• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1190-1195
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• 2005

Biomass burning is a source of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Under the ideal conditions of complete combustion, the burning of biomass produces carbon dioxide and water vapor. Since complete combustion is not achieved under any conditions of biomass burning, other carbon species, including carbon monoxide, methane, non-methane hydrocarbons and particulate carbon are produced. In this study, we analyze the combustion characteristics of rice-husk, such as heat release rate, smoke production rate, the percentage variation of CO and $CO_2$, oxygen consumption rate, and mass loss under different heat fluxes (20, 50 and 70kW). As a result, at 20kW incomplete combustion is occurred so that the percentage of CO is high in initial burning and total smoke release is higher than the others. At 50kW and 70kW, the combustion behaviors is very similar except the variation of CO percentage.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.25-31
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• 1999

Energy recovery technology from municipal solid waste has been increasingly established in many countries. Anaerobic treatment of municipal sewage sludge has low digestion efficiency because of low organic loading rate of sewage sludge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate anaerobic biodegradability of food waste which was based on organic loading rate and seeding rate. From the results of anaerbic biodegration, the optimum condition for seeding rate was turn out over 40%, which did not inhibition of methane production.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.1106-1115
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• 2020

막 분리 운전방식에 따른 음폐수 소화가스의 도시가스용 바이오메탄 생산연구를 상업용 시설을 대상으로 수행하였다. 연구결과 바이오메탄의 순도는 4SBR과 3SDR 모두 98.9%를 달성할 수 있었다. 소화가스 내 메탄 회수율은 4SBR 88.1%, 3SDR 79.4%이었고, 처리 소화가스량 대비 바이오메탄 생산율도 4SBR이 53.5%로 3SDR의 49.4%보다 높았다. 그러나 막 분리시설에 공급되는 가스 중 반송가스의 비율은 4SBR이 56.5%로 3SDR 보다 두 배가량 컸으며, 이로 인해 최대 처리량에 있어서는 3SDR이 양호한 결과를 보였다. 따라서 소화가스 200 N㎥/day 이하는 4SBR, 240 N㎥/day 이상에서는 3SDR이 경제성이 좋은 것으로 판단되었다. 공정 운전변수들의 평균값 대비 운전 값들의 상대편차는 전반적으로 4SBR이 컸으며, 또한 주 운전조절 수단인 바이오메탄 인출압력 대비 주요 지표들의 상관관계에 있어서는 3SDR가 보다 직접적인 관계를 보여주었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.378-384
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• 2003

