• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.362-368
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• 2018

Purpose: Self-sufficiency in paper production is desired in Nigeria. This study was aimed at evaluating the performance of a locally fabricated batch pulp digester. Methods: The pulp yields of sheaths generated as waste in the production of bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris) laminates were determined at different liquor concentrations and treatment time after preliminary experiments to ascertain the conditions under which the sheath started to pulp. Moreover, the optimum pulping conditions and fiber characteristics were determined and estimated, respectively, to ascertain the pulp fiber suitability for paper production. Results: An optimum pulp yield of 65.1% was obtained at 50% NaOH and 25% $Na_2S$ liquor concentration (w/w) when the cooking time was 4 h. The results of fiber characterization of the pulp indicated an average fiber length of 2.19 mm with a low Runkel ratio of 1.63, both of which signify the suitability of the pulp for medium quality paper production. Conclusions: Softwood pulp can be blended with the fibers to improve the strength of the produced paper; further investigation should be carried out to use other non-woody plants for pulp and papermaking.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.125-130
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• 2013

An attempt was made on pulp production from the fast growing plant, Acacia hybrid to determine the total yield, screened yield, Kappa number, and fibre morphology of organosolv Acacia hybrid pulp. Uniform-sized chips were taken to undergo pulping in a digester with five different concentrations of ethanol, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% (v/v) with 1 M of sodium hydroxide as catalyst. All chips were digested in a temperature-controlled digester with constant amount of water added and temperature of $185^{\circ}C$ with the duration of three hours cooking time and correspond pressure 1.1-1.2 MPa. It was observed that increasing of ethanol concentration has led to pulp yield increment and decreased in the degree of delignification at the same time. This study was aimed to focus on the effect of the varied concentration of organic solvent towards the pulp yield and its relationship with Kappa number and pulp yield.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.395-395
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• 2000

Optimization of existing processes becomes more important than the past as environmental problems and concerns about energy savings stand out. When we can model a process mathematically, we can easily optimize it by using the model as constraints. However, modeling is very difficult for most chemical processes as they include numerous units together with their correlation and we can hardly obtain parameters. Therefore, optimization that is based on the process models is, in turn, hard to perform. Especially, f3r unknown processes, such as bioprocess or microelectronics materials process, optimization using mathematical model (first principle model) is nearly impossible, as we cannot understand the inside mechanism. Consequently, we propose a few optimization method using empirical model evolutionarily instead of mathematical model. In this method, firstly, designing experiments is executed fur removing unecessary experiments. D-optimal DOE is the most developed one among DOEs. It calculates design points so as to minimize the parameters variances of empirical model. Experiments must be performed in order to see the causation between input variables and output variables as only correlation structure can be detected in historical data. And then, using data generated by experiments, empirical model, i.e. response surface is built by PLS or MLR. Now, as process model is constructed, it is used as objective function for optimization. As the optimum point is a local one. above procedures are repeated while moving to a new experiment region fur finding the global optimum point. As a result of application to the pulp digester benchmark model, kappa number that is an indication fur impurity contents decreased to very low value, 3.0394 from 29.7091. From the result, we can see that the proposed methodology has sufficient good performance fur optimization, and is also applicable to real processes.

• 한국펄프종이공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국펄프종이공학회 2006년도 PAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE vol.2
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• pp.317-321
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• 2006

The investigation of the formation of organic sulfur compounds (i.e., odor species), mainly methyl mercaptan and demethyl suifide, during kraft pulping has been conducted, in which both hardwood and softwood species were used. It was discovered that there is an organic sulfur compounds formation phase transition point with respect to delignification extent. The transition point occurs at a kappa number of approximately 35 and 20 for softwoods and hardwoods, respectively. The results also showed that both low sulfidity and anthraquinone (AQ) addition are helpful to control the formation of theses organic sulfur compounds during kraft pulping. Whereas Hexenuronic acid (HexA) has contribution to Kappa number, the extended delignification not only lead to low pulp yield, but also be adverse to odor control. A significant in-digester odor reduction can be achieved if the pulping is to be terminated before phase transition point and combined with AQ addition.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2013

