• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.133-143
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• 2004

Simultaneous removal technology of particulate/NOx/SOx/HCl using CuO/3Al$_2$O$_3$ㆍ2SiO$_2$catalyst impregnated ceramic candle filters is an advanced air pollution process and provides significantly to reduce hazardous gases emitted from coal-fired power plant. This process uses a high-temperature catalytic filter for integrating SOx and HCl reduction through injection an alkali sorbent (such as hydrated lime or sodium bicarbonate), NOx removal through ammonia injection and selective catalytic reduction (SCR), and particulate collection on the catalytic filter surface. The advantages of the process include : compact integration of the emission control technologies into a single component; easy handling of dry sorbent and by-product; and improved SCR catalytic life due to lowered SOx, HCl and particulate levels. CuO/3Al$_2$O$_3$ㆍ2SiO$_2$ catalyst impregnated ceramic candle filters showed a possibility of simultaneous treatment from results which have ascertained high removal efficiency at various combined gases conditions, and in pilot plant test for 3 months, NO conversion was showed 90% over.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.309-314
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• 1987

This study was conducted to examine mineralogical aspects on anthractite and bituminous coal-fired power-plant ashes as a source of mineral fertilizer. Fly ashes contain dominant amounts of silica and alumina and considerable quantitites of potassium and boron. However, potassium and silica present in unavailable forms for plant growth. X-ray, DTA, and IR analysis of ash particles indicated the formation of new mineral, mullite with shape of which were spherical in the surface morphologies of SEM. Detailed SEM investigation showed the presence of imbedded blocky shape silicate material.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.61-73
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• 2017

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in 2011 and California Power Failure in 2001 are examples of the importance of the power plant safety management that caused huge national loss with a power-related mass casualty incident. In a situation where humans cannot live without electricity, efforts to strengthen the systematic firefighting safety management in power plants that produce electricity with large amounts of hazardous materials as fuel, such as nuclear energy, coal and gas, are essential to protect life and prevent property loss and stable economic growth from fire explosion accident or radiation leak due to the negligence of safety management and natural disasters such as earthquakes, which has recently become an issue. This study examined the operating situation of firefighting safety management in power plants with firefighting officials employed by five power generation companies including Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd. and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., which are in charge of the domestic power supply. As a result, for the systematic firefighting safety management of power plants, improvement plans were drawn, including the development of an effective business manual and a comprehensive management system, the substantiality of firefighting safety education, and the strengthening of seismic designs to prepare for earthquakes.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.116-120
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• 2010

$CO_2$ is regarded as one of the greenhouse gases(GHG), which is the main reason of climate change. In order to achieve lower $CO_2$ emissions, several efforts have been conducted worldwide. $CO_2$ capture & storage(CCS) technology development is needed for a coal-fired combustion power plant because of huge $CO_2$emission. Oxy fuel combustion, one of the CCS technologies has been considered as a primary concern, nowadays. Oxy-fuel combustion needs flue gas recirculation(FGR) for stable operation and enrichment of $CO_2$ concentration in the flue gas. FGR adoption for oxy-fuel combustion requires development of effective desulfurization and dust removal technology. In this study, desulfurization characteristics of lime and dust removal technology have been researched in the laboratory scale coal combustor.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2014

Increasing emphasis on energy conservation and environmental protection has led to the investigation of the alternatives to customary building materials. Some of the significant goals behind understaking such investigations are to reduce the greenhouse gasemissions and minimize the energy required formaterial production.The usage of concrete around the world is second only to water. Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is conventionally used as the primary binder to produce concrete. The cement production is a significant industrial activity in terms of its volume and contribution to greenhouse gas emission. Globally, the production of cement contributes at least 5 to 7 % of $CO_2$. Another major problem of the environment is to dispose off the fly ash, a hazardous waste material, which is produced by thermal power plant by combustion of coal in power generation processes. The geopolymer concrete aims at utilizing the maximum amount of fly ash and reduce $CO_2$ emission in atmosphere by avoiding use of cement to making concrete. This paper reports an experimental work conducted to investigate the effect of curing conditions on the compressive strength of geopolymer concrete prepared by using fly ash as base material and combination of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate as alkaline activator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.403-404
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• 2008

