• 공업화학
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.318-325
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• 2017

원자력발전소 2차 계통수에 사용되는 에탄올아민이 포함된 오염수는 복수탈염설비의 이온교환수지에서 포집된다. 이온교환수지의 재생과정에서 에탄올아민과 다량의 이온성 물질이 포함된 강산성 폐수가 발생된다. 본 연구는 이온교환수지에서 발생하는 폐수를 처리하기 위해서 자외선 산화방법을 적용하였다. 산화방법은 흡착제를 함께 사용한 자외선 산화와 흡착제를 적용하지 않고 자외선 산화만 적용할 수 있는 장치를 개발하여 자외선 산화방법에서 흡착제가 폐수처리 성능에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 연구 결과는 입상활성탄을 흡착제로 적용한 UV/GAC산화공정은 pH 12.8에서 COD 제거 효율은 71.3%로 나타났다. 동일한 pH 조건에서 흡착제를 적용하지 않은 UV 산화공정보다 COD 제거 효율이 21.8% 높게 나타났다. T-N의 제거는 pH 12.8일 때 88.6%로 흡착제를 적용하지 않은 UV산화공정보다 18.0% 높게 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과는 입상활성탄이 에탄올아민을 고정시켜서, UV 램프에 의한 산화공정의 효율을 높이는 것으로 여겨진다. 따라서 UV/GAC 흡착산화공정이 에탄올아민 함유 폐수의 처리에 더 효율적이다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.577-584
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• 2006

The binding of heavy metal ions onto cross-linked chitosan in dilute aqueous solution has been investigated as a function of pH (4.0 and 7.0), agitation period (10-180min) and concentration of various metal cations (5, 10, 50 and 100ppm). In order to obtain adsorbents that are insoluble and stable, and prevent the dissolution loss of chitosan into an acidic aqueous solution, chitosan flakes were cross-linked with epichlorohydrine (ECH) and its adsorption behavior was compared with that of the non cross-linked chitosan. An advantage of ECH is that it does not eliminate the cationic amine functional group of chitosan. In terms of adsorption ratio, the chitosan cross-linked at an ECH was inferior to original chitosan and was found that chitosan has a selectivity much remarkable than the cross-linked chitosan in low concentrated metal solutions. However, no significant decreases in the adsorption ratios were observed between the cross-linked ECH-chitosan and the non cross-linked chitosan concerning the adsorption of $Ni^{2+}$, $Co^{2+}$, $Pb^{2+}$ and $Zn^{2+}$ acidic solution.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.1180-1185
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 철이 주성분 이면서 다양한 금속산화물의 조성을 갖는 채광물질인 철광사(Iron Sand)를 구리 혹은 납을 함유한 합성폐수 처리에 대한 적용성을 조사하였다. 먼저 철광사의 내산성을 조사하기 위해 pH $2{\sim}4.5$ 범위에서 철 및 알루미늄의 용출특성을 조사였을 때, 가장 많은 조성을 갖는 철의 용출량은 강산성인 pH 2에서도 수질오염 배출기준 이하로 나타났다. 알루미늄의 경우 pH 2에서는 상당량의 용출현상이 나타났지만 pH 3 이상에서는 용출농도가 급격히 감소하였다. 이러한 내산성 실험결과는 철광사를 pH 3 이상에서의 폐수처리에 적용하는 데는 큰 문제가 없는 것을 제시한다. 철광사의 중금속 흡착능력을 조사하기 위해 구리 및 납을 흡착질로 사용하고 실험실 규모의 회분식 흡착실험과 칼럼 여과실험을 실시하였다. pH 5에서 철광사에 의한 구리이온의 제거는 반응초기 시간대에 빠르게 이루어졌으며 2시간이 경과되었을 때 구리 주입량의 50%가 제거되었으며 24시간 경과 후에 거의 완전한 흡착평형에 도달하였다. 철광사에 대한 Cu(II) 및 Pb(II)의 흡착은 pH 2 이상에서 증가되기 시작하였으며 pH 6 이상에서는 거의 모든 흡착질들이 제거되는 전형적인 양이온형 흡착경향을 보였다. 철광사에 대한 구리 및 납 흡착질의 농도비 변화에 따른 흡착등은 실험결과, 구리 및 납의 최대 흡착량은 각각 2,170 mg/kg 및 3,450 mg/kg으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.768-774
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• 2017

Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) catalyzes the oxidation of aromatic compounds by hydrogen peroxide via insoluble polymer formation, which can be precipitated from the wastewater. For HRP immobilization, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) fine carrier supports were produced by using the Nano Spray Dryer B-90. Immobilized HRP was used to remove the persistent 2,4-dichlorophenol from model wastewater. Both extracted (9-16 U/g) and purified HRP (11-25 U/g) retained their activity to a high extent after crosslinking to the PLGA particles. The immobilized enzyme activity was substantially higher in both the acidic and the alkaline pH regions compared with the free enzyme. Optimally, 98% of the 2,4-dichlorophenol could be eliminated using immobilized HRP due to catalytic removal and partly to adsorption on the carrier supports. Immobilized enzyme kinetics for 2,4-dichlorophenol elimination was studied for the first time, and it could be concluded that competitive product inhibition took place.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2007

Changes in the characteristics of dissolved organic matter was studied at selected stations in the Nakdong river basin using physical and chemical methods. Characteristics of dissolved organic matters were analysed and assessed. Production of disinfection byproducts were also investigated. Distribution of the organic compounds according to the Molecular weight(MW) indicate that MWs higher than 100K were highest with cattle excrement wastewater and MW between 100-10K were highest with waters from forest streams. Low MW compounds (Jess than 1K) were highest with the effluents from environmental facilities. Results of resin fractionation study show that acidic hydrophobic substances(AHS) were dominant in many stations. The values were higher in the samples from mainstreams and sidestreams where the influence of organic matter is higher than the water from environmental facilities. Hydrophilic neutral substances(HoN) such as hydrocarbon, pesticides and detergents were higher in the wastewater treatment facilities. HoN values of water from the forest streams were 4.7% indicating there is no synthetic pollutant.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2008

