Patents Assigned to Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
  • Patent number: 9268051
    Abstract: Provided are a system for acquiring chirp data for profiling the shallow sedimentary layers and a method for acquiring chirp data using the same, and more particularly, a system for acquiring chirp data which includes a new apparatus capable of recording chirp raw data and manufactures a high-resolution raw section preserving polarity and phase information using the recorded chirp raw data to enhance continuity and resolution of the sedimentary layers and a method for acquiring chirp data using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Young Jun Kim, Nam Hyung Koo, Snons Cheong, Jong Hwa Chun, Dong Keun Yoo
  • Publication number: 20160047724
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a test apparatus for early landslide detection fully-connected with pore water pressure, surface displacement and shear surface. The test apparatus calculates a factor of safety of a slope based on variation in pore water pressure, surface displacement and shear surface of a soil mass, and predicts a change in factor of safety, thus making early landslide detection possible. In the test apparatus, while a container of a slider is moved with a soil mass loaded into the container, shear surface and surface displacement environment is provided, and the shear strength and the shear stress of the soil mass can be calculated based on the pore water pressure and the weight of the soil mass. Thereby, the factor of safety of the soil mass can be calculated, and early landslide detection can be realized by using variation of the factor of safety of the slope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resource
    Inventors: Sueng Won JEONG, Choon Oh LEE, Kyeong-Su KIM, Byung-Gon CHAE, Young-Suk SONG, Junghae CHOI
  • Patent number: 9238854
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing carbide and carbon nitride powders containing a binder, and cermet obtained from the same. The method includes preparing Ti—Ni alloy powders for Ti alloy powders and graphite, planetary-pulverizing the Ti—Ni alloy powders and the graphite, mortar-pulverizing the alloy powders and the graphite which are subject to the planetary-pulverizing, and performing heat treatment for the Ti—Ni alloy powders and the graphite that are pulverized. Cermet, which is made of the composite powders of carbide and carbon nitride/metal including both TiC which is ceramic material and Ni which is metal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Han-Jung Kwon, Sun-A Jung, Sung-Wook Cho, Dae-Sup Kil, Ji-Woong Kim, Ki-Min Roh, Jae-Won Lim
  • Patent number: 9227197
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a simplified valuable mineral sorting apparatus including, a first storage tank which accommodates a mixture of water and heavy powder and includes a specific gravity measurement module; a second storage tank accommodating a portion of the mixture exceeding a capacity level line of the first storage tank; a first discharge tube which is connected to the first storage tank and the second storage tank to introduce the excess portion of the mixture into the second storage tank, and which is positioned at the capacity level line of the first storage tank; a second discharge tube which is connected to the first storage tank to discharge the mixture in the first storage tank and which includes a flow rate control module; a specific gravity sorting device which includes a sorting container for receiving the mixture discharged from the second discharge tube and which changes a slope of the sorting container to sort minerals from the mixture in the sorting container; and a control unit for controll
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventor: Hyeoncheol Kim
  • Patent number: 9222774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a clinocompass for measuring a strike and a dip on an irregular geological outcrop and a method of measuring the strike and the dip by using the same. Since the level meter of the clinometer is supported by providing a support force and a fixing force on an irregular geological outcrop having no exposed flat plane, the clinocompass serves as a supporting member or a fixing member for the measurement of the strike and the dip on an irregular geological outcrop having no exposed flat plane. Accordingly, the clinocompass has a structure to measure the strike and the dip suitable for the geological structure and the orientation of the outcrop having no exposed flat plane, so that the strike and the dip are usefully measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Raehee Han, Ki-Sung Sung, Jeong-Chan Kim
  • Patent number: 9207226
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for analyzing drilled submarine sediment on a ship. The apparatus includes: a core temperature measuring unit measuring temperatures of each portion of the drilled core positioned on a ship; a gas content analyzing unit analyzing a kind and a content of gases included in a submarine sediment sample collected from the drilled core in a state in which it is positioned on the ship; and a salinity measuring unit measuring salinity of the submarine sediment sample collected from the drilled core in a state in which it is positioned on the ship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Chun, Jang Jun Bahk, Byong Jae Ryu
  • Patent number: 9200347
