• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2005

Nanofiltration (NF) of a dyeing wastewater was carried out using polyamide NF-membranes. Before applying the wastewater to the membrane process, it was pretreated with various chemical coagulants such as alum, ferric chloride and HOC-100A. In order to see the effect of the pretreatment of the wastewater using chemical coagulants on the membrane separation process, the optimum conditions for the coagulation and sedimentation process using the chemical coagulants were sought. By the pretreatment, despite the different coagulants used, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and UV-absorbance of the wastewater were lowered by more than $70\%$. The pretreated wastewater was then applied to the membrane process. The effect of the coagulants used for the pretreatment on the membrane fouling was studied. From this study, it was found that the HOC-100A was the best out of the coagulants used far the removal of the materials that could cause membrane fouling.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.437-446
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• 2019

Reverse osmosis seawater desalination facilities can extend the cleaning cycle and replacement time of the reverse osmosis membrane by pretreatment process. Selection of pretreatment process depends on water quality. It was attempted in this study to select approriate pretreatment process for the Masan bay, which was high in particles and organic content. For this purpose, performances of pretreatment processes such as filter adsorber (FA), pore controllable fiber (PCF), and ultrafiltration (UF) were compared based on the silt density index (SDI). The SDI value of the filtrate should be less than 3. The study results showed that UF can produce the filtrate quality satisfying the requirement. However, the transmembrane pressure (TMP) of UF increased quickly, reaching 0.6 bar within 4 days. In order to secure stable operation, FA and PCF were combined with UF. The study results showed that combination of PCF and UF was able to extend the filtration duration (more than 2 months) until to reach TMP of 0.6 bar.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.322-328
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• 2021

In this paper, a pretreatment method for a matrix in convex optimization is proposed to optimize the spectral reconstruction process of a disordered dispersion spectrometer. Unlike the reconstruction process of traditional spectrometers using Fourier transforms, the reconstruction process of disordered dispersion spectrometers involves solving a large-scale matrix equation. However, since the matrices in the matrix equation are obtained through measurement, they contain uncertainties due to out of band signals, background noise, rounding errors, temperature variations and so on. It is difficult to solve such a matrix equation by using ordinary nonstationary iterative methods, owing to instability problems. Although the smoothing Tikhonov regularization approach has the ability to approximatively solve the matrix equation and reconstruct most simple spectral shapes, it still suffers the limitations of reconstructing complex and irregular spectral shapes that are commonly used to distinguish different elements of detected targets with mixed substances by characteristic spectral peaks. Therefore, we propose a special pretreatment method for a matrix in convex optimization, which has been proved to be useful for reducing the condition number of matrices in the equation. In comparison with the reconstructed spectra gotten by the previous ordinary iterative method, the spectra obtained by the pretreatment method show obvious accuracy.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.447-451
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• 2004

The various pretreatment processes were evaluated to remove organic pollutants of weathered oil contaminated seawater(WOCS) for reverse osmosis desalination process, Biodegradation, coagulation, ultrafiltration, advanced oxidation processes and granular activated carbon filtration were used to evaluate the potential of organic pollutants removal in WOCS. Dissolved Organic Carbon(DOC) was almost not removed by biodegradation in WOCS. DOC was removed by 25% and 10% with the addition of $FeCl_3$ and PAC in WOCS, respectively. The removal efficiency using ultrafiltration(WOCS 500) was about 20% of DOC and 40% of $E_{260}$, respectively. In AOP application of WOCS, the removal of organic materials was improved up to 60% by the combination of $UV/O_3$ compared to UV process. However, 98% of DOC in woes could be removed by granular activated carbon filtration. It is revealed that activated carbon filtration is the best process for the pretratment of DOC removal.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.379-383
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• 2013

For the production of ethanol from freshwater cyanobacteria, a new pretreatment method using supercritical fluid was introduced. In this study, it was found that the supercritical fluid could penetrate inside the cell wall and help to liberate starch from cyanobacterial cells which resulted in the increase of the efficiency of ethanol production. For Microcystis aeruginosa, supercritical fluid pretreatment increased the amount of ethanol produced from cyanobacteria from 1.53 g/L to 2.66 g/L. For Anabaena variabilis, the amount of ethanol was increased from 1.25 g/L to 2.28 g/L. With use of supercritical fluid pretreatment, the efficiency of the process to obtain higher ethanol yields from freshwater cyanobacteria was improved upto 80%. The optimum temperature and pressure conditions for supercritical fluid pretreatment were determined as the temperature of $40^{\circ}C$ and the pressure of 120 atm. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using supercritical fluid pretreatment for ethanol production using freshwater cyanobacteria.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.778-784
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• 2004

