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Dry Separation of PVC Film from Plastic Film Mixture by Using Air Table

  • Song, Young-Jun;Hiroki Yotsumoto;Lee, Gye-Seung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.37-42
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    • 2002
  • This study was conducted in order to remove Poly vinyl chloride(PVC) from the waste plastic film mixture. The fittings of Air Table was modified to increase the separation efficiency of PVC and PE(poly ethylene). PE and PVC was successfully separated from PVC-PE film mixture with the yield of PE 90% or more and with his grade of 99% or more, using the improved Air Table. The details of the separation condition and results will be discussed in this paper. Dry separation, Waste plastic film, PVC, Air Table. The details of the separation condition and results will be discussed in this paper.

Probiotic Property and Anti-Obesity Effect of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum KC3

  • Kim, Seulki;Huang, Eunchong;Ji, Yosep;Holzapfel, Wilhelm Helnrich;Lim, Sang-Dong
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.42 no.6
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    • pp.996-1008
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    • 2022
  • Lactic acid bacteria are representative probiotics that have beneficial effects on humans. Nineteen strains among the 167 single strains from kimchi was selected and their physiological features were investigated. The selection of a strain was based on strong enzyme (lipase, α-amylase, and α-glucosidase) inhibitory activities and anti-obesity effects in the adipocytes. For the final selection, the strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum KC3 was tested for its potential as a starter. To assess its functionality, a freeze-dried culture of L. plantarum KC3 was administered to a diet-induced obese mouse model receiving a high-fat diet. The animal group administered with L. plantarum KC3 showed significant body weight loss during the 12-week feeding period compared to the high-fat control group. This study investigated the physiological characteristics of selected strain and evaluated its potential as an anti-obesity probiotic in mice.

Characteristics of Literature Related to Environmental Friendliness for a Village-focused Green Index (마을형 친환경지표 설정을 위한 친환경관련 문헌 조사 연구)

  • Byun, Kyeong-Hwa;Yoo, Chang-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to research the characteristics of literature related to environmentally friendly for a village-focused green index. In order to make an assessment, keywords relating to green architecture were selected: environmental friendliness, ecology, sustainable, Noksaek (Green in Korean), green, and environmentally friendly. In addition, three keywords defining the scope of space were also selected: building, village, and city. Quantitative changes and contents of articles containing the keywords were analyzed. The result is as follows. First, 'sustainable' and 'ecology' were the terms most frequently used as parts of subjects and titles, respectively. Second, the studies relating to green architecture focused on villages mostly examine the actual conditions of the villages; criteria for environmental friendliness, analyses and evaluation of the environmentally friendly features of the village; and ways to establish a green, ecological, and sustainable village. Finally, when it came to establishing a village-focused green index, the environment, resources, and energy are shown to be very important elements. In addition, the term 'ecology' in a green index is shown to be significant for the management of the natural environment.

Mapping Vegetation Volume in Urban Environments by Fusing LiDAR and Multispectral Data

  • Jung, Jinha;Pijanowski, Bryan
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.661-670
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    • 2012
  • Urban forests provide great ecosystem services to population in metropolitan areas even though they occupy little green space in a huge gray landscape. Unfortunately, urbanization inherently results in threatening the green infrastructure, and the recent urbanization trends drew great attention of scientists and policy makers on how to preserve or restore green infrastructure in metropolitan area. For this reason, mapping the spatial distribution of the green infrastructure is important in urban environments since the resulting map helps us identify hot green spots and set up long term plan on how to preserve or restore green infrastructure in urban environments. As a preliminary step for mapping green infrastructure utilizing multi-source remote sensing data in urban environments, the objective of this study is to map vegetation volume by fusing LiDAR and multispectral data in urban environments. Multispectral imageries are used to identify the two dimensional distribution of green infrastructure, while LiDAR data are utilized to characterize the vertical structure of the identified green structure. Vegetation volume was calculated over the metropolitan Chicago city area, and the vegetation volume was summarized over 16 NLCD classes. The experimental results indicated that vegetation volume varies greatly even in the same land cover class, and traditional land cover map based above ground biomass estimation approach may introduce bias in the estimation results.

