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Development of a predictive model of the limiting current density of an electrodialysis process using response surface methodology

  • Ali, Mourad Ben Sik;Hamrouni, Bechir
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.127-141
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    • 2016
  • Electrodialysis (ED) is known to be a useful membrane process for desalination, concentration, separation, and purification in many fields. In this process, it is desirable to work at high current density in order to achieve fast desalination with the lowest possible effective membrane area. In practice, however, operating currents are restricted by the occurrence of concentration polarization phenomena. Many studies showed the occurrence of a limiting current density (LCD). The limiting current density in the electrodialysis process is an important parameter which determines the electrical resistance and the current utilization. Therefore, its reliable determination is required for designing an efficient electrodialysis plant. The purpose of this study is the development of a predictive model of the limiting current density in an electrodialysis process using response surface methodology (RSM). A two-factor central composite design (CCD) of RSM was used to analyze the effect of operation conditions (the initial salt concentration (C) and the linear flow velocity of solution to be treated (u)) on the limiting current density and to establish a regression model. All experiments were carried out on synthetic brackish water solutions using a laboratory scale electrodialysis cell. The limiting current density for each experiment was determined using the Cowan-Brown method. A suitable regression model for predicting LCD within the ranges of variables used was developed based on experimental results. The proposed mathematical quadratic model was simple. Its quality was evaluated by regression analysis and by the Analysis Of Variance, popularly known as the ANOVA.

Optimization of Adsorbent Treatment Process for the Purification of Paclitaxel from Plant Cell Cultures of Taxus chinensis (주목 식물세포(Taxus chinensis)배양으로부터 파클리탁셀 정제를 위한 흡착제 처리 공정 최적화)

  • Lee, Chung-Gi;Kim, Jin-Hyun
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.497-502
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    • 2014
  • Biomass-derived tar and waxy compounds have a highly negative effect on the separation and purification of paclitaxel and should be removed prior to final purification. Adsorbent treatment is a simple, efficient method for removal of tar and waxy compounds from plant cell cultures. In this study, we optimized the important process parameters (adsorption temperature, time, solvent type and adsorbent amount) of adsorbent treatment with Sylopute to remove the tar and waxy compounds in a pre-purification step. The optimal adsorption temperature, adsorption time, solvent type, and crude extract/Sylopute ratio were $30^{\circ}C$, 15 min, methylene chloride, and 1:1(w/w), respectively. This result could be confirmed by HPLC analysis of the absorbent after treatment and TGA of the organic substances that were bound to the adsorbent. In adsorbent treatment step, the purity seemed to show a small improvement but this treatment had a significant effect on convenience and feasibility of following steps by the removal of tar and waxy compounds.

Recovery of Astaxanthin from microalgae Using Simple and Energy-efficient Method (미세조류로부터의 에너지 효율적인 Astaxanthin 회수 기술 개발)

  • Kim, Sun Young;Oh, You-Kwan;Ha, Sung Ho
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.376-380
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    • 2018
  • The astaxanthin recovery efficiencies were compared in acetonitrile, acetone, methanol, dichloromethane : methanol (1:3, v/v) and ethylacetate : ethanol (1:1, v/v) as a extraction solvent after the grinding of the H. pluvialis cells. The astaxanthin extraction yield in acetone was 1.13~1.29 times higher than other extraction solvents. It was also found that 96.7% of astaxanthin accumulated in H. pluvialis could be recovered by a single extraction. Since astaxanthin exists mainly as astaxanthin esters in H. pluvialis, a gradient reversed-phase HPLC analysis was carried out for the separation of astaxanthin esters from the extracts of H. pluvialis. Among the astaxanthin inside the H. pluvialis cell, free astaxanthin was 45.9% and astaxanthin esters were the rest.

Structural Behavior of Wall-Type Structure with the Application of Slip-Form System (슬립폼 공법으로 건설된 벽식 구조의 거동에 관한 연구)

  • 문정호;이리형
    • Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.157-168
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    • 1995
  • The structural performance of Slip-Form system was examined to make use of many advantages of fast construction and high quality c0ncret.e. However, the separate cor~struction of wall and slabs may cause some weaknesses around the wall-slab connection region. Thus, the purpose of the study is to examine the structural performance of wall-type structure constructed by Slip-Form method and to develop an efficient connection system between wall and slabs. In order to investigate the system, 7 wall specimens and 8 wall-slab joint specimens were tested and the experimental results were compared with the design equations and theoretical analysis. A satisfactory performance was obtained from the wall specimen tests. However, wall-slab joint specimens with rebar connection materials I Ilalfen] were shown that. the strength of' wall should be checked during design porocess.

