• 환경정책연구
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.89-120
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• 2008

한국은 주된 에너지원이 석유이므로 석유의 꾸준한 소비증가와 더불어 유류의 해상운송량도 증가추세에 있으며, 이에 따른 오염사고도 매년 300여건이상이 발생되고 있다. 특히 심각한 것은 사고발생건수도 동반해서 증가추세에 있다는 점이다. 폐유나 기름찌꺼기의 고의적 투기행위를 제외하면, 유류사고의 원인은 운항상의 인적 과실이나 선박의 하자로 인한 경우라는 점에서 대부분의 사고가 인재(人災)에 해당된다. 따라서 선원의 질향상 및 단일선체선박을 포함한 노후선박의 대체는 사고발생을 사전에 예방할 수 있는 가장 기본적 사항이다. 이것은 단기간에 그 개선을 기대하기 어렵지만 그 개선을 위한 장 단기적 제도적 방안도 마련되어야 한다. 그리고 아직도 한국의 인근해상에서 대형 유류오염피해가 발생될 가능성이 상존하고 있다는 점에서 92FC의 보상한도를 초과하는 피해에 대해서는 일정 범위내에서 피해를 보전할 수 있는 제도를 마련할 필요가 있다. 그러나 현행 특별법에 따른 피해보전은 전적으로 국민세금으로 충당되고 있다는 점에서 문제가 있으며, 따라서 2003보충기금(supplementary fund)협약에 가입하는 것보다는 '국내 Fund'를 창설하는 경우에 대하여 보다 적극적으로 검토할 필요가 있다. 즉 유류운송에 따른 위험도 '수익자부담의 원칙'이라는 관점에서 정유사들의 부담금을 기초로 하여 마련되는 '국내 Fund'의 창설 및 도입을 고려할 필요가 있다고 본다. 그리고 더 나아가 유류오염에 따른 대규모 생태계 파괴 등 환경피해에 대해서는 주민피해와 구별하여 환경피해복구를 위한 공적기금마련에 대해서도 논의할 시점이 되지 않았나 생각한다. 여하튼 대형 유류오염사고에 대한 사후대응책은 항시 만족스럽지 못하다. 그 이유는 대형유류오염이 내포하고 있는 재앙의 상징성 때문이다. 대형유류오염은 사전에 예방할 수 있는 인재임에도 불구하고, 그 피해는 끝을 파악하기 힘들 정도로 인간의 삶과 자연생태계에 심각한 손상을 가져온다. 그런 점에서 대형유류오염사고에 대한 가장 최선의 대응책은 사전예방이다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.154-161
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• 2015

A novel process has successfully been developed by overcoming major difficulties through the elimination of number of process steps involved in the Classical Transesterification reaction during the preparation of Fatty Acid Methyl/Ethyl Ester (FAME.FAEE) called biodiesel. The Classical process with cost intensive process steps such as the utilization of excess alcohol, needing downstream distillation for the recovery and reutilization of excess alcohol/cosolvent, unrecoverable homogenous catalyst which consumes vast quantity of fresh distilled water during the purification of the product and downstream waste water treatment before its safe disposal to the surface water body. The Novel Process FAME/FAEE is produced from any vegetable oil irrespective of edible or inedible variety using sonication energy. The novelty of the finding is the use of only theoretical quantity of alcohol along with a co-solvent and reduced quantity of homogeneous catalyst. Under this condition neither the homogeneous catalyst goes to the FAME layer nor is the distillation needed. The same ester also has been prepared in high pressure high temperature reactor without using catalyst at sub critical temperature. The quality of prepared biodiesel without involving any purification step meets the ASTM standards. Blended Biodiesel with Common Diesel Fuel (CDF) and FAME is prepared, characterized and used as fuel in the Kirloskar make CI Engines. The evaluation of the engine performance result of pure CDF, B05 biodiesel, B10 biodiesel of all types of biodiesel prepared by using the feedstock of Soybean (Glycine max) and Karanja (Pongamia pinnate) oil along with their mixed oil provides useful information such as brake power, brake thermal efficiency, brake specific fuel consumption, etc, and established it as ideal fuel for unmodified CI engine.

