• Membrane Journal
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.157-167
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• 2008

Removal of organic substances and taste/odor control are ones of the main issues in water supply, resulting in introduction of advanced processes such as ozon/GAC, or PAC. However, raw water quality deteriorates, new pollutants advent, so water quality is not acceptable enough even with those existing advanced processes. In this paper, a new advanced water treatment process using PAC slurry blanket, where PAC particles stay in the basin as slurry blanket, coupled with submerged membranes is introduced. A pilot plant $(80m^3/day)$ was installed to assess the performance of this new process using actual raw water, and DOC was removed higher than 90% in the beginning and $70{\sim}80%$ afterwards, while 2-MIB and geosmin were removed completely. This new process still requires future study on process optimization and long-term assessment, however it seems highly possible to countermeasure as a new advanced process with high removal efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.2205-2213
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• 2000

To investigate removal efficiency of dissolved matter by NF and RO, a pilot plant was operated for six months using groundwater treated by UF membrane. After the pilot plant operation, we performed autopsy test to identify characteristics of foulant attached on the membrane surface applying the used NF and RO in the pilot plant test. In autopsy test, we measured permeate flux and recovery rate of flux by chemical cleaning in each membrane. We also analyzed chemical cleaning disposal to examine component of foulant. Permeate flux of NF and RO1 showed rapid decline after 100 days of operation. Especially, reduction of specific flux in RO1 was more serious than in NF. Specific flux of RO2 with a low recovery rate resulted in gradual flux decline. Removal efficiencies of dissolved inorganic matters as a conductivity were 76.3%, 88.2% and 95.3% respectively for NF, RO1 and RO2, and RO2 presented the highest removal efficiency. And those of dissolved organic matters as TOC were about 80% for both NF and RO. The specific flux of membranes declined gradually from the feed water inlet to outlet of the membrane module and it showed that membrane fouling increased along the feed flow direction. Namely, concentration of pollutants became higher and volume of feed water was less as the feed flow approached to the outlet. It seemed that major foul ants were Ca consolidated into inorganic material and Si consolidated into organic material on the membrane surface. Fe was a great contribution to irreversible fouling. The SEM results indicated that the organic matter was attached to the first layer, closer to the membrane, and then inorganic matter with tetragonal shape layered over them. We could not observe biofouling because microorganism, which was cause of biofouling, was almost pretreated in UF membrane.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.89-111
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• 2017

The era of today's day is that the era of the black gold age is now approaching the era of the blue gold age. As the importance of water increases, support and policies for the water industry are presented. The water industry is a public service industry but it faces the problem for unbalanced supply between users. One of solutions for solving the problem at hand is the privatization of the public service and it is the most sensitive and focused subject to the issue. Korea is also coming up for the privatization of the water industry. So, one of the privatization operations based on the privatization of the current waterworks law is management contract by the specialized organization and it is in progress to enhance the efficiency of public services. Therefore, this study aims at finding out the local water supply services' efficiency by K-Water using DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis), and productivity analysis by malmquist index on 18 organizations of the implementation of local water supply management contract using the date from 2012 to 2014. According to the result of the DEA, 10 of the 18 organizations were the most efficient during 3 years and malmquist index for analysing the productivity was decreasing. That is because of the leakage ratio and utilization ratio of the raw water and both of them are significant to productivity. As a result, this study differs from the previous studies by analysing efficiency and productivity using DEA and malmquist index to the solution for the problem faced by current water industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.317-321
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• 2022

