• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2012

The coupling of anaerobic biological process and membrane separation could provide excellent suspended solids removal and better biomass retention for wastewater treatment. This coupling improves the biological treatment process while allowing for the recovery of energy through biogas. This review gives a basic description of the anaerobic wastewater treatment process, summarizes the state of the art of anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs), and describes the current research trends and needs for the development of AnMBRs. The research interest on AnMBR has grown over the conventional anaerobic processes such as upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB). Studies on AnMBRs have developed different reactor configurations to enhance performances. The AnMBR performances have achieved comparable status to other high rate anaerobic reactors. AnMBR is highly suitable for application with thermophilic anaerobic process to enhance performances. Studies indicate that the applications of AnMBR are not only limited to the high strength industrial wastewater treatment, but also for the municipal wastewater treatment. In recent years, there is a significant progress in the membrane fouling studies, which is a major concern in AnMBR application.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2019

Application of bioretention systems in Korea is highly considered due to its minimal space requirements, appropriateness as small landscape areas and good pollutant removal and peak hydraulic flow reduction efficiency. In this study, the efficiency of two lab-scale bioretention types having different physical properties, media configuration and planted with different shrubs and perennials was investigated in reducing heavy metal pollutants in stormwater runoff. Type A bioretention systems were planted with shrubs whereas type B were planted with perennials. Chrysanthemum zawadskii var. latilobum (A-CL) and Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila (A-AP) respectively were planted in each type A bioretention reactors while Rhododendron indicum linnaeus (B-RL) and Spiraea japonica (B-SJ), respectively were planted in each type B bioretention reactors. Results revealed that the four lab-scale bioretention reactors significantly reduced the influent total suspended load by about 89 to 94% (p<0.01). Type B-RL and B-SJ reactors reduced soluble Cr, Cu, Zn, and Pb by 28 to 45% that were 15 to 35% greater than the soluble metal reduction of type A-CL and A-AP reactors, respectively. Among the pollutants, total Cr attained the greatest discharged fraction of 0.52-0.81. Excluding the effect of soil media, total Pb attained the greatest retention fraction in the bioretention systems amounting to 0.15-0.34. Considering the least discharge fraction of heavy metal in the bioretention system, it was observed that the bioretention systems achieved effectual reduction in terms of total Cu, Zn and Pb. These findings were associated with the poor adsorption capacity of the soil used in each bioretention system. The results of this study may be used for estimating the maintenance requirements of bioretention systems.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제57권5호
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• pp.596-605
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• 2019

프로톤 전도성 세라믹인 페로브스카이트 구조의 산화물은 고온 환경에서 고체 전해질 및 촉매로써 동시에 활용이 가능하여, 반응과 분리기능을 동시에 갖춘 멤브레인 반응기로 적용하기에 우수한 소재이다. 특히 수소 제조 촉매와 분리, 이를 결합한 멤브레인 반응기 개발에 관한 연구는 전해질 내 도핑 금속의 종류 및 온도, 반응물의 조성 등에 따라 다양한 연구 결과가 제시되고 있다. 이에 본 총설에서는 프로톤 전도성 세라믹반응기에서 메탄을 활용하여 수소 제조촉매와 멤브레인 반응기로 응용해 온 연구 동향을 살펴보고, 차세대 수소의 제조와 분리 기술로서의 응용분야 및 전망에 관해 고찰하고자 한다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.235-241
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• 2011

This study was performed to investigate the characteristics of nutrient removal of municipal wastewater in the submerged membrane bioreactor by addition of alum directly into aerobic tank. Membrane bioreactor consists of three reactors such as two intermittent anaerobic tanks and the aerobic tank with hollow fiber membrane. The removal efficiencies of $COD_{cr}$, BOD, SS, TN and TP on the membrane bioreactor were 94.0%, 99.1%, 99.9%, 66.9%, and 58.9%, respectively. In addition, The removal efficiencies of $COD_{cr}$, BOD, SS, TN and TP on the membrane bioreactor with alum addition were 93.4%, 99.0%, 99.9%, 63.2%, and 96.8%, respectively. There was little difference between them on the nutrient removal efficiencies except phophorus removal. The estimated sludge production, specific denitrification rate, specific nitrification rate and phosphorus removal content on the membrane bioreactor were 1.76 kgTSS/d, $0.055mgNO_3-N/mgVSS{\cdot}d$, $0.031mgNH_4-N/mgVSS{\cdot}d$, and 0.095 kgP/d, respectively. And The estimated sludge production, specific denitrification rate, specific nitrification rate and phosphorus removal content on the membrane bioreactor with alum addition were 2.90 kgTSS/d, $0.049mgNO_3-N/mgVSS{\cdot}d$, $0.030mgNH_4-N/mgVSS{\cdot}d$, and 0.160 kgP/d, respectively. The alum content added was 1.7 molAl/molP on an average. The increasing ratio of tran-membrane pressure on the membrane bioreactor was $0.0056kgf/cm^2{\cdot}compared$ to $0.0033kgf/cm^2{\cdot}d$ on the membrane bioreactor with alum addition. There was a slightly reduction effect on membrane fouling by alum addition.

