Jong Moon Park
Pohang University of Science and Technology · 工学
研究室紹介
Professor Jong Moon Park's research lab specializes in environmental biotechnology and sustainable materials science, focusing on the development of bio-based solutions for wastewater treatment and carbon capture. The lab investigates biosorption and bioremediation using microbial and algal biomass to remove heavy metals like chromium and ammonia from industrial effluents. A key research direction involves understanding the molecular mechanisms of metal binding and reduction using natural biomaterials such as protonated brown algae and Chlorella vulgaris. The lab also explores the integration of microalgae systems with industrial processes to simultaneously treat wastewater and sequester CO2 from flue gas.
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Selected Papers
15Biosorption has attracted attention as a cost-effective means for the treatment of metal-bearing wastewater. However, the mechanism of metal binding is not clearly understood, and consequently, modeling of the biosorption performance is still raising debates. In this study, the biosorption of trivalent chromium was investigated with protonated brown alga Ecklonia biomass as a model system. Titration of the biomass revealed that it contains at least three types of functional groups. The Fourier t
Chlorella vulgaris was cultivated in wastewater discharged from a steel-making plant with the aim of developing an economically feasible system to remove ammonia from wastewater and CO2 from flue gas simultaneously. Since no phosphorus compounds existed in wastewater, external phosphate (15·3–46·0 g m−3) was added to the wastewater. After adaptation to 5% (v/v) CO2, the growth of C. vulgaris was significantly improved at a typical concentration of CO2 in flue gas of 15% (v/v). Growth of C. vulga
A new type of biomass, protonated brown seaweed Ecklonia sp., was used for the removal of Cr(VI). When synthetic wastewater containing Cr(VI) was placed in contact with the biomass, the Cr(VI) was completely reduced to Cr(III). The converted Cr(III) appeared in the solution phase or was partly bound to the biomass. The Cr(VI) removal efficiency was always 100% in the pH range of this study (pH 1 to approximately 5). Furthermore, the Cr(VI) reduction was independent of the Cr(III) concentration,