• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.52-64
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• 2002

유기성 폐기물을 이용하여 생물학적 수소생산 통합화 시스템 연구를 수행하였다. 통합화 시스템은 유기성폐기물의 전처리, 2단계 혐기발효 및 광합성 배양으로 구성된 생물학적 수소생산 공정, 초임계수 가스화 공정, 생산된 가스의 저장, 분리 및 연료전지를 이용한 전력 생산으로 구성되었다. 실험에 사용된 유기성 폐자원은 식품공장 폐수, 과일폐기물, 하수슬러지이며, 전처리는 폐기물에 따라 열처리 및 물리적 처리를 하였으며, 전처리된 시료는 생물학적 수소생산 공정에 직접 적용되었다. Clostridium butyricum 및 메탄 생성조에서 발생하는 하수슬러지중의 미생물 복합체는 수소생산 혐기 발효공정에 사용되었으며, 광합성 수소생산 미생물인 홍색 비유황 세균은 광합성 배양에 사용되었다. 생물학적 공정에서 발생하는 미생물 슬러지는 초임계수 가스화 공정으로 수소를 발생하였으며, 슬러지 중의 COD를 저하시켰다. 생물학적 공정 및 초임계수 가스화 공정에서 발생하는 수소는 가스탱크에 가입상태로 저장한 후, 95%순도로 분리하였으며, 정제된 수소는 연료전지에 연결하여 전력 생산을 하였다.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2023

Currently, spray coating has attracted interest in the mass production of anode catalyst layers for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE). The solvent in the spray ink is a critical factor for the catalyst dispersion in ink, the microstructure of the catalyst layer, and the PEMWE performance. Herein, various pure organic solvents were examined as a substitute for conventional isopropanol-deionized water (IPA-DIW) mixture for ink solvent. Among the polar solvents that exhibited better IrO₂ dispersion over nonpolar solvents, 2-butanol (2-BuOH) was selected as a suitable candidate. The PEMWE single cells were fabricated using 2-BuOH at various ionomer contents, spray nozzle types, and drying temperatures, and their performance was compared to the cells fabricated using a conventional IPA-DIW mixture. The PEMWE single cells with 2-BuOH solvent showed good performances comparable to the conventional IPA-DIW mixture case and highly durable performances under accelerated degradation tests.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2005년도 생물공학의 동향(XVI)
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• pp.192-192
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• 2005

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.702-711
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• 2016

The authors reviewed information about biorefining of biomass by using academic information databases. Feedstocks were classified into triglycerides biomass, sugar biomass, starchy biomass, lignocellulosic biomass, and organic waste biomass. Biorefinery is an integrated system converting biomass into biofuels and biochemicals by various physical, chemical, biological, and thermochemical technologies. This paper presented a comprehensive summaries of opportunities, recent trends and challenges of biorefinery. A brief overview of promising building blocks, their sources from biomass, and their derivatives were also provided. In conclusion, this paper demonstrated the feasibility of biorefinery producing biofuels and biochemicals from biomass.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XII)
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• pp.40-44
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• 2003

