• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2015

The production of nuclear fuel cladding tube is expected to increase with the nuclear power plant expansion. Zirconium(Zr) scrap that is generated during manufacturing is also expected to increase. Zr electrorefining experiment was carried out in the fluoride salt of LiF-KF-ZrF₄ using multiple electrode for scale up and improving throughput Zr electrorefiner develop-ment. The Zr reduction peak observed at-0.8 V(vs.Ni). Polarization behavior showed that the amount of applied current increases because of decreasing cell resistance as the number of cathode increases. Experimental results showed the highest recovery rate about 98% at lowest current density of 25.64 mA/cm² using 6 electrodes. XRD and TG analysis result show that pure Zr was recovered 99.92% and ICP analysis shows that lower impurity content than conventional impurity content of the Anode(97.8%). Electrorefining consumes energy about 7.15 kWh/kg less than 39.7% compared to the Kroll process using 6 electrode width of 20 mm and height of 65 mm. Because of increasing cell efficiency and recovery rate, using multiple cathode is determined as an efficient technique for scale up electrorefining Zr scrap.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.1100-1106
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• 2008

In this study, we presented rapid and simple fabrication method of functionalized surface on various substrates as a universal platform for the selective immobilization of cells. The functionalized surface was achieved by using deposition of polyelectrolyte such as poly(allyamine hydrochloride) (PAH), poly(diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride) (PDAC), poly(4-ammonium styrene sulfonic acid) (PSS), poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and fabrication of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) microstructure through micro-molding in capillaries (MIMIC) technique on each glass, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS) and poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) substrate. The polyelectrolyte multilayer provides adhesion force via strong electrostatic attraction between cell and surface. On the other hand, PEG microstructures also lead to prevent non-specific binding of cells because of physical and biological barrier. The characteristic of each modified surface was examined by using static contact angle measurement. The modified surface onto several substrates provides appropriate environment for cellular adhesion, which is essential technology for cell patterning with high yield and viability in the micropatterning technology. The proposed method is reproducible, convenient and rapid. In addition, the fabrication process is environmentally friendly process due to the no use of harsh solvent. It can be applied to the fabrication of biological sensor, biomolecules patterning, microelectronics devices, screening system, and study of cell-surface interaction.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.254-263
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• 1981

Paper electrophoretic separation of fission products has been carried out by using the specially designed migration apparatus. In general, the isolation of rubidium, strontium, zirconium, ruthenium, cesium, cerium, molybdenum, and some short-lived fission products is more efficient under 0.1M HCl electrolyte as compared with 0.1M NaOH electrolyte. In addition to Np-239, 1-131∼135 were, in particular, observed with different iodine chemical species obtained by the paper-electrophoretic separation of short, neutron-irradiated uranyl nitrate solution.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.83.1-83.1
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• 2011

고체산화물 연료전지는 전해질의 양쪽에 cathode층과 anode층으로 구성되어 있다. 이러한 셀을 제작하기 위한 구성소재 코팅법으로는 EVD, CVD, sputter등의 기상공정과 screen printing, tape casting, dip coating등의 습식공정이 있다. 이중 현재 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 screen printing법은 코팅기판의 크기와 형태에 제한을 받아 원통형, 평관형에는 적용이 어렵다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 electrolyte 지지체 위에 전사법을 통해 연료극(NiO-YSZ), 공기극(LSCF-GDC) 코팅층의 두께 및 형상을 제어할 수 있었으며 button cell을 제작하여 실제 SOFC에 적용이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2003

This study was carried out to extend a marketing shelf-life of the Jeju greenhouse mandarin fruits. Total soluble solids were not showed any significant differences by the temperatures and pre-treatments during the marketing period. Acid content and firmness of the fruits were gradually decreased, which were better in cold than in room temperature treatment. The fruits washed in electrolyzed acid water(pH 2.4∼2.7) maintained freshness higher than those of control Internal CO$_2$concentration of those was 1.0 ％ more or less in the beginning marketing stage, but increased along the marketing period in mom temperature. Especially Internal CO$_2$concentration of wax-coated fruits rapidly increased more than any other, whereas it was a little decreased in cold treatment. After 10 days in room temperature, decay ratio of the fruits was below 4.0% in electrolyzed acid water washing, compared to 10.4% in control. After 30 days in cold temperature, decay ratio was only 3.7% in electrolyzed acid water washing compared to 4.4% of wax-coated treatment and 7.4% of control. The weight loss among the pre-treatments in room temperature had no significant differences and was higher than in cold one.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.279-288
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• 2014

