It is important to understand the variability of tropospheric ozone since it is both a major pollutant affecting human health and a greenhouse gas influencing global climate. We analyze the characteristics of East Asia tropospheric ozone simulated in a chemistry-climate model. We use a global chemical transport model, driven by the prescribed meteorological fields from an air-sea coupled climate model simulation. Compared with observed data, the ozone simulation shows differences in distribution and concentration levels; in the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula, a large error occurred in summer. Our analysis reveals that this bias is mainly due to the difference in atmospheric circulation, as the anomalous southerly winds lead to the decrease in tropospheric ozone in this region. In addition, observational data have shown that the western North Pacific subtropical high (WNPSH) reduces tropospheric ozone across the southern China/ Korean Peninsula/Japan region. In the model, the ozone changes associated with WNPSH are shifted westward relative to the observations. Our findings suggest that the variations in WNPSH should be considered in predicting tropospheric ozone concentrations.

Oxidation of erythromycin, sulfamethazine and sulfathiazole by ozone was experimentally investigated to see the effects of background water quality such as ultrapure water, humic acid and biologically treated wastewater and water temperature on the removal rate, consequently to provide design information when the ozone treatment process is adopted. Initial concentration of the antibiotics was spiked to 10 μg/l and ozone dose was 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 mg/l. While the removal rate of erythromycin under ultrapure water background by ozone oxidation was over 99%, that under humic acid and biologically treated wastewater background was markedly reduced to the range of 59.8%~99% and 17.0%~99%, respectively. When water temperature is decreased from 20℃ to 4℃, the removal rate is reduced from the range of 17.0%~99% to the range of 9.4%~97.4% under biologically treated wastewater background. The effects of background and temperature on the removal rate of sulfamethazine and sulfathiazole were similar to erythromycin, but the degree was different. Therefore, it is concluded that the background of water to be treated as well as water temperature should be taken into consideration when the design factor such as ozone dose is determined to meet the treatment objective in the ozone treatment process.

Optimal processes to remove chromaticity at E water treatment plant(WTP) mainly caused by algae of E lake in Jeju island were investigated based on lab-tests of chlorine and ozone oxidation. 42.9% of chromaticity of filtered water was removed by chlorine oxidation under pH 7.0∼8.0, dose of 1.0 mg/L with contact time of 30∼60 min. On the other hand, chromaticity removal was 71.4% when post-ozone dose of 0.9∼1.9 mg/L and pH 9.0, while it was increased to 86.7% under post-ozone dose of 3.1∼7.3 mg/L and pH 9.0. However, there was no significant chromaticity removal efficiency increase when ozone doses were higher than 5.0 mg/L regardless of feeding point(i.e., pre-ozonation and post-ozonation) and pHs(i.e., 7.0 and 9.0.) under the experimental conditions. Based on the results, chlorine oxidation using existing chlorination facilities at the WTP is recommended for lower chromaticity while ozone oxidation is recommended for higher chromaticity by installing new ozone feeding facilities.

본 연구는 오존수를 이용한 인체공학적 샴푸대가 분리 가능하고 미세분사 형식의 샤워헤드 와 높낮이 조절이 가능한 샴푸대를 개발할 수 있는 장치기술 및 그 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 개발결과 기존의 장치보다 피시술자 머리가 세발대 안으로 들어오는 인체공학적 디자인과 목받이 부분을 높게 제작하여 물튀김 방지를 완성하였다. 실험결과 물을 공급하는 통에 부착되어 있는 온수 유지 히터를 통 해 피시술자의 기호에 맞는 온도를 설정하여 시술 시 지연 시간 없이 온수 세발 가능하도록 온도센서를 통하여 확인한 결과 수온유지(38℃)가 일정하게 유지되었다. 그리고 오존수 변환장치 설치로 자체 살균 (1PPM) 및 정화 기능까지 가능한 장치의 효용성을 알 수 있었다. 오존수를 20분 정도 측정한 결과 오 존 농도가 1PPM 이하로 측정되어 안정성을 확보하였다. 최종적으로 오존수를 20분 정도 측정한 결과 오존 농도가 1PPM 이하로 측정되어 안정성을 확보하였고, 온수장치와 오존수 변환장치와 함께 이동 샴 푸대의 모든 부분이 사용자가 사용하기에 불편함이 없도록 설계 하였다.

This study evaluated the antimicrobial efficacy of different concentrations of ozonated water with organic matter, fetal bovine serum, at different concentrations and incubation times with bacteria. In the absence of organic matter, total eradication of up to 5 log of Escherichia (E.) coli was achieved, however, interference by organic matter led to inefficiency of ozonated water as a disinfecting agent. In addition, diminishing antimicrobial effects at higher temperatures, even in the absence of organic matter, were also demonstrated. These findings indicate that ozonated water will be a safe and effective disinfectant agent that could be useful in meat processing, especially an intestine processing, in Korean slaughter houses.

