• 기술사
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.11-21
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• 1986

Mine drainage from coal mines is mostly acidic, polluted and/or contaminated, even if its quantity has increased substantially during recent days. This causes two kinds of problems arising at mining districts; one is the environmental disruption and the other is insufficient water supply for living, employee's bathing and industrial purposes. In order to mitigate the aforementioned problems, a specific equipment of Korea type for mine drainage purification has been developed and its prototype manufactured, followed by its applicability tests implemented at mine site. The results of the tests indicates that the new equipment developed is much lower than and economical compared to, other existing neutralization facilities at home and abroad in capital investment at installation stage, the consumption of neutralizing chemicals at operation stage and the requirements of installation site. Whangji area where the prototype water treatment equipment is installed has been sustaining a short supply of usable water, especially in dry seasons and supplementing about 40㎥ of water brought from a location farther than 4km in distance to meet water requirements. The prototype water treatment equipment is however considered capable of providing compressor cooling water in sufficient amount from winter season In the future.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2023

In this study, carbon storage in the aboveground biomass, litter layer, and soil layer was calculated for abandoned mining restoration areas to determine the level of carbon storage after the restoration project through comparison with the ecological reference. Five survey sites were selected for each abandoned mining restoration area in Boryeong-si, Chungcheongnam-do, and the ecological reference that can be a goal and model for the restoration project. The carbon storage in the restoration area was 0~21.3Mg C ha^-1, the deciduous layer 3.3~6.0Mg C ha^-1, and the soil layer(0-30cm) 8.3~35.1Mg C ha^-1, showing a significant difference in carbon storage by target site. The total carbon storage was between 6.1 and 35.3% of the ecological reference, with restoration area ranging from 14.0 to 62.4 Mg C ha^-1. The total carbon storage in the restoration area and the ecological reference differed the most in the aboveground biomass and was less than 12%. Based on these results, forest restoration area need to improve the carbon storage of forests through continuous management and monitoring so trees can grow and restore productivity in the early stages of the restoration project. The results of this study can be used as primary data for preparing future forest restoration indicators by identifying the storage of abandoned mining restoration areas.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.179-189
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• 2006

Ambient gas phase mercury concentrations including elemental mercury ($Hg^0$) were measured at the Potsdam, Stockton, and Sterling sites in NY from 2000 to 2003. Also, concentrations of ambient reactive gaseous mercury (RGM; $Hg^{2+}$) were measured at the Potsdam site during one year. The contribution of RGM($4.2{\pm}6.4pg/m^3$) was about $0.2{\sim}3%$ of the total gas phase mercury concentration measured (TGM: $1.84{\pm}1.24,\;1.83{\pm}0.32,\;3.02{\pm}2.14ng/m^3$ in Potsdam. Stockton, and Sterling, respectively) at the receptor sites. Potential Source Contribution Function (PSCF), a hybrid receptor modeling incorporating backward trajectories was performed to identify source areas of TGM. Using PSCF, southern New York, North Carolina, and eastern Massachusetts were identified as important source areas in the United States, while the copper smelters and waste incinerators located in eastern Quebec and Ontario were determined to be significant sources in Canada. The Atlantic Ocean was suggested to be a possible mercury source. PSCF incorporating back-dispersion and deposition was applied for RGM , as well as PSCF based on 2-days back-trajectories. Two different approaches yielded considerably different results, primarily due to the consideration of dispersion rather than deposition. Using back-trajectory based PSCF, eastern Ohio, southern New York, and southern Pennsylvania where large coal -fired power plants area located were identified as the large sources in US. Metallurgical industry located in eastern Quebec was resolved as well. From the result of back-dispersion and deposition based PSCF, Pennsylvania, mining facilities around Lake Superior, Toronto, Boston, MA, Quebec, and coal power plants in NY were identified to be the significant source areas for Potsdam site.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.134-141
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• 2014

A testing inspection is one of the important in the industry, owing to determine the reliability and directivity of testing inspection results. Therefore, the quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) work which performed by personnel not directly in the inventory compilation development, in testing inspection must be thoroughly considered. Some agencies for environmental test inspection, they sometimes misunderstood that the QA/QC was ended with proficiency testing performance and on-site assessment by a director. Thus, results were often calculated without QA/QC work by self manual when conducting test. The objective of this study was to improve reliability of testing and inspection agency through the QA/QC case study which basically performed to raising reliability of testing and inspection agency. In this study, it increased reliability of result by verifying calibration curve (IC, ICV, CCV), blank, accuracy (LCS, MS) and precision as QA/QC performance, while performing investigation of soil contamination in mining areas. This study suggests that reliability establishing method of test result and management method of analysis process, through the QA/QC instance of testing agency.

