• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.1163-1170
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• 2015

This study carried out continuous column test for estimating the regeneration efficiency with regeneration times and temperatures. More times regenerated granular activated carbon (GAC) has more ash in the GAC and has less apparent density. Two times regenerated GAC ($2^{nd}$ re-GAC) could removed the Trihalomethanes (THMs) in the water for the first two week after starting continuous column test, on the other hand five times regenerated GAC ($5^{th}$ re-GAC) did not have adsorption capacity. The THMs concentration in the effluent was almost equal or higher than that of influent at the first time of continuous column test. $2^{nd}$ re-GAC showed much more DOC adsorption capacity than $5^{th}$ re-GAC and the GAC which was regenerated with $700^{\circ}C$ had highest DOC removal efficiency among the GACs with 600, 700, 800, $900^{\circ}C$ regeneration temperatures. It is anticipated the cost of GAC regeneration could be saved more 100 million won by reducing the furnace temperature of 3rd~4th and 5th~6th about $150^{\circ}C$ compared to the current regeneration condition.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1192-1197
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• 2006

입상 활성탄을 이용한 회분식 흡착실험과 연속식 흡착 컬럼 실험을 통해 이온성 및 비이온성 의약품의 제거특성을 평가하였다. 초기 혼합 의약품을 10 ${\mu}g/L$로 주입한 회분식 흡착실험의 경우 입상 활성탄을 500 mg/L로 하였을 때 대상 의약품은 $94{\sim}98%$ 이상의 높은 제거율을 보였다. 이온성 의약품은 pH가 감소할수록 흡착능이 증가하였으나 비이온성 의약품의 흡착능은 pH변화에 큰 영향을 받지 않았다. 이온성 의약품은 pH가 이온화 상수(pKa) 이하로 낮아짐에 따라 COOH형태로 비이온화되어 흡착이 용이하게 되지만 pH가 pKa 이상에서는 이온 상태의 $COO^-$로 존재하게 되어 흡착이 저하되기 때문이다. 또한 pH저하는 액상내 $H^+$ 증가 및 활성탄 표면에 양하전을 증가시켜 용액으로부터 이온성 의약품을 이온 결합에 의해 제거시킬 수 있기 때문이다. 40일간 흡착 컬럼을 연속 운전한 결과 15분의 공탑체류시간(EBCT)에서는 활성탄과 의약품의 충분한 접촉시간으로 대상 의약품에 대해 $93{\sim}99%$의 제거율을 얻었다. 짧은 EBCT의 운전조건에서는 이온성 의약품 가운데 CA, IBP 및 GFZ가 다른 이온성 및 비이온성 의약품에 비해 빠르게 파과에 도달했고 EBCT의 변화에 따른 흡착특성의 변화는 비이온성 의약품에서 더 크게 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 기존 정수 처리공정을 통해 제거되기 어려운 의약품을 입상 활성탄 흡착공정을 통해 효과적으로 제어할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2000

Recently, our circumstances are threatened by an accident that leakage of under ground storage tank and illegal dumping of synthetic organic compounds at chemical plants and many treatment methods, Activated carbon adsorption, Ozonization, Membrane filtration and Photocatalystic oxidation, are developed to remove such a synthetic organic compounds. And it has reported that Activated carbon adsorption have a great removal efficiency to nondegradable matters and organic compounds which have a high molecular weight. Comparing with other adsorbents, Activated carbon adsorption have a worse efficiency when ad desorption speed is low. Thus improved type of adsorbents was invented and one of those is Activated Carbon Filter. The purpose of this study was getting information about adsorption characteristic phenol which can be applied Activated Carbon Fiber and Granular Activated Carbon. In detail, With comparing removal characteristics of phenol in the presence Humic Acid using Activated Carbon Fiber(ACF) and Granular Activated. Carbon(GAC), it is to certify an effective application of Activated Carbon Fiber. At the range of this study, Batch test, Isotherm adsorption test and Factorial analysis, following conclusion were obtained from the results of this study. Batch test was carried to know time of adsorption equilibrium. In this study about time of adsorption equilibrium by ACF was faster than GAC's, for developed micropore of ACF. From the result of phenol adsorption test, High removal rate of adsorption is shown at pH 5. The result of lsotherm adsorption test, it has represented that the Freundlich's isotherm is most suitable one in others, that a ACF's adsorption capacity is more excellent than GAC's. Adsorption of phenol exiting humic acid is decreased getting raised humic acid concentration. Since ACF's micropore is developed at this time, an effect of high molecular humic acid is lower. Factorial analysis was carried to know about Main effect which was injection dosage of adsorbent in the range of this study.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.283-288
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• 2019

