• 제목/요약/키워드: Pure sciences

검색결과 785건 처리시간 0.03초

Activated Carbon-Nickel (II) Oxide Electrodes for Capacitive Deionization Process

  • Gandionco, Karl Adrian;Kim, Jin Won;Ocon, Joey D.;Lee, Jaeyoung
    • 공업화학
    • /
    • 제31권5호
    • /
    • pp.552-559
    • /
    • 2020
  • Activated carbon-nickel (II) oxide (AC-NiO) electrodes were studied as materials for the capacitive deionization (CDI) of aqueous sodium chloride solution. AC-NiO electrodes were fabricated through physical mixing and low-temperature heating of precursor materials. The amount of NiO in the electrodes was varied and its effect on the deionization performance was investigated using a single-pass mode CDI setup. The pure activated carbon electrode showed the highest specific surface area among the electrodes. However, the AC-NiO electrode with approximately 10 and 20% of NiO displayed better deionization performance. The addition of a dielectric material like NiO to the carbon material resulted in the enhancement of the electric field, which eventually led to an improved deionization performance. Among all as-prepared electrodes, the AC-NiO electrode with approximately 10% of NiO gave the highest salt adsorption capacity and charge efficiency, which are equal to 7.46 mg/g and 90.1%, respectively. This finding can be attributed to the optimum enhancement of the physical and chemical characteristics of the electrode brought by the addition of the appropriate amount of NiO.

개방단말 동축선 프로브로 측정된 마른 모래의 복소 유전율 (Complex Permittivity of Dry Sand Measured by an Open-Ended Coaxial Probe)

  • 신현;김세윤;김영식
    • 대한전자공학회논문지TC
    • /
    • 제37권5호
    • /
    • pp.17-24
    • /
    • 2000
  • 자체 설계 및 제작된 개방단말 동축선 프로브를 이용하여 마른 모래의 복소 유전율을 측정하였다. 프로브의 간단한 교정 방안으로 순수한 물에 대해 측정된 반사계수와 수치계산한 반사계수간의 위상차를 모래에 대해 측정된 반사계수의 위상에 뺐다. 그 다음 마른 모래에 대해 측정된 반사계수를 개선된 가상의 동축선 모델에 대입하여 복소 유전율을 환산하였다. 동일한 마른 모래에 대해 측정된 정확한 측정자료와 비교함으로써 본 측정방법의 정확성을 입증하였다.

  • PDF

염색폐수의 생물학적 전처리 조건변화에 의한 최적 펜톤시약 투입량 결정에 관한 연구 (Optimum Dosage of Fenton's Reagent for the Dyeing Wastewater by the Different Conditions of Biological Treatment as the Pre-treatment Process)

  • 배준삼;이상호
    • 한국환경과학회지
    • /
    • 제14권7호
    • /
    • pp.683-689
    • /
    • 2005
  • The consecutive combination process of a biological process as the pre-treatment and a chemical process as the post-treatment is applied for the dyeing wastewater. The poor efficiency of biological treatment using pure oxygen makes the chemical treatment cost high. It is necessary to improve the efficiency of biological treatment in order to reduce the cost of chemical treatment. The purpose of this paper is to find the minimum dose of chemical reagent to fit the Discharged Water Quality Standards for the different biological treatment effluents. Results revealed that the minimum dosage of Fenton's reagent lead to save the cost of chemical treatment based on the guideline dose in the treatment plant. The possible maximum saving reagents was up to $70\%$ for the effluent of the pilot plant packed with the carrier imbedded microorganisms which were selected from the present treatment plant.

마우스 배아에서 슈반세포-뉴런 네트워크의 분리와 슈반세포의 분리 (Isolation of Schwann Cell and Separation of Schwann Cell-Neuron Network from Mouse Embryo)

  • 권태동;사영희;홍성갑
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
    • /
    • pp.943-945
    • /
    • 2013
  • 슈반세포의 수초화에 대한 연구는 일차 슈반세포의 분리와 배양의 성공에 의해 가능해지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 슈반세포의 근원으로서 마우스 배아의 척수신경절이 사용되었다. 이 방법에는 세 가지 단계가 있다. 첫 단계는 배아의 척수신경절의 파쇄이고 두 번째 단계는 섬유아세포로부터 슈반세포-뉴런 연합체의 기계적인 분리에 의한 슈반세포의 전구세포의 확장이며 세 번째 단계는 뉴런으로 부터 슈반세포의 분리와 분리된 슈반세포의 확장이다. 우리는 본 과정을 통해 짧은 시간이내에 슈반세포-뉴런 연합체와 슈반세포를 고순도로 분리하였다.

