• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.170-175
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• 2005

자외선을 대체하여 형광등이나 자연광(햇빛)을 이용하여 $TiO_2$로 수은제거 실험을 수행하였다. 반응기는 내부의 $TiO_2$가 광원에 최대한 노출되도록 디자인하였으며 회전할 수 있게 하였다. 반응기 내부에 $TiO_2$와 유리비드를 섞어 넣어 기상수은과 흡착제와의 접촉면적을 최대화하였다. 광촉매가 가장 활성을 잘 보이는 UV black light뿐 아니라 실험에 사용된 모든 광원에서 99% 이상의 수은제거효율을 보였다. 인체에 무해하고 경제성이 좋은 형광등이나 태양광하에서도 99% 이상의 수은제거효율을 얻었다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.98-103
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• 1998

A study on the removal of mercury and lead by microorganisms, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aureobasidium pullulans, was performed, in which the comparison of adsorption model between these two heavy metals was done. The amounts of mercury removed were more than those of lead in both microorganisms. In case of mercury, the adsorption isotherm of S. cerevisiae was accorded with Langmuir model but A. pullulans was followed to Freundlich model. In the case of lead, however, the adsorption isotherm had opposite results. The adsorption rate of mercury to S. cerevisiae was faster than that of A. pullulans, but in the case of lead, it revealed contrary results. It seems, therefore, that the type of microorganisms used as biosorbents should be selected differently with the type of heavy metals removed for applying these to real adsorption process.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.479-484
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• 2006

Removal of elemental mercury $(Hg^0)$ with the reactive species produced from dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) was studied. We investigated the effect of operating parameters such as the applied voltage, residence time, initial concentration and co-existence of other pollutants. The removal of $(Hg^0)$ was significantly promoted by an increase in the applied voltage of the DBD reactor system. It is important to note that at the same input power, the removal efficiency of $(Hg^0)$ was much higher than that of NO gas. These results imply that if the DBD system is used as a NOx treatment facility, it is capable of removing $(Hg^0)$ simultaneously with NOx.

• Carbon letters
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2011

Public concern has recently increased over the potential risk of toxic elements emitted from anthropogenic sources. Among these, mercury has drawn special attention owing to its increasing level of bioaccumulation in the environment and in the food chain, with potential risks for human health. This paper presents an overview of research related to mercury control technology and identifies areas requiring additional research and development. It critically reviews measured mercury emissions progress in the development of promising control technologies, including catalytic oxidation, sorbent injection, photochemistry oxidation, and air pollution control devices.

• 청정기술
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.172-180
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• 2017

HCl에 의한 원소수은의 염화수은으로의 산화반응에 대한 열역학적 검토 결과 수십 ppm 수준의 HCl이 존재하는 경우에 SCR 반응 온도범위에서 원소수은의 염화수은으로의 전환은 100% 가능한 것으로 확인하였다. SCR공정 운전 온도범위에서 Cu, Fe, Mn의 염화물이 담지된 $V_2O_5-WO_3/TiO_2$ 촉매가 우수한 NO 제거 활성을 보였다. $NH_3-TPD$ 측정결과 $NH_3$의 흡착강도를 나타내는 탈착온도가 높은 촉매가 우수한 NO 제거활성을 나타내었다. 반응가스에 HCl을 공급할 경우 원소수은의 산화반응이 촉진되는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 그러나, NO와 함께 $NH_3$가 존재하는 SCR반응 조건에서는 촉매표면에 강하게 흡착되는 $NH_3$에 의해 촉매표면에 HCl의 흡착이 방해를 받기 때문에 HCl에 의한 원소수은의 염화수은으로의 산화반응 활성이 억제되는 것으로 나타났다. SCR반응 조건에서 금속염화물이 담지된 $V_2O_5-WO_3/TiO_2$ 촉매가 금속염화물이 담지되지 않은 $V_2O_5-WO_3/TiO_2$ 촉매에 비해 우수한 수은 산화활성을 보이는데 이는 촉매 표면에 존재하는 금속염화물의 염소기가 수은 산화반응에 참여하여 활성을 증가시키기 때문으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.8-18
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• 2006

The aim of this study is to evaluate the emission characteristics of mercury, lead, arsenic, and selenium from medium size municipal solid waste incinerators(MSWIs) in Korea. The concentrations of mercury, lead, arsenic, and selenium emitted from medium size MSWI stack were $2.67\;{\mu}g/Sm^3,\;0.38\;mg/Sm^3,\;1.33\;{\mu}g/Sm^3,\;0.28\;{\mu}g/Sm^3$, respectively. The concentration levels of mercury, lead, arsenic in flue gas from medium size MSW incinerator stacks selected were nearly detected under the Korea criteria level. Removal efficiencies of mercury, lead, arsenic, and selenium in waste heat boiler(WHE) and cooling tower(CT) were $90.36\%,\;69.76\%,\;43.04\%,\;40.64\%$, respectively. In general, the removal efficiencies of mercury and lead in WHE were higher than those of arsenic and selenium in WHE. Emission gas temperature reduction from waste heat boiler(WHB) and cooling tower(CT) can control mercury and lead of medium size MSWIs. To evaluate the relationship between mercury, lead, arsenic, selenium of fly ash and those of flue gas, it was carried out to correlation analysis of each metal concentration in the fly ash and in the flue gas from medium size MSWIs. From the correlation analysis, the coefficients of mercury, lead, arsenic, and selenium were 0.61, -0.38, 0.87, 0.28, respectively. The results of correlation analysis revealed that it should be highly positive to the correlation coefficients of mercury and arsenic in the fly ash and those of the flue gas emitted from medium size MSWIs. As it were, the concentrations of mercury and arsenic of flue gas from medium size MSWIs are high unless mercury and arsenic in fly ash are properly controlled in dust collection step in medium size MSWIs. It was also concluded that mercury, lead, arsenic, and selenium from MSWIs stacks could be controlled by waste heat boiler(WHE) and dust collecting step in medium size MSWIs.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2014

