• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.492-497
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• 2014

This study investigated removal characteristics of organic matters in pretreatment and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane processes for seawater desalination. Also, the influence of the changes in characteristics of organic matters on the membrane fouling was assessed. The pretreatment processes included dual media filtration (DMF), pressurized membrane filtration (MF), and submerged membrane filtration (SMF). Turbidity, UV absorption at 254 nm, dissolved organic carbon, size exclusion chromatography (SEC), fluorescence excitation emission matrix (FEEM), and transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in raw and processed waters were analyzed. Ions and minerals were not removed by any pretreatment process tested, but were removed over 99% through the RO membrane process. Hydrophobic organics, which can play major role in organic membrane fouling, were relatively readily removed compared with hydrophilic ones. Membrane based pretreatment such as MF and SMF exhibited better removals of organics than conventional DMF. As the levels of organics in pretreated water decreased, the silt density index (SDI) decreased. MF treated water exhibited the lowest SDI value; this is possibly due to the lowest TEP ($0.1-0.4{\mu}m$) concentrations.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.183-188
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• 2009

After membrane fouling factors in acrylic wastewater were minimized by pretreatment process accompanied with $TiO_2$, it was utilized in MF/UF/RO process. After composing of ultrafiltration/reverse osmosis or microfiltration/reverseosmosiss module set according to types and kinds of membrane, the separation characteristics were examined with the variation temperature and pressure using pretreated acrylic wastewater by membrane module sets. The permeate of ultrafiltration or microfiltration module was sent to reverse osmosis module. It was found that final permeate flux of reverse osmosis module in module set 2 (MWCO 200,000 UF+RO) was excellent. It was shown that the removal efficiency of TDS, T-N and COD was very low and was not dependent on the variation of temperature and pressure in UF and MF modules. From the above result, the removal efficiency of TDS, T-N and COD was very excellent in RO module. The removal efficiency of turbidity in UF and MF module was very high (> 99% removal efficiency). Final water quality of acrylic wastewater treated by the membrane module set was satisfied with effluent allowances limit and membrane module sets were ascertained to reuse wastewater.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.558-562
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• 2006

Filtration experiments were conducted to determine the characteristics of manganese removal in filtration using 4 different filter media including sand and manganese sand(MS). Filtration velocity was 123 m/d and the flow rate was $3.9m^3/d$ per column. Duration of these experiments was about one year, and manganese dioxide accumulation, turbidity removal, manganese removal, and organic material removal were examined depending on filter media. When filter influent(residual chlorine 1.0 mg/L) with an average manganese concentration of 0.208 mg/L was fed through a filter column, the sand+MS and MS columns removed 98.9% and 99.2% of manganese respectively on an annual basis. When there is need to replace the sand filters with a MS filter to remove manganese, it was shown that the replacement of a partial sand filter with MS had adequate manganese removal.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.220-229
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• 2000

Deionized water and wastewater flux were discussed using module set 1-7 composed of ultrafiltration hollow fiber type modules and reverse osmosis spiral wound type modules. The separation characteristics of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membranes were discussed with the variation of applied pressure and temperature. Turbidity and SS were removed effectively from ultrafiltration mem¬brane, and removal efficiency of COD, T-N, and TDS using reverse osmosis membrane was very efficient. Permeate flux increased linearly with the increase of applied pressures and temperature. It was shown that ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membranes were suitable Lo the advanced treatment and reuse of oil refinery process effluent.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.495-504
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• 2017

An amphibious scrubbing/suction dredging machine with cylindrical rotating brush, housing, and turbidity barrier was newly-developed to remove both sediments with about 10 cm thickness and periphyton attached on various structures in urban water-circulating systems through the scrubbing, suction, and dredging processes. Based on the field application and long-term monitoring, the increase in both suspended solids (SS) and turbidity of water during the scrubbing, suction, and dredging processes was negligible (p>0.05). In some cases, the turbidity of water initially increased, however, the turbidity was stabilized within 20 minutes from the start of dredging processes. The concentration changes in TN and TP of water were not statistically different (p>0.05) before and after the scrubbing, suction, and dredging processes, indicating that benthic nutrients released from sediments were not significantly diffused, and were not supposed to cause significant water pollution. Also, water treatment facilities along with an amphibious scrubbing/suction dredging machine could be more effective since the removal of contaminant loadings through the scrubbing, suction, and dredging processes was much greater than that through simple coagulation/precipitation processes. Finally, GPS-based realtime tracking and operation program have been developed and applied in various urban water-circulating systems, and development of driver cooperative autonomous driving system is in progress to eliminate the need for manual driving of an amphibious scrubbing/suction dredging machine.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.185-192
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• 1999

The ultrafiltration characteristics of wafer processing wastewater produced from semicon¬ductor industry was investigated for wastewater reuse. Using the pilot-scale ultrafiltration system con¬taining poly sulfone hollow fiber membranes (MWCO : 10,000, 20,000, 30,(00), the membrane performance, such as flux, rejection rate and concentration factor for flux was examined. The SDhs, turbidity, electrical conductivity and concentration of Si particles were measured, and the possibility of permeate reuse was validated from the experimental results. It was shown that the flux was recovered by the sweeping with air and water effectively. The permeate flux of 30,000 MWCO membrane was about 5 times higher than that of 10,000 and 20,000 MWCO membranes. The concentration of Si particle in the saw wastewater was analyzed 3.8-5.6 mg/$\ell$ and that of Si particle in the permeate was analyzed less than 0.2${\mu}g$/$\ell$. This means the rejection of silicon particle was over 96%.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2013

