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Analysis of Water-Quality Constituents Variations before and after Weir Construction in South Han River using Probability Distribution (확률분포를 이용한 남한강 보 건설 전·후 수질변화 분석)

  • Kim, Kyung Sub
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2019
  • The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project started in 2009 and completed in early 2013 is a large-scale inter-ministry SOC project investing ₩22.2 $10^{12}$ and one of the Project's objectives was to enhance the water-quality grade through recovering the river eco-system and environment. The average concentration and probability distribution of water-quality constituents at given and selected sampling sites are very significant elements for analyzing and controlling the water-quality of rivers or reservoirs effectively. Average concentration can be estimated by point estimator, distribution function of water-quality constituents or Bootstrap method, in which the distribution function estimated with more data in case of insufficient dataset, is applied. Ipo and Gangcheon water-quality monitoring stations in South Han River were selected to compare and analyze the variation of concentration before and after Ipo and Gangcheon Weirs construction, using the whole 4-year's data, from 2005 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2017. Water-quality constituents such as BOD and COD relating to oxygen demanding wastes and TP and Chlorophyll-a relating to the process of nutrient enrichment called eutrophication were also selected. The guidelines for water-quality control and management after weir construction including evaluation of water-quality constituents' variations can be presented by this paper.

Characteristics and control of intermittent flow in water distribution systems due to restricted supply (상수도관망에서 제한급수에 따른 간헐적 흐름의 특성 및 제어)

  • Yang, Kangseung;Kim, Donghong;Jung, Kwansoo;Kim, Juhwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2014
  • The water distribution system should be invariably operated on continuous pattern for 24 hours a day. Occasionally, it is not practically possible to operate for 24 hours due to water shortage or financial constraints. Therefore an intermittent water supply is unavoidable in water shortage area and developing countries. But the intermittent water supply can introduce large pressure forces and rapid fluid accelerations into a water supply network. These disturbances may result in new pipe failure, leakage and secondary contamination. This paper proposed an improvement methodology to prevent the disturbances by intermittent water supply. For the study, the hydraulic variation of intermittent flow in water distribution system was measured and analyzed in the field by comparing with simulation of hydraulic model. Installations of control valves such as, pressure reducing and sustaining and air valves were employed for pressure and flow control. The effectiveness of the methods are presented by comparing hydraulic conditions before and after introducing the proposed solutions.

Optimal Design of Municipal Water Distribution System (관수로 시스템의 최적설계)

  • Ahn, Tae Jin;Park, Jung Eung
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1375-1383
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    • 1994
  • The water distribution system problem consists of finding a minimum cost system design subject to hydraulic and operational constraints. Since the municipal water distribution system problem is nonconvex with multiple local minima, classical optimization methods find a local optimum. An outer flow search - inner optimization procedure is proposed for choosing a better local minimum for the water distribution systems. The pipe network is judiciously subjected to the outer search scheme which chooses alternative flow configurations to find an optimal flow division among pipes. Because the problem is nonconvex, a global search scheme called Stochastic Probing method is employed to permit a local optimum seeking method to migrate among various local minima. A local minimizer is employed for the design of least cost diameters for pipes in the network. The algorithm can also be employed for optimal design of parallel expansion of existing networks. In this paper one municipal water distribution system is considered. The optimal solutions thus found have significantly smaller costs than the ones reported previously by other researchers.

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Rechlorination for residual chlorine concentration equalization in distribution system (급배수시스템에서 잔류염소 농도 균등화를 위한 재염소 처리)

  • Kim, Jinkeun;Han, Ji-An
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.91-101
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    • 2014
  • Three water treatment plants(WTPs) in Jeju island whose source water have different characteristics from those of the mainland of Korea were investigated. Coefficients of bulk water decay($k_b$) of free chlorine at $5^{\circ}C$ for ES, GJ, NW WTPs were $-0.003hr^{-1}$, $-0.002hr^{-1}$ and $-0.001hr^{-1}$ respectively based on bottle tests. To simulate the free chlorine variations in the distribution system using EPANET, ES WTP was chosen. Free chlorine concentrations of several sites were less than the drinking water quality standards(i.e., 0.1 mg/L); E5(0.03 mg/L), E6(0.02 mg/L), W21(0.02 mg/L) and W25(0.03 mg/L). To maintain more than 0.1 mg/L of free chlorine in the distribution system, at least 1.9 mg/L of chlorine was needed at the WTP, which suggested rechlorination was needed to supply palatable tap water to customers. Two sites, one that diverged into E5 and E6 in the east-line and another located before E21 in the west-line were selected for the appropriate rechlorination locations. The recommended rechlorination dosages were 0.42 mg/L for the east and 0.27 mg/L for the west. The simulated results indicated that the free chlorine could be reduced to 0.4 mg/L at the WTP with rechlorination, and taps with excessive free chlorine could be more stabilized(i.e., 0.1~0.4 mg/L).

