• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.511-517
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• 2013

In this work, a fibrous bed bioreactor with high specific surface area and good adsorption efficacy for S. cerevisiae cells was used as the immobilization matrix in the production of ethanol. In batch fermentation, an optimal ethanol concentration of 91.36 g/l and productivity of 4.57 g $l^{-1}\;h^{-1}$ were obtained at an initial sugar concentration of 200 g/l. The ethanol productivity achieved by the immobilized cells was 41.93% higher than that obtained from free cells. Ethanol production in a 22-cycle repeated batch fermentation demonstrated the enhanced stability of the immobilized yeast cells. Under continuous fermentation in packed-bed reactors, a maximum ethanol concentration of 108.14 g/l and a productivity of 14.71 g $l^{-1}\;h^{-1}$ were attained at $35^{\circ}C$, and a dilution rate of 0.136 $h^{-1}$ with 250 g/l glucose.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.436-440
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• 2000

Recently, we reported an improved technology for the degradation of organophosphate nerve agents using whole cells of genetically engineered Escherichia coli that anchored and displayed the enzyme organophosphorus hydrolase on the cell surface. In this paper we report the immobilization of these cells on highly porous sintered glass beads and the subsequent application of the immobilized cell in a continuous-flow packed bed bioreactor for the biodetoxification of a widely used insecticide, coumaphos.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2005

Chitosan-alginate capsules were formed by electrostatic interactions and exhibited an appropriate mechanical strength, permeability, and stability for the culture of hepatocytes. Pig hepatocytes were isolated and hepatocyte spheroids formed and immobilized in chitosan-alginate capsules. An encapsulation procedure of 3 min and spheroid formation period of 24 h were the optimum conditions for the best liver functions. Pig hepatocytes with a cell density of $6.0{\tomes}10^6$ cells/ml in the capsules were found to be most suitable for application in a bioartificial liver support system. The encapsulated pig hepatocyte spheroids exhibited stable ammonia removal and urea secretion rates in a bioreactor for 2 weeks. Accordingly, chitosan-alginate encapsulated hepatocyte spheroids in a packed-bed bioreactor would appear to have potential as a bioartificial liver.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.513-517
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• 2010

A thermostable trehalose synthase (TtTSase) from Thermus thermophilus HJ6 was immobilized on chitosan activated with glutaraldehyde. The yield of immobilization was evaluated as 39.68%. The optimum pH of the immobilized enzyme was similar to that of the free enzyme. However, the optimal temperature ranges were shifted by about $4^{\circ}C$ owing to better thermal stability after immobilization. The half-life of heat inactivation for free and immobilized enzymes was 5.7 and 6.3 days at $70^{\circ}C$, respectively, thus showing a lager thermostability of the immobilized enzyme. When tested in batch reaction, the immobilized enzyme retained its relative activity of 53% after 30 reuses of reaction within 12 days, and still retained 82% of its initial activity even after 150 days at $4^{\circ}C$. A packed-bed bioreactor with immobilized enzyme showed a maximum yield of 56% trehalose from 100 mM maltose in a continuous recycling system (bed volume: 10 ml) under conditions of pH 7.0 and $70^{\circ}C$.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 1992

It has known that the intermediates formed in acid reactions occuring during anaerobic reactions for instance, acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid have significant effects or the formations of biogases(e. g. mainly CH$_{4}$ and CO$_{2}$). A study on the effects of these intermediates for the formations of biogases, however, is still on initial stage due to the type and structural problems of reactor. The primary objective of this reserch program is to provide a funadmantal mechanism of involved reactions using a modified downflow multistage pecked bed bioreactor. As a first stage of this reaserch program, the following theoretical principles was applied 1. Principle of electroneutrality where the molar concentrations of cation and anion in solution are the same. 2. Relationship between the concentration of bicarbonate anion and pH as follows [HCO$_{3}^{-}$]= $K_{H}P_{T}Y_{CO_{2}}10^{pH-K_{1}}$ Based upon the above two principles, a series of experimental works was conducted to elucidated the relationship between the concentration of CO$_{2}$ and the pH related to the concentrations of cations and anions.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.83-90
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• 1997

