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The effect of air quality and humidity on aged characteristics of beeswax-treated paper during artificial aging (인공열화 시 공기질 및 습도가 밀랍지의 열화에 미치는 영향)

  • Yang, Eun Jeong;Choi, Kyoung Hwa;Kang, Yeong Seok;Cho, Jung hye;Jeong, Hye Young
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.33
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2012
  • A beeswax-treated paper has no air permeability but has the water repellency compared with a general Hanji. Because of these properties, the differences of the aging factors and mechanisms between the outer partition of beeswax-treated paper that is affected by the surrounding conservation environment and the inner partition of it that is not affected are bigger than general books. In this research, we analyzed and compared the aging characteristics through the accelerated aging of the beeswax-treated paper by some air and humidity conditions. The results of the physical and optical analysis after the artificial aging, it was shown that the oxygen accelerates the aging of the beeswax-treated paper and the condition with the humidity 50% RH is more stable than the condition with the humidity 0% RH. The results of the CG/MS analysis that was conducted to figure out the decomposition charateristics of the beeswax according to the air quality and the humidity, a low molecular weight compound that the number of carbon is C9-C20 including a fatty acid such as a palmitic acid was increased as the aging was progressed. However, under the same environment, a compound that the number of carbon is C21-C36 including a hydrocarbon and a aliphatic alcohol and a high molecular weight compound that the number of carbon is more than C34 including a wax ester were decreased. A rate of change according to the air quality and the humidity was similar to the beeswax-treated papers.

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Phytoplankton flora and water quality in the stream of Taejon area (대전지역 하천의 수질과 식물성 플랑크톤군집)

  • Lee, Ho-Won;Lee, Sang-Myung;Kim, Eun-Hee;Kang, Hyun-Mu
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.63-85
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    • 2002
  • This study was carried out to provide basic data for water environmental control and conservation, and to elucidate monthly water environmental factor, phytoplankton flora and dominant species that each stations was maked a selection of a sites by represent 3 branch-river in the Taejon area from Nov. 1997 to Dec. 1998. Range of water temperature was $2.4^{\circ}C{\sim}30.9^{\circ}C$(means of $16.02^{\circ}C{\sim}18.92^{\circ}C$), pH was 7.1~10.4(means of 7.40~8.68). BOD was generally under $5mg/{\ell}$ except Gap-chon kyo in Nov. and COD was measured highly by interfer of men at the each sites. Especially, occasion of Gap-chon kyo, data was estimated about 3~13 times higher than another sites. DO was showed 1.03~10.43ppm, SS was showed $1.0{\sim}120.0mg/{\ell}$ TN was that, upper stream was 0.63ppm, middle was 0.35ppm and then lower was 0.44ppm, upper stream was higher than lower. TP was at upper stream 0.03ppm, middle 0.05ppm, lower 0.06ppm, lower stream was higher than another. The phytoplankton flora was identified as total 230 taxa composed of 7 classes, 18 oders 35 families, 75 genara, 184 species, 42 virieties, 4 forms. There are composed of that, Chlorophyceae 94 taxa(40.9%), Bacillariophyceae 66 taxa(28.8%), Euglenophyceae 39 taxa(17.0%), Cyanophyceae 24 taxa(10.4%), Chrysophyceae 4 taxa(1.7%), Rhodophyceae 2 taxa(0.8%) Xanthophyceae 1 taxa(0.4%), composition of Spesies of each sites was Gapchon-kyo 119, Wonchon-kyo 94, Gasuwon-kyo and Mannyon-kyo 87, Ochung-kyo 78, Hyunam-kyo and Suchim-kyo 77, Moonchang-kyo 70 taxa and Sansung-kyo 58 taxa. Number of species was showed tendency of increase lower stream. Taejon-chon and youdung-chon and at the sites of confluence were presented Synedra ulna and Diatom vugare like bacillariophyceae, Gap-chon was dominated variously Oscillatoria princeps and chlorophyceae, confluence of 3 branch-river was presented Euglenophyceae.

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Physicochemical Characteristics and Analysis of Pollution Potential in the Sediments of the Rivers Flowing into the Saemangeum Reservoir (새만금호 유입 하천 하상 퇴적물의 물리화학적 특성과 오염도 분석)

  • Oh, Kyoung-Hee;Yu, Mi-Na;Cho, Young-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.33 no.12
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    • pp.861-867
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    • 2011
  • In order to understand the extent of contamination of the sediments on the Mankyoung and Dongjin Rivers flowing into the Saemangeum Reservoir, the concentrations of ignition loss (IL), COD, total nitrogen (T-N), total phosphorus (T-P), and heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Zn) were measured. The average concentrations of IL, COD, and T-P were 2.40 (${\pm}2.18$)%, 2.97 (${\pm}3.06$) mg/g sediment, 0.370 (${\pm}0.351$) mg/g sediment, respectively, showing the extent of contamination is not serious. However, the concentrations of these parameters in the samples taken in year 2009 were higher than those in year 2008, indicating the contamination of sediments goes on gradually. The concentrations of T-N were in the range of 0.59~13.11 mg/g sediment with variation of locations and seasons. It was determined that the T-N contamination is serious when the concentrations were compared with the dredging guidelines of sediments in the Korean freshwaters, indicating the countermeasures are required to maintain the water quality of the Saemangeum Reservoir. The concentrations of heavy metals except chromium did not exceed the worrisome level of soil contamination stipulated by the Soil Environment Conservation Act of Korea. The high concentration of chromium to be concerned in some samples from the upstream of Mankyoung River requires source analysis and countermeasure to control the contamination.

