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Production of Citric Acid in a Flat-type Membrane Bioreactor (평판형 막 생물 반응기를 이용한 구연산의 생산)

  • 심상준;장호남
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 1992
  • A flat-type membrane bioreactor(FMBR ) for aerobic whole cell immobilization was developed and its performance for the citric acid production was investigated using Aspergillus niger (KCTC 1232). The reactor consisted of three layers. The top layer contained flowing air for oxygen supply, the middle layer had stationary cells, and the bottom layer had flowing aqueous nutrients. The initial pH of the culture medium played an important role in citric acid production and the lower initial pH of the culture medium resulted in a higher citric acid yield. Under air and pure oxygen aerations the volumetric productivity reached 0.20 and 0.40g/Lh. Furthermore, the productivity improved with the increase of the culture medium feed rate.

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Induction of in vitro root tubers in Holostemma annulare (Roxb.) K. Schum. for the production of bioactive metabolites

  • Smitha Devi, Padmavathi Amma Somasekharan Nair;Hemanthakumar, Achuthan Sudarsanan;Preetha, Thankappan Suvarna
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.230-239
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    • 2022
  • Holostemma annulare (Family Asclepiadaceae) is an invaluable vulnerable medicinal plant; the root tubers are used in Ayurveda medicine and by folk healers to treat various ailments. In this study, Schenk and Hildebrandt medium fortified with the cytokinins 6-benzyl adenine, kinetin, and auxins, including indole 3-butyric acid, indole 3-acetic acid, α-naphthaleneacetic acid, and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, were checked for their efficiency on root tuber induction from different explants. Adventitious root tubers were more successfully induced from in vitro leaf segments and shoots when cultured in Schenk and Hildebrandt medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/l of α-naphthaleneacetic acid. In addition, preliminary phytochemical analysis of in vitro root tubers and identification of different secondary metabolites were conducted. Thin layer chromatography and high performance thin layer chromatography analysis of the crude methanolic extracts of the in vitro root tuber identified the presence of lupeol, a bioactive triterpene. Adventitious root tuber induction offers a novel method for the in vitro production of bioactive metabolites that can be scaled up by bioreactors, thus ensuring the conservation and sustainable utilization of H. annulare. The study warrants further scale-up production and pharmacological investigation that can be extended for pharmaceutical needs.

Applicability of Relative Effective Porosity Model to Tracer Tests

  • Hwang, Hyeon-Tae;Lee, Gang-Geun;Suleiman, A.A.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.341-345
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    • 2004
  • An attempt has been made in this study to evaluate an applicability of Relative Effective Porosity Model (REPM) as a method for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity (K$_{s}$) for homogeneous coarse, medium, and fine sands. The saturated hydraulic conductivities obtained from REPM are converted into average linear velocities using Darcy's Law and compared with the results from experimental tracer tests for homogeneous coarse, medium, and fine sand layer. Two types of tracer tests analyses, analytical solution using CXTFIT and moment methods, are performed to obtain reasonable linear velocity range for each layer. For the coarse and medium sands, the converted average linear velocity from REPM is in the velocity range obtained from tracer tests. However, small difference between the results from REPM and tracer tests is found for the fine sands. These results show that REPM gives reasonable estimates of saturated hydraulic conductivity.y.

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Stress Intensity Factor for an Interface Crack of a Piezoelectric Medium Bonded Between an Elastic Layer and a Half-Space (탄성층과 반무한체 사이에 접합된 압전재료의 계면균열에 대한 응력강도계수)

  • Jeong, Kyoung-Moon;Lim, Chun-Ki;Beom, Hyeon-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 2002
  • An interface crack of a piezoelectric medium bonded between an elastic layer and a half-space is analyzed using the theory of linear piezoelectricity. Both out-of-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loads are applied to the piezoelectric laminate. By the use of courier transforms, the mixed boundary value problem is reduced to a singular integral equation which is solved numerically to determine the stress intensity factors. Numerical analyses for various material combinations are performed and the results are discussed.

The effect of voltage and nanoparticles on the vibration of sandwich nanocomposite smart plates

  • Farokhian, Ahmad
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.733-742
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    • 2020
  • Vibration analysis in nanocomposite plate with smart layer is studied in this article. The plate is reinforced by carbon nanotubes where the Mori-Tanaka law is utilized for obtaining the effective characteristic of structure assuming agglomeration effects. The nanocomposite plate is located in elastic medium which is simulated by spring element. The motion equations are derived based on first order shear deformation theory and Hamilton's principle. Utilizing Navier method, the frequency of the structure is calculated and the effects of applied voltage, volume percent and agglomeration of Carbon nanotubes, elastic medium and geometrical parameters of structure are shown on the frequency of system. Results indicate that with applying negative voltage, the frequency of structure is increased. In addition, the agglomeration of carbon nanotubes reduces the frequency of the nanocomposite plate.

