• Advances in environmental research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.35-51
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• 2017

The use of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) and naturally occurring silica (Sand) as filtration media in water and waste water treatment systems is very common. While GAC offers the additional functionality of being an "adsorptive" filter for dissolved organics it is also more expensive. In this paper we present an experimental evaluation of the performance of a bed of GAC for colloid removal and compare the same with that from an equivalent bed of Sand. The experiments are performed in an "intermittent" manner over extended time, to "simulate" performance over the life of the filter bed. The experiments were continued till a significant drop in water flow rate through the bed was observed. A novel "deposition" and "detachment" rate based transient mathematical model is developed. It is observed that the data from the experiments can be explained by the above model, for different aqueous phase electrolyte concentrations. The model "parameters", namely the "deposition" and "detachment" rates are evaluated for the 2 filter media studied. The model suggests that the significantly better performance of GAC in colloid filtration is probably due to significantly lower detachment of colloids from the same. While the "deposition" rates are higher for GAC, the "detachment" rates are significantly lower, which makes GAC more effective than sand for colloid removal by over an order of magnitude.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2008

Transport of Escherichia coli ATCC 11105 through porous media was investigated in this study using two sets of column experiments to quantify the attachment-related parameters (sticking efficiency, attachment rate coefficient and filter factor). The first set of experiments was performed in quartz sand under different ionic strength conditions (1, 20, 100, 200 mM) while the second experiments were carried out in quartz sand mixed with metal oxyhydroxide-coated sand (0, 5, 10, 25%). The breakthrough curves of bacteria were obtained by monitoring effluent, and then bacterial mass recovery and attachment-related parameters were quantified from these curves. The first experiments showed that the mass recoveries were in the range of 13.3 to 64.7%, decreasing with increasing ionic strength. In the second experiments, the mass recoveries were in the range of 15.0 to 43.4%, decreasing with increasing coated sand content. The analysis indicated that the sticking efficiency, attachment rate coefficient and filter factor increased with increasing ionic strength and coated sand content. The value of filter factor in the first experiments ranged from 1.45 e-2 to 6.72 e-2 1/cm while in the second experiments it ranged from 2.78 e-2 to 6.32 e-2 1/cm. Our filter factor values are one order of magnitude lower than those from other studies. This discrepancy can be attributed to the size of sand used in the experiment. The analysis demonstrated that the travel distance of bacteria estimated using the filter factor can be varied greatly depending on the solution chemistry and charge heterogeneity of porous media.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2014

The adsorption of Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions to activated carbon fiber (ACF) was investigated using both batch and flow-through column experiments. The batch experiments (adsorbent dose, 10 g/L; initial Cr(VI) concentration, 5-500 mg/L) showed that the maximum adsorption capacity of Cr(VI) to ACF was determined to 20.54 mg/g. The adsorption of Cr(VI) to ACF was sensitive to solution pH, decreasing from 9.09 to 0.66 mg/g with increasing pH from 2.6 to 9.9; the adsorption capacity was the highest at the highly acidic solution pHs. Kinetic model analysis showed that the Elovich model was the most suitable for describing the kinetic data among three (pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, and Elovich) models. From the nonlinear regression analysis, the Elovich model parameter values were determined to be ${\alpha}$ = 162.65 mg/g/h and ${\beta}$ = 2.10 g/mg. Equilibrium isotherm model analysis demonstrated that among three (Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich-Peterson) models, both Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson models were suitable for describing the equilibrium data. In the model analysis, the Redlich-Peterson model fit was superimposed on the Freundlich fit. The Freundlich model parameter values were determined to be $K_F$ = 0.52 L/g and 1/n = 0.56. The flow-through column experiments showed that the adsorption capacities of ACF in the given experimental conditions (column length, 10 cm; inner diameter, 1.5 cm; flow rate, 0.5 and 1.0 mL/min; influent Cr(VI) concentration, 10 mg/L) were in the range of 2.35-4.20 mg/g. This study demonstrated that activated carbon fiber was effective for the removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2017

Vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) is a promising treatment method for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This study focuses on a VSA process for regenerating activated carbon spent with VOCs, and then investigates its adsorption capacities. Toluene was selected as the test VOC molecule, and the VSA regeneration experiments results were compared to the thermal swing adsorption process. Cyclic adsorption-desorption experiments were performed using a lab-scale apparatus with commercial activated carbon (Samchully Co.). The VSA regeneration was performed in air (0.5 L/min) at 363.15 K and 13,332 Pa. The comparative results depicted that in terms of VSA regeneration, it was found that after the fifth regeneration, about a 90% regeneration ratio was maintained. These experiments thus confirm that the VSA regeneration process has good recovery while operating at low temperatures (363.15 K) and 13,332 Pa.

