Junbeum Kim

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Technology of Troyes

Waste poses a significant global challenge, necessitating tailored solutions for each country’s unique context. To foster a circular economy and achieve carbon neutrality, nations are developing diverse environmental strategies for managing waste. To date, there is no related deep study and data visualization mapping using a ternary diagram for Kor...

As global warming has emerged as an essential global solution, the role of carbon neutrality is required to respond to rapidly changing environmental policies. Forests are an important means for achieving carbon neutrality as they act as a key carbon sink, and, among them, forest management called afforestation is emerging as a decisive factor. How...

The automobile industry is a major economic driver in Republic of Korea (Korea). However, little is known about its climate change contribution. This study estimates the direct and indirect greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions of the Korean automobile industry for the first time, by using a 2017 environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) model integr...

The carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies have shown promise for directly reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere from significant point sources. This study aims to evaluate an integrated CCUS system in South Korea using three technologies: microalgae photocultivation, CO2 membrane separation, and carbon miner...

Among the steel byproducts, more than 80% of blast furnace slag is recycled in the cement industry. However, the criteria for allocating environmental benefits between the steel and cement industries need to be more transparent. This study aims to allocate the environmental benefits between the steel and cement industries when granulated blast furn...

As global warming has become a critical environmental issue, carbon neutrality is required to respond to rapidly changing environmental policies in response to climate change. Forests, the core of carbon absorption sources, are important to achieve carbon neutrality in South Korea; thus, forest management, particularly afforestation, is emerging as...

Purpose : The purpose of this study is to calculate and compare carbon footprint, particulate matter footprint, and heavy metal human toxicity footprint with operation data of IoT-based Micro Electric Vehicle (EV) Sharing for Urban Mobility, which was conducted in Chungbuk Innovation City (Jinchen Ducksaneup, Eumsung Mangdongmyun), Ochangeup (Cheon...

Objectives : The domestic forest area is about 6,298 thousand ha as of 2020, accounting for 62.7% of the national land area of 10,041 thousand ha, but the domestic wood and wood product market is seriously dependent on imported products. As of 2020, the domestic wood utilization rate is 15.9%. This has been secured from around 5% by 1990 to about 1...

Emerging economies continue to exhibit notable growth rates in material consumption. This research employs the Stock-Flow-Service (SFS) nexus to evaluate the use of resources in providing shelter, thermal comfort, and transport services in Vietnam from 2004 to 2019. The investigation encompasses material stocks and flows involved in expanding and m...

Livestock manure (LSM) management is emerging as a challenge due to increasing livestock consumption. Owing to the decreased agricultural land area, it is necessary to ensure LSM utilization in non-agricultural fields. LSM can be a valuable resource if managed as a circulating resource. This study discusses research trends based on a literature rev...

Purpose : At the national level, carbon absorption during the carbon neutrality goal plays an important role, and related forestry projects are continuously increasing. Until now, forest carbon absorption has been measured and managed in various ways at the national level, but specific carbon absorption indicators for each local government have not...

The South Korean government has set an ambitious target to reduce industrial hazardous waste (IHW) as part of its transition towards a circular economy. Moreover, effective management of IHW within the country has become crucial, given that IHW trade is regulated by the Basel Convention. Despite the urgent need for well-founded environmental polici...

Objectives The purpose of this study is to introduce an exhaust induction device (EID) for the improvement of combustion efficiency of internal combustion engines and to analyze fuel consumption savings with the installation of EID. To show the effectiveness of EID, The carbon footprint (CF) and particulate matter footprint (PMF) were calculated an...

An efficient transport infrastructure not only connects markets and people but also positively affects economic activity, development, and growth. However, little research acknowledges the interaction between the material resources of in-use stocks of transport infrastructure and their service provision. Using the European transport sector as a cas...

