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Characteristics of Sludge Bulking Caused by Low Dissolved Oxygen in Aeration Tank for Paper Mill Wastewater Treatment (포기조의 낮은 용존산소로 인한 제지폐수의 슬러지 팽화특성)

  • Kwak, Dong-Heui;Yoo, Seung-Joon;Park, Jong-Chun
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.458-464
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    • 2008
  • Bulking phenomena and scum formation are common problem in suspended growth system like the activated sludge plants for wastewater treatment. Apart from wastewater composition, operating conditions, such as mechanical stress by insufficient oxygen supply, are often decisive for the occurrence of a bulking or scumming problem. There were the comparative aeration tanks in terms of sludge bulking caused by the difference of mechanical aeration facilities in the wastewater treatment plant of N paper mill company. In this study the cause of bulking was investigated through not only the biological isolation and identification but also a series of operational data consideration. On the basis of the investigation results for bulking cause, the operational criteria on dissolved oxygen concentration was derived to decrease the bulking problem.

Optimum Mixing Ratio of Bulking Agent for Garbage Composting (음식쓰레기 퇴비화시 bulking agent의 적정 첨가량 결정에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hang-Sik;Hwang, Eung-Ju;Jeong, Yeon-Koo
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.75-86
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    • 1994
  • Garbage composting was studied in a controlled batch reactor with the addition of cooked rice as a biodegradable carbon source to find the effect of C/N ratio control on composting. And composting of bulking agents such as sawdust and wheat straw were tested with the addition of ammonium sulfate as a nitrogen source. As expected, biodegradation of the garbage having low C/N ratio was improved to some extent when foreign carbon was added. But bulking agents used in this study exerted slightly biodegradable carbon potential, indicating that the estimation of the dose of additional carbon considering desirable C/N ratio was not reasonable when lignocellulosic bulking material was added to garbage. It was found that the optimum moisture content increased with sawdust addition meaning the C/N ratio increment. Considering the above results, it was suggested that 78g sawdust per 100g garbage should be mixed to make C/N ratio to 25 and moisture content to 56% for effective composting of the garbage studied in this paper.

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An Experimental Study on the Bulking Factor of Rock Mass for Subsidence Behavior Analysis (지반침하 거동특성 분석을 위한 암반의 부피팽창률에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hee-Joong;Jung, Yong-Bok;Choi, Sung-O.
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.33-43
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    • 2008
  • The techniques for measuring the bulking factor of rock mass in subsidence area have never been well known all over the world. The volumetric expansion ratios obtained from blasting operation were the only way of acquiring the bulking factor of rock mass. The bulking factor of rock mass obtained from blasting operation, however, has been seldom classified in a certain criterion. Also the bulking factor of rock mass can be very dependent upon rock types. In order to overcome this limitation obtained from these reasons, the authors studied the experimental bulking factor of rock mass according to the stacking shapes as well as the overburden stresses. Gneiss, limestone and shale were chosen for testing specimens, and each bulking factor has been measured with laboratory test of applying a constant load on the fragmented rock specimens.

Utilization of the Bulking Agents for Environment-friendly Toilet in Rural Village (농촌마을에서 자연발효형 화장실의 통기성 매질 이용에 관한 연구)

  • Kang Bang-Hun;Cho Soon-Jae
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2006
  • The biodegradability test of bulking agents in feces composting process is conducted to increase the management efficiency for environment-friendly rural toilet developed by National Rural Resource Institute in 2001. In the case study through references and field study, ash, fallen leaves, and wood chips are commonly used in the ecological toilet. Extension officers and farmers prefer rice straw, fallen leaves, and chaff among the rural resources as a bulking agents in the aspect of getting and storage as the result of questionnaire survey. As the result of biodegradability test including the temperature change, $CO_2$ gas production, and C/N ratio change of composting pile under the condition of aerobic composting apparatus, rice straw and chaff are good bulking agents for environment-friendly rural toilet. It is recommended that easy getting materials among the above mentioned materials are used for bulking agents as the region and season in environment-friendly rural toilet.

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Fuzzy Expert System for Bulking Prediction and Mitigation in the Activeated Sludge Process

  • Nam, Sung-Woo;Kim, Jung-Hwan-;Sung, U-Kyung;Lee, Kwang-Soon-
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 1993.06a
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    • pp.1102-1105
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    • 1993
  • A fuzzy expert system for prediction and mitigation of sludge bulking was developed for an activated sludge process which treats waste water from a food industry. The developed system is able not only to infer the degree of progress of sludge bulking but also to generate remedial operation guides which may be sent to the local controllers as remote set points. One of the important consequences through this study is the BI (Bulking Index) inferred by the bulking prediction expert system was found to have a close correlation with the SVI (Sludge Volume Index) which is a practical measure of degree of bulking but needs tedious chores for its measurement.