• 물과 미래
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.249-263
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 고정된 전선과 원형 실린더에 부착되는 icing 으로 인해 발생되는 하중(icing의 무게 및 풍하중)에 관한 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 수록하였다. 실험은 이동 가능한 풍동을 이용하여 냉동실 실험과 실혼 실험으로 구분하여 실시하였다. 냉동실 실험에서는 icing으로 인한 하중의 시간적 변화를 측정하였으며, 실온 실험에서는 특제작한 icing 모형을 이용하여 풍속 변화에 따른 풍하중 변동을 측정하였다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회(2)
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• pp.1437-1439
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• 2005

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1092-1099
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• 2007

Two experiments were conducted to determine the additivity of apparent or true digestibility of phosphorus (P) in soybean meal (SBM), peas, faba beans, corn, oats, broken rice meal, rough rice meal, buckwheat, and sorghum for growing pigs. Chromic oxide (0.3%) was used as a digestion marker in both experiments. Each experiment lasted for 12 d, which consisted of a 7-d dietary adaptation period followed by a 5-d fecal collection period. Experiment 1 involved 6 diets: the SBM-based control diet; 4 diets with corn, oats, rough rice meal and broken rice meal substituted for SBM; and an additional diet with a representative mixture of the 5 ingredients. In Experiment 2, 6 diets were prepared similarly, except that the tested ingredients besides SBM were faba beans, peas, buckwheat, and sorghum. In each experiment, six barrows with an initial average individual BW of 20.5 kg were fed one of the six diets according to a $6{\times}6$ Latin square design. The apparent and true P digestibility values for the nine tested ingredients were determined by the substitution method. There were no differences (p>0.05) between the determined and the predicted true P digestibility values for the mixture of ingredients in Experiments 1 and 2. However, the determined and the predicted apparent P digestibility values for the mixture of ingredients differed (p = 0.059) in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. These results indicate that true P digestibility values are additive in ingredients containing low levels of phytate phosphorus and anti-nutritional factors, whereas the apparent P digestibility values are not always additive in single feed ingredients for growing pigs.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.13-27
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• 2014

Catchments soil erosion, one of the most serious problems in the mountainous environment of the world, consists of a complex phenomenon involving the detachment of individual soil particles from the soil mass and their transport, storage and overland flow of rainfall, and infiltration. Sediment size distribution during erosion processes appear to depend on many factors such as rainfall characteristics, vegetation cover, hydraulic flow, soil properties and slope. This study involved laboratory flume experiments carried out under simulated rainfall in a 3.0 m long ${\times}$ 0.8 m wide ${\times}$ 0.7 m deep flume, set at $17^{\circ}$ slope. Five experimental cases, consisting of twelve experiments using three different sediments with two different rainfall conditions, are reported. The experiments consisted of detailed observations of particle size distribution of the out-flow sediment. Sediment water mixture out-flow hydrograph and sediment mass out-flow rate over time, moisture profiles at different points within the soil domain, and seepage outflow were also reported. Moisture profiles, seepage outflow, and movement of overland flow were clearly found to be controlled by water retention function and hydraulic function of the soil. The difference of grain size distribution of original soil bed and the out-flow sediment was found to be insignificant in the cases of uniform sediment used experiments. However, in the cases of non-uniform sediment used experiments the outflow sediment was found to be coarser than the original soil domain. The results indicated that the sediment transport mechanism is the combination of particle segregation, suspension/saltation and rolling along the travel distance.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 논리회로 실험용 장비 사용법 및 실험 내용에 대한 교육용 멀티미디어 콘텐츠로 구성된 논리회로 가상실험실이 실제 실험 교육에 끼치는 교육효과를 조사하였다. 대학 저학년의 공학 실험의 경우, 실험 회로 및 실험 장비 사용법에 대한 사전 이해가 절실히 요구된다. 그러나 기존의 전통적인 실험환경에서는 실험 장비 사용법 교육의 경우, 장비에 대한 접근성이 제한되어 있고, 짧은 실험시간 내에 다양한 기능을 설명하기에는 많은 제약이 있으며, 실험회로의 다양한 동작에 대한 경험은 실제 실험에서나 가능한 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서 구현한 논리회로 가상실험실에서는 실제 실험 전에 실습자에게 실제 실험과 같은 환경을 제공하여 사전에 실험 준비를 할 수 있도록 한다. 가상실험실을 활용한 집단과 그렇지 않은 집단인 30명 단위의 두 실험 집단에 대해 가상실험실의 교육효과를 조사한 결과, 가상실험실을 활용한 집단이 한 학기 실험과정에서 평균 8.2% 정도의 실험시간 단축을 보였다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 학습과정에 우수성, 유효성, 그리고 경제적인 효율성을 향상시키기 위해 웹기반 가상실험실과 웹기반 원격실험실을 적절하게 통합한 하이브리드 공학실험시스템을 개발하였다. 먼저 클라이언트/서버 분산환경을 설계하여 디지털 시스템과 전기전자회로 실험에 대한 웹기반 가상실험시스템을 개발하였다. 제안된 가상실험시스템은 개념학습세션, 가상실험세션, 평가세션등의 3개의 주요한 세션과 이들 주요세션을 유기적으로 통합하여 학습효율의 극대화를 달성하기 위한 관리시스템으로 구성되어 있다. 다음으로 본 연구에서는 가상실험세션 동안에 발생할 수 있는 현실감의 부족을 해결하기 위해 전기/전자회로를 실험할 수 있는 웹기반 원격 실험실을 구현하였다. 더욱이 간결하고 사용자가 친근하게 접근할 수 있는 설계기법을 사용하였기 때문에 많은 사용자들이 쉽게 원격실험실에 접속할 수 있으며, 고가의 실험장비가 실제 실험실에 구비되어 있지 않더라도 자기주도의 심화학습이 가능하다. 제안된 가상/원격실험시스템은 독립적으로 사용될 수도 있으나 학습효율을 향상시키기 위해서 웹상에서 두 개의 시스템을 통합하여 하이브리드 공학실험시스템을 개발하였다. 제안된 하이브리드 공학실험시스템은 학습자들에게 상호작용적인 학습환경을 제공하여 공학실험교육을 효율적으로 관리하는 새로운 접근방식이다.