Domestic automotive shredder residue (ASR) recycling facilities must comply with 60% of the energy recovery criteria calculated by the waste control act, based on resource circulation of electrical and electronic equipment and vehicles. The method of calculating energy recovery criteria was newly enacted on November 6, 2017, and it has been judged that it is necessary to consider applicability. In this study, the energy recovery efficiency of 7 units was calculated by past and present calculation methods. Furthermore, this study attempts to find applicability and a method of increasing the energy recovery efficiency by taking advantage of available potentials. An analysis of the calculation results showed that the average values calculated by past methods, present methods, and the method that includes available potentials are 76.35%, 70.68%, and 78.24%, respectively. Therefore, the new calculation method for energy recovery efficiency is also applicable to domestic automotive shredder residue recycling facilities.

According to the revised version of Waste Control Act to enter into force in 2017, Wastes could only be recycled assuming that the use of recycled wastes is safe for the environment and human health by environmental safety assessment. Even before this revision of the law, inorganic sludges could have been recycled as alternative materials for filler and cover materials by mixing with soil. However, in case of inorganic sludge from car-washing facilities, the revised law provides that the waste has to be landfilled. To assess the possibility of recycling this waste, we investigate the characteristics of the generation and concentration level of hazardous substances and evaluate the safety of recycling this material to assess whether this process meets the environmental standards. We obtained a total of eight sludge samples from car-wash shops, such as those in gas stations, car-repair shops and car-wash facilities. According to the results of leaching tests, most of the samples(8) fell under the detection limit and thus could be legally treated as general waste. However, in the results of contents some heavy metals, such as hexavalent chromium, lead, copper and zinc, exceeded the standards for soil contamination. We can conclude that the recycling of inorganic sludge from car-wash facilities could cause pollution in soil media when recycled and should not be recycled for filler and cover materials.

원자력시설의 해체 시 발생되는 금속폐기물의 양은 전 세계적으로 향후 50년 동안 스테인레스강 약 95 만톤, 탄소강 870 만 톤, 구리 220 만 톤으로 총 1,200 만 톤 정도 발생할 것으로 예측되고 있다. 해체 시 발생하는 금속 조각은 대부분 방사능에 아주 미미하게 오염되어 있기 때문에 이중에서 대부분은 무구속 방출이나 약간의 제염 처리 후 일정한 공정을 거쳐 핵 시설내의 폐기물 저장 용기나 처분 상자, 폐기물 드럼, ISO 컨테이너 등으로 재활용되고 있거나, 앞으로 재활용할 수 있다고 보고되고 있다. 국내 원자력시설 해체 시 다량으로 발생될 것으로 예상되는 금속 조각을 수용하기에는 폐기물 처리장이 매우 부족할 뿐만 아니라, 지속적으로 처분 단가의 증가가 예상되므로 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 방사성 금속폐기물의 효과적인 감용 및 재활용 기술이 요구되고 있다. 금속 폐기물의 감용 및 재활용 기술 중 현재까지 가장 적절한 기술로서 용융 기술이 있다. 유럽을 주축으로 미국과 일본에서 활발히 연구되어져 온 용융 기술은 다른 처분 방법에 비해 부피 감용비가 가장 높아 최종처분시설 공간을 절약할 수 있으며 탄소강, 스테인레스강 및 인코넬 등 많은 양의 금속을 회수하는 것이 가능하다. 또한, 이 기술은 휘발성 핵종(Cs 등)이나 금속과 반응성이 적은 핵종(U, Pu 등)을 슬래그 속에 포집하여 제염하거나, 방사성 핵종들이 주괴에 균일하게 분포하고 금속의 결정 격자속에 고정화시킬 수 있기 때문에 보다 안정화시킬 수 있다는 장점들을 가지고 있다.