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Injection Effects of Coagulant and Flocculant on Bulking Change of Dredged Soils (준설토 체적변화에 대한 응집제 및 응결제의 주입효과)

  • 윤길림;유승경
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.257-264
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    • 2003
  • Bulking change between sediments and dredged soils occurs when dredged soils are fully disturbed by dredging process and settled down to stabilized conditions in the basin. Bulking of dredged soils are affected by chemical injection, coagulant and flocculant, to speed up settling process of the suspended solids. In this paper, bulking changes of dredged soils are investigated by experimental works regarding injection effects of the coagulant and flocculant. Dredged sediments were sampled in the lagoon located at the East Coast, and the bulking change of dredged soils is quantitatively analysed by changing the clay content and the amount of the coagulant and flocculant. The optimal amounts of the coagulant and flocculant are determined based on minimal bulking change due to coagulant and flocculant injection. From the experimental results, the bulking of dredged soils increased 1.69 times on the average and the bulking change rate slightly increased as clay content increasea due to injection of the coagulant and flocculant.

PLGA Microspheres in Hyaluronic Acid Gel as a Potential Bulking Agent for Urologic and Dermatologic Injection Therapies

  • KANG SUN-WOONG;CHO EUI RI;KIM BYUNG-SOO
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.510-518
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    • 2005
  • In this study, we investigated whether PLGA microspheres in combination with hyaluronic acid (HA) gel have appropriate properties as a bulking agent for urologic injection therapies and whether the implantation of PLGA microspheres and HA gel induces angiogenesis in the newly formed tissues. In order to investigate whether this bulking agent is injectable, this material was injected through 24-gauge needles into the subcutaneous dorsum of the mouse. The bulking agent was easily injected without needle obstruction. Histological analyses of the hybrid tissues at 2 weeks showed that host cells at the surrounding tissues migrated into the spaces between the implanted PLGA microspheres and formed tissue-like structures. An inflammatory response to the implants was mild at 2 weeks and diminished at 8 weeks. Importantly, extensive ingrowth of blood vessels was observed in the hybrid tissues formed by the injection of PLGA microspheres and HA, whereas blood vessels rarely formed in the hybrid tissues formed by the injection of PLGA microspheres only. The implant volume was conserved for almost the entire implantation period. Histological analyses of the distant organs of the bulking agent-implanted animals, such as the lungs, liver, heart, brain, kidney, and spleen, showed no evidence of the injected microsphere migration. These results show that PLGA microspheres in combination with HA possess the appropriate characteristics for a bulking agent for urologic injection therapies and induce extensive blood vessel formation in the hybrid tissues.

An Investigation of the Causes of Filamentous Bulking at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant in Columbus, Ohio (활성슬러지 하수처리장에서의 Filamentous Bulking의 원인규명을 위한 조사연구)

  • Ko, Kwang Baik;Sykes, Robert M.
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.77-87
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    • 1987
  • A series of bench scale activated sludge units were operated to find the causes of filamentous bulking(Schizothrix calcicola) at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant. The results shows that the algal bulking problem is caused by the combination of fermented brewery waste and a low/high DO pattern in the aeration basin. The volatile fatty acids in the influent are not themselves the only cause of bulking but indicators of an unidentified substance that either suppresses zoogloeal growth or stimulates algal growth during low DO conditions, because the volatile fatty acids do not stimulate algal growth unless they are added to a sewage that already contains, some fermented brewery waste.

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A Study on the Effect of the Biodegradability of the Composting Bulking Agent in the Swine Manure-Composting (충진재의 생분해도가 돈분 퇴비화 효율에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 김성균;최경호;정문식
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 1997
  • A study on the effect of the biodegradability of the composting bulking agent in the swine manurecomposting was carried out in a batch system. The purpose of this study is to prove the effect of the biodegradability of the composting-bulking agent on the efficiency of the composting. In this study, it is the lignins: Klason-Lignin in the volatile solid that the index of the biodegradability of the composting-material mixes which are pig manure-rice straw pig manure-sawdusts pig manuremixture of rice and ricestraw (2:1) pig manure-mixture of rice and sawdust (1:1). It was carried out in the same condition (moisture contents, air supply rate, C/N ratio, initial input weight, porosity-structure) except the biodegradability of the raw material mixes. One of the results from this study is that the biodegradability of the bulking agent in the sense of the VS lignin content is not an insignificant factor in composting reaction. The less contents of the lignin in VS, the more efficiencies of the cornposting reaction in use of these parameters for the degree of the reaction: temperature, the trends of the ash contents, the change pattern of the C/N ratio. Under some assumptions, it is able to induce rough model on the relation of the VS lignin contents with the efficiency of the degradability. In this model, the biodegradability of the bulking agent is not an insignificant factor however, it is flexible within some degrees of range.

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A Study on Bulking Change of Dredged Soils by Pump Dredger (펌프준설에 의한 준설토의 체적변화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chan-Soo;Yoon, Gil-Lim;Park, Heung-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 2004
  • When settled sediments in natural condition for long time were dredged by dredging process, it is natural that bulking change between sediments and dredged soils is affected by chemical injection; coagulant. Dredged sediments used in this study were sampled in the lagoon "Young rang lake" located at the east coast Sokcho city and the bulking change of dredged soils is quantitatively analysed by changing of the clay content and the amount of the flocculant and coagulant. From the experimental results, the bulking of dredged soils increased 1.69 times on the average bulking of settled sediments in natural condition in the case of the optimum chemicals addition.

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