저농도의 난 수용성 VOC가스가 포함되어 있는 다량의 오염가스를 처리하기 위하여 흡수탑과 생물반응기의 결합체인 새로운 처리시스템을 제시하였다. 바이오스크러버의 스크러버에서는 세정액으로 기상중의 처리대상오염물질의 흡수가 일어나며 세정액은 생물반응기로 이송되어 호기성 미생물이 오염물을 분해시킨다. 본 연구에서는 폐가스중의 VOC분리를 위하여 재순환가능한 고비점용매를 사용하였다. 고비점용매를 포함한 세정액은 기/액 향류접촉이 이루어지는 흡수탑의 충전층에서 폐가스중의 오염물을 분리한다. 흡수탑은 Pall ring충전제로 채워 실제공정을 모사 하고자 하였다. 흡수처리후 생물반응기로 이송된 흡수액은 재생 후 다시 흡수탑으로 재 순환하였다. 실험에 사용된 대상가스는 농도가 400 mg/$\textrm{m}^3$ 인 톨루엔으로, 세정액이 가스흐름과 향류로 약 10~15L/min의 유량으로 충전층을 적시며 내려오는 충전탑내부로 약 100 L/min의 유량으로 도입하였다. VOC처리를 위해 제작된 본 바이오스크러버에서 고비점용매를 이용한 연속실험결과 최적운전 조건에서 약 80%의 처리율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.379-388
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• 2006

Two mesophilic trickling bed bioreactors filled with two different types of media, hydrophilic- and hydrophobic-cubes, were designed and conducted for hydrogen production under the anaerobic fermentation of sucrose. Each bioreactor consisted of the column packed with polymeric cubes and inoculated with heat-treated sludge obtained from anaerobic digestion tank. A defined medium containing sucrose was fed by the different hydraulic retention time(HRT), and recycle rate. Hydrogen concentrations in gas-phase were constant, averaging 40% of biogas throughout the operation. Hydrogen production rate was increased till $10.5\;L{\cdot}h^{-1}{\cdot}L^{-1}$ of bioreactor when influent sucrose concentrations and recycle rates were varied. At the same time, the hydrogen production rate with hydrophobic media application was higher than its hydrophilic media application. No methane was detected when the reactor was under a normal operation. The major fermentation by-products in the liquid effluent of the both trickling biofilters were acetate, butyrate and lactate. In order to run in the long term operation of both reactor filled with hydrophilic and hydrophobic media, biofilm accumulation on hydrophilic media and biogas produced should be controlled through some process such as periodical backwashing or gas-purging. Four sample were collected from each reactor on the opposite hydrogen production rate, and their bacterial communities were compared by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of PCR products generated using bacterial 16s rRNA gene primers (8f and 926r). It was expressed a marked difference in bacterial communities of both reactors. The trickling bed bioreactor with hydrophobic media demonstrates the feasibility of the process to produce hydrogen gas. A likely application of this reactor technology can be hydrogen gas recovery from pre-treatment of high carbohydrate-containing wastewaters.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.305-306
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• 2003

To treat fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) patients, various extracorporeal bioartificial liver (BAL) systems have been developed. Several requirements should be met for the development of BAL systems: hepatocytes should be cultured in a sufficiently high density; their metabolic functions should be of a sufficiently high level and duration; and the BAL systems module should permit scaling-up and aseptic handling. Several investigators have found that freshly isolated primary hepatocytes can be cultured into three dimensional, tightly packed, freely suspended, multicellular aggregates, or spheroids. These specialized cell structures exhibited enhanced liver specific functions and a prolonged differentiated state compared to cells maintained in a monolayer culture. Cells in spheroids appear to mimic the morphology and ultrastructure of the in vivo liver lobule. The ability of hepatocytes to organize into three-dimensional structures was hypothesized to contribute to their enhanced liver-specific activities. In this study, the ammonia removal rate and urea secretion rate of pig hepatocytes spheroids encapsulated in Ca-alginate bead were determined. A packed-bed bioreactor with encapsulated pig hepatocytes was devised as BAL support system. The efficacy of the system was evaluated in vitro.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1218-1224
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• 2008

