• 한국농공학회지
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.70-82
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• 2003

A pilot study was performed from July 1998 to December 2002, including winter performance, to examine seasonal performance of a constructed wetland and subsequent pond system for treatment of sewage in small communities of Korea. Pond was operated as a intermittent-discharge pond during winter period, and continuous flow system during growing season; its effects was evaluated from December 2001 to April 2003. The subsurface flow (SSF) wetland was satisfactory for treating sewage with good removal efficiency even during the winter period. The wetland effluent concentrations of $BOD_5$ and TSS were often higher in winter than in the growing season, but this was explained by the higher loading rates, rather than lower removal efficiency. The relatively poor-quality wetland effluent was further polished during winter in the pond. The upper layer of the pond water column became remarkably clear immediately after ice melt. In the growing season, ponds could be operated as a continuous flow system to remove nutrients and pathogens, and the effluent of pond could be reused as a supplemental irrigation water without risk of infection by sewage-borne pathogens as well as causing adverse effect on growth and yield. Overall, the wetland system was found to be adequate for treating sewage with stable removal efficiency, and the intermittent-discharge pond was found to be effective for further polishing if necessary. Therefore, the combination of a wetland and subsequent pond system and reuse of effluent as crop irrigation water is recommended as a practical alternative to treat sewage in Korean small communities, and partial discharge of pond water in March is suggested.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.678-686
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• 2006

The feasibility of the high-hydrophilic biofilter was examined for application in rural wastewater treatment in Korea. The intermittent trickling biofiter was developed for wastewater treatment of media and examined instantaneous wetting water and immersional wetting water. Melamin foam absorbed 120 times it's weight in water and maintained wetting status than other materials. These characteristics are improvement for application in rural areas showing large variance of amount of influent. The biofilter process was effective in treating organic pollutants; mean removal efficiencies of $BOD_5$ and TSS were above 80%. The average SS concentrations of effluent was showed below $10mg/L^{-1}$ and meet guidelines in special regions, however, the average concentration of $BOD_5$ was about $20mg/L^{-1}$. The removals of T-N and T-P were relatively less effective and removal efficiencies were below 40%. It might meet the guidelines for T-P because of low levels of influent T-P concentration. However, the T-N concentration were too high and further treatment is required. The effluent concentration of $NH_4-N$ showed a significant reduction rate about 43.8%, but part of $NH_4-N$ was transformed to $NO_2-N$ and $NO_3-N$ inside the biofilter through nitrification process. The effluent concentration of org-P was removed about 78.8% of influent concentration by filtration. Considering stable performance and effective removal of pollutant in wastewater, low maintenance, and cost-effectiveness, the hydrophilic biofilter system was thought to be an effective and feasible alternative for decentralized rural areas.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2010

최근 우리나라 농경지 면적은 해마다 감소하고 있는 추세이나 이러한 농업지역으로부터 발생되는 오염부하량은 오히려 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 농업지역으로부터 발생되는 오염물질 중 대부분은 비점오염원에 의해 배출되며 이는 주로 저농도이면서 넓은 지역에서 대량으로 배출되는 특성을 보인다. 본 연구의 목적은 농업지역 내 비점오염원을 관리하기 위한 방안으로 인공습지를 적용하여 수질정화효율을 분석함으로써 인공습지 적용가능성과 오염물질 제거기작, 설계인자 등을 제공함에 있다. 모니터링 결과를 토대로 수질분석을 실시하였으며 분석 결과, 유입수의 평균 농도 제거율은 TSS가 26 %, BOD가 28 %, TN이 16 %, TP가 39 %로 나타났다. 또한 국내 하천수질기준에 준하여 인공습지 유입수과 유출수의 수질을 비교해 본 결과 대부분의 항목에서 수질등급이 향상되었다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 습지에 널리 적용되는 혼합토양이나 자갈여재 대신 공극율이 90% 이상으로 매우 커서 공극폐색의 염려가 적은 합성섬유를 대체여재로 적용한 수직 흐름형 컬럼습지를 제작하여 서로 다른 수리학적 체류시간, 내부순환빈도 및 오염 부하량 조건에서 축산지역 인공 강우유출수 처리시험을 수행하였다. 모든 습지에서 TSS 제거효율은 94~96%, COD 68~73%, TN 35~58% 이었다. 체류시간 등의 운전인자가 TSS와 COD 제거에 미치는 영향은 미미하였다. 그러나 질소의 경우 부하량과 체류시간, 내부순환빈도가 증가할수록 효율이 증가하였다. 특히 운전기간 동안 합성섬유의 생물학적 분해작용으로 인하여 유기물질이 다량 용출되었으며 탈질을 위한 내부공급 탄소원으로 기여하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 그러나 용출기간은 40일 정도 지속되었으므로 그 효과는 매우 제한적이었다. 습지 내부충진 여재로서 합성섬유가 갖는 장점은 가벼우므로 구조체의 시공에 소요되는 비용을 저감할 수 있고, 비표면적이 크고 습지수명을 연장할 수 있다는 점이다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.210-218
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• 2016

