• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.2145-2149
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• 2018

The formation of methanol directly from methane and steam was observed over Cu ion-exchanged mordenite. Furthermore, the continuous production of methanol was achieved by co-feeding methane and steam over Cumordenite. The methanol production rate was comparable to that reported in the stepwise process in which activation, methane reaction, and extraction of methanol were carried out separately.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2007

최종 메탄수율, 동력학적 상수 및 최대 메탄발생 속도 등 돈분의 메탄생성 특성을 평가하기 위하여 혐기성 회분식 실험을 수행하였다. 돈분의 혐기성 분해 동력학적 거동 평가시 1차 반응으로 기정하였으며 최종 메탄수율, 동력학적 상수 및 최대 메탄발생 속도는 각각 0.27~0.44L $CH_4/gVS$, $0.161{\sim}0.280d^{-1}$ 및 0.043~0.120L $CH_4/d$로 나타났다. 돈분 자체를 식종물질로 사용하는 경우 장기간의 초기 순응기간이 소요되었으나 최종 메탄수율에는 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 돈분의 혐기성 처리는 효과적이나 고형물의 함량이 높은 경우 이상 혐기성 소화가 단상 혐기성 소화에 비해 효과적인 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.145-149
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• 2008

Anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure and food waste for biogas production was performed in serum bottles at various volatile solids(VS) contents and mixing ratios of two substrates(swine manure:food waste=$100:0{\sim}0:100$). Through kinetic mode of surface methodology, the methane production was fitted to a Gompertz equation. The ultimate methane production potential of swine manure alone was lower than that of food waste regardless of VS contents. However, it was appeared that maximum methane production potentials in 80 : 20 of the mixing rate at VS 3% was enhanced at 144.7%, compared to its only swine manure. The potential increased up to 815.71 ml/g VS fed as VS concentration and food composition increased up to 3.0% and 20%, respectively. The ultimate amount of methane produced had significantly a positive relationship with that of methane yield rate. Overall, it would be strongly recommended that feeding stocks use 20% of mixing ratio of food waste based on VS 3% contents when operating the anaerobic reactor on site at $35^{\circ}C$ if not have treatment of its anaerobic waste water.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.1452-1456
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• 2012

The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in anaerobic sewage sludge was characterized. The net methane oxidation was observed in samples amended with methane plus sulfate or with methane alone, whereas methane formation was observed in the samples without methane, indicating that methane oxidation and formation occurred simultaneously. The ratio of the net methane oxidation rate to $H_2S$ formation was 100:1, suggesting that the AOM was not closely associated with sulfate reduction in the anaerobic sludge. The net AOM was positively associated with the methane concentration and sludge dilution ratio. However, the rate of AOM was negatively correlated with organic substrate (acetate) concentration. Therefore, the production and oxidation of methane could be controlled by environmental conditions and dissolved organic compounds in the bulk solution.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2009

Nitrogen removal and methane production from piggery wastewater were investigated in two-phase anaerobic digestion (TPAD) coupled with biological nitrogen removal (BNR) process at $35^{\circ}C$. Methane production rate was about $0.7L/L{\cdot}day$ at organic loading rate (OLR) of $1.2g{\cdot}TCOD/L{\cdot}day$ in methanogenic UASB. Conversion efficiency of the removed TCOD into methane in UASB was as high as 72% and overall TCOD removal efficiency in this system was over 97%. Ammonia nitrogen were stably removed in BNR system and overall efficiency were 98%. With recirculation of the nitrified final effluent to TPAD, nitrogen oxides were completely removed by anaerobic denitrification in the acidogenic reactor, which did not inhibit the acidogenic activities. Overall TN removal efficiency in the TPAD-BNR system was as high as 94%.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2013

