The Journal of
the Korean Society on Water Environment

The Journal of
the Korean Society on Water Environment

Bimonthly
  • ISSN : 2289-0971 (Print)
  • ISSN : 2289-098X (Online)
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Biomass, Clay, Flocculation, Harvesting, Microalgae, Mg-Sericite

1. Introduction

์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” 2009๋…„์—์„œ 2035๋…„ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์•ฝ 4๋ฐฐ ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š”๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด์— ๋ถ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ 2020๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž๊ตญ ์„์œ  ์†Œ๋น„๋Ÿ‰์˜ 20%๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ์ค‘๊ตญ๋„ 2020๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆ˜์†ก์šฉ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ์˜ 15%๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค(IEA, 2014). ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์›๋ฃŒ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์‹ํ’ˆ, ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์ˆ˜์†Œ, ์ด์‚ฐํ™”ํƒ„์†Œ ๊ณ ์ • ๋ฐ ์–ด๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋จน์ด๋กœ๋„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์€ ์•„์ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์กด ํ™”์„์—ฐ๋ฃŒ์— ๋น„ํ•ด 1/5 ~ 1/10 ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค(Chisti, 2007). ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์šฐ์ˆ˜ ์„ธํฌ์ฃผ์˜ ํƒ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ƒ๋ช…๊ณตํ•™ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ์ง€์งˆ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค(Chisti, 2007; Choi and Yu, 2015; Kong et al., 2013).

๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ฐ€๋„ ๋ฐ ์ž‘์€ ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์€ ์ „์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋น„์šฉ ์ค‘ 20 ~ 30%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค(Dassey and Theegala, 2013). ํŠนํžˆ, ๊ฑด์กฐ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค์˜ ์ˆ˜์œจ์€ ๊ณต์ •์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™”์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑด์กฐ ๋ฌผ์งˆ ์ค‘๋Ÿ‰์˜ 0.3 ~ 0.8%์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ํ˜„ํƒ์•ก์— 99.2 ~ 99.7%์˜ ๋ฌผ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค(Danquah et al., 2009). ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์œจ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๊ณต์ •์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ(Show and Lee, 2014), ์—ฌ๊ณผ(Moreno-Garrido, 2008) ๋˜๋Š” ์‘์ง‘(Vandamme et al., 2013)์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•„์ฃผ ์ž‘์€ ํฌ๊ธฐ(5 ~ 15 ฮผm)์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ ์ˆ˜์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ง‘์•ฝ์ ์ธ ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์‘์ง‘๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ์€ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค ํšŒ์ˆ˜์œจ์ด ์•ฝ 80%๋กœ ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๊ณต์ •์€ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜๋ถ„ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค๋ฅผ ํšŒ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค(Barros et al., 2015; Lee et al., 2009). ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ์‘์ง‘, ์—ฌ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ ์ด์™ธ์— ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž์„ฑ ์ž…์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์— ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์„ฑ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•(Cerff et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2013) ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋Ÿ‰ ์ „๋ถ„์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•(Letelier Gordo et al., 2014; Vandamme et al., 2010) ๋“ฑ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์ด ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์‹œ์„ค์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ , ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ค๋น„์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค(Dassey and Theegala, 2013). ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ํšจ์œจ, ์ €๋น„์šฉ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” Mg-Sericite๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ตœ์  ์กฐ๊ฑด(pH, ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„, Mg-Sericite์–‘ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์ตœ์  ๋†๋„ ๋“ฑ)์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. Mg๊ณผ Si๋Š” ์ƒ๋ช…์ฒด์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„๋กœ์จ Mg-Sericite๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„์„ ๋ณด์ถฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค(Farooq et al., 2013; Habib and Parvin, 2008). Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์นœํ™”์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ํšจ์œจ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ํš๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค์˜ ์ „์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ค‘ ์•ฝ 85%๋Š” ๊ฑด์กฐ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค ์ƒ์‚ฐ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ํ•ด๋‹น๋œ๋‹ค(Oncel, 2013). ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Materials and experimental design

