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A Non-Pt Catalyst for Improved Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Microbial Fuel Cells

  • Kim, Jy-Yeon;Han, Sang-Beom;Oh, Sang-Eun;Park, Kyung-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2011
  • Fe-tetramethoxyphenylporphyrin on carbon black (Fe-TMPP/C) is examined and compared with carbon (C) and Pt-coated carbon (Pt/C) for oxygen reduction reaction in a two chambered microbial fuel cell (MFC). The Fe-TMPP/C is prepared by heat treatment and characterized using SEM, TEM, and XPS. The electrochemical properties of catalysts are characterized by voltammerty and single cell measurements. It is found that the power generation in the MFC with Fe-TMPP/C as the cathode is higher than that with Pt/C. The maximum power of the Fe-TMPP/C is 0.12 mW compared with 0.10 mW (Pt/C) and 0.02 mW (C). This high output with the Fe-TMPP/C indicates that MFCs are promising in further practical applications with low cost macrocycles catalysts.

Examination of Seismic Performance for Structure with Seismic Members made by High Strength Steel (고강도강 내진성능 향상부재를 적용한 건물 성능 비교)

  • Kim, Moonjeong;Ha, Tae Uk;Cho, Sukhee
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.281-288
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    • 2015
  • Seismic members like damper do not have any treatment of preventing story stiffness reduction after elastic yielding of stories causing story collapse. This paper suggests a method able to prevent story stiffness reduction using high-strength steel. This paper suggests these also : (1) High-strength steel stud column reinforcing story stiffness reduction until story drift 0.02rad can be designed in small area without adjusting layout. (2) Suggested seismic member installing at lowest level shows effects to preventing deformation concentration under huge seismic waves.

Development of Optimal Bio-encapsulated Media for Organic/Inorganic Odor Reduction (유.무기성 악취저감을 위한 최적의 미생물 포괄고정담체 제조법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sun-jin;Kim, Tae-Hyeong;Lee, Yun-Hee;Jang, Hyun-Sup;Song, Ji-Hyeon;Hwan, Sun-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2012
  • A bio-encapsuled media was developed to apply on reducing odors produced from organic waste treatment process. The microorganism, candida tropicalis, was encapsulated in sponge media consisted of polyurethane material. Sodium alginate as a natural polymer which does not affect to hydrophilic microbes and PEGDA(poly ethylene glycol diacrylate) as a artificial polymer were used for the encapsuled media. The media was evaluated with TMEDA (N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine, 0.02~0.1%) as a catalyst at different temperature 25 and $35^{\circ}C$. The best performance was achieved with 0.02% of TMEDA at $25^{\circ}C$. The microbes' activity in the media was examined by Live/Dead cell method.

Studies on the Influence of Various Factors on 2, 3, 5-Triphenyl Tetrazolium Chloride Reduction Test(T.T.C. Test) (2, 3, 5-Triphenyl Tetrazolium Chloride 환원시험(還元試驗)(T. T. C. Test)에 미치는 요인(要因)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Kyo-Joon;Kim, Sang Keun
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 1978
  • This study was carried out in order to know the effect of T. T. C. reaction on antibiotics, cleanser, disinfectants, pH, acidity and station of culture a bacterial Streptococcus thermophilus was used to 2.3.5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride reduction test for the detection of residual antibiotics in milk were tested. The results obtained were summarized as follows. 1. The T. T. C. reaction was most sensitive in the group of penicillin as 0.02~0.05 IU and also it was less sensitive in Streptomycin and various broad antibiotics except Vibramycin, Synthomycin and Teramycin but it was least sensitive in Streptomycin group. 2. For ther T. T. C. reaction test on cleanser, the positive reaction was appeared above 0.7% of Hi-Ti and 0.1% of NaOH solution respectively. 3. For the T. T. C. test reaction on disinfectants, the positive reaction was occured on 200~500 ppm solution of sodium-hypochlorite and chloride-lime, 0.15~0.35% solution of phenol, cresol and Iode-K. 4. The optimum temperature was $35{\sim}37^{\circ}C$ and proper culturing time was 12 to 18 hours for propagation culturing. 5. The suspect positive reaction was tested above pH 5.0 and the positive reaction was appeared above 0.21% of acidity.