    Abstract: Provided is a recycling method for producing calcite and ammonium sulfate having a high purity of at least 95% and generated by means of a carbonation reaction for fixing carbon dioxide inside the crystal structure of a mineral, and in which waste gypsum is reacted with carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, such that the carbon dioxide is fixed as a stable mineral, and high-purity calcite and ammonium sulfate are produced as resultant products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Young Nam Jang, Kyung Won Ryu, Myung Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9192970
    Abstract: Provided is a banking structure using a rock producing acid drainage. The banking structure includes a banking layer including the rock having acid drainage production possibility and an inhibitor for reducing acid drainage production potential of the rock, a capillary breaker layer stacked between a lower portion of the banking layer and an underground water level surface to prevent underground water from being introduced into the banking layer by a capillary phenomenon, and a finishing layer stacked on an upper portion of the banking layer according to a use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES (KIGAM)
    Inventors: Jae Gon Kim, Young Suk Song, Chul Min Chon, In Hyun Nam, Jin Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 9194019
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for recovery of valuable metals. The apparatus includes an electrolytic chlorine producing bath, a dissolution bath disposed at a rear side of the electrolytic chlorine producing bath to perform leaching of a valuable metal content, a gas supplier connected to the dissolution bath to supply a carrier gas, a collection bath disposed at the rear side of the dissolution bath to collect a volatile material, a separation bath separating and purifying a leaching reactant generated in the dissolution bath, and chlorine and sodium hydroxide recirculation lines connecting the electrolytic chlorine producing bath, the dissolution bath and the separation bath. The apparatus permits recovery of valuable metals according to characteristics of the valuable metal, and the chlorine and sodium hydroxide recirculation lines of the apparatus provides optimized recovery rate and efficiency, thereby realizing economic feasibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Min-Seuk Kim, Jae-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20150323363
    Abstract: There is provided a water exchange meter being capable of automatically and continuously measuring the water exchange at the surface water/sediment interface in which a saturated vertical hydraulic conductivity of the sediment from the hydraulic head difference between a chamber and a storage pipe at a measurement location is measured, and after the measurement of the saturated vertical hydraulic conductivity, while the measurement device used in the measurement of the vertical hydraulic conductivity is maintained, a vertical hydraulic gradient between upper and lower portions of a chamber is continuously measured in situ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Bong Joo LEE, Ji-Hoon LEE, Heesung YOON, Eunhee LEE
  • Patent number: 9174184
    Abstract: An apparatus of producing a carbonate mineral includes a first reaction device including a fluid path along which an ion exchange solution moves; a cation exchange medium disposed in the fluid path, the cation exchange medium containing an alkaline earth metal; a second reaction device accommodating a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution and receiving the ion exchange solution containing an alkaline earth metal ion from the first reaction device; and a carbon dioxide supplying device supplying a carbon dioxide to the second aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Il-Mo Kang, Se-Jung Chi, Yun-Goo Song, In-Joon Kim, Gwang-Min Jin
  • Patent number: 9174196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetite-birnessite mixture, to a synthesis method therefor, and to a water-treatment method using the same. The magnetite-birnessite mixture synthesis method according to the present invention includes: a first synthesis step in which magnetite is synthesized; a second synthesis step in which manganese is made to adsorb onto the surface of the magnetite by supplying manganese while maintaining a basic state in the presence of the magnetite, and then synthesizing birnessite on the surface of the magnetite by supplying an oxidizing agent and sodium, thereby synthesizing a mixture in which magnetite and birnessite are bound together; and a purification step in which the mixture of magnetite and birnessite is purified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES (KIGAM)
    Inventors: Jae-Gon Kim, Chul-Min Chun, Ho-Cheol Song, In-Hyun Nam, Dong-Wan Cho, Se-Eun Chang
  • Patent number: 9162200
    Abstract: Disclosed is provided a method of injecting and reacting super-critical phase CO2 without pressure loss. The method includes preparing gas phase CO2, producing liquid phase CO2 by pressurizing the prepared gas phase CO2, producing super-critical phase CO2 by adjusting a temperature of the produced liquid phase CO2, filling incompressible fluid in a reactor and an injection line from an injection unit and pressurizing the incompressible fluid, injecting the produced super-critical phase CO2 into the reactor, and controlling a pressure of the injected super-critical phase CO2 by a pressure regulating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Jun-Ho Oh, Kue-Young Kim, Tae-Hee Kim, Kwon-Gyu Park