본 연구는 yeast의 한 종류인 Candida tropicalis 배양액을 유동상 반응기 형태로 운전하여 대표적인 휘발성유기화합물인 톨루엔의 제거효율을 향상시키기 위해 수행되었으며, 톨루엔 흡착과 물질전달 능력을 동시에 향상시키기 위해서 생물반응기의 유동상 물질로는 입상활성탄(GAC)을 사용하였다. 효모를 적용한 GAC 유동상반응기는 유입 톨루엔 부하 13.1$\sim$37.4 g/m$^3$-hr 범위에서 50$\sim$80%의 처리효율을 나타내었다. 또한 톨루엔 유입부하 291 g/m$^3$-hr 조건에서 최대분해능 172 g/m$^3$-hr을 얻어, 본 연구의 GAC 유동상반응기가 안정적이면서도 높은 처리효율을 나타낼 수 있음을 확인하였다. 충격부하 실험에서는 유입농도의 갑작스런 변화에도 일정하게 처리효율을 유지함으로써, 유입농도의 변화에도 안정적인 반응기 운전이 가능하다는 것을 알 수 있다. 최대분해능실험 결과 유입농도가 2배 이상 증가하였으나 처리효율은 일정하게 유지되었으며, 유입된 톨루엔이 GAC에 먼저 흡착된 후 천천히 탈착되어 효모에 의해 분해됨을 확인하였다. 따라서 유동상으로 투입된 GAC가 톨루엔의 물질전달을 향상시켜 미생물반응기의 전체 처리효율을 증가시켰다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2009

연속식 효소적 에스테르 교환반응을 이용하여 무-트랜스 유지를 제조하기 위한 체계적이고 입체적인 최적조건을 확립하기 위하여 3가지 독립변수($X_1$: 원료유지 중 FHCO 함량(%), $X_2$: 반응온도($^{\circ}C$), $X_3$: 기질의 흐름속도(mL/min))를 선정하여 RSM을 통해 각각의 독립변수에 대한 종속변수인 TS 전환율(Y)을 표현한 회귀방정식은 Y = 93.1146$(X_3)^2$+ 3.2387($X_1$) ($X_3$) + 2.6038($X_2$) ($X_3$)으로 나타났다. 이 방정식을 이용하여 정준분석을 이행한 결과 35%(w/w)의 FHCO를 함유한 원료유지를 사용하고 PBEB 내에서 68.67$^{\circ}C$의 온도 하에서 원료유지와 효소가 충분히 접촉할 수 있도록 0.63 mL/min의 흐름속도로 연속식 공정을 수행하면 TS 전환율이 극대화 되는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 트랜스 지방의 함량이 높은 유지를 대체하되 실제 산업체 현장에서 생산되는 기존의 유지를 대체하기 위해서는 TS 전환율 뿐만 아니라 효소적으로 생산된 에스테르 교환 유지의 SFC 경향을 기존 유지의 결과와 비교하는 작업이 필요한데, 이때 비교대상의 기존 유지로는 트랜스 지방 함량 및 이화학적 물성 측면에서의 예비실험 결과 대체 가능성이 가장 높은 크림용 마가린(margarine)을 선정하였으며, 이러한 기존의 유지를 대체할 수 있는 무-트랜스 유지를 제조하기 위하여 SFC 경향 및 TS 전환율을 동시에 고려한 연속식 효소적 에스테르 교환반응의 최적조건을 확립하였으며, 최적조건은 42.83%(w/w)의 FHCO와 57.17%(w/w)의 SO가 혼합된 원료유지를 기질로 사용하며 PBEB 내에서의 반응온도는 64.72$^{\circ}C$이고, 효소와 원료유지가 극대로 접촉하여 효소적 에스테르 교환이 이루어질 수 있도록 기질의 흐름속도를 0.40 mL/min으로 각각 유지하는 것으로 판명되었다. 이상의 최적조건 하에서 연속식 효소적 에스테르 교환반응에 의해 제조된 유지의 SFC 경향을 분석하되 기존의 크림용 마가린의 경우와 비교한 결과 유의적으로 유사함을 확인하였으며, 이로써 본 논문에 의해 생산된 유지는 크림용 마가린을 성공적으로 대체할 수 있는 것으로 판단하였다. 또한, 반응온도를 60$^{\circ}C$ 및 55$^{\circ}C$로 각각 설정하여 2 단계로 분리한 PBEB에서의 TS전환율 변화를 측정한 결과, 반응 30일 경과시점까지 66%이상의 TS전환율을 유지하였으며(효소활성 반감기=약 30일 이상), 단일단계의 반응온도 실험(효소활성 반감기=약 15일)과 비교 시 반감기를 두 배 이상 연장할 수 있음을 확인하였다.