• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.212-221
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• 2020

This work discusses the palm oil mill processing carried out at Jugra Palm Oil Mill Sdn Bhd, situated at Selangor, Malaysia with the capacity of 45-t fresh fruit bunch (FFB)/h. Typically, oil palm residues and palm oil mill effluent (POME) from FFB are generated while processing. Prior to discharge, POME should be treated to remove pollutants in the effluent. As such, the performances of anaerobic and aerobic ponds were assessed in this study to determine temperature, pH, biological oxygen demand (BOD), sludge volume index (SVI), and dissolved oxygen (DO). From the experiments, mesophilic temperature due to better process stability was applied in anaerobic ponds. The pH results displayed a fluctuating trend between lower control limit and upper control limit, and, the pH value increased from one pond to another. The final discharge BOD and SVI appeared to be lower than 100 mg/L and 10 mL/L indicating low degree of pollution and good settling ability for biomass/solid. DO was close to normal, mostly below 2 mg/L. The experimental outcomes revealed the effective treatability of POME in adherence to the standard regulation, which is the priority for environmental sustainability within this industry domain.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.1511-1520
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• 2019

Objective: The present study was conducted to select a plant oil without inhibitory effects on rumen fermentation and microbes, and to determine the optimal supplementation level of the selected oil in a series of in vitro studies for dietary application. Then, the selected oil was evaluated in a feeding study using Thai crossbred beef cattle by monitoring growth, carcass, blood and rumen characteristics. Methods: Rumen fluid was incubated with substrates containing one of three different types of plant oil (coconut oil, palm oil, and soybean oil) widely available in Thailand. The effects of each oil on rumen fermentation and microbes were monitored and the oil without a negative influence on rumen parameters was selected. Then, the dose-response of rumen parameters to various levels of the selected palm oil was monitored to determine a suitable supplementation level. Finally, an 8-month feeding experiment with the diet supplemented with palm oil was carried out using 12 Thai crossbred beef cattle to monitor growth, carcass, rumen and blood profiles. Results: Batch culture studies revealed that coconut and soybean oils inhibited the most potent rumen cellulolytic bacterium Fibrobacter succinogenes, while palm oil had no such negative effect on this and on rumen fermentation products at 5% or higher supplementation level. Cattle fed the diet supplemented with 2.5% palm oil showed improved feed conversion ratio (FCR) without any adverse effects on rumen fermentation. Palm oil-supplemented diet increased blood cholesterol levels, suggesting a higher energy status of the experimental cattle. Conclusion: Palm oil had no negative effects on rumen fermentation and microbes when supplemented at levels up to 5% in vitro. Thai crossbred cattle fed the palm oil-supplemented diet showed improved FCR without apparent changes of rumen and carcass characteristics, but with elevated blood cholesterol levels. Therefore, palm oil can be used as a beneficial energy source.

• 셀메드
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.16.1-16.8
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• 2014

The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has been reported to originate along the gulf of the guinea in West Africa. The various parts of the tree have been used locally and traditionally for various medicinal purposes. Some of these uses have been proved by scientific experiments. Palm oil is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit and is used traditionally for the treatment of headaches, pains, rheumatism, cardiovascular diseases, arterial thrombosis and an atherosclerosis due to its rich phytonutrients. The leaves are also used for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases and wound healing. The sap also has been found to be rich in phytonutrients that can be used to treat various diseases. This review therefore seeks to explore many of the uses of the oil palm using the various parts of the oil palm.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2006년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.33 No.2 (A)
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• pp.48-52
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• 2006

The palm print recognition is the most reliable authentication method in the biometrics. In this paper, using the efficient segmentation of the palm print region we propose the method of enabling the palm print recognition as the same method applicable to the finger print recognition. To achieve this, we propose the image processing procedures of the palm print segmentation and the feature extraction. We compare the matching result after extracting the features for the finger print and the palm print.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2022년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.300-302
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• 2022

Palm vein identification has attracted attention due to its distinct characteristics and excellent recognition accuracy. However, many contactless palm vein identification systems suffer from the issue of having low-quality palm images, resulting in degradation of recognition accuracy. This paper proposes the use of U-Net architecture to correctly segment the vascular blood vessel from palm images. Attention gate mechanism and residual block are also utilized to effectively learn the crucial features of a specific segmentation task. The experiments were conducted on CASIA dataset. Hessian-based Jerman filtering method is applied to label the palm vein patterns from the original images, then the network is trained to segment the palm vein features from the background noise. The proposed method has obtained 96.24 IoU coefficient and 98.09 dice coefficient.