Evaluation on Watershed Natural Habitat Assessment for Conservation of Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis in Naerin Upstream (내린천 상류 유역 열목어(Brachymystax lenok tslingensis) 서식지 자연성 평가)

  • Jeong Eun Kim;Hwang Goo Lee
    • Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2023
  • The objective of this study was to evaluate biodiversity and natural habitat environment of freshwater ecosystem. Our aim was therefore to produce a set of biodiversity and habitat indicators based on multi-parameters of water quality and biodiversity by analyzing the characteristics of the results by indicators. We selected four indicators a) anthropogenic disturbance, b) habitat diversity, c) biodiversity, d) ecosystem structure. The fishes cohabiting with Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis were Rhynchocypris kumgangensis and Zacco koreanus. As a result of the anthropogenic disturbance evaluation, it was analyzed that vegetation embankment showed a more stable environment in the tributary than the main stream, and other disturbance was not confirmed As a result of the habitat diversity evaluation, it was analyzed that habitat evaluation index showed a high score of 200 more on average, showing an optimal habitat condition. As a result of the biodiversity evaluation, it was analyzed as a clean habitat condition with a high proportion of sensitive species, abundant dissolved oxygen, and little pollutants. As a results of the ecosystem structure, the ecological health condition metrics and appearance of endangered species showed large score deviation, but it was analyzed that the stream ecosystem health was generally excellent. There was a slight correlation between the habitat environment and the results of the nature habitat evaluation according to the appearance of the B. lenok tsinlingensis.

Implementation of Saemangeum Coastal Environmental Information System Using GIS (지리정보시스템을 이용한 새만금 해양환경정보시스템 구축)

  • Kim, Jin-Ah;Kim, Chang-Sik;Park, Jin-Ah
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.128-136
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    • 2011
  • To monitor and predict the change of coastal environment according to the construction of Saemangeum sea dyke and the development of land reclamation, we have done real-time and periodic ocean observation and numerical simulation since 2002. Saemangeum coastal environmental data can be largely classified to marine meteorology, ocean physics and circulation, water quality, marine geology and marine ecosystem and each part of data has been generated continuously and accumulated over about 10 years. The collected coastal environmental data are huge amounts of heterogeneous dataset and have some characteristics of multi-dimension, multivariate and spatio-temporal distribution. Thus the implementation of information system possible to data collection, processing, management and service is necessary. In this study, through the implementation of Saemangeum coastal environmental information system using geographic information system, it enables the integral data collection and management and the data querying and analysis of enormous and high-complexity data through the design of intuitive and effective web user interface and scientific data visualization using statistical graphs and thematic cartography. Furthermore, through the quantitative analysis of trend changed over long-term by the geo-spatial analysis with geo- processing, it's being used as a tool for provide a scientific basis for sustainable development and decision support in Saemangeum coast. Moreover, for the effective web-based information service, multi-level map cache, multi-layer architecture and geospatial database were implemented together.

Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Total Phosphorus in Wetland Soils Using Geostatistics (지구통계학을 이용한 습지 토양 중 총인의 공간분포 분석)

  • Kim, Jongsung;Lee, Jungwoo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.38 no.10
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    • pp.551-557
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    • 2016
  • Fusing satellite images and site-specific observations have potential to improve a predictive quality of environmental properties. However, the effect of the utilization of satellite images to predict soil properties in a wetland is still poorly understood. For the reason, block kriging and regression kriging were applied to a natural wetland, Water Conservation Area-2A in Florida, to compare the accuracy improvement of continuous models predicting total phosphorus in soils. Field observations were used to develop the soil total phosphorus prediction models. Additionally, the spectral data and derived indices from Landsat ETM+, which has 30 m spatial resolution, were used as independent variables for the regression kriging model. The block kriging model showed $R^2$ of 0.59 and the regression kriging model showed $R^2$ of 0.49. Although the block kriging performed better than the regession kriging, both models showed similar spatial patterns. Moreover, regression kriging utilizing a Landsat ETM+ image facilitated to capture unique and complex landscape features of the study area.

