• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.400-407
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• 2003

In microbial coal desulfurization process (MCDP) by using Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, the effect of process variables on pyritic sulfur removal efficiency has been investigated. The inhibitory effect of toxic materials contained in coal matrix on the activity of desulfurizing bacteria have been evaluated in coal extracts, and the results showed that the method was useful to evaluate the applicability of a coal which is to be desulfurization to MCDP. The removal efficiency increased with decreasing particle size and decreases with increasing pulp density, but has no significant influence of particle size and pup densities at high pulp densities over 20 wt%. The mass transfers of gaseous nutrients such as oxygen and carbon dioxide into coal slurry with various pulp densities and coal particle size has been studied in an airlift bioreactor. Mass transfer coefficient was independent of pulp density in coal slurry with fine particle below 175 $\mu\textrm{m}$, but significantly decreased with increasing pulp density over 225 $\mu\textrm{m}$. The coal particles over 575 $\mu\textrm{m}$ were significantly settled to the bottom of bioreactor resulting in poor mixing. Considering mass transfer, pulp density and coal mixing, an optimal size of coal particle for the microbial coal desulfurization process seems to be about 500 $\mu\textrm{m}$.

• Plant Journal
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2019

In this study, by varying flow patterns, which is one of the hydraulic factors of FAC, a strategy to reduce pipe wall thinning by mass transfer has been investigated. A similarity between heat transfer and mass transfer was verified via theoretical analysis, and local convective heat transfer coefficients were analyzed using a commercial numerical analysis program. When ribs were installed inside and outside of the internal surface in the straight section of the pipe, the maximum local heat transfer coefficient was shown to decrease substantially by up to 24.9% compared to the basic flow depending on the position and shape of ribs. If a guide vein was inserted in the pipe elbow, the maximum local heat transfer coefficient decreased by up to 26.7% compared to the basic flow depending on the internal surface area of the pipe by the guide vein.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.582-587
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• 2022

Biphasic solvents are attracting attention as energy-reducing solvents for capturing CO₂ from flue gas in combustion process. In this study, considering diethylenetriamine (DETA) and diethylethanolamine (DEEA) mixed solvents, one of the biphasic solvents by blending of two types of amines, the CO₂ absorption rates of DETA and DEEA was measured by wetted wall column. The effects of DETA and DEEA concentrations and operating temperature on the overall mass transfer coefficient were investigated. As a result, the overall mass transfer coefficient was proportional to the DETA concentration. However, in the case of the DEEA concentration, the effect was small and when the concentration was exceeded, the overall mass transfer coefficient decreased. The DETA aqueous solution showed little change in the overall mass transfer coefficient with the operating temperature, whereas the DEEA aqueous solution increased the overall mass transfer coefficient with the operating temperature. As a result of obtaining the observed reaction rate constant under the pseudo-first-order reaction assumption, it was found that the observed reaction rate constant in DETA aqueous solution was proportional to the DETA concentration, but DEEA did not fit the pseudo-first-order reaction assumption.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.223-229
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• 1994

The effect of agitation speed on mass transfer coefficient in the extraction of citric acid from mixed aqueous solutions of citric and acetic acid with n-butylacetate solutions of di-isotridecylamine(DITDA) and 50% mixture of tri-n-octyl and try-n-hexyl phosphine oxide(MOHPO), were studied in batch extractor. Experimental results showed that the degree of extraction was higher with increasing agitation speed, and was best at 200rpm and 30 minutes in batch extractor. The higher degree of extraction was obtained in mixed solution of citric-acetic acid by using DITDA than MOHPO as an carrier. Mass transfer coefficient was proportional to the degree of extraction, and $K_r=1.254{\times}10^{-3}Re^{0.536}$ was found for she extraction of citric acid by DITDA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.217-223
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• 1996

혼합증기(수증기/공기)의 막응축 열전달 계수를 수직한 벽면에서 측정하고 상관식을 개발하였다. 열전달 상관식은 액막측과 증기측으로 구분하여 만들었고, 액막측 전열계수의 상관식은 액막의 Reynolds수와 Prandtl수의 함수로 나타냈으며, 증기측 전열계수의 상관식은 증기의 Reynolds수, Prandtl수, Schmidt수 및 공기의 질량분율, 액막 Reynolds수의 함수로 제안하였다. 응축 액막의 두께와 확산층의 순간온도 측정결과로부터 액막의 파형 계면이 확산층에서의 열 및 물질전달에 큰 영향을 끼치고 있음을 확인하였고, 증기측 전열계수의 상관식에 포함된 액막 Reynolds수가 파형 계면의 영향을 반영하고 있다.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.60-72
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• 2002