본 연구는 플라즈마-촉매 및 오존 처리공정을 이용하여‘홍로’사과 저장과정에서 발생되는 에틸렌 을 제거하고자 하였다.‘홍로’사과는 저장온도가 증가할수록 호흡속도가 빨라져 산소농도는 급격히 감소하고 이산화탄소와 에틸렌 농도는 증가하였다. 특히, 저장온도 20℃에서 90시간 저장 후 산소가 모두 소모되었으며, 이산화탄소 농도는 약 20%로 증가하였다. 플라즈마-촉매와 오존 처리는 에틸렌 제거에 효과적인 것으로 나타났으나, 오존 처리의 경우 사과표면에 반점이 생기는 문제가 발생하였 다.‘홍로’사과의 품질 분석결과 가용성 고형분과 산도는 무 처리군에서 다소 높게 나타났으며, 경도 는 플라즈마-촉매 처리군와 오존 처리군에서 다소 높게 분석되었다. 하지만 유의적 차이는 나타내지 않았다.

본 연구는 오존수 침수처리가 소와 돼지 부산물의 미생물학적 안전성 및 품질특성에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보고자 실시하였다. 미생물학적 안전성 및 품질평가를 위하여 총균 및 대장균수, 육색, 가열감량, 지방산패도를 측정하였으며, 처리구 설정은 처리하지 않은 대조구(Control)와 일반수돗물(10℃)로30분간 침수처리한 처리구 1(T1), 오존수(1.0ppm, 10℃)에 10분간 침수처리한 처리구 2(T2), 오존수에 20분간 침수처리한 처리구 3(T3) 및 오존수에 30분간 침수처리한 처리구 4(T4)로 분류하였다. 소 및 돼지의 간, 소창의 가열감량은 모든 처리구에서 유의적인 차이가 없었으며(p>0.05), 간보다는 소창에서 높은 가열감량을 보였다. 육색은 소의 간과 소창에서는 오존수 20 또는 30분 침수 처리시 황색도 값을 감소시키나, 명도 및 적색도 값에서 유의적인 차이가 나타나지 않았다(p>0.05). 지방산패도 측정 결과, 돼지 소창의 경우 일반수돗물 및 오존수 침지 처리시 대조구에 비해 낮은 지방산패도 값을 나타내었으며 오존수 침지 처리시 유의적으로 낮게 나타났다(p<0.05). 소 간의 경우 대조구에 비해 모든 처리구에서 유의적으로 높은 지방산패도 값을 보였으며 일반수돗물로 침지한 T1에 비해 오존수 침지시 낮은 지방산패도 값을 나타내었다. 총균 및 대장균수는 저장기간이 증가할수록 모든 처리구에서 유의적으로 증가하며(p<0.05), 대조구 및 T1에 비해 오존수 침지처리구에서 유의적으로 낮은 총균 및 대장균수를 나타내었다(p<0.05). 이상의 결과를 통해 오존수 침지처리는 축육부산물의 품질특성 저하 없이 미생물로부터 안전성 확보가 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

The spatial resolution of 3-Dimensional numerical model has a very important influence on the model result. The land-use and orographic effect is also influenced by the spatial resolution of the model. A large errors in model performance are produced depending on the terrain complexity. In this study we performed Air Quality Forecast model (AQF) simulation and analyzed the change in the ozone concentration depending on spatial resolution at small and medium-sized mixed areas with urban and rural area types. As the result, improving the spatial resolution improved the simulation of the downward trend of ozone at night. This was mainly due to improvement of local concentration contaminants at fragmented grid. In the case of wind speed, the model with high-resolution shows better agreement with observation at night.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the chemical quenching system for residual ozone and to determine the operating condition for the quenching system. Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) and sodium thiosulfate (Na₂S₂O₃) were investigated as quenching reagents for ozone removal, and the tendency of each chemical was notably different. In the case of H₂O₂, the degradation rate of ozone was increased as the concentration of H₂O₂ increase, and temperature and pH value have a significant effect on the degradation rate of ozone. On the other hand, the degradation rate of ozone was not affected by the concentration of Na₂S₂O₃, temperature and pH value, due to the high reactivity between the S₂O₃²- and ozone. This study evaluates the decomposition mechanism of ozone by H₂O₂ and Na₂S₂O₃ with consideration for the water quality and reaction time. Furthermore, the removal test for the quenching reagents, which can be remained after reaction with ozone, was conducted by GAC process.

