Wet solid wastes including spent ion exchange resins, evaporator concentrates and sludges require solidification to transform wastes into an acceptable solid, monolithic form for final disposal. The development of the process control program for the solidification of radioactive sludges generated at nuclear power plants has been in progress to provide reasonable assurance that the solidified product will meet the established waste acceptance criteria for solidified waste. A mobile solidification system to produce the solidified waste in the size of a 200 L drum was used, which adopts the in-line mixing method where the waste and binder are mixed and then transferred to the disposable container. To simulate radioactive sludges, non-radioactive sludges are synthesized and the specimens are prepared by using them. The qualification tests on the prepared specimens including the compressive strength test, the thermal cycling test, the irradiation test, the leach test, the immersion test, etc. have been performed to qualify recipes for a range of waste compositions. The results of the tests will be analyzed and discussed.

The optimum vitrification conditions of the radioactive waste using high-temperature furnace and HIP (Hot Isostatic Press) were studied for the successful reduction of the solidification volume, radioactive level, satisfying the disposal criteria such as leaching rate and compressive strength. Vitrification is receiving attention for the solidification disposal of intermediate and low-level radioactive wastes for its chemical-physical stability and leachability. Its principle is to trap the radioactive material in a fixed structure of the glass type materials, such as Boron Trioxide, Silicon Dioxide and Phosphorus Pentoxide. Sludge targeted in this study is assembly of materials while sludge is stored in the stainless-steel tank before disposal, which consists of Fe3O4 (14.9wt%), Fe2O3 (3.8wt%), and Cr2O3 (6.3wt%), cement paste (25wt%) and detergent/shower sludge (50wt%). The detergent/shower sludge generated from the washing the clothes that were worn during the work at the laboratory and nuclear power plant contains organic materials that are vulnerable to chemical reactions, therefore, immobilization of organic material by the incinerating step, which can also immobilize the radioactive substance, was applied. Its composition – containing Cs-133 and Co-59 substitution for Cs-134 and Co-60 that are radioactive – was analyzed by XRD before and after the mineralization of the sludge using high temperature furnace in different temperature, to identify the remaining element and the features of the mineralized sludge. Targeted sludge was vitrificated using Hot Isostatic Press in with different pressure and temperature conditions, to find out the optimum vitrification conditions. Vitrificated waste was evaluated in many aspects - leaching evaluation following ANS16.1, compressive strength evaluation of 3.44 MPa (waste disposal criteria), volume reduction before and after the sequence.

Waste SiC powders obtained from silicon wafer sludge have very low density and a narrow particle size distribution of 10-20 μm. A scarce yield of C and Si is expected when SiC powders are incorporated into the Fe melt without briquetting. Here, the briquetting variables of the SiC powders are studied as a function of the sintering temperature, pressure, and type and contents of the binders to improve the yield. It is experimentally confirmed that Si and C from the sintered briquette can be incorporated effectively into the Fe melt when the waste SiC powders milled for 30 min with 20 wt.% Fe binder are sintered at 1100oC upon compaction using a pressure of 250 MPa. XRF-WDS analysis shows that an yield of about 90% is obtained when the SiC briquette is kept in the Fe melt at 1650oC for more than 1 h.

Dry Process(natural drying, hot-air drying, oil fry drying), optimized mixture ratio and the condition of carbonization was carried out in order to improve the product durability develop eco-friendly solid fuel mixing food waste and paper sludge. As a result of the experiment, oil fry drying process was the fastest method for drying food waste and paper sludge mixture that contains 80% water inside, and the optimized mixture ratio to minimize the generating concentration of chlorine gas against caloric value of mixture ratio was 7:3. Additionally proper temperature of product carbonization was about 200℃ and shown increasing product durability through the carbonization. Therefore, the pelletized solid fuel be shaped diameter around 0.5cm, length 2cm under which was pulverized and molded using 7:3 mixture of food waste, and paper sludge was the eco-friendly solid fuel possible to be industrialized which is consist of chlorine concentration of below 2.0wt% and the lowest caloric value of over 5,000kcal/kg. In conclusion, this developing manufacturing process of the solid fuel can be interpreted to contribute alternative energy development in accordance with low carbon and green growth era.

Chemical batch tests were conducted to investigate the amount of nutrients that were released from the wasted activated sludge during microwave heating. For this study, three types of activated sludge were obtained from A2/O, MLE and oxidation ditch (OD) processes. Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in the activated sludge have a unique trait: they releases phosphate from the cell when they are exposed to high temperatures. The sludge obtained from the A2/O process released the largest amount of phosphate, followed by those from the MLE and OD processes. The release of phosphate increased with increasing polyphosphate content in the sludge under strongly alkaline or acidic conditions. Furthermore, ammonia and heavy metals were released with phosphorous. The largest amount of ammonia was observed from the sludge obtained from the MLE process. The release of heavy metals strongly depends on the pH conditions. Therefore, the chemical analysis results strongly suggest that both phosphorus and ammonia react with Mg2+ or Ca2+ to form metal complexes such as magnesium ammonium phosphate or hydroxyapatite under alkaline conditions.

