• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to evaluate integrated anaerobic hydrogen fermentation and membrane bioreactor (MBR) for on-site domestic wastewater treatment and resource recovery. A synthetic wastewater (COD 17,000 mg/L) was used as artificial brown water which will be discharged from urine diversion toilet and fed into a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) type anaerobic reactor with inclined plate. The effluent of anaerobic reactor mixed with real household grey water (COD 700 mg/L) was further treated by MBR for reuse. An optimum condition maintained in anaerobic reactor was HRT of 8 hrs, pH 5.5, SRT of 5 days and temperature of $37^{\circ}C$. COD removal of 98% was achieved from the overall system. Total gas production rate and hydrogen content was 4.6 L/day and 52.4% respectively. COD mass balance described the COD distribution in the system via reactor byproducts and effluent COD concentration. The results of this study asserts that, anaerobic hydrogen fermentation combined with MBR is a potent system in stabilizing waste strength and clean hydrogen recovery which could be implemented for onsite domestic wastewater treatment and reuse.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.469-474
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• 2019

Fermentation of palm oil mill effluent (POME) produces biohydrogen in a mixture at a specific set condition. This research was conducted to purify the produced mixed biohydrogen via absorption and membrane techniques. Three different solvents, methyl ethanolamine (MEA), ammonia ($NH_3$) and potassium hydroxide (KOH) solutions, were used in absorption technique. The highest $H_2$ purity was found using 1M MEA solution with 5.0 ml/s feed mixed gas flow rate at 60 minutes absorption time. Meanwhile, the purified biohydrogen using a polysulfone membrane had the highest $H_2$ purity at 2~3 bar operating pressure. Upon testing with proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), the highest current and power produced at 100% $H_2$ were 1.66 A and 8.1 W, while the lowest were produced at 50/50 vol% $H_2/CO_2$ (0.32 A and 0.49 W). These results proved that both purification techniques have significant potential for $H_2$ purification efficiency.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2004

Intensive animal industries create large volumes of nutrient rich effluent which, if untreated, has the potential for substantial environmental degradationand to recover valuable nutrients that would otherwise be lost. Members of the family Lemnaceae are widely used in lagoon systems, to achieve inexpensive and efficient remediation of effluent. Only limited research has been conducted into their growth in highly eutrophic media and there has been little done to systematically distinguish between different types of media. This study examined the growth characteristics of duckweed in abattoir effluent and explored possible ways of ameliorating the inhibitory factors to growth on this medium. A series of pot trials was conducted to test the tolerance of duckweed to abattoir effluent partially remediated by a sojourn in anaerobic fermentation ponds, both in its unmodified form and after the addition of acid to manipulate pH, and the addition of bentonite. Unmodified abattoir effluent was highly toxic to duckweed, even at dilutions of 3:1. Duckweed remained viable and grew sub-optimally in simplified media with total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) concentrations of up to 100 mg/L. Duckweed grew vigorously in effluent diluted 1:4 v/v, containing 56 mg TAN/L when modified by addition of acid (to decrease pH to 7) and bentonite at 0.5%. The results of this study suggest that bentonite plays an important role in modifying the toxicity of abattoir effluent to duckweed.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1168-1176
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• 2004

Intensive animal industries create large volumes of nutrient rich effluent, which, if untreated, has the potential for substantial environmental degradation. Aquatic plants in aerobic lagoon systems have the potential to achieve inexpensive and efficient remediation of effluent, and to recover valuable nutrients that would otherwise be lost. Members of the family Lemnaceae (duckweeds) are widely used in lagoon systems, but despite their widespread use in the cleansing of sewage, only limited research has been conducted into their growth in highly eutrophic media, and little has been done to systematically distinguish between different types of media. This study examined the growth characteristics of duckweed in abattoir effluent, and explored possible ways of ameliorating the inhibitory factors to growth on this medium. A series of pot trials was conducted to test the tolerance of duckweed to abattoir effluent partially remediated by a sojourn in anaerobic fermentation ponds, both in its unmodified form, and after the addition of acid to manipulate pH, and the addition of bentonite. Unmodified abattoir effluent was highly toxic to duckweed, although duckweed remained viable and grew sub optimally in media with total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) concentrations of up to 100 mg/l. Duckweed also grew vigorously in effluent diluted 1:4 v/v, containing 56 mg TAN/L and also modified by addition of acid to decrease pH to 7 and by adding bentonite (0.5%).

