• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.297-316
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• 2010

Membrane fouling is one of the major operational concerns of membrane processes which results in loss of productivity. This paper investigates the ultrafiltration (UF) results of synthetic oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion using flat sheets of polysulfone (PSf) membrane synthesized with four different compositions. The aim is to identify the mechanisms responsible for the observed permeate flux reduction with time for different PSf membranes. The experiments were carried out at four transmembrane pressures i.e., 68.9 kPa, 103.4 kPa, 137.9 kPa and 172.4 kPa. Three initial oil concentrations i.e., 75 $mgL^{-1}$, 100 $mgL^{-1}$ and 200 $mgL^{-1}$ were considered. The resistance-in-series (RIS) model was applied to interpret the data and on that basis, the individual resistances were evaluated. The significances of these resistances were studied in relation to parameters, namely, transmembrane pressure and initial oil concentration. The total resistance to permeate flow is found to increase with increase in both transmembrane pressure and initial oil concentration while for higher oil concentration, resistance due to concentration polarization is found to be the prevailing resistance. The applicability of the constant pressure filtration models to the experimental data was also tested to explain the blocking process. The study shows that intermediate pore blocking is the dominant mechanism at the initial period of UF while in the later period, the fouling process is found to approach cake filtration like mechanism. However, the duration of pore blocking mechanism is different for different membranes depending on their morphological and permeation properties.

• 멤브레인
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.161-169
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• 2021

전 세계적으로 물 위기인 상황에서 깨끗한 물에 대한 수요는 꾸준히 이어지고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 정수를 위한 멤브레인 분리 기술은 중요하다. 멤브레인의 오염 때문에 멤브레인의 분리 효과는 방해되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 최근에 여러 방법으로 평막에 패턴을 제공하는 연구와 실험이 수행되었다. 멤브레인의 패턴화는 오염을 줄일 뿐 아니라 방법과 재료에 따라 물투과 유속을 증가시켰다. 각각의 적용된 사례에서 증가된 표면적, 높은 물 투과도, 그리고 향상된 여과 사이클 등과 같은 효과를 보여주었다. 본 총설에서는 오염방지에 대한 패턴화 멤브레인의 효과를 소개하고 논의한다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.10-18
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• 2000

This paper describes the magnetic orientation of the intact and demembranated bull sperm treated by DTT or heparin in a 5,400 G static field. Semen samples collected from four bulls (Japanese Black) were mixed to the same sperm density. One percentage triton X-100 was used to extract the plasma membrane. The intact and demembranated sperm suspensions were treated with 20, 200, 2,000 mM DTT, 100, 1,000 or 10,000 units heparin solutions at $4{^{\circ}C}$ for 6 days. The decondensation of the sperm nuclei treated by DTT or heparin was examined by measuring the sperm head area at 1, 3, and 6 days. After measuring the area, each sperm sample was exposed to a 5,400 G static magnetic field generated by Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets for 24 hours at room temperature. Results showed that the decondensation of bull sperm nuclei was not induced by the heparin treatment, however, incomplete decondensation was induced by the DTT treatment. During the magnetic orientation, bull sperms treated by DTT or heparin had low percentages of long axis perpendicular to the magnetic lines of force. However, different aspects were obtained for long axis perpendicular orientations following treatment of DTT or heparin. Through the DTT treatment, the decline of long axis perpendicularly oriented percentages was due to the increase of long axis parallel orientation with the head of the flat plane perpendicular to the magnetic lines of force, whereas, using the heparin treatment, the decline of long axis perpendicular orientation was due to the increment of long axis parallel orientation with the head of the flat plane parallel to the magnetic lines of force. Also, percentages of the head of the flat plane perpendicular were decreased by the heparin treatment. These findings suggest that maintaining the structure of protamine in the chromatin is necessary for the sperm head to orient with its flat plane perpendicular, and maintaining the disulfide bond in the chromatin is necessary for the long axis of sperm to orient perpendicularly.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.135-145
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• 2006