• 멤브레인
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.152-162
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• 1994

광촉매 $TiO_2$ 막에 의한 formic acid의 광분해 효율이 연구되었다. 막반응기는 용액의 정밀여과(micro-filtration)는 물론 유기물의 광분해를 동시에 수행할 수 있도록 다공성 $TiO_2$ 튜브 (평균기공: $0.2{\mu}m$)를 이용한 새로운 타입으로 개발되었으며 광원으로는 365 nm 파장을 갖는 UV를 사용하였다. 또한 반응기의 광분해 효율을 증진시키기 위하여 슬립케스팅법으로 제조한 $TiO_2$ 튜브표면을 $TiO_2$ 졸로 코팅하였다. $TiO_2$ 막 반응기의 분해효율은 용액의 투과량(flux), 막의 미세구조(졸의 pH), 공급산소량, $H_2O_2$와 같은 1차 산화제(primary oxidants)의 첨가 그리고 $Nb_2O_5$와 같은 물질의 도핑(doping)에 매우 민감함을 알 수 있었다. 최적의 광분해 반응조건에서 formic acid의 산화효율은 pH가 1.45인 $TiO_2$ 졸로 코팅한 막 반응기를 사용했을때 80% 이상이었다. Formic acid 용액에 1차 산화제 $H_2O_2$를 첨가하거나 막을 $Fe_2O_3$로 도핑함으로써 산화효율은 최고 20%까지 증가시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국막학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국막학회 1998년도 추계 총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.11-14
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• 1998

1. Introduction : Research progresses in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering have been made during the last decades with important contributions to the industrial development and to the quality of our life. An interesting case is related to the membrane science and technology continuous impact to innovative processes and products, particularly appropriate for a sustainable industrial growth. Membrane operations have been familiar for many years to biologists and chemists working in their laboratorier or studying biological phenomena. Only recently engineers started to operate in' this area. The preparation of asymmetric CA membranes at University of California, Los Angeles in the early 60s is generally recognized as a crucial moment for membranology (1). Loeb and Sourirajan with their discovery of how to increase significantly the permeability of polymeric membranes without significant changes in their selectivity, made realistic the possibility of their use in large scale operations for desalting brackish and sea water by reverse osmosis and for various other molecular separations in different industrial areas. Reverse osmosis is today a well recognized basic unit operations, togheter with ultrafiltration, crossflow microfiltration,. nanofiltration, all pressure driven membrane processes. Already in 1992 more than 4 milIions m$^3$/day were the total capacity of RO desalination plants and in 1995 more than 180.000 m$^2$ of ultrafiltration membranes were installed for the treatment of wheys and milk (2) (3).

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2004

현재 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 막반응기를 이용한 수소 생산기술은 열역학적 평형의 한계(thermodynamic equilibrium limit)를 뛰어 넘는 생산성을 얻을 수 있음과 동시에 생산되는 수소를 별다른 과정이나 장치 없이 분리할 수 있다는 점에서 경제적으로 매우 기대되는 공정이다. 메탄의 개질반응에서 생성되는 합성가스에 수증기를 첨가하면 널리 알려진 수성가스전환반응이 이루어진다. 이 반응은 수소 생산 공정에 사용되는 주요 반응 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 새롭게 제안된 cell을 이용한 해석 기법을 통해 막반응기를 모사하여 막을 이용하지 않은 반응기의 모사 결과와 비교 분석하였으며, 막반응기의 우수성을 검증해 보았다. 막을 사용하지 않은 반응기에서 압력의 영향에 따른 반응속도의 변화는 수성가스전환반응에서 무시할 수 있을 만큼 작았다. 막반응기에서 튜브 측(tube side)의 압력은 높을수록, 쉘 측(shell side)의 압력은 낮을수록 CO의 전환율이 좋았다. 낮은 온도에서 반응의 속도가 낮았으며, 온도가 증가함에 따라 점차 증가하여 600$\pm$30K에서 최대의 CO전환율을 가졌으며 더 증가하면 열역학적 평형의 감소로 인하여 점차 감소하였다. Cell을 이용한 막반응기 모델은 미분방정식을 이용한 모델보다 간단하게 모사를 할 수 있었으며, 신뢰할만한 모사 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1999