Soil-borne infectious disease including Pythium aphanidermatum and Rhizoctonia solani causes severe damage to plants, such as cucumber. This soil-borne infectious disease was not controlled effectively by chemical pesticide. Since these diseases spread through the soil, chemical agents are usually ineffective. Instead, biological control, including antagonistic microbe can be used as a preferred control method. An efficient method was developed to select an antagonistic strain to be used as a biological control agent strain. In this new method, surface tension reduction potential of an isolate was included in the ‘decision factor’ in addition to the other factors, such as growth rate, and pathogen inhibition rate. Considering these 3 decision factors by a statistical method, an isolate from soil was selected and was identified as Bacillus sp. GB16. In the pot test, this strain showed the best performance among the isolated strains. The lowest disease incidence rate and fastest seed growth was observed when Bacillus sp. GB16 was used. Therefore this strain was considered as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). The action of surface tension reducing component was deduced as the enhancement of wetting, spreading, and residing of antagonistic strain in the rhizosphere. This result showed that new selection method was significantly effective in selecting the best antagonistic strain for biological control of soil-borne infectious plant pathogen. The antifungal substances against P. aphanidermatum and R. solani were partially purified from the culture filtrates of Bacillus sp. GB16. In this study, lipopeptide possessing antifungal activity was isolated from Bacillus sp. GB16 cultures by various purification procedures and was identified as a surfactin-like lipopeptide based on the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), high performance liquid chromatography mass spectroscopy (HPLC-MS), and quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) ESI-MS/MS data. The lipopeptide, named GB16-BS, completely inhibited the growth of Pythium aphanidermatum, Rhizoctonia solani, Penicillium sp., and Botrytis cineria at concentrations of 10 and 50 mg/L, respectively. A novel method to prevent the foaming and to provide oxygen was developed. During the production of surface active agent, such as lipopeptide (surfactin), large amount of foam was produced by aeration. This resulted in the carryover of cells to the outside of the fermentor, which leads to the significant loss of cells. Instead of using cell-toxic antifoaming agents, low amount of hydrogen peroxide was added. Catalase produced by cells converted hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water. Also addition of corn oil as an oxygen vector as well as antifoaming agent was attempted. In addition, Ca-stearate, a metal soap, was added to enhance the antifoam activity of com oil. These methods could prevent the foaming significantly and maintained high dissolved oxygen in spite of lower aeration and agitation. Using these methods, high cell density, could be achieved with increased lipopeptide productivity. In conclusion to produce an effective biological control agent for soil-borne infectious disease, following strategies were attempted i) effective screening of antagonist by including surface tension as an important decision factor ii) identification of antifungal compound produced from the isolated strain iii) novel oxygenation by $H_2O_2-catalase$ with vegetable oil for antifungal lipopeptide production.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2018

본 연구는 예부터 약용으로 사용되었거나, 현재 식품공전에 식품원료로 사용이 가능한 것으로 등록된 국내 산림지역에 자생하는 식물을 식품산업에 활용하고자 선행연구에서 우수한 항산화 활성을 보인 갈참나무 잎을 본 연구에서 사용하였다. 70% 에탄올을 이용하여 추출한 갈참나무 잎을 이용하여, hydrogen peroxide로 산화적 스트레스를 유도한 피부 섬유아세포에서의 세포 보호효과, 세포내 항산화 효과 및 항노화 효과를 측정하였다. 세포 독성을 평가한 결과 25, 50 및 $100{\mu}g/mL$의 갈참나무 잎 추출물을 처리하였을 때 모두 독성을 나타내지 않았으며, hydrogen peroxide로 산화적 스트레스를 유도한 상태에서는 세포를 보호하여 농도 유의적으로 세포생존율이 증가하였다. 특히, $100{\mu}g/mL$의 농도에서는 양성대조군으로 사용한 $50{\mu}M$ ascorbic acid 수준까지 세포 생존율이 증가하였다. 세포내 항산화 효과를 확인 하기위해 사용한 $H_2-DCFDA$ assay에서는 형광현미경과 형광흡광도 측정에서 모두 농도 유의적으로 세포내 ROS 저감 활성을 확인하였고 갈참나무 잎 추출물을 $100{\mu}g/mL$ 농도로 처리했을 때는 $50{\mu}M$ ascorbic acid와 비슷한 세포내 항산화 효과를 나타내었다. 또한 SA-${\beta}$-galactosidase assay를 이용한 갈참나무 잎 추출물의 피부 섬유아세포에 대한 항노화활성은 ROS 생성 억제 효과와 유사한 경향으로 갈참나무 잎 추출물의 농도 유의적으로 세포 노화 억제효과를 확인하였다. 이상의 결과를 종합하여 볼 때 갈참나무 잎 추출물이 hydrogen peroxide로 인한 산화적 스트레스 상태에서 세포 보호효과, 항산화 효과 및 항노화 효과가 관찰되어 기능성 식품원료로서의 활용도가 매우 넓을 것으로 판단된다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.244-251
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• 2013

Lignocellulosic materials are commonly used in bio-$H_2$ production for the sustainable energy resource development as they are abundant, cheap, renewable and highly biodegradable. In the process of the bio-$H_2$ production, the pretreated lignocellulosic materials are firstly converted to monosaccharides by enzymolysis and then to $H_2$ by fermentation. Since the structures of lignocellulosic materials are rather complex, the hydrolysates vary with the used materials. Even using the same lignocellulosic materials, the hydrolysates also change with different pretreatment methods. It has been shown that the appropriate hydrolysate compositions can dramatically improve the biological activities and bio-$H_2$ production performances. Over the past decades, hydrolysis with respect to different lignocellulosic materials and pretreatments has been widely investigated. Besides, effects of the hydrolysates on the biohydrogen yields have also been examined. In this review, recent studies on hydrolysis as well as their effects on the biohydrogen production performance are summarized.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2020