Objectives : As climate change deepened, the concept of 2050 carbon neutrality was introduced. The COP 26 Glasgow Agreement strengthened the national greenhouse gases (GHGs) target of 2030. However, there are controversies over the feasibility of these GHGs reduction goals, considering the economic sectors energy policy and the attributes of GHGs e...

The industrial hazardous waste (IHW) regulation has been highlighted by the Basel Convention, and the South Korean government has announced a plan for the great transition to resource circulation in 2020 to strengthen waste management. Accordingly, South Korea is faced with the challenge of efficiently managing IHW at the national level. For this,...

Objectives:Recently, during two-three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the drive-thru service system has been one of the most actively used non-face-to-face systems to reduce the risk of infection. The business of coffee shops and fast-food restaurants using drive-thru service systems keeps growing. However, carbon dioxide and particulate matter pro...

In this study, an ammonia flow analysis that presents how ammonia is used or handled in the South Korean fertilizer industry is developed using material flow analysis concepts. Due to increasing concerns related to ammonia-related accident cases and human health and toxicity impacts in the country, an ammonia flow analysis is presented in this stud...

The industrial hazardous waste (IHW) generation to meet consumption is steadily increasing, resulting in environmental, health, and social problems around the world. To address IHW at the source, it is critical to understand the generation characteristics and key drivers on industrial hazardous waste generation (IHWG). This study analysed the gener...

The present work was conducted to evaluate the air quality in terms of inorganic pollutants and toxicity impact using two evergreen tree leaves, Eucalyptus globulus Labill (E. globulus) and Ficus microcarpa L.f., Suppl. Pl. 442 (1782) (F. microcarpa) as biomonitors. Thirty tree leaves and an equal number of co-located soil samples from different re...

Objective : The purpose of this study is to propose the concept of the human toxicity (human cancer and non-cancer) footprint (µg 1,4 DCB (Dichlorobenzene) eqv./m3) using heavy metal concentration data in the air in Provincial and Metropolitan City governments. In addition, the final goal is to assess and compare the human carcinogenic toxicity foo...

The present invention relates to a real-time fine dust monitoring system and a method thereof, which can attach a fine dust measuring device to a means of transportation such as taxi, bus, post/delivery vehicles, etc., measure and collect in real time the concentration of fine dust within an actual daily life range at the intervals of 5-10 seconds,...

The present work was conducted to characterize and monitor the air quality in terms of pollution and toxicity impact using two evergreen tree leaves, Eucalyptus globulus Labill and Ficus benjamina L . as biomonitors. Thirty tree leaves and an equal number of co-located soil samples from different regions of Egypt (urban Greater Cairo Metropolitan G...

The water footprint is a useful and important method for calculating water consumption in products and systems. Up to date, many studies on water footprints have focused on the high water consumption sectors of agriculture and livestock products, but few have looked at social infrastructure. The aim of this study is to calculate the water footprint...

The sustainability of the ship recycling industry strongly linked with the global shipping market and international commodity flows. More than 80% of the End of Life (EoL) ships are dismantled in south Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Due to measures taken to minimize the propagation of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an...

The iron and steel industry is one of the most energy-intensive industrial sectors, which makes a significant worldwide contribution to resource and energy consumption, as well as to carbon dioxide emissions. Up to date, much effort has been put into increasing the global efficiency of the internal production processes. Still, the potential for imp...

To date, many studies focusing on recycling technologies, regulations and standards, material recovery, and environmental assessment of end-of-life products, end-of-life vehicles, and end-of-life ships have been conducted. In fact, the assessment of recyclability and recoverability for end-of-life products and vehicles is one of the most important...

Circular economy focuses on the extension of material and resource circularity within the economic system in order to minimize the extraction of natural resources. Attaining such circularity requires the integration of adverse impacts on the place in which the process takes place, as not all recycling activities occur within the same perimeter. The...

Objective:In this study, we proposed the concept of the particulate matter footprint (PM Footprint) and assessed the PM Footprint in transportation modes (road, rail, and water transportation). In addition, we assessed the contribution of secondary particulate matter formation gas emissions, which contribute to particulate matter formation. Method:...

