• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1722-1724
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• 2003

The possibility of using cotton stems as a roughage source in animal feeding was explored. Ground cotton stems (T2 and T3) or stems treated with 0.5% urea (T4 and T5) were ensiled with pearl millet green fodder in double lined plastic bags of 3 kg capacity for 50 days. Formic acid (0.4% v/v) was sprayed on T3 and T5 silages. The treatments were compared with pearl millet silage alone (T1) which constituted the control. All the bags were placed in the silo pit of pearl millet silage. Results indicated that urea treatment of cotton stems increased and formic acid application reduced dry matter loss of the silages. Inclusion of cotton stems in the silage significantly (p<0.05) increased CF, ADF, cellulose and ADL due to its higher cell wall content. The hemicellulose was significantly lower in T3 (16.7%) and T5 (22.52%) as compared to T2 (23.45%) and T4 (24.6%) due to formic acid application. Ammoniation significantly increased NH3-N content in T4 (0.202%) and formic acid controlled NH3-N level in T5 (0.107%).The in sacco dry matter digestibility was significantly higher (p<0.05) in formic acid preserved silages T3 and T5 (47.73 and 47.93%) as compared to silages without formic acid (44.94 and 41.22 %) in T2 and T4 respectively, but lower than T1 (54.39%). It is concluded that cotton stems can be ensiled with pearl millet fodder in 1:4 ratio with or without urea treatment. Formic acid application further increases the silage quality.

• 공업화학
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.583-591
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• 2008

최근 휴대용 전자기기 수요의 급증에 따라 기존에 사용되던 2차 전지를 대체할 수 있는 친환경 고효율 연료전지 개발의 필요성이 증대되었다. 이러한 목적으로 개미산을 연료로 이용하는 직접 개미산 연료전지가 부각되고 있다. 식품첨가물로 사용될 정도의 안정성, 전해질을 통과하는 연료의 최소화된 crossover, 큰 기전력 발생에 의한 반응활성 최대화 등이 개미산이 가지고 있는 고유의 장점들이며, 이와 더불어 반응 촉매 및 전지 디자인을 최적화 하려는 노력에 의해 직접 개미산 연료전지의 성능 및 안정성이 향상되고 있다. 이러한 개발을 통해 현재까지 약 $300mW/cm^2$ 이상의 전력밀도를 나타내는 전지 개발이 이루어졌다. 본 총설에서는 개미산 연료전지의 기본 구동 원리와 전지 구조에 대한 소개 및 직접 개미산 연료전지 성능 향상에 영향을 미치는 인자들인 연료극 촉매 및 전해질 개발, 최적화된 전지 구조 디자인 등의 개발 현황 및 앞으로 나아갈 방향에 대해 논의하고자 한다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.302-305
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• 1991

저분자량(低分子量)을 가진 6개(個)의 유기산함량(有機酸含量) 변화(變化)를 측정(測定)하기 위하여 볏짚, 보릿짚, 밀짚과 호밀짚을 부숙(腐熟)시키면서 경시적(經時的)으로 시료(試料)를 채취(採取)하여 가수분해(加水分解)시킨후 분석(分析)한 결과(結果)는 다음과 같다. 1. 저분자량(低分子量) 유기산함량(有機酸含量)은 부숙기간(腐熟期間)이 경과(經過)함에 따라 변화(變化)한다. 2. Formic acid와 Acetic acid가 전시료중(全試料中)에서 가장 많은 량(量)으로 검출(檢出)되었다. 3. Malic acid는 볏짚과 보리짚에서 극(極)히 미량(微量)으로 검출(檢出)되었다. 4. Monocarboxylic acid의 molarity가 Dicarboxylic과 Tricarboxylic acid의 molarity를 합(合)한 것보다 훨씬 많았다. 부숙기간(腐熟期間)이 경과(經過)함에 따라 이런 경향이 더욱 뚜렷하였다 5. Formic acid와 Acetic acid는 서로 보상관계가 있었으며 토양(土壤)에 잔유하는 기간도 상당히 오래일 것으로 추정된다.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2012

Formed fermentation inhibitors during acid saccharification leads to poor alcohol production based on lignocellulosic bio-alcohol production process. In this work, it is focused on the formation of fermentation inhibitors from xylan, which is influenced by reaction tempearature and time of acidic sacharifiaction of xylose and glucuronic acid. In second step of concentrated acid hydrolysis, part of xylose and glucuronic acid was converted to furfuraldehyde and formic acid by dehydration and rearrangement reactions. Furfural was form from xylose, which was highly sensitive to reaction temperature. Formic acid was come from both xylose and glucuronic acid, which supposed to main inhibitor in biobutanol fermentation. Reaction temperature of second hydrolysis was main variables to control the furfural and formic acid generation. Careful control of acid saccharification can reduce generation of harmful inhibitors, especially second step of concentrated sulfuric acid hydrolysis process.

