• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.255-264
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• 2009

To evaluate the effects of chemical pretreatments of lignocellulosic biomass on enzymatic hydrolysis process, Populus euramericana was pretreated for 1 hr with 1% sulfuric acid ($H_2SO_4$) at $150^{\circ}C$ and 1% sodium hydroxide (NaOH) at $160^{\circ}C$, respectively. Before the enzymatic hydrolysis, each pretreated sample was subjected to drying process and thus finally divided into four subgroups; dried or non-dried acid pretreated samples and dried or non-dried alkali pretreated samples and chemical and physical properties of them were analyzed. Biomass degradation by acid pretreatment was determined to 6% higher compared to alkali pretreatment. By the action of acid ca. 24.5% of biomass was dissolved into solution, while alkali degraded ca. 18.6% of biomass. However, reverse results were observed in delignification rates, in which alkali pretreatment released 2% more lignin fragment from biomass to the solution than acid pretreatment. Unexpectedly, samples after both pretreatments were determined to somewhat higher crystallinity than untreated samples. This result may be explained by selective disrupture of amorphous region in cellulose during pretreatments, thus the cellulose crystallinity seems to be accumulated in the pretreated samples. SEM images revealed that pretreated samples showed relative rough and partly cracked surfaces due to the decomposition of components, but the image of acid pretreated samples which were dried was similar to that of the control. In pore size distribution, dried acid pretreated samples were similar to the control, while that in alkali pretreated samples was gradually increased as pore diameter increased. The pore volume which increased by acid pretreatment rapidly decreased by drying process. Alkali pretreatment was much more effective on enzymatic digestibility than acid pretreatment. The sample after alkali pretreatment was enzymatically hydrolyzed up to 45.8%, while only 26.9% of acid pretreated sample was digested at the same condition. The high digestibility of the sample was also influenced to the yields of monomeric sugars during enzymatic hydrolysis. In addition, drying process of pretreated samples affected detrimentally not only to digestibility but also to the yields of monomeric sugars.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.113-118
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• 2014

We have investigated the combined pretreatment of electron beam irradiation (EBI) and water steam as a kenaf core pretreatment process. After each sample was exposed to electron beam dose ranging from 50 to 1,000 kGy, the irradiated sample was treated by water steam using an autoclave for 5-h at $120^{\circ}C$. The pretreated samples were characterized using FTIR-ATR and XRD. FTIR spectra and XRD analysis of nonpretreated and pretreated samples confirm that crystallinity changes were observed before and after the pretreatment. The crystallinity index (CrI) was increased from 50.6% for nonpretreated sample 55.0% for 500 kGy exposed sample. And then, we analyzed sugar yield that is the amount of produced mono-saccharides in pretreated sample by enzymatic hydrolysis; an enzyme activity rate was 70 FPU/mL and 40 CBU/mL, and the loading time was 24, 48 and 72-h. The highest sugar yield was 83.9% at 500 kGy after 72-h for enzymatic hydrolysis. The sugar yield of enzymatic hydrolysis for pretreatment samples was increased as doses are subsequently changed to 100, 200 and 300 kGy, allowing to give 50.8%, 58.6% and 67.9%, respectively.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.543-552
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• 2014

High bandwidth RF such as Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, 3GSM, HSDPA is papular in the mobile phone market. A non-conducting metal coating process requires an e-beam deposition of metal, two steps of UV hard coating primer and top coating; however, it is inefficient. We navigate to the electron beam irradiation conditions(resin surface treatment conditions) in the PC/ABS resin injection process. By analyzing the experimental results, we find the optimum development conditions for the electro deposition pre-treatment process and mass production lines using the plasma generated electron beam source.