2.1.1. Microalgae cultivation

๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris; KMMCC-355)๋Š” JM Medium์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 25 ยฑ 2 ยฐC ์˜จ๋„์˜ ํ•ญ์˜จ๊ธฐ์— 10์ผ๊ฐ„ ์ฆ์‹ ์‹œํ‚จ ํ›„์— ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ JM ๋ฐฐ์ง€ 1L์— ์‹คํ—˜๊ณ„ํš์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋†๋„์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์–‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. C. vulgaris๋Š” Spirulina, Dunaliella ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Haematococcus ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ด๋ฉฐ ์ง€์งˆํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋†’๊ณ , ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ์ ์‘์„ฑ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ด๋‹ค. JM ๋ฐฐ์ง€์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ 200 mL์˜ ์ฆ๋ฅ˜์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 4.0 g Ca(NO3)2H2O, 2.48 g KH2PO4, 10.0 g MgSO4๏ฝฅ7H2O, 3.18 g NaHCO3, 0.45 g EDTAFeNa, 0.45 g EDTA Na2, 0.496 g H3BO3, 0.278 g MnCl2๏ฝฅ4H2O, 0.20 g(NH4)6Mo7O24๏ฝฅ4H2O, 0.008 g cyanocobalamin, 0.008 g thiamine HCl, 0.008 g biotin, 16.0 g NaNO3 ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  7.2 g Na2HPO4๏ฝฅ12H2O์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐฐ์–‘๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ด‘์›์€ white LED(Light Emitting Diode)๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์‹คํ—˜์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ LED ๋žจํ”„๋Š” ๋น›์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘๋„๋ฅผ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด bar ํ˜•์‹์˜ LED ๋žจํ”„๋ฅผ ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, LED์— ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋˜๋Š” ์ „์›์€ ๋ชจ๋ธ FP-60-12 ํŒŒ์›Œ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ธฐ(AD & Lighting, Suwon, Kyonggi-Do, Korea)๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ด‘์›์€ ์œ„์—์„œ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ด‘ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋น›์˜ ์–‘์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ด‘๋Ÿ‰์€ 200 ~ 250 ฮผmol photon/m2/s์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹คํ—˜์€ 5๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ํ‰๊ท ๊ฐ’์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค

2.1.2. Mg and Sericite as Clay

๋ณธ ์‹คํ—˜์—์„œ ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ Sericite๋Š” 325 mesh์˜ ๋ถ„๋ง((์ฃผ) ์‚ผ๊ฒฝ๊ด‘์—…)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๋ถ„ ํ•จ์œ ๋Ÿ‰์€ Table 1์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Table 1.

Composition of sericite by XRD

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Sericite์˜ ์ฃผ์š”์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO ๋“ฑ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ํŠนํžˆ SiO2์™€ Al2O3๋Š” Sericite์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ง€์—ญ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 68 ~ 80% ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. Sericite๋Š” SiO2์ฃผ์„ฑ๋ถ„์˜ ํŒ์ƒ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์†์— Al2O3์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฉด์ฒด๋˜๋Š” ํŒ”๋ฉด์ฒด์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋ชจ์–‘์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์†์— ๊ฐ์ข… ์•Œ์นผ๋ฆฌ๊ธˆ์† ๋ฐ ์•Œ์นผ๋ฆฌ ํ† ๊ธˆ์† ์ด์˜จ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค(Reddy et al., 2013).

๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ MgCl2๏ฝฅ6H2O๋Š” ์ˆœ๋„ 98.0% ์ด์ƒ์ด๋ฉฐ Junsei Chemical Co. Ltd(Tokyo, Japan))์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์–‘์ด์˜จ์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ํ•˜๏ฝฅํ์ˆ˜์˜ ์œ ๏ฝฅ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ฌผ์„ ์ž˜ ์‘์ง‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2๊ฐ€ ํ˜น์€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ ์–‘์ด์˜จ์ด ์ฒจ๊ฐ€๋˜๋ฉด ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ ์–ด๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์–‘์ด์˜จ์ด ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋˜๋Š” ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค(Smith and Davis, 2012; Vandamme et al., 2012). Fe2+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Fe3+ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Al3+ ๋“ฑ์€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ ์–‘์ด์˜จ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ์†ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์˜ ์–‘์ด์˜จ์„ ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉด Sericite-Mg-๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์‘์ง‘์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ์นจ์ „๋œ๋‹ค(Lee et al., 2013; Molina Crima et al., 2003). Sericite๋Š” ํ•˜๏ฝฅํ์ˆ˜์˜ ์œ ๏ฝฅ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ฌผ๊ณผMgCl2๏ฝฅ6H2O์˜ ์‘์ง‘์— ๊ฐ€๊ต์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์‘์ง‘/์นจ์ „๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ์ž…์ž๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ์‘์ง‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค(Farooq et al., 2013; Reddy et al., 2013; Salim et al., 2011).