Recovery of Palladium from a Mixture of Pt, Pd and Rh by Solvent Extraction

  • Kim, berly S. Svalstad;Kim, Nam-Soo;Kenneth N. Han
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.482-488
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    • 2001
  • Platinum group metals (pgm) are useful to many industries such as chemical, dental and medical, petroleum, refining, electrical and electronic, and automotive. Researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and PGM Recovery Ltd. have developed jointly an environmentally sound and metallurgically efficient process for extracting these metals from secondary sources. Once these metals have been dissolved in the leach liquor, the individual metals mainly platinum, palladium, and rhodium, should be separated in order to recover the individual metals with high purity. During this investigation, solvent extraction has been chosen as the method used to achieve the separation and extraction of platinum, palladium, and rhodium from the leach liquor. There were three solutions used throughout this procedure: 1) Synthetic solution (200 ppm Pt 80 ppm Pd 20 ppm Rh; 300 ppm Pt, 180 ppm Pd 50 ppm Rh), and 2) Auto catalyst leach liquors (100 ppm Pt, 30 ppm Pd, 20 ppm Rh). The solvents investigated included Lix 84(2-hydroxy-5-nonylacetonphenone oxime in a mixture with 5-dodecylsalicyloxime), Lix 84-I, ACORGA CLX-50 (diester of pyridine 3,5 dicarboxylic acid), and di-hexyl sulfide. The extraction values achieved using ACORGA CLX-50, Lix 84, and Lix 84-I were respectively Pt (25%, 0% 0%), Pd (100%, 99.8%, 95.3%), and Rh (99.1%, 35.5%, 4.25%). The stripping processes for the Lix 84, and Lix 84-I were proven to be more involved than others. The solutions were required to be simultaneously heated and stirred. The percentages acquired through these processes yielded unsatisfactory results. The stripping procedure for the ACORGA CLX-50 was easier to execute, yet the percentage recovered from this process was also unsatisfactory. Overall the di-hexyl sulfide has proved to be the most successful organic for this procedure. The average percent extracted for palladium was excellent with 99.9% - 100% with very little Platinum and rhodium extracted. The ability of stripping palladium in ammonia solution was also found to be excellent.

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Development of Pollutant Loading Estimation System using GIS (GIS를 이용한 유역별 오염부하량 산정시스템의 개발)

  • Ham, Kwang-Jun;Kim, Joon-Hyun;Shim, Jae-Min
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.97-107
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a system, which estimates watershed pollutant loading rate through the combination of GIS and computational mode. Also, the applicability of this study was estimated by the application of the above system for Chuncheon City. The detailed results of these studies are as follows; The pollutant loading estimation system was developed for more convenient estimation of pollutant loading rate in watershed, and the system load was minimized by the separation of estimation module for point and non-point source. This system on the basis of GIS is very economical and efficient because it can be applied to other watershed with the watershed map. System modification is not needed. The pollutant loading estimation system for point source was developed to estimate the pollutant loading rate in watershed through the extraction of the proper data from all districts and yearly data and the execution of spatial analysis which is main function of GIS. From the verification result of spatial analysis, real watershed area and the administrative districtarea extracted by spatial analysis were $1,114,893,340.15m^2$ and $1,114,878,683.68m^2$, respectively. It shows that the spatial analysis results were very exact with only 0.001% error. The pollutant loading estimation system for non-point source was developed to calculate the pollutant loading rate through the overlaying of land-use and watershed map after the construction of new land-use map using the land register database with most exact land use classification. Application result for Chuncheon City shows that the proposed system results in one percent land use error while the statistical method results in five percent. More exact nonpoint source pollutant loading was estimated from this system.

