• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2001

Ridge regression is compared with multiple linear regression (MLR) for determination of Research Octane Number (RON) when the baseline and signal-to-noise ratio are varied. MLR analysis of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic data usually encounters a collinearity problem, which adversely affects long-term prediction performance. The collinearity problem can be eliminated or greatly improved by using ridge regression, which is a biased estimation method. To evaluate the robustness of each calibration, the calibration models developed by both calibration methods were used to predict RONs of gasoline spectra in which the baseline and signal-to-noise ratio were varied. The prediction results of a ridge calibration model showed more stable prediction performance as compared to that of MLR, especially when the spectral baselines were varied. . In conclusion, ridge regression is shown to be a viable method for calibration of RON with the NIR data when only a few wavelengths are available such as hand-carry device using a few diodes.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2009

In this study, solubilization experiments of n-octane oil were performed by micellar solutions of polymeric nonionic surfactant Pluronic L64 ($EO_{13}PO_{30}EO_{13}$) at room temperature. A single spherical drop of n-octane was injected into aqueous surfactant solution using an oil drop contacting technique and solubilization rate of n-octane was measured by observing the size of oil drop with time. It was found that solubilization rate was independent of initial oil drop size but inversely proportional to the initial surfactant concentration. These results revealed that solubilization of n-octane oil by L64 micellar solution is controlled by interface-controlled mechanism rather than diffusion-controlled mechanism. Dynamic interfacial tension measurements showed that interfacial tension decreases such as from $2.59{\times}10^{-2}$ to $2.45{\times}10^{-2}$, and further to $2.13{\times}10^{-2}mN/m$ as surfactant concentration increases from 8 to 9 and further to 10 wt% respectively. The equilibration time was also found to decrease slightly with an increase in surfactant concentration. All three systems reached an equilibrium within 7 minutes.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.530-532
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• 2003

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.62-65
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• 1995

New compounds of melaminium 2,6,7-trioxa-1-phosphabicyclo[2.2.2]octane-4-methoxy-sulfate have been synthesized and characterized by means of chemical analysis, 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR, and IR spectroscopies. When the compounds are subjected to an open flame, they foam without melting to produce a light char with about 50 times volume of the initial compounds. The evaluation of these flame-retardants proves to be efficient for polypropylene. Thermogravimetric analysis discloses that the compounds are also thermally stable for compounding into polypropylene without decomposition.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.79-82
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• 1984

This study concerns about catalyic cracking of iso-octane over cation ($Cd^{2+},\;Ca^{2+}\;and\;La^{3+}$) exchange mordenites. It deals with mordenite shape selectivity and with kinetics of this catalytic reaction. The striking feature was that over the region of cracking temperature investigated, 523-665K, the yield of isobutene was predominant, relative to that of larger or smaller carbon chain(s). This permits kinetic analysis of the heterogeneous catalytic system in terms of the modified pulse-version microcatalytic chromatography. The observed activation energy ($E_a,\;KJ\;mol^{-1}$) was found to be 46 for Cd-M, 57 for Ca-M and 59 for La-M, respectively.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.227
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• pp.33-35
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• 2007

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.71-75
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• 1990

The isolates biodigrading crude oil were examined to characterize thier properties. Isolates which were identified as Acinetobacter lwoffii G1, Klebsiella pneumoniae L25, Pseudomonas maltophilia N246, Xanthomonas campestris M12, and Xanthomonas sp. M28. The optimum concentration of crude oil was 0.15% for the bacterial growth. X. campestris M12, Xanthomonas sp. M28, and K. penumoniae L25 showed the maximal growth at the concentration of 3.5% sodium chloride, indicating that they were derived from sea water. Among the isolates, X. campestris M12, Xanthomonas sp. M28 specially utilized hexadecane and octane, and P. maltophilia N246 utilized octane with optimum concentration of 0.2-0.3% as sole carbon source. The utilization of components of saturate fraction by K. pneumoniae L25 was examined by gas-liquid chromatography. The short-chain saturates are used before the long chain ones although they almost disappear within 8 days of incubation at $30^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.10-17
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• 2008

This study has been focused on the partial oxidation(POX) of n-octane over Rh-containing catalysts supported on alumina. The catalysts for this reaction were prepared by incipient wetness(IW) and co-gel(CG) methods, followed by the calcination at $900{\circ}C$ or $1,200{\circ}C$. When applied to the POX of n-octane carried out at $600{\circ}C$ with C/O=3 and GHSV=3,450/h, the catalyst prepared by the CG method and calcined at $1,200{\circ}C$ showed the best activity, yielding 42% syngas($H_2$+CO) with the $H_2$/CO ratio of $2{\sim}2.4$. To enhance the activity and stability of catalysts, bimetallic catalysts were synthesized by the CG method. As a result, the performance of Rh-Ni/$Al_2O_3$ catalyst was superior to that of Rh/$Al_2O_3$ catalyst in terms of the catalyst stability, due to the retarding effect on the Rh-to-$Rh_2O_3$ transition by the addition of Ni. This result was confirmed by XRD, TEM, and TPR characterizations.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.167-175
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• 2011

The HCCI engines have been known with high efficiency and low pollution and can be actualized as the new internal combustion engines. However, As for(??) the ignition and combustion depend strongly on the oxidation reaction of the fuel, so it is difficult to control auto-ignition timing and combustion duration. Purpose of this paper is creating the database for development of multi-dimensional simulation and investigating the influence of different molecular structure. In this research, the effect of n-heptane mole ratio in fuel (XnH) on the ignition delay from homogeneous charge compression ignition(HCCI) has been investigated experimentally. By varying the XnH, it was possible to ascertain whether or not XnH is the main resource of ignition delay. Additionally, the information on equivalence ratio for varying XnH was obtained. The tests were performed on a RCM (Rapid Compression Machine) fueled with n-heptane and iso-octane. The results showed that decreasing XnH (100, 30, 20, 10,0), the ignition delays of low temperature reaction (tL) and high temperature reaction (tH) is longer. And the temperature of reaction increases by about 30K. n-heptane partial equivalence ratio (fnH) affect on tL.and TL. When ${\phi}$nH was increased as a certain value, tL was decreased and TL was increased.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.704-709
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• 2000

Laminar burning velocities of propane- and iso-octane-air mixtures have been numerically modelled over a wide range of equivalence ratio, pressure and temperature. These correlations are applicable to the modelling of stratified charged combustion like that of lean bum and GDI engine combustion. The numerical models are based on the results calculated by PREMIX code with Sloane's detailed chemical reaction mechanism for propane and FlameMaster code with Peters' for iso-octane. Laminar burning velocity for two fuels showed a pressure and temperature dependence in the following form, in the range of $0.1{\sim}4MPa$, and $300{\sim}1000K$, respectively. $S_L={\alpha}\;{\exp}[-\xi({\phi}-{\phi}_m)^2-{\exp}\{-{\xi}({\phi}-{\phi}_m)\}-{\xi}({\phi}-{\phi}_m)]$ where ${\phi}_m=1.07$, and both of ${\alpha}$ and ${\xi}$ are functions of pressure and temperature. Compared with the results of the existing models, those of the present one showed the good agreement of the recent experiment data, especially in the range of lean and rich sides. Judging from the calculated results of the stratified charged combustion by using STAR-CD, the above modelling prove to be more suitable than the other ones.