• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.655-665
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• 2011

Contamination of butyltin compounds (BTs), namely tributyltin (TBT), dibutyltin (DBT) and monobutyltin (MBT), was evaluated in sediments collected inside Jeju Harbor in 2001. The concentrations of BTs in surface sediments were comparable to those in other sites of domestic and foreign countries. The high correlations between BTs in surface ($r^2$ = 0.83~0.91) and core ($r^2$ = 0.70~0.79) sediments and the significant correlations between BTs concentrations and the number of incoming and outgoing vessels indicated that DBT and MBT were mainly degraded from TBT based on antifouling paints of vessels etc. and other sources, such as DBT and MBT, could be ignored. The butyltin degradation indices ([DBT] + [MBT]/[TBT]) in surface sediments were in the range of 2.2~3.6 (mean 2.7), indicating that the parent compound, TBT, was inflowed into the surface sediments a long ago, degraded and deposited. The sedimentation age of BTs contaminated core sediments could not estimated because the content of $^{210}Pb$ activity was nearly all the same and so the sedimentation rate could not obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.667-673
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• 2019

The performance of a wooden deck made of refractory materials that have difficulties in achieving target penetrations as stipulated in the specification and quality standards for treated wood in Korea, was assessed via a case study in this research. A wooden deck built in Jinju in 2009 was selected for this study because of its fabrication method using pressure and treated refractory materials. The penetration and retention analysis did not satisfy the domestic standard for treated wood. Inspection of the deck in 2019 revealed that the deck had been attacked by decay fungi. Cap rails showed much deeper and wider checking on their surface compared with the top and base rails, resulting in a severe fungal attack. The decking boards exhibited severe fungal decay primarily in the end parts. However, the rails and balusters without checks and posts were virtually free of fungal attack irrespective of the preservative penetration measures. Copper content in the soil 5 cm away from the deck was less than 150 mg/kg, implying that copper movement in the soil was very limited. These results suggest that the inhibition of surface propagation and the protection of end surfaces are essential factors in increasing the longevity of treated wooden decks; further, the results also showed that the deck was within an acceptable range from the point of copper contamination.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.393-398
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• 2022

윈드프로파일러 시제품의 시험 운용 기간 중 스펙트럼에 전파 간섭(RFI: Radio Frequency Interference) 오염이 발생하였다. 윈드프로파일러 spectra에 나타나는 전파 간섭 제거 알고리즘의 개발 과정과 그 결과를 조사하였고, 전파 간섭을 제거하기 위한 새로운 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 스펙트럼 폭의 임계값 0.1 m/s로 우선 필터링하고 연직 빔인지 경사 빔인지에 따라 동일한 시선속도가 연속되는 gate 수 범위를 결정하였다. 전파 간섭 오염은 비기상 신호의 필터링과 스캔을 통해 제거되었고, 개선된 스펙트럼의 시선속도로부터 산출된 바람벡터의 연속성으로 검증되었다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.95-106
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• 2023

In the developing country like India, groundwater is the main sources for household, irrigation and industrial use. Its contamination poses hydro-geological and environmental concern. The hazardous waste sites such as landfills can lead to contamination of ground water. The contaminants existing at such sites can eventually find ingress down through the soil and into the groundwater in case of leakage. It is necessary to understand the process of migration of pollutants through sub-surface porous medium for avoiding health risks. On this backdrop, the present paper investigates the behavior of pollutants' migration through porous media. The laboratory experiments were carried out on a soil-column model that represents porous media. Two different types of soils (standard sand and red soil) were considered as the media. Further, two different solutes, i.e., non-reactive and reactive, were used. The experimental results are simulated through numerical modeling. The percentage variation in the experimental and numerical results is found to be in the range of 0.75- 11.23 % and 0.84 - 1.26% in case of standard sand and red soil, respectively. While a close agreement is observed in most of the breakthrough curves obtained experimentally and numerically, good agreement is seen in either result in one case.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.629-629
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• 2013

