• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.535-553
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• 2006

Various aspects of air quality problems caused by aerosols in Seoul are discussed. Based on the measurement data, it was found that the general air quality in Seoul has improved during last twenty years. However, PM10 concentration in Seoul is still higher than other cities in Korea and worldwide. At Seoul, it was suggested that secondary aerosols are as important as aerosols directly emitted in Seoul or transported from outside.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.814-824
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• 2020

Recently, public interest in air pollutants has increased, and the Korean government and local governments have attempted to improve air quality. This study examined the secondary air pollutant contribution in Ulleung Island, Jeju Island, and Baengnyeong Island and compared the differences between them by analyzing the air pollution level and weather conditions in these regions. The weather conditions of the island regions, such as wind speed, precipitation, and sunshine duration, and the average concentration of air pollutants, such as SO₂, NO₂, CO, O₃, PM₁₀, PM_2.5, were examined. The correlation coefficient between air quality factors of each island region and weather conditions was calculated. Regression analysis was conducted by setting primary air pollutants, SO₂, NO₂, and CO as independent variables, and secondary air pollutants, O₃, PM₁₀, and PM_2.5 as dependent variables to identify the regional contribution and impact. Therefore, the government and local governments should establish air quality management for each island region.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.377-397
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• 2005

A new box model is proposed to describe the dynamic trend of the spatially averaged concentrations of pollutants over a large urban area such as metropolitan Seoul. Being averaged temporally and spatially over a thresh-hold scales, the dynamics of the pollutant concentration becomes simple enough that the governing equation can be expressed in an explicit algebraic form as a function of several meteorological factors and the pollutant emission rate. The single most important meteorological factor is the wind speed dominating the daily variations of the pollutant concentrations. Given the meteorological data from the surface station in the metropolitan Seoul, the model concentration shows excellent agreement with observations from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2000: the modeling uncertainty, for example, of $NO_2$ concentrations, defined as mean differences between the model concentrations and observations is $16\%$ of the model concentrations. Even for $PM_{10}$ of which secondary sources are considered to be very important and simple box model is irrelevant to, the model performance turns out good, modeling uncertainty being about $32\%$.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.508-519
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• 2015

The objective of this study was to quantitatively estimate $PM_{2.5}$ source contribution in Gyeongsan. Ambient $PM_{2.5}$ samples have been collected on zefluor, quartz and nylasorb filter by $PM_{2.5}$ samplers of cyclone method from September 2010 to December 2012. Collected samples were analyzed for determining 17 inorganic elements, 8 ions, and 8 carbon components after pretreatment. Based on these chemical information, the PMF model was applied to estimate the quantitative contribution of air pollution sources. The results of the PMF modeling showed that the sources were apportioned by biomass burning source (15.5%), secondary sulfate source (16.0%), industry source (10.4%), soil source (7.0%), gasoline source (9.1%), incinerator source (10.4%), diesel emission source (11.0%), and secondary nitrate source (20.6%), respectively. To analyze local source impacts from various wind directions, the CPF analysis were performed using source contribution results with the wind direction values measured at the site.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.15-27
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• 2015

The collection of fine particulate matter samples was made at Gosan site of Jeju Island, one of the background sites of Korea, during a year of 2013, and their water-soluble ionic species were analyzed in order to examine the chemical compositions and pollution characteristics. The concentrations of $nss-SO_4{^{2-}}$, $NH_4{^{+}}$, $NO_3{^{-}}$, and $K^+$ had occupied 66.0% of water-soluble ionic species in $PM_{10}$, especially 94.3% in $PM_{2.5}$ fine mode, however the $nss-Ca^{2+}$ and $Na^+$ showed high concentrations in $PM_{10-2.5}$ coarse mode. $NO_3{^-}/nss-SO_4{^{2-}}$ concentration ratios in $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{10-2.5}$ were 0.30 and 0.13, showing less significant effect from automobile and local pollution sources. The sulfate and nitrate compounds were presumed to be long-range transported to Gosan area by the relatively high SOR and NOR values. The trajectory cluster analysis showed the higher concentrations of the major secondary pollutants ($nss-SO_4{^{2-}}$, $NO_3{^{-}}$, $NH_4{^{+}}$) and $nss-Ca^{2+}$ when the air masses had moved from China continent and Korean peninsula into Gosan area.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.167-168
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• 2003

광화학 스모그는 대기 중으로 배출된 일차 오염물질인 /NO$_{x}$와 휘발성 유기화합물(volatile organic compounds)이 햇빛에 의해 반응하여 오존과 그외 다른 광화학 물질들을(photochemical oxidants) 생성시키는 현상이다. 서울의 경우 이런 VOCs 중에서 가장 많은 양을 차지하는 톨루엔은 광화학 반응을 통해 이차 유기 에어로졸(secondary organic aerosols)을 생성하는 능력이 매우 높은 방향족 화합물이다(Na and Kim, 2001). 지금까지 톨루엔의 이차 유기 에어로졸 생성에 관한 연구와 다른 방향족 탄화수소에 관한 연구가 스모그 챔버 실험을 통해 많이 이루어져 왔다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.43-44
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• 2003

스모그 챔버는 대기화학 반응을 물리적 변수를 제어할 수 있는 공간 내에서 재현하여 스모그 현상을 체계적으로 규명하기 위해 가장 많이 사용되는 방법이다(Dodge, 2000). 대기화학 반응을 통해 생성된 입자상 물질(secondary particles) 또는 초미세 입자(ultrafine particle, 〈0.1 $\mu\textrm{m}$)는 연속된 물리화학 반응을 통해 accumulation mode(0.1~l.0 $\mu\textrm{m}$) 입자로 성장한다. 특히, 대도시의 시정(visibility)은 accumulation mode 입자의 산란(scattering)과 흡수(adsorption)가 주요한 원인이기 때문에 이러한 물질의 생성에 영향을 주는 가스상 물질의 전화(gas-to-particle conversion) 반응과 초미세 입자의 성장 현상을 규명하는 것은 매우 중요하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.506-507
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.330-332
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• 2003

현대 사회는 인구, 산업, 경제, 활동이 도시에 집중되어 발달되고 있으며, 도시에서의 활동증가로 인한 교통량도 급격히 증가하고 있다. 급격히 증가된 인간의 생활환경 변화로 인한 오염물질의 배출도 역시 증가하여 우리의 주변환경을 심각하게 오염시키고 있다. 대기중에 존재하는 에어로졸 입자는 자연발생원에서 직접 대기중에 배출되는 해염입자, 토양입자 등과 같은 1차 입자(Primary particle)와 주로 연소, 소각 등에 의해 인위적으로 발생된 가스상 물질의 대기중에서 다양한 물리ㆍ화학적인 반응을 통해 생성되는 2차입자(Secondary particle)로 크게 구별할 수 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.500-505
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• 2005

This paper introduces an experimental study for the noise characteristics and reduction of a ventilating fan system. For the purpose of noise reduction of it, an absorptive duct silencer filled with a glass fiber has been conventionally utilized. However, a glass fiber has some disadvantages like hygiene and secondary pollution problems. In order to overcome these problems, in this paper, a perforated duct silencer has been applied to the ventilating fan system. For the designing of a perforated duct silencer, the transmission losses for various perforated panel systems are measured and compared with their sound absorption performances.