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Use of Pine (Pinus densiflora) Pollen Cones as an Environmentally Friendly Sound-Absorbing Material

  • JANG, Eun-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.186-192
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    • 2022
  • This study examined the utility of pine (Pinus densiflora) pollen cones as an environmentally friendly material with sound-absorbing properties. Pine pollen cone samples with widths of 0.8-1.2 cm and lengths of 3.5-4.5 cm were prepared. After filling impedance tubes to heights of 6, 8, 10, or 12 cm with the pine pollen cones, the sound absorption coefficient of the pine pollen cones was investigated. The peak sound absorption frequency of the samples with a thickness of 6 cm was reached at 1,512 Hz; however, this value shifted to 740 Hz in samples with a thickness of 12 cm. Therefore, the sound-absorbing performance of pine pollen cones at low frequencies improved as the material thickness increased. According to KS F 3503 (Korean Standards Association), the sound absorption grade of pine pollen cones ranges from 0.3 to 0.5 M, depending on the material thickness of the pine pollen cones. In conclusion, the pine pollen cones demonstrated good sound absorption properties. They, thus, may be considered an environmentally friendly sound-absorbing material.

A Study on Stakeholders' Strategies toward IMO International Convention for Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling (IMO 선박재활용협약과 관련 당사자의 대응전략에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Hyun-Jeung
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.345-352
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    • 2009
  • The issues of environmental pollution and labor safety on ship recycling in the undeveloped countries such as India, Bangladesh, etc have been proclaimed. For this, IMO has been actively participated in resolving such problems since 1998 and then finally the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships is going to be adopted in this year. The convention provides the design, construction, operation and preparation of ships in order to facilitate safe and environmentally sound recycling as well as the safe and environmentally sound operation of ship recycling facilities. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to introduce the major contents of ship recycling convention and its time of entry into force and to analyse stakeholders' strategies toward it so that Korea will have a better position for the establishment of a mechanism regarding regulation stringency on environmentally sound ship recycling.

Review of Management Methods and Criteria for Environmentally-Sound Soil (친환경 토양 관리 방법과 기준에 대한 평가)

  • Ryu, Jin-Hee;Lee, Kyo-S.;Chung, Doug-Y.
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.53-67
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    • 2008
  • The principle goal of environmentally-friendly agriculture is to maintain and conserve water and agriculture environment including drinking water resources by properly using agricultural materials such as agricultural chemicals, chemical fertilizers, and other agricultural materials according to act 19 of foster law of environmentally-friendly agriculture. To achieve these goals, we have to establish Integrated Nutrient Management(INM) and Integrated Pesticide Management(IPM) which are most important core technologies for environmentally-friendly rice cultivation. However, there are lack of criteria and technology for evaluation category according to soil management and its soil classes to practice an environmentally-friendly agriculture. Therefore, we should eatablish the standards to produce the safe agricultural products based on the soil physical and chemical characteristics which are basic properties of soil to accomplish the principle aims of environmentally-friendly agriculture.

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Peanut Shells as an Environmentally Beneficial Sound-Absorbing Material

  • JANG, Eun-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.179-185
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    • 2022
  • This study investigated the prospect of using peanut shells as an alternative and green sound-absorbing material. The sound-absorption coefficients were determined after filling impedance tubes of 30, 60, and 90 mm in height with peanut shells. The sound-absorption ability increased as the filling height increased, showing noise reduction coefficient (NRCs) of 0.23, 0.43, and 0.54 for the 30-, 60-, and 90-mm heights, respectively. In addition, for sounds greater than 2,000 Hz, the average sound-absorption coefficient of peanut shells in the 60- and 90-mm heights was 0.9. In summary, peanut shells were found to have good sound-absorption properties comparable to or better than those of bamboo, sisal, jute, and wool, and this research suggests that peanut shells may be useful as an environmentally friendly sound-absorbing material.

Research on Environmentally-Sound Erosion Control Works(I) -Environment-oriented erosion control works in Japan- (환경(環境)과 조화한 사방사업(砂防事業)(I) - 일본의 환경보전사방(環境保全砂防) -)

  • Chun, Kun-Woo;Ezaki, Tsugio
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 1996
  • In recent erosion control works, securing not only the disaster prevention space but the environmental space, harmonized with surrounding environment and abundant with biological resources, are emphasized. Inspired of by the fact that efforts to secure such spaces have been being briskly promoted in Japan since the beginning of 1990s', we compile and analyze the Japanese sources about the "environmentally-sound erosion control works" to contribute to the erosion control works of our country. Specifically, in this report, we deal with the subjects of "establishment of the comfortable river environment" and "environmentally-sound erosion control works" which includes "erosion control dam", "water channel works and revetments", "fish routes" and "water quality conservation works".

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Research on Environmentally-Sound Forest Road Construction( I ) -Recently forest road conservation in Japan- (유역(流域)의 환경보전(環境保全)을 고려한 합리적인 임도시공(林道施工)에 관한 연구(硏究)( I ) -일본에 있어서 최근의 임도사업(林道事業)을 중심으로-)

  • Chun, Kun-Woo;Ezaki, Tsugio;Oh, Jae-Man
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.26-36
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    • 1996
  • In our country, nation-wide forest road works are being carried out as one of the efforts to bolster the international competitiveness of agriculture, however such environmental problems as sediment discharge and water quality degradation accompany such efforts more often than not. Hence, in this research report, we compile and analyze the Japanese sources dealing with the "research direction of the forest road construction", "environmental impact assessment upon the watershed of the forest road construction", "environmentally-sound forest road construction and its research method" in consideration of the fact that natural environment of Japan is similar to that of our country and Japanese forest road works has a long history. We hope that this report be useful to the reasonable watershed management and the environmentally-sound forest road works.

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Development of agricultural water use indicator (농업용수 사용지표 개발)

  • Lee, Kwang-Ya;Lim, Jong-Wan;Hong, Dae-Byuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.33-36
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to develope a indicator for agricultural water use. Agricultural water is challenged by the increase of water use in the sectors of urbanization and industry and social pressure to use water in sustainable and environmentally sound way. The development of agricultural environment indicators is divided into 13 sectors, among which agricultural water use indicators include amount and intensity of agricultural water use, efficiency of agricultural water use, shortage or surplus of water use, water stress, etc.. Agricultural water use indicators provide basic data for sustainable and environmentally sound agricultural development, and also help policy decision makers to solve water shortage problems through water policy and water management measures by making the most of the total available water resources.

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