• 상하수도학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.273-278
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• 2007

Modern society has moved from a phosphorus recycling loop, where animal manure and human wastes were spread on farming land to recycle nutrients, to a once-through system, where phosphates are extracted from mined, non-renewable phosphate rock and end up either in landfill(sewage sludge, incinerator ash) or in surface waters. In this research, crystallization of nitrogen and phosphate with natural sources of $Mg^{2+}$ in synthetic water was tested. The operational parameters of pH, mixing time, and the magnesium molar ratio were investigated to find optimal conditions of the MAP precipitation using synthetic wastewater. The removal efficiency of phosphate increased with pH up to 11. By MAP precipitaiton of the synthetic waste water, 94% of the phosphate were eliminated at pH 11. It was found that at least 10 minutes mixing time was required and 20 minutes mixing time was recommended for efficient phosphate removal. High efficiency removal of phosphate was possible when the magnesium molar ratio was 1.0~2.0. The comparative study of different magnesium sources showed that coagulants (PAC) was the more efficient sources than only magnesium. The result showed that 97% of phosphate removal. In conclusion, coagulants (PAC) induced crystallization of struvite and hydroxyapatite was shown to be a technically viable process that could prove cost effective for removing phosphate in wastewater.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2017

점도, 임펠러 종류, 소비전력 등에 의해 영향을 받는 생물학적 폐기물 처리시설 및 에너지 생산 플랜트에서 적절한 교반 시스템의 설계는 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 적절한 교반 시스템의 설계를 위해 음식물류폐기물을 이용하여 다양한 조건(운전 pH 및 농도)에서의 수소발효 시 유변학적 특성의 변화를 조사한 후, 이를 기반으로 교반강도를 설계하였다. 운전 pH에 따른 수소발효 실험에서 수소전환율은 $0.51{\sim}1.77mol\;H_2/mol\;hexose_{added}$였고, 가장 높은 수소전환율은 운전 pH 5.5에서 나타났다. 발효액은 전단속도가 증가함에 따라 점도가 감소하는 Shear thinning 거동을 보였다. 탄수화물이 분해되면서 발효 이후 점도는 초기 점도보다 감소하는 경향을 보였으나, 운전 pH의 변화에 따른 발효액의 점도 변화는 크지 않았다. 탄수화물 농도 10~50 g Carbo. COD/L에서 수소전환율은 $1.40{\sim}1.86mol\;H_2/mol\;hexose_{added}$로 운전 pH 조건이 수소전환율에 미친 영향과 비교했을 때 큰 차이는 없었다. 발효액의 Zero viscosity와 Infinite viscosity는 탄수화물 농도에 따라 각각 $10.4{\sim}346.2mPa{\cdot}s$와 $1.7{\sim}5.3mPa{\cdot}s$로 나타났는데, 10 g Carbo. COD/L와 20 g Carbo. COD/L에서 발효액의 점도 값은 거의 차이가 없었다. 실험 결과에 기초하여 교반강도를 설계한 결과, 기질농도 30 g Carbo. COD/L의 수소발효 초기 및 발효 후 교반강도는 각각 26.0, 10.0 rpm으로 약 2.5배 정도의 교반강도를 줄임으로써 에너지를 절약할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.1081-1088
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• 2009

Rhodamine B (RhB)의 제거를 위해 철 전극을 이용한 전기응집 (EC) 공정의 성능에 대해 연구하였다. RhB 제거 효율에 대한 전극 물질 (알루미늄, 철), 전류밀도, NaCl 첨가량, 초기 pH 및 초기 염료 농도와 같은 운전인자의 영향을 연구하였다. 이들 운전 인자에 대한 최적 운전 범위는 실험을 통하여 결정되었다. 희생 전극 물질로서 철 전극의 성능이 알루미늄 전극보다 우수하였다. 최적 전기분해 시간, 전류밀도, NaCl 첨가량 및 pH는 각각 10 분, 1630 A/$m^2$, 4 g/L 및 중성의 pH 이었다. 최적의 공정 조건하에서 RhB 농도가 230 mg/L인 조건에서 RhB는 효과적으로 제거되었고 (> 93.4%), RhB의 COD도 역시 감소하였다(> 88.9%). RhB의 색도와 COD 제거에 대한 상기 조건에서의 전기 에너지 소비량은 각각 10.3 and 10.8 kWh/kg RhB으로 나타났다. 전기응집 공정은 RhB와 같은 염색폐수 처리에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1577-1582
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• 2006

Tandem OLED structures formed by connecting two or more low-voltage electroluminescent units (stacks) are effective for achieving high efficiency at low current density as well as long operational lifetime. We have fabricated white emitting tandem structures with two or three low-voltage white-emitting stacks using transparent organic "PN"-type connectors. Three- stack white tandem structures with efficiency greater than 24 cd/A at D65 and operational stability of about 110,000 h. (extrapolated) at $1000\;cd/m^2$ have been demonstrated. With a stacked structure, the power consumption for displays using an RGBW format can be reduced by 25% compared to previously described formulations. We have also fabricated advanced white tandem structures where the color gamut (NTSC x,y ratio) has been improved to greater than 70% using standard color filters. The white OLEDs can also be used to increase the colorrendering index CRI (>80%), an important consideration for solid-state lighting.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 1993

