• KSBB Journal
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.268-273
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• 2000

A microbiological hydrogen production process was optimized. Anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria like Rhodospirillum rubrum which is known to produce hydrogen from carbon monoxide efficiently and remove sulfur was used. To evaluate the potenital of this microorganism the optimization of media fermentation condition light intensity and light requirement for CO conversionwas tried in batch cultures and the continuous fermenter was also applied for this process. The gas residence time on CO conversion was sought out to get high conversion of carbon monoxide to hydrogen. Through this study the possibility of microbial synthtics gas concersion process was proposed.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.83-88
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• 2012

The algal bloom, resulting from eutrophication, has caused serious water quality problems in river and lake. Therefore, it has to be removed by any means including physicochemical or biological treatment for preserving water quality. This study was conducted to investigate the microalgae removal and energy production using combined electro-flotation and anaerobic hydrogen fermentation processes. The result showed that algae removal efficiency based on chlorophyll a removal increased with the current. At a current of 0.6A, the maximum microalgae removal efficiency of 95.9% was achieved. The treatability of anaerobic hydrogen fermentation was investigated to recover energy from microalgae removed by electro-flotation. The ultimate hydrogen yields of algae before and after ultrasonic pretreatment were 17.3 and 61.1 ml $H_2/g$ dcw(dry cell weight), respectively. The ultrasonic pretreatment of algae led to 3.4-fold higher $H_2$ production due to the increase of hydrolysis rate.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.41-51
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• 2012

Biohydrogen production and analysis of microbial community were attempted from the sugar manufacturing wastewater with anaerobic fermentation process. Addtion of nutrients ($N{\cdot}P$) into sugar manufacturing wastewater stimulates hydrogen production from 9.53 to $26.67m{\ell}$ $H_2/g$ COD. Butyric acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, and propionic acid were detected in the sample of the anaerobic fermentation process. Butyric acid/Acetic acid(B/A) ratio was increased 0.50 to 0.92 according to the nutrients addtion into the wastewater. Microbial community was analyzed as Clostridium sp. in the phylum of Firmicutes and Klebsiella sp., Erwinia sp., and enterobacter sp. of the class of $\gamma$-Proteobacteria. As the improvement of hydrogen production, Erwinia sp. was decreased and Klebsiella sp. was increased.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.143-150
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• 2012

바이오에탄올 생산공정은 당 (Sugar)을 기반으로 하는 공정과 합성가스를 이용하는 공정으로 분류할 수 있다. 이 가운데 합성가스를 이용하는 공정은 촉매를 이용한 화학적 공정과 혐기성 발효에 의한 생물학적 공정의 두 가지로 나뉜다. Clostridium ljungdahlii는 일산화탄소와 수소가 주요 성분으로 구성되는 합성가스를 이용하여 에탄올과 아세트산을 생산할 수 있는 균주 중의 하나로 알려져 있다. 합성가스 발효공정에서 pH는 미생물의 증식과 에탄올 등의 생산에 아주 중요한 요인 중의 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 pH 조건이 미생물의 생장과 에탄올 생산성에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. C. ljungdahlii 배양은 엄격한 혐기성 조건에서 100 ml의 serum bottle과 pH 제어가 가능한 반응기를 이용한 실험결과, 회분식 배양 조건에서는 미생물의 생장과 에탄올 생산을 위한 최적 초기 pH는 7.0로 나타났다. 미생물 농도는 0.57 g/L, 에탄올 농도 0.91 g/L로 나타났다. pH 4.5 이하에서는 미생물의 생장이 멈추는 것으로 나타났다. pH 제어가 가능한 생물반응기에서는 pH 6.0 일때 에탄올 생산량이 pH 7.0 일때 보다 높게 나타났다. 일정 수준의 미생물 농도를 유지한 조건에서 합성가스를 기포식으로 주입하고 pH 5.9에서 5.4까지 제어하였을 때 미생물량과 에탄올 농도가 증가하였다. 60 시간이 지난 후에 미생물의 농도는 0.498 g/L, 에탄올은 1.056 g/L까지 이르렀다.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.321-329
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• 2002

Clostridium butyricum, Lactobacillus amylophillus, Lactobacillus amylovorus, Lactobacillus acidophillus, AI-9 produced hydrogen and /or organic acids using glucose, lactose and starch at the anaerobic culture conditions. Cl. butyricum NCIB 9576 evolved 1,700 ml H2/L-culture broth and accumulated butyric acid, acetic acid, propionic acid and ethanol in its culture broth when lactose was used as a carbon source during 24 hrs of fermentation. L. amylovorus ATCC 33620 accumulated lactic and acetic acids and some reducing sugars when starch was used as a carbon source without hydrogen production. Instead of starch as a carbon source, L. amylovorus ATCC 33620 produced lactic acid from algal biomass during fermentation and the acid-heat or freeze-thaw pretreatment of algal biomass accelerate the lactic acid fermentation.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.86-96
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• 2012

