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Effect of Nutrients on the Production of Extracellular Enzymes for Decolorization of Reactive Blue 19 and Reactive Black 5

  • Lee Yu-Ri;Park Chul-Hwan;Lee Byung-Hwan;Han Eun-Jung;Kim Tak-Hyun;Lee Jin-Won;Kim Sang-Yong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.226-231
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    • 2006
  • Several white-rot fungi are able to produce extracellular lignin-degrading enzymes such as manganese peroxidase (MnP), lignin peroxidase (LiP), and laccase. In order to enhance the production of laccase and MnP using Trametes versicolor KCTC 16781 in suspension culture, the effects of major medium ingredients, such as carbon and nitrogen sources, on the production of the enzymes were investigated. The decolorization mechanism in terms of biodegradation and biosorption was also investigated. Among the carbon sources used, glucose showed the highest potential for the production of laccase and MnP. Ammonium tartrate was a good nitrogen source for the enzyme production. No significant difference in the laccase production was observed, when glucose concentration was varied between 5 g/l and 30 g/l. As the concentration of nitrogen source increased, a lower MnP activity was observed. The optimal C/N ratio was 25 for the production of laccase and MnP. When the concentrations of glucose and ammonium tartrate were simultaneously increased, the laccase and MnP activities increased dramatically. The maximum laccase and MnP activities were 33.7 U/ml at 72 h and 475 U/ml at 96 h, respectively, in the optimal condition. In this condition, over 90% decolorization efficiency was observed.

Improvement of Convection by Pulsatile Blood Pump in High Flux Hemodialysis System (고 유량 혈액 투석 시스템에서 박동류 펌프에 대한 대류 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, D.S.;Um, K.M.;Lee, J.C.;Lee, S.R.;Mun, C.H.;Choi, H.;Min, B.G.;Kim, H.C.
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.376-383
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    • 2008
  • High-flux dialysis treatment removes various toxins via diffusion as well as convection, which is induced by ultrafiltration and backfiltration. In this study, in vitro (Using the distilled water and the bovine's blood) comparison test was performed to determine whether utilization of a high flux dialyzer paired with different pumps would increase the efficiency of convection. At the same blood flow rates, a pulsatile pump and a roller pump were employed to propel the distilled water and bovine whole blood to a high flux dialyzer. Pressures at the dialyzer inlet and outlet in the blood circuit and in the dialysate circuit were measured, respectively. From these data, we calculated the transmembrane pressure and predicted the ultrafiltration and backfiltration rates developed by both pumps. Using the bovine's blood experiment, ultrafiltration and backfiltration rates were 1.6 times higher with the pulsatile pump than with the roller pump. We conclude that utilization of a pulsatile pump in high flux hemodialysis treatments increases ultrafiltration volume, compared with a roller pump under conditions of the same blood flow rate.

Process Design of Conical Roll-Shaping for Fabrication of Variable Curvature Spiral Blade (가변곡률을 가진 나선형 블레이드 제작을 위한 원추형 롤 성형 공정설계)

  • Yang, Sungmoon;Shim, Dosik;Ji, Hoseong;Baek, Joonho;Kim, Bongsik;Ahn, Seokyoung;Park, Sanghu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.911-918
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    • 2016
  • A conical roll-shaping process was proposed for fabrication of a metallic spiral blade applied to a small-scale wind turbine system. A spiral blade has continuously different curvatures, with a range of 100 to 350 mm radius. To fabricate this complex shape, we developed a conical roll-shaping process having two main conical rollers for feeding a blank sheet, and two cylindrical side rollers for control of local bending. For clear understanding of the process parameters, numerical analyses were conducted using a commercial code, Pam-Stamp. This study optimized the effects of process parameters, such as gap and angle between the main rollers and side rollers, and also the movement of side rollers. In order to increase the forming efficiency, a central rotation point was also calculated by the analytical approach. This developed rolling process can thus be utilized in a sheet metal forming process for obtaining spirally curved sheet metal shapes.

