• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
• /
• 제53권4호
• /
• pp.417-424
• /
• 2015

본 연구에서는 목질계 바이오매스인 돼지감자 줄기에 대한 전처리 공정을 수행하였다. 공정은 효소 당화 수율을 높이기 위하여 흐름형 침출 전처리 공정에 2단 전처리 공정으로 적용하였다. 전처리 용매로 암모니아수에 의한 탈 리그닌 효과와 황산 용액에 의한 헤미셀룰로오스의 분해가 효소당화 및 발효에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. 암모니아수와 황산용액을 이용한 2단 전처리 공정을 수행하였다. 먼저 1단계 공정은 40분 동안 $163.2^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 암모니아수로 처리를 진행하였고 다음 2단계 공정은 $169.7^{\circ}C$에서 20분 동안 황산 용액으로 처리를 수행하여 물질수지를 구하였다. 그리고 앞의 공정과 반대의 순서로 황산 용액을 먼저 처리한 후 암모니아수를 처리한 2단 전처리 공정을 수행하였다. 이때 암모니아수를 먼저 처리한 공정에서 글루코오스 생산량은 30.7 g으로 72.4%의 수율이 나타났다. 반대로 황산 용액을 먼저 처리한 후 암모니아수를 처리한 2단 전처리 공정에서는 글루코오스 생산량이 20.9 g으로 49.3%의 수율을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
• /
• 제40권2호
• /
• pp.78-90
• /
• 2012

Soybean hull is an attractive feedstock for glucose production. To increase the glucose conversion in acid hydrolysis, a pretreatment method combined steam explosion with alkali pretreatment for soybean hull was studied. For first step pretreatment, steam explosion conditions (log Ro 2.45) were optimized to obtain maximum solid recovery and cellulose content. In the second step pretreatment, the conditions for potassium hydroxide pretreatment of steam exploded soybean hull were optimized by using RSM (response surface methodology). The optimum conditions for minimum lignin content were determined to be 0.6% potassium hydroxide concentration, $70^{\circ}C$ reaction temperature and 198 min reaction time. The predicted lignin content was 2.2% at the optimum conditions. Experimental verification of the optimum conditions gave the lignin content in similar value with the estimated value of the model. Finally, glucose conversion of pretreated soybean hull using acid hydrolysis resulted in $97.1{\pm}0.4%$. This research of two-step pretreatment was a promising method for increasing the glucose conversion in the cellulose-to-glucose process.

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

• 한국의류학회지
• /
• 제13권1호
• /
• pp.89-97
• /
• 1989

Graft polymerization of MMA onto cotton fiber was carried out in two ways, two step graft polymerization and one step emulsion graft polymerization, using tetravalent cerium ion as an initiator. At two step graft polymerization, the first step was the pretreatment of cotton fiber with an aqueous initiator solution and the second was the grafting pretreated cotton fiber in the monomer solution. In case of one step emulsion graft polymerization, MMA was emulsified with SLS in initiator solution. Under the various graft polymerization conditions, graft yield, graft efficiency and from the Arrhenius plot the apparent activation energy were compared. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Graft yield and graft efficiency of emulsion graft polymerization were higher than those of two step graft polymerization. 2. In case of two step graft polymerization, graft yield was affected by the pretreatment time of cotton fiber with an aqueous initiator solution. And graft yield of emulsion graft polymerization was increased with the concentration of emulsifier below cmc of SLS and was decreased thereafter. 3. Elevation of temperature resulted increase in graft yield for both grafting methods. The apparent activation energy of emulsion graft pelymerzation was lower than that of two step graft polymerization. 4. Increased reaction time increased in graft yield, but decreased in graft efficiency. 5. Moisture regain of grafted cotton was decreased with graft yield.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
• /
• 제26권11호
• /
• pp.1871-1880
• /
• 2016

Bio-oxidation is an effective technology for treatment of refractory gold concentrates. However, the unsatisfactory oxidation rate and long residence time, which cause a lower cyanide leaching rate and gold recovery, are key factors that restrict the application of traditional bio-oxidation technology. In this study, the oxidation rate of refractory gold concentrates and the adaption of microorganisms were analyzed to evaluate a newly developed two-step pretreatment process, which includes a high temperature chemical oxidation step and a subsequent bio-oxidation step. The oxidation rate and recovery rate of gold were improved significantly after the two-step process. The results showed that the highest oxidation rate of sulfide sulfur could reach to 99.01 % with an extreme thermophile microbial community when the pulp density was 5%. Accordingly, the recovery rate of gold was elevated to 92.51%. Meanwhile, the results revealed that moderate thermophiles performed better than acidophilic mesophiles and extreme thermophiles, whose oxidation rates declined drastically when the pulp density was increased to 10% and 15%. The oxidation rates of sulfide sulfur with moderate thermophiles were 93.94% and 65.73% when the pulp density was increased to 10% and 15%, respectively. All these results indicated that the two-step pretreatment increased the oxidation rate of refractory gold concentrates and is a potential technology to pretreat the refractory sample. Meanwhile, owing to the sensitivity of the microbial community under different pulp density levels, the optimization of microbial community in bio-oxidation is necessary in industry.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
• /
• 제50권6호
• /
• pp.436-447
• /
• 2022