2.1.3. ์‹คํ—˜๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ œ์กฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Sericite ๋ถ„๋ง๊ณผ MgCl2๏ฝฅ6H2O์„ 25:1๋กœ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•œ ๋’ค ์ฆ๋ฅ˜์ˆ˜ 1L๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ์–ด 15 ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ต๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ํ˜ผํ•ฉ์šฉ์•ก์„ 1500 rpm์œผ๋กœ ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ ์ƒ๋“ฑ์•ก์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์‹คํ—˜์€ Jar-test์˜ ํ˜•์‹์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, JM ๋ฐฐ์ง€ 1 L์— ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์™€ ์ œ์กฐ๋œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ—˜ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 0 ~ 50 mg/L์„ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—๋Š” 150 rpm์œผ๋กœ 2๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๊ธ‰์†๊ต๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด ํ›„์—๋Š” ์‹คํ—˜๊ณ„ํš์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 30 rpm์œผ๋กœ ์™„์†๊ต๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ต๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ์•ก์„ 30๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์นจ์ „์‹œํ‚จ ํ›„ 2500 rpm์œผ๋กœ 20๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์›์‹ฌ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•œ ํ›„ ์ƒ๋“ฑ์•ก์„ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ๋งํ•˜์—ฌ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์ˆ˜์— ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๏ฝฅ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ฌผ์˜ ์ œ๊ฑฐ์œจ์„ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. pH๊ฐ€ ์‘์ง‘ํšจ์œจ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž NaCl๊ณผ H2SO4๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 1 ~ 12๊นŒ์ง€ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

2.2. Analytical methods

๊ด‘๋Ÿ‰์€ ์กฐ๋„๊ณ„(HOBO-Light Intensity, Onset Computer, USA)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์กฐ๋„๊ณ„๋Š” LI-193SA ์„ผ์„œ์™€ LI-1400 ๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณ„(Li-COR, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜์ ์กฐ์ •์„ ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ธก์ • ์‹œ ์„ผ์„œ์œ„์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค‘๊ด‘๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ธก์ •๋œ ๊ด‘๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ด‘ํšจ์œจ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค์˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Ÿ‰์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ฑด์ค‘๋Ÿ‰์€ 10 mL์˜ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ GF/C(Watmann, ์˜๊ตญ)๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ณผํ•œ ํ›„ 105ยฐC์—์„œ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด์กฐํ•œ ํ›„ ๊ทธ ์งˆ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํšจ์œจ์€ ์นจ์ „ ํ›„์— ์ƒ๋“ฑ์•ก์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ์ฑ„์ทจํ•˜์—ฌ spectrophotometer(Beckman Coulter, model DU 730)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ด‘ ๋ฐ€๋„๋ฅผ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค(APHA, 2012). ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํšจ์œจ์€ ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

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์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ODto๋Š” ์‘์ง‘์ „์˜ ๊ด‘ ๋ฐ€๋„์ด๋ฉฐ, ODt๋Š” ์‘์ง‘ ํ›„์˜ ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ์นจ์ „ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ด‘ ๋ฐ€๋„ ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹คํ—˜์€ 5๋ฒˆ ์‹ค์‹œํ•˜์—ฌ ํ‰๊ท  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Sericite์— ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ์  ์–‘์  ๋ถ„์„์€ X-ray fluorescence(XRF-1500, Shimadzu, Japan)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. sericite์˜ ์–‘์€ ์ „์ž์ €์šธ(XP26, Mettler Toledo, Swiss)๋กœ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, pH๋Š” pH meter(SevenGO pro, Mettler Toledo)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