Determination of Optimal Mixing Ratio of Phosphorescent Pigment to Develop Phosphorescent Paint for Road Line Marking (도로의 축광차선 도료 개발을 위한 축광안료 최적 배합비 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yong Mun;Kim, Sang Tae;Kim, Heung Rae
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2015
  • PURPOSES : This study was conducted to derive the optimum mixing ratio of phosphorescent pigment for the development of phosphorescent line marking. METHODS: In this study, we utilized a literature review and case study methodology, to describe the domestic and foreign state of practice for the production and mixing of phosphorescent pigment for use in line marking. The optimal mixing ratio was derived by comparing the reduction in luminance over time for the various phosphorescent pigment mixing ratios identified in the literature. In addition, performance and construction characteristics were analyzed using field testing techniques. RESULTS : The results were as follows: 1) the results of the luminance performance standards tests showed that all of the phosphorescence test specimens satisfied the phosphorescent fire protection standard. As the phosphorescent pigment mixing ratio increased, the luminance value increased, 2) the luminance reduction rate was minimum at the mixing ratio of 50%. However, when compared to a mixing ratio 40%, a small difference was recorded, the luminance reduction rate from the mixing ratio of 40% is judged as being converged. Therefore, in view of the economic efficiency, it was determined that the optimal mixing ratio was 40%, 3) as a result of construction on the field, a mixing ratio of 40% was found to have a higher luminance value than the general line marking for up to three hours after sunset, 4) it was found that the phosphorescent line markings without glass beads spraying had a higher luminance value than the phosphorescent line markings with glass beads spraying. CONCLUSIONS : Through the results of the basic experiments of the line markings obtained by blending a phosphorescent pigment, the results could be applied to play an important role in the development of phosphorescent line marking paint technology and in establishing application planning for on-site construction characteristics.

Measuring the efficiency of technology innovation of the Global Green Car Companies by ANP/DEA Model (특허지표를 고려한 글로벌 자동차 기업의 그린 카 기술혁신 효율성 평가를 위한 ANP/DEA 통합모형)

  • Kim, HyunWoo;Kim, Jaehee;Kim, Sheung-Kown
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.255-285
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    • 2012
  • As the environmental performance is getting important in global automotive industry sector, there is a need to build the intellectual capacity. Hence it is important to measure the performance of the green car patent development of global automotive companies. To do this, we propose to use Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) Model with Analytic Network Process(ANP), which generates weight coefficients of inputs and outputs for DEA-AR(Assurance Region) model. We considered three inputs: corporate asset, R&D expenditures, number of employees, and three outputs: patent counts, patent citations and patent claims. The results showed that our model could measure the potential of green car technology, and we could see the trend of the green car industry sector.

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Efficient Oxidative Scission of Alkenes or Alkynes with Heterogeneous Ruthenium Zirconia Catalyst (루테늄 지르코니아 불균일 촉매를 이용한 알켄 또는 알킨의 효과적인 산화절단반응)

  • Irshad, Mobina;Choi, Bong Gill;Kang, Onyu;Hong, Seok Bok;Hwang, Sung Yeon;Heo, Young Min;Kim, Jung Won
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.659-663
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    • 2016
  • The efficiency of a heterogeneous ruthenium zirconia catalyst ($Ru(OH)_x/ZrO_2$) was demonstrated to the selective oxidative transformation of alkenes or alkynes. The scissions of C-C double bonds to aldehydes and triple bonds to diketones or carboxylic acids were carried out with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene as an oxidant under dichloromethane (5 mL)/water (0.5 mL) solvent system at $30^{\circ}C$ for wide range of substrates. The $Ru(OH)_x/ZrO_2$composite showed higher catalytic activity and selectivity than other ruthenium-based homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts for the scission reaction. The catalyst exhibited a high mechanical stability, and no leaching of the metal was observed during the reaction. These features ensured the reusability of the catalyst for several times for the oxidative cleavage of unsaturated hydrocarbons.