Characteristics of Wildbirds Habitat of Artificial Green Corridor in Gangseo-gu, Seoul (서울시 강서구 조성녹지축의 야생조류 서식처 특성 연구)

  • Choi, Jin-Woo;Lee, Kyong-Jae
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2010
  • This study was to examine the characteristics of wirdbirds habitat for improvement plan in green corridor. The target site, Gangseo-gu artificial green corridor was set up with the structure in which small scale of core green space with Goongsan and Yeomchang neighborhood parks in urbanized city was connected with the artificial green space with Gongamnaru, Hwanggeumnae neighborhood parks with 28~42.5 m in width. Wild birds six~eleven species; Dendrocopos spp, Paradoxornis webbiana, Parus major, Phasianus colchicus, etc. were observed in core green, but wild birds of two~five species: Columba livuia, Passer montanus, Pica pica, Hypsipetes amaurotis, etc. were observed in artificial green space. Thus wild birds of artificial and generalist species only moved in artificial green space. The artificial green space where vegetation structure was consisted of single-layer with poorness chose target species laying stress on generalist species and edge species of Parus major, P. palustris, Paradoxornis webbiana etc. for short-term and interior species of Dendrocopos major, Picus canus, etc. for long-term. The result suggested enhancement methods for target species's habitat in green corridor: to secure at least a corridor 30 meters in artificial corridor, to secure ecological pond, to offer the various shelterer and environment of prey-resources through the multi-layer structure.

Satellite Tracking of Green Sea Turtles Chelonia mydas in Korean Waters (한국연안의 푸른바다거북(Chelonia mydas) 인공위성표지방류)

  • Moon, Dae-Yeon;An, Yong-Rock;Jung, Min-Min;Kim, Sam-Yeon;Choi, Seok-Kwon;Lee, Hae-Young;Yoo, Jun-Taek;Kim, Moon-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.709-716
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    • 2011
  • To investigate the distribution and migrations of sea turtles occurring in Korean waters, an adult female green sea turtle Chelonia mydas was tagged with a satellite transmitter and released at Busan in October 2009. The confirmation was made for the first time that the released green sea turtle migrated back to Korea after visiting Jeju Island and Japan for approximately 9 months. The green sea turtle spent the winter in Jeju and Japan because of low water temperatures in the East Sea and South Sea during winter months, which were not suitable for turtle survival. Compared with an immature green sea turtle that was released at Jeju Island, the adult green showed a markedly different migration pattern, suggesting that juvenile and adult greens move differently because of their peculiar life cycle and their stage of maturity, in addition to responses to temperature changes. Additional satellite tracking with increased representation of species, sexes and sizes of turtles, and regions is required to gather information on the distribution and movements of sea turtles in Korean waters.

Effect of Green Manure Crops Incorporation for Reduction of Pythium zingiberum in Ginger Continuous Cultivation (생강연작재배지에서 Pythium zingiberum 경감을 위한 녹비작물 재배효과)

  • Jung, Yu Jin;Nou, III Sup;Kim, Yong Kwon;Kang, Kwon Kyoo
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2015
  • This experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of green manure crops on the changes of chemical properties and microorganisms in soil of continuous ginger cultivation. The biomass and nitrogen absorption of green manure crop were the highest in crimson clover. After cropping, soil phosphate content was the lowest in orchard grass, however, T-N content was the highest of hairy vetch > crimson clover > orchard grass. Also real-time PCR analysis was conducted to measure density of Pythium zingiberum in soil of before and after incorporation of green manure crop. Density of P. zingiberum was the lowest of all the green manures. In this results are summarized that green manure cropping reduced salt accumulation and density of P. zingiberum in continuous ginger cultivation.

Vegetation Effects and Properties on Green Soil Blended with Cement-Based Materials for Slope Stability (시멘트 기반 재료를 혼합한 사면 안정용 녹생토의 물성 및 식생 영향성)

  • Choi, Yoon-Suk;Kim, Joo-Hyung;Cho, Young-Keun;Kim, Ho-Kyu;Park, Ok-Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.117-126
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    • 2021
  • An experimental study was carried out to investigate the applicability of cement-based materials for green soil which is a soil for promoting plant growth. The results show that the shear strength of the green soil mixed with gypsum cement (No.3) was low, but the hardness (23.6mm) and pH value (7.4) was most suitable for the vegetation environment. In addition, the initial vegetation germination of green soil, which improved performance by adding a moisturizer, was slower than that of general green soil, and the conductivity value tended to be slightly higher. On the other hand, the slope adhesion of advanced green soil was high, and it was found that the plant growth rate and the regeneration capacity were superior after time passed.