To conserve wood resources for papermaking, chemical compositions of the hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) bast fiber cultivated in Korea such as holocellulose, ${\alpha}$-cellulose, lignin, alcohol-benzene extractives, hot and cold water extractives, and ash contents were investigated to manufacture the specialty packaging paper effectively. Significantly very low klason lignin content of 3.3% was accomplished by removing of the outer shell of bark. Laboratory soda pulping method which is very useful for the nonwood fiber was adapted, and it was found that there was no significant difference in both kappa number and H-factor between 25% and 30% NaOH charge. Hemp pulp cooked with the laboratory digester in 25% NaOH at $170^{\circ}C$ were mixed together with the wood pulp(NBKP:LBKP=1:1) in order to find the optimum mixture ratio which exhibited acceptable paper strength properties such as tensile index, burst index, and tear strength. When 10% of hemp soda pulps was mixed with 90% of wood pulps comprised of SwBKP and HwBKP (1:1), all physical strength increased significantly. The physical strength decreased as the amount of hemp pulp increased because the cell wall of bast fiber is very thick which causes low conformability and low fiber-fiber bonding. These results showed that paper made of hemp-wood pulp can be used for the specialty packaging paper which requires both the characteristic surface properties and the high physical strength of hemp fiber.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2008

현재 메인 주립대학에서는 펄프용 목재 성분 중 헤미셀룰로오스 추출 기술에 관한 연구개발이 한창 진행 중이다. 펄프의 수율 향상과 용액 회수에 필요한 유기 및 무기물 사용을 줄이고 새로운 바이오 물질 생산에 필요한 도입부 추가 공정이 연구의 핵심이다. 바이오 물질 중 경제적으로 상용 가능한 에탄올 생산(pilot-scale)에 있어 전 처리되지 않은 기질, 전 처리된 기질 및 펄핑 선 추출액의 화학적 성분분석은 아주 중요한 공정이다. HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography)를 이용한 펄프목재 성분분석 결과, H-column으로 분석한 총 물질수지(total analytical mass balance)는 전 처리되지 않은 칩의 경우 100.6%, 전 처리된 목재 칩은 100.3%, 그리고 펄핑 선 추출액은 81.6%의 결과를 보였다. 한편, P-column으로 분석한 결과, 전 처리되지 않은 기질, 전 처리된 기질, 그리고 선 추출액은 각각, 97.8%, 97.4%, 그리고 80.7%로 나타났다. 총 물질수지가 100%를 넘거나 부족한 수치는 분석해석 중 발생한 약간의 오류로 보인다. 펄프-바이오리파이너리(Biorefinery) 공정을 통해 생성된 기질(substrate) 각각의 정확한 성분분석 결과는 에탄올 상용화 공정에 필요한 중요한 자료가 될 것으로 기대한다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.2197-2204
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• 2000

리그닌은 펄프나 제지공장에서 나무의 화학적 처리를 하는 과정에서 생성되는 주요한 부산물이다. 이런 리그닌은 난분해성 물질로서 제지폐수의 생물학적 처리에 어려움을 초래하며, 특히 함량이 높을 경우 혐기성 소화에서 억제(inhibition) 물질로 작용하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 회분실험을 통하여 혐기성 소화에서 온도와 혐기성 소화 슬러지의 양에 따른 고분자 활엽수 리그닌(lignosulfonate, MW $\geq$ 20,000)의 영향을 관찰하였다. 고분자 활엽수 리그닌은 혐기성 소화 초기에는 메탄생성에 강한 억제작용을 하였으나 일정한 시간이 지난 후에는 이런 억제작용은 사라지고 메탄생성이 정상적으로 이루어졌다. 즉, 고분자 활엽수 리그닌은 aceticlastic methanogen에 대해 bacteriocidal 작용보다는 bacteriostatic 물질로서 작용하였다. 리그닌이 첨가되지 않은 대조군의 경우에는 메탄생성이 10일간 이루어지는데 반하여 1.3%, 2.6%와 3.9%의 리그닌이 첨가된 경우에는 같은 양의 메탄올 생성하는데 각각 14.5일, 17.8일 과 21.1일이 소요되었다. 2.6%의 리그닌을 첨가한 경우 초기 8일간은 $30^{\circ}C$ 조건에서의 메탄생성속도가 가장 컸으나 12일째부터 $40^{\circ}C$에서의 메탄생성속도가 급속히 증가하여 14일 후에는 총 메탄생성량이 $30^{\circ}C$를 초과하였다. 그러나 $50^{\circ}C$에서는 줄곧 메탄생성이 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 즉, aceticlastic methanogen에 대한 리그닌의 억제작용을 중온 (mesophilic)보다 고온(thermophilic)에서 더 컸다. 리그닌에 의한 이런 억제작용은 또 리그닌의 양(L)과 초기 혐기성 소화슬러지의 농도(AnS)의 비와 중요한 관계가 있었다. L/AnS의 비가 작으면 작을수록 이런 억제작용은 감소되는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 본 실험에서 고분자 활엽수 리그닌의 분해와 탈색은 이루어지지 않았다.