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Estimation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emission from sewage sludge of sewerage treatment plants in Korea

  • Kim, Dong-Hwan;Hwang, Jong-Seob;Lee, Min-Hee;Ok, Gon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 2003
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PARs) are an important group of organic contaminants present in sewage sludge, due to their persistence, toxic, bioaccumulative and long range transfer. These characters make themselves as Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) in Long Range Transboundary Air Pollutions convention(LRT AP) of Europe. A method of the gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric (GC-MS) determination of PARs present in sewage sludge was developed and applied to analyzed samples from five sewerage treatment plants (SWTPs), having different treatment types. PARs were extracted from freeze-dried samples by toluene 16 hours in a soxhlet extraction system. The sludge extracts were cleaned-up by an activated silica gel column chromatography. The sum of the 16 US Environmental Protection Agency PARs sewage sludge samples varied from 2.44 to 4.82 ${\mu}g$/g. Concentration of emission carcinogen PARs(PARcarc), such as Benzo(a)anthracene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Benzo(k)fluoranthene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Dibenzo(a, h)anthracene and Indeno(1, 2, 3-cd)pyrene ranged from 0.62 to 1.03 ${\mu}g$/g. The total amount of PAHs emission from sewage sludge in Korea was calculated as a top-down approach. PARs and $\sum$PAHcarc from sewage treatment plants had several pathway each by-products. In the ocean dumping, PAHs and $\sum$PAHcarc emissions were 1155.95 kg/year and 5040.32 kg/year. In recycle, PAHs and $\sum$PAHcarc emissions were 98.36 kg/year and 428.87 kg/year. In the landfill, PAHs and $\sum$PAHcarc emissions were 190.40 kg/year and 830.21 kg/year. In the incineration, PAHs and $\sum$PAHcarc emission were 33.10 kg/year and 830.21 kg/year. (In case of incineration, the whole provisions of PARs and $\sum$PAHcarc contained to flowed in sludge was supposed to be exhausted to environment through exhaust after incineration.)

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Estimation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emission from sewage sludge of sewerage treatment plants in Korea

  • Kim, Dong-Hwan;Hwang, Jong-Seob;Lee, Min-Hee;Ok, Gon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.1167-1171
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    • 2003
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an important group of organic contaminants present in sewage sludge, due to their persistence, toxic, bioaccumulative and long range transfer. These characters make themselves as Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) in Long Range Transboundary Air Pollutions convention(LRTAP) of Europe. A method of the gas chromatographicmass spectrometric (GCMS) determination of PAHs present in sewage sludge was developed and applied to analyzed samples from five sewerage treatment plants (SWTPs), having different treatment types. PAHs were extracted from freeze-dried samples by toluene 16 hours in a soxhlet extraction system. The sludge extracts were cleaned-up by an activated silica gel column chromatography. The sum of the 16 US Environmental Protection Agency PAHs sewage sludge samples varied from 2.44 to 4.82 $\mu\textrm{g}$/g. Concentration of emission carcinogen PAHs(PAHcarc), such as Benzo(a)anthracene, Benzo(b)f1uoranthene, Benzo(k)f1uoranthene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene and Indeno( 1,2,3-cd)pyrene ranged from 0.62 to 1.03 $\mu\textrm{g}$/g. The total amount of PAHs emission from sewage sludge in Korea was calculated as a top-down approach. PAHs and $\Sigma$PAHcarc from sewage treatment plants had emitted to environment by several pathway. The highest amount of emission to the environment was remarked in the ocean dumping(PAHs and $\Sigma$PAHcarc emissions were 1155.95 kg/year and 5040.32 kg/year, respectively).

The Assessment of Water Supply Issues in Metro Manila (마닐라 광역시 물공급 이슈(Issues) 진단)

  • Rubio, Christabel Jane;Kim, Lee Hyung;Jeong, Sang Man
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2008
  • The Philippine government enacted the National Water Crisis Act in 1995, as a response to the burgeoning situation of water supply systems in the country. This act led to the privatization of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS), sector having jurisdiction and control over all waterworks and sewerage systems in a service area including Metro Manila. Nowadays, the region's supply of water is still facing a lot of difficulties, both in quality and quantity. The unabated migration of people to the metro which increases its population, tapping from the aged pipelines, lack of water facilities and infrastructure, excessive groundwater withdrawal, environmental degradation, and surface and groundwater pollution are some of the issues that Metro Manila have to deal with. These situations lead to two primary water supply issues suffered by Metro Manila: water shortage and flooding. The purpose of this paper was to present water supply in Metro Manila with respect to the problems in its distribution, environmental implications and quality. In this paper, several technical reports, published literature, and news articles were consulted and became the major basis for identifying gaps and suggesting remedial measures.

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A review on vibration-based structural pipeline health monitoring method for seismic response (지진 재해 대응을 위한 진동 기반 구조적 관로 상태 감시 시스템에 대한 고찰)

  • Shin, Dong-Hyup;Lee, Jeung-Hoon;Jang, Yongsun;Jung, Donghwi;Park, Hee-Deung;Ahn, Chang-Hoon;Byun, Yuck-Kun;Kim, Young-Jun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.335-349
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    • 2021
  • As the frequency of seismic disasters in Korea has increased rapidly since 2016, interest in systematic maintenance and crisis response technologies for structures has been increasing. A data-based leading management system of Lifeline facilities is important for rapid disaster response. In particular, the water supply network, one of the major Lifeline facilities, must be operated by a systematic maintenance and emergency response system for stable water supply. As one of the methods for this, the importance of the structural health monitoring(SHM) technology has emerged as the recent continuous development of sensor and signal processing technology. Among the various types of SHM, because all machines generate vibration, research and application on the efficiency of a vibration-based SHM are expanding. This paper reviews a vibration-based pipeline SHM system for seismic disaster response of water supply pipelines including types of vibration sensors, the current status of vibration signal processing technology and domestic major research on structural pipeline health monitoring, additionally with application plan for existing pipeline operation system.

