• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.469-474
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• 2000

In order to enhance the degradation efficiency of waste activated sludge (WAS) by thermophilic aerobic digestion, an ultrasonic pretreatment was examined. It was observed that ultrasonic pretreatment increased the solubilization of organic matter in the WAS and that the solubilization ratio of the organics increased during the first 30 min but did not extensively increase thereafter. Therefore, a pretreatment time of 30 min was determined to be the economical pretreatment time from the experimental results. From the digestion experiments, which was conducted using the WAS collected from an oil refinery plant in Inchon, Korea, investigating the effects of an ultrasonic pretreatment on thermophilic aerobic digestion, it was confirmed that the proposed ultrasonic pretreatment was effective at enhancing the release of the cellular components in WAS and the degradation of released components in the thermophilic aerobic digestion.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.611-616
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• 2011

The impacts of ultrasonic pretreatment on the biodegradability of domestic sewage sludge were evaluated through a series of anaerobic digestion experiments in batch system. The gas and methane production from the sludge samples pretreated by an ultrasonic tool with different durations were measured with time. Although the biogas production increased with the extent of sludge solubilization and the period of ultrasonic pretreatment, the enhancement of sludge biodegradability was much more sensitive to the pretreatment for the relatively short periods. Most of the enhanced biodegradability by the pretreatment was appeared in the early stage of anaerobic digestion, less than 6 days. The maximum biogas production per day was observed between 4 to 6 days when the sludge was pretreated less than 10 minutes while it was obtained in the beginning for the sludge pretreated longer periods. The results suggest that the repeated alternation of low strength ultrasonic pretreatment and anaerobic digestion may be more effective than the combination of one time pretreatment for a relatively long period and following anaerobic digestion.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.567-573
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• 2003

The pretreatment process was carried out to solubilize the sewage sludge for enhancing its biodegradability using alkaline treatment, ultrasonic treatment(15kHz), ozone treatment and different combination of these three methods: alkaline followed by ultrasonic as well as ozone, and ultrasonic followed by alkaline. The solubilization efficiency was evaluated based on the SCOD/TCOD ratio and VSS/TS ratio. In results, the proper condition of alkaline treatment was shown as 30meq/l of NaOH, pH 12 and 3hours of reaction time. Solubilization efficiency increased to 17% from initial 2% based on SCOD/TCOD ratio under this condition. In ultrasonic treatment, the higher ultrasonic power, the longer treatment time and the lower sludge volume resulted in higher solubilization respectively. There was a rapid increase in solubilization efficiency after 20 minute, then it was measured as 32% of SCOD/TCOD ratio in 1 hour at a ultrasonic power of 1,300W with 1/sludge. Solubilization efficiencies in combined treatment using alkaline and ultrasonic were 47-53% higher than single treatment at a sonicated time of 1 hour. Ozone treatment followed by alkaline treatment also represented the enhanced solubilization compared to ozone treatment. Therefore, ultrasonic or ozone treatment assisted by alkaline could achieve the short treatment time as well as high solubilizetion efficiency.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.211-218
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• 2007

The objectives of this study have been carried out to investigate the solubilization of municipal sewage sludge by single and dual frequency ultrasonic pretreatment, and the methane production characteristics of pretreated sewage sludge by specific methanogenic activity test for sewage sludge reduction. The waste activated sludge was collected from thickened tank of Suyoung sewage treatment plant in Busan city, and its concentration was adjusted to 1.0% total solids. Ultrasonic frequency was varied 15, 20, 15+20 kHz, and acoustic density was used a maximum 176W/L. The dual frequency ultrasonic pretreatment was found to be more effective than single frequency ultrasonic in the solubilization rate and methane production. The $SCOD_{Cr}/TCOD_{Cr}$, rate were 15.2%, 13.9%, 17.0% with single frequency of 15 kH2, 20 kHz, dual frequency of 15+20 kHz, respectively. The application of dual frequency ultrasound for sewage sludge pretreatment can be interest for sewage treatment plants having problems in sludge treatment and disposal.

• 분석과학
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.136-140
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• 2009

AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry)를 이용한 방사성 탄소연대측정법으로 퇴적물 및 토양시료를 측정하기 위한 화학적 전처리법의 유기물 회수율을 개선하기 위하여, 초음파를 이용한 방법을 개발하였다. 일반적으로 널리 쓰이는 부식산 전처리법 중 단계 마다 사용되는 스터링법을 대신하여, 초음파 (ultrasonic)를 사용하고 초음파 출력, 반응 온도, 반응 시간 등 실험조건을 결정하였다. 유기물 함유량이 적어 연대측정이 불가능했던 시료에 대한 탄소 회수율이 6배 향상되어 다량의 시료를 얻기 힘든 연대측정분야에서는 매우 중요한 개선이 이루어졌다. 또한 동일 시료에 대해 초음파법과 스터링법으로 처리한 시료의 연대측정결과를 비교하여 초음파법이 회수율 향상 이외에는 연대측정결과에 영향을 미치지 않음을 확인하여 실용성이 있음을 증명하였다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.733-740
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• 2002

