Eutrophication and algal blooms can lead to increase of taste and odor compounds and health problems by cyanobacterial toxins. To cope with these eco-social issues, Ministry of Environment in Korea has been reinforcing the effluent standards of wastewater treatment facilities. As a result, various advanced phosphorus removal processes have been adopted in each wastewater treatment plant nation-widely. However, a lot of existing advanced wastewater treatment processes have been facing the problems of expensive cost in operation and excessive sludge production caused by high dosage of coagulant. In this study, the sedimentation and dissolved air flotation (SeDAF) process integrated with sedimentation and flotation has been developed for enhanced phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment facilities. Design and operating parameters of the SeDAF process with the capacity of 100 m3/d were determined, and a demonstration plant has been installed and operated at I wastewater treatment facility (located in Gyeonggi-do) for the verification of field applicability. Several empirical evaluations for the SeDAF process were performed at demonstration-plant scale, and the results showed clearly that T-P and turbidity values of treated water were to satisfy the highest effluent standards below 0.2 mg/L and 2.0 NTU stably for all of operation cases.

The concept of carsharing involves sharing a small number of reserved cars to be used individually by a larger number of people as required. This study examines the operating parameters of one-way carsharing systems in order to determine the appropriate operating conditions that minimizes the lost sales rate. Five operating parameters are tested in this study: the number of stations, the average number of vehicles per station, the rate of one-way trip, the average number of staffs per station, and the relocation policy. The performance of round-trip carsharing systems is also compared to that of one-way carsharing systems. A simulation model is developed and simulations are performed to determine the appropriate combination of operating parameter and levels. The simulation results show that the average number of vehicles per station is the most critical parameter. Other key findings obtained from this research are as follows. First, applying the appropriate relocation policy to one-way carsharing systems can allow more customers to rent vehicles than the traditional round-trip carsharing systems. Second, the appropriate relocation policy should be selected based on the average number of vehicles per station in order to minimize the lost sales rate. Third, the number of stations does not affect the lost sales rate. This study findings will provide tools to understand impact of the carsharing system parameters on the efficiency of the carsharing operations.

Water quality improvement processes for stagnant area consist mainly of technologies applying vegetation and artificial water circulation, and these existing technologies have some limits to handle pollution loads effectively. To improve the purification efficiency, eco-friendly technologies should be developed that can reinforce self-purification functions. In this study, a multi-functional floating island combined with physical · chemical · biological functions (① flotation and oxidization using microbubbles, ② vegetation purification and ③ bio-filtration with improved adsorption capacity) has been developed and basic experiments were performed to determine the optimal combination conditions for each unit process. It has been shown that it is desirable to operate the microbubble unit process under conditions greater than 3.5 kgf/cm2. In vegetation purification unit process, Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus) was suggested to be suitable considering water quality, landscape improvement and maintenance. When granular red-mud was applied to the bio-filtration unit process, it was found that T-P removal efficiency was good and its value was also stable for various linear velocity conditions. The appropriate thickness of filter media was suggested between 30 and 45 cm. In this study, the optimal design and operating parameters of the multi-functional floating island have been presented based on the results of the basic experiments of each unit process.

In this study, the effectiveness of electrodialysis in removing inorganic arsenic from groundwater was investigated. To evaluate the feasibility of the electrodialysis, operating parameters such as treatment time, feed concentration, applied voltage and superficial velocity were experimentally investigated on arsenic removal. The higher conductivity removal and arsenic removal efficiency were obtained by increasing applied voltages and operation time. An increase of salinity concentrations in arsenic polluted groundwater exerted no effects on the arsenic separation ratios. Arsenic polluted waters were successfully treated with stack voltages of 1.8 ~ 2.4 V/cell-pair to approximately 93.4% of arsenic removal. Increase flow rate in diluate cell gave positive effect to removal rate. However, increase of superficial velocity in the concentrated cell exerted no effects on either the conductivity reduction or on the separation efficiency. Hopefully, this paper will provide direction in selecting appropriate operating conditions of electrodialysis for arsenic removal.

