• Resources Recycling
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2018

This study aimed to investigate the effects of mechanical factors such as agitation speed and air rate in fly ash flotation. Specifically, we used thermal power plant fly ash with unburned carbon content of 3.4 to 3.7%. The effect of pH, agitation speed, collector dosage, and frother dosage - the key factors of froth flotation - showed unburned carbon recovery and unburned carbon content of 63% and 34%, respectively, when the dosage of safflower oil used as collector was 800 g/ton, pH was 7, agitation speed was 1,200 rpm, and frother dosage was 400 g/ton. The SEM/EDS analysis of fly ash in that case indicated that the spherical fly ash particles lowered the unburned carbon content as they floated with the air bubbles without being dissolved in the unburned carbon or settled in the ore solution. The other experiment of changing the mechanical factors such as agitation speed and air rate resulted in unburned carbon recovery and unburned carbon content of 74% and 67%, respectively, at air rate of 8 L/min and agitation speed of 900 rpm. The recovery and unburned carbon content increased as the low agitation speed and additional air injection decreased the strength of the eddy current in the ore solution and consequently prevented the floating of fine fly ash particles with unburned carbon. In addition, the recovery rate and unburned carbon increased further to 80% and 70%, respectively, showing the best performance when the agitation speed and air rate were lowered to 800 rpm and 6 L/min, respectively.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.15-27
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• 2020

Microplastics are recognized as critical and serious environmental problem in worldwide. Plastics are inexpensive, lightweight, excellent in processability, and various in material-specific properties. Along industrial development, the production and disposal amount of plastics are also rapidly increasing. In particular, abundant plastic wastes are eventually disposed into marine environment with harmful impacts on the ecosystem. Therefore, lots of relevant studies were recently progressed in various fields. However, many studies are being just conducted due to its difficulty in applying a general treatment method for those small particle sizes and their various characteristics. In the meantime, lots of researches are being conducted on applying methods using physical properties such as specific gravity, magnetic, and electrostatic separation, which are beneficiation processes of minerals. However, since it is still in the laboratory stage, the development of larger scale separation technology for efficient treatment is urgent.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.417-423
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• 2016

The effect of the glue solution were investigated in the grinding and elutriation process for manufacturing of White clay pigment. In grinding process, glue solution decreased the production of a too fine powder and enhanced the degree of sorting of ground pigments. The grinding performance and limit are generally influenced by the frictional force. Therefore, the friction force was measured in accordance with the grinding conditions. As a result of measuring a friction force, when using glue solution it showed the lowest friction. Finally, the application of glue solution in grinding process is believed to enhance the degree of sorting of ground pigments by reducing frictional force. In elutriation process, the application of glue solution enabled the screening of larger particles in the same conditions by reducing the sedimentation velocity. This result is due to increase in the viscosity of the glue solution according to glue concentration. As a result, the application of glue solution in elutriation process is though to enlarges the range of the selectable particle size and to enable the segmentation of the particles.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.163.1-163.1
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• 2013