대전의 관평천에 설치된 1.8 m 높이의 침강 실험장치를 이용하여 총 4회에 걸쳐 강우 유출수를 채취하여 오염물질제거 효율 및 특성을 측정하였다. 오염물질 농도는 초기 4시간 동안 급격하게 감소하였으며 약 24시간 후 일정한 수준을 나타내는 경향을 보였다. 침전 실험 장치 내에서는 높이 별 농도가 크게 다르지 않은 것으로 관찰되었으며 이는 침전장치 내에서 대부분의 고형물질은 서로 방해하지 않고 독립적으로 침전하기 때문인 것으로 분석된다. 강우 유출수를 대상으로 분석한 입도는 $10{\sim}100{\mu}m$의 범위로 나타났다. 강우 유출수내에서 TP의 경우 입자성 물질이 평균 52.4%, TN의 경우 23.5%의 비율로 나타났으며 TN의 경우 침강에 의해 효율적으로 제거되기 어렵다는 것을 확인하여 주고 있다. 본 연구의 결과는 초기 강우 유출수에 포함되어 있는 TSS와 TP와 같은 오염물질이 단순한 침강에 의해 효과적으로의 제거될 수 있다는 것을 나타내고 있으며 하천수질을 보호하는데 적극적으로 활용될 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.231-242
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• 2011

도시화가 진행될수록 건물의 옥상 및 교통관련 시설물 또한 증가하여, 녹지공간은 감소하고 불투수면은 증가하게 된다. 불투수면이 증가함에 따라, 도시내 자연적 물순환 시스템 파괴, 비점오염물질 증가, 생태축 단절 등과 같은 다양한 환경수리학적 문제점이 발생되고 있다. 최근 들어 국민들의 생활 및 의식수준이 향상되면서, 도시의 경제적인 측면뿐만 아니라 심미적인 측면, 환경적인 측면을 동시에 고려한 지속가능한 도시 개발이 요구되고 있다. 또한 강우유출수 관리에 대한 관심과 인식이 높아지면서 Low Impact Development(LID) 관련 기술의 개발 및 적용에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으나, 국내 환경에 적합한 가이드라인, 설계기준 등은 매우 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 도시 및 도로가에 적용하기 위한 소규모 인공습지 기술을 개발하기 위하여, Pilot-scale 실험을 실시하였으며, 분석 결과, TSS, $COD_{Cr}$, TN, TP, Total Pb에 대한 평균저감효율이 각각 95%, 82%, 35%, 91%, 57%로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 소규모 인공습지가 향후 도시 내 효율적인 물순환 시스템을 구축하고, 수생태계 보전에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2007