Ozone precursor emissions and meteorological conditions have large impact on ozone concentrations. In this research, Data referring to an approximately 14-year period (1996~ 2009) are analyzed in order to estimate the trend of the daily maximum hourly value of ozone concentration at national capital region. A Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter is applied to remove the short-term component from the raw time series of ozone and meteorological variables. Meteorological effects are removed from filtered ozone series using multiple linear regression based on meteorological variables. The results show significant differences in local ozone concentrations. Especially, Ulsan area shows continuously increasing trend in ozone concentrations.

본 연구는 생활주변에서 오존수를 쉽게 활용할 수 있도록 오존수 발생장치의 활용성을 증가시키고 한 동작으로 작동하는 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 더 나아가 올리브 오일과 오존과 반응시켜 제조하는 기술에 적용하고자 한다. 기존의 경우 대부분이 오존수 시스템이 아닌 오존발생기 위주의 제품이 많다. 오존수기의 경우 펌프로 강제 흡입시키는 일반압력 방식으로 오존가스 누출 위험요소가 내포 되어 있으나, 본 과제의 경우 인젝터를 이용하여 물의 유입여부에 따른 오존의 발생과 흡입을 제한하고 있어 기존 제품의 오존 누출에 의한 위험을 최소화하였다. 인젝터 방식의 단점에도 불구하고 미생물 살균능을 유지하는 것으로 본 연구에서 사용된 인젝터 방식 오존수 제조 장치의 효용성을 알 수 있었다.

본 연구는 살균 소독제로 오존을 이용하고. 살균효과를 극대화 할 수 있는 방식으로 마이크로버블 장치에 오존을 공급하여 배양액 재처리 기술을 위한 오존 마이크로버블의 살균효과를 구명하고자 실시하였으며 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 마이크로버블 장치의 성능에서 압력 3.5kgf·cm−2에서 평균입경은 27.42μm로 측정되었고 마이크로버블의 발생량은 당 평균 12만개로 나타났으며, 적정 오존 발생량은 3g·h−1일 때 오존농도는 2ppm, 배출 오존농도는 0.06ppm에 도달하는 것으로 나타났다. 병원균 살균효과는 오존수의 경우 FO, PC 와 CG 모두 오존농도 0.5ppm, 처리시간 30초만으로도 현저한 감소를 보였다. FO는 오존농도 0.5ppm, 처리시간 60초 이내에서 멸균되었고, PC는 오존농도 2.0ppm, 처리시간 30초 이내에서 멸균되었으나, CG의 경우 2.0ppm 이상의 오존수를 처리하여야 할 것으로 판단되었다. 오존가스의 경우 처리시간 120초 이내에서 현저한 감소를 보였으며, FO와 PC는 처리시간 180초 이내에서 멸균되었고, CG의 경우 180초 이상 오존가스를 처리하여야 할 것으로 판단되었다.

The ozonation process has been widely used for drinking water disinfection around the world. Recently, the pressurized ozone contactor, in which the side stream typed ozone injection method is installed, has been applied to water treatment system. In this study, numerical calculations were conducted to compare prototype and screw-type ozone contactors based on hydraulic effectiveness in more details. The prototype ozone contactor was already installed and operated in domestic water treatment plant, and the screw-type is the suggested one for improving ozone contact efficiency installing the screw plate to the prototype. Screw turn numbers of screw plate were changed as 3, 5, 7 and 9, respectively for numerical simulation. The CT(concentration of disinfectant in mg/L times time in minutes) value was considered as one of the options for evaluating disinfection ability. From the results, it could be concluded that the performance of the screw-type is higher than that of the protype contactor by controlling the variable T as the tracer time. Also, Morill index of the screw-type(turn numbers = 5 ) appeared to be lower than the other.

한반도 동남 지역에서 고농도 오존이 발생한 사례에 대해 NOx에 대한 오존의 수반민감도를 살펴보았다. 사례일에 지배적이었던 국지 순환과 고농도 오존을 모의하기 위해 WRF-CMAQ 모델을 사용하였다. 수반민감도 분석을 위해 CMAQ의 수반 모델을 적용하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 고농도 오존에 주변지역이 미친 영향을 살펴본 수용지 중심의 민감도 분석이다. 또한, 행정 구역별 기여도를 정량적으로 산정하였는데, 대구를 수용지로 하는 민감도 분석 결과 영향지역은 대구에 인접하여 포항으로 이어지는 영역과 남동쪽으로 떨어진 넓은 지역으로 나타났다. 첫 번째 영역은 고농도 사례일 당일에 배출된 NOx의 민감도가 주로 나타났고 두 번째 영역은 전 날 배출에 의한 영향이었다. 반면, 부산을 수용지로 한 경우 사례일 당일 주간의 해풍의 영향으로 같은 날의 NOx 배출 효과 보다는 전 날 배출되었던 농도에 대한 민감도가 더 중요하였다. 민감도 영향지역에 대한 단면도 분석 결과 지표부근의 NOx 수송과 함께 상층에서 이류되는 영향도 중요하였다.

