• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.355-357
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 산생성효율의 최적 운전인자 도출을 위하여 중온 및 고온혐기성산발효공정에서의 유기물부하에 따른 산발효 효율을 비교 검토하였으며, 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 유기물 부하별로 고온과 중온 조건에서 실험을 진행했을 때 VFA생성과 pH변화를 비교했을 때, 고온 조건이 중온조건보다 더 높은 부하율에서 운전이 가능한 것으로 나타났으며, 생성되는 VFA의 농도도 더 높은 것으로 나타났으며, pH의 변화는 고온 조건에서 4.8$\sim$6.2, 중온 조건에서 5.8$\sim$6.7로 고온에서 중온보다 pH가 낮게 나타났다. 고온과 중온에서 유기물 부하별로 산발효시 생성된 유기산의 구성성분을 비교했을 때, 고온에서 생성된 유기산이 중온보다 acetic acid의 비율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 음식물찌꺼기 고온 산발효액의 성상에서 $SCOD_{Cr}$/TKN, $SCOD_{Cr}$/T-P이 각각 18.9, 73.4로 나타나 하수처리장에서 저부하 유기물 유입시에 탄소원으로 충분히 활용 가능한 것으로 판단된다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.41-48
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• 2011

Warm-mix asphalt(WMA) technology has been developed to allow asphalt mixtures to be produced and compacted at a significantly lower temperature. The WMA technology was identified as one of means to lower emissions for $CO_2$ and has been spread so quickly in the world. Recently, two innovative WMA additives has been developed to reduce mixing and paving temperatures applied in asphalt paving process in Korea. Since the first public demonstration project in 2008, many WMA projects have successfully been constructed in national highways. In 2010, the WMA field trial was conducted on new national highway construction under Dae-Jeon Regional Construction Management Administration. The two different WMA loose mixtures(WMA and WMA-P) and a HMA mixture were collected at the asphalt plant to evaluate their mechanical performance in the laboratory. The Third-scale Model Mobile Loading Simulator(MMLS3) was adopted to evaluate rutting resistance and moisture damage under different traffic and environmental conditions. In this study, plant-produced WMA mixtures using two WMA additives along with the conventional hot mix asphalt(HMA) mixtures were evaluated with respect to their rutting resistance and moisture susceptibility using MMLS3. Based on the limited laboratory test results, plant-produced WMA mixtures are superior to HMA mixtures in rutting resistance and the moisture susceptibility. The WMA additive was effective for producing and compacting the mixture at $30^{\circ}C$ lower than the temperature for the HMA mixture.

• 한국도로학회지:도로
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.26-33
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• 2009

본 특집기사는 미국 NCAT(National Center for Asphalt Technology)에서 실험한 보고서(Hurley 및 Prowell, Evaluation of Sasobit for Use in Warm Asphalt, 2005)를 정리한 것으로 아스팔트 중온포장에 대해 연구하는 사람들에게 어느 정도 도움을 주고자 일부 내용을 번역하였다. 특히, 골재와 바인더 믹싱 및 현장다짐시 온도를 낮추어 궁극적으로 $CO_2$를 저감하고자 하는 노력이 많은 아스팔트 포장관련 종사자 및 연구자들에 의해 활발히 수행되고 있다. 본 기사에서는 중온에서도 작업성을 원활하게 하기 위해 사용되는 많은 첨가제 중 Fischer-Tropsch 왁스인 Sasobit에 대해 살펴보고자 한다. 여기서 관심을 두고자 하는 점은 중온 아스팔트를 실제로 활용할 시 과연 일반 아스팔트 포장과 비교했을 때 어느 정도의 공용성(Performance)을 확보할 수 있느냐 하는 점이다. NCAT의 실내실험을 통해 알아낸 결과로는 진동다짐기를 이용하는 것이 보다 현실적이라는 것과 중온다짐에 따른 아스팔트의 동탄성 계수의 변화가 적다는 것이다. 또한 APA(Asphalt Pavement Analyzer)를 통해 소형변형의 가능성이 높지 않음을 알 수 있었으며, 중온 아스팔트를 사용함에 따른 일반적인 문제점인 수분민감성이 커지는 현상에 대해서 실험을 통해 검증한 결과, 박리방지제를 쓰는 것이 좋다는 결론을 얻었다. 전반적으로 Sasobit의 실내공용성 평가는 우수하다고 보고되고 있다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of low $CO_2$ asphalt binder properties using LEADCAP$^{(R)}$(Low Energy and Carbon Asphalt Pavement) additive as function of various aging methods such as RTFO(Rolling thin film oven), Ultraviolet(UV) lay. In order to simulate the short-term aging of asphalt binder that occurs during the hot-mixing asphalt process, the Rolling Thin Film Oven(RTFO) was used. Asphalt binder using LEADCAP$^{(R)}$ is prepared by addition of a photoinitiator activated by ultraviolet lay. The mechanical and rheological properties of the asphalt binder were estimated using UTM(Universal Testing Machine) and DSR(Dynamic Shear Rheometer). The test results showed that the asphalt binder using LEADCAP$^{(R)}$ additive was improved the rutting resistance at testing temperature ($70^{\circ}C$) and increased tensile strength at low temperature. Also, Thermal analysis shows that the Melting Point(Tm) of asphalt binder using LEADCAP$^{(R)}$ additive was constant although the asphalt binder was aged by Ultraviolet.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 1987

