본 실험에서는 조류 제거 및 농축을 위해 Silicon Carbide(SiC) 재질의 침지형 세라믹막을 적용하여 운전 특성을 평가하고자 하였다. SiC 세라믹막은 막표면이 음전하를 띄어 음전하를 띄는 조류 제거에 적용이 가능하고 고유량으로 역세척(Backwashing)을 할 수 있어 고농도의 조류 농축시에도 적용이 가능하다. 역세척 유량과 역세척 시간, 역세척수 수온, 역세척수에 차아염소산나트륨 주입 유무, 여과/역세시 air scrubbing 유량에 따라 역세척 효율을 평가하였으며 Jar test를 통해 선정한 농도로 응집제 주입 유무에 따라 운전 특성을 비교하였다. 또한 동일한 조건에서 세라믹막과 유기막의 운전 특성과 비교하였다. 본 연구는 환경부의 “환경정책기반공공기술개발사업”으로 지원받은 과제입니다.

천연가스, 산업공정, 화석연료의 연소과정과 같은 대규모 고정 배출원에서 발생하는 온실가스인 CO2를 포집하기 위한 기술 개발이 전 세계적으로 활발하게 수행되고 있다. 특히, 습식 흡수 법은 비교적 낮은 CO2분압에서도 높은 제거 효율을 달성할 수 있어 많은 개발이 이루어져온 포집 기술이다. 하지만 흡수제의 재생에 필요한 에너지가 과다한 문제가 있으며, 충분한 부지가 확보되어야하기 때문에 공정 상용화에는 큰 걸림돌이 있다. 이러한 문제를 극복하고 공정 효율을 개선 할 수 있는 접촉분리막 공정 기술이 최근 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 접촉분리막과 화학적 습식 아민 흡수제를 이용한 이산화탄소 제거 특성을 분석하였다.

First Mover Advantage is already well known. It is when a company gains a position in a certain market or industry, or when it establishes a strong entry barriers through a distribution channel or a monopoly of resources. It is a concept that has been attracting attention for a long time in marketing and strategy. However, although it is possible for the starter to enjoy these various benefits, it is also true that there is a corresponding price. Therefore, the risks and costs that the starter may bear, and thus the relative benefits enjoyed by the latter, can be significant. Late Mover Advantage and so on. The fact that latecomers can enjoy a variety of benefits as well as the profits of the starters is an important consideration that must be taken into account by many companies considering entry into the market. In general, there is a very high risk of overinvestment in technology and market uncertainty. For example, China has skipped wired networks and went wireless, and many African countries have skipped wired communications and built infrastructure for wireless communications. In other words, companies that hastened to invest in fixed-line facilities in order to preoccupy the African telecom market are in a state of failure rather than expecting the interests of the starters. Another thing is that the starter has to bear more risks and costs than the latter, such as the uncertainty of demand, the risk of changing consumer preferences, and the cost of training new consumers. Also, because imitation is generally less costly than development, a latecomer entering through imitation may be in a better position if patents or other technical defenses are not available. Especially, if latecomers have excellent management ability and financial power such as excellent marketing ability, it is relatively easy to catch up with the first candidate.

To overcome the low mechanical strength and corrosion behavior of a carbon steel canister at high temperature condition of a deep borehole, SiC ceramics were studied as an alternative material for the disposal canister. In this paper, a design concept for a SiC canister, along with an outer stainless steel container, was proposed, and its manufacturing feasibility was tested by fabricating several 1/3 scale canisters. The proposed canister can contain one PWR assembly. The outer container was also prepared for the string formation of SiC canisters. Thermal conductivity was measured for the SiC canister. The canister had a good thermal conductivity of above 70 W·m-1·K-1 at 100℃. The structural stability was checked under KURT environment, and it was found that the SiC ceramics did not exhibit any change for the 3 year corrosion test at 70℃. Therefore, it was concluded that SiC ceramics could be a good alternative to carbon steel in application to deep borehole disposal canisters.

