• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.732-738
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• 2008

Simulated moving bed (SMB) process is a continuous chromatographic technology used to separate a large amount of petrochemicals, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and so on, drawing a great attraction of related industries. With the recent development of biotechnology, the SMB process has been adopted for the separation of various useful bio-products. Attempts to understand the separation mechanism of the SMB process in many aspects are reported in many publications. These researches have dealt with the improvement of SMB for easier operation and solving problem in process. The feed mixture fed into the SMB process may be of different concentration batch by batch rather than in uniform concentration. Retention behaviors of feed (psicose (A) and fructose (B) mixture) existing in the SMB unit in dynamic steady-state and feed (psicose (C) and fructose (D) mixture) newly injected into the SMB were analyzed. It was observed that the existing components, (A) and (B), were eluted relatively faster as the injection time of new feed was earlier during the port-switching period. In addition, the components (C) and (D) were eluted earlier as fresh feed was injected earlier in a port-switching time.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.57 no.5
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• pp.637-651
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• 2019

In the event of a major accident such as an explosion in a refinery or a petrochemical plant, it has caused a serious loss of life and property and has had a great impact on the insurance market. In the case of catastrophic incidents occurring in process industries such as refinery and petrochemical plants, only the proximate causes of loss have been drawn and studied from inspectors or claims adjustors responsible for claims of property insurers, incident cause investigators, and national forensic service workers. However, it has not been done well for conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and identifying the factors that contributed to the failure and establishing preventive measures before leading to chemical plant's catastrophic incidents. In this study, the criteria of warning signs on CCPS catastrophic incident waning sign self-assessment tool which was derived through the RCA method and the contribution factor analysis method using the swiss cheese model principle has been reviewed first. Secondly, in order to determine the major incident warning signs in an actual chemical plant, 614 recommendations which have been issued during last the 17 years by loss control engineers of global reinsurers were analyzed. Finally, in order to facilitate the assessment index for catastrophic incident warning signs, the criteria for the catastrophic incident warning sign index at chemical plants were grouped by type and classified into upper category and lower category. Then, a catastrophic incident warning sign index for a chemical plant was developed using the weighted values of each category derived by applying the analytic hierarchy process (pairwise comparison method) through a questionnaire answered by relevant experts of the chemical plant. It is expected that the final 'assessment index for catastrophic incident warning signs' can be utilized by the refinery and petrochemical plant's internal as well as external auditors to assess vulnerability levels related to incident warning signs, and identify the elements of incident warning signs that need to be tracked and managed to prevent the occurrence of serious incidents in the future.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.193-206
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• 2002

Pervaporation separation is one of promising membrane technology for the energy saving processes and it has been developed to separate complex mixture systems including azeotropic mixture, close-boiling mixture, aqueous organic mixtures etc. Many researchers focused on dehydration pervaporation separation and they commercialized ethanol dehydration and isopropanol recycling processes. Nowadays, petroleum separation and volatile organic compound removal using pervaporation membranes is one of the emerging application of pervaporation separation. We reviewed the development and application of pervaporation membranes.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.69-83
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• 2020

Light olefins are important petrochemicals as well as primary building blocks for various chemical intermediates. As the number of ethane cracking center (ECC) process, in which ethylene accounts for most of the production, has increased in recent years, propylene supply is not catching up with steadily increasing propylene demand. This trend makes the conversion of methanol to olefins to get more industrial importance. The methanol to olefins (MTO) process produces methanol through syngas and obtain olefins such as propylene through methanol. Since the reaction from methanol to olefins provides different product compositions depending on the catalyst used for the reaction, it is important to choose an appropriate separation process for the reaction product with different composition. Four different separation processes are considered for four representative cases of product compositions. The separation processes for the reaction products are evaluated by techno-economic analysis based on the simulation results using Aspen plus. Guidelines are provided for selecting a suitable separation process for each of representative case of product compositions in the MTO process.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.73-82
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• 2020

Most process date such as semiconductor and petrochemical processes, autocorrelation often exists between observed data, but when the existing SPC(Statistical process control) is applied to these processes, it is not possible to effectively detect the average change of the process. In this paper, when the average change of a certain size occurs in the process data following a specific time series model, the average of the residuals changes according to the passage of time, and the change pattern of the average is introduced around the ARMA(1,1) process. Based on this result, the reference value required in the design process of the CUSUM (Cumulative sum) control chart is appropriately considered by considering the type of the time series model of the process data of the CUSUM control chart that can detect small mean changes in the process and the width of the process mean change of interest. It was confirmed through simulation that it should be selected and used.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.3-16
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• 2017

Chemical catalyst products are applied to various fields such as petrochemical process, air pollution prevention facility and automobile exhaust gas purifier. The domestic and overseas chemical catalyst market is increasing every year, and the amount of waste catalyst generated thereby is also increasing. Most of the used chemical catalyst products, such as desulfurized waste catalysts and automobile waste catalysts containing valuable metals are important recyclable resources from a substitute resource point of view. The recycling processes for recovering valuable metals have been commercialized through some urban mining companies, and SCR denitration catalysts have been recycled through some remanufacturing companies. In this paper, the amount of domestic production and recycling of major catalyst products have thus been investigated and analyzed so as to be used as basic data for establishing industrial support policy for recycling of used chemical catalyst products. Also tasks for promoting the recycling of used chemical catalyst products are suggested.

• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.174-181
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• 2022

Biomass is a sustainable alternative resource for production of liquid fuels and organic compounds that are currently produced from fossil fuels including petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Because the use of fossil fuels can increase the production of greenhouse gases, the use of carbon-neutral biomass can contribute to the reduction of global warming. Although biological and chemical processes have been proposed to produce petroleum-replacing chemicals and fuels from biomass feedstocks, it is difficult to replace completely fossil fuels because of the high oxygen content of biomass. Production of petroleum-like fuels and chemicals from biomass requires the removal of oxygen atoms or conversion of the oxygen functionalities present in biomass derivatives, which can be achieved by catalytic hydrodeoxygenation. Hydrodeoxygenation has been used to convert raw biomass-derived materials, such as biomass pyrolysis oils and lignocellulose-derived chemicals and lipids, into deoxygenated fuels and chemicals. Multifunctional catalysts composed of noble metals and transition metals supported on high surface area metal oxides and carbons, usually selected as supports of heterogeneous catalysts, have been used as efficient hydrodeoxygenation catalysts. In this review, the catalysts proposed in the literature are surveyed and hydrodeoxygenation reaction systems using these catalysts are discussed. Based on the hydrodeoxygenation methods reported in the literature, an insight for feasible hydrodeoxygenation process development is also presented.

• The Safety technology
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• no.181
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• pp.22-23
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• 2013

1890년 설립된 에머슨은 글로벌 제조 및 기술 회사로, 전 세계 산업 및 소비자 시장에 생산성과 효율을 증대시키는 다양한 범위의 제품과 서비스를 제공한다. 이곳은 크게 다섯 가지 사업 부문을 통해 운영된다. 프로세스 매니지먼트, 클라이밋 테크놀러지, 네트워크 파워, 인더스트리얼 오토메이션, 그리고 커머셜 앤 레지덴셜 솔루션이 바로 그것이다. 한국 에머슨 프로세스 매니지먼트는 이 에머슨의 프로세스 매니지먼트 기업이다. 화학, 석유 및 가스, 정제, 펄프 및 종이, 전력, 용수 및 폐수 처리, 채굴 및 금속, 식음료, 생활과학 등 다양한 분야에 대해 공정자동화 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 뛰어난 제품과 기술을 바탕으로 산업 특화 엔지니어링, 컨설팅, 프로젝트 관리 및 유지 서비스를 통합 제공하는 자동화 지원의 선두주자다. 이곳은 기본적으로 자동화 공정을 위한 제품생산 및 시스템 지원을 기본으로 한다. 때문에 작업에 대한 위험은 타 업종보다는 낮은 편이다. 하지만 안전은 절대 방심할 수 없는 법이다. 반도체용 화학제품과 가스를 생산하는 특성상 안전, 그리고 작업의 전기안전에 대한 적극적인 안전관리 활동을 펼치면서, 근로자들이 안전한 작업환경에서 최고의 제품을 생산하는 데에만 매진할 수 있도록 하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12a
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• pp.370-372
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• 2011

Mist Eliminator(ME)는 화학 공정플랜트 요소부품으로 석유화학공정에서 vapor stream에 존재하는 미세액적의 제거를 위해 많이 사용된다. 하지만 mist eliminator의 설계를 위한 기술접근이 어려워 국내 기술수준은 아주 낮은 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 CFD 소프트웨어를 이용하여 단일 재질(stainless)로 구성된 mist eliminator의 밀도 및 크기 변화에 따른 유동장 내부의 압력, 유속, 유선결과의 예측하였으며, 동일하게 설계된 실험값을 이용하여 Souders-Brown 계수 K를 예측하였다.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.306-315
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• 2009

Due to the depleting petroleum reserve, recurring energy crisis, and global warming, it is necessary to study the development of white biotech-based aromatic chemical feedstock from renewable biomass for replacing petroleum-based one. In particular, the production of aromatic intermediates and derivatives in biosynthetic pathway of aromatic amino acids from glucose might be replaced by the production of petrochemical-based aromatic chemical feedstock including benzene-derived aromatic compounds. In this review, I briefly described the production technology for hydroquinone, catechol, adipic acid, shikimic acid, gallic acid, pyrogallol, vanillin, p-hydroxycinnamic acid, p-hydroxystyrene, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, indigo, and indole 3-acetic acid using metabolic engineering, bioconversion, and chemical process. The problems and possible solutions regarding development of production technology for competitive white biotech-based aromatic compounds were also discussed.