Original Article
  • Recent advances on Oil-water Separation Technology

  • Hong Ryul Park*, Woonbong Hwang*, Dukhyun Choi**†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea
    ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea

  • 유수분리 기술의 최신 동향

  • 박홍렬* · 황운봉* · 최덕현**†

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Correspondence to

  • Dukhyun Choi

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea

  • E-mail: bred96@skku.edu