Indicators and Planning Features of Ecologically Based Urban Regeneration -Cases from Hamburg, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark (생태기반형 도시재생의 계획지표 및 특성에 관한 연구 -독일 함부르크와 덴마크 코펜하겐 사례를 중심으로)

  • Rhee, Bum-Hun;Chang, Dong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.158-166
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    • 2018
  • Contrary to urban development, urban regeneration is a process of land development through conservation, restoration, and management. In particular, ecologically based urban regeneration is an attempt to improve the quality of life in an area, establish a stable settlement space, and revitalize the local economy by considering the ecological environment. In this regard, the objectives of this study were to establish theoretical concepts and analyze the successful foreign cases of ecologically based urban regeneration, and propose a direction of socio-economic regeneration along with the physical-environmental regeneration of urban areas in Korea. The study results suggest the following. First, strategies must be developed to coordinate public transportation, such as buses and subways, by considering the importance of bicycle riders, along with the sustainable-commuting system. Second, both the importance of planning parks and trails around water systems in various scales while maintaining the existing natural environment as well as using natural elements, such as electric vehicles and wind-power generation systems, were emphasized. Third, urban regeneration for increased energy efficiency requires specific architectural planning and facilities. Fourth, education and research for easy access by the public, as well as public-private partnership, will be needed in the regeneration process.

A Study on the Fish Community, the Habitat and the Species Diversity of the Hongcheon Soksacheon and the Gyebangcheon in Kangwondo (강원도 홍천 속사천과 계방천의 어류군집, 서식환경 및 생물다양성에 관한 연구)

  • 정규회;심재한
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.100-110
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    • 1997
  • To clarify the structure and function of ecosystem and establish the method for the conservation of biodiversity and community analysis at Soksacheon and Gyebangcheon, the authors surveyed the aquatic environment and freshwater fish fauna at 13 stations from July, 1995 to June, 1996. Collected 1,908 individuals were belong to 20 Species, 4 Oredr, 1 Suborder, 6 family, 7 Subfamily. The detail results are as follows. 1. It was confirmed that most of the surveyed stations were mountain valley of river type Aa, Ab. River structures were mixed with pebble, sand, rock and water quality of Soksacheon were pH(7.41), [COND.(0.051), TURB.(10.00), DO(8.66), W.T.(15.4)] and Gyebangcheon were pH(7.44), [COND.(0.097), TURB.(21.59), DO(9.35), W.T.(15.4)]. 2. Among them, 18 species were primary freshwater fishes(99.98%) and 2 species of pheripheral freshwater fishes(0.02%). 12 species(60%) of them were endemic species of Korea and they were Moroco kumgangenesis, Microphysogovio longidorsalis, Cobitis rotundicaudata, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Coreoleucisus splendidus, Cobitis longicorpus, Oncorhynchus masou ishikawai, Brachymystax lenok, Hemibarbus longirostris, Silurus microdorsalis, Cobitis koreensis koreensis and Hemibarbus mylodon. 3. Dominant species were Moroco kumgangenesis(46.85%) and Zacco temmincki(27.35%).

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Quality Grading of Concrete Soil Erosion Control Dam in the Aspect of Unconfined Concrete Strength by Surface-Wave Technique (표면파 기법에 의한 콘크리트 사방댐의 콘크리트 강도 등급 평가)

  • Lee, Chang-Woo;Joh, Sung-Ho;Park, Ki-Hyung;Kim, Min-Sik;Yoon, Ho-Joong;Raja Ahmad, Raja Hassanul
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.101 no.3
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    • pp.412-425
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    • 2012
  • Concrete Soil Erosion Control Dam, which blocks flow of debris flow in torrential stream, are reported to lose expected functions due to structural failure and collapses, caused by poor construction, material deterioration and external impacts. In this paper, an integrity assessment technique for debris barriers was proposed, which allows preliminary detection of problems inherent in debris barriers. The proposed integrity assessment technique is a non-destructive method based on SASW method, one of surface-wave tests. In this paper, a practical procedure and analysis guidelines in applying the SASW technique to debris barrier was proposed and its validity was verified using five decrepit debris barriers older than 20-year old. As a result, the SASW method was validated for the reliable grade evaluation method for concrete soil erosion control dam, and the resulting grades turned out to agree with the results determined by Sabang Associations.

Determination of Major Reduced Sulfur Gases Emitted from Wastes Stored in Environmental Facility Using GC/FPD (GC/FPD를 이용한 환경기초시설 폐기물의 대기중 황계열 악취물질 배출특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Taeyoon;Lee, Jeakeun;Lee, Junki
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2009
  • With the economic development of Korea, sewage treatment facilities and waste food treatment facilities have been steadily increased. These facilities have positive effects such as the conservation of the water resources quality and waste food recycling while they also affect the neighborhood life with severe odor problems. Therefore, it was first collected sludge samples from 5 sewage treatment facilities and 5 waste food treatment facilities where the amounts of waste produced from above sites are relatively immense in Busan and estimate the $H_2S$ emission rates. Then it was selected 1 sample which has the highest emission rate of $H_2S$. Using flux chamber and GC/FPD analyses, it was tried to quantify the emitted amount of sulfonic gas concentration under anoxic condition. The sludge sample obtained from Noksan sewage treatment facility has the highest emission rate of $H_2S$. This sample contained 156.18 mg/kg $H_2S$. The odor compounds were analyzed using GC/FPD and the concentrations were converted to odor quotient. Among odor compounds the ratio of $CH_3SH$ (methylmercaptan) for the total odor quotient was 47.3% and considered to be the main odor compound in the sample.

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