Iron precipitating organisms play a significant role in the formation of ferric hydroxide precipitate, which acts as strong adsorbent for toxic metal. In this respect four different iron precipitating cultures were isolated from Hutti gold mine surface winze water sample on citrate agar medium. The best isolate was screened out for metal removal study on the basis of fast visual iron precipitation. The selected isolate was identified as Enterobacter sp. based on routine biochemical tests and Biolog GN microplate results and as Enterobacter cloacae subsp. dissolvens by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis (GenBank accession number EU429448). Influence of medium composition, medium initial pH, the influence of inoculum size, effect of various media and ferric ammonium citrate concentration were studied on metal removal in shake flask experiments. Under the optimized conditions studied, E. cloacae showed $94{\pm}2$, $95{\pm}2$ and $70{\pm}2%$ of cadmium, copper and mercury removal from a simulated waste in shake flask studies. In lab scale column reactor more than 85% of copper and mercury removal was achieved.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2010

The high temperature pleated filter bags which were used during this study were made of pleated nonwoven fabric of heat and acid resistant polysulfonate fibers which can withstand the heat up to $300^{\circ}C$ and have a filtration area which is 3 to 5 times larger than the conventional round filter bags. Cartridge module packed with 3 kind of the sulfur impregnated activated-carbon based sorbents were inserted in the inner of the pleated filter bag. This type of pleated filter bag was designed to remove not only the particulate matter but also the gaseous elemental mercury. The electrostatic precipitator part can enhance the particulate removal efficiency and reduce the pressure drop of the pleated filter bag by agglomerated particles to form a more porous dust layer on the surface of the pleated bag which is increased the filter bag cleaning efficiency. In addition, the most of particles are separated from the flue gas stream through the cyclone and the electrostatic precipitator part which were installed at the lower part and main body part of the convergence particulate collector, respectively. Thus reduce particulate loading of the high temperature pleated filter bags were applied in this study to analyze the removal characteristics of particulate matter and gaseous elemental mercury.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.190-195
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• 2015

이 연구는 초등학생 15명을 대상으로 어린이에서 아말감 제거시 노출되는 수은에 따라 인체내 요중 수은 농도에 미치는 영향과 성별에 따라 요중 수은 농도의 관련성을 조사하고자 하였다. 연구대상자의 평균 요중 수은 농도는 초기 검진 시 $2.77{\mu}g$ Hg/g creatinine, 제거 직후 $2.75{\mu}g$ Hg/g creatinine, 제거 후 24시간 $2.95{\mu}g$ Hg/g creatinine, 제거 후 48시간 $4.00{\mu}g$ Hg/g creatinine으로 높아지는 경향을 보였다. 성별에 따라 남학생에 비해 여학생에서 요중 수은 농도가 초기 검진시 1.23배(0.65~2.33배), 아말감 제거 직후 2.80배(0.93~8.65배), 아말감 제거 후 24시간 1.97배(0.90~4.32배), 아말감 제거 후 48시간 1.99배(0.93~4.28배)로 높은 것으로 나타났으나 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다. 아말감 치면 수와 생선 섭취를 보정한 후 남학생에 비해 여학생에서 요중 수은 농도가 초기 검진시 1.26배(0.58~2.70배), 아말감 제거 직후 2.88배(0.86~9.68배), 아말감 제거 후 24시간 1.97배(0.87~4.47배), 아말감 제거 후 48시간 2.31배(0.87~6.11배)였다. 이 연구에서 남학생에서 초기 검진시에 비해 아말감 제거 후 평균 요중 수은 농도가 감소하였으나 시간 의존적으로 지속적으로 감소하지 않았으며, 선형회귀분석에서는 성별에 따른 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없으므로 향후 대상자 수를 늘려 통계적인 검정력을 높일 필요가 있겠다. 이 연구에서 아말감 내 수은 증기 노출은 인체건강에 잠재적인 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였으므로 아말감을 제거하는 과정에서 주의해야 할 필요성이 있다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.376-379
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• 2021

Elemental mercury exposure can result in significant toxicity. Source decontamination and remediation are often required after larger elemental mercury exposures, but the details of these processes are infrequently reported. In the case described herein, a 64-year-old woman and her husband were exposed to elemental mercury in their home after the husband purchased it online for the purpose of recreational barometer calibration. After the mercury reportedly spilled during the calibration process, a vacuum cleaner was used to decontaminate the affected surface; this led to extensive mercury contamination of the home. The couple was relocated from the home while remediation occurred over the course of several weeks. Vacuum cleaning of an elemental mercury spill can lead to extensive volatilization and recirculation of mercury vapor. For smaller mercury spills, careful removal of visible mercury beads by using an eyedropper, cardboard, and masking tape is recommended. Larger spills require professional decontamination and remediation and may necessitate involvement of governmental resources. Vacuum cleaning should not be used as an initial method of decontamination after elemental mercury exposure. Careful attention to source decontamination can reduce the emotional and financial costs associated with extensive remediation after elemental mercury exposure.