Aloe gel microcapsule was prepared by dehydrating dispersed aloe gel droplets in the form of W/O emulsion using a vacuum evaporator. The microcapsules remained in stable suspensions after washing with mineral oil and had a homogeneous spherical structure with diameter less than 6.4 ${\mu}m$. The microcapsule suspension in mineral oil (> 41%) exhibited a step increase in viscosity and shear-thinning but not showed thixotropic behavior with a yield stress higher than 300 Pa. The dense suspension appeared to be semi-solid as the microcapsule fraction increases and to be stable after heat treatment at $105^{\circ}C$ for 15 min. In conclusion, the dense suspension composed of gel microcapsules is expected to provide a basic cosmetic formulation that can be applied to develop various types of aloe gel cosmetic products.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.551-555
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• 2015

본 연구는 수체 내 오염물질을 직접적으로 처리할 수 있는 친자연형 소재와 생물을 통한 처리의 다양한 기술 및 공법 중 식생을 이용한 수질의 정화효율에 대해 조사 하였다. 사용된 식생은 환경부 '하천식물자료집'을 바탕으로 수질정화능력이 있고 다년생으로 안정적인 생육특성을 갖는 식생으로 노랑꽃창포, 부들, 수크령, 질경이택사, 창포를 선정하여 약 13 L 크기의 원통형 반응조내에서 실험을 진행하였다. 선별된 식생들은 물가에 서식하는 식물로 15 cm 마사토를 식재 기반으로 하여 반침수 조건으로 실험을 진행하였다. 유입수는 경기도 용인시 기흥구에 위치한 기흥저수지 샘플과 경기도 화성시에 위치한 황구지천 샘플 혼합액 7 L를 주입하여 유입수 대비 유출수의 COD, T-N, T-P에 대한 저감 효율을 검토하였다. 노랑꽃 창포와 창포의 경우 침수된 부분에 플럭이 발생하여 투명도가 낮은 것으로 확인되었고, 수크령과 질경이택사의 경우 노랑꽃 창포와 창포에 비해 플럭의 발생은 적었지만 투명도는 비교적 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 특히 부들은 다른 식생에 비해 성장이 왕성한 것을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 수체의 탁도 또한 매우 낮아 투명한 것으로 확인되었다. 실험 종료 시점에는 창포의 경우 수체 내에서 잎 자체가 분해되어 식재기반 상부가 검정색으로 혐기화 된 것으로 나타났고, 부들의 경우 플럭이 약간 형성되었으나 투명도가 좋고 성장이 왕성한 특징을 나타내었다. 부들의 경우 COD, T-P의 평균 제거효율이 각각 47.1%, 46.0%로 조사되었고, 노랑꽃창포의 경우 T-N의 평균 제거효율이 63.9%로 선별 된 식생 중 가장 높게 조사되었다. 따라서 수질정화를 위한 공법으로는 부들과 노랑꽃창포가 적용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.522-529
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• 2016

Clean rice is useful to save time and labor force against washing rice in the household. Nevertheless the quality characteristics of the rice were not established well since the quality characteristics of the rice depend on types of the processing system. The aims of the current study were to understand the quality characteristics of clean rice prepared from the dry, semi-dry, and wet types of processing systems, and to suggest the appropriate processing system for production of clean rice. Here, we found that the quality of clean rice was improved with the increasing whiteness of rice by the dry type, although the whiteness of rice should be below 42 to satisfy 16.0 NTU of the turbidity for higher head rice ratio. Also, both the semi-dry and wet type systems showed higher ratio of head rice than the dry type system at below 16.0 NTU of the turbidity. These results imply that the wet type is more suitable for the place where rice is consumed fast, and the semi-dry type is more proper for long term storage of rice.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.531-538
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• 2007

The effects of temperature, coagulants and pre-chlorination on the removal of turbidity and pathogenic protozoa by coagulation process were investigated using jar test of lab scale. In room temperature ($25^{\circ}C$), protozoa were removed over 1.0log at the proper concentration range of coagulants, and up to over 2log at the optimal concentration of coagulants. Considering the 1.5log target removal for Giardiain the processes of coagulation, sedimentation, and filtration, this results implies that the target could be satisfied. However, the removal of protozoa and turbidity was reduced, and optimal PAC concentration was narrowed in low turbidity and cold temperature ($5^{\circ}C$). These results suggest that the drop of coagulation efficiency may be occurred in winter if the conditions are not optimized. Despite the effect of water temperature, the relation of turbidity and protozoa removal appeared to be good. The various kinds of coagulants did not significantly affected for removals of turbidity and protozoa when the concentrations of $Al_2O_3$ were considered. Prechlorination did not increase or decrease the removal of turbidity and protozoa in optimum condition at room temperature, pH 7, 15mg/L of PAC concentration.