  • PDF

Impact of energy efficiency improvement on greenhouse gas in off-season tomato farming: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan

  • Ali, Qamar;Khan, Muhammad T.I.;Khan, Muhammad N.I.
    • Advances in Energy Research
    • /
    • 제5권3호
    • /
    • pp.207-217
    • /
    • 2017
  • Energy consumption in agriculture is responsible for greenhouse gas emission but it can be reduced after efficient utilization of energy inputs. Therefore, the present study aims for the estimation of energy efficiency and extent of greenhouse gas reduction after benchmarking of inefficient farms in off-season tomato in Punjab province of Pakistan. Primary data were collected from 70 farmers with simple random sampling. By using data envelopment analysis, the average value of technical, pure technical and scale efficiency was 0.80, 0.92 and 0.87, respectively while increasing, constant and decreasing return to scale was observed in 33, 26 and 11 farmers, respectively. Total input energy was reduced by $12,688.91MJ\;ha^{-1}$ (13.89%) if inefficient farms used the energy inputs according to recommendations or benchmarking. A major portion of energy saving comes from fertilizers (68.79%) followed by diesel (15.70%), chemicals (5.91%), machinery (4.37%) and water (4.00%). Total greenhouse gases reduction was $499.17kg\;CO_2\;eq.ha^{-1}$ (14.57%) as a result of improvement in energy efficiency or benchmarking of inefficient farms. Agricultural extension staff should visit the vegetable farms on regular basis and give necessary information about efficient utilization of energy inputs. The government should create awareness about the optimum use of input through seminars and pamphlets.

COSMIC RAY ACCELERATION AT COSMOLOGICAL SHOCKS: NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF CR MODIFIED PLANE-PARALLEL SHOCKS

  • KANG HYESUNG
    • 천문학회지
    • /
    • 제36권3호
    • /
    • pp.111-121
    • /
    • 2003
  • In order to explore the cosmic ray acceleration at the cosmological shocks, we have performed numerical simulations of one-dimensional, plane-parallel, cosmic ray (CR) modified shocks with the newly developed CRASH (Cosmic Ray Amr SHock) numerical code. Based on the hypothesis that strong Alfven waves are self-generated by streaming CRs, the Bohm diffusion model for CRs is adopted. The code includes a plasma-physics-based 'injection' model that transfers a small proportion of the thermal proton flux through the shock into low energy CRs for acceleration there. We found that, for strong accretion shocks with Mach numbers greater than 10, CRs can absorb most of shock kinetic energy and the accretion shock speed is reduced up to $20\%$, compared to pure gas dynamic shocks. Although the amount of kinetic energy passed through accretion shocks is small, since they propagate into the low density intergalactic medium, they might possibly provide acceleration sites for ultra-high energy cosmic rays of $E\ll10^{18}eV$. For internal/merger shocks with Mach numbers less than 3, however, the energy transfer to CRs is only about $10-20\%$ and so nonlinear feedback due to the CR pressure is insignificant. Considering that intracluster medium (ICM) can be shocked repeatedly, however, the CRs generated by these weak shocks could be sufficient to explain the observed non-thermal signatures from clusters of galaxies.

A New Report of Biscogniauxia petrensis Isolated from Mosquitoes in Korea

  • Das, Kallol;Kim, Joung-Ho;Choi, Kwang-Shik;Lee, Seung-Yeol;Jung, Hee-Young
    • 한국균학회지
    • /
    • 제48권2호
    • /
    • pp.87-93
    • /
    • 2020
  • A fungal strain designated KNU-WDM2A2 was isolated from mosquitoes in Gimcheon, Korea. The pure culture was transferred to potato dextrose agar (PDA) and synthetic nutrient agar (SNA) media and attained a diameter of 90 mm after 10 days of incubation at 25℃. The colonies were whitish to light pink and cottony to wooly, with an abundant production of aerial mycelia. The strain produced hyaline to slightly yellowish conidiophores that were rough-walled and branched, with conidiogenous cells arising terminally or laterally. Conidia were unicellular, hyaline to light brown, smooth, and oval or ovoid to clavate, with a size of 4.1-6.9×2.5-3.3 ㎛ (n=65). A phylogenetic analysis was conducted using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions and 28S rDNA of large subunit (LSU) sequences, to support the cultural and morphological characteristics. The KNU-WDM2A2 strain was identified here as Biscogniauxia petrensis, new to Korea.

