• Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.355-365
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• 2022

Precipitation and phase transition of iron minerals in mine drainage greatly affect the behavior of trace elements. However, the precipitation of ferrihydrite, one of the major iron minerals precipitated in drainage, and the related behavior of trace elements have hardly been studied. In this study, the effects of pH change and time on mineral precipitation characteristics in mine drainage from the Munkyeong coal mine were investigated, and the behavioral changes of trace elements related to the precipitation of these minerals were studied. In the case of precipitated mineral phases, goethite was observed at pH 4, and 2-line ferrihydrite mixed with small amount of 6-line ferrihydrite was mainly identified at pH 6 or higher. In addition, it was observed that the precipitation of calcite additionally increased as the pH increased in the samples at pH 6 or higher. The occurrence of goethite was probably due to the phase change of initially precipitated ferrihydrite within a short time under the influence of low pH. Our results showed that the concentration of trace elements was strongly influenced by pH and time. With increasing time, Fe concentration in the drainage showed a abrupt decrease due to the precipitation of iron minerals, and the concentration of As existing as oxyanions in the drainage, also decreased rapidly like Fe regardless of the pH values. This decrease in As concentration was mainly due to co-precipitation with ferrihydrite, and also partly to surface adsorption on goethite at low pH in drainage. Contrary to this observation, the concentration of other trace elements, such as Cd, Co, Zn, and Ni was greatly affected by the pH regardless of the mineral species. The lower the pH value, the higher the concentration of these trace elements were observed in the drainage, and vice versa at higher pH. These results indicate that the behavior of trace elements present as cations is more greatly affected by the mineral surface charge influenced by the pH values than the type of the precipitated mineral.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.473-478
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to look for the optimal conditions of methane production. The conditions tested for methane production enhancement were temperature, pH, carbon source, nitrogen source, and inhibitor which can affects methane production. As a result, optimal conditions for methane production were 30$^{\circ}C$, neutral pH, methanol as a carbon source, NH$_4$Cl as a nitrogen source. 2-Bromoethanesulfonic acid was used as an inhibitor which can affects methane production. Existence in broth less than 10mM, inhibited methane production. Organic acid measurements revealed that formic acid exists in broth as majority.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.262-266
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• 2003

The present study was carried out to investigate the relationships among intertillage and muddying by free-ranging ducks (Chinese native ducks) and pH, dissolved oxygen of irrigation water, and physicochemical properties of soil. Two paddy fields comprised of the muddying (muddy water without physical stimulation to a rice plant by the ducks) and the control plots (no ducks) were used for this study. As a muddying plot, 50 hills were randomly selected and each hill was fenced with a wire net in order to prevent from stimulating physically by the ducks. The variation in irrigation pH was smaller in the muddying plot than the control plot, and the pH was around 7.4. Dissolved oxygen was significantly higher (P＜0.01) in the muddying plot than the control plot during the first half period after the ducks were introduced. Then it decreased rapidly as the rice plants grew in all plots. The contents of the suspended soil and turbidity in irrigation water were not changed over the free-ranging period, but $\textrm{NH}_3\textrm{-N}$ and $\textrm{P}_2\textrm{O}_5$ were decreased by intertillage and muddying by the ducks. There were no differences in both the soil physics and chemistry between the muddying plot and the control plot during and after finishing of the free-ranging period. These results indicate that intertillage and muddying by the ducks resulted in a small variation in stagnant water pH, and reduced the dissolved oxygen and $\textrm{P}_2\textrm{O}_5$, although the physiochemical properties of soil were not changed.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 1990

The growth and fermentation profiles of Clostridium acetobutylicum KCTC 1037 were examined in batch and continuous modes with pH variation and phosphate limitation. Clostridium acetobutylicum KCTC 10 37 grew better at pH 4.5 than at pH 5.5 or 6.5. Acetate and butyrate were produced at pH 5.5, whereas culture at pH 4.5 produced acetone and butanol. Solvent production was increased by the phosphate limitation in a batch culture, but in a phosphate-limited continuous culture for 400 hours steady-state solventogenesis was not observed. The induction and maintenance of solventogenesis presumably require not only acidic condition or phosphate limitation but also favourable bioenergetic condition.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.348-352
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• 2007

To investigate the effects of soil pH on plants, the seedlings of french marigold (Tagetes patula L.) was transplanted into the soils acidified with $H_{2}SO_{4}$ solutions (pH 5.3, 4.5, 3.9, 3.5). The level of malondialdehyde was significantly increased by soil acidification. As the pH levels decreased from 5.3 to 3.5, the contents of dehydroascorbate and oxidized glutathione of the plant were significantly increased. The antioxidative enzyme activities of the plant affected by soil acidification were increased as the pH decreased.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.121-131
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• 2006

