• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.103-114
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• 2002

Knowledge of soil water retention characteristic is essential for many problems involving water flow and organic solute transport in unsaturated soils. A physico-empirical approach based on the translation of the particle-size distribution (PSD) into a corresponding water retention curve has been accomplished by others using the concept that the pore-size distribution is directly related to PSD. This approach implies that details of a PSD curve may affect the estimation of water retention characteristic (WRC). To determine whether the WRC estimation using the Arya-Paris model could be affected by the selection of a PSD model, four PSD models with one to four fitting parameters were used. The Jaky model with only one fitting parameter had greater WRC estimation ability than other models with greater number of fitting parameters. The better performance of the Jaky model may be explained by the effect of soil structure in field soils.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.35-48
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• 2016

A micromodel was applied to estimate the effects of geological conditions and injection methods on displacement of resident porewater by injecting scCO₂ in the pore scale. Binary images from image analysis were used to distinguish scCO₂-filled-pores from other pore structure. CO₂ flooding followed by porewater displacement, fingering migration, preferential flow and bypassing were observed during scCO₂ injection experiments. Effects of pressure, temperature, salinity, flow rate, and injection methods on storage efficiency in micromodels were represented and examined in terms of areal displacement efficiency. The measurements revealed that the areal displacement efficiency at equilibrium decreases as the salinity increases, whereas it increases as the pressure and temperature increases. It may result from that the overburden pressure and porewater salinity can affect the CO₂ solubility in water and the hydrophilicity of silica surfaces, while the neighboring temperature has a significant effect on viscosity of scCO₂. Increased flow rate could create more preferential flow paths and decrease the areal displacement efficiency. Compared to the continuous injection of scCO₂, the pulse-type injection reduced the probability for occurrence of fingering, subsequently preferential flow paths, and recorded higher areal displacement efficiency. More detailed explanation may need further studies based on closer experimental observations.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2010

The spheric sintered body with $6{\pm}2mm$ diameter was manufactured in a rotary kiln at $1125^{\circ}C$/15 min using green body formed by pelletizing the batch powder composing of coal bottom ash produced from power plant and dredged soil by 70:30, wt%. And the physical properties of sintered body (BD) were analyzed to confirm the possibility for applying to an absorbent to restore a contaminated soil. The sintered body had a giant pore above 100 ${\mu}m$ and a fine pore below 10 ${\mu}m$, and bulk density was 1.4. Also its specific surface area, porosity and void proportion were $12.0m^2/g$, 30.1% and 38.2% respectively. The crushed body (BD-C), produced by crushing a BD specimen into an irregular shape with a aspect ratio of about 2, was similar to BD specimen at bulk density and pore size distribution. But it had superior values of specific surface area, porosity and void proportion compared with BD specimen owing to a decreased apparent volume due to conversion of closed pore existed at interior of BD to open pore during a crushing process. The IEP of sintered body occurred at about pH=5, so the optimum pH condition of reacting aqueous solution could be known before bonding a microbe to the sintered body. Hence, the optimum void proportion and porosity of an absorbent can be obtained by appropriate mixing a BD with BD-C from the base data calculated in this study.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2013

The radioactive gas radon ($^{222}Rn$), which is generated from the decay process of uranium ($^{238}U$) originating from the soil of more than 85 percent higher the porosity of the soil, the soil can radiate out the possibility that many isotopes. In order to protect the human body from radon, above all, the development of accurate measurement techniques to formulate appropriate measures should be followed. This study Gamma-ray spectrometry using a high purity germanium (HPGe) detector, if you want to measure radon unstable the nature radiation of the background problems can be reduced, radium and radon daughter nuclides after radioactive equilibrium leads to Radon concentration was measured, the soil samples from the Gamma-ray emitting nuclides, and the energy spectrum is analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.557-558
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• 2008

본 연구는 괴산군을 대상으로 잠재식생군락과 군락별 식생기반을 평가하였다. 군락은 8개로 분류되었으며, 토양경도는 7.5mm$\sim$24.3mm, pH는 5.11$\sim$6.68, EC는 3.24dS/m$\sim$7.13 dS/m, 공극률은 16.90%$\sim$56.57%, 칼륨은 0.58cmol/kg$\sim$8.20cmol/kg, 칼슘은 0.12cmol/kg$\sim$1.21cmol/kg, 마그네슘은 0.05cmol/kg$\sim$1.07cmol/kg의 범위로 나타났다. 이러한 자연식생의 토양환경 데이터는 향후 중부지방 조경식재시 식생기반 조성에 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.286-286
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• 2011