High Rate Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) for the Removal of Algae Species (유입원수 조류제거를 위한 high rate DAF 최적화 연구)

  • Jung, Woosik;An, Ju-Suk;Song, Keun-Won;Oh, Hyun-Je
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.415-419
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    • 2017
  • In recent years there have been large increases in the hydraulic loading rates used to design dissolved air flotation (DAF) facilities for drinking water applications. High rate DAF processes are now available at loading rates of 20 to $40m^3/m^2{\cdot}h$. This research evaluated dissolved air flotation as a separation method for algae and organic compounds from water treatment plants. During the service period of 2016. 5. to 2017. 6., DAF pilot plants ($500m^3/day$) process has shown a constantly sound performance for the treatment of raw water, yielding a significantly low level of turbidity (DAF treated water, 0.21~1.56 NTU). As a result of analyzing the algae cell counts in the influent source, it was expressed at 100-120 cells/mL. In DAF treated water, the removal efficient of alge cell counts was found to be upto 90%. The stable turbidity and algae removal were confirmed by operating the high rate DAF process under the condition of the surface loading rate of $30m^3/m^2{\cdot}hr$.

Quality Evaluation of Moutan Cortex Radicis Using Multiple Component Analysisby High Performance Liquid Chromatography

  • Ding, Yan;Wu, Enqi;Chen, Jianbo;Nguyen, Huu-Tung;Do, Thi-Ha;Park, Kyung-Lae;Bae, Ki-Hwan;Kim, Young-Ho;Kang, Jong-Seong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.2240-2244
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    • 2009
  • A simple high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed to evaluate the quality of Moutan Cortex Radicis based on chromatographic fingerprints that characterize eight pharmacological compounds, namely, gallic acid, paeoniflorin, galloyl paeoniflorin, benzoic acid, quercetin, benzoylpaeoniflorin, paeoniflorigenone, and paeonol. These compounds were identified by their characteristic UV profiles and the mass spectroscopy data, and their contents were determined by HPLC. The chromatographic separation was performed on a $C_{18}$ column by gradient elution with 0.05% formic acid in water and acetonitrile. The methodological validation gave acceptable linearities (r = 0.9996) and recoveries (ranging from 99.4∼103.1%). The limits of detection (LOD) of these compounds ranged from 10 to 30 $\mu$g/mL. The representative chromatographic fingerprints of Moutan Cortex Radicis were obtained by analyzing 20 batches of samples collected from markets in Korea and China. For the efficient evaluation of quality for the commercial Moutan Cortex Radicis it is recommended that the total content of the six characteristic compounds should contain more than a minimum of 2% and that the content of total paeoniflorin and paeonol should exceed a minimum of 1.5% of dry weight of Moutan Cortex Radicis.

Ag2Se-Graphene/TiO2 Nanocomposites, Sonochemical Synthesis and Enhanced Photocatalytic Properties Under Visible Light

  • Meng, Ze-Da;Zhu, Lei;Ghosh, Trisha;Park, Chong-Yeon;Ullah, Kefayat;Nikam, Vikram;Oh, Won-Chun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.3761-3766
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    • 2012
  • $Ag_2Se$-Graphene/$TiO_2$ composite was synthesized by a facile sonochemical method. The as-prepared products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer. During the reaction, both of the reduction of graphene oxide and loading of $Ag_2Se$ and $TiO_2$ particles were achieved. The as-prepared $Ag_2Se$-Graphene/$TiO_2$ composites possessed great adsorptivity of dyes, extended light absorption range, and efficient charge separation properties simultaneously. Hence, in the photodegradation of rhodamine B (Rh.B), a significant enhancement in the reaction rate was observed with $Ag_2Se$-Graphene/$TiO_2$ composites, compared to the pure $TiO_2$. The high activity can be attributed to the synergetic effects of high charge mobility, and red shift in absorption edge of $Ag_2Se$-Graphene/$TiO_2$ composites.

A Proposal of Efficient Method for Data Center Information System Migration (데이터센터 정보시스템 이전을 위한 효율적인 방안 제시)

  • Song, Min-Gu;Kim, Sun-Bae
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2014
  • Recently, the more complicated with the elements made of information system, the more dangerous in migration them. So it is need to accomplish information system migration systematically. According to the movement of public institution, a large scale of information system migration is in processing and will be made. In this paper, I would like to suggest the use of migration solution in order to speed & effect information system migration process. This will be provided the pursuit function of information system movement, movement location pursuit in real time, monitoring function through the situation room, separation migration possibility on the basis of business attribute. Therefore, if you use the suggested solution, it will be decreased trial and error & minimized the movement time.