This paper presents the theory, design, fabrication and characterization of the novel low actuation voltage capacitive shunt RF-MEMS switch using a corrugated membrane with HRS MEMS packaging. Analytical analyses and experimental results have been carried out to derive algebraic expressions for the mechanical actuation mechanics of corrugated membrane for a low residual stress. It is shown that the residual stress of both types of corrugated and flat membranes can be modeled with the help of a mechanics theory. The residual stress in corrugated membranes is calculated using a geometrical model and is confirmed by finite element method(FEM) analysis and experimental results. The corrugated electrostatic actuated bridge is suspended over a concave structure of CPW, with sputtered nickel(Ni) as the structural material for the bridge and gold for CPW line, fabricated on high-resistivity silicon(HRS) substrate. The corrugated switch on concave structure requires lower actuation voltage than the flat switch on planar structure in various thickness bridges. The residual stress is very low by corrugating both ends of the bridge on concave structure. The residual stress of the bridge material and structure is critical to lower the actuation voltage. The Self-alignment HRS MEMS package of the RF-MEMS switch with a $15{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ lightly-doped Si chip carrier also shows no parasitic leakage resonances and is verified as an effective packaging solution for the low cost and high performance coplanar MMICs.

• 멤브레인
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.377-388
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• 2011

침지법을 이용한 상전이 공정으로 polysulfone (PSF), polyethersulfone (PES) and polyphenylsulfone (PPS)의 정밀여과 평막을 제조하였다. 용매로는 dimethyl formamide (DMF)를, 습윤제 고분자로는 polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)를 사용하였으며 pore 형성 촉매로 2-butoxyethanol (BE)을 사용하였다. 얻어진 분리막들은 SEM과 micro permporometer를 이용하여 morphology를 분석하였으며 순수투과도를 측정하여 분리막의 투과성능을 측정하였다. BE의 첨가를 통하여 분리막의 기공을 성장시킬 수 있었으며 고분자 구조에 따라 분리막의 morphology 변화를 관찰할 수 있었다. PSF, PES, PPS 분리막의 평균기공의 크기는 각각 0.282, 0.330, $0.308{\mu}m$이었으며 공극률은 68.5, 66.1, 66.4%로 유사한 값을 나타내었다. 그러나 PPS 분리막의 경우 PSF, PES 분리막에 비해 높은 기공 밀도와 좁은 기공 분포를 관찰할 수 있었다. 그 결과 PPS 분리막의 순수 투과 유량은 $357L/m^2\;hr$으로 PSF ($196L/m^2\;hr$)나 PES membrane ($214L/m^2\;hr$) 분리막에 비해 훨씬 증가함을 보였다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.327-334
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• 2018

The nano/micro composites with highly porous surface area have attracted of great interest, particularly the synthesis of porous and thin film sheets of high performance. In this paper, an easy method of cost-effective synthesis of thin film ceramic fiber membranes based on Hydroxyapatite, and activated carbon by turned into studied to be applied within the service-facilitated the transport of radioactive waste such as $^{90}Sr$, $^{137}Cs$ and $^{60}Co$) as activated product of radioisotopes from ETRR-2 research reactor and dissolved in 3M $HNO_3$, across a thin flat-sheet supported liquid membrane (TFSSLM). Radionuclides are transported from alkaline pH values. The presence of sodium salts in the aqueous media improves in $HNO_3$, the lowering of permeability because the initial $HNO_3$ concentration is improved. The study some parameters on the thin sheet ceramic supported liquid membrane. EDTA as stripping phase concentration, time of extraction and temperature were studied. The study of maximum permeability of radioisotopes for all parameters. The pertraction of a radioactive waste solution from nitrate medium were examined at the optimized conditions. Under the optimum experimental 98.6-99.9% of $^{90}Sr$, 79.65-80.3% of $^{137}Cs$ and $^{60}Co$ 45.5-55.5% in 90-110 min with were extracted in 10-30 min, respectively. The process of diffusion in liquid membranes is governed by the chemical diffusion process.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2009

