• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.445-448
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• 2008

The application of the membrane filtration process has been increased for the drinking water treatment system because of excellent quality of treated water compared with the sand filtration process. The selection of suitable pre-treatment processes and optimum flux according to the characteristics of raw water are important factors for the design of membrane processes. In this study, the most efficient pre-treatment processes for drinking water was selected by investigating the effects of pre-treatment processes on the operational stability of the membrane filtration process. Both lab-scale and pilot-scale experiments were conducted. In the lab-scale test, the effect of pre-treatment processes on the stability of the membrane filtration process was investigated indirectly by comparing the performance of membrane flux for raw water, pre-treated water, and membrane permeated water. In the pilot-scale test, the usefulness of prefiltration processes was assessed by comparing the performance of single membrane process and hybrid coagulation-membrane process. The results indicated that the coagulation process contributed to the stabilization of trans-membrane pressure (TMP) by removing contaminants on membranes, though the pre-filtration process had little effect on the TMP.

• 멤브레인
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.143-156
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• 2018

본 총설은 다양한 저널 게재 논문으로부터 분리막 및 광촉매의 혼성 정수/하수 처리 공정을 요약하였다. 이 총설에는 (1) 분리막 광촉매 반응기(membrane photoreactor, MPR), (2) 분리막 결합 광촉매 공정에서 막오염 관리, (3) 유기 오염물의 분해를 위한 광촉매 분리막 반응기, (4) 정수처리용 막분리 공정과 광촉매 분해의 결합, (5) 휴믹산 분해를 위한 광촉매 및 세라믹 막여과의 혼성공정, (6) 활성슬러지 여과를 위한 한외여과의 막오염에 이산화티타늄 나노입자의 영향, (7) 정수처리용 광촉매 및 정밀여과의 혼성시스템, (8) 선박 평형수 처리용 한외여과 및 광촉매의 혼성공정 및 (9) 분리막 및 광촉매 코팅 프로필렌 구의 혼성수처리 공정이 포함되어 있다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.181-200
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• 2012

At present water crisis is not an issue of scarcity, but of access. There is a growing recognition of the need for increased access to clean water (drinkable, agricultural, industrial use). An encouraging number of innovative technologies, systems, components, processes are emerging for water-treatment, including new filtration and disinfectant technologies, and removal of organics from water. In the past decade many methods have been developed. The most important membrane-based water technologies include reverse osmosis (RO), ultrafiltration (UF), microfiltration (MF), and nanofiltration. Beside membrane based water-treatment processes, other techniques such as advanced oxidation process (AOP) have also been developed. Some unconventional water treatment technology such as magnetic treatment is also being developed.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2010

Membrane distillation process was used for purification of pre-treated natural water (tap water). The rejection of inorganic and organic compounds in this process was investigated. The obtained rejection of inorganic solutes was closed to 100%, but the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) diffused through the membrane together with water vapour. The content of trihalomethanes (THMs) in the obtained distillate was two-three fold higher than that in the feed, therefore, the rejection of the total organic compounds present in the tap water was reduced to a level of 98%. The intensive membranes scaling was observed during the water separation. The morphology and composition of the fouling layer was studied using scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersion spectrometry. The influence of thermal water pre-treatment performed in a heat exchanger followed by filtration on the MD process effectiveness was evaluated. This procedure caused that significantly smaller amounts of $CaCO_3$ crystallites were deposited on the membrane surface, and a high permeate flux was maintained over a period of 160 h.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2018

The use of membrane as an innovative technology for water treatment process has now widely been accepted and adopted to replace the conventional water treatment process in increasing fresh water production for various domestic and industrial purposes. In this study, ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with different formulation were fabricated via phase inversion method. The membranes were fabricated by varying the polymer concentration (16 wt%, 18 wt%, 20 wt%, and 21 wt%). A series of tests, such as field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), pore size and porosity, contact angle, and zeta potential were performed to characterize the membranes. The membrane performance in terms of permeation flux and rejection were evaluated using a laboratory bench-scale test unit with mine water, lake water and tube well as model feed solution. Long hour filtration study of the membranes provides the information on its fouling property. Few pore blocking mechanism models were proposed to examine the behaviour of flux reduction and to estimate the fouling parameters based on different degree of fouling. 21 wt% PVDF membrane with smaller membrane pore size showed an excellent performance for surface water treatment in which the treated water complied with NWQS class II standard.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2019