Sea food wastewater including high concentration of organics and nutrients is hard to treat stably by established traditional activated sludge process. This research is aimed to obey more and more of strengthened the law and to secure stable effluents by using advanced treatment process applied membrane filter in aeration tank for treatment of wastewater from marine products. It must maintain pH of influent over 6.0 to keep up stably biological sludge of advanced treatment process. At 38hr of HRT, removal rates of TBOD and TCOD were 99.9% and 99.4% respectively and TSS also removed with high efficiency. Most organics in the effluent was constituted with soluble type materials, it caused that membrane filter installed aeration tank should remove minute suspended particles. The reactor was operated well to get stable treatment results for operation period, in spite of high loading of organics like that $0.67{\sim}1.67\;kgTBOD/m^3/day$ of organics loading and $0.10{\sim}0.21\;kgBOD_5/kgMLSS/day$ of F/M ratio. At $36{\sim}48hr$ of HRT, removal rates of T-N and T-P were $89.7{\sim}90.7%\;and\;91.5{\sim}96.0%$ respectively. It means this treatment process also work to remove nutrients of high concentration. Upon investigation of advanced treatment's operation factors, optimum SRT was about 30days and average SNR that showed tendency to increase according to increase water temperature was calculated 0.014 gN/g MLVSS/d. SDNR was risen in conformity to increase F/M ratio of Non-aeration tank and investigated as $0.038{\sim}0.051\;gN/gMLVSS/d$.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.391-396
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• 2011

Recently it revealed that urban runoff was one of the major source that contaminates the river, lake and estuary because it contains toxic compounds such as heavy metals and Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) as well as suspended solids, organic compounds and nutrients. The engineered polymetric media in this research were developed for reducing pollutants in urban runoff and would be used to be charged in the storm water treatment equipment. The engineered media that were composed of the polypropylene was foamed to have the buoyancy and then shattered by mechanical for the efficient filtration. In this study, Spherical Expanded Polypropylene Media (SEPM), Crushed Polypropylene Media (CPM), Large Crushed Expanded Polypropylene Media (LCEPM), Small Crushed Expanded Polypropylene Media (SCEPM) were made from polypropylene. Surface characteristics of the developed media were determined by scanning electron microscopy analyses. Also, removal efficiencies of SS, $COD_{Cr}$ in the artificial road runoff and the bed headloss by media and particle pollutants captured by media were examined. Results on the surface characteristics of media indicated that SCEPM had the largest specific surface area, $0.80m^2/g$, the lowest specific gravity, 0.091, and the biggest porosity, 0.63, because of crushing the media at the process of manufacturing. And the SCEPM's removal efficiencies of TSS and $COD_{Cr}$ in the artificial road runoff were 92.9% and 83.6%, respectively and the headloss of SCEPM was the least of them.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.551-558
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• 2007

From the view point of biological wastewater treatment, C/N ratio is one of the most important factor in biological nutrient removal process. However, municipal sewage in Korea is characterized by extremely low content of carbon source and relatively higher portion of N source. Accordingly, it is necessary to dose external carbon source in order to obtain higher degree of carbon source within the process. In this study, the effects of pH pretreatment as an alternative plan for increasing carbon source on the cell disruption and COD solubility of waste activated sludge were conducted under well defined experimental conditions. During 5 hours, the value of COD solubilization rate ($S_R$) at pH 11.5 is approximately 4.4 times higher than the value of $S_R$ at pH 9.5. It is expected that the level of SCOD increased due to the result from cell disruption. However, VSS/TSS ratio was not significantly changed after 5 hours. As Alkalinity changes gradually from less than 15, 30 and 60 meq NaOH/L, average RBCOD/SCOD fraction showed 34, 36 and 45%,respectively.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2004

The characteristics of foam generation were assessed for freshwater and seawater using a foam generator. Both in freshwater and seawater, the height of the foam layer increased with initial protein concentrations. The height of the foam layer also increased with pore size of the air distributor. The optimum superficial air velocities (SAV) in freshwater and seawater were 0.84 cm/sec and 0.6 cm/sec, respectively. The height of the foam layer was the highest in pH 3 in freshwater and in the region of pH 5-7 in seawater. The height of the foam layer increased with $NaHCO_3$ concentration in freshwater, and $NaHCO_3$ concentration had little effect in seawater. Removal efficiencies of total suspended solid (TSS) and turbidity decreased with an increase of initial protein concentrations in a batch foam separator both in freshwater and seawater.