플라즈마 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 전에 현 컴퓨터의 계산 능력범위 내에서 물리적으로 타당하게 설명할 수 있는 수치 해석 방법을 먼저 정한다. 예를 들면, 가스 반응이 많고 각 가스 반응 중에 중요가스 반응을 빠르고 선택적으로 선별하고자 할 때, 혹은 외부 입력 변화에 따른 플라즈마 종의 온도 또는 밀도를 대략적으로 파악하고자 할 때는 공간적인 분포를 고려하지 않는 0차원 global 모델링을 이용한다. 압력이 높고 충돌이 빈번한 경우에는 플라즈마를 유체적인 관점에서 기술이 가능하므로, 볼츠만 방정식에서 속도에 관한 0차, 1차, 2차 모멘텀을 이용하여 유도된 유체 방정식을 이용한다. 반대로 압력이 낮고 충돌이 거의 없는 경우에는 플라즈마 입자를 개별적으로 추적하는 입자 전산 모사 방법을 이용한다. 지금까지는 앞에서 언급한 예와 같이, 개별 플라즈마 상태에 맞는 시뮬레이션 코드를 각각 만들어야 했고, 각 코드를 개별적으로 유지 보수해야 했다. 하지만, 개별적으로 코드를 유지 보수를 해야 할 경우에는, 동일한 기능을 하는 함수를 반복적으로 각 코드에 입력해야 하는 불편함이 따르고, 각 수치해석 방법의 장점을 모은 하이브리드 방법과 같은 전사모사를 개발할 때 각 기능을 통합해야 하는 어려움이 따른다. 또한 지금까지 개발된 대부분의 플라즈마 코드는 외부 입력에 대해 유연하지 못한 대처로 새로운 가스 반응을 추가하거나 새로운 수치해석 방법을 추가할 경우에는 코드를 전체적으로 수정해야 하는 어려움이 있었다. 따라서 코드를 통합적으로 관리할 수 있고, 외부 입력에 대해 유연하게 대처할 수 있는 시뮬레이터가 필요했다. 여기에서는 객체 지향 언어인 C++ 언어를 이용하여, 사용자 입력에 대해 유연하게 대처할 수 있고, 복잡한 화학 반응을 특정 수치 해석 방법에 상관없이 통합적으로 관리할 수 있는 코드를 개발하였다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.36-44
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• 2000

Fly ash was composed of the unburned carbon and mineral particles. The former was able to attach on the bubbles, while the latter was not. Therefore, it was possible to separate the unburned carbon and the mineral from fly ash using the froth flotation process. This study was carried out to evaluate the separation efficiency as a function of the ny ash particle properties in the column flotation. Separation efficiency was analyzed for various size fraction of -38 fm,38~125 fm and 1125 W, and for various fly ash samples containing 7, 11, and 20 wt% unburned carbon. For the size fractions of -38 fm containing 7 wt% unburned carbon, separation efficiency was 86ft, whereas separation efficiency was found to be 74% for the size fraction of +125$\mu\textrm{m}$ containing 20 wt% unburned carbon. The results indicated that separation efficiency increased with the decrease in the particle size and the unburned carbon content of the fly ash.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.555-562
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• 2019

This study was undertaken to develop a stable self-microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) for trans-cinnamaldehyde, a known antibacterial and antifungal agent. A simultaneous analytical method was established for quantification of trans-cinnamaldehyde and its degradant, cinnamic acid. Various surfactants were applied to assess their effect on the aqueous solubility of trans-cinnamaldehyde, and pseudo-ternary phase diagrams were plotted. Of the various formulations tested, the liquid SMEDDS composed of trans-cinnamaldehyde (oil), Cremophor EL (surfactant) and Transcutol P (cosurfactant) at a volume ratio of 10/70/20, produced the smallest emulsion droplet size (around 23 nm). The stability test determined the superior stability of the trans-cinnamaldehyde SMEDDS with constant trans-cinnamaldehyde content and z-average diameter of emulsion, under accelerated and heat stressed condition. Thus, we believe that this novel trans-cinnamaldehyde SMEDDS formulation has the potential to be applied for the development of trans-cinnamaldehyde medicines in the pharmaceutical industry.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.235-242
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• 2010

Froth flotation using the residual water in the end of flotation process has been performed through controlling of pH. IEP (isoelectric point) of molybdenite and quartz in distilled water was below pH 3 and pH 2.7, respectively and the stabilized range was pH 5~10. In case of a suspension in reusing water, zeta potential of molybdenite decreased to below -10 mV or less at over pH 4 due to residual flocculants. As result of pH control, flotation efficiency in the alkaline conditions was deteriorated by flocculation, resulting from expanded polymer chain, ion bridge of the divalent metal cations ($Ca^{2+}$), and hydrophobic interactions between the nonpolar site of polymer/the hydrophobic areas of the particle surfaces. However, the weak acid conditions (pH 5.5~6) improved the efficiency of flotation as hydrogen ions neutralize polymer chains and then weakened its function. In cleans after rougher flotation, the Mo grade of 52.7% and recovery of 90.1% could be successfully obtained under the conditions of 20 g/t kerosene, 50 g/t AF65, 300 g/t $Na_2SiO_3$, pH 5.5 and 2 cleaning times. Hence, we developed a technique which can continuously supply waste water filtered from tailings into the grinding-rougher-cleaning processes.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.48-56
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• 2024

