• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.223-226
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• 2009

In this study, we investigated the recovery of copper and synthetic fuel from the waste wire by low temperature pyrolysis which can overcome problems of the recent incineration methods. Through thermal decomposition process of waste wire, we achieved the big advantage of getting usable resources as the forms of copper and fuel with a very high value. The TG/DTA and small-scale reaction experiments were carried out to determine an optimum temperature for waste wire pyrolysis. And the pyrolysis was done at 350, 450, and $550^{\circ}C$, respectively, and heating rate of the TG/DTA was $5^{\circ}C/min$ untill $700^{\circ}C$. The result shows that the optimum temperature range for dehydrochlorination of PVC was $280{\sim}350^{\circ}C$, as a lower temperature range than $400{\sim}550^{\circ}C$ of PE and PP. Practically over 95% of copper metal and synthetic fuel, which has the 8027 kcal/kg as a calorific value, were recovered from the waste wire samples.

• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.203-209
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• 2022

An environmental evaluation was conducted by employing LCA methodology for a mechanical seal manufacturing process that uses recycled silicon recovered from end-of-cycle PV modules. The recycled silicon was purified and reacted with carbon to synthesize β-SiC particles. Then the particles underwent compression molding, calcination and heat treatment to produce a product. Field data were collected and the potential environmental impacts of each stage were calculated using the LCI DB of the Ministry of Environment. The assessment was based on 6 categories, which were abiotic resource depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, ozone depletion and photochemical oxidant creation. The environmental impacts by category were 45 kg CO₂ for global warming and 2.23 kg C₂H₄ for photochemical oxide creation, and the overall environmental impact by photochemical oxide creation, resource depletion and global warming had a high contribution of 98.7% based on weighted analysis. The wet process of fine grinding and mixing the raw silicon and carbon, and SiC granulation were major factors that caused the environmental impacts. These impacts need to be reduced by converting to a dry process and using a system to recover and reuse the solvent emitted to the atmosphere. It was analyzed that the environmental impacts of resource depletion and global warming decreased by 53.9% and 60.7%, respectively, by recycling silicon from end-of-cycle PV modules. Weighted analysis showed that the overall environmental impact decreased by 27%, and the LCA analysis confirmed that recycling waste modules could be a major means of resource saving and realizing carbon neutrality.

• Clean Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2017

Currently, researches on recycling and reuse of waste energetic materials have recently gained a great attention from advanced countries due to ever tightening environmental regulations. In this study, as a part of a recycling technology, the experiments and dynamic simulation of simulated moving bed (SMB) process were performed to efficiently separate TNT and RDX from their mixture, which are main components of ammunition. In order to determine the operation zone of SMB process, the retention times of TNT and RDX were measured using HPLC at different flow rates and the adsorption equilibrium of each component was obtained by using a moment method. According to the adsorption equilibrium and the triangle theory of SMB process, four operation points were determined and separation experiments were carried out by the SMB process using the solvent consisting of acetonitrile and water. Two different mixing ratios (6:4 and 1:1) of acetonitrile and water were chosen for the experiment due to the great impact of mixing ratio of the solvent on separation. The performance of SMB process was evaluated by purity, recovery, productivity and solvent consumption. Pure TNT and RDX were successfully obtained from the SMB process and the dynamic simulation for the SMB process agreed well with the experimental results. Therefore, the dynamic model could be applied for predicting the dynamic behavior of the SMB process and designing a large scale SMB process.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.125-133
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• 2016

Data processing capacity and speed are rapidly increasing due to the development of hardware and software in recent time. As a result, data usage is geometrically increasing and the amount of data which computers have to process has already exceeded five-thousand transaction per second. That is, the importance of Big Data is due to its 'real-time' and this makes it possible to analyze all the data in order to obtain accurate data at right time under any circumstances. Moreover, there are many researches about this as construction of smart factory with the application of Big Data is expected to have reduction in development, production, and quality management cost. In this paper, system using In-Memory Data Grid for high speed processing is implemented in semiconductor process which numerous data occur and improved performance is proven with experiments. Implemented system is expected to be possible to apply on not only the semiconductor but also any fields using Big Data and further researches will be made for possible application on other fields.

