• Journal of Life Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.129-134
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• 1996

The development of fish feed is essential to aquaculture. Recently, yeast, dhlorella and plankton have been studied and development as the feed of the fry fishes, But, these biological feeds cause the nutritional unbalance to fry fishes, rotifer or artemia. Therefore, to solve these problems, microcapsules with micron sizes were prepared for enhancing the nutritional values of artemia and rotifer which are used as the feed of fry fishes. Microparticle oil capsules were prepared by the complex coacervation technique. The method to make the optimal size of microcapsule which the artemia and rotifer can be easily taken was wvaluated. The size of oil microcapsule in the range of 5-70$\mu$m was obtained by the agitation conditions during coacervation. Capsule size and size distribution were dependent on the agitation speed and agitation time, respectively.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2019

The agitator is an important industrial instrument widely used for mixing various solutions in the industrial field. In this study, the optimized design of the helical ribbon type impeller, which is mainly used for the stirring of the high viscosity solution, is carried out by CFD analysis. For this purpose, an index for evaluating the agitation performance is newly defined and an optimization design process is performed through a multiphase computational fluid dynamic analysis. From these results, it is understood that the stirring performance is maximized in the case of the helical ribbon impeller under given operating conditions when the width is 7.5 mm, the height is 160 mm and the turn is 1.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.652-658
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• 2011

The growth kinetics of Streptomyces noursei NRRL 5126 was investigated under different aeration and agitation combinations in a 5.0 l stirred tank fermenter. Poly-${\varepsilon}$-lysine biosynthesis, cell mass formation, and glycerol utilization rates were affected markedly by both aeration and agitation. An agitation speed of 300 rpm and aeration rate at 2.0 vvm supported better yields of 1,622.81 mg/l with highest specific productivity of 15 mg/l.h. Fermentation kinetics performed under different aeration and agitation conditions showed poly- ${\varepsilon}$-lysine fermentation to be a growth-associated production. A constant DO at 40% in the growth phase and 20% in the production phase increased the poly-${\varepsilon}$-lysine yield as well as cell mass to their maximum values of 1,992.35 mg/l and 20.73 g/l, respectively. The oxygen transfer rate (OTR), oxygen utilization rate (OUR), and specific oxygen uptake rates ($qO_2$) in the fermentation broth increased in the growth phase and remained unchanged in the stationary phase.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.353-357
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• 2008

A series of studies has been conducted to establish a base infrastructure for an ovarian follicle culture system in the porcine and this study was designed to develop an effective retrieval protocol of preantral follicles. Five different methods using collagenase type I (A) or IV (B, C1, C2 and C3), which employed different treatment durations and/or conditions, were employed and sliced ovarian tissue of prepubertal gilts was provided for the retrieval. A significant increase in total number of follicles retrieved was detected when collagenase IV (methods B or C) was used. In total, more ovarian follicles were retrieved by method B undertaking agitation and method C2 without the agitation than method C1 and C3, while the number of preantral follicles collected was the largest in method B. Neither incubation in 5% $CO_2$ in air atmosphere instead of the agitation nor increased duration of enzymatic treatment up to 120 minutes improved the efficiency of follicle retrieval. There were no differences in the number of follicles retrieved from intact ovaries and from used ovaries for oocyte collection. These results demonstrate the collagenase IV treatment with agitation is effective for retrieving porcine preantral follicles from the ovaries.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.430-437
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• 2011

The effects of the agitation and aeration rates on the production of serratiopeptidase (SRP) in a 5-L fermentor (working volume 2-l) were systematically investigated using Serratia marcescens NRRL B-23112. The dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, biomass, SRP yield, and maltose utilization were all continuously measured during the course of the fermentation runs. The efficiencies of the aeration and agitation were evaluated based on the volumetric mass transfer coefficient ($K_La$). The maximum SRP production of 11,580 EU/ml with a specific SRP productivity of 78.8 EU/g/h was obtained with an agitation of 400 rpm and aeration of 0.075 vvm, which was 58% higher than the shake-flask level. The $K_La$ for the fermentation system supporting the maximum production (400 rpm, 0.075 vvm) was 11.3 $h^{-1}$. Under these fermentor optimized conditions, kinetic modeling was performed to understand the detailed course of the fermentation process. The resulting logistic and Luedeking-Piret models provided an effective description of the SRP fermentation, where the correlation coefficients for cell growth, SRP formation, and substrate consumption were 0.99, 0.94, and 0.84, respectively, revealing a good agreement between the model-predicted and experimental results. The kinetic analysis of the batch fermentation process for the production of SRP demonstrated the SRP production to be mixed growth associated.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.292-297
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• 1993