• 한국전통조경학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2018

대추야자나무(Phoenix dactylifera)는 고대 메소포타미아, 이집트, 유다, 그리스, 로마에 이르기까지 생명과 축복, 승리를 상징하는 중요한 수목으로 정원과 과수원에 심겨졌으며, 열매와 그늘을 제공하였다. BC 2세기경에 임금에게 바치던 예물에도 대추야자나무 가지가 언급되고 있다. "대추야자나무의 가지"는 초막절에 사용되었고, 높고 귀한 것에 비유되기도 하며, 신전 벽에 커룹과 함께 새겨져 있었다. 성경에서 대추야자나무(Phoenix dactylifera)는 강한 바람을 받으면서도 곧게 자라기 때문에 의인에 비교함과 동시에 정직, 정의 및 공정을 상징하는 나무로 삼았다. 수난을 앞둔 그리스도가 예루살렘에 입성할 때 군중이 대추야자나무의 잎을 길에 깔고 예수님을 맞이했다고 해서 부활절 직전의 주일을 Palm Sunday(聖枝主日 성지주일)이라고 부른다. 중세에는 성지(聖地) 순례의 기념으로 대추야자나무의 잎을 가지고 돌아가는 풍습이 생겨서 순례자를 영어로 Palmer라고 부르게 되었다. 이 연구는 Phoenix dactylifera의 명명 문제를 고전과 한국, 중국, 일본의 성경 번역사에서 영향력 있는 성경 27가지 버전을 통해 분석하였다. 중국 성경에서는 대추야자나무를 자국에서 자라는 유사한 나무인 '棕櫚(종려 Trachycarpus fortunei)'로 번역하고 있다. 그러나 '종려(棕櫚)'와 대추야자나무는 열매와 잎에서 확연한 차이점이 있기 때문에 상징적인 의미를 전달하는데 한계성을 지닌 번역이다. 일본 성경에서는 대추야자나무를 뜻하는 'なつめやし(Natsumeyashi)'로 번역하고 있다. 우리나라 개신교 성경은 대부분 '종려나무'로 번역하고 있고, 가톨릭 "성경(2005)"에서는 '야자나무(38회)', '종려나무(5회)', 대추야자나무(3회)를 혼용하고 있다. 대추야자나무, 종려나무, 그리고 야자나무가 우리나라에 자라지 않는 식물이지만, 한국고전에서는 이미 오래전부터 중국이나 일본을 통해 해조(海棗), 야자(椰子), 종려(?櫚)로 알려져 구분해서 사용하였고, 각각 특성에 맞는 다른 명칭으로 불리어져 왔음을 알 수 있다. 중국고문헌에서도 종려나무와 해조(대추야자나무)는 확실히 구분해서 쓰고 있다. "재등화영대사전(?藤和英大辭典)(1915)"과 "모던조선외래어사전(朝鮮外來語辭典)(1938)", "라틴-한글 사전(1995)" 등에서는 'palm'을 '종려'로 번역하였기 때문에 혼란성이 가중된 것으로 보인다. 그러나, 라틴어 사전에서 "Palmae"는 palm tree 혹은 date palm으로 번역된다. 이 연구의 결과는 성경에서 Phoenix dactylifera의 더 정확한 번역은 '대추야자나무'로, 나무의 특성에 맞는 이름을 사용하는 것이 더 적절할 것이라고 본다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.93-97
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• 1983

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.187-194
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• 1982

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.2429-2434
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 퍼지 방법을 적용하여 손금을 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 영상으로부터 손금을 추출하기 위해서 획득된 영상을 YCbCr 컬러 공간으로 변환한다. YCbCr 컬러 공간에서 Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255에 해당되는 피부색 정보를 추출하고 이 피부색 정보를 임계치로 설정하여 손 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손 영역에서 내부 픽셀의 3:1 이상, 전체 영상의 2:1 이상인 손의 형태학적 정보와 8 방향 윤곽선 추적기법을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 영상에서 손금을 추출하기 위해서 스트레칭 기법과 소벨 마스크를 이용하여 에지를 추출한다. 추출된 에지 영상에서도 미세한 잡음이 존재하므로 퍼지 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화 한다. 이진화된 영상에서 손금의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 손의 윤곽선을 제외한 손금 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손금 영역은 동치 테이블을 이용하는 연결 영역 검색 기법과 퍼지 추론 기법을 적용하여 개별 손금의 중요선을 추출하고 분석한다. 다양한 손금 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 제안된 방법 이 기존의 손금 추출 방법보다 손금을 분석하는데 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2015

As the production of palm oil has been increased, the generation of oil palm biomass is also increased and the utilization of the oil palm biomass become more significant topic. One third of the oil palm biomass is empty fruit bunch (EFB) and the other two thirds are oil palm trunks and fronds. However, the effective use of oil palm biomass has not been developed and most of it is discarded near oil palm plants. In this study, we investigated the applicability of EFB to the paperboard mills, as an organic filler. The new organic filler was manufactured in a laboratory by grinding and fractionating dried EFB powder, and its properties were analyzed. The particles of EFB organic filler were larger and more spherical than those of the commercial wood powder. The use of EFB organic filler resulted in a higher bulk of the handsheets with similar trends of physical strength, compared to those made with wood powder. It was concluded that EFB could be used as a raw material to manufacture organic filler for paperboard production.