Pd-ceramic composite membranes and catalytic membrane reactors(CMR) have been studied for hydrogen and its isotopes (deuterium and tritium) purification and recovery in the fusion reactor fuel cycle. Particularly a closed-loop process has been studied for recovering tritium from tritiated water by means of a CMR in which the water gas shift reaction takes place. The development of the techniques for coating micro-porous ceramic tubes with Pd and Pd/Ag thin layers is described : P composite membranes have been produced by electroless deposition (Pd/Ag film of 10-20 $\mu$m) and rolling of thin metal sheets (Pd and Pd/Ag membranes of 50-70 $\mu$m). Experimental results of the electroless membranes have shown a not complete hydrogen selectivity because of the presence of some defects(micro-holes) in the metallic thin layer. Conversely the rolled thin Pd and Pd/ag membranes have separated hydrogen from the other gases with a complete selectivity giving rise to a slightly larger (about a factor 1.7) mass transfer resistance with respect to the electroless membranes. Experimental tests have confirmed the good performances of the rolled membranes in terms of chemical stability over several weeks of operation. Therefore these rolled membranes and CMR are adequate for applications in the fusion reactor fuel cycle as well as in the industrial processes where high pure hydrogen is required (i.e. hydrocarbon reforming for fuel cell)

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2023

Biofilms significantly affect the performance of wastewater treatment processes in which biodegradability of numerous microorganisms are actively involved, and various technologies have been applied to secure microbial biofilms. Understanding changes in biofilm characteristics by regulating expression of signaling molecules is important to control and regulate biofilms in membrane bioreactor, i.e., biofouling. This study investigated effects of addition of acyl-homoserine lactones (AHL) as a controllable factor for the microbial signaling system on biofilm formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and multiple strains in membrane bioreactor. The addition of three AHL, i.e., C4-, C6-, and C8-HSL, at a concentration of 200 ㎍/L, enhanced the formation of the PAO1 biofilm and the degree of increases in the biofilm formation of PAO1 were 70.2%, 76.6%, and 72.9%, respectively. The improvement of biofilm formation of individual strains by C4-HSL was an average of 68%, and the microbial consortia increased by approximately 52.1% in the presence of 200 ㎍/L C4-HSL. CLSM images showed that more bacterial cells were present on the membrane surface after the AHL application. In the COMSTAT results, biomass and thickness were increased up to 2.2 times (PAO1) and 1.6 times (multi-strains) by C4-HSL. This study clearly showed that biofilm formation was increased by the application of AHL to individual strain groups, including PAO1 and microbial consortia, and significant increases were observed when 50 or 100 ㎍/L AHL was administered. This suggests that AHL application can improve the biofilm formation of microorganisms, which could yield an enhancement in efficiency of biofilm control, such as in various biofilm reactors including membrane bioreactor and bioflocculent systems in water/wastewater treatment processes.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2023

Membrane separation is widely used for several applications such as water treatment, membrane reactors and climate change. Cross-linked organic-inorganic hybrid polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) / Tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) was adopted for the preparation of optimized hollow membrane (HFM) for membrane distillation or other low pressure separators for mechanical properties and permeability under varying pretreatment schemes. HFMs were prepared on semi-pilot membrane fabrication system. Novel adopted post-treatment schemes involved soaking in glycerol, magnesium sulphate (MgSO₄), sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), and isopropanol for different durations. All fibers were characterized for morphology using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), surface roughness using atomic force microscope (AFM), elemental composition by examining Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), water contact angle (CA°) and porosity. The performance of the fibers was evaluated for pure water permeation flux (PWF). Post-treatment with MgSO₄ gave the highest both tensile modulus and flux. Assessment of properties and performance revealed comparable results with other organic-inorganic separators, HF or flat. In spite of few reported data on post treatment using MgSO₄ in presence of TEOS, this proves the potential of low cost treatment without negative impact on other membrane properties. The flux is also comparable with hypochlorite which manifests substantial precaution requirements in actual industrial use.The relatively high values of flux/bar for sample treated with TEOS, post treated with MgSO₄ and hypochlorite are 88 and 82 LMH/bar respectively.