• 환경영향평가
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.419-430
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• 2023

국내 상수원에서 주기적으로 발생하는 녹조에 대응하기 위하여 다양한 종류의 녹조제거기술이 개발되어 적용 중이다. 이러한 기술들은 녹조제거 원리가 다르기 때문에 이들의 제거 효율을 비교·평가하기는 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 대청호 서화천 수역에서 이동식 녹조제거장치를 사용하여 제거 작업을 시행한 결과를 활용하여, 녹조제거 효율을 평가할 수 있는 표준화된 방법을 제안하였다. 녹조 제거 작업시 수거된 슬러지의 양, 함수율, 클로로필-a의 농도로부터 작업 구간 중 클로로필-a의 농도 감소량(ΔChl-a)을 계산하였다. 또한 작업 대상 수역의 면적, 일일 최대 작업 면적과 ΔChl-a로부터 대상 수역에서 1 mg/m³의 클로로필-a 농도를 저감하는데 필요한 작업일수(WD)를 계산하였다. 작업 전후 수체에서 클로로필-a의 농도 저감율, 제거 기술의 처리 용량, 작업 대상 수역의 수체 용량으로부터 녹조제거능을 계산하는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 이동식 녹조제거장치의 녹조제거능은 6.64%/day (대청호 서화천 수역 대상, 약 500,000 m²)이었으며, 이는 다른 물리·화학적 녹조제거 기술의 녹조제거능(0.02~4.72%/day)에 비해 높은 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 제시한 조류제거효율 평가 방법을 활용하여 국내에서 적용되고 있는 녹조제거 기술의 비교 평가가 가능할 것이며, 국립환경과학원이 운영하고 있는 「조류제거시설 설치·운영 및 살포용 조류제거물질 사용지침」에서 물리적 또는 물리·화학적 복합 조류제거기법의 조류제거 성능 및 제거 효율 평가를 판정하는 방법으로 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 미생물과산업
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.2-13
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• 1993

Some microorganisms, including actinomycetes, cyanobacteria, and other bacteria, algae, fungi, and yeast, can accumulate and retain relatively high quantities of heavy metals and radionuclides from their external environments (1-4). Both living and dead cells can be used for biosorptive metal/radionuclide removal from solution. Thus microorganisms and products excreted by or derived from microbial cells (2) may provide an alternative or adjunct to conventional techniuqes of metal removal and recovery. Recent approaches have separated the microbial growth and metal removal process to manipulate production of metal-adsorptive capacity of bacteria and metal removal process. If pre-grown cells are immobilized and used for metal removal, mathematical modeling can be applied to predict immobilized cell reactor behavior under specific process conditions. Waste and microbial adsorbent could be separated from the treated flow in one step. Once treated, the metal waste is concentrated in a small volume of sorbed form for easy metal disposal or recovery.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.437-443
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• 2020

Biological phosphorus removal is accomplished by exposing PAO(phosphorus accumulating organisms) to anaerobic-aerobic conversion conditions. In the anaerobic condition, PAO synthesize PHB(polyhydroxybutyrate) and simultaneously hydrolysis of poly-p resulting phosphorus(Pi) release. In aerobic condition, PAO uptake phosphorus(Pi) more than they have released. In this study, cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp., which is known to be able to synthesize PHB like PAO, was exposed to anaerobic-aerobic conversion. If Synechococcus sp. can remove excess phosphorus by the same mechanism as PAO, synergistic effects can occur through photosynthesis. Moreover, Synechococcus sp. is known to be capable of synthesizing PHB using inorganic carbon as well as organic carbon, so even if the available capacity of organic carbon decreases, it was expected to show stable phosphorus removal efficiency. In 6 hours of anaerobic condition, phosphorus release occurred in both inorganic and organic carbon conditions but SPRR(specific phosphorus release rate) of both conditions was 10 mg-P/g-MLSS/day, which was significantly lower than that of PAO. When converting to aerobic conditions, SPUR(specific phosphorus uptake rate) was about 9 mg-P/g-MLSS/day in both conditions, showing a higher uptake rate than the control condition showing SPUR of 6.4 mg-P/g-MLSS/day. But there was no difference in terms of the total amount of removal. According to this study, at least, it seems to be inappropriate to apply Synechococcus sp. to luxury uptake process for phosphorus removal.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.405-415
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• 2019

Microcystins (MCs) are toxins produced by cyanobacteria causing a major environmental threat to water resources worldwide. Although several MCs have been reported in previous studies, microcystin-LR (m-LR) has been extensively studied as it is highly toxic. Among the several techniques employed for the removal of this toxin, adsorption with AC has been extensively studied. AC has gained wide attention as an effective adsorbent of m-LR due to its ubiquity, high sorption capacity, cost effectiveness and renewability. In this review, the adsorption of m-LR onto AC was evaluated using the information available in existing scientific literature. The effects of the pore volume and surface chemistry of AC on the adsorption of m-LR considering the structural and chemical properties of ACs were also discussed. Furthermore, we identified the parameters that influence adsorption, including natural organic matter (NOM), pH, and ionic strength during the m-LR adsorption process. The effect of these parameters on MCs adsorption onto AC from previous studied is compiled and highlighted. This review may provide new insights into future activated carbon-m-LR adsorption research, and broaden its application prospects.