본 연구에서는 sol-gel법을 이용하여 세라믹 중공사 지지체 표면에 합성된 sol을 dip coating하고 활성층을 형성시켜 한외여과막을 제조하였다. 코팅 횟수 및 코팅 용액의 조성에 따른 코팅층 변화를 확인하여, 결함을 최소화하고 균일하게 제조할 수 있는 조건을 확립하고, 소결 후 투과 특성 측정을 통해 소결 온도의 영향을 고찰하였다. 제조된 한외여과막은 분획분자량(Molecular Weight Cut-Off, MWCO)과 gas-liquid displacement porometer (GLDP), liquid-liquid displacement porometer (LLDP)를 이용하여 기공크기를 측정하고 분리막의 성능과 기공크기의 연관성을 연구하였다.

지구온난화 문제 해결을 위하여 효율적인 CO2 포집 기술 개발이 활발히 이루어지고 있으며, 최근 분리막, 흡수 공정의 하이브리드 기술인 접촉막 공정이 주목받고 있다. 본 연구진은 2014년부터 열적, 화학적 안정성이 뛰어난 세라믹 소재의 중공사막을 적용한 접촉막 공정을 개발해오고 있다. 대규모 공정 실증을 위하여 세라믹 중공사막 기공 구조 제어 기술부터 소수성 코팅, 모듈 디자인 및 배치, 공정 구성 최적화 등을 연구하였다.

Membrane separation processes have been widely used in water purification or gas separation applications because of their process simplicity, low cost operation and small footprint. Nowadays, applications of ceramic membranes with high thermal, chemical and mechanical resistance has rapidly grown in new separation applications where the polymeric membranes cannot be used (e.g., high temperature, strong acidic/basic or solvent-contained corrosive feed solution). In this study, robust ceramic hollow fiber membranes were prepared by extrusion-phase inversion followed by sintering. The effects of preparation conditions on membrane characteristics were studied to improve the separation performance of ceramic membranes. In addition, a variety of modification methods and applications based on ceramic hollow fiber membranes will be discussed.

Al2O3-SiC ceramic composites are produced using pressureless sintering, and their plasma resistance, electrical resistance, and mechanical properties are evaluated to confirm their applicability as electrostatic-discharge-safe components for semiconductor devices. Through the addition of Mg and Y nitrate sintering aids, it is confirmed that even if SiC content exceeded 10%, complete densification is possible by pressureless sintering. By the uniform distribution of SiC, the total grain growth is suppressed to about 1 μm; thus an Al2O3-SiC sintered body with a high strength over 600 MPa is obtained. The optimum amount of SiC to satisfy all the desired properties of electrostatic-discharge-safe ceramic components is obtained by finding the correlation between the plasma resistance and the electrical resistivity as a function of SiC amount.

In this study, the effect of chemically enhanced backwash(CEB) coping with algal(Heterosigma Akashiwo) inflow was evaluated in the seawater desalination pretreatment process using ceramic membrane. In order to confirm the possibility of long-term filtration operation, the recovery rate of transmembrane pressure(TMP) due to the CEB using NaOCl was examined. When the membrane flow rate was 83.3 LMH, the TMP was maintained within 200 kPa for 84 hours in seawater influent. As the algal counts of 30,000 cell/mL were injected into the influent of seawater, however, the TMP rapidly increased and exceed maximum value. Membrane fouling caused by the algae was very poorly recovered by usual physical backwash. The CEB was performed for 30 min(3 min circulation / 27 min immersion) with 300 mg/L of NaOCl. As a result of the CEB application, it was possible to maintain a stable operating of filtration during 10 days and the average recovery rate of TMP by the CEB was 98.1%. It has been confirmed that the CEB using NaOCl is very effective in removal of membrane fouling by algae, resulted in stable membrane filtration for the long-term operation.