Lignocellulose nanofibrils (LCNFs) were prepared using a two-step deep eutectic solvent (DES) and enzymatic pretreatment followed by mechanical defibrillation, and we examined the effects of enzymatic pretreatment conditions on different characteristics of the LCNFs thus obtained. The LCNFs yielded using the two-step DES pretreatment (Enz-LCNF) exhibited a well-defibrillated entangled web-like structure with an average fiber diameter ranging from 15.7 to 20.4 nm. Furthermore, we found that the average diameter and filtration time of the Enz-LCNFs decreased with an increase in enzyme concentration and enzymatic treatment time, whereas we detected a concomitant reduction in the tensile strength of the Enz-LCNF sheets. The Enz-LCNFs were characterized by a typical cellulose I structure, thereby indicating that the enzymatic treatment causes very little damage to the crystalline form.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
• /
• 제43권1호
• /
• pp.16-21
• /
• 2015

2세대 바이오매스 볏짚을 이용하여 전자선 조사 후 NMMO 처리 공정을 수행하고 이를 분석하였다. 볏짚은 전자선 500 kGy 조사 후 NMMO 처리를 한 경우 72시간의 효소당화를 거쳐 글루코스 60.8%와 자일로스 9.7% 포함 약 83.8% 정도의 당수율을 보였다. 이 전처리 공정은 유해한 화학물질을 사용하지 않아서 친환경적이며 전자선 조사와 NMMO 처리의 시너지 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 전자선 조사량이 너무 높다는 단점이 있으며 추후에는 낮은 전자선 조사량과 여러 가지 단일공정을 통합한 새로운 복합전처리 방법 연구의 필요성이 있다. 따라서 이 단점을 보완한다면 전자선 조사라는 친환경적 방법과 더불어 NMMO 용액의 재활용성을 이유로 바이오에탄올 생산 등의 산업현장에의 적용 가능성이 높다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
• /
• 제53권6호
• /
• pp.682-689
• /
• 2015

A two-step process was investigated for pretreatment and fractionation of rice straw. The two-step fractionation process involves first, soaking rice straw in aqueous ammonia (SAA) in a batch reactor to recover lignin-rich hydrolysate. This is followed by a second-step treatment in a fixed-bed flow-through column reactor to recover xylo-oligomer-rich hydrolysate. The remaining glucan-rich solid cake is then subjected to an enzymatic process. In the first variant, SAA treatment in the first step dissolves lignin at moderate temperature (60 and $80^{\circ}C$), while in the second step, hot-water treatment is used for xylan removal at higher temperatures ($150{\sim}210^{\circ}C$). Under optimal conditions ($190^{\circ}C$ reaction temperature, 30 min reaction time, 5.0 ml/min flow rate, and 2.3 MPa reaction pressure), the SAA-hot-water fractionation removed 79.2% of the lignin and 63.4% of the xylan. In the second variant, SAA was followed by treatment with dilute sulfuric acid. With this process, optimal treatment conditions for effective fractionation of xylo-oligomer were found to be $80^{\circ}C$, 12 h reaction time, solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:12 in the first step; and 5.0 ml $H_2SO_4/min$, $170^{\circ}C$, and 2.3 MPa in the second step. After this two-step fractionation process, 85.4% lignin removal and 78.9% xylan removal (26.8% xylan recovery) were achieved. Use of the optimized second variant of the two-step fractionation process (SAA and $H_2SO_4$) resulted in enhanced enzymatic digestibility of the treated solid (99% glucan digestibility) with 15 FPU (filter paper unit) of CTec2 (cellulase)/g-glucan of enzyme loading, which was higher than 92% in the two-step fractionation process (SAA and hot-water).

• KSBB Journal
• /
• 제24권5호
• /
• pp.489-494
• /
• 2009

우리 연구팀은, 농산부산물인 유채대의 알콜 발효용 당화물 생산 가능성을 연구하였다. 이를 위해 농산부산물인 유채대를 연속적으로 5 mL/min의 속도로 산을 이용하지 않고 증류수만을 이용해 이단 고온 처리 ($200^{\circ}C$ and 15 Mpa, $375^{\circ}C$ and 23 Mpa)하였다. 본 전처리 공정을 통한 가수수분해물의 당화물 생성은 최종적으로 자일로스와 글루코스의 경우 25.6 g/L, 5.5 g/L가 생성되었다. 이는 유채대에 존재하는 글루코스와 자일로스의 초기 양 대비 각각 18%와 59%의 전환 수율을 나타낸다. 또한 이 공정은 타 공정들에 비하여 대표발효 저해 산물인 HMF의 생성량이 0.2 ppm으로 극히 낮은 수치를 보였으며, 가수분해물의 에탄올 생산시, 글루코스의 발효를 통한 에탄올 생성 전환수율이 90% 이상으로 높은 생성율을 보였다. 따라서 본 공정을 통해 다른 농산부산물이나 해조류 전체에 응용된다면, 고 수율의 에탄올 생산용 당화물을 생산할 것으로 예상한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
• /
• 제22권5호
• /
• pp.654-658
• /
• 2012

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common rheumatic pathology. One of the major objectives of OA research is the development of early diagnostic strategies such as those using proteomic technology. Synovial fluid (SF) in OA patients is a potential source of biomarkers for OA. The efficient and reliable preparation of SF proteomes is a critical step towards biomarker discovery. In this study, we have optimized a pretreatment method for twodimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) separation of the SF proteome, by enriching low-abundance proteins and simultaneously removing hyaluronic acid, albumin, and IgG. SF samples pretreated using this optimized method were then evaluated by 1DE and 2DE separation followed by immunodetection of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP), a known OA biomarker, and by the identification of 3 proteins (apolipoprotein, haptoglobin precursor, and fibrinogen D fragment) that are related to joint diseases.