The effects on dewaterability and settlability of wastewater sludge according to acid and ultrasonic pretreatment which was expected to change ECP (exocellular polymers) compounds in the sludge and bulk solution was investigated. Though ECP which attached to the sludge could stimulate coagulation of sludge particles by bridging effect, but ECP in the bulk solution deteriorated dewaterability and settlability of the sludge on the contrary. That is as the pH of the solution was decreased to 3 gradually by acid treatment, proportionally ECP in the bulk solution was attached to the sludge flocs and resulted in improvement of dewaterability and settlability of the sludge. In case of ultrasonic pretreatment, with proportional to the intensity and duration of ultrasonic application, ECP was detached and extracted from sludge flocs and these phenomena deteriorated dewaterability and settlability. Also because of the increasement of minute sludge particles according to ultrasonic, dewaterability became so much the worse.

• 에너지공학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.84-89
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• 2011

본 연구는 하수슬러지에 알칼리처리와 초음파처리를 적용하여 최적의 가용화 조건을 도출하고자 각각의 단일처리, 병합처리로 가용화율을 확인하였다. 단일처리 중 알칼리처리는 4종의 알칼리시약을 각각 적용하여 전처리한 결과, NaOH를 이용한 방법이 27.6%로 가장 높은 가용화율을 확인할 수 있었으며, 주입농도가 높아지더라도 가용화에 미치는 영향에는 한계가 있음을 확인하였다. 초음파처리는 140 W/L의 조사밀도에서 가용화율이 가장 높았으며(33~39%), 조사주기의 증대는 가용화율에 큰 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 확인되었다. 알칼리 처리와 초음파처리를 혼재한 병합처리 시 알칼리처리 후 초음파처리를 적용한 방법이 $70.4{\pm}9.4%$의 가용화율로 초음파처리 후 알칼리처리 방법에 비해 약 22% 높은 결과를 나타내었다. 각 조건에서의 SCOD 증가속도는 병합처리(알칼리처리 후 초음파처리)에서 0.076 $min^{-1}$으로 가장 높은 결과를 나타내었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.98-105
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 초음파 cavitation을 이용한 슬러지의 전처리가 슬러지의 가용화와 혐기성 소화조의 운전효율에 미치는 영향을 바이오가스 생성을 중심으로 알아보고, 전처리의 효과를 ADM1 (Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1)을 이용하여 시뮬레이션 한 결과와 비교하였다. 실험결과, 초음파 전처리는 하수슬러지의 탈수성을 감소시키며 SCOD의 생성을 증가시키는 것으로 나타났다. 실험실 규모의 혐기성 소화조는 초음파 미처리 슬러지(control)와 30분, 60분, 90분간 처리된 슬러지를 대상으로 4 계열로 운전되었으며, 그 처리효율은 TCOD의 경우, 각각 31.9%, 37.9%, 38.5%, 42.2%의 제거효율을 나타내었다. 또한 TS의 감량효율은 각각 15.9%, 20.8%, 21.5%, 24.1%로 평가되어 전처리에 따른 제거효율의 증가를 확인 할 수 있었고, 슬러지 부하와 전처리 시간의 증가에 따라서 바이오가스의 생성량도 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 슬러지 전처리에 따른 혐기성 소화조의 운전결과와 시뮬레이션 결과의 추이는 전반적으로 일치하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.897-905
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• 2012

Based on the activated sludge model, a simple aerobic digestion model which represents the aerobic sludge digestion by sequencing batch reactor(SBR) equipped with ultrasonicator was composed and performed in this study. The results are as follows. Aerobic digestion efficiency can be increased by adopting ultrasonic pretreatment. For the 5 days of SRT, 24 % of particulate component is predicted to be removed by ultrasonic pretreatment and aerobic digestion. This is 7 %p higher than that of conventional aerobic digestion. A Hybrid SBR aerobic digestion combined with ultrasonication shows higher digestion efficiency than aerobic digestion and ultrasonic pretreatment system. In case of this hybrid system, the digestion efficiency was predicted up to 49 % when the ultrasonication was performed every 2 hours, repeatedly. However, excessive treatment like every hours of ultrasonication in an aerobic digestion process results in adverse effect on TCOD removal because biomass disintegrated completely and the solubilized COD can not be used for the biomass synthesis again.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2013

In the present study, $Ni-TiO_2$ composite coatings were electrodeposited in a sulfamate bath containing $TiO_2$ particles. The influence of the ultrasonic treatment on the co-deposition of $TiO_2$ particles in the coating and the hardness of the electrodeposited $Ni-TiO_2$ composite has been investigated. Three different ultrasonic treatments (pretreatment before the electrodeposition (pre-UT), pretreatment + applied during the electrodeposition (UT), and the electrodeposition without the ultrasonic treatment (w/o UT)) were performed. The $Ni-TiO_2$ composite coatings are characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), image analyzer, and hardness tester. Comparison of results indicates that the volume fraction is more important factor than the agglomerated particle size in terms of the strength improvement, and the strength of the electrodeposited $Ni-TiO_2$ composite coatings is enhanced with pre-UT condition.