A special field experiment has been carried out from March 2001 to June 2001 at the Changhowon in Kyunggi to investigate a better methodology for the estimation of dry deposition of pollutions applicable in Korea. In this study, dry deposition plate was used to measure of total and water soluble acidic mass fluxes, and CPRI(Coarse Particle Rotary Impactor), CI(Cascade Impactor) were also used to measure ambient concentrations in various particle size ranges. Sehmel-Hodgson model was used to estimate dry depostion velocity and Weibull probability distribution function was applied to get generalized particle size distribution for the size fractioned concentration data sampled by CPRI and CI. Atmospheric dry deposition fluxes of mass and ionic matters estimated by the various techniques(one-step, multi-step, equi-concentration, subdivision for only the coarse particle range, applying Weibull distribution function, etc.) were compared to flux data sampled by DDP. It was found out that the deposition fluxes estimation methodology calculated by the each particle size range devided by particle size distribution characteristics and the rapidly changed points of deposition velocity using Weibull probability distribution function was the most applicable.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.53-71
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• 2018

Waste glass disposal causes environmental problems in the cities. To find a suitable green environmental solution for this problem low cost adsorbent in this study was prepared from waste glass. An effective new green adsorbent was synthesized by hydrothermal treatment of waste glass (WG), followed by acidic activation of its surface by HCl (WGP). The prepared adsorbent was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and BET surface measurement. The developed adsorbent was used for the removal of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn) from well water. Batch experiments were conducted to test the ability of the prepared adsorbent for the removal of Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn from well water. The experiments of the heavy metals adsorption by adsorbent (WGP) were performed at different metal ion concentrations, solution pH, adsorbent dosage and contact time. The Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms and kinetic models were used to verify the adsorption performance. The results indicated high removal efficiencies (99-100%) for all the studied heavy metals at pH 7 at constant contact time of 2 h. The data obtained from adsorption isotherms of metal ions at different time fitted well to linear form of the Langmuir sorption equation, and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Application of the resulted conditions on well water demonstrated that the modified waste glass adsorbent successfully adsorbed heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn) from well water.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 1994

With the rapid industrialization, an ever-increasing quantity and kind of new organic compounds pose environmental problems due to their toxicity and physiological effect. However, research on the biodegradation of these compounds under anaerobic condition is very limited inspite of its efficiency and economical advantage. In this research, the pH effect on the ring cleavage of phenol under anaerobic condition was investigated, and the theory of phase separation was applied to the degradation of phenol for investigating the role of acidogenic bacteria. Results, obtained from biochemical methane potential(BMP) assay for 15.5 days of incubation, showed that acidic condition was more desirable for phenol degradation than alkaline condition. By both unacclimated methanogenic granular sludge and two mixed cultures, phenol was completely removed within six weeks of incubation with a gas conversion rate of over 86% of theoretical one. However, phenol was not degraded by unacclimated acidogenic culture, and thus it is considered as a syntrophic substrate. In case of phase separated biochemical methane potential(PSBMP) assay, in which acidogenic and methanogenic culture were seeded separately and consecutively, those that had been subjected to normal acidogens for 3 to 4 weeks showed higher gas production than those seeded with sterile or frozen culture.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.315-322
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• 2008

Recently there has been a great deal of interest in promotion of the utilization of rainwater. In this paper, we compared qualities of the rainwater collected from the top of vinyl houses to those of precipitated rainwater itself in Jeju Island. The pH of the collected rainwater was acidic and lower than the precipitated one. As a storm progresses, the pH of the collected water gradually increases. Ranges of EC of the precipitated and collected rainwater were 1-118 and $1-475{\mu}S/cm$. Most of Cl and turbidity values of the collected rainwater were less than 20 mg/L and 20 NTU, while those of the precipitated rainwater were less than 10 mg/L and 5 NTU. Differences in qualities between precipitated and collected rainwater indicate that qualities of the collected rainwater should be changed by the first flush effects, and imply that long term continuous monitoring for the qualities of collected rainwater is essential to quantify the first flush phenomenon more accurately.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.307-314
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• 2008

In this study, the effects of applied voltage, solution pH and coexistence of other ions such as sulfate ion (${SO_4}^{2-}$) and chloride ion ($Cl^-$) were investigated on the removal of nitrate-nitrogen ($NO_3{^-}-N$) from ground water by electrodialysis. The examined operating conditions were evaluated for optimizing the removal efficiency of $NO_3{^-}-N$. Real ground water samples taken from a rural area of Yongin city and artificial ones with components similar to the real ground water were tested for the study, which contained $NO_3{^-}-N$ concentration of 17mg/L that exceeds current drinking water quality standard of 10 mg/L. The increase in the removal rate of $NO_3{^-}-N$ was observed as the applied voltage increased from 5V to 30V, while no significant increase in the removal rate appeared at the applied voltage beyond 20V during a given operating time. The removal rate appeared to get lower at both acidic and basic condition, compared to neutral pH. Coexistence of of ${SO_4}^{2-}$and $Cl^-$ demanded much longer operating time to achieve a given removal rate or to meet a certain level of treated water concentration. When nitrate ion was combined with ${SO_4}^{2-}$and $Cl^-$, the removal rate was reduced by 4.29% and 10.83%, respectively.