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• 제7권
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• pp.73-81
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• 1989

본 실험은 견직물의 염색시에 많이 사용되는 Acetic Acid, Sulphuric Acid 및 Formic Acid등의 산성화학약제 처리가 생사의 물리적 성질에 미치는 영향을 규명한 것으로서 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 생사의 강력(g/d)은 공시 3개약제 다같이 온도 및 pH 변화에 따른 차이를 인정할 수 없었다, 생사의 신도(%)는 Acetic Acid 및 Sulphuric Acid $40^{\circ}C$ pH 3에서 Formic Acid $80^{\circ}C$ pH 4에서 유의차 있게 저하되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.211-215
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• 2001

Urea as a silage additive increases crude protein but reduces fermentation quality of silage by increasing pH and enhancing clostridial bacteria growth, especially in low sugar forages. Glucose and formic acid might be expected to compensate these defects caused by urea addition to grass silage. Thus, in this experiment urea formic acid or urea with glucose was applied to improve N content and the quality of napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.) silage. The first growth of napiergrass was harvested at 85 days of age and about 700 g of the grass was ensiled in laboratory silos (1.0 liter polyethylene containers) for 2, 7, 14, and 30 days at room temperature ($28^{\circ}C$). The treatments were no additives (control), urea, urea+glucose or urea+formic acid. Urea was added before ensiling at 0.5% of fresh weight of napiergrass and glucose and formic acid were added at 1% of fresh weight, respectively. After opening the silo, pH, dry matter content (DM), contents on DM basis of total N (TN), volatile basic nitrogen (VBN), lactic acid (LA), acetic acid (AA) and butyric acid (BA) were determined. The control at 30 days of fermentation showed 5.89 for pH with 13.8% for VBN/TN and 1.51% for AA. The addition of urea increased TN by about 1.5% units but decreased the fermentation quality by increasing pH from 5.89 to 6.86, increasing VBN/TN from 13.8% to 24.63%, increasing BA from 0.02% to 0.56%, and decreasing LA from 1.03% to 0.02%. Glucose addition with urea significantly decreased VBN/TN from 13.8% to 4.44% by reducing pH from 6.86 to 4.83 because of higher production of LA (2.62%). Adding urea and formic acid resulted in a more pronounced depression of VBN/TN and fermentation than the addition of urea and glucose. This study suggested that the combination of 1% glucose or 1% formic acid with 0.5% urea will improve nutritive value and fermentation quality of napiergrass silage.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.28-32
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• 2020

Recently, many studies have been undertaken on the wet spinning and electrospinning of silk because wet-spun fibers and electrospun webs of silk can be applied in the biomedical and cosmetic fields owing to the good biocompatibility of silk. The rheological properties of silk solution are important because they strongly affect the spinning performance of the silk solution and the structures of resultant fibrous materials. Therefore, as a preliminary study on the effect of solvent composition on the rheological properties of silk fibroin (SF) solution and structure of the resultant film, in the reported work, methanol was added to the SF formic acid solution. A small amount of methanol (i.e. 2%) added to the SF formic acid solution significantly altered the rheological properties of the solution: its shear viscosity increased by 10 folds at low shear and decreased on increasing the shear rate, demonstrating shear thinning behavior of the SF solution. Dynamic tests for the SF solution indicated that the addition of 2% methanol altered the viscous state of the SF formic acid solution to elastic. However, the molecular conformation (i.e. β-sheet conformation) of the regenerated SF film cast from formic acid remained unchanged on the addition of 2% methanol.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2008

인화점의 정보를 확보하는 것은 화재 및 폭발의 예방을 위해 대단히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 n-propanol+formic acid 계의 하부 인화점을 Penskey-Martens 밀폐식 장치를 이용하여 측정하였다. 이성분계 혼합물은 최소 인화점 현상(MFPB)을 보였다. 실험값은 Raoult의 법칙과 최적화 기법에 의해 추산된 값과 비교하였다. 그 결과, 최접화 기법에 의한 추산값이 Raoult의 법칙에 의한 추산값 보다 실험값에 더욱 근접하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.29-32
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• 2008

The cell performance of direct formic acid fuel cell (DFAFC) having catalysts coated by electrospray was analyzed. Pd catalyst was used for the anode electrode and Pd catalyst loading amount and formic acid feed rate dependances of fuel cell performance were evaluated. When loading amount of Pd is in between 3mg/$cm^2$ and 7mg/$cm^2$ and formic acid feed rate is 5ml/min., 3mg/$cm^2$ sample showed better potential at 129 mA/$cm^2$ and power density due to difference in mass transfer limitation. However, when the feed rate is greater than 10ml/min., the opposite tendency was observed between 3mg/$cm^2$ and 7mg/$cm^2$ samples. The result was attributed to improvement in electrochemical reaction of the Pd. Based on the above results, In DFAFC including Pd catalyst that was coated by electrospray, 0.537V as the maximum potential at 129 mA/$cm^2$ was attained.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.1543-1550
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• 2010

This work presents oxidation of formic acid on Bi-modified Pt nanoparticles of various sizes. The sizes of the studied Pt nanoparticles range from 1.5 to 5.6 nm (detailed in Rhee, C. K.; Kim, B.-J.; Ham, C.; Kim, Y.-J.; Song, K.; Kwon, K. Langmuir 2009, 25, 7140-7147), and the surfaces of the Pt nanoparticles are modified with irreversibly adsorbed Bi. The investigated coverages of Bi on the Pt nanoparticles are 0.12 and 0.25 as determined by coulometry of the oxidation of adsorbed hydrogen and Bi, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The cyclic voltammetric behavior of formic acid oxidation reveals that the adsorbed Bi enhances the catalytic activity of Pt nanoparticles by impeding a poison-forming dehydration path with a concomitant promotion of a dehydrogenation path. The chronoamperometric results indicate that elemental Bi and partially oxidized Bi are responsible for the catalytic enhancement, when the Bi coverages on Pt nanoparticles are 0.12 and 0.25, respectively. The size effect of Bi-modified Pt nanoparticles in formic acid oxidation is discussed in terms of specific activity (current per unit surface area) and mass activity (current per unit mass).