• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2007

The membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) creates a natural partnership of a membrane and biofilm, because a gas-transfer membrane delivers a gaseous substrate to the biofilm that grows on the membrane's outer wall. $O_2$-based MBfRs (called membrane aerated biofilm reactors, or MABRs) have existed for much longer than $H_2$-based MBfRs, but the $O_2$-based MBfR is a versatile platform for reducing oxidized contaminants in many water-treatment settings: drinking water, ground water, wastewater, and agricultural drainage. Extensive bench-scale experimentation has proven that the $H_2$-based MBfR can reduce many oxidized contaminant to harmless or easily removed forms: e.g., ${NO_3}^-$ to $N_2$, ${ClO_4}^-$ to $H_2O$ and $Cl^-$, ${SeO_4}^{2-}$ to $Se^0$, and trichloroethene (TCE) to ethene and $Cl^-$. The MBfR has been tested at the pilot scale for ${NO_3}^-$ and ${ClO_4}^-$ and is now entering field-testing for many of the oxidized contaminants alone or in mixtures. For the MBfR to attain its full promise, several issues must be addressed by bench and field research: understanding interactions with mixtures of oxidized contaminants, treating waters with a high TDS concentration, developing modules that can be used in situ to augment pre-denitrification of wastewater, and keeping the capital costs low.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.373-384
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• 2016

The membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) is a promising municipal wastewater treatment process. In this study, two cross-flow MABRs were constructed to explore the carbon and nitrogen removal performance and bacterial succession, along with changes of influent loading shock comprising flow velocity, COD, and NH₄-N concentrations. Redundancy analysis revealed that the function of high flow velocity was mainly embodied in facilitating contaminants diffusion and biosorption rather than the success of overall bacterial populations (p > 0.05). In contrast, the influent NH₄-N concentration contributed most to the variance of reactor efficiency and community structure (p < 0.05). Pyrosequencing results showed that Anaerolineae, and Beta- and Alphaproteobacteria were the dominant groups in biofilms for COD and NH₄-N removal. Among the identified genera, Nitrosomonas and Nitrospira were the main nitrifiers, and Hyphomicrobium, Hydrogenophaga, and Rhodobacter were the key denitrifiers. Meanwhile, principal component analysis indicated that bacterial shift in MABR was probably the combination of stochastic and deterministic processes.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2006

변형된 면적기반영역선별 기법으로 문자영상 속에 내재되어 있던 영역 분할을 회복하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 정보영역과 바탕영역으로 양분되어 있는 이진 원영상에 비해 오염 및 훼손으로 관측영상은 얼룩점과 잡음이 전체 영상에 섞여 다수의 크고 작은 영역들이 혼재된 그레이스케일 형태가 된다. 이러한 영상을 종래의 문턱치 처리나 확률적 기법으로 영역 분할하려면 이진영상으로 전환시킴에 의한 영역 형태 변형 문제가 발생한다. 이 문제를 최소화하기 위해 마름모꼴 블록을 채택한 반복조건부양식(iterated conditional mode, ICM) 기법으로 이진 영상을 구현하여 일차적으로 영역들의 집합으로 분류하였다. 그 다음 현재고려중인 화소에서 화소의 영역형성 판별과 영역의 면적을 산출하였다. 이를 전체 화소에 걸쳐 순차적으로 확산하여 해당영역들의 정보영역으로의 귀속 여부를 선택적으로 판정 분할함으로 정보영역 본래 형태를 복원하였다. 이 때 지정 영역들의 산출 면적들은 하나의 집합으로 배속 정렬되며 확률처리로 얻은 판별 파라미터 값에 의해 선별된다. 그레이스케일 탁본영상을 대상으로 종래의 문턱치 영역분할 기법과 ICM 기법도 함께 실험하였다. 그 결과 종래의 기법에 비해 우수한 영역분할 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.624-629
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of nitrogen removal using autotrophic microorganism in the Membrane-Attached Biofilm Reactor (MABR). The treatment system consists of an aerobic MABR (R1) for nitrification and an anaerobic MABR (R2) for hydrogenotrophic denitrification. Oxygen and hydrogen were supplied through the lumen of hollow-fiber membranes as electron acceptor and donor, respectively. In phase Ι, simultaneous organic carbon removal and nitrification were carried out successfully in R1. In phase II, to develop the biofilm on the hollow-fiber membrane surface and to acclimate the microbial community to autotrophic condition, R1 and R2 were operated independently. The MABRs, R1 and R2 were connected in series continuously in phase III and operated at HRT of 8 hr or 4 hr with $NH_4{^+}-N$ concentration of influent, from 150 to 200 mgN/L. The total nitrogen removal efficiency reached the maximum value of 99% at the volumetric nitrogen loading rate of $1.20kgN/m^3{\cdot}d$ in the combined MABR system with R1 and R2. The results in this study demonstrated that the combined MABR system could operate effectively for the removal of nitrogen in wastewater not containing organic materials and can be used stably as a high rate nitrogen removal technology.