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Photoluminescence property of ZnO nanoparticle prepared by microwave irradiation method

  • Sakamoto, Naonori;Ishizuka, Satoshi;Wakiya, Naoki;Suzuki, Hisao
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.788-791
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    • 2008
  • ZnO nanoparticle was successfully prepared by microwave irradiation method in various oxygen/nitrogen ratio atmospheres. The product prepared in a low oxygen ratio atmosphere showed tetra pod shape with high aspect ratio, c/a. PL spectra of the products showed higher UV emission intensity than the others when it was prepared in the atmosphere oxygen/nitrogen=40/60.

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Experimental study on the applicability of liquid air as the refrigerant in artificial ground freezing for subsea tunnels (해저터널을 위한 동결공법 냉매로서의 액화공기 적용성에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Son, Young-Jin;Choi, Hyeungchul;Moon, Hung-Man;Choi, Hangseok;Ko, Tae Young
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.175-181
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, the liquid air was selected as the refrigerant in artificial ground freezing to be used for rapid ground freezing and to reduce the risk of suffocation and the applicability of liquid air was verified. In order to evaluate the stability of the liquid air, the oxygen concentration of mixtures with liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen was experimentally examined to meet the oxygen concentration criteria in the Occupational Safety and Health Act. In addition, the effects of the mixture ratio of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen, pressure and flow rate change in the storage vessel on the oxygen concentration in the liquid air were investigated. As a result, the ratio of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen 8: 2 was shown to meet the oxygen concentration standards. Pressure and flow rate change in the storage vessel did not have significant effects on the oxygen concentration in the liquid air.

Effects of oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen addition in the synthesis of diamond-like carbon films (DLC 합성시 산소, 수소 및 질소 첨가의 효과)

  • 황민선;이종무
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.165-171
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    • 1999
  • Diamond-like carbon(DLC) films were synthesized using the rf-plasma CVD technique with the addition of small amounts of nitrogen and oxygen to a gas mixture of $CH_4$ and $H_2$. The gas flow ratio of $CH_4$ to $H_2$ was 2.4:1, and 3% , 13.6% of nitrogen were added to the gas mixture of $CH_4$ and $H_2$ for the deposition of DLC films. The film stress tended to decrease as the nitrogen concentration increased from 3% to 13.6%, probably due to the decrease of the number of the interlink between carbon atoms. The residual stress tended to slightly decrease when 3% of oxygen was added. Scratch tests were performed to investigate the adhesion between the DLC films and the Ti intelayer after pretreating the TiN surface with direct hydrogen plasma. The adhesion was enhanced by adding nitrogen and oxygen to the $CH_4$ and $H_2$ gas mixture. The adhesion for the 3% nitrogen addition was better than that for the 13.6% nitrogen addition. The Vicker's hardness of the DLC films was measured to be 1100Hv.

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Selective nitrification and denitrification in fixed bed biofilm reactors

  • Yun, Ho-Jun;An, Seung-Ho;Kim, Dong-Jin
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.278-281
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    • 2001
  • A fixed bed biofilm reactor filled with ceramic media were used to remove nitrogen by selective nitrification (ammonium to nitrite). The effects of experimental conditions (nitrogen load, dissolved oxygen, nitrite ratio, C/N ratio) on denitrification were investigated. The reactor showed more than 80% average T-N removal efficiencies at T-N loading in the range of $1.1{\sim}3.3$ kg $T-N/m^3{\cdot}d$ C/N at the C/N ratio of 1. T-N removal efficiencies increased as nitrite ratio.

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Li+- and H+-Exchanged Low-Silica X Zeolite as Selective Nitrogen Adsorbent for Air Separation

  • Kim, Jin-Bae
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1814-1818
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    • 2003
  • $Li^+$ and $H^+$ co-exchanged LSXs (Li-H-LSX) with various ratios of $Li^+$ and $H^+$ were prepared, and those adsorption characteristics of nitrogen and oxygen were compared with Li-Na-LSX and Li-Ca-LSX. Li-H-LSX showed higher nitrogen capacity and selectivity than that of Li-Na-LSX in the wide range of Li-exchanged ratio. The nitrogen capacity of Li-Ca-LSX was slightly higher than that of fully Li- or Ca-exchanged LSX (Li- LSX or Ca-LSX). However, Li-Ca-LSX showed low nitrogen/oxygen adsorption selectivity until the Li content reached about 80%, which was a tendency near that of Ca-LSX.

Differentiation in Nitrogen-Converting Activity and Microbial Community Structure between Granular Size Fractions in a Continuous Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal Reactor

  • Qian, Feiyue;Chen, Xi;Wang, Jianfang;Shen, Yaoliang;Gao, Junjun;Mei, Juan
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.10
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    • pp.1798-1807
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    • 2017
  • The differentiations in nitrogen-converting activity and microbial community structure between granular size fractions in a continuous completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite (CANON) reactor, having a superior specific nitrogen removal rate of $0.24g/(g\;VSS{\cdot}h)$, were investigated by batch tests and high-throughput pyrosequencing analysis, respectively. Results revealed that a high dissolved oxygen concentration (>1.8 mg/l) could result in efficient nitrite accumulation with small granules (0.2-0.6 mm in diameter), because aerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (genus Nitrosomonas) predominated therein. Meanwhile, intermediate size granules (1.4-2.0 mm in diameter) showed the highest nitrogen removal activity of $40.4mg/(g\;VSS{\cdot}h)$ under sufficient oxygen supply, corresponding to the relative abundance ratio of aerobic to anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (genus Candidatus Kuenenia) of 5.7. Additionally, a dual substrate competition for oxygen and nitrite would be considered as the main mechanism for repression of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, and the few Nitrospira spp. did not remarkably affect the overall performance of the reactor. Because all the granular size fractions could accomplish the CANON process independently under oxygen limiting conditions, maintaining a diversity of granular size would facilitate the stability of the suspended growth CANON system.

