• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.31-41
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• 2019

Volatile organic compounds(VOCs) are toxic carcinogenic compounds found in wastewater. VOCs require rapid removal because they are easily volatilized during wastewater treatment. Electrochemical advanced oxidation processes(EAOPs) are considered efficient for VOC removal, based on their fast and versatile anodic electrochemical oxidation of pollutants. Many studies have reported the efficiency of removal of various types of pollutants using different anodes, but few studies have examined volatilization of VOCs during EAOPs. This study examined the removal efficiency for VOCs (chloroform, benzene, trichloroethylene and toluene) by oxidization and volatilization under a static stirred, aerated condition and an EAOP to compare the volatility of each compound. The removal efficiency of the optimum anode was determined by comparing the smallest volatilization ratio and the largest oxidization ratio for four different dimensionally stable anodes(DSA): Pt/Ti, $IrO_2/Ti$, $IrO_2/Ti$, and $IrO_2-Ru-Pd/Ti$. EAOP was operated under same current density ($25mA/cm^2$) and electrolyte concentration (0.05 M, as NaCl). The high volatility of the VOCs resulted in removal of more than 90% within 30 min under aerated conditions. For EAOP, the $IrO_2-Ru/Ti$ anode exhibited the highest VOC removal efficiency, at over 98% in 1 h, and the lowest VOC volatilization (less than 5%). Chloroform was the most recalcitrant VOC due to its high volatility and chemical stability, but it was oxidized 99.2% by $IrO_2-Ru/Ti$, 90.2% by $IrO_2-Ru-Pd/Ti$, 78% by $IrO_2/Ti$, and 75.4% by Pt/Ti anodes The oxidation and volatilization ratios of the VOCs indicate that the $IrO_2-Ru/Ti$ anode has superior electrochemical properties for VOC treatment due to its rapid oxidation process and its prevention of bubbling and volatilization of VOCs.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.40-49
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• 2003

This study has been conducted to identify and quantify the emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from a new carpet. The carpet sample consists of polypropylene cushion and latex backing. The VOCs have been sampled on sorbent tubes and analyzed by thermal desorption unit and GC/MSD. For over 240 hours, concentration of VOCs has been measured in a small chamber made of stainless steel. With the measured data, emission factor and mass balance have been considered. The experiments have been conducted in accordance with ASTM D5116-97. The carpet has emitted a variety of VOCs, but in this study, 7 VOCs compounds have been considered： chlorobenzene, ethylbenzene, styrene, isopropylbenzene, bromobenzene, 2-chlorotoluene, and 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene. The results show that the concentrations of VOCs and the emission factors have exponentially decayed from relatively high level to low level with time. The gradients of the concentration of VOCs and emission factors are different for various components. It is found that styrene, 2-chlorotoluene are emitted more than others with higher concentrations.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.343-349
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• 2000

Volatile Organic Compounds(VOCs) emitted form electronicSince toluene, xylene, cyclohexanone, and benzofuran will bring on the deleterious smell and the health risk, eventhough very small amount of these areexposed to human body, quantitative analysis was achieved by GC-MS system. As a result of these analyses, except PCB(CEM-1) of which is one of the electronic parts, the left of electronic parts represented, imme-diately form 30 minutes to 1 hour after heating, the trends that toluene, xylene, cyclohexanone and phenol were consecuticely emitted very high. and toluene, xylene, phenol, cyclohexanone, and benzofuran from most of the electronic parts were emitted very frequently within the measuring period. Finally, Trans of electronic parts showed the highest concentration of emission, and xylene(550~2482 ${\mu}g/m^2$) was the most noticeably emitting compound of VOCs.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.501-506
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• 2000