In response to Incheon tap water accident in 2019, the Ministry of Environment has created the "Comprehensive Measures for Water Safety Management" to improve water operation management, provide systematic technical support, and respond to accidents. Accordingly, K-water is making a smart water supply management system for the entire process of tap water. In order to advance the response to water accidents, it is essential to secure the reliability of real-time water operation data such as flow rate, pressure, and water level, and to develop and apply a warning algorithm in advance using big data analysis techniques. In this paper, various statistical techniques are applied using water supply operation data (flow, pressure, water level, etc) to prepare the foundation for the selection of the optimal operating range and advancement of the monitoring and alarm system. In addition, the arrival time is analyzed through cross-correlation analysis of changes in raw water turbidity between the water intake and water treatment plants. The purpose of this paper is to study the model that predicts the raw water turbidity of a water treatment plant by applying raw water turbidity data considering the time delay according to the flow rate change.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.257-264
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• 2006

An aerobic submerged membrane bioreactor (MBR) treating ammonium wastewater was studied in respect of nitrification characteristics and distribution of nitrification bacteria over a period of 350 days. MBR was fed with ammonium concentration of 500-1000 mg $NH_4-N/L$ at a nitrogen load of $1-2kg\;N/m^3{\cdot}d$. Overall ammonium oxidation rate increased with dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, temperature, and sludge retention time (SRT). Under a higher concentration of free ammonia ($NH_3-N$) due to the decrease of ammonium oxidation rate, the nitrite ratio ($NO_2-N/NO_x-N$) in the effluent increased. The sudden collapse of nitrification efficiency accompanied by sludge foaming and the increase of sludge volume index (SVI) was observed unexpectedly during the operation. At the later stage of operation, additional carbon source was fed to the MBR and resulted in twice higher value of SVI and the decrease of ammonium oxidation rate. In fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis, genus Nitrosomonas which is specifically hybridized with probe NSM156 was initially the dominant ammonia oxidizing bacteria and the amount of Nitrosospira gradually increased. Nitrospira was the dominant nitrite oxidizing bacteria during whole operational period. Significant amount of Nitrobacter was also detected which might due to the high concentration of nitrite maintained in the reactor.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 2010

The tap water supply in Korea mainly depends on the surface water. However, the advanced water purification process becomes a necessity due to the deterioration of surface water quality and the risk of accidental spill. High cost of water treatment and public concerns make the decision makers turn to riverbank filtration as an alternative to the surface water. Riverbank filtration has been employed for water supply in many developed countries for more than 150 years. In Korea, riverbank filtration has drawn attention since 1990s as a supply source having potential to stably meet the ever-increasing water demand. Some cities located in the Nakdong River Basin are currently supplying water through riverbank filtration. This work studies the site suitability analysis for riverbank filtration using game theory. Theory of games, which is a branch of applied mathematics used in social sciences (most notably economics), biology, engineering and computer science, was applied to candidate locations for the selection of riverbank filtration site. We proposed a policy game model as a new method adopting a probabilistic approach. The model developed turned out to be an effective tool for site selection.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.475-475
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• 2017

본 연구는 급변하는 기후변화에 대응하기 위한 이동식 전처리 여과취수장치 및 이를 이용한 물 생산용 취수시스템에 관한 것으로 홍수시나 가뭄시 이물질과 부유물질의 제거를 통해 후속 여과 장치의 부하 경감과 여과 효율의 극대화를 꾀할 수 있고, 필요시 비상용수 및 생활용수로 신속히 활용할 수 있는 시설에 관한 것이다. 기존 이동식 물생산장치의 수처리 공정은 1NTU 내외의 깨끗한 물이 유입되지 않으면 여과기(RO SYSTEM) 막이 폐색되어 생산된 물의 수질이 일정치 않아 재난 시 활용하는데 어려움이 있었다. 반면에 본 연구의 물 생산용 취수시스템은 전처리 여과취수를 통해 이물질과 부유물질의 제거가 가능하여 후속 여과 장치의 부하 경감을 통해 유지관리비용 최소화와 여과 효율의 극대화를 꾀할 수 있고, 필요시 신속히 생활용수로 활용할 수 있으며, 다양한 급수원(하천, 저수지, 댐, 지하수 등)을 통한 수량 확보가 가능하고, 평상시 다용도(하천정화, 녹조제거, 도로 청소, 조경수 등)로 사용이 가능한 물생산시스템이다. 또한, 비상시 이동식 차량에 탑재하여 이동 및 운반이 가능할뿐만 아니라 저수지나 댐 또는 하천 등의 원수를 취수하여 이중 관 구조의 여과기를 통한 전처리로 지속적인 여과력을 발휘하여 이물질이나 부유물질을 신속히 제거하고, 역세척수 공급으로 여과재를 쉽게 역세척할 수 있어 여과 성능의 저하를 방지할 수 있다. 본 연구에서의 이동식 전처리 여과취수장치는 다양한 조건에서의 수치모의를 수행하여 평상시나 비상시 다용도의 필요수량을 확보할 수 있도록 장치의 최적화를 수행하였으며, 이를 통해 안정적인 수자원 확보와 활용이 가능하고, 국내 물 시장에서 물생산시스템의 다양성을 확보하여 국민경제에 기여할 수 있고, 향후 물 부족 국가의 ODA 사업에 진출하여 수출증대 효과를 얻을 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.515-515
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• 2023

