• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 2010

In this study, odorous compounds emitted from various wastewater treatment were treated with using the non-thermal plasma reaction, and the effluent gas from the plasma reactor was introduced to a waste sludge reactor to achieve simultaneous sludge reduction. Hydrogen sulfide, the model odorous compound, was removed at 70% using the plasma reaction, and greater than 99% removal efficiency was observed when treated by the sludge reactor. In addition, the sludge reactor showed a high efficiency of ozone removal. As ozone reacted with sludge, oxidation with organic matters took place, and total COD decreased by 50~60% and soluble COD increased gradually. As a result, the integrated process consisting of the non-thermal plasma and the sludge reactor can be successfully applied for the simultaneous treatment of malodorous gas and waste sludge.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.193-197
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• 2003

슬러지로부터 발생하게 되는 인체에 유해하고 독성이 강한 악취물질들은, 대다수 슬러지내의 단백질, 탄수화물등의 물질들이 미생물의 호기성 및 혐기성 분해과정을 통해서 생성되는 유ㆍ무기 물질들을 포함하게 된다. 슬러지로부터 발생하는 주된 악취물질로서 hydrogen sulfide, methanethiol, dimethyl sulfide, dimethyldisulfide,dimethyltrisulfide등이 발견되어졌는데 이 다섯 종의 악취물질들은 모두가 황을 포함하는 물질들이다. 본 논문에서는 인체에 유해한 슬러지 악취의 강도 및 세기를 결정하고 비교하는 데 이용되어 질 수 있는 odor index(ODI)라는 방식이 제시되어졌다. 세가지 종류의 슬러지, 즉 hypochlorite 용액으로 처리한 슬러지와 향수 물질로 처리한 슬러지 및 아무런 처리를 하지 않은 슬러지 세 종류를 대상으로 30일이 넘는 기간동안 인체에 유해한 악취물질들에 대한 누적 odor index(ODI)값을 생성하여 비교하였다. 아무런 처리를 하지 않은 슬러지에서 가장 높은 odor index(ODI)값들이 나타났으며, 이것은 슬러지 처리에 있어서 심각한 단기 및 장기적인 유해 악취발생 문제가 야기될 수 있음을 나타낸다. 이에 대하여 hypochlorite용액으로 처리한 슬러지로부터는 인체에 유해한 악취 발생을 처리 즉시부터 30일이 넘는 기간동안 측정한계치 이하 단계로 낮출 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.12
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• pp.1126-1133
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• 2010

A two-stage biofilter was constructed and utilized to determine the removal efficiency when treating dynamic loading of a mixture of odorous compounds including benzene, toluene, p-xylene, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. A yeast strain, Candida tropicalis, and a sulfur oxidizing bacterial (SOB) strain, Acidithiobacillus caldus sp., were immobilized in polyurethane media and packed in the two-stage biofilter. The experiment of dynamic loading variation was composed of (1) stepwise loading variation of all the odorous compounds (total EC test), (2) stepwise loading variation of each odorous compound, and (3) intermittent loading variation with 2-day-off and 3-day-on. The total EC test showed that the maximum elimination capacity was $61\;g/m^3/hr$ for total VOCs, and 5.2 and $9.1\;g/m^3/hr$ for ammonia and hydrogen, respectively. In addition, the inhibition between VOCs was observed when the loading of each individual VOC was varied. Especially the stepwise increase in toluene loading resulted in decreases of benzene and p-xylene removal efficiencies about 30% and 25%, respectively. However, the inhibition between organic and inorganic compounds was not observed. The intermittent loading variation with 2-day-off and 3-day-on showed that greater than 95% of the overall removal efficiency was restored in two days after the loading resumed. Consequently, the two-stage biofilter packed with immobilized microorganisms showed advantages over conventional biofilters for the simultaneous treatment of the mixture of organic and inorganic odorous compounds.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.815-824
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• 2011

In this study, a non-thermal plasma system was employed to simultaneously remove odorous compounds and organic sludge. The system consisted of two reactors; the first one was the non-thermal plasma reactor where ozone was produced by the plasma reaction and the ozone oxidized hydrogen sulfide, the model odorous compound, and then the ozone-laden gas stream was introduced to the second reactor where wasted sludge was disintegrated and solubilized by ozone oxidation. In this study, the gas retention time (GRT) and the hydraulic retention time (HRT) were changed in the two-reactor system, and the effects of GRT and HRT on reduction efficiencies of odor and sludge were determined. As the GRT increased, the ozone concentration increased resulting in an increasing efficiency of hydrogen sulfide removal. However, the overall ozone loading rate to the second sludge reactor was the same at any GRT, which resulted in an insignificant change in sludge reduction rate. When HRTs in the sludge reactor were 1, 2, 4 hours, the sludge reduction rates were approximately 30% during the four-hour operation, while the rate increased to 70% at the HRT of 6 hours. Nevertheless, at HRTs greater than 4 hours, the solubilization efficiency was not proportionally increased with increasing specific input energy, indicating that an appropriate sludge retention time needs to be applied to achieve effective solubilization efficiencies at a minimal power consumption for the non-thermal plasma reaction.

• Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.129-138
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• 2007

A natural deodorizing agent (NDA) was made using pine cone byproduct, and its effects on malodor emission and composting were analyzed in this study. NDA was manufactured by mixing pine cone byproduct with three species of microorganisms and water containing mineral nutrients and molasses, and then by incubating for 48 hours at $30^{\circ}C$. Lab scale experiments were done with three treatment groups, T1 (control, sawdust treatment), T2 (microorganisms and sawdust treatment group), and T3 (NDA and sawdust treatment group). During composting, temperatures reached over $55^{\circ}C$, a minimum temperature for the inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms. No differences were found in physicochemical composition of compost among treatments. However, it was observed that over usage of NDA could obstruct temperature increase, since the biodegradation rate of organic matter of NDA was relatively low, Nitrogen loss due to ammonia gas emission, which normally happens during composting, was reduced by using NDA, and hence the nitrogen level of final compost was higher in T3 than in others. During experiment, it was found that ammonia gas emission was entirely lasted through compositing duration, but the $CH_3SH$ and $H_2S$ gases were produced only at early stage of composting. The ammonia concentration trapped in $H_2SO_4$ solution during 31 days of composting in T1, T2 and T3 was 12,660mg/L, 11,598mg/L and 7,367mg/L, respectively, showing distinguishable reduction of ammonia gas emission in T3. The emissions of $CH_3SH$ and $H_2S$ gases were also remarkably reduced in T3. Based on these obtained results, usage of the deodorizing agent made with pine cone byproduct could reduce the emission of malodor during composting, without any deterioration of compost quality.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2012

A bio-encapsuled media was developed to apply on reducing odors produced from organic waste treatment process. The microorganism, candida tropicalis, was encapsulated in sponge media consisted of polyurethane material. Sodium alginate as a natural polymer which does not affect to hydrophilic microbes and PEGDA(poly ethylene glycol diacrylate) as a artificial polymer were used for the encapsuled media. The media was evaluated with TMEDA (N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine, 0.02~0.1%) as a catalyst at different temperature 25 and $35^{\circ}C$. The best performance was achieved with 0.02% of TMEDA at $25^{\circ}C$. The microbes' activity in the media was examined by Live/Dead cell method.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.674-681
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• 2008

Silver as a metal catalyst has been used to remove odorous compounds. In this study, silver particles in nano sizes ($5{\sim}30nm$) were prepared on the surface of $NaHCO_3$, the supporting material, using a sputtering method. The silver nano-particles were dispersed by dissolving $Ag-NaHCO_3$ into water, and the dispersed silver nano-particles in the aqueous phase was applied to remove inorganic odor compounds, $NH_3$ and ${H_2}O$, in a scrubbing reactor. Since ammonia has high solubility, it was removed from the gas phase even by spraying water in the scrubber. However, the concentration of nitrate (${NO_3}^-$) ion increased only in the silver nano-particle solution, implying that the silver nano-particles oxidized ammonia. Hydrogen sulfide in the gas phase was rapidly removed by the silver nano-particles, and the concentration of sulfate (${SO_4}^{2-}$) ion increased with time due to the oxidation reaction by silver. As a result, the silver nano-particles in the aqueous solution can be successfully applied to remove odorous compounds without adding additional energy sources and producing any harmful byproducts.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.655-668
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• 1994

