Normally, non-metallic wastes, such as sands, concrete and asbestos are regarded as electrically non-conductive materials. However, when the temperatures are increased up to the melting point, their electrical conductivities can be greatly improved, flowing arc current. Accordingly, these nonmetallic wastes can be efficiently treated by heating them up to the electrically conducting temperatures by using a non-transferred type plasma torch, and then, melting them completely with arc currents in transferred mode of plasma torch. For this purpose, we propose a convertible plasma torch consisting of three cylindrical electrodes (rear electrode, front electrode and exit nozzle). Compared with conventional plasma torch with two cylindrical electrodes (rear electrode and front electrode), the proposed plasma torch can provide more stable plasma jet in high powered and non-transferred mode due to the presence of exit nozzle, resulting in rapid heating of the non-conductive materials.

Nowadays, transferred type arc plasma torches have been widely present in industrial applications, in particular, using melting pool of electrically conducting materials such as arc furnace, welding and volume reduction of radioactive wastes. In these applications, the melting pools are normally employed as an anode, thus, heat flux distributions on anode melting pool need to be characterized for optimum design of melting pool system. For this purpose, we revisited the one-dimensional model of the anode boundary layer of arcs and solved governing equations numerically by using Runge-Kutta method. In addition, the direct melting process of non-combustible wastes in the crucibles were discussed with the calculation results.

In the present work, a three-phase AC arc plasma torch system is proposed to separate inorganic radioactive materials from the organic liquid waste. For this purpose, first, assuming the resistance of arc plasma ranges between 0.1 and 0.2 ohm, we designed a three-phase AC arc plasma power supply with the power level of 20 kW. Then, a three phase arc plasma torch consisting of three carbon rods with the diameter of 20 mm was designed and mounted on a cylindrical combustion chamber with the inner diameter of 150 mm. Detail design and basic performance of the plasma system were presented and discussed for application to the treatment of radioactive slurry wastes.

2018년과 2019년에 서울에서 유통 중인 건고추 및 고춧가루에 대해 잔류 농약 안전성 검사를 실시하였다. 총 101건의 시료에 대해 71종 농약을 모니터링한 결과 잔류허 용기준을 초과한 시료는 없었으나 잔류농약이 검출된 시료는 87건으로 86.1%의 검출률을 나타내었다. 건고추와 고춧가루 검출률은 각각 73.3%, 91.5% 이었다. 고춧가루의 잔류농약 검출률이 건고추에 비해 다소 높게 나타났 다. 검출된 농약은 12종이었으며 모두 작물보호제 지침 서에 따른 고추에 사용가능한 살균제 및 살충제이었다. 가장 다빈도로 검출된 농약은 pyraclostrobin이었으며 다음으로 flubendiamide, azoxystrobin, chlorantraniliprole 순이었다. 검출된 농약에 대한 위해성을 ADI(Acceptable daily intake)대비 식이섭취율로 산출하여 평가한 결과, %ADI는 모두 5.66E-05 – 3.34E-02%로 나타나 안전한 것으로 나타났다.

The airport concrete pavement is gradually changing from the empirical design method proposed by the FAA to the mechanical design method. However, the complete mechanical design method has not yet been developed because it is difficult to consider designing due to various break types due to environmental load. FAAFIELD, a widely used finite element analysis program in existing airport pavement design, has yet to be considered for environment loads, although it has been continuously updated. Therefore, this study used ABAQUS instead of FAARFIELD as a finite element analysis program to consider the environmental load, and carried out the load quantification work of A380 aircraft and B777 aircraft corresponding to 3DT(3 Dual Tandem) gear. The traffic load information of 3DT gear aircraft was collected, and the environmental load due to temperature and humidity was converted into the equivalent linear temperature difference. Through the finite element analysis using ABAQUS, the prediction data of maximum tensile stress and location was collected when the two loads act to slab simultaneously. The factors affecting the maximum tensile stress in the finite element analysis are slab thickness, joint spacing, aircraft load, combined bearing capacity, and equivalent linear temperature difference, respectively. In order to examine the adequacy of the selected factors, sensitivity analysis for factors which affect maximum tensile stress was performed, and the stress regression model was developed. For this, a multiple regression analysis program SPSS was used and the stress regression equations for 3DT gear aircraft were calculated considering traffic and environmental loads. Through the developed stress regression model, it is possible perform the load quantification process of the 3DT gear aircraft for the mechanical design of the airport concrete pavement. In addition, the appropriateness of the regression model is verified by securing the high decision coefficient through SPSS. This study was supported by Incheon International Airport Corporation(BEX00625)

In this study, proposed how to design an airport concrete pavement expansion joint considering the weather conditions and material properties. Currently, expansion joint spacing of airport concrete pavement in korea is not designed according to a clear standard, but it is designed to an empirical level. Various types of Admixture are used in concrete pavement and depending on the material characteristics or local environmental factors, there is a substantial difference in the extent and shrinkage to which the package is inflated. Significant differences are made in the extent to which the pavement expands or shrinkage depending on the material characteristics used or the local environmental factors. But, expansion joint design performed on empirical criteria cannot reflect these materials and environmental characteristics, resulting in unpredictable damage such as blow-up. To analyzing behavior of airport concrete pavement, horizontal displacement gauges, static strain gauges and thermometers are installed in the 3rd phase construction sites at Incheon International Airport. In this study, the relationship between the temperature and horizontal displacement of the concrete pavement was analyzed using the measured depth temperatures and the horizontal displacement data at the expansion joints at the Incheon airport site. The Finite Element Analysis Model of Incheon International Airport pavement was used to compare the difference between actual behavior and analytical behavior. In addition, it is proposed to design a suitable expansion joint spacing by considering the maximum expansion of concrete pavement and shrinkage caused by material expansion (e.g., ASR) and shrinkage due to water loss. This study was supported by Incheon International Airport Corporation (BEX00625).

In this study, the effect of dry shrinkage of concrete pavement due to seasonal changes was analyzed by comparing the results of finite element analysis with the temperature and strain measurements at Incheon airport pavement. To measure the behavior of slab by environmental condition in site, static strain gauges and thermometers were installed. To predict changes in the properties of concrete slab, experiments were conducted in site as well as in the lab. The considered parameters of FEA were pavement conditions according to seasonal and material properties change. The results of field measurements and the strain by FEA analysis were different in terms of the effects of drying shrinkage. This is due to humidity changes not applied to input values during FEA analysis. In this study, the difference between the results of field measurements and the results of the finite element model analysis was used to identify the drying shrinkage occurring on the concrete slab. Long-term data analysis in the future will enable the analysis of the trends in drying shrinkage in airport concrete pavement. This study was supported by Incheon International Airport Corporation(BEX00625).