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Analysis of Flow Rate Inducing Voltage Loss in a 100 cm2 Class Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell

  • Lee, Choong-Gon
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.20-25
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    • 2011
  • This work focuses on the behavior of the overpotential increase due to a utilization rise in a molten carbonate fuel cell. The behavior is generally explained by Nernst loss, which is a kind of voltage loss due to the thermodynamic potential gradients in a polarization state due to the concentration distribution of reactant species through the gas flow direction. The evaluation of Nernst loss is carried out with a traditional experimental method of constant gas utilization (CU). On the other hand, overpotential due to the gas-phase mass-transport resistance at the anode and cathode shows dependence on the utilization, which can be measured using the inert gas step addition (ISA) method. Since the Nernst loss is assumed to be due to the thermodynamic reasons, the voltage loss can be calculated by the Nernst equation, referred to as a simple calculation (SC) in this work. The three values of voltage loss due to CU, ISA, and SC are compared, showing that these values rise with increases in the utilization within acceptable deviations. When we consider that the anode and cathode reactions are significantly affected by the gas-phase mass transfer, the behavior strongly implies that the voltage loss is attributable not to thermodynamic reasons, namely Nernst loss, but to the kinetic reason of mass-transfer resistance in the gas phase.

A Study on Direction of Industrial Utilization for Jellyfish in Korea (해파리 피해 실태 및 산업적 이용 방향)

  • Kim, Dae-Young;Lee, Jung-Sam;Kim, Do-Hoon
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.587-596
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    • 2014
  • The study aims at suggesting the direction of industrial utilization for harmful jellyfish which appears in large quantities in the Korean coastal areas. If the technology of industrial utilization for the jellyfish is developed, it will be possible to grow the industry to the export industry due to the mass appearance of jellyfish in Korean coastal areas. The industrial utilization of jellyfish should follow the direction of minimizing the damage by the jellyfish blooms and maximizing the resource recycling of the jellyfish. Therefore, Korea needs construction of infrastructure for the industrialization and promotion of R&D in order to activate the industrial utilization. Finally, the study suggested issues and tasks for promoting the industrial utilization of jellyfish as follows. First, Korea should stabilize the high quality raw material supply system. Second, mass processing technology should be developed for the industrial utilization of the jellyfish. Third, research and manual development should follow for the preparation of turning the jellyfish to the food. Fourth, extraction technology of useful non-food substance such as extracting collagen from jellyfish should be developed and accelerate the industrial utilization of non-food area.

Verification with of High Efficiency Chemical Binding System of a Physiologically Active Radioisotope Using ESI-TOF/Ms System (고효율의 ESI-TOF/Ms 시스템을 이용한 생리활성 항체와 방사성동위원소 표지용 착화제의 결합 검증)

  • Joh, Eun-Ha;Hong, Young Don;Choi, Sun Ju
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.400-405
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we measured the complex efficiency of a physiologically active antibody, a chelator and radiosiotopes using the ESI-TOF/Ms system for develop good radiopharmaceuticals. For a precise measurement, TLC is a low accuracy method. Loading of same amount of sample is difficult for each test, and work to quantify accurately the results obtained through TLC cannot be afforded compared to the use of other analytical instruments. The method of analysis using a mass spectrometer is capable of a mass analysis of proteins for quantitative analysis. The conjugates of the chelator (CHX-A- DTPA) and the antibody (IgG) were separated through MWCO, and were analyzed using ESI-TOF and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The analysis using MALDI-TOF is roughly divided into measurements on mass spectrometry. When conjugating a small molecular weight of CHX-A-DTPA and a large molecular weight of IgG, distinguishing the peak of the conjugate and the peak of IgG was difficult. However, an ESI-TOF mass spectrometer system is capable of an analysis of mass by decentralizing the IgG. It is utilized as a technique for measuring the metabolic processes during conjugation and the stability evaluation of radiopharmaceuticals. When establishing this technique, the accuracy of the overall radiophar-maceutical analysis is expected to be able to be improved.

