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Problems and their Counter-measures in Water Quality Preservation (수질보전상의 문제와 대책)

  • Ryu Jae Keun
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.2 no.2 s.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 1987
  • Due to the increase of population and development of industry, the demand of available water resources increased . Many reservoirs have been constructed in large scales to meet this urgent need , resulting in the increased amount of water resources. After the constructions, however, serious pollution-especially eutrophication-in some reservoirs become a socialaffair. Therefore, water quality control in these resources should be considered more intensively than any other environmental preservation policies. It also seems to be imminent to prepare the precautionary steps. Most water pollution in Korea-73 percent - can be traced to domestic sewage. It may rome as a surprise to Some, Industry is responsible for just 27 percent of ]Korea's water pollution. What he calls 'non-point' Sources, which may include agricultural Chemicals, Create only negligible amount of water pollution. Up to $15\%$ of domestic sewage is treated in Korea, which is quite low when compared with the waste processing in developed countries. So it is the most urgent matter to control the pollution sources. One of the precautionary plans, more urban domestic sewage treatment plants must be installed and operated efficiently. It is known that nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous are the major factors the process of eutrophication, which can be removed majorly by the tertiary or advanced treatment process.

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Piggery Waste Treatment using Improved MLE Process in Full-Scale (수정된 MLE 공정을 이용한 Full-Scale에서의 돈사분뇨처리)

  • Hwang, In-Su;Min, Kyung-Sok
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.895-904
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    • 2006
  • The improved MLE (modified Ludzack-Ettinger) process was operated for piggery waste treatment in full-scale public livestock waste treatment plant. The treated waste from bioreactor was suitable for the strict effluent standard of 200 mgCOD/L and 60 mgTN/L as it was dewatered chemically without settling tank and passed through filtration process. Though this treatment method produced a great deal of sludge ($6.4m^3\;per\;m^3$ dewatered piggery waste) it was able to accomplish predominant effluent quality by removing non-biodegradable COD and color without advanced oxidation process as ozone, fenton and etc.. The nitrogen removal efficiency of bioreactor was rapidly declined from March to May (from 0.016 to 0.005 kgN/kgVSS-day) when disinfection is in earnest as well as from warm season when reactor temperature rises higher than $35^{\circ}C$(from 0.016 to 0.008 kgN/kgVSS-day). This study proves that counterplanes for infection residuals, bioreactor temperature and dewatering sludge reduction are necessary for piggery waste treatment.

Feasibility Study of Artificial Soil Production with Sludge and Utilization for Agriculture (슬러지를 이용한 인공토양 생산 및 농자재화 가능성 연구)

  • 김선주;윤춘경;이남출
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 1997
  • Sludge is generated in the process of water and wastewater treatment, and it has been causing various problems environmentally and economically. The firing technology in pottery industry was applied to the sludge treatment, and the final product was called artificial soil. For the production of artificial soil, lime and chabazite was used as additive, and the mixed material was thermally treated in the firing kiln at $300^{\circ}$ temperature for about 15 minutes. The physico-chemical characteristics of the artificial soil was analyzed and it showed that the artificial soil could be used as a soil conditioner for farmland. The concentrations of the toxic heavy metals in the artificial soil were lower than those in the soil quality standard for farmland. It was high in permeability, total nitrogen and total phosphorous concentrations and surface area of the artificial soil compared to the common field soil. Preliminary cost analysis showed that the sludge treatment cost for artificial soil was less than the disposal cost in the current landfill disposal method. This study illustrated that the artificial soil production process can be a feasible alternative for sludge treatment, and produced artificial soil may he applied to farmland without causing significant adverse effect. Further study is recommended for practical application of the system and verification of the longterm effect of the artificial soil on farmland.

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Photodegradation of Rhodamine B in $TiO_2$ suspension

  • Na, Young-Soo;Kim, Ji-Hye;Lee, Tae-Kyung;Lee, Song-Woo;Song, Seung-Koo
    • Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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    • v.10 no.S_3
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    • pp.149-155
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    • 2001
  • In recent years, rapid technological advances in the textile and dyeing industry have yielded benefits to society but have also generated new and significant environmental problems. The treatment alternatives applicable for the removal of color vary, depending upon the type of dye wastewater Advanced oxidation processes are considered to provide more permanent merits. One of these oxidation treatments attracting much attention is photocatalytic oxidation, which uses TiO$_2$ due to its non-toxic, insoluble liquid as well as a highly reactive nature under UV irradiation. This study sets out to demonstrate the effect of photocatalyst dosage, dye concentrations, pH and light intensity on color removal efficiency under aerobic conditions. The results of this study show Rhodamine B(RhB) was not decolorized when a dye solution was exposed only to air or treated by TiO$_2$ only In the presence of both TiO$_2$ and UV light, however, the presence of RhB decreased up to 95 % within 60minutes. The more addition TiO$_2$ and the more diluted dye solution, showed a higher removal rate.

