• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.73-78
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• 1999

Acid mine drainage (AMD) results from sulfuric acid produced by the oxidation of pyrite, and contains large amounts of toxic elements. In the neutralization of AMD, iron and aluminum hydroxides are the major precipitates and those two can be separated with two-phase neutralization. In this study, removal of toxic elements by the two phases of neutralization was investigated using an AMD collected from the abandoned antimony mine in Gachang, Taegu. Contents of As, Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb and Zn in the AMD were higher than the criteria of river water quality or permissible waste water discharge. In the first phase, the AMD was neutralized to several % (25, 50, 75, 100, and 125) of $Fe(OH)_3$ equivalence point with solid $Ca(OH)_2$. In the second phase, the supernatant of the first phase neutralization was titrated to pH 7.5. After neutralization of the AMD to 100% of the $Fe(OH)_3$, equivalence point, most of Fe and Pb were removed but levels of As, Cd, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Zn were not reduced in the supernatant solution. In the second phase neutralization, levels of those toxic elements in the supernatants dropped below the wastewater discharge or river water quality criteria. This result suggests that the precipitate formed in the first phase of the neutralization process may be disposed without any special cares. Thus the two-phase neutralization scheme can reduce the cost of disposing precipitates containing toxic metals in comparison with the monophase neutralization scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.88-91
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• 1996

본 연구에서는 전기화학적 정화방법인 electrokinetic 정화기술을 이용하여 오염된 토양내에서 중금속을 제거하는 방안을 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 납을 혼합하여 오염시킨 점토시료에 대하여 정화가동시간, 공급전류, 오염농도를 다르게 하고 3가지의 향상기법을 적용시켜 정화실험을 실시하였다. 실험결과를 토대로 유입수 및 유출수의 PH, 오염토의 PH, 전기포텐셜, 유출수량, 전기 전도도 등 오염토의 물리화학적 성질변화를 구명하고 정화가동조건 및 향상기법적용에 따른 오염토내의 납 제거효과를 파악하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 electrokinetic 정화기술은 투수성이 낫은 점성토 토양내의 중금속을 제거하는데 매우 효과적인 것으로 판명되었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.480-486
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• 1994

The present series of investigations have been undertaken to know the effective removal method of some pesticides, heavy metals and detergent when the doses of oxidants and coagulant were changed in the treatment process of drinking water containing organic material. Three pesticides, IBP, diazinon and CNP, were removed by about 68 to 100% by treatment of oxidant, $Cl_2$. Especially, diazinon was completely removed by treatment of $Cl_2$ and other oxidants such as $Cl_2,\;KMnO_4\;and\;O_3$. However, butachlor removal measured only 20.3 to 26.7% due to treatment of all oxidant used. A detergent, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, was effectively removed by treatment of $O_3$ but remained stable in the presence of other oxidants. The heavy metals of Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn in water were not affected by treatment of all oxidants used. By changing the concentration of humic matter and the dosage of coagulant, the removal of heavy metals was increased according to the increase of coagulant dosage, and decreased when increasing the concentration of humic matter, whereas the pesticides and detergent were not effectively removed.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.119-124
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• 2013

Generally, the characteristic of nanofiltration membranes were catagorized into charged membrane, sieve effect, interaction between membarnes and target solutes. This study aims to investigate the effect item of heavy metal separation with view of charge nanofiltration membranes. The experiments of nanofiltration were conducted by nanofiltration set-up with operational pressure of 0.24 MPa at $25^{\circ}C$ by using synthetic wastewater containing 0.1mg/L of Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Sn, Pb. Nanofiltration membranes rejected heavy metals much better than chloride, sulfate and TOC, of which concentration in synthetic wastewater was higher than that of heavy metals. To consider rejection characteristics of various metals by nanofiltration membranes, separation coefficient, which is the molar conductivity ratio of the metal permeation rate to the chloride ion or TOC permeation rate, was introduced. In spite of different materials and different nominal salt rejection of nanofiltration membrane used, the separation coefficients of metals were nearly the same. These phenomena were observed in the relationship between the molar conductivity and the separation coefficient for heavy metals.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 2008

To find the optimum growth and metal removal condition of isolated strain LH2, effects of the environmental factors such as medium pH, growth temperature, and metal concentrations were investigated. Based on the 18S rDNA analysis, the isolated strain was identified to Exophiala sp. with 100% homology. Isolated strain Exophiala sp. LH2 showed maximum removal efficiency of metals at the shaking conditions of pH 7 and $25^{\circ}C$. When the concentration of metal was under 200ppm, the specific metal removal velocity at pH 7 increased from 0.01 to 4.43 mg-metal $L^{-1}{\cdot}d^{-1}{\cdot}mg{\cdot}DCW^{-1}$ as the concentration of metal increased from 10 ppm to 200 ppm. When 200 ppm of each metal was contained in the culture medium adjusted with pH 7, metal removal efficiencies Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were 99.28%, 97.67%, 91.94%, 99.77%, 99.61%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.297-302
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• 2003

