• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.229-234
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• 2008

Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has started the nation's first biogas-microturbine project in the city of Gongju as an effort to encourage the utilization of wasted biogas containing useful energy source in the form of $CH_4$. The goal of the project is to set up the biogas microturbine co-generation system for utilizing biogas as an energy source and improving the economics of the wastewater treatment plant. Wastewater treatment processes were investigated in depth to find improvement possibility. Changes in internal recirculation ratio and pre-treatment degree are needed to optimize plant operation and biogas production. Biogas pre-treatment system satisfies Capstone's fuel condition requirement with the test result of 99.9% and 90.2% of hydrogen sulphide and ammonia is removal performance. Installation of microturbine and manufacture of heat exchanger to warm anaerobic digester has been done successfully. Expected economic profit produced by the system is coming from energy saving including electricity 115,871kWh/year and heat contained in exhaust gas 579GJ/year.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2018

본 연구는 유기성폐자원(가축분뇨, 음식물류폐기물, 음식물류폐수 등)의 바이오가스 이용에 대한 적정 설계 및 운전 기술지침서 마련하고자 현장조사와 정밀모니터링 등을 실시하였다. 정부의 중장기 바이오가스화 정책에 따라 폐자원의 자원화 시설 확충이 활발히 추진되고 있다. 하지만 생산된 바이오가스를 이용하여 발전 및 스팀으로 활용하는 시설은 효율이 아직은 저조하고 잦은 고장이 발생되고 있다. 현재 운영 중인 바이오가스화 11개소를 대상으로 바이오가스 이용 공정별 특징 및 문제점을 분석하고 혐기소화조 현장 시료의 계절별 정밀모니터링을 실시하여 바이오가스 이용 공정 흐름에 따른 설계 운영 가이드라인을 제시하였다. 현장조사 수행 결과, 바이오가스 이용 공정에서 바이오가스의 적정 제습, 황화수소 전처리, 발전시설의 적정처리 등이 주요 문제점으로 조사되었다. 따라서 유기성폐자원의 바이오가스화 시설의 단점을 보완하고 바이오가스 이용 최적화 방안을 마련하기 위하여 현장지설에 대한 정밀조사를 실시하여 공정별 문제점들을 정리하였다.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2011

Biogas production and utilization are an emerging alternative energy technology. Biogas is produced from the biological breakdown of organic matter through anaerobic digestion. Biogas can be utilized for various energy sectors such as space heating, electricity generation and vehicle fuel. Especially, to be utilized as vehicle fuel, raw biogas needs to be upgraded that is mainly the removal of carbon dioxide to increase the methane content up to more than 95 ~ 97 vol% in some cases, similar to the composition of fossil-based natural gas. Usage of Biogas as a fuel of vehicles have an effect of reducing $CO_2$ emission compared to fossil fuels. Biomethane which is produced by upgrading of biogas is regarded as a good alternative energy and usage of clean energy is encouraged to deal with air pollution and waste management as well as production of clean energy. Recently, biogas projects for vehicle fuel are newly being launched and Korea government have also announced a plan for investment to develop biogas as a transport fuel. In this study, it is aimed to examine the potential feasibility of biomethane as a transport fuel. As a results, the status of biomethane, quality standard, quality characteristics, and upgrading technology of biogas were investigated to evaluate of biogas as a vehicle fuel of transportation.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2012년도 제45회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.221-223
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• 2012

Since gas turbine using biogas can reduce carbon dioxide ($CO_2$), the biogas gas turbine is becoming more attractive to renewable energy utilization business sector. Natural gas and $CO_2$ mixture was used to simulate the biogas fuel. At the experiments pressure losses, pattern factor, and emissions were measured. The results revealed that methane concentrations of the fuel mixture showed little effects on the combustor performance except emissions. As methane concentrations in fuel decreased, emissions measured at the exit of the combustor decreased.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2019

바이오가스화는 유기성폐기물을 처리하는 과정에서 발생되는 메탄가스를 포함하는 환경 친화적인 연료를 생산하는 기술이다. 바이오가스화는 유기성폐기물의 해양투기 금지 이후 안정적인 육상처리일 뿐만 아니라 신재생에너지원으로 인정받으면서 세계적인 관심을 받고 있다. 최근에는 생산된 바이오가스를 고품질화하여 도시가스 및 수송용으로 이용하는 추세가 증가하고 있다. 바이오가스화 현장시설에서는 아직도 잦은 고장으로 바이오가스 생산이 저하되고, 또한 생산된 바이오가스를 효과적으로 정제하여 이용하는 것이 미흡한 실정이다. 이 연구에서는 바이오가스 생산 및 이용 시설에서의 문제점들을 파악하고, 최적으로 바이오가스를 도시가스 및 수송용으로 활용 가능하기 위한 가이드라인 및 기술지침을 마련하고자 하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.260-263
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• 2008