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Electrosorption Removal of the Zinc Ions from Aqueous Solution on an Artificial Electrode based in the Banana Wastes

  • Benakouche, Houda;Bounoughaz, Moussa
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2017
  • The valorization of domestic wastes becomes a very important research axis that can reduce the energy consumption and protect our environment. The objective of this study is to remove zinc ions from wastewater by using banana peels after their activation as sensor in the working electrode for an environmental application. Banana peels were dried, crushed and treated with sulfuric acid then mixed with polyaniline to improve their electrical conductivity. Cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry were used for electrochemistry tests. The obtained voltammogramms at well optimized conditions of applied potential of -1.3 V/SCE and initial zinc concentration of 0.2M during 2 hours of electrolysis, showed the reduction peak of the zinc at a potential of -1.14 V/SCE, which confirmed the activity of this electrode. The modeling of experimental data revealed that the adsorption was fitted by the Langmuir isotherm with a maximal adsorption capacity of 3.4188 mg/g. Changes in the structure of the powder after the electrosorption was noticed by SEM and EDX. Finally, the dosage of the electrolytic solution showed a diminution of the zinc concentration with yield of 99.99%.

Removal of Hexavalent Chromium by using Biomass (바이오매스를 이용한 6가 크롬의 제거)

  • Park, Donghee;Park, Jong Moon
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2006
  • Not only Cr(VI) is very toxic, but also it is a major pollutant in soil and groundwater. Thus Cr(VI)-containing wastewater must be treated before being discharged into the environments. Recently, biosorption technology using abundant biomass has been considered as an innovative one for removing Cr(VI) from aqueous solution. In this review article, current research and future works on Cr(VI) biosorption were widely described. Particularly, the removal mechanism of Cr(VI) by biomass was described in detail, which has been misunderstood by many researchers until now.

Characteristics of Microfauna in Biological Treatment of Landfil Leachate with Reactor Including Porous Media (다공성 Media가 조여된 반응조를 이용한 매립지 침출수의 호기성 생물학적 처리시 미소생물상의 특성)

  • 홍성철;박연규
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.61-69
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    • 1996
  • The combined wastewater of municipal landfill leachate and municipal sewage was treated using several sets of bench-scale aerated circulating system including porous media. Investigated items in this experiment were the dominant protozoa and metazoa in this system, the variation of microfauna relationship between operating condition and dominant genera. Also considered the factors determining dominant genera and their role. The outcome of this research is as follows; 1. Aspidisca, Vorticella, Truhellophyllum, Lecane, Philodina, Cyclops were mainly appeared prior to combinding leachate, while Trachelocerca, Bodo, Glaucoma were the dominant genera after combinding leachate. 2. As to metazoa, Nematode and Philodina were not influenced by 5oA leachate mixing ratio, meanwhile Crustacea has high sensitivity for increased leachate mixing ratio and it was not appeared in 5% leachate mixing ratio. 3. The appropriate treatability could'nt be expected at the above 10% leachate mixing ratio. Especially, in the condition of 20% leachate mixing ratio, all of the microfauna were affected damage seriously on their existence. Meanwhile hydraulic retention time, substrate loading rate and slut자e production rate didn't give notable influence on increasing the number of microfauna. 4. As to protozoa, saprozoic and holozoic species were appeared commonly and polysaprobic species were dominent. 5. Filamentous organsms were nearly not affected by leachate mixing. It seems that they could live without any trouble at the 10% leachate mixing ratio, if the substrate is sufficient. 6. Diversity of microfauna had a reducing trernd as the sewage was mixed with leachate.