Graphene is a carbon based material and it has intriguing features, such as phenomenally strong, thin, flexible, transparent and conductive, those make it attractive for a broad range of applications.Unfortunately, graphene is extremely sensitive to contamination. When we fabricate graphene devices, electrical properties of graphene are altered [1], and the charge carrier mobility drops accordingly by orders of magnitude. This significant impact on electron mobility occurs because any surrounding medium could act as a dominant source of extrinsic scattering, which effectively reduces the mean free path of carriers [2,3]. The dominant contaminant is generated through fabrication stage by polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) [4], or photo resist (PR). Surface contamination by these residues has long been a critical problem in probing graphene's intrinsic properties. If we clearly solve this problem, we can get highly performed graphene devices. Here, we will report on graphene cleaning process by Induced Coupled Plasma (ICP). We demonstrated how much decomposition of residue impact on improving electrical properties of graphene.

• 천문학회보
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.95.1-95.1
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• 2013

The RBSPICE (Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ion Composition Experiment) is one of five instrument suites onboard the twin Van Allan Probes (or Radiation Belt Storm Probes; RBSP), launched August 30, 2012 by NASA. One of science targets of RBSPICE instrument is to determine "how changes in that ring current affect the creation, acceleration, and loss of radiation belt particles?". For that purpose, it measures ions and electrons simultaneously. Ion's energy range is from ~20 keV to ~1 MeV and electron's energy channel is from ~35 keV to 1 MeV in order to provide supplementary information about the radiation belts. In this paper, we investigate a reliability of the electron flux measured from the RBSPICE by comparing with ECT (The Energetic Particle, Composition and Thermal Plasma Suite) data. We found there is a critical proton contamination problem in the electron channels of ~ 1MeV of RBSPICE observations during one moderate storm event of Sym H ~ -76 nT on March 1, 2013.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.3420-3429
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• 1974

This study was performed to estimate the daily water consumption for watering livestock and home use, and to organize the water systems in the rural districts of Korea. For these purposes, 560 farms and other 40 urban families were randomly chosen and investigated about their water systems and daily water consumption seasonally from July 20 to August 31, 1973, and other 82 livestock raisers' useful data for watering livestock helped the study to assess the consumption of livestock water and compare it to that of general farms which bred some domestic animals as their sidelines. The results of data showed that the daily consumption of water was varied with the difference of districts and seasons in which the investigations were conducted. The results were summarized as follows. 1. The mean consumption of water for home use was varied with the range of 30.2-48.7 lit./day in summer and 22.4-45.2 lit./day per a person, respectively, in the rural districts, which showed that the water consumption in summer was more than in autumn. 2. The mean consumption of livestock water in the general farms approached to about 15.8-37.1 lit./day per cattle, 3.87-16.45 lit./day per a pig, and 0.19-1.03 lit./day per chicken, but it was slightly reduced in autumn; 10.89-37.09 lit./day per cattle, 3.87-12.63 lit./day per a pig, and 0.06-0.94 lit./day per chicken. The ratio of livestock water consumption to home use amounted to the range of 10-25%. 3. The mean consumption of livestock water used at the livestock raisers amounted to 134 lit./day per dairy cow, 67.4 lit./day per cattle, 43.29 lit./day per a horse, 13.24 lit./day per a pig, 0.438 lit./day per a layer, and 0.177 lit./day per a broiler, which showed that the daily water consumption for larger livestock was about two times as much as the farms, but it was approximately of the same for small ones. 4. The factors affecting the amount of water consumption for home use were statistically analyzed to find the kind of water sources and the class of water systems by the factorial arrangement method to the fundamental experimental unit, Suwon area of 100 of families, in which the former was very significant while the latter was significant. However, the standard of living and their interactions were not significant. 5. Almost 83.24% of the sampled farms used some kinds of wells as their water sources, of which 32.06% was of hard water, and of which 11.l% or 2.6% contained much of iron or organice materials, respectively, examining them by a simple technique of sensibility, 6. The resulting chart of the farm water systems was summarized as Fig. IV-6. Observating the safe distance from contamination sources, the ratio of 42.4% of sampled farms whose water sources were wells, confronted highly to the danger of contamination to their water sources. And other dangerous sources of contamination such as toilets, stalls, and compost heaps were situated nearly to the water sources, and most of them were able to make their spoiled water infiltrated into the ground. Thereafter, it was recommended to develop some protecting methods and to install some suitable faculties to clean water.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2014