In this study, physical property evaluation and physical separation of the target product were performed to investigate the possibility of using sewage sludge gasification solid residue (GSRs) as a circulating resource. Firstly, the GSRs used in this study was supplied by Sudokwon Landfill Management Corporation, and generally the GSRs was in the form of porous pellets with a particle size of several millimetres. In addition, the partially black areas were confirmed to be unburned and ungasified carbon, and the average carbon content was 5%. In addition, the content of silica, alumina and phosphorus oxide was more than 70% of the total content. It was confirmed that the metallic components of the wet grinding product were separated into individual elements. As a physical separation of metallic and non-metallic components was required, it was finally found that flotation screening was suitable. Accordingly, cationic and anionic surfactants were selected to separate metallic components in which a relatively large amount of non-metallic components were concentrated, and the separation characteristics were confirmed. As a result, it is expected that the concentration of non-metallic components such as silica, alumina and phosphorus will be easier than the separation of metallic components. Therefore, since it is possible to physically treat the gasified sludge residue, it is judged to have potential as a circular resource according to the proposed recycling method for the separated product.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.148-148
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• 2003

질석(vermiculite)을 출발물질로 하여 30$0^{\circ}C$에서 4시간 열처리하여 습식분쇄하고 325mesh 이하의 입자를 선별하여 수열조건에서 양이온 계면활성제인 hexadecyl trimethylammonium bromide (C$_{16}$TABr)를 층간 삽입시켜 유기화 질석을 제조하였다. 생성물을 XRD, TGA, FT-IR 등을 이용하여 분석하였고, 합성 및 층간 삽입조건을 조사하였다. 질석에 $C_{16}$TABr를 층간 삽입을 확인하기 위하여 XRD 분석 결과 d-spacing 값이 9.6$\AA$에서 33.5$\AA$으로 증가됨을 확인하였고, 열중량 시험결과 출발물질과 비교하여 유기화 질석은 25%감량이 확인되었다. 위 결과 값으로부터 질석의 유기화 처리로 인하여 층간 간격이 확장되었음을 확인하였다. 일반적으로 층간 간격이 넓을수록 고분자가 층 사이에 보다 쉽게 삽입될 수 있으며 고분자 매트릭스 안에서 층상화합물의 분산 및 박리가 용이해진다. 따라서 본 연구 결과로부터 합성된 유기화 질석은 고분자 나노복합재로 사용 가능성을 제시하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.375-376
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 폐전선 피복플라스틱의 재활용을 위해 마찰하전형 정전선별법을 이용하여 PVC와 rubber의 재질분리 실험을 수행하였다. 하전물질의 종류에 따른 실험결과 PVC와 Rubber의 중간 일함수 값을 갖고 있는 PP 재질이 가장 효과적이었으며, 단일 시료보다PVC와 Rubber의 혼합조건에서 더 높은 하전 값을 나타내었다. 하전특성 실험결과 공기량은 10.28wt/s 이상 그리고 상대습도는 40% 이하의 조건에서 입자의 높은 하전량을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다. 분리특성 실험결과 전압세기가 25kv 이상 그리고 분리대의 위치는 전기장의 중앙(0)으로부터 Negative 전극으로 -lcm 이동한 지점으로, 이때 PVC의 품위와 회수율을 각각 99.5%와 95%인 결과를 얻었다.