Nuclear energy is expected to meet the growing energy demand while avoiding CO2 emission. However, the problem of accumulating spent fuel from current nuclear power plants which is mainly composed of uranium oxides should be addressed. One of the most practical solutions is to reduce the spent oxide fuel and recycle it. Next-generation fuel cycles demand innovative features such as a reduction of the environmental load, improved safety, efficient recycling of resources, and feasible economics. Pyroprocessing based on molten salt electrolysis is one of the key technologies for reducing the amount of spent nuclear fuel and destroying toxic waste products, such as the long-life fission products. The oxide reduction process based on the electrochemical reduction in a LiCl-$Li_2O$ electrolyte has been developed for the volume reduction of PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) spent fuels and for providing metal feeds for the electrorefining process. To speed up the electrochemical reduction process, the influences of the feed form for the cathode and the type of anode shroud on the reduction rate were investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

Capacity of layered lithium nickel-cobalt-manganese oxide ($LiNi_{1-x-y}Co_xMn_yO_2$) cathode material can increase by raising the charge cut-off voltage above 4.3 V vs. $Li/Li^+$, but it is limited due to anodic instability of conventional electrolyte. We have been screening and evaluating various sulfone-based compounds of dimethyl sulfone (DMS), diethyl sulfone (DES), ethyl methyl sulfone (EMS) as electrolyte additives for high-voltage applications. Here we report improved cycling performance of $LiNi_{0.5}Co_{0.2}Mn_{0.3}O_2$ cathode by the use of dimethyl sulfone (DMS) additive under an aggressive charge condition of 4.6 V, compared to that in conventional electrolyte, and cathode-electrolyte interfacial reaction behavior. The cathode with DMS delivered discharge capacities of $198-173mAhg^{-1}$ over 50 cycles and capacity retention of 84%. Surface analysis results indicate that DMS induces to form a surface protective film at the cathode and inhibit metal-dissolution, which is correlated to improved high-voltage cycling performance.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.216-221
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• 2017

Diesel engines have the highest brake thermal efficiency among internal combustion engines. Therefore, they are utilized in medium and large transportation vehicles requiring large amounts of power such as heavy trucks, ships, power generation systems, etc. However, diesel engines have a disadvantage of generating large quantities of nitrogen oxides during the combustion process. Therefore, the authors tried to reduce the amount of nitrogen oxides in marine diesel engines using a wet-type exhaust gas cleaning system utilizing the undivided electrolyzed seawater method. In this method, electrolyzed seawater in injected into the harmful gas discharge from the diesel engine using real seawater. The authors investigated the reduction of NO and NOx from the pH value, available chlorine concentration, and the temperature of electrolyzed seawater. The results of this experiment indicated that when the electrolyzed seawater is acidic, the NO oxidation rate in the oxidation tower is higher than that when the electrolyzed seawater has a neutral pH. Likewise, the NO oxidation rate increased with the increase in concentration of chlorine. Further, it was confirmed that the electrolyzed seawater temperature had no effect on the NO oxidation rate. Thus, the NOx exhaust emission value produced by the diesel engine was reduced by means of electrolyzed seawater treatment.

• Clean Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.133-144
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• 2003

In this study, Insoluble catalyst electrode for oxide systems were manufactured, by using of them, carried out experiments on electrolytic treatment of dyeing wastewater containing persistent organic compounds, and then made a comparative study of the efficiency of treatment for environmental pollutants and whether each of them is valuable of not as an electrode for soluble electrode(Fe, Al) and insoluble electrode(SUS, R.C.E; Replaced Catalyst Electrode) which were used in the electrolytic system. Besides, it was investigated the conditions for electrolytic treatment to find the maximum efficiency of electrolytic treatment. As the result of this study, by using of insoluble catalyst electrode for oxide can solved the stability of electrode that is one of the greatest problems in order to put to practical use of electrolysis process in the treatment of the sewage and wastewater and the result runs as follows; 1. The durability of insoluble catalyst electrode(R.C.E) can be verified the most favorable when the molar ratio of $RuO_2-SnO_2-IrO_2-TiO_2$(4 compounds system) is 70/20/5/5. 2. The efficiency of treatment was obtained a more than 90% goodness for CODMn and also a good results for T-N removal in the experimental conditions of the distance of electrode 5 mm, time of electrolysis 60 minutes, permissible voltage 10V, processing capacity $0.5{\ell}$.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.14 no.5 s.67
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• pp.45-53
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• 2005

Electro-generated chlorine leaching of waste printed circuit boards was investigated in hydrochloric acid solutions. Non-magnetic component of $0.6{\sim}1.2mm$ was prepared by grinding, magnetic separation, and sieving. The non-magnetic component of pulverized printed circuit board contained about 45% of metal component, in which copper was about 83.6%. The leaching rate of copper was greatly affected by current density and agitation speed. The leaching of copper up to 98% was achieved at $20mA/cm^2$, $50^{\circ}C$, 180 minutes, and 600 rpm in 1M HCl solutions. Increasing agitation and lowering current density enhanced utilization efficiency of electro-generated chlorine. Leaching of copper was suppressed at the initial stage, while the minor metal elements, such as aluminum, lead, and tin, were dominantly leached out.