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Measurements of Atmospheric Gaseous Elemental Mercury over the Yellow Sea during 2007-2008

  • Nguyen, Duc Luong;Kim, Jin-Young;Shim, Shang-Gyoo;Jin, Hyoun-Cher;Zhang, Xiao-Shan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.255-258
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    • 2009
  • This study shows that the $Hg^0$ background concentration over the Yellow Sea was generally higher than those observed over other seas/oceans around the world. $Hg^0$ concentrations measured in the urban stomophere were significantly higher than the background concentration in China. Elevated $Hg^0$ concentrations at Deokjeok Island in Korea were attributed to long-range transport of mercury from high emission areas in China.

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Present State and Strategies on Environmental Pollution by Animal Wastes (축산분뇨에 의한 환경오염현황과 대책)

  • 이명규;이재일
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.63-78
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    • 1996
  • The main purpose of this research project is to monitor the present state of agricultural environment and to develope the countermeasures for the protection of the environment from the pollution by animal wastes. The results of this research were described largely 3 parts, 1) Monitoring of present state of environmental pollution by animal wastes, 2) Monitoring of animal wastes treatment technology, 3) Strategies for the protection of environmental pollution from animal wastes in future. The current most important problems from animal wastes are water pollution and air pollution commonly regardless of domestic or foreign country. Especially, intensive livestocks breeding pattern in restricted area is actually a real reason of eutrophication, soil acidification, ground water contamination, irrigation water pollution. As a result from this research project, authors recommend the 3 type of strategies for the protection of environmental pollution by animal wastes, 1 . Development of non-discharge type of wastes treatment technology 2. Manufacturing local structure for animal waste recycling system 3. Development of new international environmental program for transfer bioresource and soil environment prevention.

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The Impact of Environmental Management Level of Importing Countries on Korean Exports: Focusing on the Technology Level of Industries in Exporting Country (수출대상국 환경관리수준이 한국의 수출에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Lee, Bum-joon;Hwang, Yun-Seop;Ha, Jeong-Won
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.35-49
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to determine whether the export volume of export country is affected by the strengthening of environmental management level of the importing country depending on the relative technology level of the importing country. To this end, a gravity model was established and the relative size of environmental management level was introduced, and how it affects the export was analyzed according to the difference of environmental management level between Korea and the importing country. The analysis of Korean industry by technology level (based on R&D investment) shows that countries with higher environmental management levels increase exports in both high and low technologies compared to Korea. On the other hand, exports of high-tech industries did not affect export growth in countries with lower environmental management than Korea.

Adsorption Characteristics of As(V) onto Cationic Surfactant-Modified Activated Carbon

  • Choi, Hyun-Doc;Park, Sung-Woo;Ryu, Byung-Gon;Cho, Jung-Min;Kim, Kyung-Jo;Baek, Ki-Tae
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.153-157
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    • 2009
  • Arsenic at abandoned mine sites has adversely affected human health in Korea. In this study, the feasibility of using cationic surfactant-modified activated carbon (MAC) to remove As(V) was evaluated in terms of adsorption kinetics, adsorption isotherms, and column experiments. The adsorption of As(V) onto MAC was satisfactorily simulated by the pseudo-second-order kinetics model and Langmuir isotherm model. In column experiments, the breakthrough point of AC was 28 bed volumes (BV), while that of MAC increased to 300 BV. The modification of AC using cationic surfactant increased the sorption rate and sorption capacity with regard to As(V). As a result, MAC is a promising adsorbent for treating As(V) in aqueous streams.

Developing a composite vertical flow constructed wetlands for rainwater treatment

  • Ahmed, Sanjrani Manzoor;Zhou, Boxun;Zhao, Heng;Zheng, You Ping;Wang, Yue;Xia, Shibin
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2020
  • The worldwide shortage of water resources is a major environmental issue. Using pure water for drinking and domestic purposes is a bigger issue than other environmental issues. Industrialization and Urbanization have even polluted rainwater. In China, when it rains, rainwater is stored on the roof or other sources of storage for daily use resulting in pollution. Several studies have been conducted to treat rainwater. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of constructed wetlands by using ACF as a medium. So, this study aims to treat rainwater in Wuhan city through a Composite Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands. First, rainwater was stored in the tank while it flows out of the roof, further it is processed in constructed wetlands. The constructed wetlands is consisted with plants Calamus and Chives, adding ACF (prepared from luffa) has achieved great results in this study. Results show that the pollutants have been removed to a considerable level, there were significant differences in removal rates under different HRT at 6h, 9h and 12h respectively. Therefore, Composite Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands is recommended for total nitrogen and Ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus.

Eighteen unreported radiation-resistant bacterial species isolated from Korea in 2018

  • Maeng, Soohyun;Park, Yuna;Oh, Hyejin;Damdintogtokh, Tuvshinzaya;Bang, Minji;Lee, Byoung-Hee;Lee, Ki-eun;Kim, Myung Kyum
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.99-116
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    • 2021
  • In 2018, as a subset study to discover indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea, a total of 18 unreported bacterial strains were discovered. From the high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (>98.8%) and formation of a robust phylogenetic clade, it was determined that each strain belonged an independent and predefined bacterial species. There were no official report that these 18 species were previously described in Korea; therefore, one strain of Williamsia, one strain of Rhodococcus, three strains of Microbacterium, three strains of Agromyces, one strain of Arthrobacter, one strain of Paeniglutamicibacter, one strain of Pseudarthrobacter, one strain of Nocardioides, one strain of Fibrella, one strain of Hymenobacter, one strain of Deinococcus, two strains of Fictibacillus, and one strain of Paenibacillus are described as unreported bacterial species in Korea. Gram reaction, basic biochemical characteristics, and colony and cell morphologies are described in the species description section.

Evaluation of a moving bed biofilm reactor for simultaneous atrazine, carbon and nutrients removal from aquatic environments: Modeling and optimization

  • Derakhshan, Zahra;Ehrampoush, Mohammad Hassan;Mahvi, Amir Hossein;Dehghani, Mansooreh;Faramarzian, Mohammad;Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi;Mokhtari, Mehdi;Ebrahimi, Ali Asghar;Fallahzadeh, Hossein
    • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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    • v.67
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    • pp.219-230
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    • 2018
  • The present study examined a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) bioreactor on a laboratory scale for simultaneous removal of atrazine, organic carbon, and nutrients from wastewater. The maximum removal efficiency of atrazine, chemical oxygen demand (COD), total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) were 83.57%, 90.36%, 90.74% and 87.93 respectively. Increasing salinity up to 40 g/L NaCl in influent flow could inhibit atrazine biodegradation process strongly in the MBBR reactor.Results showed that MBBR is so suitable process for efficiently biodegrading of atrazine and nitrogen removal process was based on the simultaneous nitrification-denitrification (SND) process.