• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.82-87
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• 2023

This study proposes a pH-dissolved-oxygen monitoring system using 8-HydroxyPyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid Trisodium Salt (HPTS) and tris(4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline)Ruthenium(II) chloride (Ru_dpp). Commercial water-quality sensors are electrochemical devices that require frequent calibration and cleaning, are subject to high maintenance costs, and have difficulties conducting measurements in real-time. The proposed pH-dissolved-oxygen monitoring system selects a thin-film sensing layer to measure the change in fluorescence intensity. This change in fluorescence intensity is based on reactions with hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution at a given pH and specific amount of dissolved oxygen. The change in fluorescence intensity is then measured using light-emitting diodes and photodiodes in response to HPTS and Ru_dpp. This method enables the development of a relatively small, inexpensive, and real-time measureable water-quality measurement system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.119-120
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• 2003

최근 중국에서 발생한 황사는 대기환경적 및 기후변화 측면에 이르기까지 심각한 피해를 주는 것으로 밝혀지고 있어 더 이상 황사는 동아시아에 국한된 문제가 아닌 전 세계의 환경이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 물론 과거에도 황사에 의한 피해는 계속되어 왔지만 중국 건조지대의 기온 증가, 강수량 감소로 인한 사막화 현상과 삼림감소 등의 영향으로 황사현상의 발생빈도는 증가하고 있으며, 특히 중국의 급속한 경제성장 및 산업화로 인해 배출된 다량의 오염물질이 황사와 섞여 함께 수송되므로 그 피해는 훨씬 심각하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.115-116
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• 1999

대기 중으로 발산되어 인간의 감각기관을 자극함으로써 불쾌감을 유발하고 집중력을 저하시키는 등 일상생활에 좋지 않은 영향을 주는 악취를 객관적으로 평가하기 위해 취기를 감지할 수 있는 최저농도를 평가하는 감지역취(Threshold)의 결정, 냄새가 얼마나 강한가를 평가하는 악취강도(Odor Intensity) 측정, 냄새의 종류를 판단하는 냄새 질(Odor Quality) 판정 등 악취의 성질을 표현하는 여러 방법이 사용되고 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2002

스모그는 대기오염으로 인해 나타나는 대표적인 오염 현상이다. 스모그는 시정을 감소시키고, 눈ㆍ코ㆍ호흡기 등을 자극하여 인체의 건강에 나쁜 영향을 미친다. 스모그 현상은 주로 바람이 약하고 지표부근의 기온이 역전하는 특정한 기상상태에서 대기 중 가스와 입자간의 반응에 의해 여러 경로론 거쳐 생성된 에어로졸이 증가하여 나타난다. 최근 자동차 수의 급속한 증가와 휘발성 유기화합물질 (volatile organic compounds, VOCs)의 사용으로 인하여 서울 지역에서 스모그가 발생하는 빈도가 많아지고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.584-589
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• 2000

Water pollution induced by animal waste is one of the major problems in managing stream water quality. In this presentation, water quality of leachate from manure compost was analyzed by pot experiments, using a rainfall simulator. Based on the limited experiment conditions, the average concentrations of COD, SS, TKN, TP were up to 2000mg/L, 24g/L, 107mg/L, 50mg/L, respectively. The higher concentrations were generally observed when the amount of manure compost was greater and rainfall intensity was lower.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.17-30
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• 2009

In Iksan city, there have been a lot of complaints caused by offensive odor from residents living near the public environmental infrastructures and the Iksan industrial complex. To solve these problems, it is important to know the present condition of odor pollution level in these areas, the emission characteristics of malodorous gases in temporal and spatial variations in addition to meteorological components, and the facilities of major sources emitting malodorous compounds. The objectives of this study is to make the odor monitoring network for 20 people who lived and worked in areas where the environmental infrastructures and the Iksan industrial complex are located and their neighboring areas for six months from June 1st to October 31st in 2008 in Iksan and to monitor the temporal and regional frequency and characteristics of odor intensity using direct olfactory methods. As a result of odor monitoring, the highest frequency of sensed odor per month and 20 people for six months was found to be 107 in July, followed by 84 in September, 80 in August, 54 in June, 38 in October, respectively. Odor intensity trend showed a regional trend in the decreasing order of Dongsan-dong, Busong-dong, and Palbong-dong. Odor was widely perceived from night through next morning and considered as the sense of excreta, chemicals, sewage, compost, waste, etc. When high odor intensity was sensed, there were constant meteorological characteristics: relative humidity was 80~90%, wind speed was less than 0.5~1 m/sec, and main wind directions were from the east, the southeast, and the south.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.6
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• pp.471-478
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• 2009

