• KSBB Journal
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• v.21 no.6 s.101
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• pp.418-421
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• 2006

Fatty acid methyl esters, also referred to as biodiesel, have been determined to have a great deal of potential as substitutes for petro-diesel. In order to enhance productivity in the biodiesel production process, feedstocks were previously recommended to be anhydrous, with a free fatty acid content of less than 0.5%. In this study, the effects of several catalysts, methanol molar ratio, catalyst amount, and reaction time on the reduction of free fatty acid level were studied with a simulated feedstock consisting of 20% oleic acid in rapeseed oil. Ferric sulfate was selected as the best catalyst. Increasing the catalyst amount and methanol molar ratio is very effective in decreasing the acid value of the simulated mixture. Our results may provide useful information with regard to the development of more economic and efficient free fatty acid removal system.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.34-41
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• 2017

In this study, the effect on the zinc nuclei crystallization caused by changes preprocessing of the zinc crystalline glaze preparation has been studied. The mechanism of the nuclei formation in the crystalline glaze and development of the nuclei by studying the preprocessing step was explained. The preprocessing step was improved by altering mixing process of the materials prior to sintering: number of sieving dispersion process and ultra-sonication prove tests with various duration of sonication. According to the result, the sieving and sonication of the starting materials facilitated the interface reactions of $ZnO-SiO_2$ from $680^{\circ}C$ where low temperature willemite is formulated, and altered Si bonding for the easier bonding between Zn-Si. In other words, solely sieving was enough to accelerate the formation of willemite in low temperature. When the particles were distributed evenly by sonication, the willemite formation was even more significant.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.139-143
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• 2021

A type of titanium alloy, ferro-titanium, is the main material used to manufacture steel and stainless steel. Considering economic aspects, ferro-titanium ingots are intended to be manufactured using low-cost titanium scrap, and the best pretreatment process for removing impurities from recycled titanium scrap surfaces was studied here. Instead of ordinary acid or organic solvents, ecofriendly methods were researched and applied, and chip scrap materials were used. A high-quality ferro-titanium ingot was manufactured from titanium scrap after a pretreatment process was applied, and the impurities and properties were analyzed and compared with commercial material standards through a component analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.909-919
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the demand and use of fresh-cut produce in school foodservice and restaurant industries. The subjects of this survey study were 200 school nutritionists and 70 cooks or managers in the restaurant industry nationwide. The data were collected by means of self-administered or e-mail questionnaires. Data analysis was completed using the SPSS window (ver. 12.0) program including frequency, $\chi^2$-test and t-test. Survey questions assessed the general characteristic of respondents, and the supply, use, and demand of fresh-cut produce in school foodservice and restaurant industries. Over 74% of the subjects have used fresh-cut produce. Most of the school foodservice (84.0%) kept fresh-cut produce for one day, while restaurant industry (28.3%) kept them up to three days. The nutritionists of school foodservice and managers of restaurant industry considered origin and date of production as the most important factor, respectively, when fresh-cut produce were being used. Fresh-cut root vegetable, such as potato and carrot was used mostly. The main reason not to use the fresh cut produce was due to the distrust of the fresh-cut produce safety in school foodservice and cost in restaurant industry. The main problem in fresh-cut produce use was the need of rewashing (29.9%) in school foodservice and irregular size (39.0%) in restaurant industry. These results indicate that the quality standard and size specification must be prepared with production guideline of safe fresh-cut produce.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.33 no.6
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.132-132
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• 2000

Cu는 Al에 비하여 낮은 저항(1.8 $\mu$$\Omega$-cm)과 높은 EM 저항성을 가지고 있어 미래의 고속 ULSI 배선물질로 그 중요성이 더욱 증가되고 있으며, 현재까지 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이러한 방법들을 고려하여 CVD Cu의 문제점인 낮은 성장률의 개선과 Cu 박막의 특성을 향상하고자 수소 플라즈마 공정을 이용하여 plasma 전처리가 초기 Cu 핵생성에 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 본 실험에 사용된 장비는 Cu RPCVD/MOCVD이다. 초기 Cu 핵의 생성에 있어서의 수소 플라즈마의 효과를 조사하기 위하여 다음과 같은 3가지의 방법으로 행하였다. 첫 번째는 Cu 박막 형성에서 플라즈마를 사용하지 않은 방법, 두 번째는 플라즈마 전처리공정을 행한 뒤, Cu 박막 증착시 플라즈마는 사용하지 않은 방법, 세 번재는 플라즈마 전처리공저을 행한 뒤 Cu 증착시에도 플라즈마를 사용한 방법이다. 이 세가지 방법의 핵생성 차이를 분석하기 위해서 각각 10초, 20초, 40초 증착시킨 후 grain의 크기와 개수를 비교하였다. 또한 플라즈마의 power에 따른 Cu 핵생성율도 조사하였다. 수소 전처리동안 working pressure는 10분 동안 1 torr로 유지되었으며 substrate의 온도는 20$0^{\circ}C$, r.f.power는 100watt로 설정하였다. Cu RPCVD의 증착조건은 r.f.power는 10watt, substrate의 온도는 20$0^{\circ}C$, gas pressure는 1 torr, Ar carrier gas는 50sccm, hydrogen processing gas는 100sccm, bubbler 온도는 4$0^{\circ}C$, gas line의 온돈느 6$0^{\circ}C$, shower head의 온도는 $65^{\circ}C$로 설정하였다. 증착된 Cu 박막은 SEM, XRD, AFM를 통해 제작된 박막의 특성을 비교.분석하였다. 초기 plasma 처리를 한 경우에는 그림 1에서와 같이 현저히 증가한 초기 구리 입자들이 관측되었으며, 이는 도상 표면에 활성화된 catalytic site의 증가에 기인한다고 보여진다. 이러한 특성은 Cu films의 성장률을 향상시키고, 또한 voids를 줄여 전기적 성질 및 surface morphology를 향상시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.523-528
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• 2007

