• Resources Recycling
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.3-14
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• 2020

Titanium sponge is industrially produced by the Kroll process. In order to understand the importance of the emerging smelting and recycling process, it is necessary to review the conventional production process of titanium. Therefore this paper provides a general overview of the conventional titanium manufacturing system mainly by the Kroll process. The Kroll process can be divided into four sub-processes as follows: (1) Chlorination of raw TiO₂ with coke, by the fluidized bed chlorination or molten salt chlorination (2) Magnesium reduction of TiCl₄ and vacuum distillation of MgCl₂ and Mg by reverse U-type or I-type with reduction-distillation integrated retorts (3) Electrolysis process of MgCl₂ by monopolar cells or multipolar cells to electrolyze into chlorine gas and Mg. (4) Crushing and melting process in which sponge titanium is crushed and then melted in a vacuum arc furnace or an electron beam furnace Although the apparatus and procedures have improved over the past 80 years, the Kroll process is the costly and time-consuming batch operation for the reduction of TiCl₄ and the separation of MgCl₂.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.429-432
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• 2011

The feasibility of applications of the char obtained from a gasification process of municipal-waste refuse derived fuel (RDF) as an auxiliary fuel was evaluated by combustion experiments. The higher heating value of the RDF char was 3000~4000 kcal/kg and its chlorine content was below the standard requirement demonstrating its potential as an auxiliary fuel. In the combustion exhaust gas, the maximum $NO_x$ and $SO_2$ concentrations were 240 ppm and 223 ppm, respectively. If an aftertreatment is applied, it is possible to control their concentrations low enough to meet the air pollutant emission standard. The HCl concentration was relatively high indicating that a care should be taken for HCl emission from the combustion of RDF. Based on the temperature distribution within the reactor, the concentration change of $O_2$ and $CO_2$, and the amount and the loss on ignition of solid residue, it was inferred that the combustion reaction was the most reliable when the excess air ratio of 1.3 was used.

• Clean Technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.239-250
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• 2020

Biomass is an abundant renewable energy resource that can replace fossil fuels for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG). Indonesia has a large number of cheap biomass feedstocks, such as reforestation (waste wood) and palm residues (empty fruit bunch or EFB). In general, raw biomass contains more than 20% moisture and lacks calorific value, energy density, grindability, and combustion efficiency. Those properties are not acceptable fuel attributes as the conditions currently stand. Recently, torrefaction facilities, especially in European countries, have been built to upgrade raw biomass to solid fuel with high quality. In Korea, there is no significant market for torrefied solid fuel (co-firing) made of biomass residues, and only the wood pellet market presently thrives (~ 2 million ton yr-1). However, increasing demand for an upgraded solid fuel exists. In Indonesia, torrefied woody residues as co-firing fuel are economically feasible under the governmental promotion of renewable energy such as in feed-in-tariff (FIT). EFB, one of the chief palm residues, could replace coal in cement kiln when the emission trading system (ETS) and clean development mechanism (CDM) system are implemented. However, technical issues such as slagging (alkali metal) and corrosion (chlorine) should be addressed to utilize torrefied EFB at a pulverized coal boiler.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1867-1872
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• 2010

Microbe and quality changes of vacuum-packaged ready-to-eat lettuce were analyzed. While the vacuumpackaged lettuce after chlorine sanitizer were stored at $5^{\circ}C$, $15^{\circ}C$, and $25^{\circ}C$ for 7 days, viable numbers of total aerobic bacteria (TAB), coliform, E. coli, food-borne pathogens and lactic acids bacteria (LAB) were counted with gas production and sensory evaluation. Before the storage, only TAB of 2 log CFU/g and coliform of 1 log CFU/g were detected and LAB was not detected. TAB, coliform and LAB increased by 1 log CFU/g at $5^{\circ}C$ for 7 days without any detection of the pathogens. Sensory evaluations for off-flavour and crispness dropped to half the best value at 5 day storage. TAB and coliform increased by 3 log CFU/g and 2 log CFU/g, respectively, but LAB grew very actively by 4 log CFU/g under anaerobic environment and only B. cereus were detected after enrichment of the lettuce at $15^{\circ}C$ for 3 days. The evaluations for off-flavour and crispness were half the best value for 3 days. However, TAB and coliform increased by 3 log CFU/g, 1 log CFU/g, and 4 log CFU/g, respectively only at 1 day storage under $25^{\circ}C$. Also B. cereus were detected after enrichment and the sensory evaluation were half the best value within 1 day storage. Therefore, preservation at the lowest temperature possible is required for growth inhibition of the bacteria contaminated in the lettuce. Interestingly, LAB among them grew most actively under the anaerobic condition and the adulteration of lettuce might be closely related with the growth of LAB.