Dyeing wastewater contains recalcitrant organics which can not be easily treated by conventional biological treatment. Therefore it has to be treated by other advanced oxidation process in order to remove COD and Color more efficiently. Fenton oxidation process is one of the most commonly applied processes in removal of COD and color for the dyeing wastewater. However it increase the treatment cost and the production of sludge by the use of the excessive chemical reagent. Ozonation is not suitable in Single treatment process because it is not effective in organics removal compared with Color removal. The purpose of this research in order to evaluate the comparable removal efficiency of COD and color by the combination of advanced oxidation processes for the dyeing wastewater. The sequential treatment processes of Fenton process and ozonation was more effective to remove organics and color than ozonation and Fenton process. The result of Fenton process for the pretreatment presented as the 81% removal of organics whereas ozonation process for the pretreatent presented as the 22.1% removal of organics. The removal of colour was higher as 81.3% for the ozonation as the pretreatment than 77.7% for the Fenton process as the pretreatment.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.229-239
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 탈지미세조류(LEA) 세포벽 분해를 통한 바이오당 생산에 있어 당화효소 사용없이 마이크로파 전처리만을 이용하여 글루코오스와 자일로오스를 생산하는 것이다. LEA의 주성분인 셀룰로오스와 헤미셀룰로오스의 무효소 당화를 위해 산 가수분해 기반의 마이크로파 전처리 조건을 반응표면분석법을 이용하여 최적화하였다. 마이크로파를 이용한 무효소 당화 공정의 주요 변수는 마이크로파 출력(198~702 W), 전처리 시간(39~241 sec)와 황산 농도(0~0.1 mol)로 최적 조건 예측을 위해 중심합성계획법을 이용하여 2차 회귀함수를 도출하였다. 마이크로파 출력과 전처리 시간이 LEA로부터 육탄당(C6)과 오탄당(C5) 생산에 유의한 영향을 주는 변수이며 증가에 따라 육탄당과 오탄당 당화율이 증가하는 경향을 확인하였다. 육탄당과 오탄당 당화율 최대화를 위한 산 가수분해를 적용한 마이크로파 전처리 최적 조건은 마이크로파 출력 700 W, 전처리 시간 185.7 sec와 황산 0.48 mol으로 육탄당 당화율 92.7%와 오탄당 당화율 74.5%가 예측되었으며 확인 실험을 통해 육탄당 당화율 94.2%와 오탄당 당화율 70.8%가 확인되어 예측의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다. 이는 LEA의 셀룰로오스와 헤미셀룰로오스 당화를 위해 산 가수분해 적용 마이크로파 전처리만을 이용한 무효소 당화 공정 적용과 $100^{\circ}C$ 이하의 낮은 온도와 짧은 전처리 시간 적용을 가능하여 기존 전처리 대비 효과적인 공정 임을 입증했다.

• 멤브레인
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.230-239
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• 2004

폴리아미드 역삼투막을 이용하여 염색폐수를 처리하였다. 염색폐수를 멤브레인 공정에 적용하기 전에 알럼, 페릭 클로라이드, HOC-100와 같은 화학응집제를 이용하여 먼저 처리하였다. 이러한 전처리가 분리막에 의한 폐수처리 공정에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 알아보기 위하여 최적의 응집/침전 조건을 찾았다. 사용된 모든 응집제에 있어서, 전처리된 폐수의 COD와 UV-흡수도는 약 70% 정도의 감소를 보였다. 이렇게 전처리된 폐수를 다시 분리막 공정으로 처리하였다. 전처리 시 사용된 응집제들이 분리막 공정에서 어떻게 분리막 오염에 영향을 주는지를 조사하였으며, 그 결과 HOC-100가 폐수 내에 존재하는, 분리막 오염을 유발하는 물질 제거에 가장 좋은 효과를 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2013

The steam explosion-chemical pretreatment is a more effective wood pretreatment technique than the conventional physical pretreatment by accelerating reactions during the pretreatment process. In this paper, two-stage pretreatment processes of hardwood were investigated for its enzymatic hydrolysis and the succinic acid yield from the pretreated solid. The first stage pretreatment was performed under conditions of low severity to optimize the amount of solid recovery. In the second stage pretreatment washed solid material from the first stage pretreatment step was impregnated again with chemical (alkaline or chlorine-based chemicals) to remove a portion of the lignin, and to make the cellulose more accessible to enzymatic attack. The effects of pretreatment were assessed by enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation, after the two stage pretreatments. Maximum succinic acid yield (16.1 g $L^{-1}$ and 77.5%) was obtained when the two stage pretreatments were performed at steam explosion -3% KOH.

• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.2303-2312
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• 2018

Pretreatment process of silica-coated PET fabrics, a major low-grade PET waste, was developed using the reaction with NaOH solution. By destroying the structure of silica coating layer, impurities such as silica and pigment dyes could be removed. The removal of impurity was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The pretreated PET fabric samples were used for depolymerization into its monomer, bis(2-hydroxylethyl) terephthalate (BHET), by glycolysis with ethylene glycol (EG), and zinc acetate (ZnAc) catalyst. The quality of BHET was confirmed by DSC, TGA, HPLC and NMR analyses. The highest BHET yield of 89.23% was obtained from pretreated PET fabrics, while glycolysis with raw PET fabric yielded 85.43%. The BHET yield from untreated silica-coated PET fabrics was 60.39%. The pretreatment process enhances the monomer yield by the removal of impurity and also improves the quality of the monomer.