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Protein subcellular localization classification from multiple subsets of amino acid pair compositions

  • Tung, Thai Quang;Lim, Jong-Tae;Lee, Kwang-Hyung;Lee, Do-Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2004
  • Subcellular localization is a key functional char acteristic of proteins. With the number of sequences entering databanks rapidly increasing, the importance of developing a powerful tool to identify protein subcellular location has become self-evident. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for predic ting protein subcellular locations from protein sequences. The main idea was motivated from the observation that amino acid pair composition data is redundant. By classifying from multiple feature subsets and using many kinds of amino acid pair composition s, we forced the classifiers to make uncorrelated errors. Therefore when we combined the predictors using a voting scheme, the prediction accuracy c ould be improved. Experiment was conducted on several data sets and significant improvement has been achieve d in a jackknife test.

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Flame-retardant Finish of Cotton Fabrics Using UV-curable Phosphorous-containing Monomers (자외선 경화형 인계 단량체를 이용한 면직물의 방염가공)

  • Jang, Jin-Ho;Jeong, Yong-Kyun
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2008
  • Flame-retardant cotton fabrics were prepared by UV curing of photocurable aqueous formulations of phosphorous-containing methacrylate monomers and 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-1-propanone as flame retardants and a photoinitiator respectively, which is an environmentally friendly and energy-saving process. The characterization of the UV-coated cotton fabric was made by ATR, TGA and limited oxygen index measurement. UV cured coating onto cotton fabrics reduced the first thermal decomposition temperature and mass loss as well as increase in the amount of char residue compared with the untreated cotton fabric presumably due to modified thermal decomposition process. The LOI values up to 28.5 and 27.2 were obtained by the UV curing of MMEP and TMEP respectively. The treatment was durable to five laundering cycles, which was more prominent in the case of trifunctional TMEP treatment.

A Study on the Fast Pyrolysis Characteristics of Biomass in a Fluidized Bed Reactor (유동층 반응기를 이용한 바이오매스의 급속열분해 특성 연구)

  • Yoo, Kyung-Seun;Eom, Min-Seop;Park, Eun-Kwang;Kim, Nam-Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling Conference
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    • 2006.09a
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    • pp.15-32
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    • 2006
  • Biomass had been attracted public attention as eco-friendly resource which not increases the greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide. In this study, it had been collected pyrolytic products such as bio-oil, char and pyrolytic gas from various biomass in a fluidized bed reactor which is one of the fast pyrolysis processes. To understand the characteristics of biomass pyrolysis, the variation of products yield and chemical composition was determined with various operating parameters like temperature, gas velocity($U_{0}/U_{mf}$) and bed height(L/D). In the optimum operating conditions, gas yield and water content was the lowest and concentration of guaiacols and syringols were the highest. The maximum yields of bio-oil was from 55% to 58% at $400^{\circ}C$.

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Characterization of Bio-oils Produced by Fluidized Bed Type Fast Pyrolysis of Woody Biomass (목질바이오매스의 급속열분해에 의해 생성된 바이오오일의 특성 분석)

  • Choi, Joon-Weon;Choi, Don-Ha;Cho, Tae-Su;Meier, Dietrich
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.36-43
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    • 2006
  • Using fluidized bed type fast pyrolysis system (capacity 400 g/h) bio-oils were produced from beech (Fagus sylvatica) and softwood mixture (spruce and larch, 50:50). The pyrolysis was performed for 1~2 s at the temperature of $470{\pm}5^{\circ}C$. Pyrolysis products consisted of liquid form of bio-oil, char and gases. In beech wood bio-oil was formed to ca. 60% based on dry biomass weight and the yield of bio-oil was 49% in soft wood mixture. The moisture contents in both bio-oils were ranged between 17% and 22% and the bio-oil's density was measured to $1.2kg/{\ell}$. Bio-oils were composed of 45% carbon, 47% oxygen, 7% hydrogen and lower than 1% nitrogen,which was very similar to those of original biomass. In comparison with oils from fossil resources, oxygen content was very high in bio-oils, while no sulfur was found. More than 90 low molecular weight components, classified to aromatic and non aromatic compounds, were identified in bio-oils by gas chromatographic analysis, which amounted to 31~33% based on the dry weight of bio-oils.

Characterisation of the pyrolysis oil derived from bael shell (aegle marmelos)

  • Bardalai, Monoj;Mahanta, Dimbendra Kumar
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.180-187
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    • 2016
  • In the present work, bael shell (aegle marmelos) is used as the feedstock for pyrolysis, using a fixed bed reactor to investigate the characteristics of the pyrolysis oil. The product yields, e.g., liquid, char and gases are produced from the biomass at different temperatures with the particle size of 0.5-1.0 mm, at the heating rate of $150^{\circ}C/min$. The maximum liquid yield, i.e., 36.23 wt.%, was found at $5500^{\circ}C$. Some physical properties of the pyrolysis oil such as calorific value, viscosity, density, pH, flash point and fire point are evaluated. The calorific value of the bael shell pyrolysis oil was 20.4 MJ/kg, which is slightly higher than the biomass, i.e., 18.24 MJ/kg. The H/C and O/C ratios of the bio-oil were found as 2.3 and 0.56 respectively, which are quite higher than some other bio-oils. Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS) and Fourier Transform Infra-red (FTIR) analyses showed that the pyrolysis oil of bael shell is mostly composed by phenolic and acidic compounds. The results of the properties of the bael shell pyrolysis oil reveal the potential of the oil as an alternate fuel with the essential upgradation of some properties.