• 지질공학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.229-245
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• 1997

대규모의 암반 공동을 이용하는 대표적 시설이 지하유류비축시설과 방사성폐기물처분시설은, 공히 암반이 갖는 천연적인 방벽기능과 안정성 확보를 위한 보장 조치로서 인공방벽시설을 설치한다느 공통점이 있다. 지하유류비축시설의 설계,건설 및 운영의 각 단계에서 모암에 분포한는 지질구조와 그들의 수리학적 특성이 시설이 안전성 및 성능에 가장 중요한 역할을 한다. 시설 설치가 가능한 규모의 암반 block 내에 분포된 단열체제는 고유의 기하학적 특성과 수리적 특성이 혼재되어 복합적인 수리체계를 형성하고 있기 때문에 이에 대한 정확하고 정량적인 조사.평가가 지하비축시설의 수리적 안정성을 좌우하게 된다. 본 논문은 지하유류비축시설의 성능평가에서 요구되는 자연방벽의 수밀성 기능을 평가하기 위하여 지하문체계의 해석과정에서 고려되어야 할 문제점들을 우선 검토하고, 시설의 안전한 운영을 위하여 다루어져야 할 수리 안정성관련 파라메테에 대한 조사 및 평가방법을 다룬다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.479-482
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• 2008

Since late of 2000, KIER has developed a novel pyrolysis process for production of fuel oils from polymer wastes. It could have been possible due to large-scale funding of the Resource Recycling R&D Center. The target was to develop an uncatalyzed, continuous and automatic process producing oils that can be used as a fuel for small-scale industrial boilers. The process development has proceeded in three stages bench-scale unit, pilot plant and demonstration plant. As a result, the demonstration plant having capacity of 3,000 tons/year has been constructed and is currently under test operation for optimization of operation conditions. The process consisted of four parts ; feeding system, cracking reactor, refining system and others. Raw materials were pretreated via shredding and classifying to remove minerals, water, etc. There were 3 kind of products, oils(80%), gas(15%), carbonic residue(5%). The main products i.e. oils were gasoline and diesel. The calorific value of gas has been found to be about 18,000kcal/$m^3$ which is similar to petroleum gas and shows that it could be used as a process fuel. Key technologies adopted in the process are 1) Recirculation of feed for rapid melting and enhancement of fluidity for automatic control of system, 2) Tubular reactor specially-designed for heavy heat flux and prevention of coking, 3)Recirculation of heavy fraction for prevention of wax formation, and 4) continuous removal & re-reaction of sludge for high yield of main product (oil) and minimization of residue. The advantages of the process are full automation, continuous operation, no requirement of catalyst, minimization of coking and sludge problems, maximizing the product(fuel oil) yield and purity, low initial investment and operation costs and environment- friendly process. In this presentation, background of pyrolysis technology development, the details of KIER pyrolysis process flow, key technologies and the performances of the process will be discussed in detail.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.196-205
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate a method for improving the physical and mechanical properties of laminated board made from oil palm trunk (OPT). The effects of pretreating the lamina with heat-pressure and altering the lamina composition of the laminated board were investigated. The outer third of OPT in cross-section had high-density wood, while the underlying third had low to medium density. The hot press was applied to pretreat the lamina that had low to medium density. The lamina were 1.5 cm in thickness, 5 cm in width, and 65 cm in length. The hot press was applied at 2.94 MPa or 4.41 MPa at 150 ℃ for 60 minutes, and the target thickness of the lamina was 1 cm. The three layers of the laminated board samples were bonded with isocyanate adhesive at a glue spread of 300 g/㎡ and cold pressed at 0.98 MPa for 3 h. The laminated board samples were tested according to Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS) 234-2003. The results showed that the densification of the inner lamina did not significantly affect the physical-mechanical properties of the laminated board produced. However, the laminated board made with high-density laminas for the outer layers fulfilled the JAS 234-2003 standard for the modulus of elasticity and the modulus of rupture.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.121-137
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• 2010

This work presents inexpensive inorganic precursor formulations to yield submicron range symmetric ceramic microfiltration (MF) membranes whose average pore sizes were between 0.1 and $0.4{\mu}m$. Incidentally, the sintering temperature used in this work was about 800 to $950^{\circ}C$ instead of higher sintering temperatures ($1100^{\circ}C$) that are usually deployed for membrane fabrication. Thermogravimetric (TGA) and X-Ray diffraction (XRD) analysis were carried out to evaluate the effect of temperature on various phase transformations during sintering process. The effect of sintering temperature on structural integrity of the membrane as well as pore size distribution and average pore size were evaluated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. The average pore sizes of the membranes were increased from 0.185 to $0.332{\mu}m$ with an increase in sintering temperature from 800 to $950^{\circ}C$. However, a subsequent reduction in membrane porosity (from 34.4 to 19.6%) was observed for these membranes. Permeation experiments with both water and air were carried out to evaluate various membrane morphological parameters such as hydraulic pore diameter, hydraulic permeability, air permeance and effective porosity. Later, the membrane prepared with a sintering temperature of $950^{\circ}C$ was tested for the treatment of synthetic oily waste water to verify its real time applicability. The membrane exhibited 98.8% oil rejection efficiency and $5.36{\times}10^{-6}\;m^3/m^2.s$ permeate flux after 60 minutes of experimental run at 68.95 kPa trans-membrane pressure and 250 mg/L oil concentration. Based on retail and bulk prices of the inorganic precursors, the membrane cost was estimated to be $220 /$m^2$ and $1.53 /$m^2$, respectively.

