fluidized bed tribocharger, and can be separated by passing them through an external electric field. The extract content and yield of PVC separation from the mixed PVC and PET plastic powders are 90.0% and 98.2%, respectively. The electrostatic separation system using the fluidized bed tribocharger shows the potential to be an effective method for removing PVC materials from other mixed plastics.

• 에너지공학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2005

국내에서 폐플라스틱 발생량은 증가하고 있지만 이에 대한 처리방법 및 재활용은 부족한 실정이다. 하지만 최근에 플라스틱과 같은 고분자물질의 처리 방법으로 열분해기술에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 혼합폐플라스틱의 처리 및 생성되는 재생유의 이용가능성을 평가하기위해 폐플라스틱의 각 재질별 TGA와 DCS분석을 통한 열분해특성 파악과 재생유의 품질검사 및 성상분석을 통한 이용가능성을 평가하였다. 온도변화에 대한 재질별 플라스틱의 열분해는 PP, LDPE, HDPE, PET, PS,기타 순으로 이루어짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 각 재질별 플라스틱의 열분해 특성을 기초로 하여 혼합폐플라스틱의 열분해처리 조건을 설정하였고, Batch식 열분해 플랜트를 가동하며 혼합폐플라스틱을 처리하였다. 열분해 처리시 발생되는 가연성가스를 포집, 냉각 및 정제과정을 거쳐 오일을 생산하고, 시중에서 판매되고 있는 연료유와 재생유를 한국산업규격의 석유품질검사법에 준하여 분석하였다. 재생유의 품질은 낮은 인화점을 제외하고는 모두 품질기준에 적합한 것으로 분석되었고, 연료유와의 성상을 비교한 결과 등유와 경유 중간의 성상을 나타내었다. 따라서 혼합폐플라스틱을 열분해 처리해 생성된 오일은 연료유로 이용이 가능하므로 신재생에너지로 활용이 충분할 것으로 확인되었다.