• 상하수도학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2011

Membrane fouling is an unavoidable phenomenon and major obstacle in the economic and efficient operation under sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO). When fouling occurs on the membrane surface, the permeate quantity and quality decrease, the trans-membrane pressure (TMP) and operation costs increase, and the membrane may be damaged. Therefore, chemical cleaning process is important to prevent permeate flow from decreasing in RO membrane filtration process. This study focused on proper chemical cleaning condition for Shuaibah RO plant in Saudi Arabia. Several chemical agents were used for chemical cleaning at different contact time and concentrations of chemicals. Also autopsy analysis was performed using LOI, FT-IR, FEEM, SEM and EDX for assessment of fouling. Specially, FEEM analysis method was thought as analyzing and evaluating tool available for selection of the first applied chemical cleaning dose to predict potential organic fouling. Also, cleaning time should be considered by the condition of RO membrane process since the cleaning time depends on the membrane fouling rate. If the fouling exceeds chemical cleaning guideline, to perfectly remove the fouling, certainly, the chemical cleaning is increased with membrane fouling rate influenced by raw water properties, pre-treatment condition and the point of the chemical cleaning operation time. Also choice of cleaning chemicals applied firstly is important.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2010년도 정기 학술발표대회
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• pp.102.1-102.1
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• 2010

대체수자원 중 막여과 기술에 대한 관심이 지속적으로 높아지고 있다. 하지만, 이러한 막여과 기술에는 fouling이 발생시 효율저감, flux저감, 소모에너지 증대 등 문제점이 발생한다. 이러한 fouling저감을 위해 막 표면특성분석을 통한 기초연구가 필요하다고 보고 이 연구를 진행하였다. AFM을 이용하여 CML입자와 막의 상호작용을 통해 초기 막오염 경향을 예측할 수 있다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.36-41
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• 1999

High quality drinking water can be produced by membrane separation process. A major problem in the current system is a membrane fouling control. In order to investigate membrane fouling due to E.coll removal, lab scale experiment using MF and UF and semi pilot plant experiment using UV radiation or not was performed. AS a result, the possibility of membrane fouling control by repressing of micro-organism on the membrane surface was clearly verified. But it was not clearly verified in this experiment the combined effect with other factors such as Turbidity, organic and inorganic matters.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.669-676
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• 2007

낙동강 매리지역 원수에 대해 유기물 성상분석을 한 결과, 소수성 물질이 43%, 친수성 물질이 39%, 반친수성 물질이 18%를 차지하고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 각각의 유기물질에 대한 분자량 크기 분포 특성을 살펴보면 소수성 > 반친수성 > 친수성 물질의 순으로 분자량 분포특성을 보였다. 막 공극 크기에 따른 영향을 살펴본 결과 막 공극 크기가 증가할수록 공극 내에서 공극 막힘현상과 공극 흡착현상이 막오염의 주된 메카니즘으로 작용하여 투과 flux 감소율이 크게 나타나는 것으로 조사되었다. 막의 재질에 따른 영향을 살펴본 결과 소수성 막의 경우 친수성 막에 비하여 소수성 상호반응(hydrophobic interaction)에 의하여 유기물에 의한 막 오염 현상이 발생하여 투과 flux 감소율이 더 크게 나타나고 초기 투과 flux 감소율도 빠르게 진행되었다. 원수에 대한 막의 재질과 막의 공극크기에 따른 막오염 메카니즘 분석결과 소수성 재질의 막에서 막표면 오염을 나타내는 Kc, 막의 공극흡착현상을 나타내는 Ks, 막의 공극 막힘현상을 나타내는 Ki 값이 상대적으로 크게 나타났다. 막의 공극 크기에 따른 막 오염 메카니즘 분석결과 막의 100 kDa 이상의 공극이 큰막의 경우에는 소수성 계열의 유기물이 막의 공극 내부에서 막 오염을 유발하였으며, 10 kDa 정도로 공극이 작은 막의 경우 소수성과 친수성 계열 유기물이 막 표면에서 막 오염을 유발하는 메카니즘이 주원인으로 작용하였다

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.193-206
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• 2010

Organic fouling and biofouling pose a significant challenge to the membrane filtration process. Photocatalysis-membrane hybrid system is a novel idea for reducing these membranes fouling however, when $TiO_2 photocatalyst nanoparticles are used in suspension, catalyst recovery is not only imposes an extra step on the process but also significantly contributes to increased membrane resistance and reduced permeate flux. In this study, $TiO_2$ photocatalyst has been immobilized by coating on the microfiltration (MF) membrane surface to minimize organic and microbial fouling. Nano-sized $TiO_2$ was first synthesized by a sol-gel method. The synthesized $TiO_2$ was coated on a Poly Vinyl Difluoride (PVDF) membrane (MF) surface using spray coating and dip coating techniques to obtain hybrid functional composite membrane. The characteristics of the synthesized photocatalyst and a functional composite membrane were studied using numerous instruments in terms of physical, chemical and electrical properties. In comparison to the clean PVDF membrane, the $TiO_2$ coated MF membrane was found more effective in removing methylene blue (20%) and E-coli (99%).

