• 에너지공학
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2020

Used disposable diapers have been considered for a long time as a type of waste difficult to recycle and valorize due to their composite nature including plastic, cellulose pulp, a super absorbent polymer and either urine, feces or both. Therefore, the fate of disposed diapers often is either incineration or landfill burial which both have various adverse environmental impacts. However, used disposable diapers contain nutrients: cellulose is an organic matter while urine and feces contain non negligible amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which are primary nutrients included in most chemical fertilizers used in agriculture. In a scope of waste recycling and valorization, this study focuses on developing a method to achieve nutrient solution extraction from used disposable diapers. The experiment essentially consists in shredding the diapers and letting them macerate in solutions of sodium hydroxide with various concentrations to allow breaking down of the cellulose and super absorbent polymer and release of urine and feces before sterilizing the solutions in an autoclave to remove potential coliform bacteria. At the end of the experiment, a set of parameters is measured for the final solution to identify concentrations of nutrients as well as presence or absence of harmful substances. Results are discussed and directions for future studies are suggested, which include mechanization of the diapers shredding process or added aeration to enhance nitrification and absorption of extracted nutrients from plants.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.317-325
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• 2009

On the ground of that toy as for infants is an important tool for education as well as play and furthermore it has a great influences on their growth and development, the present study intends to analyze the characteristics of the infant-oriented toys made of wood, the environment-friendly material. Object of the study includes the infants aged 2 to 7, and the wooden toy not only in domestic also international cases are investigated and analyzed from the point of function and design in particular, and the infant-oriented wooden toy is finally characterized. The wooden toys are classified in 5 items according to functions. There are toy helping a physical development like small muscles, toy improving the creativity, toy assisting language learning like Korean & English, toy contributing to number understanding and counting, and toy for imitation of social roles. The characteristics of the wooden toy are that the natural color & grain of wood are shown first, and also the natural texture & aroma of wood are felt secondly, and geometric design and shape are often presented thirdly, and recycling is available fourthly, and it is expensive finally. In order to revitalize the wooden toys lagging behind the cheap and diverse toys made of plastic, it is highly needed that development of the environment-friendly painting, unique design, marketing strategy of enterprises and use of domestic wood material.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2009년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.427-432
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• 2009

This article deal with an overview of food waste treatment methods in Korea. Garbage trucks are operated manually by garbage workers who pick up the food wastes after food waste is placed in plastic bags by the road sides. However, there are a lot of problems such as, the smell from the split bags and the leachate, the loss of much energy and the complaints regarding the establishment new rubbish tips from the residents in the surrounding area. It also highlights our society's waste of resources. Although the new pneumatic waste transfer system or the dry method seem to have improved some of the environmental conditions, it still bears some problems, for example, the lack of reuse and recycling of resources and the economic problems. We have been analysed the advantages and disadvantages between the existing food waste system and the pneumatic waste transfer system. And the dry method and disposer were discussed. The results will indicate how the disposer can improve more than the existing systems and will provide the evidence to support.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.80-90
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• 2016

The idea of Sustainable, first mentioned in "Our Future (Bruntdland)" from the United Nations report released in 1987 has been highly affect design disciplines in developed countries in 21st century. It relocated industrial society and structure's attentions to nature and recourse conservation and reuse. Designed and manufactured products eventually disposed and it leads to waste of resources as well as creates environmental issues. Unfortunately, vast majority of designers starts designing without anticipation of this matter and produce more believing this leads to more sales. However shorter life of a product will create bigger increase of resource consumption and waste than, importance of re-usage and recycle will eventually increase. In modern furniture industry metal and plastics are frequently used beside wood that material has been diverse than in past. However, there are lack of plans and regulations of re-usage of those material due to difficulties of separating each different materials and collecting due to it's size. This study would like to look into recycling rate, methods and usage of three major materials (wood, metal, plastic) that is typically used in current furniture industries. Furthermore, see the potential of sustainable furniture by analyzing furniture practices made by each different recycled material from old furniture and what designers should consider to achieve feasibility of sustainable furniture.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2017