Comprehensive laboratory experiments including digestion failures were conducted to identify differences between mesophilic and thermophilic digestion. Critical HRT was found to be near 10days for mesophilic and near 5days for thermophilic digestion. Inhibition occurred rapidly when operated below critical HRT. However, inhibition at mesophilic condition was much greater than that at thermophilic condition. Although digester performances were similar above critical HRT of mesophilic digestion, thermophilic digestion was considerably advantageous below this HRT. Thermophilic digestion produced smaller amount of sludges which had significantly higher settling velocity and lower specific resistance. Reaction rates also clearly demonstrated temperature and HRT effects on digestion. It was also found that gas production rates increased linearly with increasing reaction rates regardless of temperature and their relationships were almost identical at mesophilic and thermophilic temperature.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.15-21
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• 2001

미활용에너지ㆍ대체에너지를 난방, 급탕 및 흡수식 열펌프의 열원으로서 효율적으로 이용하기 위해 필수적인 중온축열의 국내 연구개발 현황과 앞으로의 과제에 대해 고찰해 본다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2011

Warm-Mix Asphalt(WMA) mixtures, which meet environmental protection and have high energy efficiency, are emerging as an alternative to hot-mix asphalt mixtures. The objective of this study is to evaluate WMA made with Aspha-min in the laboratory and to compare the design results accomplished by new Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide(MEPDG) with control mixture. An asphalt mixture with a nominal maximum size of 12.5mm and PG64-28 binder was used. Resilient modulus tests for a control mixture and WMA with 0.3% and 0.5% of Aspha-min were conducted. The results obtained by MEPDG after inputting the test output into the design indicated that the predicted rut depth of WMA using Aspha-min was much lower than that of control mixture, and showed that WMA was more resistant to rutting than control mixture.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.6D
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• pp.803-810
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• 2011

The public interest of global warming and energy shortage is gradually increased, and the related industries also have become interested in developing eco-friendly material and technology. Warm-mix asphalt (WMA) is a result of the developments to alleviate global warming and energy problems. This WMA is produced at lower temperatures than the temperature at which hot mix asphalt (HMA) is produced. Because most tests in Superpave are developed only for the performance and maintenance of HMA produced by hot temperatures, it is difficult for the tests to identify properly the material properties and then evaluate the performances between HMA and WMA. This study deals with the development of a new protocol to differentiate HMA and WMA performance, and especially the interfacial properties between asphalt and aggregate are targeted as the performance indicator; thus, an evaluation method and guideline are suggested. The concept and idea of the test method applied in this study were modified from the DSR moisture damage test protocol. In addition, TSR test was performed to affirm the relation between the asphalt-aggregate interface and the asphalt-aggregate mixture performances. The followings are the results of this study. Shear stress at 85% linear visco-elastic complex modulus (LVE $G^*$) can be a better parameter than LVE $G^*$, which can assess the interfacial or bonding performance between asphalt and aggregate. Moreover, measuring the bonding performance in thinner film thicknesses will be a better way to evaluate the real and field situation between asphalt and aggregate. The interfacial properties' criteria to apply the newly developed test and parameter should be developed, after the asphalt mixture criteria relating to the interfacial properties are completed.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.581-586
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• 2017

In this study, in order to find the feasibility of thermophilic biological pre-treatment for the co-digestion of food wastewater and sewage sludge, digestion efficiency of the combined thermophilic aerobic and mesophilic anaerobic process and its effect on methane production were investigated. Also, a lab-scale co-digestion process was operated to observe parameter changes according to the increase of organic loading rates using different dilution ratios of distilled water and food wastewater (1/3 [Run I], 2/3 [Run II] in addition to using the raw food wastewater [Run III]). The results indicated that co-digestion process maintained quite stable and constant pH during entire experiments. With regard to VS removal, the higher removal was observed in the combined process and the removal efficiency was 52.24% (Run I), 66.59% (Run II) and 72.53 (Run III), respectively. In addition, the combined process showed about an 1.6-fold improved methane production rate and significantly higher methane yield than that of using single anaerobic digestion process.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.489-495
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• 2016

In this study, the Warm-Mix Asphalt was prepared using a modified Sulfur Binder mixed with an additive of a polymer component in sulfur, which is an industrial by-product generated in the crude oil refining process. The dynamic stability and durability characteristics of the prepared Warm-Mix Asphalt was evaluated by the indirect tensile strength, the tensile strength ratio before and after water immersion and freezing-thawing, and the dynamic stability by wheel tracking test. The Warm-Mix Asphalt Mixtures using Modified Sulfur Binder has a tensile strength ratio before and after water immersion of 0.88, which is about 1.13 times that of the Warm-Mix formed modified Asphalt, and the tensile strength ration before and after freezing-thawing is also 0.82, thus, all tensile strength ratios satisfied the KS quality standard value of 0.75 or more. The indirect tensile strength was 1.6MPa which was twice the KS quality standard value of 0.8MPa, and about 1.24 times higher than that of normal heated asphalt 1.29MPa. In addition, the dynamic stability by the wheel tracking test was 14,075 times/mm, which was about 15 times higher than that of normal heated asphalt and about 3 times higher than that of the Warm-Mix formed modified Asphalt, showing excellent resistance to plastic deformation such as fatigue cracks.