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Adsorption of phosphate in water on a novel calcium hydroxide-coated dairy manure-derived biochar

  • Choi, Yong-Keun;Jang, Hyun Min;Kan, Eunsung;Wallace, Anna Rose;Sun, Wenjie
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.434-442
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    • 2019
  • The present study investigated a novel calcium hydroxide-coated dairy manure-derived biochar (Ca-BC) for adsorption of phosphate from water and dairy wastewater. The Ca-BC showed much higher adsorption of phosphate than that of dairy manure-derived biochar. The Ca-BC possessed mainly the calcium hydroxide and various functional groups resulting in high reactivity between phosphate and calcium hydroxide in the Ca-BC. The adsorption of phosphate onto Ca-BC followed pseudo-second order kinetic and Freundlich isotherm models indicating chemisorptive interaction occurred on energetically heterogeneous surface of Ca-BC. The maximum adsorption capacity of the Ca-BC was higher than those of iron oxide and zinc oxide-coated biochars, but lower than those of CaO- and MgO-coated biochars. However, the Ca-BC showed high reactivity per surface area for adsorption of phosphate indicating importance of surface functionalization of biochar. On the other hand, the adsorption of phosphate in dairy wastewater on Ca-BC was lower than that in water owing to competition between other anions in wastewater and phosphate. Overall, the Ca-BC would be a low cost and effective adsorbent for recovery of phosphate from water and wastewater.

Synthesis of Gd2O3 : (Li, Eu) Films using Phosphor Powders Coated with SiO2 Nano Particles (SiO2 나노 입자로 코팅된 형광체 분말을 이용한 Gd2O3 : (Li, Eu) 필름 제조)

  • Park, Jung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.619-624
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    • 2003
  • The $Gd_{1.9-x}Li_{0.1}Eu_xO_3$ (x=0.02, 0.05, 0.08, and 0.12) powders (${\thickapprox}1{\mu}m$) synthesized by sol-gel method, whose surfaces are modified in a colloidal silica suspension (size of $SiO_2$ particles: ${\sim}30$ nm), have been fabricated to highly stable and effective luminescent films on the glass substrates. Thanks to the fused $SiO_2$ nano particles in the vicinity of the glass softening temperature (at around $700^{\circ}C$), $Gd_{1.9-x}Li_{0.1}Eu_xO_3$ powders are strongly attached onto the surface of glass substrate (>9H, pencil hardness tester). This simple and low-cost method to get $Gd_{1.9-x}Li_{0.1}Eu_xO_3$ phosphor films without any loss of luminescence brightness would promise for applications to display devices.

Pyro-synthesis of Na2FeP2O7 Nano-plates as Cathode for Sodium-ion Batteries with Long Cycle Stability

  • Song, Jinju;Yang, Juhyun;Alfaruqi, Muhammad Hilmy;Park, Wangeun;Park, Sohyun;Kim, Sungjin;Jo, Jeonggeun;Kim, Jaekook
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.406-410
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    • 2016
  • Carbon-coated sodium iron pyrophosphate ($Na_2FeP_2O_7$) was prepared by a simple and low-cost pyro-synthesis route for further use as the cathode for Na-ion batteries. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of the sample annealed at $650^{\circ}C$ confirmed the pure triclinic phase of $Na_2FeP_2O_7$. Electron microscopy studies revealed a cross linked plate shape morphology of the $Na_2FeP_2O_7$ sample. When tested for application in Na-ion battery, the $Na_2FeP_2O_7$ cathode showed two redox pairs in the potential window of 2.0-4.0 V. The cathode registered initial discharge and charge capacities of 80.85 and 90 mAh/g, respectively, with good cycling performance.

Magnetic Properties of Micron Sized Fe3O4 Crystals Synthesized by Hydrothermal Methods (수열합성을 이용하여 제작한 Fe3O4 결정입자의 자기적 특성)

  • Lee, Ki-Bum;Nam, Chunghee
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.481-486
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    • 2019
  • Iron oxides currently attract considerable attention due to their potential applications in the fields of lithiumion batteries, bio-medical sensors, and hyperthermia therapy materials. Magnetite (Fe3O4) is a particularly interesting research target due to its low cost, good biocompatibility, outstanding stability in physiological conditions. Hydrothermal synthesis is one of several liquid-phase synthesis methods with water or an aqueous solution under high pressure and high temperature. This paper reports the growth of magnetic Fe3O4 particles from iron powder (spherical, <10 ㎛) through an alkaline hydrothermal process under the following conditions: (1) Different KOH molar concentrations and (2) different synthesis time for each KOH molar concentrations. The optimal condition for the synthesis of Fe3O4 using Fe powders is hydrothermal oxidation with 6.25 M KOH for 48 h, resulting in 89.2 emu/g of saturation magnetization at room temperature. The structure and morphologies of the synthesized particles are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD, 2θ = 20°-80°) with Cu-kα radiation and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), respectively. The magnetic properties of magnetite samples are investigated using a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The role of KOH in the formation of magnetite octahedron is observed.