PURPOSES : This study develops eco-friendly asphalt reinforcement materials applicable to bridge deck pavement. The main purpose is to ensure highly reliable quality applicable to structures and the possibility of practical application. The main target of the study is to develop materials that are environmentally friendly and capable of improving performance. METHODS : The application of double-reinforcement fiber improves the performance of the road pavement. 1. We use recycled film for application of sheet-typed reinforcement. 2. We use preprocessing fibers to reinforce the properties of composite pavement materials. RESULTS : The developed products may produce materials that fit the purpose of achieving stability and environmental friendliness. Sheet-typed reinforcements use more than 50% recycled resin. The most important type of damage to the asphalt layer is deflection (plastic deformation). These products have a very high deflection resistance of not less than 6,000 cycles/mm. In addition, all performance is excellent. Thus, it will be easier to access the field in the future. CONCLUSIONS : Fiber-reinforced asphalt pavement showed excellent performance. Sheet-typed reinforcements containing 50% recycling resin produced good performance in terms of functionality as well as environmental friendliness. Thus, enhancing the field applicability will enhance the usability of the reinforcements.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2000

The CDP in Korea has been enforced for conserving resources and reducing environmental pollution since March, 1999. Therefore this thesis aims to investigate the degrees of consumer participation(CP), recognition and support, and to analysis of demographic variables, consumers' psychology, and attitudes which may influence the degrees of CP recognition, and support for the CDP. The results were as follows: First, the time of surrey was found to be statistically significant in consumer recognition and support. The degree of recognition was the lowest in first time. And the degree of consumer support was the highest in first time. Second, education, employment status and house shape were found to be statistically significant. The degree of consumer recognition was the highest among junior college graduates. The employed group was found to be the highest in the degree of participation. Third, the significant factors which influenced the degree of recognition was the time of survey, the perceived difficulty, effectiveness of the Consumer Deposit Program. The perceived difficulty, the time of survey were found to be related with the degree of consumer support. The most influential variables which influenced the degree of consumer participation were house shape, the perceived effectiveness, the degree of resource recycling, job and the degree of consumer recognition.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2009

In this study, Ti powder was fabricated from Ti scrap by the Hydrogenation-Dehydrogenation (HDH) method. Hydrogenation reactions of Ti scrap occurred at near 450 $^{\circ}C$ with a sudden increase in the reaction temperature and the decreasing pressure of hydrogen gas during the hydrogenation process in the furnace. The dehydrogenation process was also carried out at 750 $^{\circ}C$ for 2hrs in a vacuum of $10^{-4}$ torr. After the HDH process, a deoxidation treatment was carried out with the Ca(purity: 99.5) at 700 $^{\circ}C$ for 2hrs in the vacuum system. It was found that the oxidation content of Ti powder that was deoxidized with Ca showed noticeably lower values, compared to the content obtained by HDH process. In order to fabricate Ti compacts, Ti powder was sintered at $1100\sim1400^{\circ}C$ for 2hrs under a vacuum of $10^{-4}$ torr. The relative density of compact was 94.9% at 1300 $^{\circ}C$. After sintering, all of the Ti compacts showed brittle fracture behavior, which occurred in an elastic range with short plastic yielding up to a peak stress.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.2303-2311
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• 2005

Super low temperature has many applications nowadays, from the chemical processing, automotives manufacturing, plastic recycling, etc. Considering of its wide application in the present and the future, study of the super-low temperature refrigeration system should be actively carried out. Super low state temperature can be achieved by using multi-stage refrigeration system. This paper present the development and testing of cascade refrigerator system for achieving super-low temperature. On this experiment, two different types of HCFCs refrigerants are utilized, R-22 and R-23 were applied for the high stage and the low-pressure stage respectively. The lowest temperature in the low-pressure evaporator that can be achieved by this cascade refrigeration system is down to $-85^{\circ}C$. This experiment is aimed to study the effect of inlet pressure of the low-pressure stage evaporator and low-pressure stage compressors inlet pressure characteristics to the overall temperature characteristics of cascade refrigeration system.

