• KSBB Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2012

Phytoremediation-the use of plants for the in situ treatment of contaminated soil and water-has recently emerged as an inexpensive and user-friendly alternative to traditional methods of environmental clean-up. The present article outlines the characteristics of phytoremediation based on accumulated research evidence, along with discussions on its advantages and disadvantages. It further reviews various mechanisms involved in the phytoremediation processes: phytoextraction, rhizofiltration, phytostabilization, phytovolatilization and phytodegradation. Along the way, the author summarizes examples of its applications to environmental pollution control. These include wastewater treatment, removal of heavy metals, and hydrocarbons, remediation of recalcitrant contaminants, phytoremediation of radionuclides, and application of transgenic plants for enhanced biodegradation and phytoremediation. The remainder of the article briefly concludes with directions for future research.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.363-376
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• 2003

In this study, the fugitive emission characteristics of airborne volatile organic compounds from different source categories were evaluated with respect to the concentrations measured in the vicinity of the sources. A total of 22 different sources were investigated, including gasoline storage and filling stations, painting spray booth, laundry, printing officer, textile industries, and a number of environmental sanitary facilities such as landfill, wastewater treatment and incineration plants. The target VOCs included 83 individual compounds, which were determined by adsorption sampling and thermal desorption coupled with GC/MS analysis. Overall, the aliphatic compounds appeared to be the most abundant class of compounds in terms of their concentrations, followed by aromatic, and halogenated hydrocarbons. As a single compound, however, toluene was the most abundant one, explaining 11% of the total VOC concentrations as an average of all the dataset. Among source categories, petroleum associated sources such as gasoline storage/filling stations, and laundry factory were identified as the most significant sources of aliphatic hydrocarbons, while aromatic VOCs were dominantly emitted from the sources handling organic solvents, such as painting booth, printing offices, and textile dyeing processes. However. there was no apparent pattern in terms of the contributions of eath group to the total VOCs concentrations in environmental sanitary facilities. It was also found that the activated carbon adsorption tower installed for the VOC emission control in some facilities do not show any effective performances, which may result in the increased VOC levels in the ambient atmosphere.

• 멤브레인
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2007

The application of membrane bioreactors for the depuration of wastewater coming from the washing of mineral oil storage tanks is described. Microfiltration hollow-fibre membranes were used in the submerged configuration. Filtration tests were carried out with a biomass concentration of about 15 g/L in order to assess the critical flux of the hollow fibre membrane used. Then particular care was taken in carrying out the performance runs in the sub-critical flux region. The reactor performance was very high, with removal efficiencies ranging between 93% and 97% also when the concentration of hydrocarbon was very high. Some kinetic parameters for the COD and the hydrocarbon removal were estimated.

• ALGAE
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.189-204
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• 2016

Microalgal bioremediation of CO₂, nutrients, endocrine disruptors, hydrocarbons, pesticides, and cyanide compounds have evaluated comprehensively. Microalgal mitigation of nutrients originated from municipal wastewaters, surface waters, and livestock wastewaters has shown great applicability. Algal utilization on secondary and tertiary treatment processes might provide unique and elegant solution on the removing of substances originated from various sources. Microalgae have displayed 3 growth regimes (autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic) through which different organic and inorganic substances are being utilized for growth and production of different metabolites. There are still some technology challenges requiring innovative solutions. Strain selection investigation should be directed towards identification of algal that are extremophiles. Understanding and manipulation of metabolic pathways of algae will possible unfold solution to utilization of algae for mitigation of dissolve organic nitrogen in wastewaters.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.193-199
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• 1997

From several industrial wastewaters, 14 bacterial strains which degrade benzene, toluene, o-xylene, m-xylene, or p-xylene (BTX) were obtained. These strains were characterized as to their species composition and the substrate range, kinetic parameters and the substrate interactions were investigated. Although BTX components have a similar chemical structure, isolated strains showed different substrate ranges and kinetic parameters. None of the strains could degrade all of BTX components and most of them showed an inhibition (Haldane) kinetics on BTX, BTX mixtures were removed under inhibitory substrate interactions with variation in the intensity of inhibition. For a complete degradation of BTX, a defined mixed culture containing three different types of patyways was constructed and all of the BTX components were simultaneously degraded with the totla removal rate of 225.69 mg/g biomass/h Judging from the results, the obtained mixed culture seems to be useful for the treatment of BTX-contaminated wastewater or groundwater as well as for the removal of BTX from the contaminated air stream.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.73-91
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• 2001