Density, Bonding Strength, Bending strength and Decay Resistance of Radiata Pine Laminated Veneer Lumber (라디에타소나무 단판적층재의 밀도·접착·강도성능 및 내부후성)

  • Suh, Jin-Suk;Lee, Dong-Heub;Hwang, Won-Joung;Oh, Hyung-Min;Park, Young-Ran;Kang, Sung-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.344-350
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    • 2011
  • In this study, LVLs of radiata pine were fabricated with non-preservative treated veneers, CuAz treated veneers, and ACQ treated veneers, using aqueous vinyl urethane adhesive and phenol modified resorcinol resin adhesive. Then density gradient, bonding strength, bending properties and decay resistance of LVLs were evaluated. As results, the cone-shaped and higher density gradient pattern was found in layer close to glueline. After cyclic water boiled test, the LVL bonded with aqueous vinyl urethane resin adhesive was delaminated in all layers or partly delaminated including check, chasm in glueline layer. In the case of LVL bonded with phenol modified resorcinol resin adhesive, despite slight cupping due to great glueline stress and vertical check between glueline layers, it was observed that the bonding strength to delamination was higher, owing to most absence of delamination through overall glueline. On the other hand, in the decay test, mass loss by brown rot fungi was greater than white rot fungi in LVL bonded with aqueous vinyl urethane resin adhesive. However, in LVL bonded with phenol modified resorcinol resin adhesive, the mass loss by brown rot fungi was slight and non-preservative treated LVL was low. The mass loss of preservative-treated LVL was 0 (zero), showing the high decay resistance effect.

Thermogravimetric Analysis of Black Mass Components from Li-ion Battery (폐이차전지 블랙 매스(Black Mass) 구성 성분의 열중량 특성 분석)

  • Kwanho Kim;Kwangsuk You;Minkyu Kim;Hoon Lee
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2023
  • With the growth of the battery industry, a rapid increase in the production and usage of lithium-ion batteries is expected, and in line with this, much interest and effort is being paid to recycle waste batteries, including production scrap. Although much effort has been made to recycle cathode material, much attention has begun to recycle anode material to secure the supply chain of critical minerals and improve recycling rates. The proximate analysis that measures the content of coal can be used to analyze graphite in anode material, but it cannot accurately analyze due to the interaction between the components of the black mass. Therefore, in this study, thermogravimetric analysis of each component of black mass was measured as the temperature increased up to 950℃ in an oxygen atmosphere. As a result, in the case of cathode material, no change in mass was measured other than a mass reduction of about 5% due to oxidation of the binder and conductive material. In the case of anode material, except for a mass reduction of about 2% due to the binder, all mass reduction were due to the graphite(fixed carbon). In addition, metal conductors (Al, Cu) were oxidized and their mass increased as the temperature increased. Thermal analysis results of mixed samples of cathode/anode show similar results to the predictive values that can be calculated through each cathode and anode analysis results.

Relationships between Biodegradation and Sorption of Phenanthrene in Slurry Bioremediation

  • ;;Bruce E. Rittmann
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.171-176
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    • 2000
  • Bioremediation of hazardous hydrophobic organic compounds, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), is a major environmental concern due to their toxic and carcinogenic properties. Due to their hydrophobicity, the hydrophobic organic compounds are mainly associated with the soil organic matter or nonaqueous-phase liquids. A major question concerns the relationships between biodegradation and sorption. This work develops and utilizes a non- steady state model for evaluating the interactions between sorption and biodegradation of phenanthrene, a 3-ring PAH compound, in soil-slurry systems. The model includes sorption/desorption of a target compound, its utilization by microorganisms as a primary substrate existing in the dissolved phase and/or the sorbed phase in biomass and soil, oxygen transfer, and oxygen utilization as an electron acceptor. Biodegradation tests with phenanthrene were conducted in liquid and soil-slurry systems. The soil-slurry tests were performed with very different mass transfer rate: fast mass transfer in a flask test at 150 rpm, and slow mass transfer in a roller-bottle test at 2 rpm. In the slurry tests, phenanthrene was degraded more rapidly than in liquid tests, but with a similar rate in both slurry systems. Modeling analyses with several hypotheses indicate that a model without biodegradation of compound sorbed to the soil was not able to account for the rapid degradation of phenanthrene, particularly in the roller bottle slurry test. Reduced mass-transfer resistance to bacteria attached to the soil is the most likely phenomenon accounting for rapid sorbed-phase biodegradation.