KEPCO(Korea Electric Power Corporation) is performing the nation's first biogas-MGT project as an effort to encourage the utilization of wasted biogas which contains useful CH4. The goals of this project are to develop the Pretreatment system of Livestock bio-gas and set up the biogas-MGT co-generation system. The project will not only utilze flared biogas as precious energy but also improve the economics of the plant a lot. The pretreatment system mainly consists of sulfur removal tower, biogas compressor and many filtering systems. A computational fluid dynamics study in the bio gas sulfur removal tower and sulfur absorption filter was carried out. Understanding of the flow in the sulfur removal tower and sulfur adsorption filter obtained by this study can be used to identify the problems in the sulfur removal tower and to improve the sulfur removal efficiency of the sulfur removal tower. Resistance material modeling is used to simulate the sulfur adsorption filter, and the resistance coefficient was adjusted to reflect the experimental pressure loss value. And the pressure loss change with the flowrate is predicted

• 유기물자원화
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 유기성폐자원의 바이오가스 생산 및 이용을 최적화를 위해 현장시설의 정밀모니터링과 시설별 에너지수지를 분석하고, 현장문제 해결방안에 대해서 조사하여 전처리시설 및 발전기 등의 설계 및 운전 가이드라인을 제시하였다. 고품질화 정제설비 운영에 잦은 고장 및 효율 저하를 해결하기 위해서는 가스전처리가 필요하며, 탈황, 제습, 탈실록산, 분진 처리, 휘발성유기화합물 등의 처리공정이 있다. 이 공정들은 고품질화 공정에서도 제거되는 물질들이기에 가스 전처리에서는 정량적 가이드라인은 제시하지 않고, 정성적 가이드라인으로 처리공간에 운영하도록 제시하였다. 특히, 분진, 실록산 및 휘발성유기화합물 등은 가스 전처리에서 제거되지 않으면 고품질화 공정의 잦은 고장의 주원인이된다. 바이오가스 고품질화 공정에 대한 설계 운전 가이드라인은 전체 가스 발생량의 90 % 이상 이용, 2계열화, 여유율 10 % 이상 감안 등이 있으며, 품질기준[메탄함량(프로판 포함) 95 % 이상]을 제시함. 또한 균등한 바이오가스 유입을 위해 가스균등조 설치, 보조연료 균등투입 제어를 위한 열량자동조절장치 설치, 가스압축과정에서 다량 발생하는 수분 제거를 위한 고품질화 후단의 제습장치 설치, 겨울철 설비의 결빙 및 효율 저하 방지를 위한 보온설비 설치, 특히 멤브레인 설비는 실내 설치 등을 제시하였다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.164-171
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• 2011

The objectives of this study are to propose a suitable treatment facility for waste energy recovery after analyzing the waste generation and disposal situation in Jejudo, to establish the plan to install the solar photovoltaics and wind power plant considering the site conditions and finally to establish the environmental energy town plan in conjunction with the existing facilities. The food waste biogas plant is selected as the treatment capacity of 200 ton/day. It is estimated that the biogas plant will produce the electricity of 7,594 MWh per year, which will reduce the greenhouse gas of 4,177 $tCO_2$ per year. The solar photovoltaics and wind power plant will produce the electricity of 13,410 MWh per year, which will reduce the greenhouse gas of 7,375 $tCO_2$ per year. Environmental energy town will give us the reduction of operating cost by centralized treatment of residues and byproducts, and by efficient utilization of produced energy.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.321-334
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• 2017

Process surveillance within agricultural biogas plants (BGPs) was concurrently studied by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and an optimized quantitative microscopic fingerprinting (QMF) technique. In contrast to 16S rRNA gene amplicons, digitalized microscopy is a rapid and cost-effective method that facilitates enumeration and morphological differentiation of the most significant groups of methanogens regarding their shape and characteristic autofluorescent factor 420. Moreover, the fluorescence signal mirrors cell vitality. In this study, four different BGPs were investigated. The results indicated stable process performance in the mesophilic BGPs and in the thermophilic reactor. Bacterial subcommunity characterization revealed significant differences between the four BGPs. Most remarkably, the genera Defluviitoga and Halocella dominated the thermophilic bacterial subcommunity, whereas members of another taxon, Syntrophaceticus, were found to be abundant in the mesophilic BGP. The domain Archaea was dominated by the genus Methanoculleus in all four BGPs, followed by Methanosaeta in BGP1 and BGP3. In contrast, Methanothermobacter members were highly abundant in the thermophilic BGP4. Furthermore, a high consistency between the sequencing approach and the QMF method was shown, especially for the thermophilic BGP. The differences elucidated that using this biphasic approach for mesophilic BGPs provided novel insights regarding disaggregated single cells of Methanosarcina and Methanosaeta species. Both dominated the archaeal subcommunity and replaced coccoid Methanoculleus members belonging to the same group of Methanomicrobiales that have been frequently observed in similar BGPs. This work demonstrates that combining QMF and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing is a complementary strategy to describe archaeal community structures within biogas processes.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.597-603
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• 1999

Even though the development of livestock industry in Asia and Australasia has brought the economic growth and thus elevated the living standard in these areas, it has also brought the pollution caused by the increasing amount of animal wastes. Among them, Japan probably is the first country that suffered from the animal waste pollution as early as in 1970s. Nowadays, the animal waste pollution has been a common problem for almost every countries in this region. To solve it, different measures and regulations have been implemented in many countries. In this paper, different methods for animal waste disposal are discussed, including: manure-bed animal housing, composting, anaerobic treatment, odor control, utilization of biogas, aerobic treatment, three-step process, N and P removal, land application, cultivation of algae, anaerobic treatment of dead animals. It is hoped that an animal industry without pollution can be achieved in the future.