Characteristics of Bio-oil derived from Quercus Acutissima in a Fluidized Bed Pyrolyser (유동층 열분해로에 의하여 생산된 상수리나무 바이오오일의 특성)

  • Lee Sun-Hoon;Eom Min-Seop;Yoo Kyung-Seun;Lee Young-Soo;Kim Nam-Chan;Lee See-Hoon;Lee Jae-Goo;Kim Jae-Ho
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.15 no.1 s.69
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2006
  • Fast pyrolysis of Quercus acutissima was carried out in a fluidized bed pyrolyser and then the physicochemical properities of obtained bio-oil were analyzed using GC/MS. The yields of bio-oil of Quercus acutissima and Larix leptolepis from a fluidized bed pyrolyzer were maximized at $350^{\circ}C\;and\;400^{\circ}C$, respectively. This is due to the difference or cellulose content between the two tree species. Above the optimum temperature, the yields of char and oil decreased as the reaction temperature increased, but the yield of gas-phase and water fraction increased. It is concluded that this phenomenon is occured by secondary pyrolysis in the free board. The feeding rate of the sample in a fluidized bed pyrolyser did not affect the yields and composition of products, because of a sufficient mixing between bed materials and sand.

Improved Thermal Stability of PET Fabrics by Photografting of Methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane(MAPTMS) (Methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane(MAPTMS)의 광그라프트에 의한 PET직물의 열적 안정성 향상)

  • Jang, Jin-Ho;Son, Jung-A
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2008
  • Methacryloxypropyl trimethoxysilane (MAPTMS), a hybrid organic-inorganic monomer, was photografted onto PET fabric using benzophenone (BP) as a photoinitiator. It was found that a UV energy of 43.2J/$cm^2$ was required to optimally photograft the MAPTMS onto PET fabrics which was applied with an aqueous formulation of 10% MAPTMS, 20% BP and 0.5% N-Methyldiethanol amine (MDEA). The MDEA additive was efficient in reducing atmospheric oxygen inhibition of polymer radicals which eliminated compulsory nitrogen inerting. The surface grafting of PET fabrics was verified by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and scanning electron spectroscopy (SEM). The grafted PET fabrics with the hybrid monomer showed higher thermal stability due to the introduced silane component in the monomer as ascertained by higher char content at 800$^{\circ}C$, which increased to 14.5% for the 15.8% grafting compared to 8.2% for the untreated.

Development of Bio-AC Filter for Heavy Metal Adsorption (중금속 제거에 우수한 바이오 활성탄 필터의 개발)

  • Kim, Hak-Hee;Yoon, Kyung-Sik
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.541-546
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    • 2003
  • Activated carbon was prepared from coffee wastes by chemical activation with $ZnCl_{2}$, NaOH and KOH. The coffee wastes was used as raw material. Preparation process involves the roasting of raw material and carbonization of roasted material followed by chemical activation. N2-BET surface areas of activated coffee char prepared by chemical activation was measured as $1,110{\sim}2,442m^{2}/g$. Removal of copper and chromium in solution by activated carbon was carried out and structural change of pore surface was observed by SEM.

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An Analysis of the Influence Factors of Farmers' Acceptance Intention on Low Carbon Agricultural Technology Bio-Char (저탄소 농업기술 바이오차에 대한 농업인의 수용의도 영향 요인 분석)

  • Ju-Young An;Geum-Yeong Hwang;Ji-Bum Um
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.199-212
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    • 2023
  • Recently, despite the active interest and research on biochar, there is a lack of research on the acceptance intention of farmers, who are technology adopters. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to conduct a survey of 168 farmers and structurally analyze the factors affecting farmers' intention to accept biochar. The analysis results are as follows. First, promotion conditions and network effects have a positive influence on farmers' intention to accept biochar. Second, the mediating variable, network effect, has a complete mediating effect between performance expectations, social influence, and acceptance intention. This suggests that organizations need to be utilized to spread biochar because network effects increase the explanatory power of acceptance intention.

Development of Innovation DME Process from Natural Gas and Biomass in KOREA (천연가스와 바이오매스로부터 개선된 DME 공정의 개발)

  • Cho, Wonjun;Song, Taekyong;Baek, Youngsoon;Kim, Seung-Soo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.107-107
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    • 2010
  • Hydrogen is an alternative fuel for the future energy which can reduce pollutants and greenhouse gases. Synthesis gas have played an important role of synthesizing the valuable chemical compound, for example methanol, DME and GTL chemicals. Renewable biomass feedstocks can be potentially used for fuels and chemical production. Current thermal processing techniques such as fast pyrolysis, slow pyrolysis, and gasification tend to generate products with a large slate of compounds. Lignocellulose feedstocks such as forest residues are promising for the production of bio-oil and synthesis gas. Pyrolysis and gasification was investigated using thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) and bubbling fluidized bed gasification reactor to utilize forest woody biomass. Most of the materials decomposed between $320^{\circ}C$ and $380^{\circ}C$ at heating rates of $5{\sim}20^{\circ}C/min$ in thermogravimetric analysis. Bubbling fluidized bed reactor were use to study gasification characteristics, and the effects of reaction temperature, residence time and feedstocks on gas yields and selectivities were investigated. With increasing temperature from $750^{\circ}C$ to $850^{\circ}C$, the yield of char decreased, whereas the yield of gas increased. The gaseous products consisted of mostly CO, CO2, H2 and a small fraction of C1-C4 hydrocarbons.

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