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2011

Membrane fouling is an unavoidable phenomenon in operation of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) and major obstacle for economic and efficient operation. When fouling occurs on the membrane surface, the permeate flux is decreased, on the contrary, the trans-membrane pressure (TMP) is increased, therefore operation and maintaining costs and potential damage of membranes are able to the pivotal risks of the process. Chemical cleaning process is essential to prevent interruptions for effective RO membrane filtration process. This study focused on proper chemical cleaning condition for polyamide RO membranes of 4 companies. Several chemical agents were applied for chemical cleaning under numbers of operating conditions. Additionally, a monitoring tool of FEEM as autopsy analysis method is adapted for the prediction of organic bio-fouling.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.283-296
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• 2010

During the disinfection of potable water, humic substances present in the solution react with chlorine to form potential carcinogenic compounds. This study evaluates the feasibility of using a submerged membrane photocatalysis reactor (SMPR) process for treatment of humic substances through the characterization of both organic removal efficiency and membrane hydraulic performance. A simple SMPR was operated and led to the removal of up to 83% of the polluting humic matters. Temporal rates of organic removal and membrane fouling were found to decrease with filtration time. Using tighter membrane in the hybrid process resulted in not only higher organic removal, but also more significant membrane fouling. Under the experimental conditions tested, optimum $TiO_2$ concentration for humic removal was found to be 0.6 g/L, and increasing initial pollutant concentration expectedly resulted in a more substantial membrane fouling. The importance of the influent nature and pollutant characteristics in this type of treatment was also assessed as various water sources were tested (model humic acid solution vs. local water containing natural organic matters). Results from this study revealed the promising nature of the SMPR process as an alternative technique for organic removal in the existing water treatment system.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2008

This study is about efficiency of pretreatment process and operating factor to membrane process at continuous coagulation/ultrafiltration process in water treatment. The capacity of pilot plant was $0.06{\beta}(C)/d$. The raw water used was from Nakdong stream which was characteristized by high organic matter and high turbidity. The result of the test was that coagulation is good process as to high removal rate to organic matter and turbidity but It caused problem to membrane pore blocking. This paper is to determine the membrane fouling potential under different membrane flux, backwash pressure and linear velocity. Backwash pressure and flux is important parameter on operation of membrane system. Those are directly affected on membrane system. When backwash pressure increased from 150 kPa to 200 kPa, the result showed that fouling (pressure increase rate) changed from 3.69 kPa/h to 0.93 kPa/h and the recovery rate changed from 90.7 % to 82.0 %. Linear velocity had slightly effect on fouling. Linear velocity increased from 0.2 m/s to 0.5 m/s, the corresponding pressure rate changed from 0.93 kPa/d to 0.77 kPa/d.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.799-806
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• 2005

응집-UF 정수공정시 응집 전처리 공정에 있어 완속혼합없이 급속혼화만으로 충분한 응집의 효과를 기대할 수 있으며, 급속혼화장치로 in-line static mixer를 사용한 경우가 기존의 back mixer를 사용 한 경우보다 롤은 DOC 제거효율을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한, 적정 주입량인 16 mg alum/L에서 막의 투과 flux 감소가 가장 적게 나타났으며 적정 주입량보다 너무 적거나 또는 너무 많은 경우 모두 막의 투과 fiux 감소가 크게 나타났다. 또한 막의 fouling에 크게 영향을 미치는 것은 hydrophobic 물질로 이는 응집 전처리시 효과적으로 제거되어짐으로써 막의 투과 flux 감소를 줄일 수 있었다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.223-229
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• 2020

Here magnetic iron oxide particles (MIOPs) were synthesized under atmospheric air and which size was controlled by regulating the flow rate of alkali addition and used for efficient removal of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from water. The MIOPs were characterized using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier transformation-Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The results revealed a successful preparation of the MIOPs. The removal efficiency for BSA using MIOPs was found to be about 100% at lower concentrations (≥ 10 mg/L). The maximum adsorption of 64.7 mg/g for BSA was achieved as per the Langmuir adsorption model. In addition, microfiltration membrane for removal of BSA as model protein organic foulant is also studied. The effect of various MIOPs adsorbent sizes of 210, 680 and 1130 nm on the absorption capacity of BSA was investigated. Water permeability of the BSA integrated with the smallest size MIOPs membrane was increased by approximately 22% compared by the neat BSA membrane during dead-end filtration. Furthermore, the presence of small size MIOPs were also effective in increasing the permeate flux.