In order to study the seasonal variation of kinetic and potential energy of residual flow field in Suyoung Bay of Korea, we calculated its energy budget and compared it with the tidal energy there. The potential energy shows the large value in winter and spring and the small one in summer and early autumn when the density stratification is developed. The kinetic energy of residual flow varies seasonally and the seasonally averaged kinetic energy of residual flow per unit area is 6.4 × 10_-4 ergs s^-1cm^-2. It is mainly governed by the density-driven current with the exception of that in November when the kinetic energy of tide-induced residual current is larger than those of density-driven current and winddriven current. An averaged fraction of the kinetic energy of tide-induced residual current, wind-driven current and density-driven current, which are the major components of residual flow, is 29.1%, 3.4%, 67.5%, respectively, to the kinetic energy of residual flow. The fraction of kinetic energy of residual flow, potential energy and tidal energy per unit area is 1.0 : 6.7 × 10_3 : 8.2 × 10_4, respectively.

Design approach of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket(UASB) process based on the biological kinetic parameters are known to be very difficult since the characteristics of the granular sludge depends on the type of wastewater and size distribution of the granular sludge also depends on the upflow velocity in the UASB reactors. Furthermore, industrial wastewater containing toxic substances has been treated by UASB process without the clear knowledge of toxic effects on the granular sludge. Hence, the present research was aimed on the intensive evaluation of biological kinetic parameters of the granular sludge in UASB reactor with and without toxic substance of 2,4-dichlorophenol in order to present the basic design measures for UASB process design. The results could be summarized as follows. The biological kinetic parameters(k and Ks) considerably varied with the granular size of the sludge. Generally, the k and ks values of the granular sludge increased with the particle size of the granule. The biological kinetic parameters(k and Ks) of the granular sludge obtained from batch test were not applicable to design purpose of UASB process due to substrate diffusional limitation into the granular sludge in the completely mixed UASB reactors. The toxic effects on k and Ks greatly varied with the granular size. And as the toxicant concentration increased, the k value decreased while the Ks value increased. Inhibition constant(ki) for k with the toxicant of 2,4-dichlorophenol varied from 0.5 to 2.3 depending on the granular sizes while the inhibition constant(Ki) for Ks varied from 20.7 to 80.1, showing the mixed inhibition.