In this study, the effects of operating conditions on the formation of reversible and irreversible fouling were investigated in the filtration using ceramic membrane for water treatment process. The effect of coagulation pretreatment on fouling formation was also evaluated by comparing the performance of membrane filtration both with and without addition of coagulant. A resistance-in-series-model was applied for the analysis of membrane fouling. Total resistance (RT) and internal fouling resistance (Rf) increased in the membrane filtration process without coagulation as membrane flux and feed water concentrations increased. Internal fouling resistance, which was not recovered by physical cleaning, was more than 70% of the total resistance at the range of the membrane flux more than 5 m3/m2･day. In the combined process with coagulation, the cake layer resistance (Rc) increased to about 30-80% of total resistance. As the cake layer formed by coagulation floc was easily removed by physical cleaning, the recovery rate by physical cleaning was 54~90%. It was confirmed from the results that the combined process was more efficient to recover the filtration performance by physical cleaning due to higher formation ratio of reversible fouling, resulted in the mitigation of the frequency of chemical cleaning.

In this study, ZrO2 ceramic ink was formulated for additive manufacturing three dimensional structure using dispenser printing technique. Ceramic ink with various ZrO2 loading (30, 40, 50vol%) was prepared to evaluate their rheological properties and printability. High ZrO2 loading ZrO2 ceramic ink showed higher elastic modulus and improved shape retention, when the ceramic ink was printed and sintered at 1450 oC for 1h. Microstructural analysis of printed ZrO2 objective indicated that high ZrO2 loading objective showed lower porosity and smaller pore size.

Active clay, bentonite and zeolite were used as porous materials for humidity controlling ceramic boards. The specific area and the pore volume of active clay were higher than bentonite and zeolite. The flexible strength of the gypsum board decreased with an increasing amount of porous material, and the flexible strength was lowest when active clay with a higher specific surface area than others porous materials was added. The specific surface area and total pore volume of ceramic boards containing porous material were highest at 102.25 m2/g, 0.142 cm3/g, respectively, when the active clay was added. In addition, as the amount of added porous materials increased, the specific surface area and total pore volume of the ceramic board increased, but the average pore diameter decreased. The addition of s porous materials with a high specific area and a large pore volume improved the moisture absorptive and desorptive performance of the ceramic board. Therefore, in this experiment, the moisture absorptive and desorptive properties were the best when active clay was added. Furthermore, as the amount of added porous materials increased, the moisture absorptive and desorptive properties improved. When 70 mass% of active clay was added to α-type gypsum, the hygroscopicity was the highest, about 300 g/m2, in this experiment.

In this study, it is estimated that ceramic membrane process which can operate stably in harsh conditions replacing existing organic membrane connected with coagulation, sedimentation etc. . Jar-test was conducted by using artificial raw water containing kaolin and humic acid. It was observed that coagulant (A-PAC, 10.6%) 4mg/l is the optimal dose. As a results of evaluation of membrane single filtration process (A), coagulation-membrane filtration process (B) and coagulation-sedimentation-membrane filtration process (C), TMP variation is stable regardless of in Flux 2 m3/m2･day. But in Flux 5 m3/m2･day, it show change of 1-89.3 kpa by process. TMP of process (B) and (C) is increased 11.8, 0.6 kpa each. But, the (A) showed the greatest change of TMP. When evaluate (A) and (C) in Flux 10 m3/m2･day, TMP of (A) stopped operation being exceeded 120 kpa in 20 minutes. On the other hand, TMP of (C) is increased only 3 kpa in 120 minutes. Through this, membrane filtration process can be operated stably by using the linkage between the pretreatment process and the ceramic membrane filtration process. Turbidity of treated water remained under 0.1 NTU regardless of flux condition and DOC and UV254 showed a removal rate of 65-85%, 95% more each at process connected with pretreatment. Physical cleaning was carried out using water and air of 500kpa to show the recovery of pollutants formed on membrane surface by filtration. In (A) process, TMP has increased rapidly and decreased the recovery by physical cleaning as the flux rises. This means that contamination on membrane surface is irreversible fouling difficult to recover by using physical cleaning. Process (B) and (C) are observed high recovery rate of 60% more in high flux and especially recovery rate of process (B) is the highest at 95.8%. This can be judged that the coagulation flocs in the raw water formed cake layer with irreversible fouling and are favorable to physical cleaning. As a result of estimation, observe that ceramic membrane filtration connected with pretreatment improves efficiency of filtration and recovery rate of physical cleaning. And ceramic membrane which is possible to operate in the higher flux than organic membrane can be reduce the area of water purification facilities and secure a stable quantity of water by connecting the ceramic membrane with pretreatment process.