Catalytic removal of sulfur compounds from heavy naphtha (HN) was investigated using a combination of an oxidation process using hydrogen peroxide and an adsorption process using granulated activated carbon (GAC) and white eggshell (WES). This study investigated the impact of changing several operating parameters on the desulfurization efficiency. Specifically, the volume ratio of $H_2O_2$ to HN (0.01~0.05), agitation speed ($U_{speed}$) of the water bath shaker ($100-500{\pm}1rpm$), pH of sulfur solution (1~5), amount of adsorbent (0.1~2.5 g), desulfurization temperature ($25{\sim}85{\pm}1^{\circ}C$) and contact time (10~180 minutes) were examined. The results indicate that the desulfurization efficiency resulting from catalytic and adsorption processes of GAC is better than that of WES for oxidation and removing sulfur compounds from HN due to its high surface area. The desulfurization efficiency depends strongly on all investigated operating parameters. The maximum removal efficiency of GAC and WES achieved by this study was 86 and 65, respectively.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2005년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.375-378
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• 2005

The objective of this study was to clarify the possibility of adsorption trichloroethylene (TCE) of pretreated granular activated carbon (GAC). The chemical solution used for the acidic treatment was phosphoric acid. In addition, the effect of ultrasound on GAC assessed in this experiments. It was observed that the adsorption of TCE were different based on pH value of pretreated GAC. However, natural water such as groundwater has various factors like ionic strength and hardness etc. Therefore, more laboratory work is needed to study about pretreated GAC.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2002

This paper was investigated to clarify the possibility of a biodegradation of materials adsorbed on different porous granular-activated carbons (GACs) such as coal-& coconut-based GAC. Total organic carbon, humic substance and ammonia were used to compare their removal efficiencies. The objective of this study is to determine the adsorption capacity of bioregenerated GAC. When raw water reacted with chloride, the yield of THMs increased as a function of the input amount of chloride. The formation of trihalomethanes (THMs) was investigated in water treated with chlorine when humic acid was used as THM precursor. As the input amount of chloride in raw water increased by two or five-fold to remove the $NH_3$, the chloroform of the THMs significantly increased also five or ten-fold. It was found that the chloroform was significantly removed by the treatment of biological activated carbon (BAG) in comparison with the ozone treatment, and the removal efficiency of THMs in coal-typed GAC was $10-30\%$ better than coconut-typed GAC due to the biological degradation on the surface of the activated carbons.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2014

Adsorption and biodegradation performance of tetracycline antibiotic compounds such as ttetracycline (TC), oxytetracycline (OTC), minocycline (MNC), chlortetracycline (CTC), doxycycline (DXC), meclocycline (MCC), demeclocycline (DMC) on granular activated carbon (GAC) and anthracite-biofilter were evaluated in this study. Removal efficiency of seven tetracycline antibiotic compounds showed 54%~97% by GAC adsorption process (EBCT: 5~30 min). The orders of removal efficiency by GAC adsorption were tetracycline, demeclocycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline, doxytetracycline, meclocycline and minocycline. Removal efficiencies of seven tetracycline antibiotic compounds showed 1%~61% by anthracite biofiltration process (EBCT: 5~30 min). The highest biodegradable tetracycline antibiotic compound was minocycline, and the worst biodegradable tetracycline antibiotic compounds were oxytetracycline and demeclocycline.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2015

This study accessed the adsorption characteristics of the 9 trihalomethanes (THMs) on coal-based granular activated carbon (GAC). The breakthrough appeared first for $CHCl_3$ and sequentially for $CHBr_2Cl$, $CHBr_3$, $CHCl_2I$, CHBrClI, $CHBr_2I$, $CHClI_2$, $CHBrI_2$, and $CHI_3$. The maximum adsorption capacity (X/M) for the 9 THMs with apparent breakthrough points ranged from $1,175{\mu}g/g$ (for $CHCl_3$) to $11,087{\mu}g/g$ (for $CHI_3$). Carbon usage rate (CUR) for $CHCl_3$ was 0.149 g/day, 5.5 times higher than for $CHCl_3$ (0.027 g/day).