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1063-1067
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• 2000

The effects of acremonium cellulase (AC) additive and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) inoculant on effluent production and aerobic stability of silage were investigated. Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum) was treated with AC at the rates of 0.05 ($AC_1$) and 0.1 g/kg $(AC_2)$ and/or with LAB at the rate of $1.0{\times}10^8cfu/kg$ fresh grass at ensiling. The treatments of LAB, $AC_1$, $AC_2$, $LAB+AC_1$ and $LAB+AC_2$ significantly (p<0.01) decreased pH and contents of volatile basic nitrogen and butyric acid, and significantly (p<0.01) increased lactic acid content compared with the control. All treated silages were well preserved with pH of lower than 4.2. There were no significant differences in fermentation quality between the application rates of AC ($AC_1$ and $AC_2$) and between the mixtures ($AC_1+LAB$ and $AC_2+LAB$). AC ($AC_1$ and $AC_2$) and AC plus LAB ($AC_1+LAB$ and $AC_2+LAB$) resulted in more silage effluent than the control and LAB inoculant alone. When the experimental silos were opened, the silages treated with AC and/or LAB were not as stable as the control silage, as shown by pH increase and lactic acid decomposition.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.278-286
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• 2023

The present work evaluated the production of biohydrogen under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions through dark fermentation of palm oil mill effluent (POME) in batch mode using the design of experiment methodology. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to investigate the influence of the two significant parameters, POME concentration as substrate (5, 12.5, and 20 g/l), and volumetric substrate to inoculum ratio (1:1, 1:1.5, and 1:2, v/v.%), with inoculum concentration of 14.3 g VSS/l. All the experiments were analyzed at 37 ℃ and 55 ℃ at an incubation time of 24 h. The highest chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, hydrogen content (H₂%), and hydrogen yield (HY) at a substrate concentration of 12.5 g COD/l and S:I ratio of 1:1.5 in mesophilic and thermophilic conditions were obtained (27.3, 24.2%), (57.92, 66.24%), and (6.43, 12.27 ml H₂/g COD_rem), respectively. The results show that thermophilic temperature in terms of COD removal was more effective for higher COD concentrations than for lower concentrations. Optimum parameters projected by RSM with S:I ratio of 1:1.6 and POME concentration of 14.3 g COD/l showed higher results in both temperatures. It is recognized how RSM and optimization processes can predict and affect the process performance under different operational conditions.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.346-351
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• 1995

To produce ethanol from Jerusalem artichoke powder efficiently, Kluyveromyces marxianus F043 cells were encapsulated in 2% sodium alginate and were cultured in a countinuous reactor to investigate the fermentation properties. Immobilized K. marxianus F043 cells were activated for 48 hours in a fermentor for continuous ethanol production. The culture in a CSTR using a Jerusalem artichoke substrate treated with 2% cellulase showed a decrease in ethanol concentration and an increase in residual saccharide concentration with a increasing dilution rate. Optimum conditions for high ethanol productivity and low residual saccharide output were clarified to be given at a dilution rate of 0.2 h$^{-1}$ and a Jerusalem artichoke medium concentration of 75 g/l. Ethanol productivity of 3.1 g/l-h and saccharide utilization of 62.6% were obtained under the optimum condition. When the fermentation was performed for 3 weeks under these conditions, the effluent medium showed stable ethanol concentrations of 16.3 - 17.9 g/l and viable cells of 6.60-7.16 log cells/ml without contamination. Trace amounts of methyl, n-propyl, iso-butyl, isoamyl alcohols besides ethanol were detected.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.333-339
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• 2011