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Sintering and Oxidation of GdB4 Synthesized by B4C Reduction Method

  • Sonber, Jitendra Kumar;Murthy, Tammana Shri Ram Chandra;Sairam, Kannan;Kain, Vivekanand
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2017
  • Gadolinium tetraboride ($GdB_4$) was synthesized by reduction of $Gd_2O_3$ using boron carbide in presence of carbon. Effect of temperature on product quality was investigated. Pure $GdB_4$ powder was obtained in vacuum at $1500^{\circ}C$. Pressureless sintering experiments revealed that sintering takes place only above $1600^{\circ}C$. A maximum density of 77.1% of the theoretical value was obtained at $1800^{\circ}C$ by pressureless sintering. Hot pressing resulted in 95.5% of theoretical density at the lower temperature of $1700^{\circ}C$ under 35 MPa pressure. Hardness and fracture toughness of dense $GdB_4$ were measured and found to be 21.4 GPa and $2.3MPa{\cdot}m^{1/2}$, respectively. After exposure to air at $900^{\circ}C$, the formation of a porous and non-protective oxide layer was observed.

Color Variation in Color-shade Polycrystalline Zirconia Ceramics by the Atmosphere Controlled Firing

  • Chang, Myung Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.116-125
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    • 2018
  • Color shade variation was investigated in zirconia dental blocks, prepared using commercial powders. As a reference color-shade block we used the color indexes of A2, A3.5, A4 and B3, according to the VITA classical color scale. The zirconia powders for color shade blocks showed colors of white, yellow, pink and grey, respectively, after firing at $1530^{\circ}C$. The zirconia powders were mixed according to the recipe of color shade blocks and shaped at lower pressure using a uniaxial hydrostatic press. The shaped sample was inserted into a vinyl pack and sealed in a vacuum form machine. The shaped block samples were reshaped at 450 bar using an isostatic cold press and fired at $1530^{\circ}C$ for three hours. In order to investigate the atmospheric color variation with firing temperature, the A2, A3.5, A4 and B3 sintered blocks were fired between $700^{\circ}C$ and $1300^{\circ}C$ under controlled atmosphere of $pN_2$ and $pO_2$. The surface color picture was taken using a smart phone camera and compared with the results obtained using the VITA classical color scale. Quantitative color index value, CIELAB, was measured using a color-meter. Above $800^{\circ}C$, the color darkness greatly increased with the increase of the reduction temperature and keeping time.

Electrochemical Properties of LiNiyMn2-yO4 Prepared by the Solid-state Reaction

  • Song, Myoung-Youp;Kwon, Ik-Hyun;Shon, Mi-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.401-404
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    • 2003
  • LiN $i_{y}$M $n_{2-y}$ $O_4$were synthesized by calcining a mixture of LiOH, Mn $O_2$(CMD), and NiO at 40$0^{\circ}C$ for 10 h and then calcining at 85$0^{\circ}C$ for 48 h in air with intermediate grinding. The voltage vs. discharge capacity curves at a current density 300 $\mu$A/c $m^2$ between 3.5 V and 4.3 V showed two plateaus, but the plateaus became ambiguous as the y value increases. The sample with y=0.02 had the largest first discharge capacity, 118.1 mAh/g. As the value y increases from 0.02 up to 0.2, on the whole, the cycling performance became better. The LiN $i_{0.10}$M $n_{1.90}$ $O_4$sample had a relatively large first discharge capacity 95.0 mAh/g and showed an excellent cycling performance. The samples with larger lattice parameter have, in general, larger discharge capacities. The reduction curves in the cyclic voltammograms for the y=0.05-0.20 samples exhibit three peak showing that the reduction may proceed in three stages in these samples. For the samples with relatively large discharge capacity, the lattice destruction induced by strain causes the capacity fading of LiN $i_{y}$M $n_{2-y}$ $O_4$ with cycling.cling.ing.

Operation diagnostic based on PCA for wastewater treatment (PCA를 이용한 하폐수처리시설 운전상태진단)

  • Jun Byong-Hee;Park Jang-Hwan;Chun Myung-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.383-388
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    • 2006
  • SBR is one of the most general sewage/wastewater treatment processes and, particularly, has an advantage in high concentration wastewater treatment like sewage wastewater. A Kernel PCA based fault diagnosis system for biological reaction in full-scale wastewater treatment plant was proposed using only common bio-chemical sensors such as ORP(Oxidation-Reduction Potential) and DO(Dissolved Oxygen). During the SBR operation, the operation status could be divided into normal status and abnormal status such as controller malfunction, influent disturbance and instrumental trouble. For the classification and diagnosis of these statuses, a series of preprocessing, dimension reduction using PCA, LDA, K-PCA and feature reduction was performed. Also, the diagnosis result using differential data was superior to that of raw data, and the fusion data show better results than other data. Also, the results of combination of K-PCA and LDA were better than those of LDA or (PCA+LDA). Finally, the fault recognition rate in case of using only ORP or DO was around maximum 97.03% and the fusion method showed better result of maximum 98.02%.

