• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.103-111
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• 2009

Moisture is one of the important design factors that affects to the changes of physical properties and air permeability in the composting matrix. This study examines the effects of moisture during the wetting and drying procedure on physical properties like bulk density, particle size, free air space and air permeability in the sawdust used as the bulking agent in composting process. During both procedures of wetting and drying of the water, with increasing moisture content, bulk density and particle size increased, but FAS decreased. In the range of near 40 to 60% moisture content on a wet basis, particle size and FAS in wetting procedure were larger and higher than those in drying procedure. During wetting procedure, pressure drop continuously decreased ranging from near 20 to 60% moisture content, despite of decreasing FAS as a consequence of increasing moisture, and then over the range of 60% moisture content, pressure drop rapidly increased to the saturated moisture condition while the pore space was filled with the water. On the other hand, during drying procedure, pressure drop decreased from the saturated condition to 40% moisture content. In the recommended range of 50 to 60% moisture content for composting operation, pressure drop in wetting procedure were lower than in drying procedure. For the enhancement of the air permeability in the composting matrix, the wetting procedure was proper than the drying procedure, and the optimum moisture content for the efficient composting operation was appeared to be near 60%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Postharvest Science and Technology of Agricultural Products Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.180.1-180
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• 2003

양파건조분말 제조에 있어 품질고급화를 목적으로 건조방법을 달리하여 건조과정 중 양파의 이화학적 품질특성 변화를 조사하였다. 수분함량변화는 50'E 열풍건조의 경우 건조 5일에 수분함량 10% 이하로 건조가 되었으며 건조1일에 수분함량 5.30%로 분말화상태가 가능했다. 또한, 4$0^{\circ}C$ 진공건조의 경우는 건조기간 3일째에 수분함량이 6.05%로 거의 건조가 완료된 상태였으며 건조 5일째는 수분함량 5.23%를 나타내어 분말화하였다. -7$0^{\circ}C$ 동결건조의 경우 건조 7일째에 수분함량 5.10%를 유지하여 분말화가 가능하였다. 건조과정 중 양파의 중량감소율 변화는 5$0^{\circ}C$ 열풍건조의 경우 건조 3일째 중량 감소율이 89.6%로 매우 급격한 감소현상을 보였으며, 4$0^{\circ}C$ 진공건조의 경우는 건조 2일째 중량감소율이 84.4%까지 급격한 감소현상을 나타내었고, 또한, -7$0^{\circ}C$ 동결건조의 경우는 건조 최종일인 7일째 중량감소율은 94.9%를 나타내었다. 건조과정 중 갈색도변화는 5$0^{\circ}C$ 열풍건조와 4$0^{\circ}C$ 진공건조의 경우 건조 3일째까지 각각 흡광도(420nm)값을 2.119와 1.941로 급격한 증가현상을 나타낸 후 감소하는 경향을 나타내었고, -7$0^{\circ}C$ 동결건조의 경우는 건조 최종일인 7일째 흡광도가 1.173으로 가장 낮은 갈색도변화를 보였다. 건조과정 중 색도변화에 있어‘L’값의 변화는 5$0^{\circ}C$ 열풍건조의 경우가 양파의 내부와 외부면의 초기 L값이 77.40과 74.82에서 최종 L값이 63.72와 65.07로 4$0^{\circ}C$ 진공건조와 -7$0^{\circ}C$ 동결건조의 L값 변화보다 큰 변화를 보였고, 또한‘a’값과 ‘b’값의 경우도 마찬가지로 5$0^{\circ}C$ 열풍건조의 경우가 양파의 내부와 외부면의 적색도 및 황색도 변화가 크게 일어나는 경향을 나타내었다. 건조과정 중 vitamin C의 함량변화는 건조에 의한 수분함량의 감소로 vitamin C의 함량은 상대적으로 증가하였고, -7$0^{\circ}C$ 동결건조의 경우가 가장 높은 vitamin C의 증가량을 나타내었고, 그와 반대로 5$0^{\circ}C$ 열풍건조의 경우는 열에 의한 vitamin C의 변화로 인한 상대적 증가량은 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.15-24
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• 2016