In the present work, it was attempted to produce $H_2$ from food waste by the two-stage fermentation system. Food waste was acidified to lactate by using indigenous lactic acid bacteria under mesophilic condition, and the lactate fermentation effluent (LFE) was subsequently converted to $H_2$ by photo-fermentation. $Rhodobacter$ $sphaeroides$ KD131 was used as the photo-fermenting bacteria. The optimal conditions for lactate fermentation were found to be pH of 5.5 and substrate concentration of 30 g Carbo. COD/L, under which yielded 1.6 mol lactate/mol glucose. By filtering the LFE and adding trace metal, $H_2$ production increased by more than three times compared to using raw LFE, and finally reached the $H_2$ yield of 3.6 mol $H_2$/mol lactate. Via the developed two-stage fermentation system $H_2$ yield of 5.8 mol $H_2$/mol glucose was achieved from food waste, whose value was the highest that ever recorded.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.866-871
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• 2006

연속 회분식 방식의 실험실 규모 상향류 반응조를 사용하여 인 결정화공정을 이용한 영양물질 회수에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 양이온 공급원으로서 산업폐기물인 폐석회와 마그네슘염을 이용하여 그 운전특성을 비교하였다. 이 연구는 고성능 발효조와 인 결정화 반응조로 구성된 새로운 통합 슬러지 처리 공정에 있어서 인 결정화공정의 성공적인 적용성 평가에 초점을 두고 있다. 발효조 유출수와 유사한 특성으로 제조된 합성폐수를 이용한 첫 번째 struvite 결정화 실험에서 반응은 $0.5{\sim}1$ hrs 사이의 반응시간에서 빠르게 진행되었는데, 그 동안 상당량(약 60% 이상)의 암모니아와 인이 제거되었다. 알칼리성 조건이라는 기질의 고유특성으로 인하여 암모니아 탈기 현상이 다소 발생하였으나 그 정도는 미미한 것(<5%)으로 나타났다. 또한 공기주입에 의한 이산화탄소 탈기조건을 추가적으로 제공하였을 때 struvite 형성속도의 향상은 일어나지 않았다. 실폐수로서 발효조 유출수를 사용한 두 번째 실험에서 stuvite 결정화를 위한 마그네슘염의 최적주입량은 struvite형성질량비와 유사한 0.86 g Mg $g^{-1}$ P이었다. 반면에 폐석회의 최적주입량은 0.3 g $L^{-1}$으로 다소 높게 나타났으며, 약 3시간의 반응시간 조건에서 $NH_4$-N과 $PO_4$-P의 제거효율은 각각 80%와 41%로 나타났다. 각 실험에서 침전물을 현미경으로 분석한 결과 마네슘염을 사용한 경우 프리즘과 같은 결정체가 관찰된 반면 폐석회를 사용한 경우는 비결정질의 결정체가 주로 관찰되었다. 하수처리용량 158,880 $m^3\;d^{-1}$의 실규모 처리시설의 경우를 대상으로 한 통합 슬러지처리시스템의 물질수지 분석결과 결정화 반응조 유출수로 부터의 반송되는 영양물질의 재순환 부하(각각 하수 1 $m^3$ 당 0.13 g N와 0.19 g P)는 매우 낮게 유지되는 것으로 나타났다. 그러므로 이미 산업폐기물 형태로 존재하는 폐석회를 본 연구에서와 같이 통합 슬러지 처리시스템의 영양물질 회수 공정에서 재이용하는 것은 높은 환경적 및 경제적 이익과 동시에 산업폐기물의 지속발전적 처리/처분이라는 다양한 장점을 가질 것이다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.93-109
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• 1972

