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Measurement of turbidity using Infrared Ray (적외선 광원을 이용한 탁도 측정)

  • Youm, Sungkwan;Shin, Kwang-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.263-264
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    • 2021
  • The importance of evaluation and management of drinking water quality is emerging among the impacts of industrial changes and environmental destruction. Currently, the turbidity-related laws in Korea are regulated, and the low-concentration turbidity of 1.0 NTU or less must be maintained for process management, and control technology remains a necessary task. In this study, absorbance experiments according to turbidity were conducted using 470nm, 670nm, and 850nm, and water quality was measured using a light source of 850nm and a light receiving device of 820nm.

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Removal of High Concentration Manganese in 2-stage Manganese Sand Filtration (2단 망간모래여과에 의한 고농도 망간 처리)

  • Kim, Chung H.;Yun, Jong S.;Lim, Jae L.;Kim, Seong S.
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.503-508
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    • 2007
  • Small scale D-water treatment plant(WTP) where has slow sand filtration was using raw water containing high concentration of manganese (> 2mg/l). The raw water was pre-chlorinated for oxidation of manganese and resulted in difficulty for filtration. Thus, sometimes manganese concentration and turbidity were over the water quality standard. Two stage rapid manganese sand filtration pilot plant which can treat $200m^3/d$ was operated to solve manganese problem in D-WTP. The removal rate of manganese and turbidity were about 38% and 84%, respectively without pH control of raw water. However, when pH of raw water was controlled to average 7.9 with NaOH solution, the removal rate of manganese and turbidity increased to 95.0% and 95.5%, respectively and the water quality of filtrate satisfied the water quality standard. Manganese content in sand was over 0.3mg/g which is Japan Water Association Guideline. The content in upper filter was 5~10 times more than that of middle and lower during an early operation but the content in middle and lower filter was increased more and more with increase of operation time. This result means that the oxidized manganese was adsorbed well in sand. Rapid manganese sand filter was backwashed periodically. The water quality of backwash wastewater was improved by sedimentation. Thus, turbidity and manganese concentration decreased from 29.4NTU to 3.09NTU and from 1.7mg/L to 0.26mg/L, respectively for one day. In Jar test of backwash wastewater with PAC(Poly-aluminum chloride), optimum dosage was 30mg/L. Because the turbidity of filtrate was high as 0.76NTU for early 5 minute after backwash, filter-to-waste should be used after backwash to prevent poor quality water.

Performance Evaluation of Ball Media Filter in DABF applied to SWRO pretreatment process (SWRO 전처리 공정에 적용된 DABF 내 Ball Media Filter 성능 평가)

  • Choi, Seokho;Lee, Junghyun;Park, Sungju;Lee, Younggeun;Roh, Hyungkeun;Kim, Yongbeom
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.567-573
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    • 2019
  • DABF(Dissolve Air Flotation with Ball Filter) is developed as the DAF with the addition of a fiber ball at the lower part of the DAF. The DABF with a capacity of 4,500 ㎥/h was constructed at Gijang SWRO plant in Busan. Since the ball filter has high filtration rate, the loading rate of DABF was designed from 20 to 42 ㎥/h/㎡. When one DABF basin is in the back washing mode, the loading rate of other two DABF basins is increased to 42 ㎥/h/㎡. Turbidity at the BF outlet in DABF is <2 NTU at turbidity of 5-10 NTU at the BF inlet. If there is no algae bloom and turbidity is low in raw seawater, only BF in DABF is operated and meets <2 NTU at the BF outlet. Even if BF is operated at high hydraulic loading rates, no significant differential pressure increases and reduction in the turbidity removal rate is minimal in a day. Thus, DABF is the pre-treatment technology that provides stable water quality even with BF onlyoperation without DAF operation. Compared with the DAF, DABF requires additional facilities such as valves, piping, and drainage systems for backwashing the BF. But in terms of footprint and operating costs, DABF has more advantages than DAF. With DABF application, the load of the downstream filtration equipment is decreased so that the capacity of the filtration equipment can be reduced. Also, if the downstream filtration equipment is to be maintained the same regardless of DABF, the operating cost of DABF is less than DAF.