Although snow cover is studied as an efficient scavenger for atmospheric mercury (Hg), up to now little is known about Hg behaviour in urban snow cover impacted by thermal power plants (TPPs) during the winter heating season. This study is focused on quantification of Hg in the particulate phase in snow cover and estimation of atmospheric particula...

Wind energy is key to addressing the global climate challenge, but its development is subject to potential constraint of finite primary materials. Prior studies on material demand forecasting of wind power development are often limited to a few materials and with low technological resolution, thus hindering a comprehensive understanding of the impa...

The Circular Economy is gaining recognition for its attention to increasing material circularity by proposing a set of value retention options, and organizing business, institutions and policies for their implementation. Light emitting diode (LED) lamp recycling is becoming increasingly important due to their growing market share and precious metal...

Material Flow Analysis (MFA) is a tool to systematically assess flows and stocks of a given material within certain temporal and areal system boundaries. Simple MFA studies fail to give good results on a regional level since there is rarely any material trade or consumption data available (Bailang Yu, 2018). In developing countries where statisti...

In the specific case of French onshore wind farms, waste management of these systems has become an important factor of the wind energy industry's sustainability. The aim of this paper is to quantify wind turbine (WT) material wastes and flows across the Champagne-Ardenne (CA) region from 2002 to 2020. To do so, a material flow analysis (MFA) model...

Due to increasing production and consumption of chemical substances, chemical accidents involving the unintentional release of one or more hazardous substances harmful to human health or the environment have increased in frequently. Such accidents include fires, explosions, leaks and complex accidents. In this study, a butadiene substance flow anal...

Waste management regulation is generally impacted by Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) implementation, such as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). The main goal of this article is to explicit the WEEE chain and flows using the material flow analysis (MFA) method and to contribute to the understanding of the EPR implementation in...

By incorporating the consideration of local issues, local value creation (LVC) creates value for local stakeholders, favoring local industry, local economic activity, and local availability of materials, services, and skills. The purpose of this study is to understand how local values in forest management could be framed and defined within the Fren...

Expansion of light-emitting diode (LED) lamp has been intensified through the dramatic development of LED technologies stimulated by European Commission directive that has banned inefficient lamp use in 2016 to reduce energy consumption and increase energy independence (EU Commission, 2009). By replacing mostly incandescent lamp in 2030, LED lamp w...

Lead-acid batteries (LABs), a widely used energy storage equipment in cars and electric vehicles, are becoming serious problems due to their high environmental impact. In this study, an integrated method, combining material flow analysis with life cycle assessment, was developed to analyze the environmental emissions and burdens of lead in LABs. Th...

In this study, the chemical substance flow of hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid, HF) in domestic chemical industries in 2014 was analyzed in order to provide a basic material and information for the establishment of organized management system to ensure safety during HF applications. A total of 44,751 tons of HF was made by four domestic compani...

Recognition and detailed characterization of solid particles emitted from thermal power plants in the environment is highly important due to their potential detrimental effects on human health. Snow cover is often used for the identification of the presence of anthropogenic emissions in the environment. However, little is known about types, physica...

Changes in the environment like atmospheric trace element pollution can be mirrored in the elemental composition of indicator plants. They can contribute to distinguishing the degree of pollution, allocate sources of pollution, and identify their impact areas and polluting ingredients. However, ideally, the study should not be limited by these resu...

China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and it is also one of the largest fluorescent lamp consuming and producing country in the world. However, there are few studies evaluating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of fluorescent lamps in China. This analysis compared GHG emissions of compact fluorescent lamps with linear fluorescent lam...

The cobalt crisis at the end of 20th century and the recent rare earth elements debate in World Trade Organisation (WTO) both showed the importance of certain materials to numerous industries and even to the economy, defence and politics of individual countries. This fact prompted some authorities to launch organisations which focus on these critic...

