• KSBB Journal
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.340-345
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 대량으로 배출되는 이산화탄소를 고정화하기 위해서 lab 규모의 3 L 광생물 반응기(1)를 bench 규모의 40 L와 pilot 규모의 188 L로 스케일-업 했을 때 이산화탄소의 고정화 특성을 살펴보았다. 균체성장속도 즉, $CO_2$ 고정화 속도는 광생물 반응기가 스케일-업 됨에 따라 감소하였으며, 단위면적당 $CO_2$ 고정화 양은 40 L 광생물 반응기에서 530 g $CO_2$/$m^2$-day으로 가장 높았다. 반면, 총 $CO_2$ 고정화양은 반응기의 용량이 커짐에 따라 증가하였으며, 188 L 광생물 반응기에서 28.05 g $CO_2$/day를 얻었다. 광생물 반응기의 운전에 있어서 $CO_2$ 고정화속도의 향상은 단위면적당 $CO_2$ 고정화 양 및 총 $CO_2$ 고정화양을 증가시킨다. $CO_2$ 고정화속도에 영향을 미치는 운전인자 중에 가장 중요한 것은 광원으로 반응기의 스케일-업시 광원의 개수 및 배열을 조절함으로써 용량이 커짐에 따라 저감되는 $CO_2$ 고정화속도를 증가시킬 수 있었다. 또한 향후 스케일-업된 광생물 반응기에서의 물질전달 현상에 관한 연구를 동반함으로써 보다 높은 $CO_2$ 고정화속도를 얻을 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2013

The indiscriminate use of the fossil fuel has caused serious environmental pollutions such as the shortage of energy and global warming. Microalgae have being emphasized as $3^{rd}$ generation biomass which makes the carbon dioxide reduce effectively as well as produces the biofuel. Large scale production of microbial biomass by continuous culture is a quite challenging issue, because off-line optimization strategies of a microbial process utilizing a model-based scheme give rise to many difficult problems. In this paper, the static and simple control method which was able to be applied in time-variant growth environment and large scale of algae culture was studied. The significant disturbances in on-line measurement of cell density were reduced by Savitzky-Golay FIR smoothing filter. Dunaliella salina was cultivated continuously in a flat panel photobioreactor by the on-off control of the turbidostat process.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.98-103
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• 2011

Photocatalysis using UV light and catalysts is an attractive low temperature and non-energy- intensive method for remediation of a wide range of chemical contaminants like chloroform (CF). Recently development of environmental friendly and sustainable catalytic systems is needed before such catalysts can be routinely applied to large-scale remediation or drinking water treatment. Titanium dioxide is a candidate material, since it is stable, highly reactive, and inexpensive. Diatoms are photosynthetic, single-celled algae that make a microscale silica shell with nano scale features. These diatoms have an ability to biologically fabricate $TiO_2$ nanoparticles into this shell in a process that parallels nanoscale silica mineralization. We cultivated diatoms, metabolically deposited titanium into the shell by using a two-stage photobioreactor and used this biogenic $TiO_2$ to this study. In this study we evaluated how effectively biogenic $TiO_2$ nanoparticles transform CF compared with chemically-synthesized $TiO_2$ nanoparticlesthe and effect of pretreatment of diatom-produced $TiO_2$ nanoparticles on photocatalytic transformation of CF. The rate of CF transformation by diatom-$TiO_2$ particles is a factor of 3 slower than chemically-synthesized one and chloride ion production was also co-related with CF transformation, and 79~91% of CF mineralization was observed in two $TiO_2$ particles. And the period of sonication and mass transfer due to particle size, evaluated by difference of oxygen tention does not affect on the CF transformation. Based on the XRD analysis we conclude that slower CF transformation by diatom-$TiO_2$ might be due to incomplete annealing to the anatase form.