• 지질공학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.65-81
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• 1996

Friar Tuck 폐광산은 인디아나주 남서부 Tuck Greene-Sullivan 군 경계에 위치하고 있다. 현재 진행중인 복구작업이 시행되기 전, Friar Tuck 광상은 인디아나주 내에서 가장 규모가 크고 환경오염상태가 심각한 폐탄광중의 하나였다. 직접 식물재배법이 tailing ponds에 적용되었다. 버럭더미는 산성수의 오염을 막고 토양이 외부로 흘러 나가는 것을 방지하기 위해 표면을 고른 후 토양오염이 비교적 덜 된 흙으로 덮고 농업용 석회석, 화학비료 및 퇴비를 뿌려 풀 종자를 심었다. 사면의 침식방지를 최소화 하기 위하여 terrace, diversion ditch, 및 gabion structures가 설치도었다. 산성수 처리를 위하여 실내 및 광산현장에서 인회석을 이용한 새로운 방법이 실험되었다. 인회석은 산성수 본래의 pH를 유지하면서 철 및 알루미늄을 효과적으로 제거하였다. 광산폐기물에서 파생되는 산성수 내의 철 및 알루미늄의 농도가 높은 경우에도 이 방법을 사용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.101-113
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• 1994

강원도 상동지역의 옥동천 및 그 지류들을 대상으로 수질 파라메터(Eh-pH, 부유물질)의 측정과 하상퇴적물의 화학분석을 통하여 석탄광 및 금속 광산활동에 의한 옥동천의 수성 환경의 오염정도를 조사하였다. 옥동천의 조사유역을 상부와 하부 옥동천으로 구분할 때 상부 유역은 석탄광의 개발로 인한 황화물의 산화작용으로 인하여 수질은 매우 낮은 pH를 나타내 광산 산성수(Acid Mine Drainage)로 심하게 오염된 것으로 조사되었다. 또한 상부 옥동천에 용존된 철이 지류들의 유입과 하천의 aeration으로 철 산화물(floc)의 발생과 이의 침전으로 하천 바닥은 황갈색의 철산화물이 퇴적되어 있다. 그러나 상부 옥동천의 유속에 의해 일부 철 산화물이 침전되지 못한채 부유되어 옥동천은 매우 탁하게 보인다. 상부 옥동천온 천평천의 유입으로 인하여 낮은 pH의 산성수는 중화되지만 부유물질의 존재로 인하여 하부 옥동천은 계속 탁하여 광산 산성수의 영향이 지속되고 있다. sediment quality criteria와 비교해 볼 때 하부 옥동천의 하상퇴적물, 특히 상동 텅스텐-모리브덴늄 광미 저장댐과 인접된 지점의 하상퇴적물은 Pb, Cu, Zn, Co, Cd, As 및 Bi 등의 유해금속에 의해 농축되어 있어 퇴적물의 질이 상당히 악화되어 있다. 수중 및 저서 생물에 대한 서식처 및 수질을 개선하기 위해서 옥동천 상부에는 산성수를 중화시킬 수 있는 경제성 있는 수처리 장치의 도입과 중금속의 speciation의 연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.60-75
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• 2015

독일 북서부에 위치한 루르지역은 1850년대부터 석탄이 채굴되면서 석탄광업과 제철공업을 중심으로 유럽 최대의 공업지역으로 발전하였다. 그러나 1950년대에 접어들면서 에너지원으로써 유류(Oil)에 비해 석탄의 가격과 품질 경쟁력이 떨어졌고 개발도상국의 부상에 따라 이 지역의 석탄광업과 제철공업이 쇠퇴하기 시작하였다. 1970년대 부터 석탄광구와 제철공장이 하나씩 폐쇄되기 시작하여 도심에 조성된 많은 공업용지가 유휴화 되었고 실업자도 크게 늘어 심각한 경제위기에 직면하였다. 루르지역의 전형적인 공업도시라 할 수 있는 오버하우젠(Oberhausen)시는 이러한 문제에 당면하여 대규모 제철공장부지를 정화하여 거대한 쇼핑몰과 여가산업지구를 조성하였고, 겔젠키르헨(Gelsenkirhen)시는 석탄광업지구를 정화하여 태양광 산업을 중심으로 신재생에너지 산업단지와 친환경 주택단지를 조성하였다. 본 연구는 경로의존론(Path Dependence Theory)에 입각하여 이 두 도시가 추진한 도시재생정책의 집행과정과 결과를 분석하고, 이론적, 정책적 시사점을 도출하였다.