• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.246-251
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• 2003

전기분해법을 이용하여 수용액 중의 질산성 질소의 환원거동에 대한 연구를 통하여 수용액중의 질산 함량을 제어하는 연구를 수행하였다. 촉매전극을 채택한 복극전해조에서 30분의 조업에 질산 100ppm 이하의 저농도 용액은 70%, 300ppm 이상의 고농도의 경우는 90%까지 질소를 용이하게 제거할 수 있었다. 초기 질소농도가 증가하면서 한계전류밀도도 크게 증가하였으며, pH가 감소할수록 환원전류가 증가하였다. 그리고 수용액의 pH는 질소 환원반응기구에 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 판명되었으며, 산성에서는 질소형태로 중성 혹은 염기성에서는 암모니아 형태로 환원되는 것으로 추정된다.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.325-331
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• 1994

PGA is formed in a route of CO2 fixation of RuBP catalyzed by RuBPCase, followed by reduction of the PGA by NADH to GAP This reduction is enhanced in an anionic micellar solution(SDS), in which NADH is distributed in the aqueous and the micellar pseudophases in a given ratio. This micellar bounded NADH reacts to PGA, and in higher micellar concentration than $1.25{\times}10^{-2}M$, most of NADH is oxidized to NAD+ by PGA. On the other hand, in the solutions of the positive ionic(CTABr), zwitter ionic(Chaps) and nonionic (Brij and Triton X-100) micelles, the reactions are also enhanced and the concentrations of NADH reach minima with micellar concentrations. Such minima are typical of micellar catalyzed bimolecular reactions, and the fall in concentrations of the reductant followed by a gradual increase is charataristic of reactions of hydrophobic substrates: that is, the reductions of PGA by NADH are sharply enhanced in a range of the lower micellar concentrations, and NADH amounts in ca. $1.25-2.50{\times}10^{-3}M$ micellar solutions are reached to minima, followed by gradual increases of the reductant concentration.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.527-537
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• 2018

Column tests of a sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) bioreactor were conducted to determine the design factors for sulfate-rich mine drainage. Various substrates were applied to the bioreactor, including cow manure and its mixture with a mushroom compost, with rice straw and limestone as subsidiary materials. This procedure provided a removal efficiency of up to 82% of the total sulfur with the mixture of cow manure (70%), mushroom compost (10%) and rice straw (20%), and higher efficiencies were observed after 2 days of retention time. In the downflow condition of the flow direction, oxygen supply and re-oxidation of the sulfates occurred, causing a decrease in sulfate removal efficiency. The addition of an inorganic sludge containing heavy metals, which was intended for production of metal-sulfides in the bioreactor, had a negative effect on the long-term operation owing to arsenic release and toxicity to the SRB. The results thus show that a bioreactor using a mixed substrate with cow manure and operating in the downflow direction could reduce sulfates and total dissolved sulfur content; this process confirms the applicability of the SRB bioreactor to sulfate-rich saline drainage.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.204-212
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• 2021

Resazurin, an oxidized blue dye, is reduced to resorufin, showing a peak absorbance change and emitting fluorescence due to the metabolic activity of living cells. In this study, the growth of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) and the redox potential of living probiotic bacteria were evaluated based on changes in the absorbance or fluorescence of resazurin. Fluorescence analysis is a more accurate and sensitive method for quantifying viable LGG than the colorimetric absorbance measurement of resazurin change. Fluorescence measurement could detect LGG of 6.5-9.5 log CFU/mL within 30 min with R2=0.99. No significant effect of further reduction of resorufin to dihydroresorufin by LGG was observed. Various probiotics showed different resazurin-reducing activities, and L. kimchicus had the highest reducing activity among the six probiotics tested. These findings suggests that fluorescence measurement in a resazurin-based assay is useful for analyzing bacterial growth and the redox potential of living probiotics.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.1013-1016
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• 2008

Nitrogen in the form of nitrate was electrochemically reduced with different cathode materials including Fe, Ni, Cu, and Zn. Zn cathode shows the greatest electrocatalytic activity on the transformation of nitrate ions into ammonia and the $NO_3^-$ removal efficiency has highest value at pH 8.5. Nitrogen in the form of nitrate was initially reduced into nitrite and sequentially, converted into nitrogen inside $NH_3$. Nitrogen in the form of ammonia was completely removed by the reaction with HOCl.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.106-110
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• 2013

