• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.3827-3834
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• 2012

Recently, instead of hot air type dryers that require a lot of heat, energy-efficient heat pump dryers have been used in various fields such as paper, textile, wood, food, etc. In this paper, the characteristics of heat pump cycle were theoretically evaluated with hot-gas bypass system to further improve the energy efficiency by minimizing the use of electric heaters in early warm-up stage of the dryers for frozen agricultural products. In addition, damper system that leads outside air to flow into the dryer were optimized to obtain extra heat for higher energy efficiency.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.374-379
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• 2016

When using an ionic liquid as co-solvent, the extraction efficiency of anticancer agent paclitaxel from biomass was dramatically improved. However, the residual ionic liquid had a significant negative effect on convenient and feasibility of following concentration and drying steps. In this study, a novel method was developed for the effective drying of the crude extract obtained from biomass extraction with ionic liquid. The residual ionic liquid was easily and conveniently removed by drying alone after pre-treatment and additional washing of a sample with water. The optimal crude extract/water ratio and mixing time for pre-treatment and crude extract/water ratio for additional washing were 1:70 (w/v), 4 min, and 1:100 (w/v), respectively. In the microwave-assisted drying process, the drying time was 9-fold shorter than in the vacuum oven drying process.

• Clean Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.68-75
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• 1998

An innovative wafer drying system was developed using Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and nitrogen carrier gas in order to replace the commercial conventional drying system which was a non-environmentally friendly system. This system was designed as following ; the IPA evaporation chamber and the process chamber were separated to increase drying efficiency, and the carrier gas with the IPA vapor was delivered into the process chamber. It was investigated that the IPA concentration was the most important factor to operate the system. The optimum concentration was found to be 2.4 ml IPA/N2 1. In addition, the optimum flow rate of the nitrogen gas were maintained more than 60 l/min.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.356-362
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• 2018

Hot pepper is a kind of seasoning vegetables, which is a major item in the Korean vegetable market. Since the use of hot pepper is processed into pepper powder, which is a powder form of dried hot pepper, improvement of quality and productivity of dried hot pepper is important. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to suggest proper drying method by comparing the changes of hot pepper powder ingredients considering production cost according to the drying method. As a drying method, we used sun drying and heat drying which are widely used in practice. We also compared the productivity and quality of dried hot pepper by applying a dehumidifying drying method using a dehumidifier. Drying rate of hot pepper was highest of 85.1% at heat drying. Accordingly moisture content of hot pepper powder was lowest of 13.5% at heat drying. The American Spice Trade Association (ASTA) color value, which influenced the coloring of red pepper, showed higher in heat drying and dehumidified drying treatment than the sun drying treatment. The content of capsaicinoids was higher at sun drying treatment than that of at both heat drying and dehumidified drying treatments. The content of sugar was higher at heat drying and dehumidified drying treatment where drying time was relatively short than that of sun drying treatment. Also, there was no significant difference in sugar content between the two treatments. The production cost of dried hot pepper with dehumidified drying was 9.9% more efficient than heat drying. Through this study, it was found that heat and dehumidified drying method were effective in increasing sugar content and coloring of hot pepper powder. In order to improve the capsaicinoid content of red pepper, it is considered that appropriate drying temperature and drying time should be added in the process of heat drying and dehumidified drying.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.223-231
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to investigate basically the mechanism of heat transfer by the resolution of complex fluid flow inside a sophisticated designed screw dryer for the treatment of sewage sludge by using numerical analysis and experimental study. By doing this, the result was quite helpful to obtain the design criteria for enhancing drying efficiency, thereby achieving the optimal design of a multiple screw type dryer for treating inorganic and organic sludge wastes. One notable design feature of the dryer was to bypass a certain of fraction of the hot combustion gases into the bottom of the screw cylinder, by the fluid flow induction, across the delicately designed holes on the screw surface to agitate internally the sticky sludges. This offers many benefits not only in the enhancement of thermal efficiency even for the high viscosity material but also greater flexibility in the application of system design and operation. However, one careful precaution was made in operation in that when distributing the hot flue gas over the lump of sludge for internal agitation not to make any pore blocking and to avoid too much pressure drop caused by inertial resistance across the lump of sludge. The optimal retention time for rotating the screw at 1 rpm in order to treat 200 kg/hr of sewage sludge was determined empirically about 100 minutes. The corresponding optimal heat source was found to be 150,000 kcal/hr. A series of numerical calculation is performed to resolve flow characteristics in order to assist in the system design as function of important system and operational variables. The numerical calculation is successfully evaluated against experimental temperature profile and flow field characteristics. In general, the calculation results are physically reasonable and consistent in parametric study. In further studies, more quantitative data analyses such as pressure drop across the type and loading of drying sludge will be made for the system evaluation in experiment and calculation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.37-42
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• 2004

