• 자원환경지질
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.719-729
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 지구화학 모델을 활용하여 지하수 환경에서의 우라늄의 존재 형태, 흡착 및 이동 특성을 모사해 보았다. 흡착에 의한 우라늄의 지연 이동을 효과적으로 모사하기 위하여 3차원 지하수 유동 모델과 반응성 용질 이동 모델을 활용하였다. 모사 결과, $pCO_2=10^{-3.6}$조건에서 대부분의 우라늄 흡착(최대 99.5%)은 pH 5.5와 띠에서 발생하였다. $pCO_2$가 $10^{-2.5}$인 경우 우라늄이 대부분 흡착되는 pH범위는 6에서 7사이로 매우 좁았으며, 반면 $pCO_2=10^{-4.5}$인 경우에는 흡착되는 pH가 범위가 상대적으로 넓어 pH 5.5에서 8.5사이에서 대부분 흡착되었다. 음이온 화합물을 고려한 경우에는 pH 6 이하에서는 불소착물의 형성에 의해 우라늄 흡착이 감소하였다. 본 연구를 통하여, 우라늄 이동이 pH, $pCO_2$ 및 음이온의 종류와 농도 등 지하수의 지화학적 조건에 의해 상당히 영향을 받음을 알 수 있었다. 향후 여러 부지 조사 및 평가와 관련하여 우라늄 및 기타 유해성 화합물의 환경 영향을 예측하는데 있어 지구화학 모델이 중요한 도구로 활용되어야 할 것이다.

• 대한자원환경지질학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한자원환경지질학회 2002년도 제18차 공동학술강연회 자연저감고 지질학 (대한 자원 환경지질학회)
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• pp.81-100
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• 2002

While most of regulatory communities in abroad recognize ' 'natural attenuation " to include degradation, dispersion, dilution, sorption (including precipitation and transformation), and volatilization as governing Processes, regulators prefer "degradation" because this mechanism destroys the contaminant of concern. Unfortunately, true degradation only applies to organic contaminants and short- lived radionuclides, and leaves most metals and long-lived radionuclides. The natural attenuation Processes may reduce the potential risk Posed by site contaminants in three ways: (i)contaminants could be converted to a less toxic form througy destructive processes such as biodegradation or abiotic transformations; (ii) potential exposure levels may be reduced by lowering concentrations (dilution and dispersion); and (iii) contaminant mobility and bioavailability may be reduced by sorption to geomedia. In this review, authors will focus will focul on "sorption" among the natural attenuation processes of hazardous inorganic contaminants including radionuclides. Note though that sorption and transformation processes of inorganic contaminants in the natural setting could be influenced by biotic activities but our discussion would limit only to geochemical reactions involved in the natural attenuation. All of the geochemical reactions have been studied in-depth by numerous researchers for many years to understand "retardation" process of contaminants in the geomedia. The most common approach for estimating retardation is the determination of distrubution coefficiendts ($K_{d}$) of contaminants using parametric or mechanistic models. As typocally used in fate and contaminant transport calculations such as predictive models of the natural attenuation, the $K_{d}$ is defined as the ratio of the contaminant concentration in the surrounding aqueous solution when the system is at equilibrium. Unfortunately, generic or default $K_{d}$ values can result in significant error when used to predict contaminant migration rate and to select a site remediation alternative. Thus, to input the best $K_{d}$ value in the contaminant transport model, it is essential that important geochemical processes affecting the transport should be identified and understood. Precipitation/dissolution and adsorption/desorption are considered the most important geochemical processes affecting the interaction of inorganic and radionuclide contaminants with geomedia at the near and far field, respectively. Most of contaminants to be discussed in this presentation are relatively immobile, i.e., have very high $K_{d}$ values under natural geochemical environments. Unfortunately, the obvious containment in a source area may not be good enough to qualify as monitored natural attenuation site unless owner demonstrate the efficacy if institutional controls that were put in place to protect potential receptors. In this view, natural attenuation as a remedial alternative for some of sites contaminated by hazardous-inorganic components is regulatory and public acceptance issues rather than scientific issue.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.31-44
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• 1998