미국지질조사소 NAWQA 프로그램에서 선정한 기준에 따라, 도시지역에서 채취한 도로를 흐르는 빗물과 일부 지하수의 휘발성유기화합물의 오염을 평가하기 위해 62개 휘발성유기화합물을 선택하였다. 62개 휘발성유기화합물은 3종류의 aromatic hydrocarbons, 13 종류의 alkyl benzenes, 1개의 ether, 26종류의 halogenated alkanes, 10종류의 halogenated alkenes 및 9종류의 halogenated aromatics를 포함하고 있다. 서울시 지역의 도로를 흐르는 빗물과 지하수의 휘발성유기화합물의 함량은 2000년 3월, 6월 및 11월에 시료를 채취하여 분석하였다. 모두 78개 시료(44개 도로를 흐르는 빗물시료, 27개 지하수 시료, 7개 하수종말처리장의 시료)가 채취되었으며, purge and trap 방법으로 추출하여 GC-MS로 분석하였다. 그 결과, alkyl benzenes과 aromatic hydrocarbons이 서울지역에서 자동차 통행에 의해 가장 영향을 받는 유기화합물이다. 분석된 62개 휘발성 유기화합물 중, 도로에 흐르는 빗물에서 검출되지 않은 휘발성유기화합물 성분은 단지 11개 성분뿐이었으나, 채취된 지하수에서 검출된 휘발성유기화합물은 14개 성분만이 검출되었다. 도로를 흐르는 빗물에서의 톨루엔 함량은 시료 채취 장소에 따라 변화가 매우 심하고, 0.1-29,310ppb이다. 벤젠의 함량은 0.05-33.0ppb, ethylbenzene은 0.05-960ppb, trichloromethane(chloroform)은 0.08-20ppb, trichloroethylene(TCE)는 0.03-4.30ppb, 1,1,2 trichloroethane은 0.1-50.0ppb이다. 채취된 일부 지하수 시료에 대한 예비조사 결과, dichloromethane(methylene chloride), trichloromethane(chloroform)와 toluene 등이 가장 자주 검출되는 성분이었다. 대부분의 aromatic hydrocarbons, alkyl benzenes및 다른 유기용매 성분은 검출농도 이하이다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.574-582
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• 2012

이 연구에서는 우리나라에서 유기성 슬러지의 배출량이 많은 6개 주요 산업 업종의 54개 사업장에서 채취한 98개 폐수처리 슬러지에 대하여 PAHs 함량을 조사하였다. 슬러지에 대한 해양배출허용기준과 비교시 C업종의 슬러지는 Nap에 대하여 제1기준과 제2기준을 모두 초과하는 시료가 1건, PC업종의 슬러지에서 Ant와 Fla에 대하여 제2기준을 초과하는 시료가 1건 있었다. ${\Sigma}_{16}PAHs$는 PC> C > CD> PP >WS > FB업종의 순으로 높았다. 슬러지의 육상 이용시 ${\Sigma}_{16}PAHs$ 함량농도를 규제하는 EU와 덴마크의 기준과 비교하였을 때 EU의 기준은 PC업종에서 1건, 덴마크 기준은 C업종과 PC업종에서 각 1건의 시료가 초과하였다. 7종 발암성 PAHs에 대한 ${\Sigma}_7PAHs$은 상대적으로 PC, CD, C업종에서 높게, PP, WS업종에서 낮았으며, FB업종에서는 검출되지 않았다. 슬러지에서의 PAHs의 농도에 대한 ANOVA 분석결과 발생업종과 채취시기에 의한 영향은 없는 것으로 나타났다. 개별 PAHs간 상관분석결과 4-ring 이상의 HMW PAHs 농도간에 상관성이 높았다. ${\Sigma}_{16}PAHs$와는 0.7 이상의 높은 상관성을 갖는 PAHs는 Acy, Ant, Fla, B(a)A, B(f)F, B(a)P 이었다. 주성분분석의 결과 98개의 슬러지는 전체 데이터의 약 70%의 설명력을 갖는 두 개의 주성분에 의해 세 개의 그룹으로 특성별로 분리될 수 있었다. 국내/외 선행연구와의 비교 결과 ${\Sigma}_{16}PAHs$는 스위스의 연구 결과와 비슷하였다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.590-598
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• 2006