• 청정기술
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2024

전 세계적으로 플라스틱 폐기물로 인한 환경문제가 지속적으로 제기되었으며, 코로나19 이후 플라스틱 폐기물은 급증하는 추세이다. 특히 PP와 PE는 전체 플라스틱 생산량의 절반 이상을 차지하며 두 소재의 폐기물량은 심각한 수준이다. 이에 따라 국내외적으로 플라스틱 재자원화를 위한 연구가 지속적으로 수행되고 있으며, 그중 열분해 기술은 한가지 대안이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 PP와 PE의 열분해 생성 기체에 대한 화학 반응론적 거동을 예측하고자 비응축성 기체의 열분해 거동에 관한 수치해석 연구를 수행하였다. 기존의 열분해 문헌 조사를 통해 얻은 다양한 조성의 탄화수소 화학종을 기반으로 온도와 체류시간에 따라 생성물의 거동을 분석하였다. 수치해석 결과, 온도 및 체류시간이 증가함에 따라 비응축성 기체의 전환을 통해 H₂와 고분자 탄화수소의 생성이 증가하였고 동시에 CH₄와 C₆H₆ 화학종은 감소하여 반응에 참여하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 생성률 분석을 통해 C₂H₄의 분해 반응이 H₂ 생성에 지배적인 반응임을 확인하였고, C₂H₄의 함량이 PP 대비 많은 PE에서 C₂H₄의 분해 반응을 통해 H₂ 생성량이 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 향후 수치해석 결과에서 도출된 여러 변수를 통해 플라스틱에서 H₂ 및 탄소의 전환율을 높이는 방법을 실험적으로 확인할 계획이다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2024

폐어망은 해양 플라스틱 폐기물의 50% 이상을 차지하며, 해양생태계를 파괴하는 주요 원인으로 지목되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 폐어망은 소각, 매립, 기계적 재활용 등의 방법으로 처리되고 있으나, 부가가치가 낮은 제품으로 재활용되며, 오염 물질을 배출한다는 한계가 존재한다. 하지만 플라스틱 고분자로 구성된 폐어망은 열분해 방법을 통해 처리할 경우, 합성가스 및 열분해유와 같은 유용한 자원으로 재활용할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 CO₂ 기반에서 폐어망을 촉매 열분해하여 고순도의 H₂를 생산하는 공정을 제안하였다. 제안된 공정은 다음 3단계로 구성된다. 첫째, 전처리 된 폐어망을 CO₂ 기반 하 Ni/SiO₂ 촉매 열분해 반응을 통해 합성가스 및 열분해유를 생산한다. 둘째, 생성된 열분해유를 연소시켜 열분해 반응의 에너지원으로 재사용한다. 마지막으로, 합성가스를 WGS (Water-Gas-Shift) 및 PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption)를 통해 고순도의 H₂로 전환한다. 본 연구에서는 제안된 공정의 열분해 결과를 일반적인 열분해 조건인 기존 N₂ 기반 열분해 결과와 비교하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 폐어망 500 kg/h을 열분해 시 N₂ 기반에서는 2.933 kmol/h의 고순도 H₂를, CO₂ 기반에서는 3.605 kmol/h 의 고순도 H₂를 생산 가능했다. CO₂ 기반 폐어망 열분해에서 CO 생산이 향상되어 최종적으로 H₂ 생산량이 증대된 결과가 도출되었다. 또한 폐어망 열분해 시 CO₂ 기반에서는 공정 운전 과정에서 배출되는 CO₂를 포집 후 활용함으로써, N₂ 기반 열분해에 비해 CO₂ 배출량을 89.8% 줄일 수 있었다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 CO₂ 기반에서의 제안 공정은 폐어망 재활용과 더불어 친환경적인 수소 연료생산이라는 목표를 달성할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.