  • Patent number: 9145737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coring system considering a tilt of a coring part and a method of compensating for a depth of a coring part using the same. A coring system according to the present invention includes: a coring part with a core to be filled with an object to be cored; a driving unit controlling upward/downward movement of the coring part; a rope connecting the coring part with the driving unit; and a tilt meter measuring a tilt of the coring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Moo Hee Kang, Gee Soo Kong, Kyong O Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Young Ho Yoon, Chang Sik Lee, Kyu Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 9128021
    Abstract: Disclosed is a holder for measuring a permeability of an unconsolidated sediment. The holder includes a sediment installation part having a solid sediment attached to opposite ends of an unconsolidated sediment along a longitudinal direction; a transverse pressure supply part installed to surround the sediment installation part to supply a predetermined transverse pressure to the sediment installation part by using a fluid supplied from the outside; and a longitudinal pressure supply part installed at opposite ends of the transverse pressure supply part to cover opposite ends of the sediment installation part to be moved along a vertical direction so as to supply a predetermined longitudinal pressure to the sediment installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Jun-Ho Oh, Kue-Young Kim, Tae-Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 9126068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of treating a strong basic aluminum production waste. The method includes preparing an aluminum production waste; and mixing the aluminum production waste with gypsum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Pyeong-Koo Lee, Sang-Woo Ji
  • Patent number: 9121392
    Abstract: A geothermal power generation system using heat exchange between working fluid and molten salt includes a heat collecting unit. A plurality of molten salt containing units are disposed in the ground at predetermined intervals from each other. A heat exchanging unit transfers a heat source of the heat collecting unit to the molten salt in the plurality of molten salt containing units. A plurality of working fluid containing units respectively surround the molten salt containing units and are disposed in the ground at predetermined intervals from each other. A turbine unit is connected to the plurality of working fluid containing units, and generates mechanical energy using steam energy that is generated by the plurality of working fluid containing units. A power generating unit is connected to the turbine unit, and generates electrical energy using the mechanical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Byoung Ohan Shim, Hyoung Chan Kim, Chanhee Park
  • Patent number: 9102555
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for removing phosphorus and nitrogen contained in sewage or wastewater using iron ore wastewater. According to the method of the present invention, in which the phosphorus and nitrogen contained in sewage or wastewater are crystallized in the form of struvite using iron ore wastewater containing a large amount of Mg2+ produced in a process of upgrading low-grade iron ore and removed, it is possible to reduce the cost of Mg2+ and the cost of iron ore wastewater treatment, thereby earning economic profits. Moreover, it is possible to prevent water pollution by the removal of the phosphorus and nitrogen contained in sewage or wastewater. Furthermore, it is possible to use struvite crystals obtained as a by-product as a time-release compound fertilizer so as to reduce the amount of fertilizer used and the number of fertilizations, thereby reducing soil contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Yong Jae Suh, Myung Eun Ju, Dae Sup Kil, Hee Dong Jang
  • Patent number: 9091778
    Abstract: Disclosed are an earthquake monitoring device and a method of installing the same, which can permit stable and efficient installation and operation on any ground surface with free-field conditions including level and sloped ground conditions, and can provide precise monitoring results of earthquakes. The earthquake monitoring device includes a sensor for sensing vibration; and a base having an upper surface formed into a leveled surface, wherein the sensor is secured to the upper surface, and the base is placed on an excavated ground such that the upper surface of the base is positioned on a ground surface or the sensor on the upper surface of the base intersects the ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Chang-Guk Sun, Geun-Young Kim, Chang-Soo Cho, Jung-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9079055
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of removing asbestos from an asbestos-containing material by 99% through low temperature heat treatment. The method includes mixing an asbestos-containing material with an oxalic acid at a weight ratio in a range of 1:0.002 to 1:1 and performing heat treatment with respect to a mixture at a temperature of 90° C. to 110° C. to remove asbestos from the asbestos-containing material by 99% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Young-Nam Jang, Soo-Chun Chae, Myung-Kyu Lee, Hye-In Won, Kyoung-Won Ryu