Hydrogen gas production of anaerobic fermentative process from food waste as a substrate was 3.47 mg $H_2/g$ COD. The hydrogen production was little less than the synthetic wastewater with sucrose as a substrate (7.56 mg $H_2/g$ COD). The B/A ratios of the synthetic wastewater and food waste were 3.73 or 8.01 respectively. Butyric acid was more produced when hydrogen production was higher. Microbial community in the samples was analyzed as Escherichia sp., Klebsiella sp., Clostridium sp., Bacterium sp., and Enterobacter sp. Clostridium sp. was detected both samples but Klebsiella sp. was more active with fermentation process of the food waste. Taxonomic description shows that 60% of the microorganism was ${\gamma}-proteobacteria$ and Firmicute and Bacteria was 20% respectively.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.328-333
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• 2004

To treat a waste gas containing a high strength H2S, the two-stages microbial desulfurization process that conof a bioreactor immobilized with Acidithiobacillusferrooxidans and a chemical absorption scrubber has was proposed. After 4 times repeat of batch cultures, the immobilized bioreactor has been stabilized and the rate of iron oxidation reached 0.89 kg . $m^{-3}{\cdot}m^{-1}$ at steady state. The two-stages microbial desulfurization prowas able to be operated for a long term over 54 days. The removal efficiencies of H2S were 97-99% at a space velocity of 70 h-I and a inlet concentration of 37,000 ppmv. The maximum elimination capacity of H2S was approximately 3.3 kg S . $m^{-3}{\cdot}m^{-1}$. In the bioractor, the concentrations of the $Fe^{3+}$ and the immobilzed cell were constantly maintained during the desulfurization.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.926-931
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• 2011

Among various techniques for hydrogen production from organic wastewater, a dark fermentation is considered to be the most feasible process due to the rapid hydrogen production rate. However, the main drawback of it is the low hydrogen production yield due to intermediate products such as organic acids. To improve the hydrogen production yield, a co-culture system of dark and photo fermentation bacteria was applied to this research. The maximum specific growth rate of R. sphaeroides was determined to be $2.93h^{-1}$ when acetic acid was used as a carbon source. It was quite high compared to that of using a mixture of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). Acetic acid was the most attractive to the cell growth of R. sphaeroides, however, not less efficient in the hydrogen production. In the co-culture system with glucose, hydrogen could be steadily produced without any lag-phase. There were distinguishable inflection points in the accumulation of hydrogen production graph that resulted from the dynamic production of VFAs or consumption of it by the interaction between the dark and photo fermentation bacteria. Lastly, the hydrogen production rate of a repeated fed-batch run was $15.9mL-H_2/L/h$, which was achievable in the sustainable hydrogen production.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.131-140
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• 2015

To set up unicellular cyanobacterial strains with photo-biological $H_2$ production potential, live samples were repeatedly collected from 68 stations in the coastal zone of Korea for the four years since 2005. Among 77 cyanobacterial strains established six (KNU strains, CB-MAL002, 026, 031, 054, 055 and 058) were finally chosen as the excellent strains for $H_2$ production with $H_2$ accumulation over 0.15 mL $H_2\;mL^{-1}$ under general basic $H_2$ production conditions as well as positive $H_2$ production for more than 60 hr. To explore optimum procedures for higher $H_2$ production efficiency of the six cyanobacterial strains, the inter-strain differences in the growth rate under the gradients of water temperature and salinity were investigated. The maximum daily growth rates of the six strains ranged from 1.78 to 2.08, and all of them exhibited $N_2-fixation$ ability. Based on the similarity of the 16S rRNA sequences, all the test strains were quite close to Cyanothece sp. ATCC51142 (99%). The six strains, however, were grouped into separate clades from strain ATCC51142 in the molecular phylogeny diagram. Chlorophyll- a content was 3.4~7.8% of the total dried weight, and the phycoerythrin and phycocyanin contents were half of those in the Atlantic strain, Synechococcus sp. Miami BG03511. The growth of the six strains was significantly suppressed at temperatures above the optimal range, $30{\sim}35^{\circ}C$, to be nearly stopped at $40^{\circ}C$. The growth was not inhibited by high salinities of 30 psu salinity in all the strains while strain CB055 maintained its high growth rate at low salinities down to 15 psu. The euryhaline strains like CB055 might support massive biotechnological cultivation systems using natural basal seawater in temperate latitudes. base seawater. The biological and ecophysiological characteristics of the test strains may contribute to designing the optimal procedures for photo-biological $H_2$ production by unicellular cyanobacteria.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.949-954
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to develop water jet plasma reactor and investigate the optimal condition of the syngas production by reforming of hydrocarbon fuel. Fuel used was propane and plasma was generated by arc discharge on water jet surface. Discharge slipping over the water surface has a number of advantages such as a source of short-wave and UV radiation, and it can be used for biological and chemical purification of water. Parametric screening studies were conducted, in which there were the variations of power ($0.18{\sim}0.74$ kW), water jet flow rate($38.4{\sim}65.6$ mL/min), electrode gap($5{\sim}15$ mm) and treatment time($2{\sim}20$ min). When the variations were 0.4 kW, 53.9 mL/min, 10 mm and 20 min respectively, result of maximum $H_2$ concentration was 61.6%, intermediates concentration were 6.1% and propane conversion rate was 99.8%.