A Hydrological Analysis of Current Status of Turbid Water in Soyang River and Its Mitigation (소양강 탁수 현황과 저감에 대한 수리학적 분석)

  • Lee, Jin-Yong
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2008
  • Water in Soyang River is an essential source for citizens of Chuncheon and Seoul areas. In 2006, turbid water in Soyang River aggravated by the typhoon Ewiniar, sustained for over 280 days unlike conventional years, then which interrupted water supply of Chuncheon and Seoul areas. Soil erosion derived from high cool lands constituting about 55% of Soyang River area is considered one of main causes for the turbid water, including imprudent development of mountainous area, road expansion, and road construction for forestry. According to analysis of turbidity, precipitation and reservoir level in Soyang River region for June 2006${\sim}$August 2008, the turbidity showed a peak correlation (r = 0.28) at a lag time of 49 days and especially did an excellent correlation (r = 0.60) with the reservoir level at a lag of 4 days. In the meantime, a critical turbidity of 31 NTU at Soyanggang Dam was estimated, over which would cause turbid water at Paldang Dam. In addition, a master recession curve was suggested, from which sustaining time of turbid water can be predicted.

Substitutability of coagulation process by pre-treatment of coagulation·flotation using natural algae coagulant (천연조류제거제를 활용한 응집·부상 전처리공정의 기존 응집공정 대체 가능성)

  • Jang, Yeo-Ju;Jung, Jin-Hong;Lim, Hyun-Man;Chang, Hyang-Youn;Kim, Weon-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.39-50
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    • 2017
  • In the coagulation/sedimentation (C/S) process of the water treatment process, the inflow of massive algal bloom causes many problems including fouling of filter media. This study was conducted to find out the way to remove the algae's harmful effects by addition of pre-treatment prior to C/S process. Many Jar-tests were conducted such as (1) ACF (Algae Coagulation Flotation) process using natural algae coagulant (Water $Health^{(R)}$), (2) ACF + C/S process and (3) C/S process with a variety of conditions using cultured algae. The average values of turbidity were (1) 0.42 NTU for ACF process, (2) 0.13 NTU for ACF + C/S process and (3) 0.25 NTU for C/S process. It was shown that the treatment efficiency of ACF process could get low turbidity results, and ACF + C/S process could achieve more efficient results than those of C/S process. Any negative effects of ACF process to the efficiency of C/S process were not observed in ACF + C/S process. In order to reduce the unfavorable effects of algae, it was found out that the introduction of ACF process in the forms of (1) ACF or (2) ACF + C/S could be one of the effective and alternative solutions.

Numerical Study of Characteristic of Heat and Mass Transfer in Planar Membrane Humidifier According to Flow Direction (연료전지용 판형 막 가습기의 유동방향에 따른 열 및 물질전달 특성에 관한 해석적 연구)

  • Yun, Sungho;Byun, Jae Ki;Choi, Young Don
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.503-511
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    • 2013
  • The humidifying supply gas is important in terms of the performance efficiency and membrane life improvement of a PEM fuel cell. A planar membrane humidifier is classified as a cross-flow and counter-flow type depending on the flow direction, and heat and mass transfer occur between the plate and the membrane. In this study, the changes in heat and mass transfer for various inlet temperatures and flow rates are compared according to the flow direction by using the sensible and latent ${\varepsilon}$-NTU method. The obtained results indicate that the counter flow shows higher heat and mass transfer performance than the cross flow at a low flow rate, and the difference in performance decreases as the flow rate increases. Furthermore, changes in the mass transfer performance decrease considerably with a nonlinear increase in the inlet temperature, and variations of the heat transfer performance are small.

Optimization of coagulant dosage using response surface methodology with central composite design (반응표면분석법-중심합성계획을 이용한 최적 응집제 주입량 산정 연구)

  • Kim, Yeseul;Oh, Jeill
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.193-202
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    • 2015
  • The determining the appropriate dosage of coagulant is very important, because dosage of coagulant in the coagulation process for wastewater affects removing the amount of pollutants, cost, and producing sludge amount. Accordingly, in this study, in order to determine the optimal PAC dosage in the coagulation process, CCD (Central composite design) was used to proceed experimental design, and the quadratic regression models were constructed between independent variables (pH, influent turbidity, PAC dosage) and each response variable (Total coliform, E.coli, PSD (Particle size distribution) (< $10{\mu}m$), TP, $PO_4$-P, and $COD_{cr}$) by the RSM (Response surface methodology). Also, Considering the various response variables, the optimum PAC dosage and range were derived. As a result, in order to maximize the removal rate of total coliform and E.coli, the values of independent variables are the pH 6-7, the influent turbidity 100-200 NTU, and the PAC dosage 0.07-0.09 ml/L. For maximizing the removal rate of TP, $PO_4$-P, $COD_{cr}$, and PSD(< $10{\mu}m$), it is required for the pH 9, the influent turbidity 200-250 NTU, and the PAC dosage 0.05-0.065 ml/L. In the case of multiple independent variables, when the desirable removal rate for total coliform, E.coli, TP, and $PO_4$-P is 90-100 % and that for $COD_{cr}$ and PSD(< $10{\mu}m$) is 50-100 %, the required PAC dosage is 0.05-0.07 ml/L in the pH 9 and influent turbidity 200-250 NTU. Thus, if the influent turbidity is high, adjusting pH is more effective way in terms of cost since a small amount of PAC dosage is required.