Conventional deodorization filters using soil and compost reach the capacity limitation of deodorization in short period, because its removal mechanism primarily depends on adsorption. Therefore, in this study the experiment was performed on the removal of ammonia which is a strong inorganic malodor, frequently emitted from night soil treatment plants and sewage treatment plants, by seeding activated sludges on the bio-peat containing higher organic contents, water conservation capacity, permeability and lower pressure drop. As a result, in raw peat filter natural ammonia outlet was observed in consequence of pH increase resulted from ammonia ionizing in liquid phase. Ammonia removal mechanism primarily depended on the adsorption onto the anion colloidal substances in peat. In peat bio-filter, theoretical ammonium salts ratio was higher than that of raw peat, resulted from slight pH increase by microorganism activity, however, the experimetal value of ammonia-nitrogen accumulated in bio-peat was lower than that of raw peat because of nitrification by nitrifying bacteria. In the initial reaction period, adsorption was predominant in the ammonia removal mechanism, but nitrification was conspicuous after the middle period. Mass balance of nitrogen was established using experimental data of input $NH_3$ loading, output $NH_3$ loading, $NH_4{^+}$-N, $NO_x$-N, and Org-N. The critical time of unsteady state, which is the maximum activating point of microorganism in bio-filter, was determined using experimental data, and the ammonia adsorption curve was computed using regression analysis. On the basis of the results obtained by above analysis, the delay days for the saturation of adsoption capacity in peat bio-filter was calculated.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.159-159
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• 2001

용수 다소비 산업인 제지산업은 날로 심해지는 환경규제에 대처하기 위해 청수사용 량을 줄이고 백수의 재활용을 극대화하며, 궁극적으로는 폐수를 배출시키지 않는 무방류화 공정의 실현을 위해 많은 연구와 노력을 경주하고 있다. 제지공정의 폐쇄화가 성공적으로 이루어지기 위해서는 폐수의 처리를 통한 수질 개선 및 처리수의 재활용을 제고하는 방안을 채용할 수 있으나, 제지공정의 막대한 용수 사용량을 생각할 때 방출되는 공정수를 이와 같 은 방법으로 완전히 정화, 재사용한다는 것은 경제적으로 비현실적이라 할 수 있다. 따라서 공정수의 정화 및 정화된 처리수의 재활용율 제고를 통하여 제지공정의 무방류화를 실현하 더라도 공정수의 수질 악화는 필연적으로 발생하게 되며 따라서 이에 대한 다각적인 대처 가 요청된다. 제지공정의 무방류화에 따른 수질의 악화는 용수 내 미세분 및 이온성 물질의 누적 을 통해 이루어지며, 이로 인해 펠트 플러깅, 첨가제의 성능저하, 슬라임 및 악취 발생, 제품 의 품질저하 등 여러 가지 문제들이 발생하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 백상지 공정의 폐쇄화를 실험실적으로 재현하여 용수 내 미세분 및 각종 이온성 물질의 누적이 종이의 불성에 미치는 영향을 평가하고자 하였다. 백상지 공정 수 내에는 도공파지의 유입과 다량의 충전제 사용에 의하여 상당량의 회분성분이 미세분으 로 포함되어 있다. 이에 백상지 공정의 폐쇄화 단계에 따라 용수 내 누적되는 회분의 특성 변화를 파악하고, 이것이 종이 물성에 대한 영향을 살펴보았다. 또 백수의 재활용에 따른 각 종 이온성 물질의 누적이 종이의 물성에 미치는 영향도 평가하였다. 이러한 이온성 물질의 대상은 칼습 경도 및 전기전도도에 영향하는 무기 이온성 물질과 COD 및 BOD에 영향하는 유기 이온성 물질로 구분하여 평가하였다. 이후 계내에 존재하는 각 이온성 물질의 농도 증 가에 따라 종이를 제조하여 물성의 변화를 파악하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.81-88
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• 2000

Composting of N-rich wastes such as food waste and wastewater sludges can be associated loss of with substantial gaseous N, which means loss of an essential plant nutrient but may also lead to environmental pollution. We investigated the behavior of nitrogenous materials during the first high-rate phase in composting of food waste. Air dried food waste was mixed with shredded waste paper or wood chip and reacted in a bench scale composting reactor. Samples were analyzed for pH, ammonia, oxidized nitrogen and organic nitrogen. The volatilized ammonia nitrogen was also analyzed using sulfuric acid as an absorbent solution. Initial progress of composting reaction greatly influenced the ammonification of organic nitrogen. A well-balanced composting reaction with an addition of active compost as an inoculum resulted in the promoted mineralization of organic nitrogen and volatilization of ammonia. The prolongation of initial low pH period delayed the production of ammonia. It was also found that nitrogen loss was highly dependent on the air flow supplied. With an increase in input air flow, the loss of nitrogen as an ammonia also increased, resulted in substantial reduction of ammonia content in compost. The conversion ratio of initial nitrogen into ammonia was in the range of 28 to 38% and about 77~94% of the ammonia produced was escaped as a gas. Material balance on the nitrogenous materials was demonstrated to provide an information of importance on the behavior of nitrogen in composting reaction.