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About Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
The Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment (KoSSGE). Established in 1996, the journal aims to contribute to social benefit by promoting the efficient development and proper conservation of environmental resources through scholarly publication. The journal also fosters communication among academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations involved in addressing soil and groundwater environmental challenges.
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Review
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Feedstock Availability and Supply Potential for Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW)-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Focus on South Korea
강화 암석 풍화(ERW) 기반 탄소 제거 기술의 원료 가용성 및 공급 잠재력: 국내 적용을 중심으로
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KangHee Cho, SangRae Kim, SeongJik Park, JinChul Joo, NagChoul Choi
조강희, 김상래, 박성직, 주진철, 최낙철
- Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a promising carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology that accelerates natural silicate weathering processes to achieve long-term atmospheric …
- Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a promising carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology that accelerates natural silicate weathering processes to achieve long-term atmospheric CO2 sequestration. However, many ERW studies rely on readily available feedstocks without fully accounting for the stoichiometric limitations of carbonate minerals or the site-specific environmental constraints. In South Korea, large-scale ERW deployment is further constrained by the predominance of granitic bedrock and the scarcity of highly reactive natural basic rocks such as basalt. To address these challenges, this review distinguishes silicate weathering from carbonate dissolution and assesses the domestic availability and supply potential of industrial by-products, including blast furnace slag, steelmaking slag, and ferronickel slag as synthetic silicate alternatives. Although Korea’s steel and cement industries provide logistical and life-cycle advantages, over 96% of slags are already utilized in other sectors, creating a bottleneck for ERW scalability and necessitating national-level resource optimization. Beyond resource constraints, this review highlights socio-economic trade-offs between short-term agricultural co-benefits and long-term CDR goals, along with risks associated with trace metal leaching. Overall, successful ERW deployment in South Korea requires an interdisciplinary framework integrating resource management, ecological safety, and measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems. - COLLAPSE
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Feedstock Availability and Supply Potential for Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW)-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Focus on South Korea
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Research Article
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Effects of Cations on the Adsorption of Tetracycline onto Powdered Activated Carbon
양이온이 분말활성탄의 Tetracycline 흡착 특성에 미치는 영향
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Mingyeong Choe, Seoungho Jo, Jaewon Park, Dogun Kim, Seokoh Ko
최민경, 조성호, 박재원, 김도군, 고석오
- Effective control of tetracycline (TC) has been required because it is frequently detected in water environments, posing substantial threats. Activated carbon (AC) …
- Effective control of tetracycline (TC) has been required because it is frequently detected in water environments, posing substantial threats. Activated carbon (AC) adsorption is one of the most widely used in TC removal. However, the cations, ubiquitous in water environment, such as groundwater, can significantly affect the performance. Therefore, the effects of cations on TC adsorption by a powdered AC (PAC) were investigated. Results showed that cations affected not only adsorption rate and capacity, but also thermodynamics. 0.1−10 mM K+ and Ca2+ did not affect the adsorption. However, it was significantly improved by 0.1-0.5 mM Na+ or Mg2+, up to 32.4−45.5%. Adsorption rate and equilibrium adsorption amount were: Na+ > Mg2+ > Control, at all temperatures. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model, intraparticle diffusion model, and Langmuir isotherm provided good fits to experimental results, suggesting that the adsorption was affected by saturation, chemical adsorption, and diffusion, while it was homogeneous and monolayer adsorption onto limited sites. The adsorption was spontaneous and endothermic, and its activation energy and enthalpy were changed by and Mg2+. It is believed that this study is useful for establishing optimum operation conditions of adsorption processes, considering the cations in the influent. - COLLAPSE
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Effects of Cations on the Adsorption of Tetracycline onto Powdered Activated Carbon
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Research Article
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Hydraulic and Hydrochemical Characterization of Hydrogeological Units in South Korea: National-scale Statistical Analysis
국내 수문지질단위의 수리 및 수리지화학적 특성 평가: 전국 규모 통계 분석
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Soonyoung Yu, Jaehoon Jung, Jize Piao, Ho-rim Kim, Sang-Ho Moon, Hyoung Chan Kim, Yongcheol Kim, Heejun Suk, Hee Sun Moon, Kyung-Seok Ko, Kyoochul Ha
유순영, 정재훈, 박길택, 김호림, 문상호, 김형찬, 김용철, 석희준, 문희선, 고경석, 하규철
- Hydrogeological units, which control groundwater storage and flow, provide important information for groundwater development and management. However, the quantitative assessment of the …
- Hydrogeological units, which control groundwater storage and flow, provide important information for groundwater development and management. However, the quantitative assessment of the hydraulic or hydrochemical properties of each unit remains challenging on a national scale due to geological heterogeneity and limited well data. This study aimed to identify differences in the hydraulic (specific capacity[SC] and transmissivity[T]) and hydrochemical (HCO3− and F− concentrations) properties among 12 hydrogeological units in South Korea. The hydrogeological units were reclassified by lithology, geologic age, or the metamorphic protoliths in each major river basin and compiled into a unified map. Their hydraulic and hydrochemical differences were evaluated using the Tukey-Kramer post hoc test following one-way ANOVA. SC and T were high in unconsolidated clastic sediments and low in Permian-Triassic intrusive igneous rocks in alluvial aquifers. For bedrock aquifers, SC and T were high in metamorphosed sedimentary rocks and orthogneisses and low in Cretaceous-Paleogene and Permian-Triassic igneous rocks. Meanwhile, they were high in Jurassic igneous rocks and low in schists & paragneisses. HCO3− was high in clastic sedimentary rocks and carbonate rocks in both aquifers, whereas F− was high in metamorphosed sedimentary rocks and Permian-Triassic igneous rocks in alluvial aquifers, and in Cretaceous-Paleogene and Jurassic igneous rocks in bedrock aquifers. The results demonstrated the validity of subdividing igneous and metamorphic rocks according to geologic age. Overall, hydrogeological units better explained hydraulic and hydrochemical characteristics in bedrock aquifers than in alluvial aquifers. These national-scale results can help identify aquifers with high groundwater yield potential and support detailed regional hydrogeological mapping. - COLLAPSE
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Hydraulic and Hydrochemical Characterization of Hydrogeological Units in South Korea: National-scale Statistical Analysis
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