Mesophilically-grown granular sludge seeded in thermophilic UASB reactor was monitored to better understand the start-up process of the reactor. The reactor was fed with a synthetic wastewater containing glucose. As COD loading rate increased stepwise, methane production rate increased. Maximum values of COD removal efficiency (95%) and methane production rate (5.3 l/day) were achieved by approximately day-80 and remained constant afterward. However, physicochemical and microbial properties of granules kept changing even after day-80. Specific methanogenic activity (SMA) was initially negligible, and increased continuously until day-153 and remained constant afterward, showing the maximum value of $1.51{\pm}0.13\;g\;CH_4-COD/g$ VSS/day. Deteriorated settling ability of granules recovered the initial value by day-98 and was maintained afterward, as determined by sludge volume index. Initially reduced granule size increased until day-126, reaching a plateau of 1.1 mm. Combined use of fluorescence in situ hybridization and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) allowed to localize families of Methanosaetaceae and Merhanosarcinaceae in granules with time Quantitative analyses of CLSM images of granule sections showed abundance patterns of the methanogens and numerical dominance of Methanosaeta spp. throughout the start-up period. The trend of SMA agreed well with abundance patterns of the methanogens.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.15-25
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 우분뇨와 폐잔디를 이용한 혐기소화 잠재성을 단독 및 병합 조건에서 평가하였다. 두 종의 유기성 폐자원은 휘발성고형분(VS) 기준 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, 0:100의 다섯 가지 혼합비 조건에서 회분식 BMP(biochemical methane potential) 테스트를 통해 바이오가스 생산을 측정하였다. 또한, 서로 다른 3개의 온도조건(25℃, 30℃, 35℃)을 적용하여 총 15개 실험 조건을 비교하였다. 실험 결과, 반응 온도가 높을수록, 폐잔디의 혼합비가 높을수록 더 높은 메탄 수율과 최대 메탄 생산율이 관측되었다. 실험 결과를 바탕으로 유효체적 240(농장규모) 또는 2,400(마을 규모) ㎥의 가상의 혐기소화조를 가정하여 서로 다른 조건에 따른 에너지 수지를 비교하였다. 예측된 에너지 생산량은 반응 온도가 높을수록 더 많았으나 소화조 가온 등에 따른 에너지 소모량을 고려한 에너지 순생산량은 30℃, 35℃, 25℃ 순으로 높게 예측되었다. 따라서 에너지 순생산량을 최대화하기 위한 조건 도출을 위해서는 메탄 수율 등의 실험적 측정 외에도 구체적인 소화조의 설계 인자를 고려해야 하는 것으로 평가되었다.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 난지물재생센터에서 공급되는 바이오가스의 메탄 함량을 높이고 불순물을 정제하기 위해 3단 분리막 정제 공정을 설계하고 설치하여 실증 운전하였다. 2 Nm³/h 정제 공정에서 생산되는 바이오메탄의 메탄농도를 95%, 96.5%, 98%의 3가지 경우로 설정하고 분리막의 막면적비를 1:1, 1:2, 1:1:1, 1:2:1, 1:2:2의 5가지로 변경하여 분리막의 막면적에 대한 최적조건을 도출하였다. 2 Nm³/h의 최적조건을 반영하여 30 Nm³/h 규모의 3단 분리막 공정을 설치하였으며 메탄농도 98% 이상의 바이오메탄 생산을 실증하였다. 2 Nm³/h의 정제장치 운전결과 메탄 설정농도 98%에서 메탄 회수율은 분리막 2단 운전결과 막면적비가 1:1인 경우 95.6%이며 1:2에서 메탄의 회수율은 96.8%로 증가하는 결과를 나타내었고 분리막 3단 운전의 메탄 회수율은 막면적비를 1:2:1로 운전하였을 때 96.8%로 가장 높게 나타났다. 이산화탄소 제거율은 2단공정 막면적비 1:1에서 96.4%이며 1:2에서 95.7%였다. 3단공정에서 막면적비 1:2:1에서 95.4%로 2단공정이 3단공정보다 높은 결과를 보였다. 30 Nm³/h 규모의 바이오가스 정제 실증운전에서 정제 후 메탄농도는 98%이었으며, 메탄의 회수율은 97.1 %, 이산화탄소의 제거율은 95.7%이며 부식의 원인인 황화수소는 검출되지 않았으며 막면적비 1:2:1의 실증운전에서 메탄농도 98%이상의 바이오메탄 생산이 가능했다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.2098-2105
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• 2016

Massive reserves of methane ($CH_4$) remain unexplored as a feedstock for the production of liquid fuels and chemicals, mainly because of the lack of economically suitable and sustainable strategies for selective oxidation of $CH_4$ to methanol. The present study demonstrates the bioconversion of $CH_4$ to methanol mediated by Type I methanotrophs, such as Methylomicrobium album and Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum. Furthermore, immobilization of a Type II methanotroph, Methylosinus sporium, was carried out using different encapsulation methods, employing sodium-alginate (Na-alginate) and silica gel. The encapsulated cells demonstrated higher stability for methanol production. The optimal pH, temperature, and agitation rate were determined to be pH 7.0, $30^{\circ}C$, and 175 rpm, respectively, using inoculum (1.5 mg of dry cell mass/ml) and 20% of $CH_4$ as a feed. Under these conditions, maximum methanol production (3.43 and 3.73 mM) by the encapsulated cells was recorded. Even after six cycles of reuse, the Na-alginate and silica gel encapsulated cells retained 61.8% and 51.6% of their initial efficiency for methanol production, respectively, in comparison with the efficiency of 11.5% observed in the case of free cells. These results suggest that encapsulation of methanotrophs is a promising approach to improve the stability of methanol production.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.609-616
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• 2022

