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A Study on Utilization of Waste Organic Matter for Slope Protection

비탈면보호를 위한 폐유기물질의 활용성에 대한 연구

  • Received : 2015.02.02
  • Accepted : 2015.03.16
  • Published : 2015.04.01
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Abstract

Coffee consumption in Korea has been currently growing every year, and as a result, approximately 0.2 million tons of Spent Coffee Grounds (SCG) are being created every year. SCG, which is waste organic material, is often classified as food waste and an annual amount of 0.27 million ton is discarded while containing moisture and provoking serious environmental issue. Physico-chemical characteristics of SCG were analyzed in this study and medium and long-term growth experiments were conducted in order to evaluate its utilization potential. According to the experiment results, mixing SCG into the previous base material resulted in accelerated germination and growth in the mid-term compared to previous base material alone, despite slower germination or growth in early stage. Especially, it showed lower withering rate and decrease in various symptoms that are caused by nutrition shortage in case of discontinued sprinkling, etc., compared to the previous base material. Hence, while SCG has a feature of hindering early development due to its feature of waste organic material that is rich in nitrogen, its benefit for long-term growth coming its moisturizing ability and supply of organic matter was confirmed in the study. On balance, SCG is believed to be a material that can replace or complement the previous base materials.

현재 우리나라의 커피소비량은 매년 증가하는 추세에 있으며 이에 따라 연간 약 20만 톤의 커피박(Spent Coffee Grounds, SCG)이 발생되고 있으며 SCG는 폐유기물질로 대부분 음식물쓰레기로 분리되어 연간 27만 톤이 수분이 함유된 채로 버려져 심각한 환경적 이슈가 되고 있는 현실이다. 본 연구에서는 커피박의 활용가능성을 평가하기 위해 이화학적 특성분석과 중장기 생육실험을 수행하였으며, 실험결과 기존의 기반재에 SCG를 혼합하는 경우 보습력의 증가와 유기물함량의 보강으로 초기발아나 초기생육은 기존 기반재에 비해 저조하나 중기적으로 발아와 성장이 촉진되는 현상을 보이며 특히 관수중단 등의 상황에서 기존 기반재에 비해 고사율이 낮고 양분의 부족으로 인한 여러 현상이 줄어들고 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 SCG는 질소성분이 풍부한 폐유기물로 초기성장을 저해하는 특성이 있으나 보습능력과 유기물의 공급으로 장기생장에 유리한 성질을 가지고 있는 것으로 확인되어 기존의 기반재를 대체하거나 보완할 수 있는 재료인 것으로 판단된다.

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