In this work, we investigated 20 kinds of ionic liquids as catalyst during the hydrolysis of Saccharina japonica. Three kinds of ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, n-butyl-4-methylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate, and n-methylmorpholine [$HSO_4$], are selected, and then investigated the effect of reaction temperature, catalyst amount and reaction time. The hydrolysis of S. japonica was increased by the increasing of reaction temperature and ionic liquid amount. Also, the hydrolysis presented the linear increase by the increasing of reaction time. After 90 min of reaction, the concentrations of reducing sugar of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, n-butyl-4-methylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate, and n-methylmorpholine [$HSO_4$] are reached to 6.2 g/L, 6.4 g/L and 6.0 g/L, respectively. As an overall result, we obtained the possibility of hydrolysis of marine biomass using ionic liquids.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.466-470
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• 1990

Aflatoxin $B_1$ ($AFB_1$) was reacted with ascorbic acid (AA) alone, with AA plue cysteine and with AA plus cupric ion for 5 days (at $37^{\circ}C$ and pH 5), and the mutagenicity of the reaction products was tested with Salmonella typhimurium TA 100. About 10% of AFBl induced mutagenesis was reduced when $AFB_1$ reacted with AA. This decreasing effect was more severe when $AFB_1$ reacted with AA plus cysteine. The mutagenicity of $AFB_1$ when reacted with AA plus cupric ion was almost completely inhibited, however, eupric ion itself was shown to enhance the mutagenicity of $AFB_1$. Therefore, $AFB_1$ may be degraded in the presence of AA under the given reaction condition and the reaction products was observed to have nonmutagenic effects on the bacterial mutagenecity trials.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.158-164
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• 1991

The reduction mechanism at a mercury electrode of o-cresolphthalexon(OCP) in strongly alkaline supporting electrolytes has been investigated by several electrochemical techniques. The radical formed after first one electron reduction uptake, dimerizes. The result of cyclic voltammetric investigation demonstrated the reversible nature of the electron transfer and standard rate constant was $3.27{\times}10^{-2}$ cm/sec. The apparent irreversible behavior of the second wave is a result of the existence of a fast protonation following the second electron transfer. At low concentration of OCP(< $1{\times}10^{-4}$M), cathodic current were remarkably adsorptive properties. Prolonged electrolysis was carried out at controlled potential of -1.85V, original violet color of the solution becames progressively weaker, and then colorless solution. The final product of an exhaustive electrolysis is electro-inactive. The appearence of four steps may be explained by the fact that the reduction of OCP elucidated ECEC mechanism.

• Clean Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.111-117
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• 2002

Catalytic decomposition and reduction of NO have been carried out on copper loaded mordenites in a packed bed flow reactor. For the decomposition of NO, $Cu^{\circ}/HM$ exhibited higher activities than CuO/HM at high copper content, which may be related to the difference in the amount of $Cu^{2+}$ ions and the reducibility of CuO between $Cu^{\circ}/HM$ and Cuo/HM. However, $Cu^{\circ}/HM$ showed higher reduction activities than CuO/HM at low copper content. This result may be dependent on the difference in the amount of high-reducibility CuO between $Cu^{\circ}/HM$ and CuO/HM.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.75-82
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• 2008

Two UASB reactors were operated to investigate the effect of high concentration of sulfate on anaerobic digestion of propionate using an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. An organic loading rate of $1.2kg\;COD/m^3{\cdot}d$ and a hydraulic retention time of 1.6 d were maintained during this study. In the absence of sulfate, the UASB reactor achieved about 95% removal of chemical oxygen demand whereas in the presence of $2,000\;SO_4^{2-}mg/L$, the COD removal rate decreased to 83% due probably to the inhibition of dissolved sulfide inhibition. Interactions between the methane producing bacteria (MPB) and sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) were measured to investigate the competition between MPB and SRB. The MPB consumed average 58% of the available electron donors at $COD/SO_4^{2-}$ ratio of 1. Propionate was consumed mainly by SRB, converting sulfate into sulfide and suppressing the methane production. The specific methanogenic activity (SMA) using acetate and propionate increased as microorganism acclimated to the substrate.