National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST)
National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) is a research center that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Researchers develop affordable sensor system to detect algal bloom in real time
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology has successfully developed a real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system utilizing inexpensive optical sensors and a novel labeling logic. The system achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art AI models such as Gradient Boosting and Random Forest. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) […]
Leading-edge model predicts impact of river plants on flood level
River plants provide ecological and environmental benefits, but they raise flood risk by blocking the flow during heavy rain. Removing woody riparian vegetation patches is a primary flood prevention method, but it threatens stream's biodiversity. The research team at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a technology for quantifying […]
Developing nanocatalysts to overcome limitations of water electrolysis technology
Green hydrogen can be produced through water electrolysis technology, which uses renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen without emitting carbon dioxide. However, the production cost of green hydrogen is currently around $5 per kilogram, which is two to three times higher than gray hydrogen obtained from natural gas. For the practical use […]
Understanding river alteration via shifting flow regime
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) published their findings on the drastic short-term alterations in rivers accompanied by shifts in vegetation and geomorphology drawn from actual on-site investigation and analyses and not from model simulations. The alteration processes from a 'white river,' characterized by riverbeds with no vegetation including […]
Predicting the future landscape of a river
Climate change is changing the environmental condition of rivers; hence, it is no longer possible to manage modern rivers with methods that have been practiced under the past environmental conditions. A joint research team, including scientists from Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) and Deltares of the Netherlands, has conducted research on […]