In this study, for the treatment efficiency of the IGF process for the treatment of produced water (PW) discharged from the oil sands plant, the bench-scale oil sands plant PWT package was designed, manufactured and evaluated to verify the efficiency of the process. The microbubble generation efficiency and microbubble size change according to the circulation pump pressure were observed, and the correlation between influent concentration and temperature, residence time and oil-water separation performance was analyzed.

The treatment efficiencies of domestic sewage treatment processes were analysed and assessed to suggest and design a suitable technology for coal seam gas (CSG) water treatment. Two sewage treatment plants (S and G in Busan) were selected. The former operates with standard activated sludge and modified Ludzak Ettinger processes while the later uses the combination of A2/O and gravity fiber filtration. For both plants, the concentrations of BOD, CODMn, T-N and T-P were about 5.0, 19.0, 5.0, 11.0 and 1.0 ppm, respectively, which satisfy the discharge standards. Therefore, although sewage treatment processes seems to be applicable for CSG water treatment, additional processes to remove total dissolved solids and ionic compounds (i.e. bicarbonate) need to be introduced to produce fit-for-purpose water resources for beneficial use (in accordance with Water ACT 2013). This, for the CSG treatment process design, it is necessary to align the operating conditions with merging methods of combinable unit technology obtained from sewage treatment processes.

To develop various usable water from coal seam gas (CSG) water that needs to be pumped out from coal seams for methane gas production, a feasibility study was carried out, evaluating and analysing a recent report (Coal Seam Gas Water Management Policy 2012) from Queensland State Government in Australia to suggest potential CSG water treatment options for fit-for-purpose usable water production. As CSG water contains intrinsically high salinity-driven total dissolved solid (TDS), bicarbonate, aliphatic carbon, Ca+2, Mg+2 and so on, it was found that appropriate treatment technologies are required to reduce the hardness below 60 mg/L as CaCO3 by setting the reduction rates of Ca+2, Mg+2 and Na+ concentrations, as well as TDS reduction. Also, Along with fiber filtration and membrane separation, an oxidation degradation process was found to be required. Along with salinity reduction, as CSG water contains organic compounds (TOC: 248 mg/L, C6 -C9: <20 mg/L and C10 - C36: <60 mg/L), compounds with relatively high molecular weights (C10 - C36) need to be treated first. Therefore, this study suggests a combined system design with filtration (Reverse osmosis) and oxidation reduction (electrolysis) technologies, offering proper operating conditions to produce fit-for-purpose usable water from CSG water.

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.