고압증기멸균을 통해서 변형된 키토산을 FT-IR로 분석해 봤을 때, 기존의 키토산의 형태를 유지하고 있음을 알수가 있었고 분자량을 변화 시킨 키토산을 기존의 키토산과 납 흡착실험을 통해서 제거능 비교해 볼 때 15 min > 30 min > 10 min > 5min > 60 min > 0 min 순으로 나타났다 이로써 시간별로 autoclaving처리하여 분자량을 변화시킨 키토산의 제거율이 높음을 알 수가 있었다. 그 중에서도 15 min 동안 autoclaving처리하는 것이 가장 적당한 것으로 알 수가 있었다. 중금속 제거 전후의 키토산을 SAM과 TEM을 통해서 관찰해 보았다. SAM의 경우 autoclaving처리하지 않은 키토산의 표면보다는 autoclaving처리한 키토산의 표면에 보다 많은 기공이 생겨났음을 알 수 있었으며 그로 인해서 납 중금속이 보다 많이 흡착되어 있음을 알 수가 있었다. TEM의 결과로 봤을 때 높은 고압과 온도에 의해서 키토산 고유의 물결무늬가 사라졌음을 알 수가 있었다. 납 중금속이 내부에는 흡착이 이루어지지 않고 외부에 흡착이 이루어 진 것을 볼 수가 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.84-85
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• 1994

본 연구는 수용상에 포함된 중금속이온중 에멀젼 액막법(Emulsion Liquid Membranes, ELM)을 이용하여 납이온을 제거시키기 위한 연구이다. 지금까지 수용액상의 중금속 이온의 제거는 전통적으로 이온 침전법을 사용하여 왔다. 그러나 이 방법은 스럿지 처리문제가 남아 있고 식수로 이용되는 수처리에는 식수기준 만족도 때문데 적합하지 않았다. ELM법에 의한 금속이온 제거처리는 전기도금에 의하여 중금속이온을 회수할 수 있고 고도의 수처리를 가능케하여 최근 많은 관심을 갖고 있다. 본 연구에서는 납 이온 추출제로서 D2EPHA와 Alamine336의 이온교환제를 사용하여, 이 씨스테므이 추출 평형자료를 구하고 pH, 추출제의 농도, 교반속도, 에멀젼비율등에 의한 추출효과등을 검토하였다. 또한 2단계 추출 방법을 사용하여 금속이온추출에서 가장 큰 문제점인 유기상 용액의 leakage를 해결하고자 하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.1072-1080
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• 2005

The extraction characteristics of heavy metals(HM) from a contaminated soil at existing lead smelters were investigated with ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid(EDTA), citrate and HCl as washing solutions. EDTA was more effective for Pb than for other heavy metals. As the mol ratio of EDTA/HM increased, the removal efficiency of heavy metals became higher. When the mol ratio of EDTA/HM approached to 6.5, it removed Pb most effectively. Citrate was effective especially in extracting Zn. The removal efficiency of HCl was comparatively high in almost all heavy metals, and at 0.3N concentration it was the highest. After soil washing process by the use of EDTA, the great part of exchangeable fractions and most of heavy metals of weakly adsorbed like carbonate fraction were extracted. For washing with citrate and HCl, four heavy metals showed the similar exchange of chemical partitioning and the exchangeable fractions of Pb which has weakly adsorbed to soil were more increased than before the process. As removal efficiency of citrate washing process depends upon the distribution of non-detrital fractions, so it can be contended that only the amount of non-detrital fractions could be removed from all the heavy metal content. EDTA and HCl could remove most of non-residual fractions in all heavy metals except Zn. As a result of EDTA washing, toxicity characteristic leaching procedure(TCLP) concentration of the processed soil met the USEPA Pb limit of 5.0 mg/L.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.38 no.3 s.172
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• pp.273-284
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• 2005

Coagulation and precipitation process by using lime$(Ca(OH)_2)$ and calcium carbonate $(CaCO_3)$ were applied to remove heavy metals from groundwater in laboratory scale. From results of batch tests, by the addition of $0.3\;wt.\%$ lime, more than $90\%$ of As and Mn were removed and $70-80\%$ of Cd and Zn were removed by using $0.5\;wt.\%$ of lime. Removal efficiency of Pb almost reached $100\%$ with only $0.1\;wt.\%$ of calcium carbonate and more than $93\%$ of Cd were removed by the addition of $0.1\;wt.\%$of calcium carbonate. Pilot scale column experiments were performed to remove heavy metals in the separation process of precipitated Hoc to supernatant after the coagulation/ precipitation. For lime as a coagulant, more than $99\%$of As were removed from artificial groundwater and removal efficiencies of Cd, Mn, and Zn were over $80\%$. By using calcium carbonate, more than $95\%$ of Cd and Pb were removed in column experiment. Fe and Mn contaminated groundwater taken from a real landfill site, Ulsan was used for the column experiment and more than $99\%$ of Fe and Mn were removed by the addition of $1\;wt.\%$ lime in column experiment, suggesting that the coagulation/precipitation process by using lime and calcium carbonate have a great possibility to remove heavy metals from contaminated groundwater.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.454-459
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• 2009

In this paper, we have performed an experimental study to simultaneously remove humic acid (RA) and heavy metals (Cu, Mn, and Zn) from the river water using potassium ferrate(VI), a multi-purpose and environment-friendly chemical. In the experiments for treating three 0.1 mM single heavy metals using 0.03${\sim}$0.7 mM (as Fe) ferrate, the removal efficiencies ranged 28${\sim}$99% for Cu, 22${\sim}$73% for Mn, and 18${\sim}$100% for Zn. In addition, humic acid and heavy metals could be very efficiently removed at the same time using 0.03${\sim}$0.7 mM (as Fe) ferrate: for example, 49${\sim}$81% (humic acid), 93${\sim}$100% (Cu), 22${\sim}$86% (Mn), and 20${\sim}$100% (Zn). The removal efficiencies of humic acid and heavy metals in the mixture of humic acid and heavy metals were higher than that in the solution of single humic acid or heavy metal. It can be explained by the fact that, before adding ferrate to the mixed solution, part of solutes were already removed by the complexation between the negatively-charged functional groups of humic acid and heavy metal cations.