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies are gaining a share in the renewable energy production market. Recently nanomaterials have been used by researchers to improve the performance and efficiency of PVs. Consideration to the environmental aspects of nanomaterials infused PVs is a growing area of interest. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to inves...

Recent toughened water quality standards have necessitated improvements for existing sewer treatment facilities through advanced treatment processes. Therefore, an advanced treatment process that can be installed through simple modification of existing sewer treatment facilities needs to be developed. In this study, a new submerged membrane bioreac...

China is one of the largest consumers and producers of fluorescent lamps in the world, and mercury from a large number of spent fluorescent lamps can enter the solid waste stream every year. However, detailed information about the quantity and the fate of mercury caused by fluorescent lamps is unavailable. This study quantified and determined the f...

This study aims to provide a reliable approach to quantifying the embodied carbon in building products during their supply chains in Australia. For embodied carbon quantification, the cradle-to-factory gate system boundary includes all stages in the product's life cycle from extraction of materials, through processing, transportation and manufactur...

There are various issues of concern regarding electronic waste management, such as the toxicity of hazardous materials and the collection, recycling and recovery of useful resources. To understand the fate of electronic waste after collection and recycling, a products and materials flow analysis should be performed. This is a critical need, as mate...

To prepare for the international mercury convention, the characteristics of mercury emissions from a zinc smelting facility in South Korea have been reviewed and a material flow analysis (MFA) has been conducted in this research. As inputs into the mercury MFA study, zinc ores and sulfuric acid were examined, whereas wastewater sludge, effluence wa...

Many scientific collaboration networks have been extensively studied from different perspectives, such as network degree analysis or centrality. However, there has been little study of the scientific collaboration network in the industrial ecology (IE) research domain and community. In this study therefore, we collected co-authorship keywords and r...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a compilation and evaluation of the input energy and materials, output emissions and the potential environmental impacts of a product, service or system throughout its life cycle. While methodological issues of LCA are still being developed and much research is being conducted worldwide in order to improve them. One o...

This paper aims at presenting a dynamic indicator for life cycle assessment (LCA) measuring cumulative impacts over time of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fertilizers used for wheat cultivation and production. Our approach offers a dynamic indicator of global warming potential (GWP), one of the most used indicator of environmental impacts (e.g...

In this study, by using network analysis method, the change of chronological main subject, co-authorship network characteristics (e.g., sets of key players, closeness degree centrality, closeness centrality etc.) were evaluated in Asian architecture research domains. The total 1,772 authors information (co-authorship, country, year and keywords) fr...

The water footprint of product and service is the total volume of freshwater consumed, directly and indirectly, in the life cycle of a product and service. Up to date, water consumption data for industries and products were not well quantified and developed. Especially it is important to construct for agriculture industry which consumes lots of wat...

Water footprint means the direct and indirect water resource amount used for the life cycle of different goods, services and industries. In this study, the direct and indirect water resource consumption in industrial sectors were calculated by using water footprint evaluation method. As a result, agriculture and marine product industry takes part o...

A normalization step is widely exercised in life cycle assessment (LCA) studies in order to better understand the relative significance of impact category results. In the normalization stage, normalization references (NRs) are the characterized results of a reference system, typically a national or regional economy. Normalization is widely practice...

Determining the best available technology (BAT) that is economically viable is indispensable in managing industrial wastewater discharging facilities. In this study, a BAT evaluation tool was applied to a case study of the leather tanning and finishing industry in South Korea. In examining the evaluation, the following factors and flows were consid...

Previous studies on the life-cycle environmental impacts of corn ethanol and gasoline focused almost exclusively on energy balance and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and largely overlooked the influence of regional differences in agricultural practices. This study compares the environmental impact of gasoline and E85 taking into consideration 12 di...

In this study, the PV types of SC-Si, MC-Si, CI(G)S, and CdTe were considered to quantity the material consumption. The module, balance of system (BOS) and number of cells (PCS) are considered in the PV system. Based on 1 m2 PV module, all input materials (ferrous and nonferrous, critical and rare earth materials) are calculated. With this result a...