Oxidative stress is one of the pathogenic mechanisms of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. Neuroglia, the most abundant cells in the brain, is thought to play an important role in the antioxidant defense system and neuronal metabolic support against neurotoxicity and oxidative stress. We investigated the protective effect of paeoniflorin (PF) against oxidative stress in C6 glial cells. Exposure of C6 glial cells to hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂, 500 μM) significantly decreased cell viability and increased amounts of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release, indicating H₂O₂-induced cellular damage. However, treatment with PF significantly attenuated H₂O₂-induced cell death as shown by increased cell survival and decreased LDH release. The H₂O₂-stimulated reactive oxygen species production was also suppressed, and it may be associated with improvement of superoxide dismutase activity by treatment with PF. In addition, an increase in ratio of Bcl-2/Bax protein expression was observed after treatment with PF. In particular, the down-stream of the apoptotic signaling pathway was inhibited in the presence of PF, mostly by reduction of cleaved-poly ADP ribose polymerase, cleaved caspase-3, and -9 protein expression. Furthermore, H₂O₂-induced phosphorylation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 was attenuated by treatment with PF. Taken together, neuroprotective effect of PF against oxidative stress probably result from the regulation of apoptotic pathway in C6 glial cells. In conclusion, our findings suggest that PF may be a potent therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative disorders.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.768-774
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• 2014

황-요오드(Sulfur-Iodine, SI) 공정은 물을 분해시켜 수소를 생산하는 열화학 공정으로 공정에 사용되는 황과 요오드는 재순환된다. SI 공정 중 요오드가 분리 순환되는 Section III에서는 공정 효율 개선을 위해 다양한 방법이 개발되고 있다. EED(electro-electrodialysis)를 이용한 방법은 추가적인 화합물이 필요하지 않는 공정으로 Section III의 효율을 높일 수 있으나 공정 흐름에 포함된 요오드에 의해 상당한 부하가 걸리게 된다. 이를 해결하기 설계를 위한 기초 자료 제거 공정으로 결정화 방법이 고려되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 요오드 결정화 반응기 설계를 위한 기초 자료 확보를 위해 $I_2$ 포화 $HI_x$ 용액에서 요오드 결정의 침강 속도를 모델링 하였다. $HI_x$ 용액 조성은 열역학 모델인 UVa를 이용하여 결정하였으며 용액 물성은 순수한 물성들과 상관관계식을 활용하여 추산하였다. Multiphysics 전산툴을 이용하여 침강에 따른 속도 변화를 계산하였으며 요오드 직경과 온도에 따른 변화를 추산하였다. 직경(1.0~2.5 mm)과 온도($10{\sim}50^{\circ}C$) 범위에서 요오드는 0.5 m/s 내외의 종말 속도를 보이며 이 속도는 용액의 점도 보다 밀도에 더 크게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 하수슬러지를 전처리 과정을 통해 가용화한 후 혐기성 생물학적 분해를 실시하였다. 산 또는 알칼리 조건과 초음파처리를 복합적으로 적용하여 전처리 후 슬러지의 가용화율을 비교하였으며 알칼리 조건에서 초음파처리를 병행하였을 때 최대 가용화율을 얻을 수 있었다. 가용화된 슬러지의 생물학적 유용성은 복합전처리를 실시한 경우 빠른 생물학적 분해와 더불어 총 가스 발생량은 10배 이상 증가하였으며 가용화된 슬러지에서 바이오가스 생산 가능성을 확인 하였다. 전처리를 실시한 슬러지를 이용하여 생물학적 분해를 실시하였을 때 약 50%정도 높은 수소생성율의 지표가 되는 B/A비를 확인할 수 있었으나 수소생성에 저해가 되는 lactic acid와 propionic acid가 검출되는 것으로 보아 후속연구가 필요할 것으로 판단되었다.