폐기물로부터 에너지를 회수하고자 하는 노력은 전세계적인 추세이며, 국내에서도 가연성 폐자원의 효율적인 친환경적 처리, 에너지 회수를 위한 다양한 정책과 법규가 만들어져 진행되고 있다. 가연성 폐기물로부터 에너지를 회수하는 전통적인 방법인 소각과 비교하여 가스화 기술은 생산된 합성가스를 다양한 방법으로 활용할 수 있으며, 100톤 미만의 폐기물 처리시 소각보다 월등히 높은 효율을 보이고 있다. 따라서 사용연한이 다 되어가는 국내 중소규모 소각시설의 대체 및 플랜트의 해외 수출 등을 위해 폐기물 고형연료의 가스화 기술의 개발이 진행중이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 폐기물 고형연료 가스화 플랜트 기술의 개발을 위해 국내 한 지자체의 생활폐기물을 대상으로 비성형 고형연료를 제조하고, 제조된 고형연료를 공기사용 고정층 가스화를 통해 합성가스를 생산하여 이를 직접 가스엔진 발전기에 도입함으로써 일정량의 전력을 생산할 수 있는 반응 특성에 대해 연구하였다. 실험 설비와는 다르게 파일럿 플랜트 이상의 실증시설은 강제로 온도를 유지할 수 없으므로, 공급하는 산화제에 의해 로내 온도가 변화되며, 최적 가스화 효율을 얻기위해 다양한 운전인자의 변화에 따른 가스화 특성에 대해 평가하였다.

The purpose of this study is to degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB, dye) and N, N-Dimethyl-4-nitrosoaniline (RNO, indicator of the electro-generation of OH radical) in solution using boron doped diamond (BDD) electrode. The effects of applied current (0.2~1.0 A), electrolyte type (NaCl, KCl, and Na2SO4) and electrolyte concentration (0.5~3.0 g/L), solution pH (3~11) and air flow rate (0~4 L/min) were evaluated. Experimental results showed that RhB and RNO removal tendencies appeared with the almost similar thing, except of current. Optimum current for RhB degradation was 0.6 A, however, RNO degradations was increased with increase of applied current. The RhB and RNO degradation of Cl type electrolyte were higher than that of the sulfate type. The RhB and RNO degradation were increased with increase of NaCl concentration and optimum NaCl dosage was 2.5 g/L. The RhB and RNO concentrations were not influenced by pH under pH 7. Optimum air flow rate for the oxidants generation and RhB and RNO degradation were 2 L/min. Initial removal rate of electrolysis process was expressed Langmuir - Hinshelwood equation, which is used to express the initial removal rate of UV/TiO2 process.

밸러스트수 처리를 위한 Plasma Gun의 전기적 특성과 오존 생성에 미치는 주요 운전변수들의 영향에 관해 실험실 규모 연구를 수행하였다. 방전개시전압보다 높은 전압이 인가되면 방전이 시작되고 오존이 생성되었으며 전압이 증가함에 따라 기체로 전달되는 에너지 및 오존 농도가 거의 선형적으로 증가하였다. 오존 생성 측면에서 최적의 에너지 효율성을 얻을 수 있는 전극간 거리가 존재하였으며 실험된 장치에서는 1.95 mm의 전극간 거리에서 최적 효율이 얻어졌다. 전기에너지 특성에 미치는 내부전극 재질의 영향은 무시할만한 수준이었으나 내부전극의 전기전도도와 열전도도 차이가 오존 생성에 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 일정한 Plasma Gun 구조에서 오존 생성은 기체로 전달되는 에너지밀도에 의해 중요한 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며 유입되는 기체의 산소함량이 증가할수록 오존 생성이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

Statistical analysis between operating parameters and effluent quality on advanced wastewater treatment plant was performed. Through factor analysis four factors derived varimax rotation were selected each plant. Four components explained 80%, 82% of the total variance of the process, respectively. The components on MLE plant were identified in the following order：1) HRT increase and BOD load decrease by influent decrease, 2) Biomass, 3) SVI increase by internal return increase, 4) Microbial diversity by SRT increase. On A2O plant, we defined them as follows: factor 1, high MLSS by return rate increase, HRT increase by influent decrease; factor 2, biomass; factor 3, BOD of influent; factor 4 was relate to DO.