• Carbon letters
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels such as ethanol and other value-added bio-products including activated carbons has attracted much attention. The development of an efficient, cost-effective, and eco-friendly pretreatment process is a major challenge in lignocellulosic biomass to biofuel conversion. Although several modern pretreatment technologies have been introduced, few promising technologies have been reported. Microwave irradiation or microwave-assisted methods (physical and chemical) for pretreatment (disintegration) of biomass have been gaining popularity over the last few years owing to their high heating efficiency, lower energy requirements, and easy operation. Acid and alkali pretreatments assisted by microwave heating meanwhile have been widely used for different types of lignocellulosic biomass conversion. Additional advantages of microwave-based pretreatments include faster treatment time, selective processing, instantaneous control, and acceleration of the reaction rate. The present review provides insights into the current research and advantages of using microwave-assisted pretreatment technologies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars in the process of cellulosic ethanol production.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.88-94
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• 1976

This paper attempted to investigate the effect of pretreatment with carbon tetrachloride on absorption, excretion, protein binding, and biological half-life of sulfisoxazol from rats and rabbits. Absorption of sulfisoxazol was found to decrease in severe damage rats, compared with that of normal rats, but in mild rats, absorption of sulfisoxazol was similar to that of nomal rats. Absorption of sulfisoxazol was decreased significantly in severe damage rabbit pretreated with carbon tetrachloride but in mild damage rabbit, absorption of sulfisoxazol was not influenced significantly. Pretreatment with carbon tetrachloride gave the effect on clearance of sulfisoxazol in part but protein binding percent of sulfisoxazol was not influenced by concentration of carbon tetrachloride.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.447-451
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• 2004

The various pretreatment processes were evaluated to remove organic pollutants of weathered oil contaminated seawater(WOCS) for reverse osmosis desalination process, Biodegradation, coagulation, ultrafiltration, advanced oxidation processes and granular activated carbon filtration were used to evaluate the potential of organic pollutants removal in WOCS. Dissolved Organic Carbon(DOC) was almost not removed by biodegradation in WOCS. DOC was removed by 25% and 10% with the addition of $FeCl_3$ and PAC in WOCS, respectively. The removal efficiency using ultrafiltration(WOCS 500) was about 20% of DOC and 40% of $E_{260}$, respectively. In AOP application of WOCS, the removal of organic materials was improved up to 60% by the combination of $UV/O_3$ compared to UV process. However, 98% of DOC in woes could be removed by granular activated carbon filtration. It is revealed that activated carbon filtration is the best process for the pretratment of DOC removal.

• Carbon letters
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.167-170
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• 2011

Petroleum pitch-based activated carbons (ACs) were obtained in this work from a combination of pretreatment with different amounts of potassium permanganate ($KMnO_4$) and chemical activation with potassium hydroxide. The surface characteristics of the pitch after the $KMnO_4$ pretreatment were characterized by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The structural characteristics of the pitch after the $KMnO_4$ pretreatment were determined by means of X-ray diffraction. The influence of the $KMnO_4$ treatment on the textural properties of the petroleum pitch-based ACs was investigated by means of $N_2$/77K adsorption isotherms. The investigation also involved the use of the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller equation and the Dubinin-Radushkevich method. The FT-IR results show that the pretreatment promotes the formation of surface oxygen functionalities and leads to an increase of the interplanar distance ($d_{002}$) of the functional groups induced between carbon layers. Moreover, the specific surface area of the pitch-based ACs increases in proportion to the amount of $KMnO_4$ pretreatment and reaches its highest value of 2334 $m^2$/g with 2 g of $KMnO_4$ because the surface oxygen groups of the pitch act as an active site during chemical activation.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.277-284
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• 2013

아세틸렌과 수소기체를 원료기체로 하고 육불화황을 첨가기체로 하여 열화학 기상 증착하에서 탄소코일을 합성하였다. 이 때 산화실리콘 기판위의 니켈막을 탄소코일 성장의 촉매로 사용하였다. 성장된 탄소코일의 생성밀도, 형상, 기하구조 등을 수소 플라즈마 전처리의 유무에 따라 조사하였다. 상대적으로 짧은 시간(1분)의 수소 플라즈마 전처리는 탄소 마이크로 코일을 우세하게 성장시켰다. 긴 시간(30분)동안의 수소플라즈마 전처리는 탄소마이크로 성장 축을 따라 수많은 탄소 나노코일이 들어붙어 있는 특이한 구조를 보였다. 이 특이한 구조는 매우 작은 니켈 촉매의 알갱이를 효과적으로 지지할 수 있는 촉매 지지대로서의 역할을 할 수 있을 것으로 예견되었다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2019

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) on metal substrates are definitely beneficial because they can maintain robust mechanical stability and high conductivity between CNT and metal interfaces. Here, we report direct growth of CNT on Ni-based superalloy, Inconel 600, using thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) with acetylene feedstock in the growth temperature range of $400-725^{\circ}C$. Furthermore, we studied the effect of substrate pretreatment on the growth yield enhancement and growth temperature decrease of CNT on Inconel 600. Activation energy (AE) for CNT growth was estimated from the CNT height change with respect to the growth temperature. The AE values significantly decreased from 205.03 to 24.35 kJ/mol by the pretreatment of thermal oxidation of Inconel substrate at $725^{\circ}C$ under ambient. Higher oxidation temperature tends to have lower activation energy. The results have shown the importance of pretreatment temperature on CNT growth yield and growth temperature decrease.