Preparation of Silicon Oxide Thin Film using Hydrofluorosilicic Acid (규불화수소산을 이용한 실리콘 산화물 필름 제조에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eun-Hui;Jeong, Heung-Ho;Im, Heon-Seong;Hong, Seong-Su;No, Jae-Seong
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.414-418
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    • 1999
  • Typical metal oxide thin films having optical and electrical properties are widely used as inorganic functional materials. Liquid phase deposition(LPD) method, a new low temperature process, has been developed for the several advantages of no vacuum system, low cost, high throughput, and low processing temperature(<$50^{\circ}C$). Silica powder was added to 40wt% hydrofluoro-silicic acid($H_2$SiF\ulcorner) to obtain an immersing solution of silica-saturated hydrofluorosilicic acid solution. Boric acid solution was continuously added in the range from 0 to 0.05M to prepare supersaturated hydrofluorosilicic acid solution. LPD $SiL_2$film was formed with the variation of added amount of $H_2$O. The SiO$_2$thin film could be prepared from hydrofluorosilicic acid by LPD method. The thickness of LPD $_SiO2$film was influenced by the boric acid concentration and added amount of $H_2$O. Silicon in thin film existed as SiF\ulcorner by Raman spectrum.

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Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Tube-and-Plate Condenser with Different Plate Shapes and Inlet Geometries using Numerical Analysis (수치해석에 의한 TUBE-AND-PLATE형 응축기의 판 형태 및 입구 형상변화에 따른 유동 및 열전달 특성)

  • Choi, W.J.;Kwon, O.B.;Lim, H.C.;Kim, M.K.;Lee, Y.S.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2009
  • Recently, a study on condensers for refrigerators has focused on new model which will cost less and will be more efficient. Some widely used condensers for domestic refrigerators are wire-and-tube type condenser, hot-wall type condenser, and spiral type condenser. Some companies which use the spiral type condenser at the moment try to develop a new tube-and-plate type condenser which will cost less and will be as efficient as the spiral type. As a standard condenser type, tube-and-plate type condenser is used in this study. A two-dimensional numerical model for the tube-and-plate type condenser is proposed, and the flow and heat transfer characteristics for several types of condensers are investigated.

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BLDC Motor Control Algorithm for Low Cost Industrial Applications (저가형 산업응용 제품을 위한 BLDC 전동기 알고리즘)

  • Kim Nam-Hun;Kim Min-Huei;Baik Won-Sik;Choi Kyeong-Ho;Kim Dong-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.155-157
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    • 2006
  • Electrical motors are an integral part of industrial plants with no less than 5 billion motors built word wide every year and the BLDC motor have been increased demand on industrial application. This paper presents BLDC motor control algorithm for cost effective motor application using general purpose microprocessor which have only one on-chip timer and describes how to realize pulse width modulation(PWM) signals with general input/output(I/O) ports to control a three-phase permanent magnet brushless do motor using timer interrupt on MSP430F1232.

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Enhanced Virus Removal by Flocculation and Microfiltration

  • Han Binbing;Carlson Jonathan O.;Powers Scott M.;Wickramasinghe S. Ranil
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.6-9
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    • 2002
  • In this work we have investigated the feasibility of virus clearance by flocculation and tangential flow microfiltration. Chinese hamster ovary cell feed streams were spiked with minute virus of mice and then flocculated using cationic polyelectrolytes prior to tangential flow microfiltration. Our results indicate that flocculation prior to microfiltration leads to more than 100 fold clearance of minute virus of mice particles in the permeate. Today, validation of virus clearance is a major concern in the manufacture of biopharmaceutical products. Frequently new unit operations are added simply to validate virus clearance thus increasing the manufacturing cost. The results obtained here suggest that virus clearance can be obtained during tangential flow microfiltration. Since tangential flow microfiltration is frequently used for bioreactor harvesting this could be a low cost method to validate virus clearance.

A Study on the Variation of Physical & chemical Properties with Refining treatment and Additive mixture for Marine Fuel Oil (선박연료유의 정제처리 및 첨가제 혼합에 따른 물리.화학적 특성 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Won-Hui;Nam, Jeong-Gil;Lee, Don-Chool;Park, Jeong-Dae;Kang, Dae-Sun
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.291-297
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    • 2006
  • Recently it is a tendency that the use of the heavy fuel oil is investigated even from the middle&small class vessel in order to reduce the operating cost of vessel caused by with rise of international gas price. In this study, analyzed the physical & chemical properties and examined the effect of refining treatment and a fuel oil additive for MF30 fuel oil which is a mixture fuel oil mixed M.G.O and the heavy oil MF380 use to be possible in the middle&small class vessel. As a results, the effects of two of pre-refinery treatment methods as centrifugal purifier and heating & homogenizing system(M.C.H) are some feeble, but the pour point and the flash point came to be low more or less. The effect of property improvement which is caused by with the fuel oil additive did not appear positively.

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A Study on the Variation of Physical & Chemical Properties with Refining Treatment and Additive Mixture for Marine Fuel Oil (선박연료유의 정제처리 및 첨가제 혼합에 따른 물리.화학적 특성 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Won-Hui;Nam, Jeong-Gil;Lee, Don-Chool
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.13 no.1 s.28
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2007
  • Recently it is a tendency that the heavy fuel oil is considered to be used on board even middle or small sized vessels in order to reduce the operating cost of vessel mused by a rise in international oil prices. In this study, analyzed the physical & chemical properties and examined the effect of refining treatment and a fuel oil additive for MF30 fuel oil which is a mixture fuel oil mixed M.G.O and the heavy oil MF380 use to be possible in the middle&small class vessel. As a results, the effects of two of pre-refinery treatment methods as centrifugal purifier and heating & homogenizing system(M.C.H) are some feeble, but the pour point and the flash point came to be low more or less. The effect of property improvement which is mused by the fuel oil additive did not appear positively.

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