This study is performed to examine the ground reinforcement effect and the environmental impact of LW injection, which is widely used during the excavation of high-rise apartment buildings. In addition, it proved that by conducting field exploration and laboratory test the engineering ground reinforcement effect of LW injection in the ground has low coefficient of permeability. The environmentally friendly aspect was evaluated through an assessment of environmental impact. The results of laboratory test shows that LW coagulating material with SC type soil structure has significant improvement of uniaxial compressive strength, increasing by three times and the shear strength increasing by twice, coefficient of permeability decreasing six to seven times. And the result of environmental impact tests show that from 6 hour after where the pH increases until 7.96 to initially it diminished, it started and to 80 hour after it recovered a pH 7.25 initially with 7.30. The chemical composition analysis test result that unpolluted water and polluted water hydrogen ion concentration (pH) show that the unpolluted water pH 7.36, polluted water pH 7.85, which is inside the Ministry of Environment standard of drinking water (the pH 5.8~8.5). The assessment of environmental impact and chemical analysis test also demonstrate that the LW coagulating material is environmentally friendly. In the $Cr^{6+}$ and the salinity detection test, it was proven that the salinity is slight and the $Cr^{6+}$ is not detected.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.556-564
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• 2008

Response surface methodology was used to monitor the optimization of fermentation conditions for red ginseng wine. A central composite design was applied to investigate the effects of independent variables, fermentation temperature ($X_1$), fermentation time ($X_2$) and initial pH ($X_3$) on dependent variables, physicochemical characteristics and effective ingredients. Alcohol and total sugar content were significantly affected both by fermentation temperature and time. Crude saponin content was greatly affected by fermentation time, and pH was significantly affected by initial pH. Fermentation time and initial pH had a greater effect on ginsenoside content than fermentation temperature. Ginsenoside content increased along with fermentation time and initial pH. We elicited a regression formula for each variable, and superimposed the total optimum points of fermentation conditions for physicochemical characteristics and the effective constituents. The predicted values at the optimum fermentation conditions were at $21{\sim}27^{\circ}C$ for $15{\sim}20$ day in initial pH $4.6{\sim}5.2$.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.332-336
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• 1998

The effect of ripening temperature, pH and salinity on the formation of Nnitrosamine (NA) during Kimchi fermentation and in vitro was studied, respectively. During Kimchi fermentation for six weeks at cold storage temperature ($4^{\circ}C$) and room temperature ($16{\pm}2^{\circ}C$), the contents of nitrite and dimethylamine (DMA) showed variation at room temperature but no variation at cold storage temperature. The maximum generation of nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) resulted low content ($2.69\;\mu\textrm{g}/kg$) at cold storage temperature but started to increase after one week fermentation and reached to the 18-fold higher generation ($49.6\;\mu\textrm{g}/kg$) at room temperature. During Kimchi fermentation, no correlation was observed between the variation of nitrite and DMA content and the generation of NDMA. However, pH showed effective relation to NDMA generation such as the highest NDMA generation was obtained at lowest pH 4. During in vitro test, higher temperature and lower pH resulted more NDMA generation and generation amount was affected more by pH. Also, the salinity of Kimchi provided inhibitory effects on the formation of NDMA. NDMA was produced $5.86\;\mu\textrm{g}/kg$ at normal salinity (2.5%) but $90.9\;\mu\textrm{g}/kg$ at lower salinity (15%) after three week. The higher salinity showed lower formation of NDMA in vitro test, too.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.92-101
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• 2000

For selective elimination of salt in the boiled extract of baby neck clam (Tapes variegata, BEBNC), electrodialyzer was used and the desalination conditions of BEBNC were determined at various concentrations, pH's and volumes of BEBNC. The ion-exchange membrane with a molecular weight cut off 100 Da was used for desalting of BEBNC. The desalination times on BEBNC concentrations of 0.5％ and 4％ were 100 min and 170 min and the final desalting ratio was above 90％. 1'he desalination of BEBNC at pH 4.0 was 12％ higher than that at pH 9.0 for 60 min. The electrodialysis process could remove above 90％ of the initial salt content in 2％ BEBNC of 1 L for 80 min. The results obtained prove that electrodialysis is a practical solution to the problem of selective elimination of salt from BEBNC.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.168-174
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• 1994

The experiments were performed to examine the effects of simulated acid rain (pH 1.0${\sim}$5.0) prepared by mixing sulfuric acid and nitric acid at the ratio of 3 : 1 on germination and growth of seedlings of some floricultural crops. Days to germination showed a one to three days' interval among crops, but pH level did not show any effect on germination for each crop. All seeds used in this experiment did not germinate at pH 1.0. At pH 2.0, the flowering cabbage and geranium still did not germinate, and even though the radicles of seeds were germinated, root hairs did not develop. The length of hypocotyls and radicles appeared to be significantly different according to the pH levels.