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Roads in Seoul, the manholes and drains often become a source of odor
    
 
 
complaints. Therefore, the city government is trying to reduce the odor
emission from the sewer system. One option the city is considering now
is to apply a chemical to the sewer system.
Although there are numerous vendors which sell deodorants for sewer
systems, few studies have been done to objectively and systematically
evaluate the effectiveness of the deodorants. Most
studies simply collected gas samples from a manhole or a drain and
analyzed several volatile organic carbons or dilution factors before and
after a deodorant were sprayed. Since odor e missions are spontaneous
and are affected by a number of environmental conditions, the
effectiveness of a deodorant may not be properly evaluated with one or
two gas samplings and analyses. Fig. 2. TRS analyzer
In this study, we installed an on-line total reduced sulfur (TRS)analyzer
on a manhole of a combined sewer line located in the center of the city to The TRS analyzer (Eco-S & E, Korea) used in our study oxidize all the
continuously monitor sulfur gas emission. With the on-line sensor, we reduced sulfurs in gas sample to SO2, which is in turn quantified with an
evaluated the effectiveness of a commercial deodorant in reducing odors optical sensor (Fig. 2).
from the manhole.

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Interestingly, clear periodical peaks could be observed from the figure.
The peaks were turned out to be from the wastewater periodically
pumped out from the pits of building near the manhole.
  

In terms of the effectiveness of the deodorant with phytoncide, we could
For the study, an on-line TRS analyzer was installed and operated on a
not observe any difference in the TRS profiles obtained from the manhole
manhole located on a combined sewer line passing through commercial
before and after the chemical had been applied. Since the major gradient
area in the downtown of Seoul from December of 2008 to March of 2009
of the deodorant is phytoncide which consists with alcohol, aldehyde,
(Fig. 1). The site was scheduled to apply a commercial deodorant for
ketone, esther and so on. However, phytoncide does not contain any
controlling odors from the sewer line. In fact, the site was surrounded by
oxidant or so. Therefore, sulfurs were not affected. Our result was also
a number of high-rising buildings and the sewer line was supplied with
confirmed with olfactormetry; we obtained similar dilution factors from
wastewater periodically pumped out from their pits.
the gas samples collected before and after the deodorant was applied.
One thing mentionable is that if we collected gas samples from the
manhole from time to time for normal instrumental and olfactometric
analyses we could not observe the periodical peaks that we did using the
on-line analyzer

Fig. 1. Location where the study was performed and points where the
deodorants were applied

Fig. 3.
3. TRS profiles obtained from the manhole before and after the deodo-
deodo-
   

  

 

 rant for the sewer odor was applied.
A commercial deodorant containing phytoncide as a deodorant was
applied to the sewer line of the site. To evaluate the effectiveness of the
deodorant, the odor from the sewer line was first monitored from Jan. 6th è
 

to Jan 8th before the deodorant was applied. The mean atmospheric
temperature was -1.1 º . The gas from the sewer line was also
continuously monitored from Feb. 6th through Feb. 16th. The mean In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of a commercial deodorant
atmospheric temperature was -3.4º. During the period, the deodorant applied to a sewer line passing through buildings in the center of Seoul
was supplied from the vendor and applied at three different points along a using an on-line TRS analyzer. From the study, it was found that the
sewer line (Fig. 1). odors from the sewer line were periodical and were due to the
wastewater from building pits. In addition, the TRS profiles did show
clearly that the deodorant was not effective in reducing sewer odor.