The membrane of the LNG carriers consists of thin strips of INVAR(Fe-36%Ni) steel plates, and the junction between INVAR strips is fabricated by welding. Thousands of the raised edge joints, regularly spaced, are located around all the side of the tank corner near the transverse bulkhead, and TIG welding is manually made on the top of the raised edges. Since the thickness of all the laminated edge plies is extremely thin and the weld position is under a bad accessibility, highly skilled workers are required to perform welding relatively for a long welding time. An alternative scheme for the corner membrane fabrication is proposed in the study to improve the installation workability and thus productivity. The scheme replaces the welded edges with the preformed corrugation ones. A panel strip with regularly-spaced corrugations is installed at the corner instead of the individual flat strip of which edge is vertically raised to be welded with the adjacent strip. In the study, a series of the evaluation on the corrugated edge members was performed to assess the applicability to the real LNG carrier fabrication. Opening displacement at the raised edge was experimentally examined. Elastic stiffness regressed from the displacement was nearly same in both edge types. Edge displacement and local stresses were calculated under hydrostatic pressure and temperature change due to liquefied cargo. Fatigue test was performed on both corrugated and welded edge specimens consisting of two or five plies of invar strips. Fatigue strength of the corrugated specimens was not less than that of the welded specimens.

• 멤브레인
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.176-184
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• 2008

본 연구에서 졸-겔 방법에 의하여 나노 기공을 가지는 세라믹막을 제조하여 단일 조성의 헬륨과 질소를 가지고 기체투과 실험을 수행하였다. 기공 크기 $0.1{\mu}m$, 기공율 32%의 평막형 ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ 지지체를 제조하였으며, 지지체를 담지하여 코팅하는 방법으로 4nm의 기공 크기를 가지는 ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ 중간층을 제조하였다. 실리카 졸은 TEOS의 산 촉매 가수분해와 축중합반응을 통하여 합성하였다. 막은 딥코팅과 소결과정을 거쳐 제조되었다. 졸-겔 법에 의해 합성된 세라믹 막을 통한 헬륨, 질소 투과 실험은 기체의 투과 특성을 파악하기 위하여 시행하였다. 질소에 대한 헬륨의 선택도는 $100{\sim}160$ 정도였으며 헬륨의 투과도는 $303{\sim}363K$의 온도 범위에서 $10^{-7}mol/m^2{\cdot}s{\cdot}Pa$ 정도였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1746-1754
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• 2016

Recently, spherical beads entrapping quorum quenching (QQ) bacteria have been reported as effective moving QQ-media for biofouling control in MBRs for wastewater treatment owing to their combined effects of biological (i.e., quorum quenching) and physical washing. Taking into account both the mass transfer of signal molecules through the QQ-medium and collision efficiencies of the QQ-medium against the filtration membranes in a bioreactor, a cylindrical medium (QQ-cylinder) was developed as a new shape of moving QQ-medium. The QQ-cylinders were compared with previous QQ-beads in terms of the QQ activity and the physical washing effect under identical loading volumes of each medium in batch tests. It was found that the QQ activity of a QQ-medium was highly dependent on its specific surface area, regardless of the shape of the medium. In contrast, the physical washing effect of a QQ-medium was greatly affected by its geometric structure. The enhanced anti-biofouling property of the QQ-cylinders relative to QQ-beads was confirmed in a continuous laboratory-scale MBR with a flat-sheet membrane module.

• 멤브레인
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.358-366
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• 2015

강도가 강하고 내약품성, 무독성, 내연소성의 장점을 가지고 있는 PVdF (polyvinylidene fluoride) 나노섬유로 기공이 $0.4{\mu}m$ 평막을 제조한 후, 그 평막으로 부직포를 첨가하여 나권형 모듈을 제작하였다. 카올린과 휴믹산으로 조제한 모사용액과 순수를 대상으로 나권형 모듈의 투과선속과 처리율을 비교하여 pH의 영향을 알아보았고, 여과실험 후 물 역세척을 하여 회복률과 여과저항을 계산하였다. 또한, 나권형 모듈을 통과한 처리수를 입상 활성탄(GAC, granular activated carbon)으로 채워진 컬럼에 통과시킨 후, 탁도와 $UV_{254}$ 흡광도를 측정하여 GAC의 흡착 효과를 고찰하였다.