본 연구는 중금속원소의 주오염원 중의 하나인 금속폐광산에 다량 잔존하는 폐석을 효율적으로 처리하기 위해 실내모형시험을 수행하였으며, 그 결과를 광산폐석처리의 기술개발에 기초자료로 활용하고자 한다. 실험의 도구는 실험결과에 거의 영향이 없는 내산성 내알카리성의 아크릴산수지와 폴리에틸렌 관을 사용하였다. 본 연구에서 제작 운용된 8개의 모형을 계내의 환경, 충진물의 배열방식 및 종류 등으로 분류한다면 4개의 그룹으로 나눌 수 있다. 그룹 1은 계내에 폐석으로만 충진하여 개방계에서 실험한 배경모델이고, 그룹 2는 각각 두 개의 폐석층과 석회암편층을 층상으로 배열한 뒤 개방계와 폐쇄계로 구분하여 실험하였다. 그룹 3은 폐석과 석회암편을 골고루 잘 섞어 계내에 충진하고(혼합모델)이를 개방계와 폐쇄계로 구분하여 실험하였으며, 마지막 그룹 4는 폐석층의 표층부에 석회암편층을 가하여 실험하였다. 배경모델인 모델 Ⅰ로부터 배수된 시수는 실험초기부터 말기까지 중금속원소의 용존량이 매우 높다. 그런, 다른 모델에 비해 그룹 3에 해당되는 모델 Ⅴ와 Ⅶ은 중금속원소의 함량이 매우 낮아 제거효과가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 폐쇄된 혼합모델에서 폐석과 석회암편의 혼합비를 1:1, 2:1로 달리하더라도 중금속원소의 제거효과 는 대동소이한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 계내를 같은량의 충진물로 충진하더라도 혼합모델은 층상모델에 비해 중금속원소의 제거효과가 현저히 높다. 그리고, 다른 실험조건이 같은 폐쇄계와 개방계를 비교하면 전자의 중금속원소의 제거효과가 다소 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2018

This study introduces the supervised committee fuzzy model as a hybrid fuzzy model to predict compressive strength (CS) of geopolymers prepared from alumina-silica products. For this purpose, more than 50 experimental data that evaluated the effect of $Al_2O_3/SiO_2$, $Na_2O/Al_2O_3$, $Na_2O/H_2O$ and Na/[Na+K] on (CS) of geopolymers were collected from the literature. Then, three different Fuzzy Logic (FL) models (Sugeno fuzzy logic (SFL), Mamdani fuzzy logic (MFL), and Larsen fuzzy logic (LFL)) were adopted to overcome the inherent uncertainty of geochemical parameters and to predict CS. After validating the model, it was found that the SFL model is superior to MFL and LFL models, but each of the FL models has advantages to predict CS. Therefore, to achieve the optimal performance, the supervised committee fuzzy logic (SCFL) model was developed as a hybrid method to combine the benefits of individual FL models. The SCFL employs an artificial neural network (ANN) model to re-predict the CS of three FL model predictions. The results also show significant fitting improvement in comparison with individual FL models.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.251-268
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• 1986

Selecting a site for the safe disposal of radioactive waste requires the evaluation of a wide range of geologic, mineralogic, hydrologic, and physicochemical properties. Although highly diverse, these properties are in fact interrelated. Site requirements are also diverse because they are influenced by the nature of the radionuclides in the waste, for example, their half-lives, specific energy, and chemistry. A fundamental consideration in site selection is the mineralogy of the host rock, and one of the most ubiquitous mineral groups is clay minerals. Clays and clay minerals as in situ lithologic components and engineered barriers may playa significant role in retarding the migration of radionuclides. Their high sorptivity, longevity (stability), low permeability, and other physical factors should make them a very effective retainer of most radionuclides in nuclear wastes. There are, however, some unanswered questions. For example, how will their longevity and physicochemical properties be influenced by such factors as radionuclide concentration, radiation intensity, elevated temperatures, changes in redox condition, pH, and formation fluids for extended periods of time? Understanding of mechanisms affecting clay mineral-radionuclide interactions under prevailing geochemical conditions is important; however, the utilization of experimental geochemical information related to physicochemical properties of clays and clay-bearing materials with geohydrologic models presents a uniquely challenging problem in that many assessments have to be based on model predictions rather than on experiments. These are high-priority research investigations that need to be addressed before complete reliance for disposal area performance is made on clays and clay minerals.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.211-219
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• 1999

Surface complexation models(SCMs) have been performed to predict metal ion adsorption behavior onto the mineral surface. Application of SCMs, however, requires a self-consistent approach to determine model parameter values. In this paper, in order to determine the metal ion adsorption parameters for the triple layer model(TLM) version of the SCM, we used the zeta potential data for Zeolite and Kaolinite, and the metal ion adsorption data for Pb(II) and Cd(II). Fitting parameters determined for the modeling were as follows ; total site concentration, site density, specific surface area, surface acidity constants, etc. Zeta potential as a new approach other than the acidic-alkalimetric titration method was adopted for simulation of adsorption phenomena. Some fitting parameters were determined by the trial and error method. Modeling approach was successful in quantitatively simulating adsorption behavior under various geochemical conditions.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2000년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.196-201
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• 2000