The lung diseases classifying as one of the six incurable diseases in modern days are caused mostly by smoking and air pollution. Such causes the lung function damages, and results in malfunction of the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen in an alveolus, which the interest is augment with risk diseases of life prolongation. With this in the paper, we proposed a diagnosis method of lung diseases by applying parameters of voice analysis aiming at the getting the voice feature extraction. Firstly, we sampled the voice data from patients and normal persons in the same age and sex, and made two sample groups from them. Also, we conducted an analysis by applying the various parameters of voice analysis through the collected voice data. The relational significance between the patient and normal groups can be evaluated in terms of speech rates and intensity as a part of analized parameters. In conclusion, the patient group has shown slower speech rates and bigger intensity than the normal group. With this, we propose the method of voice feature extraction for lung diseases.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.795-804
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• 2012

Recently, changes in rainfall intensity and patterns have been causing increasing soil loss worldwide. As a result, the water ecosystem becomes worse and crops yield are reduced with soil loss and nutrient loss with it. Many studies have been proposed to estimate runoff and soil loss to predict or decrease non-point source pollution. Although the USLE has been used for many years in estimating soil losses, the USLE cannot reflect effects on soil loss of changes in rainfall intensity and patterns. The WEPP, physically based model, is capable of predicting soil loss and runoff using various rainfall intensity. In this study, the WEPP model was simulated for sediment yield, runoff and peak runoff using data of 5, 10, 30, 60 minute term rainfall, Huff's method and design rainfall. In case of rainfall interval of 5 minutes and 60 minutes, the sediment and runoff values decreased by 24% and 19%, respectively. The peak rate runoff values decreased by 16% when rainfall interval changed from 5 minutes to 60 minutes, indicating the peak rate runoff values are affected by rainfall intensity to some degrees. As a result of simulating using Huff's method, all values (sediment yield, runoff, peak runoff) were found to be the greatest at third quartile. According to the analysis under various design rainfall conditions (2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 200, 300 years frequency), sediment yield, runoff, and peak runoff of 906.2%, 249.4% and 183.9% were estimated using 2 year to 300 year frequency rainfall data.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.31-38
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• 2010

Various fundamental and practical theories and technologies are needed for the development of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to manage the problems. The objectives of this paper was to investigate the effect of fertilizer and Non-point suource (NPS) pollution discharges from the field. The effect of fertilizer application was measured with respect to 10 % and 20 % slopes, respectively, using artificial rainfall simulator. The effect of fertilizer application on runoff was not significant because the effect of slope and rainfall intensity were overwhelmed. Runoff from 20 % plots was 21 % larger than that from 10 % plots. While groundwater discharge from 10 % plots was about 70 % larger than that from 20 % plots. It was concluded that runoff and groundwater discharge were largely affected by slope. T-N concentration in groundwater was much higher than that in runoff for both 10 % and 20 % plots. While T-P concentration in groundwater was lower than that in runoff. It explained that T-N moved well through soil pores without adsorption and other chemical reactions but T-P was well adsorbed on the surface of soil particles.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2010

Based on a survey of citizens and data analysis on the environmental status of the Miyun Reservoir watershed, China, the environmental awareness of citizens residing in the watershed and the impacting factors are discussed. The contingent valuation method was used to evaluate the willingness of villagers to pay (WTP) for abatement of the rural domestic pollution and to assess the intensity level of the villagers' desire for improving environmental conditions in the Miyun Reservoir watershed. It was found that rural watershed residents had a fundamental cognitive understanding of the pollution status and protection measures of the Miyun Reservoir. However, based on the survey, local residents had only a small interest in their participation to improve the environmental status of the reservoir, despite their general attitude to protect the reservoir being very positive. Gender and family income were closely associated with the overall attitudes of the population. Public media are the most preferable means for conveying knowledge of environmental protection to people living in the watershed. Increasing the educational level, along with income, are the best ways to enhance the desire of the villagers to improve the environmental quality and management.