• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2005년도 지반공학 공동 학술발표회
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• pp.382-388
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• 2005

Soil vapor extraction(SVE) is an effective and cost efficient method of removing volatile organic compounds(VOCs) and petroleum hydrocarbons from unsaturated soils. However, soil vapor extraction becomes ineffective in soils with low gas permeability, for example soils with air permeabilities less than 1 Darcy. Prefabricated vertical drains(PVDs) have been used for dewatering fine-grained soils for more than 25 years. Incorporating PVDs in and SVE system can extend the effectiveness of SVE to lower permeability soils by shortening the air flow-paths and ultimately expediting contaminant removal. The objective of the work described herein was to effectively incorporate PVDs into a SVE remediation system and to demonstrate a PVDs enhanced SVE system at full scale. The finding from this research will facilitate the design of field PVD-SVE systems in terms by providing insight into the optimal spacing between PVDs, the radius of influence of the wells and the flow rates to be used to capture and extract gas phase contaminants.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.3-12
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• 1997

식물을 이용하여 오염된 토양에 존재하는 유기 및 무기 오염 물질을 제거하는 phytoremediation은 환경 정화를 위한 새로운 기술이다. 독성 중금속, 방사성 핵종 및 독성 유기 오염 물질을 제거하는데 이용될 수 있는 phytoremediation 에는 다음의 세가지 방법이 있다. (1) phytoextraction: 독성 중금속이나 방사성 핵종과 같은 무기 오염 물질을 수화가능한 부분에 축적하는 식물체를 이용하여 정화하는 방법, (2) phytodegradation: 독성 물질을 분해하는 효소를 분비하는 식물체를 이용하거나 효소를 생산해내는 미생물과 밀접한 연관이 있는 식물체를 이용하여 독성 물질을 무독성 물질로 전환하는 방법, 그리고 (3) phytostabilization: 독성 오염 물질을 용존 상태에서 침전 흑은 식물체의 조직이나 주변 토양 matrix에 흡착시켜 안정화시키는 방법이다. 이 기술은 기존의 어떤 처리 방법보다 더 효과적이고 경제적이다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2002년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.250-252
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• 2002

The goals of environmental monitoring are to locate and quantify the significant contamination, estimate the fate and transport, estimate the potential exposure and risks to humans and the environment, and track the performance of various remedial technologies. In this study, ceramic gas sensor system is proposed to enhance the effectiveness of soil vapor extraction (SVE) process by monitoring the effluent gas. SVE is a technique that is widely used to remediate unsaturated soils contaminated with volatile organic contaminants. The sensor response for benzene, toluene, and xylene, the representative effluent gas compositions of SVE process, was evaluated using the proposed sensor system. As a result, it was verified that the response of sensor was increased or decreased very sensitively according to the change of the effluent gas concentration. Besides, the sensor could detect the difference over a wide range of concentration and it was more sensitive in order of xylene, toluene, and benzene. It is expected that this VOC analysis method results in field monitoring costs saying and appropriate immediate action for process control. More detailed experiments are being conducted in our research group.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.407-412
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate removal efficiencies of contaminants in night soil treatment plant using the B3 system. The samples were collected from retaining tank and settlement tank in Yechon night soil plant. We experimented concentrations of BOD, COD, SS, TN and TP. Concentration data were processed using removal efficiencies by season and correlation analysis with pilot running parameters. Removal efficiencies of total organic carbon was over 96%, TN was 98% during summer, 80.9% during winter. In the case of TP, the highest removal efficiencies was 94.1% during fall and the lowest removal efficiencies was 82% during spring. Results of correlation analysis showed two positive correlation groups and one negative group. Positive correlations were among temperature, BOD and TN. The others were pH, BOD, COD, SS, TN and TP. Negative correlation were among MLSS, BOD, COD, SS, TN, TP.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.87-98
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• 1995

현장에서 화학약액을 주입하여 탈착을 촉진시킴으로 유기화합물로 오염된 흙을 정화처리하는 방법을 실험실에서 모델링해 보았다. 본 실험에서 UH40이라고 명명된 흙에 페놀(phenol), 애닐린(aniline), 퀴놀린(quinoline), 및 2-낼톨(2-napthol) 등의 유기유해물질을 오염시킨 후, 여러 종류의 화학약액을 사용하여 이 유기물질을 탈착/제거시켜 보았다. 오염물질제거 용액으로는 물, 과산화수소, 산성 및 염기성용액, 그리고 계면활성제를 이용하였다. 현장의 흙의 응력 상태와 약액주입 상황은 삼축압축기를 응용한 투수기(permeameter)로 오염된 흙에 구속음력을 가해주고 등수경사를 유발시켜 약액이 흐르게 함으로써 모델링이 가능하였다. 폐놀과 애닐린은 수산화나트릅과 중성세제에 의해 각각 효과적으로 탈착되었고, 음이온성 세제는 퀴놀린과 2-낼톨의 정화에 효과적이었다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.427-433
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• 2019