평판형 막모듈을 이용한 합성염료 폐수처리에 있어서 염농도 및 온도의 영향 (Effect of Salt Concentration and Temperature in Synthetic Dyestuff Wastewater Treatment using Plate and Frame Membrane Module)

  • 김선일;이봉우;윤영재
    • 한국환경과학회지
    • /
    • 제7권2호
    • /
    • pp.209-216
    • /
    • 1998
  • Nanofiltration[NF45] and reverse osmosis membrane(HR98PP) separation treatment of dyestuff wastewater was carried out In order to separate relatively pure water from synthetic dyestuff wastewater, which consists of reactive dye, acid dye, basic dye, direct dye, and disperse dye. The experiments were performed by using the plate and frame membrane module. In the nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane separation, When the NaCl concentration was 0.1, 5.0, and 20.091, retention was 63.0, 46.0, 0.9%, respectively. When permeate flux was 125.0, 67.5, and 45.0 L/$m^2$ h, the osmotic pressure increased with Increasing the NaCl concentration. Permeate flux of two membranes Increased as temperature Increased due to segmental movement of polymer of the membrane and the rejection rate of dyestuff was decreased gradually. It was found that the rejection rate was about 95% in the nanofiltratlon, while the reverse osmosis membrane showed a high rejection rate of 99% under all temperature and pressures conditions.

  • PDF

Stochastic MAC-layer Interference Model for Opportunistic Spectrum Access: A Weighted Graphical Game Approach

  • Zhao, Qian;Shen, Liang;Ding, Cheng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
    • /
    • 제18권3호
    • /
    • pp.411-419
    • /
    • 2016
  • This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection in opportunistic spectrum access networks from a perspective of interference minimization. The traditional physical (PHY)-layer interference model is for information theoretic analysis. When practical multiple access mechanisms are considered, the recently developed binary medium access control (MAC)-layer interference model in the previous work is more useful, in which the experienced interference of a user is defined as the number of competing users. However, the binary model is not accurate in mathematics analysis with poor achievable performance. Therefore, we propose a real-valued one called stochastic MAC-layer interference model, where the utility of a player is defined as a function of the aggregate weight of the stochastic interference of competing neighbors. Then, the distributed channel selection problem in the stochastic MAC-layer interference model is formulated as a weighted stochastic MAC-layer interference minimization game and we proved that the game is an exact potential game which exists one pure strategy Nash equilibrium point at least. By using the proposed stochastic learning-automata based uncoupled algorithm with heterogeneous learning parameter (SLA-H), we can achieve suboptimal convergence averagely and this result can be verified in the simulation. Moreover, the simulated results also prove that the proposed stochastic model can achieve higher throughput performance and faster convergence behavior than the binary one.

유산균이 Aspergillus parasiticus의 성장과 Aflatoxin $B_1$ 생성에 미치는 영향 (The Effects of Lactic Acid Bacteria on the Growth and Aflatoxin $B_1$ Production of Aspergillus parasiticus)

  • 이경민;김종규
    • 한국환경보건학회지
    • /
    • 제31권2호
    • /
    • pp.127-133
    • /
    • 2005
  • This study was performed to investigate the competitive effect of Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Lactobacillus plantarum on the growth and aflatoxin $B_1$ production of Aspergillus parasiticus. Leu. mesenteroides and Lac. plantarum were grown with A. parasiticus in a modified APT broth at $28^{\circ}C$ for 9 days. It was observed that the growth of A. parasiticus got lower when the two bacteria were inoculated simultaneously than when the mold grew alone. The pH of mixed culture of Leu. mesenteroides and Lac. plantarum showed significantly lower value than the pH of the pure culture of A. parasiticus (p<0.05). The acidity of the mixed culture group significantly increased compared with the control group (A. parasiticus alone group) (p<0.05). The aflatoxin $B_1$ production was significantly decreased in the mixed culture group than in the A. parasiticus alone group (p<0.05). Leu. mesenteroides showed the more efficient effect than Lac. plantarum. These results indicate that the two lactic acid bacteria have inhibitory effect on the growth and aflatoxin $B_1$ production of Aspergillus parasiticus.