강원도 평창군 대관령면 횡계리에 위치한 고랭지 밭 2개소를 2009년 3월부 2009년 12월까지 유출이 발생한 강우사상에 대하여 모니터링하고, 유출량을 비교하였다. 모니터링 지점 A에는 콘크리트 배수로가 설치되어있어 밭에서 발생한 강우유출수가 유입되면 빠르게 하천으로 배수되기 때문에 17.2 mm ~ 36.2 mm의 강우에도 유출이 발생하였다. 모니터링 지점 B는 콘크리트 배수로로 유입되기 전 자연(흙) 배수로가 존재하기 때문에 밭에서 발생한 강우유출수가 자연(흙)배수로로 침투되어 적은 강우에서는 유출이 발생하지 않고, 60 mm 이상의 강우에서만 유출이 발생하였다. 특히 7월 9일 발생한 강우에 의하여 모니터링 지점 B의 자연(흙) 배수로가 토사로 메워졌으며, 메워진 토사에 의해 자연(흙)배수로의 기능을 상실한 후부터 지속적으로 유출되었다. 이는 자연(흙) 배수로의 관리가 매우 중요하다는 점을 더욱 강조시키는 결과이며, 강우 발생 후 토사의 제거 등의 관리가 이루어졌다면 강우유출수와 비점오염물질의 유출이 더욱 감소하였을 것으로 판단된다. 자연(흙) 배수로는 식생에 의해 강우타격력과 유속이 작아지기 때문에 자연(흙)배수로의 공극이 막히는 현상이 줄어든다. 공극 막힘 현상이 줄어들면 토양 침투력이 보호되어 강우유출수가 저감된다. 강우유출수의 감소는 비점오염물질의 유출도 저감시킬 수 있는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 고랭지 밭 지역의 최적관리방안으로 무분별한 콘크리트 배수로의 설치보다는 자연(흙) 배수로의 유지와 관리에 초점이 맞추어져야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.140-145
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• 1997

The change of physico-chemical properties of paddy soil was monitored under different tillage. This study was conducted on Jeonbug silty cly loam, in Honam Agricultural Experiment Station, for four years starting from 1992. Different tillage involved (1)Continued no tillage, (2)Rotavation only with tractor every year, (3)Spring plowing with power tiller plus rotavation with tractor every year. The result of this study can be summarized as: Non tillage, when continued for some years, tended to increase 1)the hardness of soil, 2)the root density in the top soil, 3)the occurrence of annual and perennial weeds, and tended to lower the yield of rice compared to normal tillage(tilling with ow tiller in the spring plus rotavation by tractor before planting.

• Journal of Korea Soil Environment Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.35-54
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• 2001

It is difficult to accurately predict each flow rate of landfill gas and leachate extracted from many of wells, which have been completed into a waste landfill containing gas and water. However it may be approximately predicted if we can define only relative fluid permeability of gas and leachate flowing through landfill porous media. Therefore numerical simulation using multi-phase flow equations makes use of ei s input data of the relative permeability which is measured and calculated in laboratory environment like in-situ, and consequently we can quantitatively obtain each flow rate of gas and leachate from collection wells. These series of technologies can provide with the important informations to determine the success or failure of landfill gas energy and landfill stabilization. This paper analyses the characteristics of landfill gas collection by six classes of case studies for none described landfill.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 1984

This experiment has been made to find out the influence of soil bulk density on growth and root development of Populus alba ${\times}$ P. glandulosa in Buyeo-kun, Chungnam. Bulk density and porosity significantly change according to slope position and soil depth and have a significant effect on tree height, DBH, biomass, and the distribution of root development. The results extracted from the experiments are as follows; 1) Bulk density in average changes from $1.17g/cm^3$ (1.05 ~ 1.40) in lower slope position to $1.43g/cm^3$ (1.36 ~ 1.60) in upper slope position, and porosity from 52.65% (55.05 ~ 45.50) in lower slope position to 41.20% (43.81 ~ 37.21) in upper slope position. 2) Bulk density increases significantly with soil depth. 3) Tree height, DBH, and total biomass decrease with bulk density. 4) Foliage, branch, bolewood, bolebark, and root also significantly have a negative correlation with hulk density. 5) Populus alba ${\times}$ P. glandulosa has a shallow root system chiefly distributing only in AI horizon, and critical bulk density is $1.43g/cm^3$. Therefore, slope position, hulk density, and porosity are considered to influence on the growth, biomass, and root development of Populus alba ${\times}$ P. glandulosa.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.11-17
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• 2005

Characteristics of phenanthrene removal in the Electrokinetic (EK)-Fenton process were investigated in a 2-dimensional test cell in a viewpoint of the effect of gravity and electrosmotic flow (EOF). When the constant voltage of 100 V was applied to this system, the current decreased from 1,000 to 290 mA after 28 days, because soil resistance increased due to the exhaustion of ions in soil by electroosmosis and electromigration. Accumulated EOF in two cathode reservoirs was 10.3 L and the EOF rate was kept constant for 28 days. At the end of operation, the concentration of phenanthrene was observed to be very low near the anode and increased in the cathode region because hydrogen peroxide was supplied from anode to cathode region following the direction of EOP. Additionally, the concentration of phenanthrene decreased at the bottom of the test cell because the electrolyte solution containing hydrogen peroxide was largely transported toward the bottom due to a low capillary action in the soil with high porosity. Average removal efficiency of phenanthrene by EK-Fenton process was 81.4% for 28 days. In-situ EK-Fenton process would overcome the limitations of conventional remediation technologies and effectively remediate the contaminated sites.