3. Results

3.1. Various Mg/Si mol ratio

๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ Mg/Si์˜ mol ๋น„์œจ์ด ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ Fig. 1์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. 0.25 Mg/Si mol ๋น„์œจ์—์„œ 63%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ธ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด 1 ~ 1.75์˜ ๋น„์œจ์—์„œ 95%์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๋Œ€์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์€ 1.25์™€ 1.5์—์„œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 97%์™€ 98%๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์–ด Si๋ณด๋‹ค Mg์ด 1.25 ๋˜๋Š” 1.5๋ฐฐ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์— ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๋น„์œจ์ด์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ํ‘œ๋ฉด์€ ์Œ์ด์˜จ์„ ๋ ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์–‘์ด์˜จ์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์‘์ง‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2๊ฐ€ ํ˜น์€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ ์–‘์ด์˜จ์ด ์ฒจ๊ฐ€๋˜๋ฉด ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์‘์ง‘, ์นจ์ „๋œ๋‹ค. ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ์€ ์–‘์ด์˜จ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ต์—ญํ™œ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ Van der Waals์˜ ํž˜์— ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์–‘์ด์˜จ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค(Farooq et al., 2013; Reddy et al., 2013). Fig. 1์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด Mg/Si์˜ mol ๋น„์œจ์ด 2์ด์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” Mg์˜ ์–‘๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์‘์ง‘์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ต์—ญํ™œ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” Si์˜ ์–‘์ด ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜์—ฌ Sericite-Mg-๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์‘์ง‘์ด ์•ฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Fig. 1.

Separation efficiency by various Mg/Si mol ratio(C. vulgaris concentration 4.35 g/L, pH 10, mixing time 20 min, settling time 20 min)

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3.2. Different concentration of microalgae

3.1์˜ ์‹คํ—˜๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Mg/Si ๋น„๊ฐ€ 1.5์ผ ๋•Œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋†๋„์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Fig. 2์— C. vulgaris์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋†๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. C. vulgaris์˜ ๋†๋„๋Š” 0.2์—์„œ 50 g/L๊นŒ์ง€ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์‹คํ—˜๊ฒฐ๊ณผ C. vulgaris 1 g/L์ดํ•˜์˜ ์ €๋†๋„์—์„œ 80 ยฑ 3%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ  ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, 3.5 ยฑ 0.3 ~ 9.5 ยฑ 0.4 g/L์˜ ๋†๋„์—์„œ 90%์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๊ณ , 4.0 ยฑ 0.3 ~ 8.5 ยฑ 0.4 g/L์˜ ๋†๋„์—์„œ๋Š” 95%์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, 5 ยฑ 0.2 ~ 8 ยฑ 0.3 g/L์˜ ๋†๋„์—์„œ๋Š” 98 ยฑ 1% ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ1.5 Mg/Si mol ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ํšจ์œจ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” C. vulgaris์˜ ๋†๋„๋Š” 5 ยฑ 0.2 ~ 8 ยฑ 0.3 g/L์˜ ๋†๋„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. C. vulgaris์˜ ๋†๋„๊ฐ€ 10 g/L ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ ์ฐจ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ณธ ์‹คํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” C. vulgaris์˜ ๋†๋„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ ์ž Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘์„ 10 mg/L๋กœ ๊ณ ์ •ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ์˜ ์–‘์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์‹œํ‚ฌ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. Mg-Sericite์™€ C. vulgaris๋†๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” 3.3์— ์‹คํ—˜๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Fig. 2.

Separation efficiency by different microalgae concentration (Mg/Si mol ratio: 1.5, Mg-Sericite dose: 10 mg/L, pH: 10, mixing time 20min and settling time 20 min)

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3.3. Relationship between microalgae concentration and Mg-Sericite dosage

Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„์™€์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ Fig. 3์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 95% ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ์„ ๋•Œ์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„์ด๋‹ค. Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘์€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„๊ฐ€ 1 g/L ์ดํ•˜์ผ ๋•Œ๋Š” 20 ~ 23 mg/L, 1 ~ 5 g/L ์—์„œ๋Š” 12 ~ 20 mg/L, 5 ~ 9 g/L๋Š” 12 ~ 15 mg/L, 9 ~ 11 g/L๋Š” 15 ~ 23 mg/L๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 12.5 g/L ์™€ 15 g/L์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ 95%์ด์ƒ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ 30 mg/L์™€ 40 mg/L์˜ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„ 5 ยฑ 0.2 ~ 8 ยฑ 0.3 g/L ์ผ ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ์€ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘์ด(์•ฝ 10 mg/L) ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋•Œ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์€ 98%์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ์˜ ์–‘๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ 50 g/L์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ 97% ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” 60 mg/L์˜ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ์˜ ์–‘์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ 1 g/L ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด 1 ~ 10 g/L์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์–‘์˜ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด 1 g/L ์ดํ•˜์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‘์ง‘์ œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์œ ๊ธฐํƒ„์†Œ์› ๋“ฑ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์งํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ 100 g/L๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ผœ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•œ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” 0.9991๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„์™€ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘๊ณผ์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์•˜๋‹ค.