포장된 복합비타민의 보관수명을 예측하기 위한 수학모델을 수치해석의 방법 중 finite difference method을 이용한 컴퓨터 프로그램을 개발하였다. 이 컴퓨터 프로그램에는 포장재료의 수분확산계수와 용해도를 비롯한 식품의 수분확산계수 등 다양한 인자들을 포함하고 있다. 포장재료를 통과하는 수분의 물질전달은 G.A.B water sorption isotherm을 기본으로 했다. 본 연구에서는 비정상상태에서의 물질전달로 기본 수학모델링을 구하였다. 본 수학모델과 프로그램의 결과는 실험치와 비교하지 않았고 대신 특정한 경우를 가상하여 이에 존재하는 analytical solutions를 실제로 구하여 본 수학모델과 컴퓨터 프로그램의 신뢰도 측정을 하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1171-1178
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• 1992

An experiment was performed to describe the heat and mass transfer occurring between hot waste gas and cold water through direct contact in a direct contact heat exchanger. This model was then used to obtain an equation of overall heat transfer coefficent based on heat exchanger volume. The diffusion heat transfer rate is 2-3 times larger than the convection heat transfer rate as results of condensation of the water vapor contained in the waste gas. The boiler efficiency increases over 10%.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.451-464
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• 2008

Three-phase inverse fluidized bed has been widely adopted with its increasing demand in the fields of bioreactor, fermentation process, wastewater treatment process, absorption and adsorption processes, where the fluidized or suspended particles are small or lower density comparing with that of continuous liquid phase, since the particles are frequently substrate, contacting medium or catalyst carrier. However, there has been little attention on the three-phase inverse fluidized beds even on the hydrodynamics. Needless to say, the information on the hydrodynamics and transport phenomena such as heat and mass transfer in the inverse fluidized beds has been essential for the operation, design and scale-up of various reactors and processes which are employing the three-phase inverse beds. In the present article, thus, the information on the three-phase inverse fluidized beds has been summarized and reorganized to suggest a pre-requisite knowledge for the field work in a sense of engineering point of view. The article is composed of three parts; hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer characteristics of three-phase inverse fluidized beds. Effects of operating variables on the phase holdup, bubble properties and particle fluctuating frequency and dispersion were discussed in the section of hydrodynamics; effects of operating variables on the heat transfer coefficient and on the heat transfer model were discussed in the section of heat transfer characteristics ; and in the section of mass transfer characteristics, effects of operating variables on the liquid axial dispersion and volumetric liquid phase mass transfer coefficient were examined. In each section, correlations to predict the hydrodynamic characteristics such as minimum fluidization velocity, phase holdup, bubble properties and particle fluctuating frequency and dispersion and heat and mass transfer coefficients were suggested. And finally suggestions have been made for the future study for the application of three-phase inverse fluidized bed in several available fields to meet the increasing demands of this system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.685-693
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• 1990

The heat transfer coefficients were calculated numerically to see the effects of radiation around the porous medium put on the flat plate at a distance from the leading edge of flat plate for the two-dimensional laminar flows. To verify the analytical model developed and invoke the heat/mass transfer analogy, an experiment was carried out using naphthalene sublimation technique. From the effects of the wake, Sherwood number is maximum around the region where the porous medium is attached. The theoretical results correspond well with the experimental results at small Darcy number. Permeability of ceramic blocks used for experiment was also measured and the Forchheimer equation is applicable in our measurement range.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.430-434
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• 2018

In this study, an effective diffusion coefficient and mass transfer coefficient were investigated in microwave-assisted drying of paclitaxel for removal of residual methylene chloride. At all the temperatures (35, 45, and $55^{\circ}C$), a large amount of the residual methylene chloride was initially removed during the drying, and the drying efficiency increased when increasing the drying temperature. The effective diffusion coefficient ($1.299{\times}10^{-13}{\sim}2.571{\times}10^{-13}m^2/s$) and mass transfer coefficient ($1.625{\times}10^{-11}{\sim}4.857{\times}10^{-11}m/s$) increased with increasing drying temperature. The small Biot number (0.0100~0.0151) indicated that the process of mass transfer was externally controlled.