• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2013

This study was objected to evaluate the potential impact on the groundwater environment of the coal bottom ash used as fill materials on the land surface. From four coal-fired power plants, bottom-ashes were collected and analyzed through sequential extraction and column leaching tests following the meteoric water mobility procedure. The column tests shown leaching heavy metals including Pb, As, B, Cu, Zn, Mn, Ni, Ba, Sr, Sb, V, Cr, Mo, and Hg. The relatively high concentrations of B, Sr, Ba, and V in leachate were attributed to both the higher concentrations in the bottom ash and the relatively higher portion of leachable state, sorbed state, of metals. Bottom-ash samples from the D-plant only show high leaching potential of sulfate ($SO_4$), probably originated from the coal-combustion process, called the Fluidized Bed Combustion. Consequently, to manage recycling bottom ashes as fill materials, an evaluation system should be implemented to test the leaching potentials of metals from the ashes considering the absolute amount of metals and their state of existence in ashes, and the coal-combustion process.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2003

Seasonal fluctuations of physico-chemical and biological aspects of the environment were studied in Vladivostok harbour (Golden Horn Bay, the East Sea/Sea of Japan). The benthic community structure was described with a focus on size-spectra (bacteria, meio- and macrofauna) related with the chemical environment and chemical fluxes in sediment and to reveal their possible ecological role in the process of bioremediation of the environment. Samples from two sites with different concentrations of heavy metals (Fe, Zn, Cu, Pb, Mn, Cr, Ni Cd, Co) and petroleum hydrocarbon were assessed by a number of methods. These included plate counts of culturable bacteria, observation through a scanning electron (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). These approaches were complemented with microscopic assessments of the diversity of the benthic community. The specific communities had a limited number of species, tolerant to abnormally high levels of toxic compounds. The dominant species were presented by several sho.1-lived small polychaetes (Capitella capitata) and nematodes (Oncholaimium ramosum). The highest population density was recorded in microbenthos, in various diatoms, various physiological groups of bacteria which participate in biomineralization: marine heterotrophic bacteria, which oxidized oil, black oil in addition to groups resistant to heavy metals. They have the entire set of mechanisms for neutralizing the negative effect of those compounds, forming the detrital food web and biogeochemical circulation of material in sediments, which results in the biological self-recycling of sea basins. Macro- and meiobenthic organisms were more sensitive to a greater extent of $H_2S$ and petroleum hydrocarbons than to metal content, but the within-site rankings were the same as those achieved for microbiological analyses.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.2349-2356
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• 2014

The recycling technology by the catalytic conversion is one of the most promising techniques for the $CO_2$ treatment of coal burning power plant flue gases. The conversion of $CO_2$ to valuable product of $CH_4$ can be used as a fuel to run the turbine for electricity generation. Through this technique, the amount of coal needed for the combustion in a gas turbine can be reduced as well as $CO_2$ emissions. Therefore, a series of catalysts based on cerium oxide doped with copper, nickel and manganese were prepared by impregnation method. From the characterization analysis, it showed that the prepared catalysts calcined at $400^{\circ}C$ were amorphous in structure with small particle size in the range below 100 nm. Meanwhile, the catalyst particles were aggregated and agglomerated with higher surface area of $286.70m^2g^{-1}$. By increasing the calcination temperature of catalysts to $1000^{\circ}C$, the particle sizes were getting bigger (> 100 nm) and having moderate crystallinity with lower surface area ($67.90m^2g^{-1}$). From the catalytic testing among all the prepared catalysts, Mn/Ce-75/$Al_2O_3$ calcined at $400^{\circ}C$ was assigned as the most potential catalyst which gave 49.05% and 56.79% $CO_2$ conversion at reaction temperature of $100^{\circ}C$ and $200^{\circ}C$, respectively.

• 청정기술
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2019

여러 금속 부품을 가공하기 위하여 사용된 염화제이철 에칭 폐액은 유가금속인 니켈 등을 함유하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 식각공정을 완료한 에칭폐액을 재생하고 부산물로 나온 니켈 함유 폐액으로부터 정제하여 니켈 금속분말로 제조하는 공정을 개발하였다. 부산물인 니켈함유용액을 철 등의 불순물을 침전 제거하기 위하여 수산화나트륨 수용액을 실험을 통하여 가수분해 중화제로서 선정하였고, 이를 통하여 철 등의 불순물을 pH = 4 조건하에 침전 제거하였다. 그 후, 불순물로 잔류하는 망간 및 아연과 같은 금속이온들을 D2EHPA (Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid)를 사용하여 용매추출 하였다. 정제된 염화니켈은 99% 이상의 순도를 가지고 있으며, 그 후 환원제로 하이드라진을 이용하여 99% 이상의 순도와 약 150 nm의 크기를 가지는 니켈 금속분말로 제조하였다. 염화니켈 및 니켈 금속분말의 성분은 EDTA 적정법과 유도결합 플라즈마 방출분광법(inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer, ICP-OES)을 이용하여 확인하였으며, 전계방사 주사전자현미경(field emission scanning electron microscope, FE-SEM), X-선 회절분석기(X-ray diffraction, XRD) 및 투과전자현미경(transmission electron microscopy, TEM)을 통하여 금속분말의 형태, 입자 크기 및 결정성과 같은 물리적 특성을 확인하였다.