자원의 고갈과 각종 환경규제 및 정부의 전력거래 방침 등으로 인해 점점 발전소에서는 전력 계통에 대한 신뢰도 및 전기품질을 유지하기가 어려워지고있다. 발전소의 부하대별 주요 운전 설계값은 효율과 바로 직결되는 사항으로 각 부하별로 온도와 압력 등 운전설계값을 최적의 상태로 유지하는 것은 발전소 수명과 발전효율, 전력거래 등에 있어 중요한 요소들이다. 전력시장에 진입하는 발전소는 전력계통의 갑작스런 불안성 상황이나 전력거래소 요청시 경사변동폭, 출력변통율, 무효전력 출력, 자동발전제어, 주파수조절량 확보 등을 수행할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 고급공정제어기를 이용하여 운전설계계값을 효과적으로 제어 하면서 기존의 제어로직보다 전력계통상에서 요구되는 발전기 출력을 최대한 신속히 제어하는 과정을 기술하였다. 우선 보일러 마스터와 터빈 마스터, 급수 마스터로 구성된 제어로직을 설계한 뒤 이들 마스터에 대한 발전기 출력, 주증기 압력, 기수분리기 출구온도 각각의 영향을 모델링 기법을 이용하여 적합한 모델을 구했다. 각각의 모델을 고급공정제어기에 적용하고 발전기 출력제어에 대한 기존의 발전소 응답보다 좀 더 효율적이고 실제적용이 가능한 결과를 얻을 수 있도록 튜닝을 시행했으며 그 과정과 결과를 기술했다.

• Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.80-86
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• 2012

The disposal of the bottom ash originated from a thermoelectric power plant which used the pulverized coal, has been an important issue of the power plants. In order to find the possible way of recycling of the bottom ash, the applicability of the bottom ash as an inorganic filler for paper making was investigated in this study. The pretreatment with acid were applied for upgrading the properties of bottom ash. The effects of the addition of the bottom ash to the different pulp stocks, Sw-BKP, DIP(Deinked Pulp), Sw-UBKP were evaluated in terms of the change in paper properties. The brightness and tensile strength decreased as the increase of the amount of the bottom ash addition. The bulk and the opacity were increased by the addition of bottom ash. The pretreatment of bottom ash resulted in the increase of improvement of the brightness and the strength properties comparing with those of untreated bottom ash.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.170-179
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• 2011

Fly ashes derived from coal fired power plants have unique chemical and mineralogical characteristics. The objective of this research was to study how indigenous bacteria affected heavy metal leaching in fly ash slurry during the fly ash-seawater interactions in the ash pond located in Yeongdong seashore, Korea. The in-situ pH of ash pond seawater was 6.3-8.5. For this study, three sites of the ash pond were chosen to collect a sample of fly ash slurry. Three samples that had a mix of fly ash (0.4 L) and seawater (1.6 L) were collected at each site. First sample was autoclaved ($120^{\circ}C$, 2.5 atm), second one was inoculated with glucose to stimulate the microbial activity, and the last sample was kept in the natural condition. Compared with other samples including autoclaved and natural samples, the glucose added sample showed sharp increase in its alkalinity after 15 days, cation concentration change such as Ca, Mg, and K seemed to increase in early stage, and then decrease 15 days later in slurry solution of glucose added sample, and a possibly considerable decrease in $SO_4^{2-}$ in the fly ash slurry samples when glucose was added to stimulate the microbial activity. Geochemical data of this study is likely to be related to the activity of bacteria at the ash pond. The result may be used to understand about the characteristic of bacteria.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.211-216
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• 2008

The artificial lightweight aggregate (ALA) was manufactured in a rotary kiln at $1125^{\circ}C$ using green body formed by pelletizing the batch powder composing of coal bottom ash (CBA) produced from power plant, clay and dredged soil (DS). The TCLP (Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure) results showed that the dissolution concentration of heavy metal ions of ALA fabricated in this study was below the limitation defined by the enforcement regulations of wastes management law in Korea. The ALA containing 60$\sim$70 wt% CBA had a bulk density of 1.45$\sim$1.49 and a water absorption of 17.2$\sim$18.5 %. The impact values for oven-dry state and saturated-surface dry state of ALA were 27.4$\pm$1.3 and 23.4$\pm$2.6 % respectively. The 28-days compressive strength of concrete made with various ALA was $22.7\sim27.8 N/mm^2$. The slump of concrete with ALA containing CBA 60 and 70 wt% were 7.9 and 14.3 cm respectively. The unit weight of concrete made with any ALA fabricated in this study was satisfied with the standard specifications of lightweight concrete for the civil engineering and construction presented by Korea as below $1.84 ton/m^3$.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.569-611
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• 2018

Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and industrialization of China have tremendously degraded the overall quality of living environments, especially the air quality, not only negatively affecting Chinese people but also impacting citizens of neighboring countries, namely Korea. The Chinese government has invested much effort to regulate the air pollution due to burning coal through introducing strict environmental monitoring policies and aggressive implementation. This paper presents an overview of Chinese air pollution prevention policy due to burning coal, and the associated trends and specifics of institutional arrangements regarding air pollutant emission regulations. It turns out that the policies have become stricter than before; some polices are geared towards enforcing extra regulation at the regional level. It is expected that the regulation will become stricter in the future. However, the actual contribution and feasibility of such policies must be analyzed based on sound science. The policies seem to care little about influencing the air quality of Korea, and this has to be improved. In order to do so, it is important to strengthen environmental cooperation between Korea and China, and better yet to research on not only the air quality but also the associated fields, such as energy, industrial technology, and global environmental governance.