• Plant Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.40-44
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• 2012

The pre-treatment of natural gas to remove $H_2S$ and $CO_2$ before liquefaction in natural gas processing is required, and amine-based absorption processes are widely used in gas processing. The current study aims to model amine-based absorption process and to find cost-effective design through systematic analysis of energy systems, together with column design. Different design options for absorber and stripper are investigated in a holistic manner, and heat integration technique has been applied to investigate how design of columns is interacted with energy efficiency for the pre-treatment process considered. Case study has been presented to demonstrate the applicability of heat integration method for improving energy efficiency in practice.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.30-41
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• 2011

국내 농식품의 소비활성과 안전 및 품질이 부가된 신선 식재료의 공급을 위해 원재료의 신선도 유치를 위한 환경조절저장기술의 개발, 최소손실 유통을 위한 냉각, 세정, 표면살균, 탈피, 탈수, 포장 등의 전처리 공정 기술개발, 신선편이화 제품 가공, 변색억제 및 품질관리 등 선진 가공유통 기술의 개발이 필요성에 대하여 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.375-378
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• 2001

At the time of facing strict environmental regulations, environmentally friendly dyeing technology is being highlighted due to the potential possibility of reducing environmental impact, so is the preparation process that uses a great deal of water and generates as much contamination. Enzyme technology has been regarded as an eco-friendly solution to industrial problems, saving water, chemicals and energy. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.482-485
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• 2012

본 논문은 평면 디스플레이 패널 외관 검사의 무인 자동화를 위한 전처리 단계의 알고리즘으로 패널 외관 검사 영역의 정합성 향상 및 자동 설정하는 알고리즘 기술에 관한 것이다. 평면디스플레이 패널의 제조 공정 중, 점등 검사 공정 단계에서는 Line 불량, Point 불량, 얼룩 불량, 외관 불량, Pol 불량 등 다양한 불량들을 검출한다. 이중 외관 불량 검사를 자동화하기 위한 전처리 단계로써 획득한 영상 내에서의 검사 영역을 설정함에 있어서 영상에서의 패널 위치의 변화, 패널의 Rotation/tilt, 패널 에지에 불량이 결부될 경우에도 실제 절단면을 정확하게 추출하여 불량 측정 오차를 최소화하는 알고리즘 을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.200-200
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• 2012

대기압 플라즈마 에칭 전처리 공정이 실리카 코팅의 특성에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 접촉각 특성, aging 효과, 광투과도 변화를 분석 하였다. 대기압 플라즈마 에칭 전처리를 통해 실리카 코팅의 특성은 접촉각 $13^{\circ}$에서 $6^{\circ}$로 변하였으며 aging 시험 결과 에칭 전 $6^{\circ}$ 증가에서 에칭 후 $2^{\circ}$로 친수특성 유지도가 향상되었다. 광 투과도는 89.8 %에서 90.67% 로 0.61 % 향상되었다.

• Plant Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.38-42
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• 2013

Submarine gas fields have focused because of the increasing fuel cost, the environmental regulations, and the safety & NIMBY problems. LNG-FPSO which is available for acid gas removal, recovery of the condensate & LPG and Liquefaction in topside process is one of high technology offshore structures. On the other hands, it is necessary to verify the pre-treatment efficiency by the ship motion and to apply to the design for LNG-FPSO. This study is to develop the pre-treatment technology for LNG-FPSO as taking account to the process efficiency by ship motion effects and the area optimization. Based on the simulation results, it founds that hybrid process shows the low circulate rate, the low heat duty and the small size of column dimensions compared to typical amine process. It will be verified the process efficiency in the various conditions by sea states as performing the 6-DOF motion test and CFD simulation.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.21-33
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• 2004

In this study, Anaerobic sewage sludge in a batch reactor operating at $35^{\circ}C$ was used as the seed to investigate the effect of pretreatments of waste activated sludge and to evaluate its hydrogen production potential by anaerobic fermentation. Various pretreatments including physical, chemical and biological means were conducted to utilize for substrate. As a result, SCODcr of alkali and mechanical treatment was 15 and 12 times enhanced, compared with a supernatant of activated sludge. And SCODcr was 2 time increase after re-treatment with biological hydrolysis. Those were shown that sequential hybridized treatment of sludge by chemical & biological methods is most efficient process for sludge treatment. The pre-treatment activated sludge was tested to conform hydrogen production potential in batch experiments. When buffer solution was added to the activated sludge, hydrogen production potential increased as compare with no addition.