Study on Experimental and Theroretical performances for a Compact Metallic Heat Exchanger for Fuel Cell Systems (연료전지용 소형 금속 열교환기의 성능에 대한 실험 및 이론적 연구)

  • Yoon, Young-Hwan;Paeng, Jin-Gi
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2011
  • This study assessed the performance of a compact heat exchanger with staggered tube banks for recuperation of high temperature exhaust thermal energy for SOFC fuel cell system. The compact heat exchanger in this study is two pass system which consists of $315{\times}202.5{\times}48.5mm^3$ and 132 tubes of $6.0mm{\Phi}$ for each heat exchanger. From experiments of the 2 pass heat exchanger system, air temperature was increased from $60{\sim}85^{\circ}C$ to $402{\sim}482^{\circ}C$ while gas temperature was decreased from $600^{\circ}C$ to $305{\sim}402^{\circ}C$ according to mass flow rates of 3.9~7.8 g/s. The experimental heat transfer rates of the heat exchanger were compared with CFD numerical solutions with the conventional ${\xi}-NTU$ method. From the comparisons, the following conclusions were obtained. For the heat exchanger system, the relative errors of heat transfer rate by CFD solution were from 7.1 to 27%, and those by ${\xi}-NTU$ method were from 0.6% to 21% compared with experimental data. From the comparisons, it can be said that both of CFD and ${\xi}-NTU$ method almost simulated to experimental data except specific conditions. Pressure drops through air tubes and gas passages were calculated with both of the CFD computation and head loss equations. The differences between them were from 14 to 22%.

Water Quality of Some Spring Waters in Pusan Area (부산시내에 산재하는 몇몇 약수터 약수의 수질)

  • KIM Yong-Gwan;CHO Hyeon-Seo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.538-544
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    • 1985
  • This study was carried cut to evaluate the water quality of spring waters in Pusan area(see Fig. 1). In this experiment, twenty-five water samples were collected from 5 stations from December 1983 to August 1984. Range and mean values of constituents of the samples are as follows: pH $5.80{\sim}7.25$, 6.60; water temperature $6.0{\sim}23.0^{\circ}C,\;12.9^{\circ}C$; total residue $33.0{\sim}325mg/l$, 121.2mg/l; alkalinity $4.75{\sim}51.6mg/l$, 24.1mg/l; hardness $9.47{\sim}85.0mg/l$, 30.3mg/l; electrical conductivity $0.495{\sim}2.750{\times}^2{mu}{\mho}/cm,\;1.239{\times}10^2{\mu}{\mho}/cm$;turbidity $0.54{\sim}7.80$NTU, 2.04NTU; $KMnO_4$ consumed $0.51{\sim}8.47mg/l$, 1.96mg/l; chloride ion $4.91{\sim}36.0mg/l$, 12.55mg/l; fluoride ion ND-0.30ppm, 0.08ppm; nitrate-nitrogen ND-8.94mg/l, 1.94m:g/l; nitrite-nirogen ND-0.10mg/l, 0.03mg/l; ammonia-nitrogen ND-0.16mg/l, 0.03mg/l: phosphate-phosphorus ND-0.09mg/l, 0.03mg/l; silicate-silicious $0.42{\sim}22.7ng/l$, 7.96mg/l; copper ND-10.5ppb, 2.46ppb; lead ND-22.7ppb, 3.54ppb; zinc ND-103ppb, 21.33ppb; iron $20.3{\sim}2,800ppb$, 801.72ppb, respectively. Arsenic, cyan, cadmium, manganese, mercury, chrome and phenol were not detected. Total residue, electrical conductivity, turbidity and chloride ion of station 1 (Milrakdong) were higher than others as 178.1mg/l, $2.127{\times}10^2{\mu}{\mho}/cm$, 3.16NTU and 16.32mg/l. The concentration of silicious had a great influence on precipitation. The concentration of fluoride ion of spring waters was lower as 0.08ppm than the criterion for drinking water as 1ppm, while iron was exceed 2.7 times as 801.72ppb.

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