Heat Transfer with Linearly Anisotropic Scattering Medium in a Plane Layer (두 무한 평면 사이의 선형 이방성 산란 매질에서의 열전달)

  • Byun, K.H.;Smith, T.F.
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.435-441
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    • 1988
  • The purpose of this study is to apply the zone method expressions for a gray, absorbing, emitting, and linearly anisotropic scattering medium enclosed in an infinite plane layer to evaluate heat transfer applications. The medium is assumed to be homogeneous and has a refractive index of unity. The boundary surfaces are opaque and gray, diffusely emitting and reflecting at a constant temperature. Radiative equilibrium condition, combined conductive and radiative heat transfer, and thermal ignition are studied in terms of the governing parameters, and the results are compared with previous studies. Wall heat flux results agree well with those of others. Except for the minor discrepancies observed for some cases, temperature results also agree well with those of previous studies. Good agreement with results from other methods indicates the accuracy of the zone method as well as its compatibility with other modes of heat transfer.

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Computation of boundary layer flow of porous medium based on finite difference method

  • Mohamed Amine Khadimallah;Mudassar Jalil;Muzamal Hussain;Elimam Ali
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2024
  • In this paper, boundary layer flow is observed through stretching cylinder exponentially with non-linear velocity. This cylinder is rested in porous medium. Appropriate similarity transformation is employed for the conversion of governing PDEs into ODEs. To compute the problem and solution series numerical method is applied and evaluated by using finite difference Keller-Box method. The velocity ratio, permeability parameter, Reynold number is figure out to examine the effect of on velocity profile. Fluid velocity and skin friction coefficient goes down with increment of Reynold number and permeability parameter. While reverse behavior is reported for velocity ratio. The results are validated with earlier investigations and found very well.

Design of Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor with Bruggeman Effective Medium Layers (브러그만 유효 굴절 박막에서의 표면 플라즈몬 공명 센서 설계)

  • Bae, Young-Gyu;Lee, Seung-Yeol
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.118-122
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposes a specific sensor-design strategy and the possibility of improving the sensing performance, which can be obtained by replacing part of the existing plasmonic sensor based on the Kretschmann configuration method with an effective refractive-index layer. By replacing the metal layer with an effective refractive-index layer composed of gold and the material to be sensed, an improvement in the detection performance, accompanied by an increase in the sensed incident angle, is observed, and the gold-composition ratio that demonstrates the best result is presented. Subsequently, an increase in the sensed incident angle generated in the previous step can be suppressed by randomly etching a portion of the prism adjacent to the metal layer in a sub-wavelength scale. Finally, this study analyzes the optimization of the metal-layer thickness in a given sensor structure. An effective refractive thin-film surface plasmon resonance sensor design that can achieve optimal sensing performance is then proposed.

Vibration response of FG-CNT-reinforced plates covered by magnetic layer utilizing numerical solution

  • Cao, Yan;Musharavati, Farayi;Baharom, Shahrizan;Talebizadehsardari, Pouyan;Sebaey, Tamer A.;Eyvazian, Arameh;Zain, Azlan Mohd
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2020
  • Vibration response in a sandwich plate with a nanocompiste core covered by magnetic layer is presented. The core is armed by functionalyy graded-carbon nanotubes (FG-CNTs) where the Mori-Tanaka law is utilized assuming agglomeration effects. The structure plate is located on elastic medium simulated by Pasternak model. The governing equations are derived based on Mindlin theory and Hamilton's principle. Utilizing diffrential quadrature method (DQM), the frequency of the structure is calculated and the effects of magnetic layer, volume percent and agglomeration of CNTs, elastic medium and geometrical parameters of structure are shown on the frequency of system. Results indicate that with considering magnetic layer, the frequency of structure is increased.

The Characteristics of Flow Sensor Fabricated by MgO Medium Layer (MgO 매개층을 이용하여 제작된 유량센서의 특성)

  • Hong, Seok-Woo;Jang, Soo;Lee, Jong-Chun;Chung, Gwiy-Sang
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07g
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    • pp.3319-3321
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    • 1999
  • Pt-RTD and Micro Heater was fabricated by using MgO as medium layer in order to improve adhesion of Pt thin-films to $SiO_2$ layer, MgO layer improved adhesion of Pt thin-films to $SiO_2$ layer without any chemical reactions to Pt thin-films under high annealing temperatures, In the analysis of properties of Pt-RTD, TCR value had 3927 $ppm/^{\circ}C$ and liner in the temperature range of $25-400^{\circ}C$. The temperature of Pt micro-heater had up to $400^{\circ}C$ with 1.5watts of the heating power. In investigating output characteristics of flow sensors output voltages increased as gas flow rate and its conductivity increased due to increase of heat-loss from sensor to external. Output voltage was 82 mV at $N_2$ flow rate of 2000sccm, heating power of 1.2W.

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