In-situ Air sparging (IAS) is a groundwater remediation technique, in which organic contaminants volatilize into air form the saturated to vadose zone. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of sludge and soil microbial community structure on air sparging of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) contaminated groundwater soils. In the laboratory, diesel (10,000 mg TPH/kg) contaminated saturated soil. The Air was injected in intermittent (Q=1500 mL/min, 10 minute injection and 10 minute idle) modes. For Terminal-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of eubacterial communities in sludge of wastewater treatment plants and soil of experiment site, the 16S rDNA was amplified by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) from the sludge and the soil. The obtained 16S rDNA fragments were digested with Msp I and separated by electrophoresis gel. We found various sequence types for experiment with sludge soil samples that were closely related to Agrococcus, Flavobacterium, Thermoanaerobacter, Flexibacter and Shewanella, etc, in the clone library. The results of the present study suggests that T-RFLP method may be applied as a useful tool for the monitoring in the TPH contaminated soil the fate of microorganisms in natural microbial community.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.192-200
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• 2016

A characteristics of microwave drying-gasification was analyzed for converting a dewatered sewage sludge generated a wastewater treatment plant. Gas (60%) was the largest component of the product of microwave gasification, followed by sludge char (33%) and tar (2%). The main components of the producer gas were hydrogen (33%) and carbon monoxide (40%), and there was some methane and hydrocarbons ($C_2H_4$, $C_2H_6$, $C_3H_8$). Larger nitrogen and smaller oxygen amounts were generated. Gravimetric tar generated $414g/m^3$. This means a total tar which is a heavy hydrocarbons from the volatile organic substance in the sewage sludge. Selected light tars were benzene, anthracene, naphthalene, pyrene, showing lower concentrations as 2.62, 0.37, 0.49, $0.28g/m^3$, respectively. Sludge char has larger meso pores which is a mean pore size of $50.85{\AA}$ and has high adsorptivity. An amount of adsorption was $228.71cm^3/g$, showing higher quantity than acommercial adsorbers. This indicates that the gas obtained from the microwave gasification of wet sewage sludge can be used as fuel, but the heavy tar in the gas must be treated. Sludge char can be used as a tar reduction adsorbent in the process, and then burns as a solid fuel.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.247-254
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• 2010

Ultrasound and Surfactant aided soil washing process has been shown to be an effective method to remove diesel from soils. The use of surfactants can improve the mobility of diesel in soil-water systems by increasing solubility of adsorbed diesel into surfactant micelles. However, a large amount of surfactant is required for treatment. In addition, synthetic surfactants, specially anionic, are more toxic and the surfactant wastewater is hard to treat by conventional wastewater treatments even by AOPs. Ultrasound improves desorption of the diesel adsorbed on to soil. The mechanisms are based on physical breakage of bonds by hot spot, directly impact onto soil particle surface, the fragmentation of long-chain hydrocarbons by micro-jet and microstreaming in the soil pores. The use of ultrasound as an enhancement method in both anionic and nonionic surfactant aided soil-washing processes were studied. And all experiments were examined proceeded under CMC surfactant concentration, frequency 35 khz, power 400 W, Soil-water ratio 1:3(wt%), particle size 0.24 ~ 2mm and initial diesel concentration. 20,000 mg/kg. Combination with ultrasound showed significant enhancements on all the processes. Especially, nonionic surfactant Triton-X100 with ultrasound showed remarkable enhancements and diesel removal rate enhanced by ultrasound helps desorpting of surfactant adsorbed onto soils which prevented decreasing surfactant activity.