Ceramic ink-jet printing has become a widespread technology in ceramic tile and ceramicware industries, due to its capability of manufacturing products on demand with various designs. Generally, thermally stable ceramic inks of digital primary colors(cyan, magenta, yellow, black) are required for ink-jet printing of full color image on ceramic tile. Here, we synthesized an aqueous glass-ceramic ink, which is free of Volatile organic compound(VOC) evolution, and investigated its inkjet printability. CoAl2O4 inorganic pigment and glass frit were dispersed in aqueous solution, and rheological behavior was optimized. The formulated glass-ceramic ink was suitably jetted as single sphere-shaped droplets without satellite drops. After ink-jet printing and firing processes, the printed glass-ceramic ink pattern on glazed ceramic tile was stably maintained without ink spreading phenomena and showed an improved scratch resistance.

아민 흡수제를 이용한 CO2 포집용 충전탑 기술의 문제점으로 제기되고 있는 범람, 거품, 과다한 재생 에너지 등을 해결하기 위하여 최근 접촉막 기술이 주목받고 있다. 연구자들 대부분은 고분자 분리막을 이용하여 접촉막 기술을 개발 하고 있으며, 장기 운전 시 팽윤 현상에 의한 성능저하 문제가 제기되고 있다. 세라믹은 고분자 소재에 비해 화학적, 열적안정성이 뛰어나기 때문에 아민 흡수 제에 대한 팽윤 현상을 방지할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 세라믹 중공사 접촉막의 기공구조 제어 기술을 개발하고, CO2 포집 특성을 분석하였다.

미세 기공을 갖는 세라믹 중공사막의 기공 크기 및 분포도를 분석하기 위해 gas-liquid displacement porometer(GLDP)와 liquid-liquid displacement porometer(LLDP) 두 가지 측정법을 이용하였다. GLDP와 LLDP를 이용한 기공 크기 측정 및 분석과 관련하여 이론적 고찰을 진행하였고, 10-100 nm의 기공 크기를 갖는 세라믹 중공사막의 기공 크기 및 분포도를 비교 분석하였다. 또한, 서로 다른 기공크기를 가질 것으로 예상되는 세 종류의 세라믹 중공사막의 기공 크기 측정 결과와 수투과도, 배제율 측정 결과를 종합하여 분리막 특성의 연계성을 확인하였다.

제지공정 폐수 내에 포함된 리그닌을 재사용하기 위해 같이 포함되어있는 금속이온을 줄여야한다. 본 연구에서는 세라믹 분리막을 이용하여 제지공정 폐수 내의 금속이온을 제거하는 연구를 진행하였다. 분리막은 DMAc 용매에 PESf 고분자를 용해시킨 뒤 α-Alumina 분말을 넣고 PVP 분산제를 첨가하여 평판형 분리막을 제조하였다. FE-SEM으로 분리막의 단면과 표면을 관찰하고 CFP (Capillary Flow Porometer)장치를 통해 기공크기를 측정하였다. 분리막을 이용 한 금속이온제거 실험을 한 뒤 실험 전, 후의 폐수를 ICP-MS분석을 통해 금속 이온량을 측정하였다.

탄화규소(Silicon Carbide, SiC) 세라믹 멤브레인은 알루미나 원료의 세라믹 멤브레인보다 높은 친수성을 나타내어 동일한 압력 하에 높은 수투과도 유지가 가 능하다. 이러한 탄화규소 세라믹 멤브레인을 혐기성 생물막 반응조(Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor, AnMBR)에 설치하여 고농도의 생물반응조 운전에도 불구하고 낮고 안정된 운전압력을 유지할 수 있었으며, 막오염 현상의 획기적인 저감이 가능하였다. 본 연구에서는 도시하수와 음폐수를 혼합 처리함에 있어서 탄화규소 세라믹 멤브레인을 적용한 AnMBR의 운전결과를 알루미나 세라믹 멤브레인을 적용한 경우와 비교 평가하였다.