• 공업화학
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2007

본 총설에서는 국내 바이오디젤 생산과 소비, 품질기준 및 시장현황 등에 대해 살펴보았다. 국내에서 생산되는 바이오디젤의 원료물질은 대부분 대두유와 폐식용유이고 바이오디젤 생산 업체 중 원료물질 다변화를 위한 시도들이 진행되고 있다. 농림부에서도 바이오디젤 국내 생산을 위해 2007년부터 3년간 바이오디젤용 유채생산 시범사업을 추진하고 있다. 2006년 7월 이래로 산업자원부와 정유사간 자발적 협약에 의해 현재 시중에 유통되고 있는 경유는 BD0.5이며, 2007년과 2008년에 158400 MT이 공급될 것으로 예상된다. 산업자원부에서 바이오디젤 보급 확대를 위해 2012년까지 경유에 혼합되는 바이오디젤을 매년 0.5%씩 확대하여 3%까지 늘리겠다는 계획을 발표하였으며, 앞으로 바이오디젤의 보급이 크게 확대될 것으로 전망된다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2016

A low cost environmentally benign surface coating binder is highly desirable in the field of material science. In this report, castor oil based hyperbranched polyester/bitumen modified fly ash nanocomposites were fabricated to achieve the desired performance. The hyperbranched polyester resin was synthesized by a three-step one pot condensation reaction using monoglyceride of castor oil based carboxyl terminated pre-polymer and 2,2-bis (hydroxymethyl) propionic acid. Also, the bulk fly ash of paper industry waste was converted to hydrophilic nano fly ash by ultrasonication followed by transforming it to an organonano fly ash by the modification with bitumen. The synthesized polyester resin and its nanocomposites were characterized by different analytical and spectroscopic tools. The nanocomposite obtained in presence of 20 wt% styrene (with respect to polyester) was found to be more homogeneous and stable compared to nanocomposite without styrene. The performance in terms of tensile strength, impact resistance, scratch hardness, chemical resistance and thermal stability was found to be improved significantly after formation of nanocomposite compared to the pristine system after curing with bisphenol-A based epoxy and poly(amido amine). The overall results of transmission electron microscopic (TEM) analysis and performance showed good exfoliation of the nano fly ash in the polyester matrix. Thus the studied nanocomposites would open up a new avenue on development of low cost high performing surface coating materials.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2019

Land application of treated palm oil mill effluent (TPOME) could be used as an alternative tertiary wastewater treatment process. However, phenolic compounds in TPOME might be leached to the environment. This study investigated the ability of grasses on reducing phenolic compounds in the leachate after TPOME application. Several pasture grasses in soil pots were compared after irrigating with TPOME from stabilization ponds, which contained 360-630 mg/L phenolic compounds. The number of soil bacteria in planted pots increased over time with the average of $10^8CFU/g$ for mature grasses, while only $10^4-10^6CFU/g$ were found in the unplanted control pots. The leachates from TPOME irrigated grass pots contained lower amounts of phenolic compounds and had lower phytotoxicity than that of control pots. The phenol removal efficiency of grass pots was ranged 67-93% and depended on grass cultivars, initial concentration of phenolic compounds and frequency of irrigations. When compared to water irrigation, TPOME led to an increased phenolic compounds accumulation in grass tissues and decreased biomass of Brachiaria hybrid and Brachiaria humidicola but not Panicum maximum. Consequently, the application of TPOME could be conducted on grassland and the grass species should be selected based on the utilization of grass biomass afterward.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.12-21
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• 2022

The pyrolysis characteristics of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), and polypropylene (PP) were analyzed numerically using a 1D plug flow reactor (PFR) model. A lumped kinetic model was selected to simplify the pyrolysis products as wax, oil, and gas. The simulation was performed in the 400-600℃ range, and the plastic pyrolysis and product generation characteristics with respect to time were compared at various temperatures. It was found that plastic pyrolysis accelerates rapidly as the temperature rises. The amounts of the pyrolysis products wax and oil increase and then decrease with time, whereas the amount of gas produced increases continuously. In LDPE pyrolysis, the pyrolysis time was longer than that observed for other plastics at a specified temperature, and the amount of wax generated was the greatest. The maximum mass fraction of oil was obtained in the order of HDPE, PP, and LDPE at a specified temperature, and it decreased with temperature. Although the 1D model adopted in this study has a limitation in that it does not include material transport and heat transfer phenomena, the qualitative results presented herein could provide base data regarding various types of plastic pyrolysis to predict the product characteristics. These results can in turn be used when designing pyrolysis reactors.