To investigate the unsaturated characteristics of the Boeun granite weathered soil, matric suction and volumetric water content were measured in both drying and wetting paths using Automated Soil-Water Characteristics Curve Apparatus. Based on the measured results, Soil-Water Characteristics Curve was estimated by van Genuchten (1980) model. The relationship between effective degree of saturation and matric suction showed the non-linear curve with S-shape and the hysteresis phenomenon occurred during drying and wetting paths. Suction Stress Characteristics Curve was estimated by the Lu and Likos (2006) model. The suction stress in drying path was constantly maintained and that in wetting path tended to increase when the effective degree of saturation was low. But the suction stress in drying path was larger than that in wetting path at the same degree of saturation when the effective degree of saturation became larger. Meanwhile, Hydraulic Conductivity Function was evaluated by the van Genuchten (1980) model which is one of the parameter estimation methods. The unsaturated hydraulic conductivity decreased with increasing the matric suction, and the decreasing velocity regarding to the matric suction in drying path was larger than that in wetting path.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.20-25
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• 1998

We investigated a DMA, TMA, TMAO, a toxic substance to human body can be generated during drying, in a Pacific saury, Cololabis saira. Changes of amine during drying showed a rapid increasing trend until a day of ninth according to an increasing of ambient temperature. And a content of DMA, TMA, TMAO during artificial drying is lowerd than during natural drying. A case of TMAO contents showed that it was decrease during TMA component is generated in drying process Also they can be generated in a drying process. Thus we concluded that an approvement in a general distribution of Kwamaege is needed for preventing a generation of a toxic component such as a DMA, TMA.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.186-187
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• 1995

동결보존에서 가장 재생율이 높은 품종은 조직배양에서 발근력이 뛰어난 것으로 알려져 있는 신광뽕으로 최고 92.0%의 재생율을 보였으나, 개량, 용천 및 검설뽕에서는 재생을 보이지 않았다. 또, 건조과정을 거치지 않은 것이나, 건조과정과 예비동결 과정을 거치지 않고, 동결방어제만을 사용한 것의 재생은 전혀 확인할 수 없었다. 금후, 동결보존한 동아의 재생에서 돌연변이 유무는 RAPD로 확인될 수 있을 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.5-11
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• 1987

Lipid oxidation is one of the major factors affecting on deterioration of nutritional quality in boiled and dired fish products. In this paper, the relationship between oxidized products of lipid, brown pigments, and available lysine during the drying and the storage of boiled and dried shrimp (Metapenaeus joynri) was investigated. Fresh shrimps were bioled in 5% sodium chloride solution. The boiled shrimps were treated in two ways, sun drying and hot air drying at $30{\pm}5^{\circ}C$. And the two dried products were stored at $30{\pm}5^{\circ}C$ for one month. The results obtained are as follows: TBA value increased up to 20 days and hereafter gradually diminished. POV was increased for processing and increased 15 days of storage. TBA value and POV increased rapidly while available lysine diminished during the sun drying and hot air drying. Brown pigment was increased during lipid oxidation but it was not statistically significant. This result implicits that the drying had greatly influenced on the oxidation of lipid and makes amino acids 'unavailable'. But there is no remarkable difference between the sun dried shrimps and the hot air dried shrimps so far as the lipid oxidation and available lysine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1903-1907
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• 2010

Drying curves for raw Alaska pollack seemed to follow typical food dehydration process with a very short initial settling down period. It was evident that there are some differences in drying rates between each part of fish body showing the highest drying rate for fish head followed by that for fish skin and that for flesh, presumably because of differences in water holding capacity of the components of each part. Specifically, the drying curve of fish flesh revealed that a boundary layer, thereby, a time period, existed which showed a big difference in moisture content and/or water activity as drying proceeds. The boundary layer in fish flesh with high moisture content between the layer contributes to reduce drying rate mainly as a consequence of protein aggregation resulting in hardening of fish flesh. The first boundary layer in this work appeared to show within several hours after initiation of drying. For Hwangtae, a naturally cyclic freeze-thaw dried and aged Alaska pollack which was popular in Korea, manufacturing process, it is clear that periodic moistening of boundary layer in fish flesh prohibits hardening fish flesh in boundary layer and enables steady moisture diffusion from inside of the fish flesh to surface of the fish body.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.145-155
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• 2012