The roles of polypropylene (PP) beads and pH on membrane fouling and treatment efficiency were investigated in a hybrid advanced water treatment process of tubular carbon fiber membranes (ultrafiltration (UF) or microfiltration (MF)) and PP beads. The synthetic feed including humic acid and kaolin flowed inside the membrane, and the permeated contacted the PP beads fluidized in the space between the membrane and the module with UV irradiation and periodic water back-flushing. In the hybrid process of UF ($0.05{\mu}m$) and PP beads, final resistance of membrane fouling ($R_f$) after 180 min increased as PP beads increased. The turbidity treatment efficiency was the maximum at 30 g/L; however, that of dissolved organic matters (DOM) showed the highest at PP beads 50 g/L. The $R_f$ strengthened as pH of feed increased. It means that the membrane fouling could be inhibited at low alkali condition. The treatment efficiency of turbidity was almost constant independent of pH; however, that of DOM showed the maximum at pH 5. For MF ($0.1{\mu}m$), the final $R_f$ was the minimum at PP beads 40 g/L. The treatment efficiencies of turbidity and DOM were the maximum at PP beads 10 g/L.

• 멤브레인
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.193-201
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• 1999

기존의 정수처리 공정인 응집 침전 과정을 대체하여 분리막을 이용한 상수처리 시스템의 개발을 목적으로한다. 따라서 4가지 형태의 정수처리 공정과 분리막의 분획 분자량을 변화시켰을 때 막 투과수의 변화와 안정적이며 높은 투과수를 얻기 위해 필요한 운전 조건의 최적화를 실험하였다 실험결과 한외여과막이 정밀여과막보다 막 투과수 감소경향이 완만했으며 초기 투과수 회복율은 더 높았다. 수질 분석의 결과 한회여과막이 정밀 여과막보다 우수하였지만 전처리에 의한 차이는 나지 않았다. 운전 조건에 따른 flux 는 온도, 선속도가 높을수록 압력이 낮을수록 flux 감소율이 적은 경향을 나타내었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.410-419
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• 2017

지구온난화, 환경오염, 가뭄 등의 재해현상으로 인한 물 부족 현상이 진행됨에 따라 수자원의 활용성을 증가시키기 위한 원천기술의 개발과 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 그중 수처리 분리막 기술은 기존 물리화학적 및 생물학적 공정보다 수질 개선 효과가 우수하고 약품 사용이 배제된 환경친화적인 공정이다. 수처리 분리막은 오폐수처리, 정수처리, 해수담수처리, 이온교환 공정, 초순수 제조, 유기용매 분리 등 다양한 분야에 적용되며 분리막을 이용한 수처리 기술은 점차 응용 범위가 넓어지고 있는 추세이다. 수처리 분리막의 핵심 기술은 분리성능을 조절하기 위한 기공 사이즈를 조절하는 것으로써 더 나은 성능을 나타내는 분리막을 개발하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 총설에서는 수처리용 분리막의 특허 및 논문의 기술경쟁력 평가를 통하여 국가별, 기관별 발표 빈도수를 정리하였으며, 오폐수처리용 분리막, 정수처리용 분리막, 해수담수화용 분리막, 그리고 이온교환공정용 분리막에 대한 평가를 진행하고, 향후 연구 방향에 대하여 제시해 보고자 한다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2013

A process diagnosis method for membrane water treatment plant was developed using a constant flux membrane fouling model. This diagnosis method can be applied to a real-field membrane-based water treatment plant as an early alarming system for membrane fouling. The constant flux membrane fouling model was based on the simplest equation form to describe change in trans-membrane pressure (TMP) during the filtration cycle from a literature. The model was verified using a pilot-scale microfiltraton (MF) plant with two commercial MF membrane modules (72 m2 of membrane area). The predicted TMP data were produced using the model, where the modeling parameters were obtained by the least square method using the early plant data and modeling equations. The diagnosis was carried out by comparing the predicted TMP data (as baseline) and real plant data. As a result of the case study, the diagnsis method worked pretty well to predict the early points where fouling started to occur.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.211-219
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• 2012

To enhance the efficiency of water treatment and reduce the extent of membrane fouling, the membrane separation process is frequently preceded by other physico-chemical processes. One of them might be ion exchange. The aim of this work was to compare the efficiency of natural organic matter removal achieved with various anion-exchange resins, and to verify their potential use in water treatment prior to the ultrafiltration process involving a ceramic membrane. The use of ion exchange prior to ceramic membrane ultrafiltration enhanced final water quality. The most effective was MIEX, which removed significant amounts of the VHA, SHA and CHA fractions. Separation of uncharged fractions was poor with all the resins examined. Water pretreatment involving an ion-exchange resin failed to reduce membrane fouling, which was higher than that observed in unpretreated water. This finding is to be attributed to the uncharged NOM fractions and small resin particles that persisted in the water.