• 청정기술
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.145-156
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• 2024

탄소는 비표면적이 매우 크고 우수한 화학적 안정성을 지녀 촉매 지지체로 사용한 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 탄소를 지지체로 사용하는데 있어 전처리 과정은 필수적이다. 전처리를 통해 금속 입자의 성장을 제어해 안정화하고 지지체와 금속 입자 간 결합력을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 표면 개질을 위해 탄소의 전처리를 실시하였으며 이를 촉매 지지체로 사용해 5 wt% Pd/C 촉매를 합성하였다. 제조된 촉매의 활성은 페놀 수소화 반응을 통해 평가되었다. 탄소 전처리 시 일반적으로 사용되는 질산과 비교하고자 유기산을 사용해 탄소 전처리를 진행하였고 이를 지지체로 사용해 촉매를 제조하였다. 글루콘산으로 처리된 촉매는 94.93%의 전환율과 92.76%의 사이클로헥사논 선택도를 나타내 질산으로 처리된 촉매보다 우수한 활성을 나타냈다. 따라서 유기산을 이용한 탄소의 전처리가 무기산 처리의 단점을 개선하는 것뿐만 아니라 촉매 성능 개선에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2016

최근 다양한 형태의 슬러지 최종처리 기술들이 제안되고, 기존 혐기성 소화공정에서 바이오가스 생산효율을 증가시키기 위한 전처리 기술들이 개발되어왔다. 이들 기술 중 열적전처리(Thermal pretreatment) 기술은 기존 슬러지 처리방법과 다르게 입자의 유기성 성분을 용해시킴으로써 슬러지 특성을 변화시켜 감량과 재이용이 가능한 전처리 기술이다. 그러나 대부분의 연구들은 높은 온도에서 입자의 가수분해, COD 가용화부분에 중점을 두고 연구 되어졌으며, 소수의 결과들만이 물리, 화학적 특성변화에 대해서 보고되었다. 본 연구는 열적전처리 효율에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 온도, 약품이 탄소원 형성과 분율에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 그 결과 반응온도가 증가함에 따라 입자의 가수분해 속도가 증가하였으며, 산화제의 주입량이 증가 할수록 고분자 유기성 물질은 감소하고 저분자 유기성 물질(분자량 350 g/mol 이하)의 분율이 증가하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이번 실험결과는 슬러지 감량화 및 재이용를 위한 열적 전처리에 의한 분자의 특성을 파악하는데 기여할 수 있을 것이라 판단한다.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.205-209
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• 2003

The various pretreatment processes were evaluated for removal of oil pollutants with weathered oil contaminated seawater in a reverse osmosis desalination process. Weathered oil contaminated seawater was made by biodegradation and photooxidation with oil containing seawater. Coagulation, ultrafiltration, advanced oxidation processes and granular activated carbon filtration was used with pretreatment for dissolved organic carbon. Crude oil was removed but. weathered oil contaminated seawater was not removed by biodegradation and coagulation. DOC and E260 was removed with about 20 % and 40 % by membrane filter of cut off molecular weight 500. So, the most of dissolved organic carbon in weathered oil contaminated seawater was revealed that molecular weight was lower than 500. It is difficult to remove DOC in weathered oil contaminated seawater by advanced oxidation processes treatment, but, E260 was removed more high. However, DOC in weathered oil contaminated seawater was easily adsorbed to GAC. It is revealed that DOC was removed by adsorption.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2022

To identify the effect and mechanism of carbon monoxide (CO) on delayed rectifier K⁺ currents (I_K) of human cardiac fibroblasts (HCFs), we used the wholecell mode patch-clamp technique. Application of CO delivered by carbon monoxidereleasing molecule-3 (CORM3) increased the amplitude of outward K⁺ currents, and diphenyl phosphine oxide-1 (a specific I_K blocker) inhibited the currents. CORM3-induced augmentation was blocked by pretreatment with nitric oxide synthase blockers (L-NG-monomethyl arginine citrate and L-NG-nitro arginine methyl ester). Pretreatment with KT5823 (a protein kinas G blocker), 1H-[1,-2,-4] oxadiazolo-[4,-3-a] quinoxalin-1-on (ODQ, a soluble guanylate cyclase blocker), KT5720 (a protein kinase A blocker), and SQ22536 (an adenylate cyclase blocker) blocked the CORM3 stimulating effect on I_K. In addition, pretreatment with SB239063 (a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase [MAPK] blocker) and PD98059 (a p44/42 MAPK blocker) also blocked the CORM3's effect on the currents. When testing the involvement of S-nitrosylation, pretreatment of N-ethylmaleimide (a thiol-alkylating reagent) blocked CO-induced I_K activation and DL-dithiothreitol (a reducing agent) reversed this effect. Pretreatment with 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(1-methylpyridinium-4-yl)-21H,23H porphyrin manganese (III) pentachloride and manganese (III) tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin chloride (superoxide dismutase mimetics), diphenyleneiodonium chloride (an NADPH oxidase blocker), or allopurinol (a xanthine oxidase blocker) also inhibited CO-induced I_K activation. These results suggest that CO enhances I_K in HCFs through the nitric oxide, phosphorylation by protein kinase G, protein kinase A, and MAPK, S-nitrosylation and reduction/oxidation (redox) signaling pathways.