팔당호는 북한강과 남한강이 합류하여 생성된 호소로 수도인 서울과 수도권인 경기도 동부지역의 물 공급을 담당하는 중요한 상수원이다. 이러한 팔당호에서 유해남조 발생은 상수원수 활용과 직접적으로 연관되어 있어 신속하고 정확한 관리 및 예측이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 안전한 상수원 활용을 위해, 딥러닝 기법을 이용하여 유해남조 사전 예측 모델을 구축하고자 하였다. 모델 입력 변수는 2012년부터 2021년까지 10년 동안의 주간 팔당호 수질(수온, DO, BOD, COD, Chl-a, TN, TP, pH, 전기전도도, TDN, NH4N, NO3N, TDP, PO4P, 부유물질)과 수문(유입량, 총방류량), 기상 정보(평균기온, 최저기온, 최고기온, 일 강수량, 평균풍속, 평균 상대습도, 합계일조량), 그리고 북한강과 남한강 유입지점의 남조 세포 수를 사용하였다. 모델 출력 변수는 수질, 수문, 기상 요인으로 인한 남조의 성장 발현 시기를 고려하여 1주 후의 댐앞 남조 세포수를 사용하였다. 사용한 딥러닝 기법은 최근 주목받고 있는 Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT)를 사용하였다. 모델 훈련용 데이터와 테스트용 데이터는 각각 8:2의 비율로 나누었으며, 검증용 데이터는 훈련용 데이터 내에서 훈련 데이터와 검증 데이터를 6:4 비율로 분배하였다. Lookback은 5로 설정하였고, 이는 주단위 데이터로 구성된 데이터세트의 특성을 반영한 것이다. 모델의 성능은 실측값과 예측값을 토대로 R-square와 Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)를 계산하여 평가하였다. 모델학습은 총 154번 반복 진행되었으며, 이 중 성능이 가장 준수한 시점은 54번째 반복 시점으로 훈련손실 대비 검증손실이 가장 양호한 값을 나타냈다(훈련손실:0.443, 검증손실 0.380). R-square는 훈련단계에서 0.681, 검증단계에서 0.654였고, 테스트 단계에서 0.606으로 산출되었다. RMSE는 훈련단계에서 0.614(㎍/L), 검증단계에서 0.617(㎍/L), 테스트 단계에서 0.773(㎍/L)였다. 모델에 사용한 데이터세트가 주간 데이터라는 특성을 고려하면, 소규모 데이터를 사용하였음에도 본 연구에서 구축한 모델의 성능은 양호하다고 평가할 수 있다. 향후 연구에서 데이터세트를 보강하고 모델을 업데이트한다면, 모델의 성능을 더욱더 개선할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.80-80
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• 2023