In this study, by using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method, we had a comparison study of paper billing and payment (PBP) with electronic billing and payment (EBP) in the U.S. Through the use of life cycle approaches in the PBP system, we considered all inputs and outputs from production and operation servers (data center), bill distribution, an...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) and design for environment (DFE) methods were applied to assess opportunities for reducing the environmental impacts of forklift manufacturing unit processes and to redesign those unit processes to increase overall sustainability. The unit processes of forklift manufacture generating the most environmental emissions were...

As the generation of waste home appliances increases continuously with economic growth, the importance of recycling becomes more apparent. Many home appliances we use today are recyclable, and recyclable materials from the waste home appliances can be used to create new or refurbishing products. To do that, first of all, we have to know and conside...

South Korea is a newly industrialized country where reliable energy consumption data are available back to the early 1960s. In this research, to understand the energy consumption and CO2 emission flows from industrial sectors, energy input-output analysis and network approach were used. For energy input output analysis, ordinary trade table for ene...

The electronics industry is a dynamic sector in which the manufacturing process undergoes continual innovation. With the lifecycle of some products measured in months rather than years, new equipment, chemicals and processes are being introduced to the manufacturing and development fabricators on an ongoing basis, as are new product designs, which...

The dynamics of an e-commerce market and the associated environmental impacts from a bottom-up perspective using an agent-based model is explored. A conceptual meta-theory from psychology is adopted to form the behavioral rules of artificial consumers choosing different methods of buying a book, including conventional bookstores, e-commerce, and a...

We attempted to design and assess an example of a sustainable networked delivery (SND) system: a hybrid business-to-consumer book delivery system. This system is intended to reduce costs, achieve significant reductions in energy consumption, and reduce environmental emissions of critical local pollutants and greenhouse gases. The energy consumption...

Reverse supply chains for the reuse, recycling, and disposal of goods are globalizing. This article critically reviews the environmental, economic, and social issues associated with international reuse and recycling of personal computers. Computers and other e-waste are often exported for reuse and recycling abroad. On the environmental side, our a...

Quantities of end-of-life electronics (or e-waste) around the world keep growing. More than 1.36 million metric tons of e-waste were discarded in the U.S. in 2005, mainly in landfills, and e-waste is projected to grow in future years. This paper explores issues relating to planning future e-waste regulation and management systems in the U.S. It beg...

We discuss an emerging issue that has as yet received scant attention: the sustainable management of international reverse supply chains. A reverse supply chain is the network of activities involving reuse, recycling and final disposal that follow after a consumer is finished with a product. International flows of products for reuse and materials f...

In this paper, we attempted to design and assess a sustainable networked delivery (SND) system, which can achieve significant reductions of energy consumption and environmental emissions of critical local pollutants and greenhouse gases due to growing local transportation in urban areas. SND system is a combination of e-commerce and centralized pic...

E-commerce has been developed by the high integration of transportation infrastructures and information and communication technology (ICT) in complex urban systems. The dynamics of the e-commerce market can cause different environmental impacts. This paper explores the dynamics of e-commerce market and the associated environmental impacts from a ps...

In the U.S., e-waste could be the fastest growing component of the municipal solid waste. This trend is likely to continue given the rapid rate of technological progress, increased adoption and subsequent decreasing life spans of electronic products. This poster proposes the e-market for returned deposit system as an option for future e-waste manag...

Information communication technology (ICT) has emerged as one the most significant industry sectors contributing to the United States' growth. E-commerce and Internet are the two most important developments not only in ICT but in the world of business as a whole. It allows many people to buy and exchange goods and services immediately with 24-hour...

Quantities of end-of-life electronics (or e-waste) around the world keep growing. More than 1.36 million metric tons of e-waste were discarded, mainly in landfills, in the U.S. in 2005, and e-waste is projected to grow in the next few years. This paper explores issues relating to planning future e-waste regulation and management systems in the U.S....