Aspergillus niger No. PFST-38 was grown on complex media in 30L agitated fermentors at various aeration rates and stirrer speeds. We could correlate the mixing time as a function of the Reynolds number and the apparent viscosity, as follows. ${\theta}_M=2.95\;\NRe^{-0.52},\;{\theta}_M=1.88\;{\eta_a}^{0.57}$ Also, the effects of the apparent viscosity (${\theta}_a$), the impeller rotational speed (N), the air flow rate ($V_s$), and the mixing time (${\theta}_M$) on the oxygen transfer coefficient, $K_L a$ were determined experimentally, and equated as follows. $K_La=12.04N^{0.88}Vs^{0.71}{n_a}^{-0.83},\;K_La=30.2N^{0.88}Vs^{0.71}{\theta_M}^{-1.45}$ $K_La$ increased as the agitation speed and the air flow rate increased. The rate of $K_La$ increase was dependent more on the rotational speed of impeller than on the air flow rate. The glucoamylase production increased with the increase of the agitation speed upto at 500 rpm and increased with the increase of air flow rate upto at 1.0 vvm. The values calculated from the above equation confirmed that the experimental maximum production of glucoamylase was achieved when the $K_La$ and the apparent viscosity of the broth were $260\;hr^{-1}$ and 1800 cps, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.1203-1208
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• 1998

To utilize astringent persimmon (Diospyros kaki, T.) effectively, response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to optimize and monitor the vinegar fermentation conditions by two stage fermentation. In the first stage, the fermentation conditions for maximum alcohol content was $20.51\;^{\circ}brix$ in sugar concentration of astringent persimmon, 139.52 rpm in agitation rate, and 94.88 hr in fermentation time. When sugar concentration of astringent persimmon was $14\;^{\circ}brix$, maximum alcohol content predicted by response surface methodology was 7.1% at agitation rate of 40 rpm and fermentation time of 120 hr. In the second stage, the fermentation conditions for maximum acidity was 224.40 rpm in agitation rate, 176.07 hr in fermentation time. Alcohol content and acidity predicted at the optimum conditions were similar to experimental values.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1849-1855
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• 2006

It has been shown that the initial conditions of bacterial cultivation are extremely important for the successful production of hyaluronic acid (HA) by fermentation. We investigated several parameters that affect cell growth rate and the productivity and molecular weight of hyaluronic acid--i.e., agitation speed, aeration rate, culture temperature, pH, and pressure--to determine how to optimize the production of HA by Streptococcus zooepidemicus on an industrial scale. Using a 30-1 jar fermentor under laboratory conditions, we achieved maximum HA productivity and biomass when the agitation speed and aeration rate were increased simultaneously. By shifting the temperature downward from 35$^{\circ}C$ to 32$^{\circ}C$ at key levels of cell growth during the fermentation process, we were able to obtain HA with a molecular weight of $2.8{\times}10^6$ at a productivity of 5.3 g/l. Moreover, we reproduced these optimized conditions successfully in three 30-1 jar fermentors. By reproducing these conditions in a 3-$m^3$ fermentor, we were able to produce HA with a molecular weight of $2.9{\times}10^6$ at a productivity of 5.4 g/l under large-scale conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 1989

In this study, the specimens of SCM 22 H steel were quenched in oil and water baths at various agitation conditions in order to investigate the effects of quenchants and agitation conditions on the quench-hardening. A multi-channel temperature measurement apparatus was employed to obtain the cooling curves at several predetermined positions of specimens. Microstructural observation and hardness test were also carried out. Computer simulation of heat treating process was carried out using the modified finite difference method. Prediction of thermal history and hardness distribution by 2-dimensional computer analysis was in good agreement with the experimental results. It was found that the quantitative design of heat treating process can be made by the computer aided heat-treating analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.102-108
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• 1998

This study was performed to establish manufacturing of garlic vinegar which has medical action component of garlic and functionality of vinegar. Optimum alcohol concentration, and garlic juice concentration for the mpnufacturing of garlic vinegar were 5%, 10%, respectively, and the optimum conditions were obtained when the fermentation was carried out at agitation of agitation of 120rpm and temperature of 3$0^{\circ}C$. The acetic acid content of optimum condition was 4.87% and thiosulfinate content was 37.5mg after 20days fermentation. The major organic acid compositions in garlic vinegar were oxalic acid, citric acid, malic acid and acetic acid, and free amino acid compositions were aspartic acid, threonine, serine, glutamic acid, alanine etc.