A bench-scale air biofilter was evaluated for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a gas stream. Compost and peat were used as the biological attachment media. Biofilter operating parameters such as incoming VOCs concentrations, temperature, and packing materials were examined. After 26 days of acclimation periods, at 25$^{\circ}C$ and 45$^{\circ}C$, the biofilter removed more than 90% of 30 to 72 mg/㎥ of total VOC. After 40 days of operation, the concentrations of isoprene, toluene, and m-xylene were reduced to 96∼99, 91∼93, and 91∼93% of the original concentrations. VOC removal efficiency was not affected by the temperature. The medium pH was maintained near neutral (pH 6.5∼7.1). After 37 days of operation, the total bacteria count in the biofilter media increased to 1.12${\times}$10(sup)8 cells/g of medium.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.615-621
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• 2018

Recently, various environmentally friendly products have been developed for improving the indoor air quality while pursuing a well-being nature-friendly healthy life as a core value. In this research, we not only solve the problems of existing environmentally friendly paints, but also developed a charcoal composite seats that can reduce radon, which is a natural radioactive substance, and evaluated the reduction effect of radon, formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds. In the charcoal composite seats, a sodium silicate emulsion and charcoal were mixed to prepare an charcoal liquid coating material, and the composite seats was fabricated by air-spray coating method. In order to analyze the hazardous substance reduction performance of the fabricated charcoal composite seats, radon was designed to comply with the Ministry of the Environment standard, formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds were designed to comply with KCL-FIR-1085 standard. As a result of the experiment, the fabricated charcoal composite seats was evaluated as having a radon reduction capability of about 90.8% from 20 hours, formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds were 3 hours, and the reduction capability of 96.7% and 96.6% was found respectively. It is considered that these results can be utilized as basic data at the time of product development for improvement of indoor air quality.

• Clean Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2003

Biofiltration was successfully applied to treat a mixture of volatile organic compounds(benzene, xylene) from contaminated air stream. Immobilized Ps. oleovorans biofilter was evaluated for its value in simultaneous removal of benzene and xylene from waste air stream. The variety of operating conditions were tested to evaluate important factors such as space velocity, pH, water content, etc.

• Environmental engineer
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• s.176
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• pp.58-63
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• 2001

여러 환경정화 방법들 중 광촉매를 이용한 처리기술들이 관심을 모으고 있다. 광에 의해 활성을 갖는 여러 촉매들 가운데 이산화티타늄($TiO_2$)을 중심으로 한 연구가 가장 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 TiO2를 개질화하여 광활성이 우수한 광촉매를 개발하고 이를 이용한 VOC 처리를 목적으로 하고 있다. VOC 중 할로겐화(halogenated)된 것들의 처리는 매우 어려우며 현재의 소각방식으로는 효과적으로 처리되고 있지 않다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.255-256
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• 2000

휘발성 유기화합물(Volatile Organic Compounds : VOCs)은 각종 산업체에서 많이 사용되고 있는 용매와 화학 및 제약공장 플라스틱의 건조공정에서 배출되는 유기가스 등까지 매우 다양하며, 저비점 액체연료, 파라핀, 올레핀, 방향족 화합물등 우리 생활주변에서 흔하게 사용되는 탄화수소류들이 거의 VOCs이다. 이러한 VOCs를 제어하기 위하여 폭넓은 제어기술의 연구 및 개발이 진행되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2001

경제성장에 따른 자동차운행의 급증이나 다양한 종류의 화학물질들에 대한 사용량증가 등으로부터 야기된 휘발성 유기화합물들질(Volatile Organic Compounds : VOCs)의 배출량이 증대되고 있다. 특히 VOCs는 질소와 함께 대기 중에서 빛 에너지에 의해 광화학 옥시단트를 형성하고 대류권의 오존형성에 기여하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 그리고, benzene은 이미 발암물질로 확인되었으며 다른 물질들도 주요신경계에 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2002

최근 국내의 생활 문화가 점차 서구화되어 가면서 카페트를 사용하는 장소가 증가하고 있으며, 실내 소음 방지, 보온, 분위기 조성 등을 위한 목적으로 카페트의 사용범위는 점차 넓어지고 있다. 하지만 이러한 카페트는 실내 VOCs 방출원 중의 하나로 보고되고 있으며, 여기서 방출된 VOCs는 실내 공기질(Indoor Air Quality: 이하 IAQ라 칭함)저하를 유발하는 요소 중의 하나이다. (중략)