우리나라 고유식품(固有食品)의 일종(一種)인 청국장(淸國醬)의 질소화합물의 변화를 연구하기 위하여 필자(筆者)가 분리동정한 2가지 청국장(淸國醬)메주발효균(醱酵菌)(K-27, S-16)과 보존 납두균(納頭菌)으로 청국장(淸國醬)메주를 발효(醱酵)시키면서 경시적(經時的)으로 채취(採取)한 시료(試料)에 대(對)하여 총질소(總窒素), pH, 단백질(蛋白質) 분리효소역가(分解酵素力價), 불용성단백태질소(不溶性蛋白態窒素), 수용성단백태질소(水溶性蛋白態窒素), 펩타이드태질소(態窒素), 아미노태질소(態窒素), 암모니아태질소(態窒素), 및 각종유리(各種遊離)아미노산(酸) 등을 조사분석(調査分析)하는 동시에 cross linkage가 각각 다른 Dowex-50을 사용하여 분자식별(分子篩別)한 각(各) fraction에 대하여 total-N, amino-N을 측정하고 average peptide length를 계산하여 다음과 같은 결과(結果)를 얻었다. 1. 총질소(總窒素): 발효가 진행함에 따라 세가지의 시험구의 총질소가 다같이 약간(若干) 증가(增加)되었다. 2. 불용성단백태질소(不溶性蛋白態窒素): 불용성단백태질소(不溶性蛋白態窒素)는 증숙공정(蒸熟工程)에서 일단현저(一旦顯著)하게 증가(增加)되었다가 3종시료(三種試料)가 다 같이 경시적(經時的)으로 감소(減少)되는 경향(傾向)이였으나 보존균주구에 비(比)하여 분리균주구(分離菌株區)의 감소(減少)가 더욱 심(甚)하며, 그중에서도 K-27 균주접종구(菌株接種區)가 특(特)히 현저(顯著)한 감소경향(減少傾向)을 보였다. 3. 가용성단백태질소(可溶性蛋白態窒素): 가용성단백태질소(可溶性蛋白態窒素)는 증숙공정(蒸熟工程)에서 일단(一但) 대폭(大幅) 감소(減少)되었다가 기후(其後)부터는 세가지 청국장(淸國醬)메주가 다 같이 약간(若干)씩 감소(減少)되는 경향(傾向)이었으나 그 중에시 K-27 균주구(菌株區讀)의 감소율(減少率)이 컸다. 4. Peptide 태(態), 아미노태(態) 및 암모니아태질소(態窒素)는 증가(增加)되고 아미노태질소(態窒素)는 약간(若干)씩 감소(減少)되었다가 발효과정(醱酵過程)에서 세가지구(區)가 모두 계속(繼續)하여 현저하게 증가하였다. 기중(其中) 펩타이드태질소(態窒素)만은 각구(各區)에 따라 각각 다른 일정시간(一定時間)에 최고치(最高値)를 이루었다가 그후 점차 감소되었다. 그리고 세가지 시험구중 특히 K-27 균주접종구의 질소화합물변화가 다른 것에 비하여 현저하게 컸다. 5. pH와 Protease activity: 세가지 시험구(試驗區)의 PH 변화(變化)는 증숙대두(蒸熟大豆)의 6.65에서 계속상승(繼續上昇)하여 73시간(時間) 발효시(醱酵時)에는 $7.5{\sim}7.85$까지 이르렸으며 Protease activity는 발효(醱酵)가 진행(進行)됨에 따라 현저(顯著)하게 높아졌다가 pH가 7.3 내외(內外)가 되는 $48{\sim}60$ 시간발효(時間醱酵)를 한계점(限界點)으로 하여 점차감소(漸次減少)되었다. 6. 유리(遊離)아미노산(酸): 유리(遊離)아미노산(酸)은 발효(醱酵)가 진행(進行)됨에 따라 세가지 시험구(試驗區)가 다같이 수십배(數拾倍) 내지 수백배(數百倍)로 현저(顯著)하게 증가(增加)되었으며 그후 K-27균주구(菌株區)의 유리(遊離)아미노산(酸)의 증가(增加)가 훨씬 높았다. 7. 분자사별(分子篩別) fraction의 총질소(總窒素), 아미노태질소(態窒素) 및 APL: K-27 균주구(菌株區)의 시료(試料)를 분자사별(分子篩別)하여 얻은 각(各) fraction의 총질소(總窒素)와 아미노태질소(態窒素)는 발효(醱酵)가 진행(進行)함에 따라 X-16, X-12 및 X-8 fraction은 대체적(大體的)으로 증가(增加)되었으나 X-4, X-2 및 effluent fraction은 일정(一定)한 발효시간(醱騎時間)까지 증가(增加)되었다가 그후(後) 감소(減少)되었다. effluent를 제외(除外)한 전(全) fraction의 APL은 증숙대두(蒸熟大豆)에서 가장 크고 발효시간(醱騎時間)이 경과(經過)함에 따라 점차감소(漸次減少)되었다.