Fig. 3.

Relationship between Mg-Sericite dosage and C. vulgaris concentration(Mg/Si mol ratio 1.5, Separation efficiency >95%, pH 10, mixing time 20 min and settling time 20 min)

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3.4. Different pH

์‘์ง‘์€ ๋ถ€์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž…์ž๋“ค์„ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ต๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ํฐ ํ”Œ๋ก์˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ณผ์ •์ด๋‹ค. ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํ”Œ๋ก์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•œ ์ž…์ž๋Š” ์šฉ์•ก ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค(Gerde et al., 2014). ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‘์ง‘์€ ๊ต๋ฐ˜, pH, ์ˆ˜์˜จ, ์•Œ์นผ๋ฆฌ๋„, ์‘์ง‘์ œ์˜ ์ข…๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์—ฌ๋Ÿ‰์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค(Papazi et al., 2010). Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ pH๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ Fig. 4์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. pH 6์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 50%์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‘์ง‘๋ฅ ์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ pH 9์ด์ƒ ์—์„œ๋Š” 98%์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๊ณ , pH 12์—์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด 95%๋กœ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ตœ์ ์˜ pH๋Š” 9 ~ 11์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜€๋‹ค. pH์™€ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” pH๊ฐ€ 2 ์ผ ๋•Œ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์•ฝ 30๋ถ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ pH 9 ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ๋Š” ์•ฝ 5๋ถ„ ์ •๋„์˜ ์นจ์ „ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, pH๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์งง์•˜๋‹ค.

Fig. 4.

Relationship between pH and settling time(Mg/Si mol ratio: 1.5, mixing time 20 min)

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3.5. Different mixing time and settling time

Fig. 5์— ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„ 20๋ถ„๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„ 20๋ถ„์—์„œ 99%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„20๋ถ„ ํ›„์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. 20๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ์— ์‘์ง‘์ œ์™€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ธ ๋ฉด์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ตœ์  ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ 20๋ถ„์ด์˜€๋‹ค. ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์–‘์ƒ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ 5๋ถ„, 10๋ถ„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  15๋ถ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 53%, 75% ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  95%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„ 20๋ถ„์—์„œ๋Š” 99%์˜ ์นจ์ „์œจ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์–ด ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ 20๋ถ„์˜ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ตœ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Fig. 5.

Separation efficiency by different mixing time(Mg/Si mol ratio: 1.5, Mg-Sericite dosage: 10 mg/L, pH: 10)

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4. Discussion

Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์•ก์ƒ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ Mg์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ต์—ญํ™œ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ sericite์™€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ฐฉ ์‘์ง‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์‘์ง‘๊ณผ์ •์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‘์ง‘์€ ํ™”ํ•™์ ์ธ ๊ณต์ •์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํก์ฐฉ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์–‘์ „ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ํ‘œ๋ฉด์ด ์Œ์ „ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์™€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์นจ์ „ํ•œ๋‹ค(Farooq et al., 2013; Reddy et al., 2013).