A Study on the Characteristic Analysis of the Gyro Sensor and Development of Hybrid Navigation Algorithm for the Car Navigation (차량 항법용 자이로 센서의 특성분석 및 혼합항법 알고리즘 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 김상겸;유환신;김정하
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.171-179
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    • 2004
  • Today, the number of vehicle increased rapidly with the development of modem science technology, and it caused serious problems; traffic jam, accident and pollution etc. One of the solve methods these problems it is necessary to develope the vehicle navigation systems and it is already widely used to in field of military etc. Vehicle navigation system can increase the efficiency of traffic flow and offer at a drivers at a best driving conditions. In the vehicle navigation, most important thing is to measure of correct position. There are classifiable as three types. The first is G.P.S., method at artificial satellites which measures the present position and velocity any time, any where in the world at the same time. Secondly, a vehicle can determine its position and path information with a gyroscope and odometer signal, which is called Dead-Reckoning method. Thirdly, hybrid navigation system is the combined of two methods to make utilize the advantage of each navigation system. In the paper, we are analyzed to characteristics at a gyro sensor and introduce at a composition of hybrid navigation system which is combined with the G.P.S., D.R., and map-matching technique. We analyze deeply for the Map-Matching method and explain the coordinate transformation for G.P.S., and the Hybrid navigation algorithm is developed and experimented. Finally, we conclude and comment about our road test results.

An Economic Ripple Effect Analysis of National Scientific Data Center Construction (국가 과학데이터센터 구축의 경제적 파급효과 분석)

  • Park, Sung-Uk;Hahn, Sun-Hwa
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.55-69
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    • 2011
  • In the modern scientific R&D, the efficient acquisition, curation, analysis and visualization are core elements of the science development. The value of scientific data is very important in data intensive research. An output of scientific data is drastically increasing. However we have only each individual system of scientific data in now. Therefore We feel a lack of efficiency of scientific data. In this paper, We analyze an economic ripple effects in terms of production inducement effect, added value inducement effect, labor inducement effect and forward backward linkage effect of national scientific data center construction using an input-out analysis of the bank of Korea(2009). We also examine an economic propriety of national scientific data center construction.

AC loss dependency on the arrangement of the HTS wires in the current limiting module for SFCL (초전도 한류모듈 내 고온초전도 선재 배치에 따른 교류손실 변화)

  • Kim, W.S.;Yang, S.E.;Lee, J.Y.;Kim, H.;Yu, S.D.;Hyun, O.B.;Kim, H.R.
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.9-12
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    • 2012
  • Usually, the AC loss from the superconducting element of an SFCL due to the load current is very small because it is composed of the combination of bifilar windings with very small reactance. Although the AC loss is small enough, we should be albe to predict for the design and control of the cryogenic system. In fact, an SFCL for the transmission voltage class may not generate ignorable AC loss because of the inevitable space between the HTS wires for the high voltage insulation and cryogenic efficiency. To measure the AC loss dependency on the space between the 2G HTS wires with the width of 4.4 mm, we prepared an experimental setup which could adjust the distance between the wires. We used two 500-mm length HTS wires in parallel and applied the current in the opposite direction for each wire to simulate a part of a current limiting module for a high voltage SFCL. We also put two couples of voltage taps at the ends of each wire and a cancel coil in the voltage measurement circuit to compensate the reactive component from the voltage taps. In this condition, we varied the distance between the wires to investigate the change of the transport current loss. A similar experimental study with HTS wire with the width of 12 mm is now in progress.

Gateway design and performance evaluation based on health information standards in multi-platform environment (멀티플랫폼 환경에서 의료정보표준 기반 게이트웨이 설계 및 성능 평가)

  • Shim, Woo-Ho;Na, Hyun-Suk;Park, Seok-Cheon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2012
  • Recently, to enhance the quality and efficiency of health care services, smart health care services utilizing a smart phone and tablet pc are mainly being introduced into the large hospital and the interest for personal health record service which manages personal medical information utilizing PC and smart phone and technology development is actively underway. In order to build a next generation hospital information systems, the interoperability of data between the different hospital information systems and UX consistency between the various user devices must be assured. Therefore, in this paper, medical information standard and the study for improving the performance is conducted to design the gateway system which converting and integrating the medical information under multi-platform environment. In this paper, CCR standard is adapted to the mapping method between the data which is the key feature of the gateway system and design the system utilizing multi-table-based mapping method. To evaluate the performance of the system, experiment was done and the result has been improved approximately 20 percent for response rate.