Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of measuring porosity and permeability of a carbon dioxide underground storage medium. Both of the porosity and the permeability are measured in the state that the confining pressure is applied once. The variation characteristic in the porosity and the permeability of the core sample according to the salt precipitation occurring when supercritical carbon dioxide is injected is continuously measured. The apparatus includes a holder receiving a core sample, a pressure pump applying a confining pressure to the core sample, a gas chamber storing gas and supplying supply the stored gas to the core sample, first to third pressure gauges measuring an internal pressure of the gas chamber and front and rear portions of the holder, and a gas flow meter measuring a flow rate of gas.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 22, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 22, 2016
Assignee:
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of detoxifying asbestos by using a room-temperature recrystallization scheme. The method includes heat-treating a rock or slate containing asbestos; and putting the heat-treated rock or slate in an aqueous solution, to which organic acid is added, to allow the heat-treated rock or slate to react with the aqueous solution having the organic acid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 26, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 15, 2016
Assignee:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
Inventors:
Young-Nam Jang, Soo-Chun Chae, Myung-Kyu Lee
Abstract: A permeameter for in-situ measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity is presented. The permeameter includes a chamber fixedly installed into streambed sediment such that the inside of the chamber is filled with a medium, sediment at water-sediment interface. First and second hydraulic head-measuring lines are respectively connected to upper and lower portions of an outer circumferential surface of the chamber, these are designed for measuring a hydraulic head difference of the inside of the chamber. A flexible tube is interconnected the chamber with the storage pipe. A storage pipe is designed to regulate a hydraulic head difference from the chamber and to measure a quantity and a flow rate of water introduced from the chamber under the streambed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 10, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2016
Assignee:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing mesoporous silica particles. The method includes (a) preparing an aqueous silicic acid, (b) spraying the aqueous silicic acid in a droplet state by activating the aqueous silicic acid, and (c) pyrolyzing the sprayed droplet through a reactor, which is previously heated, by allowing the sprayed droplet to pass through the reactor together with a carrier gas. The aqueous silicic acid includes 0.4 M to 0.8 M of silicic acid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 14, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2016
Assignee:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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