The influence of adsorption on cadmium toxicity to soil microorganisms in smectite-rich soils and sediments was quantified as a function of solution and sorbent characteristics. Adsorption and surface complexation experiments were conducted to infer Cd sorption mechanisms to a reference smectite and three fractions of a Veritsol soil, and to elucidate the effects of the surface complexation on Cd bioavailability and toxicity in soils and sediments. Cadmium adsorption isotherms conformed to the Langmuir adsorption model, with adsorptive capacities of the different samples dependent on their characteristics. Equilibrium geochemical modeling (MINTEQA2) was used to predict the speciation of Cd in the soil suspensions using Langmuir and Triple Layer surface complexation models. The influence of adsorption and surface complexation on cadmium toxicity to soil microorganisms was assessed indirectly through the relative change in microbial hydrolysis of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) as a function of total Cd concentration and sorbent characteristics. Adsorption decreased the toxicity of Cd to soil microorganisms. Inner-sphere complexation is more effective than outer-sphere complexation in reducing the bioavailability and toxicity of heavy metals in soils and sediments.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.427-438
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• 2023

Thermodynamic sorption modeling can enhance confidence in assessing and demonstrating the radionuclide sorption phenomena onto various mineral adsorbents. In this work, Ca-montmorillonite was successfully purified from Bentonil-WRK bentonite by performing the sequential physical and chemical treatments, and its geochemical properties were characterized using X-ray diffraction, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis, cesium-saturation method, and controlled continuous acid-base titration. Further, batch experiments were conducted to evaluate the adsorption properties of Cs(I) and Sr(II) onto the homoionic Ca-montmorillonite under ambient conditions, and the diffuse double layer model-based inverse analysis of sorption data was performed to establish the relevant surface reaction models and obtain corresponding thermodynamic constants. Two types of surface reactions were identified as responsible for the sorption of Cs(I) and Sr(II) onto Ca-montmorillonite: cation exchange at interlayer site and complexation with edge silanol functionality. The thermodynamic sorption modeling provides acceptable representations of the experimental data, and the species distributions calculated using the resulting reaction constants accounts for the predominance of cation exchange mechanism of Cs(I) and Sr(II) under the ambient aqueous conditions. The surface complexation of cationic fission products with silanol group slightly facilitates their sorption at pH > 8.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.213-236
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• 2001

토양용액의 이온조성은 작물의 양분흡수와 밀접한 관계를 가지고 있으며 양분의 이온조성을 추정하기 위하여 많은 모델이 개발되어 사용되고 있다. 토양용액 중 분석되는 양분의 몰농도는 insoluble 이온쌍과 평형을 이루고 있는 soluble 이온과 이온쌍 그리고 complex등의 농도로 간주하고, 양이온과 음이온을 동시에 고려한 양분의 이온조성을 추정하기 위하여 분석된 양분의 몰농도에 따른 선정된 평형식의 평형상수에 대한 conditional equilibrium constant를 구하여 모든 평형식이 만족되는 이온과 이온쌍의 몰농도를 구하는 모델을 설정하였다. 본 모델 이용시 기본적으로 필요한 성분은 pH, Eh, EC, 양이온 8종(K, Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, Mn, Al, $NH_4{^+}$, 음이온 6종(Si, 5, p Cl, $NO_3{^-}$, $HCO_3{^-}$)이며 다른 성분도 추가할 수 있도록 하였다. 토양과 토양용액이 평형조건인 경우 추정된 이온과 이온쌍의 조성과 이에 따른 존재 가능한 침전량과 mineral 종류별 함량을 계산하였다.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2014

2012년 8월 4일 뉴질랜드 White Island 화산의 WIZ 관측소에서 기록된 화산성 장주기 지진파의 지진원 메커니즘에 대해 연구하였다. 하나의 관측소 자료만을 이용하였기 때문에 단순한 기하학적 모델(구, 균열, 파이프)들을 이용하여 모멘트 텐서 역산을 실시하였다. 각 모델의 합성자료를 계산하였으며, 이를 관측자료와 비교하였다. 가장 잘 일치하는 모델의 종류와 방향은 깊이 1600 m의 경사가 $80^{\circ}NE$이고 주향이 $N80^{\circ}W$인 균열 모델이었다. 깊은 곳에서의 폭발은 가스분출을 위한 균열을 열었으며, 상승한 가스가 약 4시간 후에 감시카메라에 포착된 지표 분화를 야기하였을 것으로 해석된다. 모멘트 텐서방법에 기초한 이러한 분석 결과는 이 화산섬을 대상으로 수행한 기존의 지화학 연구 결과와 일치한다.