인구증가와 경제발전은 도시화를 촉진시키며 도시에서 물과 에너지 사용량을 급격히 증가시켰다. 도시 물순환 시스템에서 용수를 공급하기 위해 에너지가 사용되고 에너지 발전을 위해 물이 필요하듯이, 물과 에너지는 긴밀한 연결 관계를 가지고 있다. 도시에서 이러한 자원을 효율적으로 관리하기 위해서는 물과 에너지 사이에 존재하는 복잡한 관계를 고려하여 분석할 필요가 있으나 기존의 도시 물관리는 부문별로 독립된 접근방식에 의존하기 때문에 이를 설명하기는 어려웠다. 이러한 한계점을 극복하기 위해 부문 간 존재하는 복잡한 관계를 반영하고, 상호연관성 및 영향 효과에 대해 분석 가능한 통합적 접근방식인 넥서스 접근법이 점차적으로 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 넥서스 관점에서 국내 광역지자체별 상수시스템의 물-에너지 관계를 분석하고, 이를 바탕으로 도시 물관리 전략 및 실행계획을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 넥서스 관점에서 상수시스템의 물-에너지 이용을 분석하기 위해 2011년부터 2020년까지 10년간의 자료를 활용하여 광역자자체별 넥서스 프로파일링을 수행하였다. 분석 범위 설정, 자료 처리, 기본 경향 분석, 영향 요인 도출, 스냅샷 및 궤적 분석, 원인 도출의 절차로 진행되는 프로파일링을 통해 상수시스템에서 물 사용량과 에너지 사용량의 현황과 거동을 파악할 수 있었다. 인구변화, Lpcd(litres per capita per day) 변화, 원수 수입량 변동과 같은 외부 영향(부산, 대구, 인천, 울산, 세종), 시스템 개선 등을 통한 도시여건 개선(광주), 입력자료의 오류 또는 부정확성(대전, 울산, 제주)과 같은 도시별 물-에너지 사용량 변화에 대한 주요 원인을 도출할 수 있었다. 그리고 이를 바탕으로 각 광역지자체별 향후 추세 및 개선방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서는 넥서스 관점에서 국내 통계자료를 활용하여 광역지자체별 상수시스템의 물-에너지 관계를 분석하여 국내 도시 상수시스템 내 물과 에너지 사용에 대한 과학적 근거를 제공하였다. 이를 통해 향후 각각의 도시 여건에 맞는 실제 정책 수립에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.113-125
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• 1984

Water supply has been mainly dependent on the construction of the dams in Korea. It is difficult, however, to continue to construct dams for many reasons, such as the decrease of construction sites, the increase of construction costs, the compensation of residents in flooded areas, and the environmental effects. Water demands have increased and are expected to continue increasing due to the concentration of people in the cities, the rise of the living standard, and rapid industrial growth. It is acutely important to find countermeasures such as development of ground water, desalination, and recycling of waste water to cope with increasing water demands. Recycling waste water includes all means of supplying non-potable water for their respective usages with proper water quality which is not the same quality as potable water. The usages of the recycled water include toilet flushing, air conditioning, car washing, yard watering, road cleaning, park sprinkling, and fire fighting, etc. Raw water for recycling is obtained from drainage water from buildings, toilets, and cooling towers, treated waste water, polluted rivers, ground water, reinfall, etc. The water quantity must be considered as well as its quality in selecting raw water for the recycling. The types of recycling may be classified roughly into closed recycle systems and open recycle systems, which can be further subdivided into individual recycle systems, regional recycle systems and large scale recycle system. The treatment methods of wastewater combine biochemical and physiochemical methods. The former includes activated sludge treatment, bio-disc treatment, and contact aeration treatment, and the latter contains sedimentation, sand filtration, activated carbon adsorption, ozone treatment, chlorination, and membrane filter. The recycling patterns in other countries were investigated and the effects of the recycling were divided into direct and indirect effects. The problems of water reuse in recycle patterns were also studied. The problems include technological, sanitary, and operational problems as well as cost and legislative ones. The duties of installation and administrative organization, structural standards for reuse of water, maintenance and financial disposal were also studied.