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.727-736
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• 2006

Granular activated carbon (GAC) has been identified as a best available technology (BAT) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for removal disinfection by-product (DBP) precursors, such as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON). Rapid small-scale column test (RSSCT) were used to investigate four types of carbon (F400, Norit1240, Norit40S, and Aquasorb1500) for their affinity to absorb natural organic matter (NOM). DOC, $UV_{254}$, and Total dissolved nitrogen (TON) concentrations were measured in the column effluent to track GAC breakthrough. DOC and $UV_{254}$ breakthrough occurred at around 3500 bed volumes (BVs) of operation for all GACs investigated. The $UV_{254}$ breakthrough curves showed 33% to 48% at 8000 BVs, when the DOC was 48% to 65%. All GACs showed greater removal in DOC than $UV_{254}$. The NORIT1240 GAC was determined to have the highest adsorption capacity for DOC and $UV_{254}$. The removal of nitrate (NOTN) had not broken through over BVs. The initial TON breakthrough curves were started around 50%, when the DOC breakthrough was only 10 % at 500 BVs. The curves were gradually increased after 3500 BVs and approximately 69% through 81% of TON breakthrough occurred at 8000 BVs. All of the GACs were able to remove TON, in the case of this investigation the majority of the TON was present as DON. Because nitrate nitrogen was seldom removed and ammonium nitrogen ($NH_3-N$) was not detected in the effluent from RSSCTs even though raw water. The carbon usage rate of DOC was from 2 to 6 times less than that of TON. The NORIT1240 GAC demonstrated the best performance in terms of DOC removal, while the F400 GAC was best in terms of TON removal. Excitation emission matrix(EEM) analysis was used to show that GAC adsorption successfully removed most of Humic-like DOC and Fulvic-like DOCs. However, soluble microbial product(SMP)-like DOC in the absence of raw water were detected in the NORIT40S and Aquasorb1500 GAC. The authors assumed that this results is due probably to the part of GAC in the RSSCT which was converted into biological activated carbon(BAC). To compare with organics removal by GAC according to preloading, the virgin GACs had readily accessible sites that were adsorbed DOC more rapidly than preloaded GACs, but the TDN removal had not showed differences between those GACs.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.149-154
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• 2012

바이오필터담체가 충전된 흡착칼럼 운전 시의 흡착 및 탈착거동에 대하여 조사하였다. 에탄올을 휘발성유기화합물(VOC)로서 함유하는 폐가스를 처리하기 위한 연속동적흡착 실험을 바이오필터공정과 같은 90% 이상의 상대습도에서 수행하였다. 에탄올 1,000 ppmv(or 2,050 mg ethanol/$m^3$)를 포함하는 폐가스 2 L/min을 흡착칼럼에 공급하였을 때에 흡착칼럼 출구에서의 파과점과 흡착평형에 이르는 시간은 1단 시료구에서 보다 각각 10배와 3배 만큼 지연되었다. 한편 에탄올 2,000 ppmv(or 4,100 mg ethanol/$m^3$)를 포함하는 폐가스의 경우에는 각각 9배와 3배 지연되었다. 이와 같이 흡착칼럼 출구에서 지연기간의 비는 공급농도와 무관하게 서로 거의 일치하였음이 관찰되었다. 또한 1단 시료구와 출구에서 비교한 유입폐가스의 에탄올농도의 10%를 보이는 탈착시간 지연비도 약 1.5배로서 거의 일치하였다. 한편 미생물활성과 멸균공정의 흡착평형에 대한 영향에 대하여 조사하였다. 멸균된 입상 활성탄으로 충전된 vial의 기상 에탄올 농도는 멸균되지 않은 입상 활성탄으로 충전된 경우와 거의 일치하였다. 그러나 퇴비(compost)나 입상 활성탄/퇴비 혼합물의 경우에는 멸균 안한 경우가 멸균한 경우보다 기상에서의 에탄올 농도가 현저하게 높았다.