• Clean Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.253-257
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• 2009

The waste solution discharged form the LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) manufacturing process contains phosphoric acid, nitric acid, acetic acid and metal ions such Al and other impurities. In this study, vacuum evaporation and diffusion dialysis was developed to commercialize an efficient system for recovering the high-purity phosphoric acid and manufacturing monoammonium phosphate. By vacuum evaporation, almost 99% of nitric and acetic acid was removed. Also, by diffusion dialysis, about 97.5% of Al was removed. Monoammonium phosphate was manufactured from purified phosphoric acid and ammonium hydroxide. In order to get the optimum manufacturing condition, the molar ratio of ammonium hydroxide and phosphoric acid, pH and temperature was controlled. Using this optimum condition, we obtained the recovery rate of monoammonium phosphate of about 90%.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.798-801
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• 2009

소각로를 포함한 다양한 산업설비의 배폐열은 열병합 등의 다양한 방법을 통해 재활용되고 있으나 에너지의 효율적 사용과 편의성을 고려할 때, 단순한 온수공급 등의 방법보다는 전력으로서의 재활용이 매우 필요하다. 특히 재활용이 어려운 $400^{\circ}C$이내의 중저온급 폐열원을 발전할 수 있는 유력한 방안으로 열전발전기술이 최근 부각되고 있다. 열전발전은 발전모듈의 변환효율이 7~10%이고, 시스템 효율은 5%내외로 증기발전에 비해서는 낮지만 기계적 가동부분이 없어 고장발생이 적고 기동정지가 용이하며 열이 있으면 바로 발전이 가능한 차세대 친환경 발전기술이다. 본 연구에서는 현재까지 시도, 개발되지 못한 $100^{\circ}C$에서 $400^{\circ}C$내외 온도영역인 중저온급 소각폐열 회수를 위한 목적으로 중온용 열전발전소재 및 모듈과 저온과 중온에 각기 대응하여 폐열발전의 효용성을 높인 복식열전발전시스템을 개발 중에 있다. 본 고에서는 현재까지 진행된 일부 연구내용들을 소개하고자 하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.73.2-73.2
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• 2011

석탄 합성가스 중에는 $H_2S$, HCl, $NH_3$와 같은 불순물이 포함되어 있다. 이러한 가스들은 오염가스 배출과 관련한 환경기준 준수와 터빈과 같은 설비의 보호를 위해 제거되어야 한다. 석탄 합성가스 중 HCl 농도는 탄종에 따라 다르기는 하지만 많게는 1000 ppmv 수준까지 존재한다. 합성가스를 이용하여 발전을 하는 경우 가스터빈 보호를 위해 HCl은 <3 ppmv 이하로 정제되어야 하고, 합성가스를 연료전지에 사용하고자 하는 경우에는 HCl을 <0.5 ppmv 수준까지, 화학원료로 사용하고자 하는 경우에는 <10 ppbv 수준까지 정제하여야 한다. 또한 HCl은 고온 탈황공정에 사용되는 흡수제의 활성에도 장기적으로 부정적인 영향을 주기 때문에 고온에서 HCl을 정제할 수 있는 흡수제가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 알칼리금속을 활성물질로 사용하여 분무건조법으로 제조한 HCl 흡수제에 대해 물성 및 HCl과의 반응성을 살펴보았다. $300-500^{\circ}C$ 영역에서 K-계 및 Na-계 흡수제에 대해 고정층반응기에서 HCl 가스를 함유한 모사 합성가스를 이용하여 상압 조건에서 Cl 흡수능을 측정한 결과 15wt% 이상의 흡수능을 나타내었으며 반응온도가 높을수록 흡수능이 증가함을 알 수 있었다. XRD 분석을 통하여 Cl은 K 및 Na와 반응하여 KCl과 NaCl을 형성하면서 흡수됨을 알 수 있었다. 20 bar 조건에서 실험한 결과에서도 동일한 경향의 반응성을 나타내었으며 반응온도가 낮을수록 흡수능은 감소하지만 Cl을 더 낮은 농도로 정제할 수 있었다. 본 실험에 사용된 Na 및 K계 흡수제는 모두 연소 후 배가스 중 $CO_2$를 제거하기 위한 흡수제로 사용되는 고체 흡수제이다. 석탄화력발전소 배가스에 연계되어 $CO_2$ 회수실험에 사용되었던 사용 후 $CO_2$ 흡수제에 대해 HCl 흡수 실험을 수행한 결과에서도 우수한 HCl 제거 성능을 보여 주었다. 이로부터, 폐 $CO_2$ 흡수제의 HCl 흡수제로서의 활용가능성을 확인 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1979.05a
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• pp.6.2-6
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• 1979