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Performance Characteristics of Small Hydropower Generation Using Treated Wastewater (하수처리수를 이용한 소수력발전의 성능 특성)

  • Lee, Chul-Hyung;Park, Wan-Soon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.620-620
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    • 2012
  • 에너지 다소비원인 공공하수처리시설은 기후협약에 따른 온실가스 저감시설로서의 그 역할이 증대되고 있다. 환경부는 '하수처리시설 에너지 자립화 계획'을 통해 2015년까지 에너지 자립율 18%를 목표로 하고 있으며, 이를 위해서는 신재생에너지를 이용한 능동적 에너지 생산이 필요하다. 소수력발전은 공급 안정성이 우수하고 소수력발전은 일정한 처리수가 방류되는 하수처리장에 적용되었을 때 그 가동율은 하천에서의 소수력발전에 비하여 우수하다고 알려져 있으며, 향후 하수처리장에 널리 보급될 수 있는 청정에너지원이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 기흥 레스피아에서 처리되는 하수를 이용한 소수력발전이 검토되었다. 최근 5년간 방류량 자료를 살펴보면 기흥 레스피아의 일평균 실제 처리량은 약 $30,000m^3/day$로 나타났으며, 우수 유입과 물 사용량이 증가하는 여름 및 가을에 처리량이 증가하였다. 설계유량은 유량변화에 따른 누적 확률밀도와 유량지속곡선에 근거해 산정하였으며, 시간빈도(T)로 보았을 때 26%의 유량이 지속되는 $0.35m^3/s$를 설계유량으로 선정하였다(그림 1). 또한 이를 기반으로 성능특성을 분석한 결과, 단위낙차당 수차발전기의 용량은 2.4kW이며, 시스템 가동율은 74%, 그리고 연 전력생산량은 16.6MWh로 나타났다(그림 2).

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Assays of Residual Antibiotics after Treatment of γ-ray and UV Irradiation (감마선과 UV 조사에 의한 항생제 분해)

  • Shin, Ji-Hye;Nam, Ji-Hyun;Yu, Seungho;Lee, Myunjoo;Lee, Dong-Hun
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2010
  • The pollution of antibiotics is a major cause of spreading antibiotics resistant bacteria in the environment. Applications of ozonation, UV, and ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiations have been introduced to remove antibiotics in the effluents from wastewater treatment system. In this study, we compared the chemical (HPLC) and biological (antimicrobial susceptibility test, AMS) assays in measuring of the concentrations of residual antibiotics after ${\gamma}-ray$ and UV irradiation. Most samples were degraded by ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiation (1~2 kGy). However, lincomycin and tetracycline were not degraded by UV irradiation. The concentration of residual antibiotics, that was treated with ${\gamma}-ray$ and UV irradiation, measuring by bioassay was similar to HPLC. The concentrations of ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiated cephradine measured by AMS test were 2 times higher than that of HPLC assay, indicating AMS test is more sensitive than HPLC assay. These results indicate that ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiation technique is more useful than UV irradiation, and biological assay is more useful to detect the antibiotics and toxic intermediates in antibiotics degradation.

Advanced Treatment of Sewage and Wastewater Using an Integrated Membrane Separation by Porous Electrode-typed Electrolysis (분리막/다공 전극형 전기분해 조합공정을 이용한 하.폐수의 고도처리)

  • Choi, Yong-Jin;Lee, Kwang-Hyun
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2012
  • To treat nitrate and non-biodegradable organics effectively in sewage, industrial wastewater and livestock wastewater, the activated sludge process integrated by a membrane separation and a porous electrode- electrolysis was proposed and its efficiency was investigated. The proposed system was consisted of 3 processes; activated sludge, membrane filtration and electrolysis. In the study, the membrane filtration played a role in reducing the load of the electrolysis to operate the proposed process stably. The electrolysis consisted of a porous electrode to increase the efficiency due to the extension of the specific surface area. Additionally, redox reaction in the electrolysis was induced by decomposing influent water as current was applied. As a result, hydrogen free radicals and oxygen radicals as intermediates were produced and they acted as oxidants to play a role in decomposing non-degradable organics. It was environmentally-friendly process because intermediates produced by porous electrode were used to treat waste matters without supplying external reagent. Experimental data showed that the proposed process was more excellent than activated sludge process. SS removal efficiencies of the proposed process, membrane filtration and activated sludge process were about 100%, about 100% and about 90%, respectively. COD removal efficiencies of the proposed system, membrane filtration and activated sludge process were about 92%, about 84% and about 78%, respectively. T-N removal efficiencies of the proposed system, membrane filtration and activated sludge process were about 88%, about 67%, and about 58%, respectively. The SS data showed that SS was efficiently removed in the single of the membrane filtration. The COD/T-N data showed that COD/T-N of membrane hybrid process was treated by removing a little soluble organics and SS, and that COD/T-N of electrolysis hybrid process was treated by oxidize organics with high removal rate.