์„ ํ–‰์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด(Reddy et al., 2013) Mg๊ณผ Sericite๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์‘์ง‘์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 52%์™€ 40%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํšจ์œจ์„ ํš๋“ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” Mg๊ณผ Sericite๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ Mg-Sericite๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‘์ง‘ํšจ์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์ €๋†๋„์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ๋งŽ์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๋†๋„์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฎ์•˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ ํ–‰์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ ์ž ์ €๋†๋„์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค(Lee et al., 2009; Moreno-Garrido, 2008; Salim et al., 2011). Vandamme et al. (2013)์€ Kaloine ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 1 g/L์ดํ•˜์˜ Chlorella vulgaris๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ 55%์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, Carlos (2014)๋Š” cationic starch๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 68%์˜ Chlorella protothecoides ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ Mg-Sericite์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” 1 g/L ์ดํ•˜์˜ ์ €๋†๋„์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ 80%์ด์ƒ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Semerjian and Ayoub (2003)์€ Mg์ด ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” pH 10.5 ~ 11.0์ด ์ตœ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, Vandamme et al. (2013)์€ Mg oxide๊ฐ€ ์นจ์ „์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ์ œ๋กœ ํ•˜์ ์€ pH 11.0์ด๋ผ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํ‘œ๋ฉด ์ „ํ•˜์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ž…์ž๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์‘์ง‘ ํšจ์œจ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค. ์„ ํ–‰์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด Mg2+, Ca2+ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์† ์ด์˜จ์€ pH๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฏธ์„ธ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค(Vandamme et al., 2012). ์ฆ‰, ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ฐฐ์ง€์—์„œ ์„ ํƒ๋œ ๊ธˆ์† ์ด์˜จ์„ ์‘์ง‘ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ•˜๋ฅผ ์ค‘ํ™”, ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์Œ์ „ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋„๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์„ธ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์„ธํฌ๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์นจ์ „๋ฌผ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ sericite๋Š” pH 8 ~ 9์ •๋„์˜ ์•Œ์นผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‘์ง‘์ œ์˜ ์–‘์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฉ์•ก์˜ pH๋Š” ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ pH ์กฐ์ ˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์•Œ์นผ๋ฆฌ ์•ฝํ’ˆ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž…์€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. Papazi et al. (2010)์€ Al2(SO4)3 1000 mg/L์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ C. vulgaris๋ฅผ 60% ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ Lee et al. (2013) ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ํ† ๊ด‘๋ฌผ(organo-clay)์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 30๋ถ„์•ˆ์— Chlorella sp.๋ฅผ 100% ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ Mg-Sericite ๋˜ํ•œ 20 ๋ถ„์•ˆ์— 99%์˜ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํšจ์œจ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” organo/inorgano clay๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ดˆ์ŒํŒŒ, ์‘๊ณ , ์—ฌ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ์›์‹ฌ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜ํ™• ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๋˜ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ ๋‹ค(Lee et al., 2009; Salim et al., 2011). ๋˜ํ•œ, ์•Œ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋Š„ ์—ผ, ์•„์—ฐ ์—ผ ๋ฐ ์ฒ ์—ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ข…์ข… ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž”๋ฅ˜๋ฌผ์งˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์˜ค์—ผ ๋ฌธ์ œ ๋ฐ ์žฌ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค(Salim et al., 2011; ลžirin et al., 2012; Show and Lee, 2014). Catonic poly acryl amide, catonic starch ๋ฐ chitosan ๋“ฑ์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ๋…์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋ถ„ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ํ‚คํ† ์‚ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 10 $/kg, ์ „๋ถ„์€ 1 ~ 3 $/kg ๋กœ ๊ณ ๋น„์šฉ์ด๋‹ค(Show and Lee, 2014; Vandamme et al., 2013). ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋Š” ์•ฝ 0.18 $/kg ์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์นœํ™”์ ์ด์—ฌ์„œ ์žฌ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ Mg-Sericite๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ž”๋ฅ˜ Mg์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋™๋ฌผ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„๋กœ์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋™๋ฌผ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋กญ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ(Becker, 2004; Habib and Parvin, 2008) ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋””์ ค๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๋‹ค(IEA, 2014; Lee et al., 2013)

5. Conclusion

Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‘์ง‘ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค

1) Mg/Si์˜ ์ตœ์  ๋ชฐ ๋น„์œจ์€ 1.25 ~ 1.50์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋•Œ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋ฅ ์€ 95% ์ด์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

2) Mg-Sericite ์‘์ง‘์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๊ต๋ฐ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ ์นจ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ„ 20๋ถ„, pH๋Š” 9 ~ 11์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

3) Mg-Serictie์˜ ์–‘๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋†๋„์™€์˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” 0.9991๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ์˜ ๋†๋„๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ Mg-Sericite์˜ ์–‘๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

4) Mg-Sericite๋Š” ์ €๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์‘์ง‘ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ฏธ์„ธ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์˜ค์ผ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค.

Acknowledgements

๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผํ•™์ž ์ง€์›์‚ฌ์—…(2013006899)์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰๋œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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