The effect of concentrations of phosphate buffer and acrylonitrile, pH, and various salts on the operational stability of the immobilized cells of Brevibacterium CH2 in a packed bed reactor were investigated. The effects of salts and carriers on the swelling of the immobilized beads during hydrolysis in a columnreactor were also investigated. Immobilization of the cells in Ba-alginate was more desirable than those in polyacrylamide and Ca-alinate for the swelling of the immobilized beads and the desired quality of the acrylamide produced. High quality acrylamide was produced using the Ba-alginate beads in a recycle fed-batch reactor without using an isotonic substrate. The conversion yield was nearly 100％, including a trace amount of acrylic acid produced as a by-product.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.775-780
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• 2014

Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) was used to remove cadmium from an aqueous solution using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a surfactant. Operational parameters such as initial permeate flux, retentate pressure, initial cadmium concentration, pH solution, molecular weight cut-off (MWCO), and molar ratio of cadmium to SDS were investigated. Removal efficiency of cadmium from an aqueous solution increased with an increase of retentate pressure, pH solution and molar ratio of cadmium to SDS, and decreased with an increase of initial permeate flux. Higher removal efficiency of cadmium from the aqueous solution was achieved using lower MWCO (smaller membrane pore size). Under optimized experimental condition, cadmium removal efficiency reached 74.6 % within an hour. Using MEUF-ACF hybrid process the removal efficiency of both cadmium and SDS was found to be over 90%.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.339-344
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• 2002

Flow injection analysis technique for monitoring of xylitol concentrations in biological processes has been developed using xylitol oxidase (XYO) immobilized on VA-Epoxy Biosynth carrier. The immobilized XYO cartridge has been integrated into a FIA system with an oxygen electrode and systematically investigated with regards to the factors which can affect the activity of the immobilized XYO, such as pH, temperature, salt concentration etc. The activity of the immobilized XYO increased with the temperature ($19.0 - 29.0^{circ}C$) and sample injection volume ($75-250\muL$) and molarity of potassium phosphate buffer (0.1-1 M), but it reached the highest value at pH 8.5. The XYO-FIA system has been also applied for on-line monitoring of xylitol concentrations in a reactor and showed good operational stability and agreement with off-line data measured with HPLC.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.375-380
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• 2017

A differential current-to-time interval converter is presented for current mode sensors. It consists of a ramp voltage generator, a current mode sensor, a reference current source, two current-tunable Schmitt triggers, a one-shot multivibrator, and two logic gates. The design principle is to apply a ramp voltage to each input of the two current-tunable Schmitt triggers whose threshold voltages are proportional to the drain current values of the current mode sensors. A proposed circuit converts a current change in the ISFET biosensor into its equivalent pulse width change. A prototype circuit built using TSMC 0.18 nm CMOS process exhibit a conversion sensitivity amounting to $726.9{\mu}s/pH$ over pH variation range of 2-12 and a linearity error less than ${\pm}0.05%$.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.31-43
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• 1987

This study was performed to develop a hot water boiler system with small scale automatic rice hull furnace for the multi-purpose use in the farm. For the experiment a prototype hot water boiler system with rice hull furnace was fabricated, which was equipped with automatic hull feeder, igniter and ash removal device. Optimum operational conditions of the prototype: system were analyzed. The results arc summarized as follows. 1. The temperature measured right above the burning surface should be higher than $500^{\circ}C$ combustion. 2. The top zone of the combustion chamber was the most suitable location of the thermocouple to pick up the control temperature for the automatic operation of the rice hull furnace. 3. The content of carbon monoxide in the flue gas was increased with the filling height of burning material but it was less than 0.3 percent in volume in this experiment. When the filling height was expressed as the ratio of rice hull feed rate to the volume of the combustion chamber above the burning surface, the optimum ratio was about $150kg/m^3-h$. 4. The combustion efficiency of the prototype was higher than 95 percent when the feed rate was 1.1 to 2.3 kg/h and moisture content of rice hull was 22.4 percent (w.b.) or less. 5. It was estimated that the optimum operational conditions of the system were 1.3 to 2.0 kg/h in feed rate, 70 to 100 percent in excess air and 500 to $510^{\circ}C$ in control temperature. 6. The efficiency of coil heal exchanger increased with a decrease in feed rate of rice hull. When the rice hull feed rates were 1.1, 1.7 and 2.3 kg/h, the efficiencies of coil heat exchanger were about 34, 30 and 25 percent and heat transfer rates were 5.7, 7.6 and 8.8 MJ/h, respectively. When the flat plate heat exchanger was used in addition to the coil heat exchanger, the efficiency of the heat exchanger system increased to 48 percent.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.205-211
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• 2020

Chlorhexidine digluconate (CHD) in the aquatic environment causes irreversible change to microbes, making them resistant to biodegradation, which needs remediation other than biological process. Adsorption study was performed for the removal of CHD on fly ash (FA) as a function of pH and ionic strength. Experimental result has been validated by characterization using Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller. CHD adsorption with FA showed an increasing trend with an increase in pH. Variation in pH proved to be an influential parameter for the surface charge of adsorbent and the degree of ionization of the CHD molecules. The adsorption capacity of CHD decreased from 23.60 mg g-1 to 1.13 mg g-1, when ionic strength increased from to M. The adsorption isotherms were simulated well by the Freundlich isotherm model having R2 = 0.98. The Lagergren's model was incorporated to predict the system kinetics, while the mechanistic study was better explained by pseudo-second order for FA. On the basis of operational conditions and cost-effectiveness FA was found to be more economical as an adsorbent for the adsorption of CHD.