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Characterization of Yeast and Bacterial Type Strains with Food and Agricultural Applications by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Biotyping

  • Harnpicharnchai, Piyanun;Jaresitthikunchai, Janthima;Seesang, Mintra;Jindamorakot, Sasitorn;Tanapongpipat, Sutipa;Ingsriswang, Supawadee
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.138-147
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    • 2020
  • Various microorganisms play important roles in food fermentation, food spoilage, and agriculture. In this study, the biotype of 54 yeast and bacterial strains having high potential for utilization in food and agriculture, including Candida spp., Lactobacillus spp., and Acetobacter spp., were characterized by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). This characterization using a fast and robust method provides much-needed information on the selected microorganisms and will facilitate effective usage of these strains in various applications. Importantly, the unique protein profile of each microbial species obtained from this study was used to create a database of fingerprints from these species. The database was validated using microbial strains of the same species by comparing the mass spectra with the created database through pattern matching. The created reference database provides crucial information and is useful for further utilization of a large number of valuable microorganisms relevant to food and agriculture.

Improved Poly-${\varepsilon}$-Lysine Biosynthesis Using Streptomyces noursei NRRL 5126 by Controlling Dissolved Oxygen During Fermentation

  • Bankar, Sandip B.;Singhal, Rekha S.
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.652-658
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    • 2011
  • The growth kinetics of Streptomyces noursei NRRL 5126 was investigated under different aeration and agitation combinations in a 5.0 l stirred tank fermenter. Poly-${\varepsilon}$-lysine biosynthesis, cell mass formation, and glycerol utilization rates were affected markedly by both aeration and agitation. An agitation speed of 300 rpm and aeration rate at 2.0 vvm supported better yields of 1,622.81 mg/l with highest specific productivity of 15 mg/l.h. Fermentation kinetics performed under different aeration and agitation conditions showed poly- ${\varepsilon}$-lysine fermentation to be a growth-associated production. A constant DO at 40% in the growth phase and 20% in the production phase increased the poly-${\varepsilon}$-lysine yield as well as cell mass to their maximum values of 1,992.35 mg/l and 20.73 g/l, respectively. The oxygen transfer rate (OTR), oxygen utilization rate (OUR), and specific oxygen uptake rates ($qO_2$) in the fermentation broth increased in the growth phase and remained unchanged in the stationary phase.

Evaluation Research on Smart Mirror UX for Efficient Communication of the IoT Generation (IoT 시대 효과적인 커뮤니케이션을 위한 스마트미러 UX 평가 연구)

  • Oh, Moonseok
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.121-133
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    • 2015
  • IoT utilized network vitalization between objects are being rapidly established within current IT communication environment. Therefore the worth of smart mirrors is rising for it is a tool to allow online network between objects to be possible in human communication environment. For effective IoT generation's communication, this research intends to evaluate the smart mirror's value for practical uses based on the users' experiences. For the UX evaluation according to the locations where it will be used, Peter Morville's Honeycomb model and Jocob Nielsen's usage evaluation principles were referred to analyze effectiveness of 4 factors, utilization convenience, communication effectiveness, mass interest and space adequateness on households, public places and work places. Hence, we have were led to an objective result through statistical analysis method based on survey. As a result, we have confirmed the smart mirror's positive influence on the users' effective communication in all places. Especially in households, utilization convenience and space adequateness appeared to be high that confirmed sufficient users' need for the home-automation services. In public places, the communication effectiveness and space adequateness ranked high to confirm that the smart mirror utilization is adequate to provide location information. Also, in work places, the mass adequateness was high that we were able to confirm that supply of work place-specific service contents would bring meaningful results to the users. The smart mirrors are the adequate method to provide effective communication in IoT generation with high possibilities in further development.

A Study on the Use of Mass Media for Nutrition Knowledge : Focusing on Daejeon-Chungnam (효과적인 식품영양정보 제공을 위한 대중매체의 이용 및 활용 실태 조사 - 대전 충남권을 중심으로 -)

  • Hwang, Donghee;Jeon, Min-Sun
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.95-113
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    • 2016
  • This study was undertaken to better understand the utilization practice of mass media, and to suggest the food and nutrition information provided to mass media by researchers on the utilization, satisfaction, and demand of acquired nutrition information. The provision of cooking methods and menu introduction related to the training subjects at the same time as when food nutrition information is discusse by mass media, including TV and internet, would be helpful to enhance the acquisition and utilization rates of the information among the public. It was found that food nutrition information should be activated for general public using objective and professional public institutions or web-pages so as to resolve dissatisfaction levels felt by the public with regard to exaggerated claims. At the same time, it is required to continue to maintain interesting and various information supply highlighting the characteristics of mass media when performing food nutrition information. In addition, it is also necessary for media practitioners concerned to investigate thoroughly and improve any inconvenient factors that the public experiences when they receive the nutrition information through the mass media.