In this study, the effect of different reaction times for thermal-alkaline pretreatment on the solubilization and biogasification of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) were evaluated. Thermal-alkaline pretreatment tests were performed at 73 ℃ and pH 13 at 0-120 h reaction times. The mesophilic anaerobic batch tests were performed with untreated and pretreated PHB samples. The increase in the pretreatment reaction time results in a 52.8-98.8% increase of the abiotic solubilization efficiency of the PHB samples. The reaction time required to achieve solubilization efficiencies of 50%, 90%, and 95% were 10.5, 52.0, and 89.6 h, respectively. The biogasification of the untreated PHB samples achieved a specific methane production rate of 3.6 mL CH₄/g VSS/d and require 101.3 d for complete biogasification. The thermal-alkaline pretreatment significantly improved specific methane production rate (10.2-16.0 time increase), lag time (shortened by 76-81%), and time for complete biogasification (shortened by 21-83%) for the biogasification of the PHB samples when compared to those of the untreated PHB samples. The improvement was higher as the reaction time of the thermal-alkaline pretreatment increased. The findings of this study could be used as a valuable reference for the optimization of the biogasification process in the treatment of PHB wastes.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.649-658
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• 2012

In this study, the influencing factors for efficient anaerobic digestion of high strength ammonia-nitrogen wastewater removal were investigated by testing biochemical methane potential test. In the influencing factors, the trace metals which could increase activity of anaerobic microorganisms, microbial concentration and types were evaluated. In the results, trace metals supplementation showed gas production amount higher than those without addition of trace metals. Among the tested trace metals, B, Ni, and Se were preferable to gas production. In the result of gas production according to the microbial concentration, the amount of gas production was proportional to the microbial concentration. In addition, the shortest lag time and the fastest gas production rate were achieved when the highest microbial concentration was tested. granule-type microorganism produced more gas than suspended-type microorganism. In conclusion, the efficient anaerobic digestion for high strength ammonia-nitrogen wastewater removal could be achieved by applying necessary trace metals injection and high concentration granule type microorganism.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.103-108
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• 1987

The experiment was carried out to determine the optimum application rate of liquid waste from methane fermentation (LW) and its effect on botanical composition, dry matter yields and nutrient quality of pasture mixtures. Experimental fields was designed as a randomized block treated with NPK chemical fertilizer (NPK = 28-20-24 kg/lOa), NPK + Water 28 ton, 112 NPK + LW 28 ton, 112 NPK + LW 42 ton, LW 28 ton, LW 42 ton and LW 56 ton/lOa at Livestock Experiment Station in Suweon, 1985. The results obtained are summarized as follows: 1. Vegetation of introduced pastures, both in grasses and legumes, was markedly increased in the plots treated with methane-liquid waste. However, heavy application of liquid waste tended to increase of native weeds such as Polygronum spp., Rumex spp. and Lactuca spp. 2. Crude protein contents was increased in the plants applied with liquid waste, but NFE was decreased compared with those of chemical fertilizer applied. The concentrations of crude fat and crude fibre were, however less affected by the fertilizer resource. Among cell-wall constituents, cellulose content was decreased as the liquid waste application rate increased, while hemicellulose showed a negative association. 3. Productivity of the pasture was increased as the liquid waste application rate increased. The highest dry matter yields was obtained in the plot treated with LW 42 ton/lOa by 71 1 kg/lOa, which shows about 71% increments compared with those of chemical fertilizer treated. Net energy yields, both in starch value and NEL, were also markedly increased under liquid waste application. As a results, the optimum application rate of methane-liquid waste was found to be 42 ton in 10 a.