Contamination of explosive compounds in the soils of military shooting range may pose risks to human and ecosystems. As shooting ranges are located at remote places, active remediation processes with hardwares and equipments are less practical to implement than natural solutions such as bioremediaton. In this study, a series of experiments was conducted to select a suitable carbon source and to optimize dosing rate for the enhanced bioremediation of explosive compounds in surface soils and sediments of shooting ranges with indigenous microorganisms activated by external carbon source. Treatability study using slurry phase reactors showed that the presence of indigenous microbial community capable of explosive compounds degradation in the shooting range soils, and starch was a more effective carbon source than glucose and acetic acid in the removal of TNT. However, at higher starch/soil ratio, i.e., 2.0, the acute toxicity of the liquid phase increased possibly due to transformation products of TNT. RDX degradation by indigenous microorganisms was also stimulated by the addition of starch but the acute toxicity of the liquid phase decreased with the increase of starch/soil ratio. Taken together, the optimum range of starch/soil ratio for the degradation of explosive compounds without significant increase in acute toxicity was found to be 0.2 of starch/soil.

• 지질공학
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2015

가축매몰지로부터 확산되는 침출수를 양수하여 정화하기 위해서는 시추공의 적절한 위치 및 개수 선정이 필요하다. 침출수 분포에 대한 간단하고 광역적 조사에 효율적으로 알려진 전기비저항탐사를 활용하여 지하수 오염범위, 유동방향 및지질구조의 특성을 분석하였다. 경기도 이천시 가축매몰지 4개 Site의 전기비저항탐사 자료 해석결과, GL. - 8 m 이내에서 저비저항 이상대는 20~200 ohm-m로 나타났다. 침출수 정화를 위한 영향반경 및 양수량을 산출한 결과 Site 1부터 4 까지 각각 영향반경은 12.9 m, 13.7 m, 10.1 m, 18.0 m로 산출되었으며 양수량은 2,040 m³, 479.8 m³, 1,492.3 m³, 691.9 m³로 추정되었다. Site 1부터 4까지 시추공을 각각 5개, 2개, 4개, 2개를 설치한다면 모든 범위의 오염지하수 양수및 정화가 가능한 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.205-211
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• 2019

2017년 10월부터 2018년 9월까지 광주광역시 시내 슈퍼, 대형마트 및 재래시장에서 구입한 율무, 수수, 기장, 조, 백미, 보리 등 곡류 75건과 볶은 율무, 보리, 옥수수 등 곡류가공품 52건 총 127건을 대상으로 곰팡이독소 함량검사를 실시하였다. 검사한 곰팡이독소는 아플라톡신($B_1$, $B_2$, $G_1$, $G_2$,), 푸모니신($B_1,\;B_2$), 오크라톡신 A, 제랄레논이었다. 127건의 시료 중 38건에서 곰팡이독소가 검출되어 29.9%의 검출률을 나타내었다. 127건의 시료 중 35건에서 푸모니신($B_1+B_2$)은 $4.8{\sim}738.5{\mu}g/kg$, 제랄레논은 20건에서 $8.4{\sim}507.6{\mu}g/kg$ 범위에서 검출되었다. 검사한 곡류와 곡류 가공품 중에서 가장 오염도가 높은 곰팡이독소는 푸모니신과 제랄레논이었고 이들 곰팡이가 중복 검출된 검체는 17건으로 독소가 검출된 38건 중에서 44.7%를 차지하였다. 곰팡이독소 일일추정섭취량(EDI)과 잠정최대일일섭취허용량(PMTDI)으로부터 위해도를 산출하였다. 위해도는 0.0019~1.9526%로 나타나 이번에 조사한 곡류와 곡류가공품은 곰팡이독소 측면에서는 안전한 수준으로 판단되었다.