A Study on the Combustion Characteristics of Diesel Engine by the Change of the Intake Air Composition (흡기조성 변화에 따른 디젤 기관의 연소 특성 변화)

  • 김세원;임재문
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 1994
  • Intake gases other than air, which is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon, are used to study their effects on the performance of the diesel engine experimentally. The engine is operated at constant speed and fixed fuel injection timing, and cylinder pressure and heat release rate are measured at various intake gas compositions. The results show that increase of oxygen concentration improves the performance of the engine generally. The adverse effect is observed when the oxygen concentration is increased over the critical oxygen concentration of this test, mainly because of the over-shortened ignition delay. Increase of carbon dioxide concentration degardes the performance of the engine, mainly due to the lower specific heat ratio of carbon dioxide. Adding argon gas to the intake gas improves the overall performance. Finally, it is found that two most influencing factors affecting the performance of the diesel engine in this study are ignition delay and speific heat ratio of the intake gas.

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Oxygen Transfer Rate Coefficient of Membrane Aeration Bioreactor for Vero Cell Culture

  • Jeon, Ju-Mi;Jeong, Yeon-Ho;Kim, Ik-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Jong;Jang, Yong-Geun;Jeon, Gye-Taek
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.269-270
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    • 2002
  • Oxygen is a key substrate in animal cell metabolism and its consumption is thus a parameter of great interest for monitoring and control in animal cell culture bioreactor. The use of a gas-permeable membrane offered the possibility to provide the required quantity of oxygen into the culture. while avoiding problems of foaming or shear damage generally linked to sparging. For determining the optimum DO control strategy of this gas-permeable membrane aeration bioreactor, the oxygen transfer rate coefficient was measured with varying $N_2$ ratio in inlet air. The results showed that an increasing mass flow rate of nitrogen reduced the $K_La$ value. and 5% nitrogen in air did not result in any oxygen limitation.

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Comparison of Fuel-NOx Formation Characteristics in Conventional Air and Oxyfuel Combustion Conditions (일반 공기 및 순산소 연소 조건에서 Fuel-NOx 생성 특성의 비교)

  • Woo, Mino;Park, Kweon Ha;Choi, Byung Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.481-488
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    • 2013
  • Nitric oxide ($NO_x$) formation characteristics in non-premixed diffusion flames of methane fuels have been investigated experimentally and numerically by adding 10% ammonia to the fuel stream, according to the variation of the oxygen ratio in the oxidizer with oxygen/carbon dioxide and oxygen/nitrogen mixtures. In an experiment of coflow jet flames, in the case of an oxidizer with oxygen/carbon dioxide, the $NO_x$ emission increased slightly as the oxygen ratio increased. On the other hand, in case of an oxygen/nitrogen oxidizer, the $NO_x$ emission was the maximum at an oxygen ratio of 0.7, and it exhibited non-monotonic behavior according to the oxygen ratio. Consequently, the $NO_x$ emission in the condition of oxyfuel combustion was overestimated as compared to that in the condition of conventional air combustion. To elucidate the characteristics of $NO_x$ formation for various oxidizer compositions, 1D and 2D numerical simulations have been conducted by adopting one kinetic mechanism. The result of 2D simulation for an oxidizer with oxygen/nitrogen well predicted the trend of experimentally measured $NO_x$ emissions.

Analysis on the Characteristics of Water Quality in Prearranged Saemangeum Area (새만금 예정수역의 수질특성 분석)

  • Lee, Gwang-Ya;Eom, Myeong-Cheol;Jo, Jae-Won;Jeong, Hae-Jin
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2004
  • Hourly monitoring data from Saemangeum estuary, which is expected to become freshwater, was analyzed to evaluate the water quality characteristics. Higher algal growth at spring season than winter influenced the high ratio of organic nitrogen to total nitrogen and concentration of chemical oxygen demand (COD). About 87.9% and 59.7% of organic nitrogen was observed at winter season and spring season, respectively. Daily salinity analysis at the mouth of two main rivers demonstrated that the Dongjin in river was more influenced by tidal effect and showed higher variation than the Mankyung river. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus (N/P ratio) was different with site (estuary versus sea area) and season (winter versus spring) remarkably. The N/P ratio was highest (32.74 ∼ 43.93) at estuary in winter and was lowest (1.78 ∼ 3.06) at sea in spring. The high N/P ratio at estuary area implies that phosphorus can be the limiting nutrient factor for algal growth as in general freshwater river, therefore, water quality management practice considering river characteristics rather might be needed in the Saemangeum estuary. The Saemangeum project is nationally recognized for its environmental issues, and especially water quality concern is a critical factor to make policy decision and further assessment with continued monitoring is strongly recommended.