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A NUMERICAL STUDY ON MHD NATURAL CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN AN AG-WATER NANOFLUID FILLED ENCLOSURE WITH CENTER HEATER

  • NITHYADEVI, N.;MAHALAKSHMI, T.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.225-244
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    • 2017
  • The natural convective nanofluid flow and heat transfer inside a square enclosure with a center heater in the presence of magnetic field has been studied numerically. The vertical walls of the enclosure are cold and the top wall is adiabatic while the bottom wall is considered with constant heat source. The governing differential equations are solved by using a finite volume method based on SIMPLE algorithm. The parametric study is performed to analyze the effect of different lengths of center heater, Hartmann numbers and Rayleigh numbers. The heater effectiveness and temperature distribution are examined. The effect of all pertinent parameters on streamlines, isotherms, velocity profiles and average Nusselt numbers are presented. It is found that heat transfer increases with the increase of heater length, whereas it decreases with the increase of magnetic field effect. Furthermore, it is found that the value of Nusselt number depends strongly upon the Hartmann number for the increasing values of Rayleigh number.

Engineering of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius for Hemicellulosic Biomass Utilization

  • Lee, Areum;Jin, Hyeju;Cha, Jaeho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.663-671
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    • 2022
  • The saccharification of cellulose and hemicellulose is essential for utilizing lignocellulosic biomass as a biofuel. While cellulose is composed of glucose only, hemicelluloses are composed of diverse sugars such as xylose, arabinose, glucose, and galactose. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is a good potential candidate for biofuel production using hemicellulose as this archaeon simultaneously utilizes various sugars. However, S. acidocaldarius has to be manipulated because the enzyme that breaks down hemicellulose is not present in this species. Here, we engineered S. acidocaldarius to utilize xylan as a carbon source by introducing xylanase and β-xylosidase. Heterologous expression of β-xylosidase enhanced the organism's degradability and utilization of xylooligosaccharides (XOS), but the mutant still failed to grow when xylan was provided as a carbon source. S. acidocaldarius exhibited the ability to degrade xylan into XOS when xylanase was introduced, but no further degradation proceeded after this sole reaction. Following cell growth and enzyme reaction, S. acidocaldarius successfully utilized xylan in the synergy between xylanase and β-xylosidase.

Spectroscopic Characteristics of Gemstones with Color Change Effect (변색 효과 보석들의 분광학적 특성)

  • Ahn, Yong-Kil;Seo, Jin-Gyo;Park, Jong-Wan
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 2009
  • The luminescence and fluorescence were investigated by photoluminescence spectroscopy for six gemstones which exhibit color change effect. The shape of luminescence peaks appears different when observed by a photoluminescence spectroscopewith a 514 nm Ar laser source. However, it was not possible to observe the difference in the spectra between the natural and synthetic origins for the same type of gemstones. It was found that the photoluminescence spectrum was related to the crystal structure of the stones. Photoluminescence spectra using a 325 nm He-Cd source reveal that fluorescence is relatively strong for synthetic alexandrite, synthetic color change sapphire and natural alexandrite comparing to the rest of gemstones examined.

Effect of Carbon Source Consumption Rate on Lincomycin Production from Streptomyces lincolnensis

  • Choi, Du-Bok;Cho, Ki-An
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.532-539
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    • 2004
  • For efficient lincomycin production from Streptomyces lincolnensis L1245, various vegetable oils, natural nitrogen sources, and surfactants were investigated at the pilot-scale level in the flask. Olive oil as the sole carbon source was the most suitable one for producing lincomycin. When 20 g/lof olive oil was used, the lincomycin concentration and lipase activity reached 1.01 g/land 182 U/ml, respectively, after 5 days of culture. Among the various unsaturated fatty acids, when linolenic acid was used, the cell growth and lincomycin production were markedly decreased. On the other hand, when 0.2 g/l of oleic acid was added to the culture broth, the maximum lincomycin concentration was 1.0 g/l, which was about 1.7-fold higher than that obtained without the addition of oleic acid. Among the various natural nitrogen sources, pharmamedia or soybean meal was the most suitable nitrogen source. In particular, in the case of a mixture of 10 g/l of pharmamedia and soybean meal, 1.5 g/l of lincomycin concentration and 220 U/ml of lipase activity were obtained. When Span 180 was used as the surfactant, lincomycin production, lipase activity, and oil consumption increased. The correlation between the consumption rates of oil and lincomycin production in a culture using olive oil as the sole carbon source was also investigated. The lincomycin production depended on the consumption rate of olive oil. Using these results, fed-batch cultures for comparing the use of olive oil and starch as a conventional carbon source were carried out in a 5-1 fermentor. When olive oil was used as the sole carbon source, 34 g/l of olive oil was consumed after 7 days of culture. The maximum lincomycin concentration was 3.0 g/l, which was about 2.0-fold higher than that of starch medium after 7 days of culture. The product yield was 0.09 gig of consumed carbon source, which was about 3.0-fold higher than that of starch medium after 7 days of culture.

Speaker Localization in Reverberant Environments Using Sparse Priors on Acoustic Channels (음향 채널의 '성김' 특성을 이용한 반향환경에서의 화자 위치 탐지)

  • Cho, Ji-Won;Park, Hyung-Min
    • MALSORI
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    • no.67
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    • pp.135-147
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we propose a method for source localization in reverberant environments based on an adaptive eigenvalue decomposition (AED) algorithm which directly estimates channel impulse responses from a speaker to microphones. Unfortunately, the AED algorithm may suffer from whitening effects on channels estimated from temporally correlated natural sounds. The proposed method which applies sparse priors to the estimated channels can avoid the temporal whitening and improve the performance of source localization in reverberant environments. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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isolation of 1-eicosanoyl cafferate from echinosophora koreensis

  • Kang, Sam-Sik;Kim, Chang-Min
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.67-68
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    • 1987
  • 1-eicosanoyl cafferate, mp 109-$110^{\circ}$ was isolated from the underground parts of Echinosophora koreenis together with hexacosanol, mp 75-$110^{\circ}$ 1-Eicosanoyl cafferate was isolated for the first time from plant source.

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Isolation and Characterization of Indole-3-methylethanoate from Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntz. and its biological activity

  • Roy, Malabika;Ganguly, S.N.
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.106-107
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    • 1997
  • Indole-3-methylethanoate was isolated for the first time form natural source i.e. from the leaves of Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntz and fully characterized by physical and chemical evidence, the biological activity of the compound was studied by wheat coleoptile bioassay which showed growth promoting activity.

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