• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.54-59
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• 2008

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of pH on the formation of furfural compounds from glucose and fructose reacting with amino acid enantiomers in the Maillard reaction. Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) content was highest at pH 4.0, and decreased with increasing pH. HMF was significantly higher in glucose-based systems than fructose-based systems. Furfuryl alcohol (FFA) and 5-methyl-2-furaldehyde (MF) were not increased with increasing pH, and only small amounts were formed. In addition, 2-furaldehyde (F) was found to increase in the systems, as pH increased. However, the content was small and variable. 2,5-Dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone (DMHF) was only found in Glc/D-Asn, Glc/L-Lys and Fru/D-Lys system, but the content was not increased with increasing pH. 2-acetylfuran (AF) was higher in Glc (or Fru)/L-Lys and Glc (or Fru)/D-Lys systems at pH 7.0. However, at pH 4.0, the content of AF was higher in the Glc (or Fru)/Gly and Glc (or Fru)/L-Asn systems. Therefore, this study aimed to observe the effect of pH, sugars and amino acid enantiomers on the production of furfural and related compounds by the Maillard reaction. A clear tendency was observed for some classes of compounds to be more easily formed at higher or lower pH. HMF was more readily formed at lower pH, while FFA, F, DMHF and MF were inhibited by acidic conditions. Particularly, compounds like FFA, F and MF were not affected by pH changes. In addition, DMHF and MF were only formed in L-Lys and D-Lys system.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2023년도 임시총회 및 춘계학술대회
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• pp.12-12
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• 2023

Plant biomass, or lignocellulose, is one of the most abundant natural resources on earth. Lignocellulosic biomass, such as agricultural and forestry residue, serves as a renewable feedstock for microbial cell factories due to its low price and abundant availability. However, the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass requires a pretreatment process prior to microbial fermentation, from which fermentable sugars including xylose and glucose are generated along with various inhibitory compounds. The presence of furan derivatives, such as 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde and 2-furaldehyde (furfural), hampers the microbial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into value-added commodities. In this study, furfural tolerance was improved by investigating the detoxification mechanism in non-model yeast. The genes encoding aldehyde dehydrogenases were overexpressed to enhance furfural tolerance and resulted in improving cell growth and lipid production that can be converted into biofuel. Taken together, this approach contributes to the understanding of the reducing toxicity mechanism of furfural by the aldehyde dehydrogenases and provides a promising strategy that the use of microorganism as an industrial workhorse to treat efficiently lignocellulosic biomass as sustainable plant derivatives.

• 분석과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.166-172
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• 2000

별다른 사고가 없는 경우, 변압기의 수명은 내부 절연지의 수명에 해당되지만 운전중인 변압기에서 고체 상태의 절연지를 채취할 수 없는 반면에, 절연지가 열을 포함한 여러 영향에 의해 분해되어 변압기내에 용존되어 있는 절연유는 운전중인 변압기에서 쉽게 채취할 수가 있다. 그러므로 절연지의 분해산물이 용해되어 있는 절연유의 간접적인 분석을 통해 절연지의 상태, 나아가서는 변압기를 진단할 수 있다면 변압기의 관리 측면에서는 아주 유용할 것이다. 이러한 근거하에서 절연지의 분해산물로 알려진 퓨란(furan) 유도체제중 한전의 변압기에서 특징적으로 관찰되는 2-furfural의 농도를 별다른 전처리 과정없이 HPLC에 의한 분석 방법을 확립하였다. 운전중인 변압기에서 채취한 절연유를 분석한 결과, HPLC에 의한 2-furfural 농도가 현재 일반적으로 실시하고 있는 GC를 이용한 $CO_2$나 CO 가스 농도보다 변압기 내부 절연지의 상태를 보다 정확하게 반영한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 대략적으로 변압기의 수명이 30-40년 정도라고 가정할 때 한전에서는 노후화된 변압기의 숫자가 증가될 것이므로 변압기의 적기교체를 위한 변압기 수명예측의 필요성이 대두될 것으로 예상되며 본 연구의 수행을 통해 확립된 방법은 절연지의 열화정도를 진단한 분석 방법으로서 변압기의 효율적인 관리는 뭍론 수명예측 혹은 수명진단에 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.