• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.202-210
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• 2019

In order to maximize the utilization of sewage sludge, a waste from wastewater treatment facility, the residual sewage sludge generated after lipid and carbohydrate extraction for biodiesel and bioethanol production was used to produce bio-oil by pyrolysis. Thermogravimetric analysis showed that sludge pyrolysis mainly occurred between 200 and $550^{\circ}C$ (with peaks formed around 337.0 and $379.3^{\circ}C$) with the decomposition of the main components (carbohydrate, lipid, and protein). Bio-oil was produced using a micro-tubing reactor, and its yield (wt%, g-bio-oil/g-residual sewage sludge) increased with an increase in the reaction temperature and time. The maximum bio-oil yield of 33.3% was obtained after pyrolysis at $390^{\circ}C$ for 5 min, where the largest amount of energy was introduced into the reactor to break the bonds of organic compounds in the sludge. The main components of bio-oil were found to be trans-2-pentenoic acid and 2-methyl-2-pentenoic acid with the highest selectivity of 28.4% and 12.3%, respectively. The kinetic rate constants indicated that the predominant reaction pathway was sewage sludge to bio-oil ($0.1054min^{-1}$), and subsequently to gas ($0.0541min^{-1}$), rather than the direct conversion of sewage sludge to gas ($0.0318min^{-1}$).

• 공업화학
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.485-489
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• 2017

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)는 화학적 안정성과 높은 기계적 강도를 가지고 있어 식품, 의류 등 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있으며, 이로 인해 PET는 주요 폐플라스틱 폐기물 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서 PET를 재활용하기 위해 ethylene glycol (EG)와 glycolysis의 반응을 이용하여 단량체 회수에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 마이크로 튜빙 반응기를 사용하여 EG/PET비율 1~4, 반응시간 15~90 min, 반응온도 $250{\sim}325^{\circ}C$에서 망간, 구리 촉매 조건하에서 연구를 진행하였다. 10 wt% $Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ 촉매에서 반응온도, 시간과 EG/PET의 비가 각각 $300^{\circ}C$, 30 min와 1 : 2였을 때 가장 높은 89.46%의 bis (2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate monomer (BHET) 수율을 나타내었다.