Development of Information Management System by use of PDA for Wide-area Sewerage Line Construction (광역 하수관거 건설공사의 PDA 기반 공사관리 시스템의 개발)

  • Baek, Yeong-In;Kim, Bo-Hyun
    • 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.179-182
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    • 2008
  • 국가 경제규모의 성장과 더불어 하수관거 공사의 규모도, 영세업체들에 의해 소규모 지역별로 시공되던 것에서 벗어나 최근에는 효율적 공사관리와 소요품질의 확보를 위하여 광역화되는 추세에 있다. 광역화의 규모는 2-3개 지자체와 산하의 40-50여개의 마을이 포함될 정도에 이르고 있다. 이러한 하수관거 공사의 규모 확대에 따른 변화에 대응하기 위하여는 적기, 적소에서의 제반 자원의 효율적 활용이 무엇보다 중요한 것으로 분석되었으며 이러한 문제점의 해결방안으로서 IT 기술을 활용한 공사관리시스템을 개발 사용하였다.

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A Study on the Application Method for Recycling Water System (가압형평막(한외여과막)과 자외선 및 오존발생 장치(AOP System)를 이용한 중수설비 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Sang-Sik;Han Mi-Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.6 no.2 s.20
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 2006
  • The amount of water demand at large buildings is increasing with the concentration of population to city and a rise in the standard of living in the city area. In this reason the Water Shortage is expected and a problem of water pollution by the city sewerage is increasing. One of method of saving city water demand and city sewer is applying recycling water system witch make used water reuse by purification of water. The application of recycling water system witch make used performed since the application of Lotte World Complex. But the popularization of this system is not activated because of cost problem and feeling of people to the water recycled. So in this study, provide application method for recycling water system by propose the estimation method of optimal sizing of recycling water system.

An Experimental Study for Reduction of Sedimentation Deposit in Combining Junction Manholes (합류맨홀에서의 유사퇴적 저감을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Soo;Kim, Kyoung-Beom;Yoon, Sei-Eui
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.45 no.8
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    • pp.767-782
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    • 2012
  • Accumulation of sediment within pipelines, manholes, and other components of urban sewer systems can have a bad influence on sewerage arrangements, such as the resistance of the passage of flows, the cause of urban flooding and the premature operation of combined sewer overflows, and the inevitable pollution of watercourses. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the movements and sedimentation of sediment loads in combining junction manholes by experiments. In this study, hydraulic experimental apparatus which can change the manhole shapes (square, circle) were installed to measure deposited sedimentation quantity. The quantity of deposited sediment loads was measured by different conditions, for instance, the inflow conditions of sediment (continuous and certain period), the amount of inflow sediment, and the variation of inflow pipe of sediment. The combining junction manhole that was set up a inclined benching have the considerable effect of reduction of sedimentation in manholes without apropos of the change of manhole shapes. Therefore, the improved manhole could be increased the drainage capacity of sewerage arrangements in urban sewer systems.

Runoff Analysis of Urban Watershed using MIKE SWMM Model (MIKE SWMM 모형을 이용한 도시유역 유출분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Suk;Ahn, Jae-Hyun;Oh, Tae-Suk;Moon, Young-Il
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.38 no.11
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    • pp.907-916
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    • 2005
  • For an urban watershed modeling, the ILLVDAS and SWMM model were the popular rainfall-runoff models using in Korea. However, combined sewerage systems in urban area produce some problems when a flood event happens because of the surcharged precipitation amounts which drain to streams directly. Also, rack of pipe line data and difficulties of modeling yield inappropriate modeling results in urban runoff analysis. In addition, rainfall-runoff models in an urban which using channel routing could be inaccurate and complicated processes. In this paper, the MIKE SWMM model has been applied for a stable urban area runoff analysis. Watershed and pipe line data were established by using past inundated records, DEM data and numerical pipe line data. For a runoff modeling, the Runoff block was adapted to a basin and the Extran block using dynamic equation was applied for sewerage system. After a comparisons against existing models yield that the MIKE SWMM model produce reliable and consistence results without distorting parameter of the model.

Development and Assessment of Specific and High Sensitivity Reverse Transcription Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction Method for the Detection of Aichivirus A Monitoring in Groundwater (지하수 중 Aichivirus A 모니터링을 위한 특이적 및 고감도 이중 역전사 중합효소연쇄반응 검출법 개발 및 평가)

  • Bae, Kyung Seon;Kim, Jin-Ho;Lee, Siwon;Lee, Jin-Young;You, Kyung-A
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.190-198
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    • 2021
  • Human Aichivirus (Aichivirus A; AiV-A) is a positive-sense single-strand RNA non-enveloped virus that has been detected worldwide in various water environments including sewage, river, surface, and ground over the past decade. To develop a method with excellent sensitivity and specificity for AiV-A diagnosis from water environments such as groundwater, a combination capable of reverse transcription (RT)-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed based on existing reported and newly designed primers. A selective method was applied to evaluate domestic drinking groundwater samples. Thus, a procedure was devised to select and subsequently identify RT-nested PCR primer sets that can successfully detect and identify AiV-A from groundwater samples. The findings will contribute to developing a better monitoring system to detect AiV-A contamination in water environments such as groundwater.