회분식 실험을 통해 매몰지 내 유기물의 농도가 분해 속도에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 기질은 돈 및 우육을 이용하였으며 기질의 농도는 2, 4, 6, 8 및 10 g VS/L로 선정하였다. 기질의 농도가 2 g VS/L 일 경우에 돈 및 우육의 메탄 발생율 각각 46.3 및 48.4 ml CH4/g VS.d 로 가장 높게 나타났으며 기질의 농도가 증가할수록 메탄 발생율은 감소하였다. 비선형 저해 방정식을 이용하여 평가된 저해 상수 값은 돈육의 경우, n 및 m은 각각 4.9 및 0.6으로 나타났으며 우육은 각각 1.1 및 0.4로 나타났다(n: 최대 메탄 발생율 저해 상수, m: 최종 메탄 수율 저해 상수). 기질의 농도가 증가할수록 메탄 발생율은 민감하게 반응하였으나 최종 메탄 수율은 상대적으로 둔감하게 반응하였다. 또한, 돈 및 우육의 n과 m 값 관계를 통해 기질 농도에 따른 저해 특성은 반경쟁적 저해 특성으로 판단된다.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.84-90
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• 2000

5L laboratory-scale anaerobic digester was used to study the effects of food size and washing rate of food waste on the mixed digestion with sewage sludge. Food waste was crushed with particle diameters of 4mm and 2mm and washed two to three times, and seven to eight times before feeding the batch digester. The digester with crushed of washed food waste showed better performance than that with uncrushed of unwashed to produce methane gas of reduce volatile solids. The digester with 2mm food waste showed 17.4% higher VS/TS reduction rate and 18ml higher methane production rate per gram VS input than that with uncrushed food waste, where VS and TS are volatile solid and total solids in the liquid effluent, respectively. Also food waste crushed eight times gave 8% higher VS/TS reduction rate and 11ml higher methane production rate per gram VS input than unwashed food waste.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.559-567
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• 2014

Since the ocean dumping of organic wastes is prohibited under the London Convention, the need for land treatment of food waste leachate (FWL) has significantly been growing in recent years. This study was conducted to use thermal solubilization to turn FWL into a form that can easily be degraded during the anaerobic digestion process, thereby reducing the percentage of solids and increasing the production of methane. To derive the optimal operating conditions of thermal solubilization, a laboratory-scale reactor was built and operated. The optimal reaction temperature and time turned out to be $190^{\circ}C$ and 90 min, respectively. The BMP test showed a methane production of 465 mL $CH_4/g$ $COD_{Cr}$ and a biodegradation rate of 90.1%. The production of methane rose by about 15%, compared with no the application of thermal solubilization. To reduce the solid content of FWL and improve the methane production, therefore, it may be helpful to apply thermal solubilization to pre-treatment facilities for anaerobic digestion.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.557-562
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reforming characteristics and maximum operating condition for the hydrogen production by methane reforming using the compression ignition engine induced partial oxidation. An dedicated compression engine used for methane reforming was decided operating range. The partial oxidation reforming was investigated with oxygen enrichment which can improve hydrogen production, compared to general reforming. Parametric screening studies were achieved as $O_2/CH_4$ ratio, total flow rate, and intake temperature. When the variations of $O_2/CH_4$ ratio, total flow rate, and intake temperature were 1.24, 208.4 L/min, and $400^{\circ}C$, respectively, the maximum operating conditions were produced hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Under the condition mentioned above, synthetic gas were $H_2\;22.77{\sim}29.22%,\;CO\;21.11{\sim}23.59%$.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.942-948
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• 2007

Popular techniques for producing hydrogen by converting methane include steam reforming and catalyst reforming. However, these are high temperature and high pressure processes limited by equipment, cost and difficulty of operation. Low temperature plasma is projected to be a technique that can be used to produce high concentration hydrogen from methane. It is suitable for miniaturization and fur application in other technologies. In this research, the effect of changing each of the following variables was studied using an AC GlidArc system that was conceived by the research team: the gas components ratio, the gas flow rate, the catalyst reactor temperature and voltage. Results were obtained for methane and hydrogen yields and intermediate products. The system used in this research consisted of 3 electrodes and an AC power source. In this study, air was added fur the partial oxidation reaction of methane. The result showed that as the gas flow rate, the catalyst reactor temperature and the electric power increased, the methane conversion rate and the hydrogen concentration also increased. With $O_2/C$ ratio of 0.45, input flow rate of 4.9 l/min and power supply of 1 kW as the reference condition, the methane conversion rate, the high hydrogen selectivity and the reformer energy density were 69.2%, 32.6% and 35.2% respectively.