The objectives of this research are to investigate the mechanism of coagulation affecting UF, find out the effect of metal salt coagulant on membrane fouling. Either rapid mixing + UF or slow mixing + UF process caused much less flux decline. For PACl coagulant, the rate of flux decline was reduced for both hydrophilic and hydrophobic membrane than alum due to higher formation of flocs. In addition, the rate of flux decline for the hydrophobic membrane was significantly greater than for the hydrophilic membrane, regardless of pretreatment conditions. In general, Coagulation pretreatment significantly reduced the fouling of the hydrophilic membrane, but did little decrease the flux reduction of the hydrophobic membrane. When an Al(III) salt is added to water, monomers, polymers, or solid precipitates may form. Different Al(III) coagulants (alum and PACl) show to have different Al species distribution over a rapid mixing condition. During the rapid mixing period, for alum, formation of dissolved Al(III) (monomer and polymer) increases, but for PACl, precipitates of $Al(OH)_{3(s)}$ increases rapidly. This experimental results pointed out that precipitates of $Al(OH)_{3(s)}$ rather than dissolved Al(III) formation is major factor affecting flux decline for the membrane.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2010

This study was to evaluate the performance of the Double stage Pore controllable fiber (DP) filter system as the pre-treatment of the RO membrane. The evaluation for the pre-treatment filter was performed through the indirect method, SDI (Silt Density Index) measurement of the filtrate. This study was done during Jan. 3 of 2009 to Dec. 3 of 2009 at OO Water Treatment Plant that was suppling industrial water to plants, and the raw water was contaminated lake water and it was fed to the system after clarification with coagulation. The average turbidity of the feed water and that of the filtrate was 0.79 NTU (0.28~4.01 NTU), and 0.16 NTU (0.04~0.50) respectively. And so the average turbidity removal efficiency was 77%. The filtrate flow rate and the backwash water flow rate was about 230 $m^3$/day and about 8.7 $m^3$/day respectively, and so the backwash rate was 3.8%. The data for some samples were obtained after a few days storage, and it caused the higher turbidity and SDI15 as the storage time was increased. But average SDI value of the filtrate was 3.6 (2.26~5.00) which was lower than minimum value required by the RO membrane manufacturer as the RO feed water to guarantee the life time of the RO membrane. So, the DP filter system was enough for the application as the pre-treatment of the RO membrane.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.741-746
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• 2004

Drying of raw ginseng root down to 35% moisture content required for extrusion process. There were two kinds of pre-treatments of raw ginseng root which were chopping and whole-root ginseng before frying at 80, 100 and 12$0^{\circ}C$. Drying rate and physicochemical properties of dried ginseng were evaluated to determine optimum drying temperature for extrusion process. Drying time at 8$0^{\circ}C$ to decrease to 35% moisture was 6.5 hr and ginsenoside content in dried ginseng at 8$0^{\circ}C$ was lower than that of dried ginseng at 100 and 12$0^{\circ}C$. Drying time at 100 and 12$0^{\circ}C$ to decrease to 35% moisture was 5.5 and 3.5 hr and redness of dried ginseng powder was 5.20 and 7.23 respectively. Browness and redness of dried ginseng extract from 75% ethylene were significantly increased with the increase in drying temperature. Ginsenosides Rb1, Rb2, Rc, Rd, Rg1 and total saponin were also increased with the increase in drying temperature from 8$0^{\circ}C$ to 10$0^{\circ}C$, however, those were not significantly different with drying temperature at 100 and 12$0^{\circ}C$. Drying temperature for extrusion process can be optimal at 10$0^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 1998

절연체기판으로서는 아루미나 세라믹 기판을 사용하고 전극으로서는 copper를 사용 하여 DBC공정으로 접합하여 제조하였다. 접합재료는 전처리과정을 거친다음 불활성기체 분 위기 하에서 1065~1083$^{\circ}C$의 온도로 1~60분 동안 유지시켜 접합하였다. 본 실험에서 접합 된 세라믹기판과 Cu의 계면의 SEM 관찰 결과 안정된 접합면이 생성되었으며 접합강도는 약 116MPa로 양호한 값을 얻었다. 또한 Al2O3/Copper 접합계면을 ESCA를 통하여 분석한 결과 CuAlO2의 화합물의 생성을 확인하였다. 이 DBC공정은 제조공정의 단순화를 실현시켜 대량생산에 적합함으로 전자부품 모듈생산에 유용하게 적용될 수있을것이다.