Identification of Critical Elements in Water Distribution Networks using Resilience Index Measurement

  • Marlim, Malvin Samuel;Jeong, Gimoon;Kang, Doosun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.162-162
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    • 2019
  • Water Distribution Network (WDN) is a critical infrastructure to be maintained ensuring proper water supply to wide-spread consumers. The WDN consists of pipes, valves, pumps and tanks, and these elements interact each other to provide adequate system performance. If elements fail by internal or external interruptions, it may result in adverse impact to water service with different degree depending on the failed element. To determine an appropriate maintenance priority, the critical elements need to be identified and mapped in the network. In order to identify and prioritize the critical elements in WDN, an element-based simulation approach is proposed, in which all the elements composing the WDN are reviewed one at a time. The element-based criticality is measured using several resilience indexes that are newly developed in this study. The proposed resilience indexes are used to quantify the impacts of element failure to water service degradation. Here, three resilience indexes are developed, such as User Demand Severity, Economic Value Loss and Water Age Degradation, each of which intends to measure different aspects of consequences, such as social, economic, and water quality, respectively. For demonstration, the proposed approach is applied to a benchmark water network to identify and prioritize the critical elements.

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Study on the aquifer utilization for a ground water heat pump system (지하수 히트펌프 시스템의 대수층 활용 사레 연구)

  • Shim, Byoung-Ohan;Lee, Chul-Woo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.32-35
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    • 2006
  • The validation of a groundwater source heat pump system installation site is estimated by bydrogeothermic model ing. The hydraulic characteristics of the aquifer system is evaluated from pumping and recovery tests. In addition, the temperature distribution by the pumping and the injection of groundwater, and water level fluctuations are simulated by numerical modeling. The total cooling and heating load for the building is designed as 120RT(refrigeration ton) and the ground water source heat pump system covers 50RT as a subsidiary system The scenario of heat pump operation is organized as pumping and inject ion of groundwater that is performed for 8 hours per day in cooling mode for 90 days during the summer season The heat transfer by the injected warm water is limited near the inject ion wells in the simulated temperature distribution. The reason is that the given operation time is too short to expect broad thermal diffusion in large volume of the aquifer in the simulation time The simulated groundwater level and temperature distribution can be used as important data to develope an energy effective pumping and injection well system. Also it will be very useful to evaluate the hydraulic capacity of a target groundwater reservoir.

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Manganese treatment to reduce black water occurrence in the water supply

  • Kim, Jinkeun
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.230-236
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    • 2015
  • 26 multi-regional water treatment plants (WTPs) were investigated, to determine the characteristics of manganese (Mn) concentration and removal in Korea. Mn concentrations of raw water in most WTPs were higher than the drinking water standard (i.e., 0.05 mg/L); thus, proper removal of Mn at the WTPs is needed. Mn concentration was generally higher in lakes than rivers due to seasonal lake turnovers. The Mn concentrations of treated water at 26 WTPs in 2012 were less than 0.05 mg/L, due to strict law enforcement and water treatment processes optimization. However, before 2010, those concentrations were more than 0.05 mg/L, which could have led to an accumulation of Mn oxides in the distribution system. This could be one of the main reasons for black water occurrence. Therefore, regular monitoring of Mn concentration in the distribution system, flushing, and proper Mn removal at WTPs are needed, to supply clean and palatable tap water.

Manufacture of Water-Resistant Corrugated Board Boxes for Agricultural Products in the Cold Chain System

  • Jo, Jung-Yeon;Min, Choon-Ki;Shin, Jun-Seop
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2012
  • For the purpose of developing liner board for water-resistant corrugated board in the cold chain system, several types of base paper for corrugated board were purchased from the market and 6 different boards were produced in the paperboard mill by applying the chemicals on the base paper. Then, water-moisture resistant performance and physical properties of the boards were compared each other. The liner board which is dried at high temperature with pressure by Condebelt papermaking system(CK paper) showed a superior performance in strength over common liner boards. Strength of the board increased by surface chemical treatment up to 60% of compressive strength and 30% of bursting strength. Starch insolubilization with Ammonium-Zirconium Carbonate(AZC) and surface coating with a surface size and a moisture resistant chemical on CK paper showed the best result. Therefore, this method was recommended to produce the outer liner board for water -resistant corrugated board.

Applicability of Several Skeletonization Methods for the Transient Analysis in the Water Distribution System (상수관망 부정류 해석을 위한 관망 간략화 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Pil;Kim, Hyung-Guen;Kim, Sang-Hyun;Lee, Hyun-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2004.05b
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    • pp.521-526
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    • 2004
  • It is necessary to analyze the unsteady flow in the pipe network for the better operation and controls, but there are some problems in actual pipe network simulation, such as collecting a large amount of information in the field, operating highly upgraded computer system, and keeping a big storage device to run analysis program. The skeletonization method is used to cope with the problems in this paper. It is expected to reduce computation time, researcher's efforts, and costs for the analyzing the pipe network. The impact of individual pipe elements to the behavior of the water distribution system can be accounted in the process of skeletonization. However it is also important to study continuously about how to apply the skeletonization method for each of different cases, because inadequate uses may bring simulation to a false result. This paper introduces basic theories and skeletonizing examples in the actual pipe network in Dae-gu city.

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