The Degumming and Sericin Recovery of the Silk fabric Using the Electrolytic Water(II) (전해수를 이용한 견섬유 정련 및 세리신 회수(II)-분리막에 의한 세리신 농축을 중심으로-)

  • 배기서;이태상;노덕길;홍영기
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2004
  • In this work, Aqueous sericin solution was prepared by degumming process with electrolytic reduction water. Then, the microfiltration and ultrafiltration systems were applied to the concentration of aqueous sericin solution. The objective of this study was to select the optimum operating condition among the different pressure. The permeate flux and rejection ratio were observed with time, pressure, flow rate and concentration. and, the wastewater and permeated water quality values such as pH, BOD, COD, and NH levels were measured. In order to see the influence of electrolytic reduction water, the flux of pure water and electrolytic reduction water by PVDF22(MF) and PS100(UF) membrane was measured. In microfiltration system, the relative flux reduction decreased rapidly to 0.02 in the 30min, as the concentration polarization and gel layer formation were increased. and then the sericin concentration rejection ratio was 40%. In ultrafiltration system, the permeate flux decreased with time and concentration, and increased with the operating pressure and flow rate. Optimal condition in PS100 membrane system for sericin concentration was operating pressure 1.464kgf/$cm^24, operating flow rate $7\ell/min at\; 40^{\circ}C$. At that time, sericin concentration rejection ratio was 83% respectably. The sericin solution was concentrated from 0.1wt% solution to 0.2 wt % solution during about 2 hrs by the UF filteration membrane system.

Effects of Combined Treatment of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes on Fermentation and Composition of Rhodesgrass (Chloris gayana Kunth.) Silage

  • Ridla, M.;Uchida, S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.522-529
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    • 1998
  • This experiment was conducted to study the effects of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) inoculation either alone or in combination with cell wall degrading enzymes on the fermentation characteristics and chemical compositions of Rhodesgrass silage. Over to 1 kg of fresh Rhodesgrass sample a treatment of inoculant LAB with or without addition of an enzyme of Acremoniumcellulase (A) or Meicelase (M) or a mixture of both enzymes (AM) was applied. The treatments were control untreated, LAB-treated (application rate $1.0{\times}10^5cfu/g$ fresh sample), LAB+A 0.005%, LAB+A 0.01%, LAB+A 0.02%, LAB+M 0.005%, LAB+M 0.01%, LAB+M 0.02 %, LAB+AM 0.005%, LAB+AM 0.01%, and LAB+AM 0.02%. The sample was ensiled into 2-L vinyl bottle silo, with 9 silages of each treatment were made. Three silages of each treatment were incubated at 20, 30 and $40^{\circ}C$ for 2-months of storage period. All silages were well preserved with their fermentation quality has low pH values (3.91-4.26) and high lactic acid concentrations (4.11-9.89 %DM). No differences were found in fermentation quality and chemical composition of the control untreated silage as compared to the LAB-treated silage. Combined treatment of LAB+cellulases improved the fermentation quality of silages measured in terms of lower (p < 0.01) pH values and higher (p < 0.05) lactic concentrations than those of LAB-treated silages. Increasing amount of cellulase addition resulted in decrease (p < 0.05) of pH value and increase (p < 0.05) of lactic acid concentration. LAB + cellulase treatments (all cellulase types) reduced (p < 0.01) NDF, ADF and in vitro dry matter digestibility of silages compared with the control untreated silages. The fermentation quality and the rate of cell wall reduction were higher (p < 0.01) in the silages treated with LAB + cellulase A than in the silages treated with either LAB+cellulase M or LAB + cellulase AM. Incubation temperature of $40^{\circ}C$ was likely to be more appropriate environment for stimulating the fermentation of Rhodesgrass silages than those of 20 and $30^{\circ}C$.