In this study, leaching and content tests of hazardous substances were analyzed to evaluate their recyclability to paper sludge and paperboard products. These findings were compared with standard controlled waste. In addition, the stability of these products was examined with respect to the recommended standards for heavy metal content in packaging materials. In the leaching test results, no regulated items were detected. Upon examining the stability of paperboard products, it was detected within the standard of most samples. Paper sludge usage accounts for only about 10% of paperboard raw materials. Therefore, harmful substances in paper sludge is not a problem, Leaching and content tests of harmful substances in the antifoaming agent used were investigated within the limits of all items. The pH of the paper sludge corrugated cardboard, and antifoaming agent was 7.49, 7.21, and 7.87, respectively. Therefore, these wastes did not account for the corrosiveness. In addition, there were no hazardous characteristics found for leaching, because all specified waste standards were satisfied.

우리나라는 국토환경의 제한과 매년 증가되는 폐기물로 인한 대책으로 미처리폐기물의 매립제로화를 추진하고 있다. 특히 자원순환촉진법 제정을 통해 2035년까지 이용 가능한 폐기물의 직매립을 금지하여 매립비율을 1 % 이하로 목표하였다. 2015 국내 전체 폐기물의 매립처리량은 38,308 톤/일이며 이중 사업장배출시설계폐기물의 매립처리량은 23,577 톤/일로 약 62 %를 차지하고 있다. 사업장배출시설계폐기물인 유기성, 무기성오니류의 매립처리량은 8,926 톤/일로 매립제로화를 달성하기 위하여 재활용과 감량화가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 유･무기성오니류를 배출사업장 업종별로 구분하여 에너지회수로서 재활용 활성화 방안 등과 같은 간접적인 측면과 열적감량을 통한 감량과 같은 직접적인 측면을 통한 매립억제 가능량에 대해 고찰하였다. 유기성오니류의 경우 수분 전처리를 통한 감량화 및 에너지회수로 매립비율 감소효과가 오니류 매립처리량의 40 %의 감소가 예상되며, 무기성오니류에 대하여 추가적으로 직접적인 반입기준을 강열감량 5 ~ 10 % 적용을 한다면 오니류 매립처리량의 73 % 매립처리량 감소가 가능할 것으로 추산된다.

Toxicity of polymer, Alum, Zeolite, Loess, Koalinite and Chitosan on earthworm and the effects of sewage sludges coagulated by several mixtures of those coagulants on the population growth of earthworm Eisenia andrei were evaluated. Under the concentration of 20,000 mg/L of Zeolite, Loess and Kaolinite, and under 1,000 mg/L of Chitosan were there no acute toxicities on earthworms. The concentration of Polymer over 160 mg/L showed acute toxicity upon earthworm, but the concentration under 80 mg/L showed no toxicity. The concentration of Alum over 125 mg/L showed acute toxicity. The mixture of ‘Polymer 80 mg/L + Kaolinite 500 mg/L + Chitosan 20 mg/L’ had higher coagulating efficiency than the ‘Polymer 80 mg/L + Kaolinite 500 mg/L’ on sewage sludge, And the sewage sludge coagulated by former mixture induced higher growth rate of earthworm population than that coagulated by latter mixture when the sewage sludges were supplied to earthworms.

This study described characteristics of product gases emitted during high temperature pyrolysis of sewage sludge in the temperature range of 800 ~ 1,200oC for determining the possibility of energy recovery as one of the sewage sludge treatment methods. Char yield of each sewage sludge decreased with increasing reaction temperature until 1,000oC during pyrolysis experiment, but above 1,000oC it is nearly constant due to the total release of volatile matter contained in samples. Major gas components emitted from high temperature pyrolysis experiment of sewage sludges are CO2, H2, CO, and CH4. These major combustible gases except CO2 can be used as major energy source. Also major sulfur-containing gases known as the pollutant gas emitted during high temperature pyrolysis experiments are H2S, COS, and CS2. The principal sulfur gaseous product is H2S and concentrations of H2S and CS2 increases with increasing temperature, but in the case of COS its concentration is nearly constant with variation of temperature. So efficient treatment of sulfurcontaining gases emitted from thermal treatment of sewage sludge should be needed.

Physico-chemical properties of the activated sludges(Suyoung and Changlim treatment plant), such as SVI(sludge volume index), absorbance, specific surface area, and specific resistance using Buchener funnel test were investigated with changing anaerobic storage time. This experimental condition was found that it was possible to estimate a linear relationship between their parameters such as specific surface area, specific resistance, and sludge volume index(SVI). The specific surface area and the specific resistance to filtration of the activated sludges of Suyoung and Changlim treatment plant were found as 123.6～136.6㎡/gDS and 41.5～44.9㎡/gDS(dry solid), and 1.09×1014 ～ 5.48×1014m/kg and 1.05×1014 ～ 2.48×1014m/kg, respectively. The results gave a good linear relationship between the specific surface area and the specific resistance, r=2.25×1012s-8.10×1013(R2=0.8885) at Suyoung treatment plant and r=1.26×1013s-4.75×1014(R2=0.8756) at Changlim treatment plant.