• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2022

The regulations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have been steadily strengthened in ship emissions. Accordingly, there is a growing need for development of related technologies for the removal of contaminants that may occur during the treatment of SOx and NOx using a wet scrubber. However, this system also leads to wastewater production when the exhaust gas is scrubbed. In this research, we evaluated the performance of an ion selective resin process in accordance with scrubber wastewater discharge regulations, specifically nitrate discharge, by the IMO. Accelerated real and synthetic wastewater of wet scrubbers, contained high amounts of TDS with high nitrate, is used as feed water in lab scale systems. Furthermore, a pilot scale dissolved air flotation (DAF) using microbubble generator with ion exchange resin process was combined and developed in order to apply for the treatment of wet scrubber wastewater. The results of the present study revealed that operating conditions, such as resin property, bed volume (BV), and inlet wastewater flow rate, significantly affect the removal performance. Finally, through a pilot test, DAF with ion exchange resin process showed a noticeable improvement of the nitrate removal rate compared to the single DAF process.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.14-24
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• 2019

전 세계적인 기후변화로 인하여 선박 내 이용되는 물과 관련된 배출 규제도 매년 강화되고 있는 추세이다. 심해지는 규제를 만족하기 위하여 다양한 선박용 수처리 기술이 개발되고 있으며, 고도화 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선박 내에서 이루어지는 수처리 공정인 선박 평형수(ballast water)처리, 조수기(fresh water generator)를 통한 선박 내 용수 공급, 대기오염 저감을 위한 스크러버(wet scrubber) 폐세정수 처리 공정과 관련된 국제해사기구(international maritime organication, IMO)와 같은 국제적인 규제 및 특정지역과 연안에 위치한 주정부 기관의 규제 현황에 대해 문헌조사를 통해 정리하였다. 이를 바탕으로 다양한 선박 내 수자원 활용과 규제에 부합하기 위해 적용되고 있는 관련 수처리 기술을 용도별로 정리하였으며, 현재 기존기술의 효율 개선 및 신기술 도입과 관련된 연구 현황을 정리하였다. 이러한 선박 내 수처리 현황 및 향후 적용될 기술개발연구를 바탕으로 지속가능한 해양환경 조성 및 기후변화 대응이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2019

Current desulfurization and denitrification technologies have reached a considerable level in terms of reduction efficiency. However, when compared with the simultaneous reduction technology, the individual reduction technologies have issues such as economic disadvantages due to the difficulty to scale-up apparatus, secondary pollution from wastewater/waste during the treatment process, requirement of large facilities for post-treatment, and increased installation costs. Therefore, it is necessary to enable practical application of simultaneous SOx and NOx treatment technologies to remove two or more contaminants in one process. The present study analyzes a technology capable of maintaining simultaneous treatment of SOx and NOx even at low temperatures due to the electrochemically generated strong oxidation of the wet-pulse complex system. This system also reduces unreacted residual gas and secondary products through the wet scrubbing process. It addresses common problems of the existing fuel gas treatment methods such as SDR, SCR, and activated carbon adsorption (i.e., low treatment efficiency, expensive maintenance cost, large installation area, and energy loss). Experiments were performed with varying variables such as pulse voltage, reaction temperature, chemicals and additives ratios, liquid/gas ratio, structure of the aeration cleaning nozzle, and gas inlet concentration. The performance of individual and complex processes using the wet-pulse discharge reaction were analyzed and compared.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.399-404
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• 2021

From 1 January 2020, the limit for Sulphur in fuel oil used on board ships operating outside designated emission control areas will be reduced to 0.5 %. This regulation by international maritime organization (IMO) is able to significantly reduce the amount of Sulphur oxides (SOx) discharging from ships and should have environmental advantages and health for all over the world. To meet the regulation, in these days, wet scrubber system is being actively developed. However, this process leads to make washing wastewater. In this study, we evaluated ion exchange resin system in accordance with scrubber wastewater discharge regulation by IMO. Theoretical wastewater used as feed solution of lab scale water treatment systems. The results revealed that nitrate ion was removed selectively in spite of high TDS wash wastewater solution depending on ion exchange resin property. Moreover, it was possible to improve efficiency of the system by optimizing operating conditions.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.286-291
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• 2016

This study was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of air-stripping by DIWS(Dip Injection Wet Scrubber) system on high concentration of ammonia wastewater more than 10,000 mg/L. In the case of changing temperature from $30^{\circ}C$ to $70^{\circ}C$ maintaining pH 12.5 within the 72 hours, the removal efficiency of T-N by the present treatment plant was increased to 90.5% which was initially kept 70.3%. Although the high concentration of T-N with 9,120~12,955 mg/L was treated by micro-bubble through DIWS system maintaining the temperature of $30^{\circ}C$ within the 20 hours, the removal efficiency of T-N reached 91.9%, which indicated the possibility of air-stripping.