Konkuk University’s College of Engineering (President Sun-joo Kim) announced on the 5th that the Indonesian government officials visited the Konkuk University’s College of Engineering on February 27th to have meeting and demonstrate the product of environmental measurement technology of Konkuk University in order to establish master plan for energy waste disposal in Indonesia. Indonesian civil servants who visited Korea for the establishment of a waste energy master plan with the support of the Ministry of Environment, visited the high technology research institutes of Konkuk University’s College of Engineering and heard about research projects of the R&D Center for Green Patrol Technologies of Konkuk University (President Cho-chun Kim, Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), and were explained about environmental measurement technology products developed by the R&D Center.
The visit was attended by 50 officials from the Indonesian government's National Development Planning Agency, the Economic Coordination Department, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, 15 officials from Makassar City and Palembang City, the Ministry of Environment, the Korea Environment Technology Institute and the Green Technology Center. Konkuk University's R&D Center for Green Patrol Technologies has recently succeeded in localizing equipment that automatically measures the concentration of fine dust (PM2.5). In the meantime, the PM2.5 concentration measuring instrument in use at the national air pollution measuring station (443 sites as of the end of September 2018) was used by foreign equipment.
Konkuk University's R&D Center for Green Patrol Technologies was the first to develop the localization of fine dust (PM2.5) concentration automatic continuous measuring instrument of β-ray absorption type with the support of national research and development (R & D) and it will have an effect of replacing imports of about 31 billion won this year. The beta-ray absorption method is a method of measuring the mass concentration of fine particles in the atmosphere by measuring the intensity of the beta rays absorbed when the beta rays pass through the dust collected in the filter paper. The R&D Center for Green Patrol Technologies received the Ministry of Environment’s "Global Top Environmental Technology Development Project" and received a donation of about 1 billion won from January 2015 to April 2018 to develop the fine dust continuous automatic meter.