• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.1851-1859
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• 2000

Crude oil-degrading bacteria were isolated from the sites contaminated by oil products. The isolates were identified as Acinetobacter sp. A132, Pseudomonas putida A422, Pseudomonas aeruginosa F721, F722, and Xanthomonas maltophilia B823. The results of investigation on the degradability of crude oil indicated that the strain A132 had the highest rate of $6.04g/L{\cdot}day$. Also, the strain A132 and F722 almost degraded each of n-alkane compounds between $nC_{10}$ and $nC_{32}$. The strain A422 degraded benzene and xylene but not n-alkane. The strain B823 grew somewhat in crude oil but did not entirely degrade other substrates used in this study. The results of the GC/FID analysis on the degradability of the mixed n-alkane compounds showed that the strain F722 could degrade 100% of the compounds with $nC_7{\sim}nC_{10}$ and more than 80% of those with $nC_{11}{\sim}nC_{24}$.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.317-322
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• 2005

Various recovery methods were investigated to maximize hemicellulose recovery from lignocellulosic material hydrolyzed by pure water. The pretreatment conditions of water hydrolysis were $170\~180^{\circ}C$ and 1 hour of reaction time. The percentage of hemicellulose solubilized increased as the temperature increased from 170 to $180^{\circ}C$. However, significant decomposition of sugar was observed at temperature of $180^{\circ}C$. From the results of water hydrolysis, the total amount of glucan in solid residue and liquid hydrolyzate was close to the total glucan in the original biomass. For hemicellulose, however, there was a significant difference between both contents. To prove this difference, various recovery methods were proposed. From the total sugar accountability (sugar in liquid + sugar in solid), it was confirmed that hemicellulose recovery in the hydrolyzate was increased if the product including both hydrolyzate and solid residue was physically stimulated by such as heating and ultrasound irradiation. This indicated that, in commercial scale processes that much bigger substrate sizes are used and a sufficient amount of leaching solvent can not be used after pretreatment, a significant amount of oligomers could be trapped in the solid matrix.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2013

The effect of organic substance on its degradation rate in burial site was investigated using batch tests. Substrate were swine and cattle with the initial concentrations of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 g VS(volatile solids)/L, respectively. The highest methane production rates of swine and cattle were found at 2 g VS/L as 46.3 and 48.4 ml CH4/g VS.d, respectively. As substrate concentration increased, the methane production rate decreased. The inhibition constants were n and m that were estimated using nonlinear inhibition model. The values of n and m were inhibition constants of methane production rate and ultimate methane yield, respectively. The values of n and m were 4.9 and 0.6 on swine and 1.1 and 0.4 on cattle. The methane production rate was responded sensitively by increase and decrease of substrate concentration, whereas ultimate methane yield do not relatively. From a relation between n and m, inhibitory effect of substrate concentration was confirmed as uncompetitive inhibition.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

Screening of a strain was carried out to produce an enantioselective lipase toward the precursor of ltraconazole as azole-containg compounds, which are well known as antifungal drug agents. An Acinetobacter sp. SY-01 strain which can selectively hydrolyze the racemic substrates was isolated and the racemic substrate was resolved to the S-ester in 95.6% enantiomeric excess after 74.8% hydrolysis. The optimum temperature and pH for the conversion were $50^{\circ}C$, pH 7.0. However, the temperature and pH had no effect on the enantiomeric excess. Addition of solvents decreased the conversion and slightly increased the enantiomeric excess. However, the kind of solvents had no effect on enantiomeric excess. The substrate concentration decrease enantiomeric excess and this is confirmed by the products generated from hydrolysis, and also enantiomeric excess could be increased by the removal of reaction products.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.309-319
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• 1991

A continuous stirred tank membrane reactor(CSTMR ) was developed and optimized for the production of cod skin gelatin hydrolyzates using endo-protease Alcalase. A experimental design methodology was used to optimize the four performance variables: enzyme concentration, substrate concentration, permeate flux and reactor volume. All four variables studied had an effect on substrate conversion, with enzyme and substrate concentrations being predominant. Conversion increased with the increase in enzyme concentration, with the decrease in substrate concentration, at high volumes and low flux. A strong interaction was observed between enzyme and substrate concentrations and smaller interactions between enzyme and flux and substrate and flux. The optimum operating conditions for the CSTMR process for an initial substrate concentration for 10% were $50^{\circ}C$, pH 8, flux 7.3ml/min, residence time 82 min, and Alcalase to substrate ratio 0.02(w/w). A gradual decay in reactor activity during 8 hrs was 2.1% conversion/hr. Enzyme leakage through the 10, 000 MWCO membrane was 16% at $50^{\circ}C$ and 12% at $35^{\circ}C$, 6hrs. However, there was no apparent correlation between enayme leakage and substrate conversion. The Km value for the CSTMR was 20 times higher than the batch reactor. The productivity(expressed as mg product/mg enzyme) of the CSTMR was more than six fold higher than the batch at $50^{\circ}C$. The hydrolyzate was non-bitter.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.446-451
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• 2001