Sakarya is famous for cucurbit productions in Turkey and cucurbits can grow as big as 560 kg of weight per fruit in its agricultural areas. There is no or limited information about contaminant levels and profiles of the agricultural fields in Sakarya. The purpose of this study is to investigate the levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (naphthalene, phenanthrene, pyrene, and fluoranthene) and heavy metal (As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb, Zn) concentrations of the selected fields. Total 33 soil samples were collected from 12 counties of Sakarya where both cucurbits have been produced and organochlorine pesticides have been applied to the fields for more than 30 y during the historical plantation periods. Heavy metal and PAH contents in the soil samples were measured by an Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectroscopy and a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. The highest phenanthrene, pyrene, and fluoranthene concentrations were measured as 63.50 ng/g, 134.34 ng/g, 140.0 ng/g, respectively in the soil samples from Geyve County. Cu, Ni, and Cr concentrations were measured as 108.2 mg/kg, 219.9 mg/kg, and 173.1 mg/kg, respectively in Geyve's samples which were also the highest and 2-7 times more than the limit values given in the Turkish Soil Pollution Control Regulation. Precautions need to be taken for Sakarya's agricultural fields which are an important milestone of Turkey's cucurbit and fruit productions since the contaminants can be accumulated in the fruits and edible parts of the plants.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.491-495
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• 2014

Phytoremediation is a technology using plants and associated soil microbes to reduce the concentrations or toxic effects of contaminants in the environments. It is regarded as a cost-effective, efficient, eco-friendly, and solar-driven technology with good public acceptance. This study was conducted to find the plants accumulating heavy metals in soils contaminated with Cd and Pb. Experimental plots (plot size: $0.81m^2$) was artificially contaminated using a contaminated soil collected from a field in vicinity of Wondong mine (WD). Sunflower, corn and castor were tested for their potential to remove heavy metals from the contaminated soils. The results indicated that sunflower was most effective in accumulating heavy metals and thus remedying the soils among the three crops. Dry weight and heavy metal uptake of sunflower shoot differed with growth period. For example, the Cd content of shoots including leaf and stem were 0.31mg, 2.23 mg, and 0.96 mg per plot at 4, 8 and 12 weeks after planting in Cd4-WD treatment; in addition, the dry weight of the shoots in Cd8-WD treatment was reduced due to heavy metal toxicity. This experiment showed that sunflower absorbed Cd, Pb and Zn in their shoots up to 8 weeks of planting; thereafter heavy metals uptake was diminished. This implies that the efficiency of these plants in cleaning the contaminated soils may be high at the early stage of plant growth.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.12-29
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• 2011

Risk-based screening levels (RBSLs) of some pollutants for residential adults were derived with risk assessment tools developed by United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Korea Ministry of Environment (KMOE) and compared each other. To make the comparison simple, ingestion of soil, dermal contact with soil, outdoor inhalation of vapors, indoor inhalation of vapors, and inhalation of soil particulates were chosen as exposure pathways. The results showed that the derived RBSLs varied for every exposure pathway. For direct exposure pathways (i.e., ingestion of soil and dermal contact with soil), the derived RBSLs varied mainly due to the different default values for exposure factors and toxicity data. When identical default values for the parameters were used, the same RBSLs could be derived regardless of the assessment tools used. For inhalation of vapors and inhalation of soil particulates, however, different analysis methods for cross-media transfer rates were used and different assumptions were established for each tool, identical RBSLs could not be obtained even if the same default values for exposure factors were used. Especially for inhalation of soil particulates pathway, screening level derived using KMOE approach (most conservative) was approximately 5000~10000 times lower than the screening level derived using ASTM approach (least conservative). Our results suggest that, when deriving RBSL using a specific tool, it is a prerequisite to technically review the analysis methods for cross-media transfer rates as well as to understand how the assessment tool derives the default values for exposure factors.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.61-72
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• 1996

일련의 회분식 실험 및 실험실 규모의 연속식 실험을 통하여 유기오염물질에 의해 오염된 토양에 in-situ 토양세척기법을 적용하는데 필요한 운전조건을 도출하였다. 실제 토양에 소수성 유기오염물질인 n-dodecane, naphthalene, anthracene을 일정량 오염시킨 후 Tween 80, Triton X-100, Sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS)가 포함된 용액을 이용하여 세척능력을 비교하였다. 회분식 및 연속식 실험 결과, Tween 80와 Triton X-100가 n-dodecane의 제거에 효과가 우수하였으며, naphthalene과 anthracene의 제거에는 SDS와 Tween 80가 우수하였다. 연속식 실험이 끝난 후, 토양에 잔류하는 세척제의 양은 Tween 80이 제일 적었다. 연속식 실험에서 통과유속을 변화시킨 결과, 7 ml/min에서는 세척에 필요한 접촉시간의 감소로 인하여 세척효과가 3 또는 5ml/min보다 오히려 감소되었다. 본 실험의 적용 범위 내에서는 토양의 초기 pH는 세척이 진행됨에 따라 세척능력에 큰 영향을 미치지 않았다. 세척제의 미생물에 대한 독성실험 결과 Tween 80이 그람 음성균과 양성균의 성장에 가장 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 판명됐다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2024

In Korea, the common remedial process for reclamation of agricultural soils nearby abandoned mines involves chemical soil stabilization followed by covering with clean soil. This study investigated the chemical properties of cover soils and the validity of HCl extraction method in assessing the degree of As and heavy metal stabilization in stabilized soils collected from 14 plots where mine reclamation had been completed. The results revealed there were no major differences in contaminants extraction rate between the stabilized soils and contaminated soils, suggesting HCl extraction procedure is a less feasible method to determine the efficiency of the stabilization. Soil quality indicators including OM, SiO₂, P₂O₅, etc. of the land-covering soils were generally lower than those of stabilized soils that used to be the cultivation layer before the stabilization. Nonetheless, the value of those indicators didn't meet the regulatry limits of agricultural soil. Therefore, future strategy for mine reclamation should concentrate not only on contaminant concentration but also on soil quality parameters for agricultural use of the reclaimed soil.