This paper presents the estimation of actual recyclable amounts and the evaluation of waste oil recycling processes atrecycling facilities using material flow analysis (MFA). The estimation of actual recycling rates through the processes ofwaste lubricating oils is a very important subject not only in the point of view oil recycling efficiency by energy conversionprocesses but also in the perspective of the recycling technology level. In this study, the recycling processes and recyclingrates of waste lubricating oil recycling facilities were evaluated by using a MFA approach, a total of 10 site visits anda total of 30 site questionnaires in Korea. The MFA methodology based on mass balance approach applied to identifythe inputs and outputs of waste oils during the recycling processes at waste oil recycling facilities. It is necessary todetermine the composition and flows of the input materials to be recycled and foreign substances in a waste recyclingfacility. A complete understanding of the waste flows in the processes along with the site visit and data surveys for therecycling facilities was required to develop a material flow for the processes and determine the process yield by differenttreatment methods (chemical distillation, vacuum distillation and high temperature pyrolysis). The results show that onaverage the process yields for chemical distillation, vacuum distillation, and high temperature pyrolysis were 89.9±7.7%,77.9±16.1%, and 57.9±9.3%, respectively. During the chemical distillation method, water in waste oils was a majorfraction (>50%), while the vacuum distillation method resulted oil large amounts of oil sludge produced during therecycling process. The process yields for different treatment methods depended upon several factors including the qualityof incoming waste oils, the type and operating conditions of recycling processes that are applied to. Based on the materialflow analysis in this study, the actual recycled amount of waste oil was estimated to be approximately 260,809 ton in 2011.

This is aim to use and recycle the wasted biogas from the dispose process of the food wasted facility in Dae-Gu. Furthermore, the virtuous biogas is to be supplied for the Industrial Complex as energy resource. It is to develop the system for Pre-treatment and High-efficiency of the wasted biogas that includes low concentration and impurities. The Pre-treatment is to remove Siloxan, Hydrogen sulfide, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen and etc. which might influence to end-users in negative way. The High-efficiency system is to remove moisture in Biogas and increase the purity for keeping the constant concentration Methane for useful resource with measuring the portion and density in real time. It shows that constant above 60% Methane gas is possibly to be supplied to end-users as a alternative energy resource rather than using LNG, LPG and etc. for their own boilers system. It is expected that there are Environmental, Economical and Social effects with establishing optimum network for the reuse of Biogas. Environmental positive effects are to reduce the Global Warming Potential, use fossil fuel and Green-house gases. Economically it will bring down the production cost of end-users by using the pre-treated biogas. Furthermore, the alternative energy resource is to be secured and New R&D Study might be applied with FuelCell Power Plant, Hydregen Station and Hydrogen Reforming in social effects.

This paper presents the actual recycling rates and recycling processes of waste plastic recycling facilities using material flow analysis. Determination of actual recycling rates through the processes of waste plastics is a very important subject not only from the point of plastic recycling efficiency energy conversion but also from the perspective of the recycling technology level. In this study, the recycling processes and recycling rates of waste plastic recycling facilities were evaluated by the MFA analysis based on 14 site visits and 25 questionnaires. The MFA methodology based on mass balance approach applied to identify the inputs and outputs of recyclable plastic materials in the recycling processes at recycling facilities. It is necessary to determine the composition and flows of the input materials to be recycled in a recycling facility. A complete understanding of the waste flows in the processes along with the site visit and data surveys for the recycling facilities was required to develop a material flow for the processes and determine the actual recycling rate. The results show that the average actual recycling rates for the recycling facilities by the site visit and the questionnaire was found to be approximately 87.5 ± 7.1% and 84.3 ± 14.5%, respectively. The recycling rates depended upon several factors including the quality of incoming waste plastics, the type and operating conditions of recycling processes, and the type of final products. According to the national statistics, the recycling rate of waste plastics was about 53.7%, while the actual recycling rate at national level was estimated to be approximately 45.1% by considering the recycling performance evaluated as well as the type of recycling process applied. The results of MFA for the recycling processes served as a tool to evaluate the performance of recycling efficiency with regard to the composition of the products during recycling. They may also support the development of the strategy of improvement of recycling processes to maximize resource recovery out of the waste plastic materials.

In this study, life cycle assesment (LCA) was conducted based on a functional unit of 1 ton of food waste recycling from collection and transportation to treatment processes such as feed production, composting, other recycling and incineration for 45 public food waste recycling plants. The Korean life cycle inventory (LCI) data were used for the main input material and energy. For the other input data, which could not be provided by the Korean LCI database, data of other countries were used from the database by Ecoinvent, and the strength of food wastewater for LCI DB was divided low and high concentration. In case of low strength of food wastewater, environmental impacts were suggested incineration, composting and feed production in the order, where collection and transportation were identified as the major influencing factors by contribution analysis and sensitive analysis. Contrary, in case of high strength of food wastewater, environmental impacts were suggested composting, feed production and incineration in the order, where treatment of food wastewater was identified as the major influencing factor. Therefore, discharge volume as well as concentration of food wastewater was found to be important parameter of the LCA.