기후-전구대기화학모델을 이용하여 엘니뇨가 대류권 오존에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 40년간(1971-2010) 대류권 오존을 EOF 분석한 결과에서 열대 중앙-동태평양에서 오존의 감소가 관측과 유사하게 잘 모의되었다. 그러나 인도양-인도네시아 부근의 오존 증가는 관측에 비해 약하게 모의되었다. 엘니뇨에 의한 오존변동 과정을 이해하기 위하여 2006년 엘니뇨의 경우를 좀 더 자세히 분석하였다. 엘니뇨의 발생 시 중앙-동태평양의 오존 감소는 활발해진 상승운동과 그에 따른 수증기량 증가로 오존의 체류시간이 짧아졌음에 기인하였다. 해수면 온도 강제력으로 유도된 하강기류 편차와 수증기 감소로 인도양 대류권 상층 오존이 증가하였다.

Secondary air pollution can be caused by aerosol formation through reactions of ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from household products used in the indoor environment. In this study, we investigated the potential for aerosol production during the reactions of ozone and VOCs emitted from a home insecticide, a popular commercial product extracted from natural ingredients, in a 1-m³ reaction chamber. The major chemical component of the test product was prallethrin, which has very high efficacy of mosquito and housefly elimination. Toluene, α-pinene, cymene, d-limonene, α-terpinene, and α-thujone were also identified as constituents of the insecticide. Injected ozone concentrations of 50, 100, and 200 ppb generated particle mass concentrations, corrected for wall loss and air exchange loss, of 7.3, 33.1, and 40.0 μg/m³, respectively, after a 4-h reaction time. These concentrations are lower than those generated by an air freshener in a previous study under the same experimental conditions. It was concluded that the home insecticide tested had the potential to initiate secondary aerosol formation under ozone exposure due to the biogenic VOCs it contained.

The aim of this study was to compare the concentrations of airborne pollutants (i.e., PMs, TVOC, and ozone) released from a laser printer with a new and/or a refilled toner cartridge. Also we compared the concentrations before and after attaching a HEPA filter at the outlet of exhausted air for each printer. PMs, TVOC, and ozone were released from all three different branded printers with both toner cartridges in accordance with their both a brand new and a used condition. For PMs, there were generally significant differences of concentrations between a brand new and used toner (p<0.05). Ozone level differences were found between a new and a refilled toner, but were not significant (p>0.05). For TVOC, there were significant differences of concentrations among brands, and toluene (3.46mg/m³) only was identified. The overall 70% of reduction for PMs’concentrations occurred after attaching a HEPA filter(p<0.05), and these results were pronounced for TSP. These results showed that similar levels of airborne pollutants were released from a laser printer with a new and a refilled toner cartridge. Also, these results indicate that the usage of a HEPA filter may be an effective method for reducing the released pollutants from a laser printer.

We measured indoor, outdoor, and personal exposure concentrations of ozone (O₃) at 54 households in Gwangyang from June to September, 2009. The results are as follows. The concentration of ozone in outdoor, 16.53±5.72 ppb, was observed two times higher than the concentration of ozone in indoor, 8.22 ± 4.60 ppb. The similar arithmetic average ozone were obtained in exposed and controlled areas, 15.16 ± 1.45 ppb and 15.25 ± 1.94 ppb, respectively. The ozone concentration of an individual smoker was 24.89 ± 7.11 ppb, which was higher than that of a non-smoker, 21.01 ± 11.79 ppb. The indoor occupant density elevated ozone concentrations. The relatively low concentration of ozone was observed in a house with air conditioner (8.59 ± 4.04 ppb) than a house without the unit(10.07 ± 6.43 ppb).

A method of functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) at room temperature using dry ozone gas is described. The resulting MWNT were characterized by Fourier transform infrared, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. Combined to these analyses and solubility in liquids, it could be concluded that the dry ozone gas exposure introduces polar functional groups such as carboxylic groups to MWNT similar to acidic modification of MWNT. Particularly, the stable dispersion of MWNT in water after ozone treatment above a critical level could be obtained, implying potential bio-application. The hydrophilic functional groups on the MWNT introduced by ozone oxidation were helpful in improving the interaction with functional groups in PA6 such as -NH2 and -CONH- resulting in improved mechanical properties.

This study was performed to assess the level of ozone risk for wheat and potato in the central region of the Korean Peninsula by using ozone indices, the ozone-concentration based index (AOT40). The AOT40 indices were calculated for wheat and potato, respectively, at 25 sites in the central region of the Korean Peninsula during a period of three months from April 1 to June 30, 2006. The results for both indices, AOT40, showed that agricultural crops could be seriously damaged by ozone in the central region of the Korean Peninsula. In the result of AOT40, ozone may affect about 60% of the sites for wheat and 20% of the 25 sites for potato.