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.258-263
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• 1979

A cylindrical focusing solar food dryer made with aluminum-laminated acryl film was demonstrated for the dehydration of agricultural product and its perfomance was analyzed with respect to the solar energy utilization and its scale-up technology. With one square meter reflector and a 74 cm copper pipe absorber, the heat exchange efficiency between air stream and absorber was 1.39 %. The installation of circular segment-baffle increased 33 % of the efficiency. In dehydration of radish-cut with this drier, 58 % of fuel consumption was saved. The relationship between reflector area and heat energy utilization was established for the scale-up purpose.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.67-73
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• 1998

This study was to experiment, through sewage sludge treatment by Vacuum Drying Method, variation of water content with reaction pressure, reaction time, reaction temperature. The result are as follows; The water content decreased with the same reaction temperature and reaction time at lower pressure and 360~40 mmHg (a close vacuum) showed lower water content at low reaction temperature and short reaction time. The water content rapidly decreased with the same reaction pressure and time at low reaction temperature (above $120^{\circ}C$).

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.101-101
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• 2002

현재의 세계 제지업계는 고지의 사용량과 용수의 재홀용률을 높이기 위해 노력하고있다. 특히 한국의 고지 재활용률은 세계 최고수준으로 보고된 바 있으며, 이를 사용하는 재생용지 생산업채는 고지의 높은 재활용률에 기인하는 여러 가지문제점에 당면하고 있다. 국산 고지는 반복적인 재활용으로인하여 섬유장이 짧고 매우각질화된 상태이며, 펄프 내 미세분 함량이 50%이상에 달하고 있다. 또한 섬유의 표면이 인쇄잉크, stickies 및 각종 이물질로 오염됨에 따라, 섬유자체가 보유하고 있는 섬유간 결합 능력이 저하된 상태이다. 이는 초지시, 탈수성을 악화시켜 생산성을 저하시키며, 탈수성 악화에 기인하여 충분한 고해 과정을 거치지 못하여 생산된 종이의 물리적 성질에 악영향을 미치고 있다. KOCC를 주원료로 사용하는 다겹 판지의 제조공정 또한 재활용 원료의 열악함에 기인한 초지계 내의 과다한 미세분 축적과 이로 인한 탈수성의 저하 및 건조효율의 저하를 막기 힘들었다. 이러한 탈수성 및 건조속도의 저하로 종이 생산 효율의 개선 및 각 물성의 상승을 기대하기 어려웠으며, 이를 개선하기 위하여 다양한 Polyelectrolyte를 첨가하였으나 현저한 효과를 보기 힘들었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 새로운 목질계 부원료인 Lignocell을 사용하여 초지시 탈수성 향상과 건조 촉진, 생산된 종이의 bulk 향상으로 인한 stiffness 등 물리적 성질의 향상효과를 평가하고자 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.1573-1579
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• 2004

This study was conducted to develop intermediate material for new processed food from sweet pumpkin. Osmotic dehydration was carried out as pretreatment before drying. After the sweet pumpkins were pretreated under optimized osmotic dehydration conditions, they were dried by three drying methods (hot air drying, vacuum drying and cold air drying). The moisture contents of dried sweet pumpkin products by osmosis treatment (sucrose) and hot air drying, vacuum drying, and cold air drying were 14.48, 14.09 and 13.87%, respectively. Cold air drying preserved more vitamin C content and showed lower color difference than hot air drying and vacuum drying. As a result of microscopic analysis, cold air dried sweet pumpkin was observed regular tissue, while hot air and vacuum dried sweet pumpkins were observed a cell collapse following the loss of water.