Foreing bodies of the esophagus and tracheobronchus are likely to occur whenever a child places an inedible object in the mouth and are common in the older age group particularily in edentulous individuals or preexisting disease. Our department had already reported the statistical survey at first in 1954, successively in 1962, 1963 and 1968, respectively according to the age, sex, variety of foreign bodies, location and duration of the lodgement. Now, we have experienced the new 186 cases during the consecutive 5 year period from January 1973 to December 1977 and reported as a 5th report comparing with previous report. The results were as follows. 1. In the incidence of foreign bodies, coins were the most common and pointed metal, disc, bony fragment were followed in order in the esophagus while the peanut and corn were common in the air passage. 2) 79 cases (56.4%) were males and 61 cases (43.6%) were females in the esophagus, which was not a significant difference to note. But in the air passage, males accounted for 33 cases (71.7%) compared to 13 cases (28.3%) of females. 3) In the aspect of age incidence, child 10 years or under accounted for almost all cases in the esophagus as well as in the air passage. 4) In the location of foreign bodies in the esophagus, the first narrowing was the most common, while in the air passage right bronchus had a high incidence but the difference of incidence between right bronchus and left bronchus was not remarkable. 5) The duration of lodgement was 24 hours or less in more than half of the all cases. 6) In the aspect of kind of coin, 10 won coins accounted for majority of the cases (67.0%) but the incidence of 100 won coins were tend to increase gradually in these years.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.61-72
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• 2022

We investigated the electrochemical behavior of Sn (93.0 %)-Ag (4.06 %)-Cu (0.89 %) during electrolysis of Pb-free solder waste to recover tin and silver. A thin strip of the solder waste produced by high-temperature melting and casting was used as a working electrode to perform electrochemical analysis. During anodic polarization, the current peak of an active region decreased with an increase in the concentration of sulfuric acid used as an electrolyte. This resulted in the electro-dissolution of the working electrode in the electrolyte (1.0 molL^-1 sulfuric acid) for a constant current study. The study revealed that the thickening of an anode slime layer at the working surface continuously increased the electrode potential of the working electrode. At 10 mAcm^-2, the dissolution reaction continued for 25 h. By contrast, at 50 mAcm^-2, a sharp increase in the electrode potential stopped the dissolution in 2.5 h. During dissolution, silver enrichment in the anode slime reached 94.3% in the 1 molL^-1 sulfuric acid electrolyte containing a 0.3 molL^-1 chlorine ion, which was 12.7% higher than that without chlorine addition. Moreover, the chlorine enhanced the stability of the dissolved tin ions in the electrolyte as well as the current efficiency of tin electro-deposition at the counter electrode.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.55-61
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• 2020

Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) has been a promising technology to reduce the air pollution caused by nitrogen oxides (NOx) in several industries. The consumption of SCR catalysts increases every year as technology evolves, however those have a limited lifespan and usually end up in landfills after they deactivate. Currently, the most widely used catalyst for and stationary applications is V₂O₅-WO₃/TiO₂ which can contain around 50% wt V₂O₅ and 7-10% wt of WO₃. The vast uses for both vanadium and tungsten and the worldwide interest in recycling methods that allow for the extraction of metals from secondary sources represent the major motivation for this research. The extraction time, pH dependency, extraction concentration studies were carried out using Aliquat 336 in exxol D80 as the extractant. It was determined that to optimize the extraction of both metals 30min of contact time with an organic phase containing 0.5mol/L of Aliquat 336 are needed at a slightly acidic pH (~5.0). In addition, counter McCabe-Thiele studies allowed us to determine that one stage is necessary for the removal of 99% of vanadium while 2 stages are necessary for the extraction of tungsten and counter current simulations proved that the theoretical approach was correct.