A pretreatment method to increase enzymatic digestibility for waste paper such as newspaper was investigated. Ash content, substrate size and printed ink were considered to be factors that affect on enzymatic hydrolysis. The effect on enzymatic digestibility of varying these factor were measured. Printed ink had the highest effect of the three factors, so a method was developed to remove the ink during pretreatment. Fist, a pretreatment process using a percolation reactor was tried. The digestibility of the substrate pretreated at 170$\^{C}$, however, was less than that of the untreated substrate because only small portion of ink was removed. Therefore, a batch type process at less than 100$\^{C}$ was devised. Of several schemes, a method using amonia-hydrogen peroxide mixture on a shaking bath proved most effective. The digestibility obtained from this method was about 85%--approximately 20% greater than the untreated substrate. This proves the pretreatment method was very effective in treating waste paper. The high digestibility obtained from this pretreatment is probably due to the effects of the hydrogen peroxide that can enhance ink removal and substrate swelling.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 1985

Exo-maltotetraohydrolase produced by Pseudomonas stutzeri IAM 12097 was characterized with respect to substrate specificity, the reaction products and hydolysis rate on various carbohydrates. Maltopentaose, maltoheptaose, soluble starch, amylose, amylopectin, oyster glycogen and gelatinized starch of corn, potato, glutinous rice, green banana and arrow root were hydolyzed by this enzyme, but ${\alpha},{\beta},{\gamma}-cyclodextin$, sucrose, raffinose, lactose, pullulan, maltose, maltotriose and maltotetraose were not hydrolyzed. Among oligosaccharides, maltohexaose was favorably hydrolyzed by this enzyme and the main reaction product of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides was maltotetraose. Addition of pullulanase to this enzyme increased the hydolysis rate on gelatinized starches. tut it did not on raw starches. Among various starches, corn starch was favorably hydrolyzed by this enzyme, whereas it acted on potato starch, arrow root starch and high amylose corn starch weakly.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.39-46
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• 1982

A model of substrate removal by rotating discs has been developed for a better understanding of the process, and the performance of the system has been evaluated under steady and unsteady state. The model was constructed based upon mass transfer of the substrate from the bulk solution to the biofilm and a simultaneous removal of the substrate by the biomass. The model is composed of a few sets of differential equations representing mass balance within the elements of a liquid film and a biofilm, and in the bulk solution. Substrate removal efficiency of the process is largely dependent on a diffusion coefficient of the substrate within the biofilm and a maximum rate of substrate removal of the biomass. The efficiency is affected to a greater extent when the substrate concentration is low and the maximum substrate removal rate is high. The efficiency increases proportionally with increasing film depth when the biofilm is shallow, however, the rate of increase gradually decreases with an increase of the film depth. As the film reaches a limiting depth, the efficiency remains constant. Unlike the steady state, the effluent quality is affected by the tank volume under dynamic state. Increasing tank volume decreases peak concentration of the effluent under peak loading. Additional tank volume provides a buffer capacitya.gainst a peak loading and the holding tank behaves like an equalization tank.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.533-541
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• 2016

Effect of polyphenols-rich cacao extract (CE) on lipid hydrolysis by pancreatic lipase was investigated by pH-stat digestion. Two types of substrate (oil vs. emulsion) prepared from soybean oil and CE were studied as types I and II. In the case of type I, addition of CE did not show retardation of lipid hydrolysis, showing that pancreatic lipase was not inhibited. Final digestibility rate (${\Phi}$ max, %) and initial rate (mM/s) of the 24-h aged control (52.31%, 0.03 mM/s) were similar to those of the CE-added sample (58.88%, 0.03 mM/s). However, in the case of typeII, the hydrolysis rates of the control and CE-added emulsion showed distinct differences as aging time increased to 43 days, showing lower digestion in the CE-added emulsion than the control. After 43 days, ${\Phi}$ max values of the control and CE-added emulsion were 92.13% and 77.68%, respectively.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.100-108
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• 1989

Thirty-six aromatic compound biodegraders; 10 strains for benzoate, 10 for salicylate, 6 for m-toluate, and 10 for DL-camphor were isolated and taxonomically characterized. A mutant Pseudomonas strain, Ben 6-2, derived from Ben 6 revealed remarkably improved ability to metabolize benzoate. Thus enhancement of the average substrate removal rate from 5.2 to 11.0mg/$\ell$/ hr was attained by the mutant. Both of strains Sal 7 and Tol 2, degraders of salicylate and m-toluate respectively, were classified as Pseudomonas sup. Both strains were found to be extremely effective in metabolizing each aromatic substrates. The average substrate degradation rates in minimal salt media containing 2,200mg/$\ell$ of the substrate were calculated to be 40.1 mg/$\ell$/ hr for strain Sal 7 and 33.0mg/$\ell$/ hr for Tol 2. Cam 10, a camphor degrading strain was demonstrated to be capable of mineralizing benzoate, phenol, toluene, octane, cyclohexane and xylene as well as camphor. Strain 1040 isolated from Cam 10 after repented adaptation to 1,000 mg/$\ell$ m-toluate gained the ability to utilize toluate as a sole carbon source. The mutant Brew actively at the expense of a mixture of car-bon sources; camphor, m-toluate, benzoate and phenol (each: 200 mg/$\ell$) and utilized the substances in the preferential order of camphor, phenol, benzoate, and m-toluate. Among the biodegraders examined Cam 1040 and Tol 2 were detected to harbor plasmid. The plasmid from Cam 1001 was determined to be about 98kb, and evidenced to encode the enzyme(s) for the degradation of camphor. For the further diversification of the metabolic potentials of Cam 1040, the NAH 2 plasmid of Pseudomonas putida NCIB 9816 was transferred to Cam 1040 by conjugation. The exconjugant obtained, Cam 1043, proved to gain an additional ability to metabolize salicylate and naphthalene.