The matric suction and volumetric water content of Jumunin standard sand with a relative density of 60% were measured using an Automated Soil-Water Characteristic Curve (SWCC) apparatus during both drying and wetting processes. The test time for the drying process was longer than that for the wetting process, because the flow of water is likely to be protected by air trapped in voids within the soils during the drying process. Based on the matric suction and volumetric water content, the SWCC was estimated using the model proposed by van Genuchten (1980). For the drying process, the unsaturated fitting parameters ${\alpha}$, n, and m were 0.399, 8.586, and 0.884, respectively; for the wetting process, the values were 0.548, 5.625, and 8.220, respectively. The hysteresis phenomenon occurred in the SWCCs, which means the SWCC of the drying process is not matched with the SWCC of the wetting process. Using these unsaturated parameters, we estimated the Suction Stress Characteristic Curve (SSCC), based on the relationship between suction stress and the effective degree of saturation. The suction stress showed a rapid decrease when the matric suction exceeds the Air Entry Value (AEV). Therefore, the effective stress of unsaturated soils is different from that of saturated soils when the matric suction exceeds the AEV. The suction stress of the drying process exceeds that of the wetting process for a given effective degree of saturation. The hysteresis phenomenon was also recognized in SSCCs. The hysteresis phenomenon of SSCCs arises from that of SWCCs, which is induced by the ink bottle effect and the contact angle effect. In the case of a sandy slope, the suction stress is positive and acts to enhance the slope stability as the water infiltrates the ground, but is negative when the suction stress exceeds the AEV. The results obtained for the wetting process should be applied in analyses of slope stability, because the process of water infiltration into ground is similar to the wetting process.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.523-535
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• 2008

A simulated rainfall system was built, and the unsaturated characteristics were examined by execution of simulated rainfall system test and soil water characteristic curve cell test(SWCC Cell Test) under the various rainfall and slope conditions. With the results, the applicability of infiltration behavior under rainfall and soil water characteristic curve models to the unsaturated weathered granite soil was examined. At the results of comparison the volumetric water content and matric suction measured in the wetting process(under rainfall) with those in the drying process(leaving as it was) of the simulated rainfall system, the volumetric water content showed a difference of $2{\sim}5%$ and matric suction of about $3{\sim}10\;kPa$, indicating the occurrence of hysteresis. In addition, the difference was relatively larger in matric suction than in the volumetric water content, and this tells that the hysteresis behavior is larger in matric suction. When the soil water characteristic curve derived from measurements in simulated rainfall system test were compared with those from the soil water characteristic curve cell test, both methods produced soil water characteristic curves close each other in the wetting process and the drying process, but in both, there was a difference between results obtained from in the wetting process and those from in the drying process. Thus, when soil water characteristic curves are rationally applied to the design and stability analysis considering of the properties of unsaturated soil, it is considered desirable to apply the soil water characteristic curve of the wetting process to the wetting process, and that of the drying process to the drying process.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.91-100
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• 2012

Soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs), which represent a physical property in partially saturated soils, show the relation between volumetric water content and matric suction. The SWCCs exhibit hysteresis during wetting and drying, however experimental expressions used to describe SWCCs have generally ignored the hysteresis. In addition, the shape of SWCC may depend on the void ratio which is changed by soil skeleton deformations or hysteretic behavior under various loading conditions. Hence, it is necessary to understand, both empirically and analytically, the relationship between soil skeleton deformations and the SWCCs of various soils. The typical SWCCs experimentally have drying, wetting, and the second drying curve. The measurement of a complete set of hysteretic curves is severely time-consuming and difficult works, then the first drying curve of SWCC is generally determined to estimate the hydraulic conductivity and shear strength function of partially saturated soils. This paper presents the hydraulic-mechanical behavior of partially saturated soils (weathered soil and silty soil) for volume changes and hysteresis in SWCCs regarding the difference between the first drying and wetting curve.