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수용성 탄수화물을 이용한 분뇨슬러리 pH 적정화 및 암모니아 휘산의 저감 (Optimizated pH and Mitigated Ammonia Emission in Pig Manure Slurry by Soluble Carbohydrate Supplementation)

  • 임정수;황옥화;이상룡;조성백;곽정훈;이동현;정민웅;한덕우
    • 유기물자원화
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2017
  • 우리나라 양돈 농장 내 돈사의 대부분은 고밀도 사육에 적합한 피트형 구조를 가지고 있다. 피트형 돈사는 돼지의 배설물이 바닥의 공간에 장기간 저장되는 구조로서 기존의 돈사에 비해 분뇨 처리를 위한 노동비용이 크게 절감되는 장점이 있다. 그러나 피트에 저장된 분뇨슬러리는 암모니아를 비롯하여 다양한 냄새물질을 지속적으로 배출하여 돼지와 근로자의 건강을 위협하게 된다. 축산업의 역사가 오래된 축산 선진국에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 슬러리 첨가제, 스크러버, 바이오필터 등을 개발하였으며 우리나라 역시, 점차 고밀도 사육 방식이 확산됨에 따라 냄새저감 수단에 대한 수요가 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 특히 최근에는 돈사 피트에 직접 투여하는 미생물제의 보급이 빠르게 확대되고 있다. 미생물제는 구매 비용이 높다는 단점에도 불구하고 운반, 저장, 사용이 편리하고 상대적으로 유지비가 저렴하여 소규모 양돈 농가에서 많이 선택되고 있다. 이러한 미생물제와 비교하여 유사한 효과를 발휘하면서도 비용이 훨씬 저렴한 냄새저감 수단으로서 수용성 탄수화물이 있다. 수용성탄수화물이란 설탕, 포도당, 당밀과 같이 분자량이 적은 단당류 또는 이당류 등을 포함하며 분뇨슬러리에 용해된 이후 빠르게 미생물에 의해 이용될 수 있는 탄소화합물을 의미한다. 분뇨 내 미생물은 투여된 수용성 탄수화물을 분해하여 이산화탄소 및 각종 유기산을 생산함으로 슬러리를 산화시키는 효과를 발휘한다. 산화된 슬러리 내에서 비이온성인 암모니아는 이온성인 암모늄 이온으로 전환되어 휘발성을 잃게 된다. 본 연구에서 대표적인 수용성 탄수화물인 설탕을 돈분뇨 슬러리(120kg)에 0.1%(w/w) 투여함으로서 슬러리의 pH를 8.2 수준으로 유지하였고 암모니아의 휘발은 10일 평균 33% 저감하는 효과를 얻었다. 결론적으로 본 연구의 결과를 돈사 현장에서 활용한다면 미생물제에 비해 보다 저렴한 비용으로 피트 슬러리의 암모니아 휘발을 저감할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

오염수계 내 세슘 제거를 위한 대나무 활성탄의 흡착효율 규명 (Sorption Efficiency of the Bamboo Charcoal to Remove the Cesium in the Contaminated Water System)

  • 안정필;이민희
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제51권2호
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    • pp.87-97
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    • 2018
  • 세슘은 물속에서 고상보다는 이온이나 착염 등 용존 형태로 존재하는 특성이 강하여, 오염 수계로부터 세슘 제거가 어려운 것으로 알려져 있다. 최근 많은 연구들이 수계 내에서 세슘의 제거효율이 높은 흡착제를 개발하는데 집중하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 대나무 활성탄을 흡착제로 사용하여 수계 내에 존재하는 세슘을 효과적으로 제거하는 실내실험을 실시하였다. 수용액으로부터 대나무 활성탄의 세슘 제거효율을 측정하고, 최적의 세슘 제거능을 가지는 흡착 조건을 도출하고자 다양한 조건에서 흡착 배치실험을 수행하였다. 국내에서 유통되고 있는 5 종류의 대나무 활성탄의 표면 특성을 SEM-EDS와 XRD 분석으로 규명하였으며, 이 중에서 비표면적이 큰 3 종류의 대나무 활성탄을 대상으로 세슘 제거 배치실험을 실시하였다. 다양한 초기 세슘 농도를 가지는 인공수(0.01~10 mg/L 범위)를 대상으로 대나무 활성탄에 의한 수용액 내 세슘 제거량을 측정하여 제거효율을 계산하였고, 두 종류의 흡착 등온식들을 흡착 배치실험 결과에 대응시켜 흡착 상수값을 결정함으로서, 대나무 활성탄의 세슘 흡착 특성을 규명하였다. FE-SEM 분석 결과, 대나무 활성탄은 표면이 다수의 기공을 포함하는 대나무의 섬유질 조직을 그대로 유지하는 입자들로 구성되어, 이들 섬유질 조직 내 다양한 형태의 기공들과 엽상조직 표면들이 주요 세슘 흡착공간인 것으로 밝혀졌다. 흡착 배치실험 결과, C type 대나무 활성탄의 세슘 제거효율이 가장 높았는데, 특히 수용액의 세슘 초기 농도가 1.0 mg/L 이하인 경우에도 75 % 이상(최고 82 %)을 나타내어, 원전사고 등에 의해 오염된 현장 지하수나 지표수(해수 포함)의 세슘농도가 대부분 1.0 mg/L 이하임을 고려하면, 실제 오염수 정화 가능성이 높을 것으로 밝혀졌다. 수용액의 온도는 $5-15^{\circ}C$ 범위, pH는 3-11 범위에서 높은 세슘 제거효율이 일정하게 유지되는 것으로 나타나 다양한 오염수에 적용할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다. 흡착 배치실험 결과는 Langmuir 흡착모델과 유사하였으며, C type 대나무 활성탄의 최대흡착농도($q_m:mg/g$)값은 63.4 mg/g으로 기존의 상용화된 흡착제 값보다 높았고, 수용액의 초기 세슘 농도가 1.0 mg/L이하인 경우 표면흡착률(surface coverage) 값도 낮게 유지되어, 적은 양의 세슘으로 오염된 수계를 효과적으로 정화할 수 있음을 입증하였다.

온도상승 환경 처리가 논토양과 용수에서 탄소량 변화와 벼 생육에 미치는 영향 (Elevated Temperature Treatment Induced Rice Growth and Changes of Carbon Content in Paddy Water and Soil)

  • 홍성창;허승오;최순군;최동호;장은숙
    • 한국환경농학회지
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    • 제37권1호
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2018
  • 상승온도 처리에 따른 논토양 탄소의 변동과 벼 생육을 조사한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 소형 상부개방형 챔버를 이용하여 대기온도 보다 $0.4^{\circ}C$, $0.5^{\circ}C$, $0.9^{\circ}C$ 상승온도 환경을 조성하여 상승온도를 처리할 수 있었다. 사각챔버의 내부온도는 대기보다 평균온도와 최고온도가 높고 최저온도는 낮은 특징을 나타내었다. 상승온도 처리구의 포트 내 표면수의 TOC 농도는 대조구 보다 상승온도 처리구에서 높았고 시간이 경과함에 따라 점차 낮아졌다. 벼 재배후 토양의 TOC 함량은 대조구 보다 상승온도 처리구에서 낮았다. 상승온도 처리로 벼 식물체의 탄소함량은 감소하고 질소함량은 증가하여 C/N 율은 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다. 상승온도 처리로 대조구 보다 벼의 줄기 길이와 줄기무게가 유의하게 증가하였으나 이삭수와 벼 낱알 무게는 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았다.

백서 설신경 압박손상모델에서 신경성장인자 유전자 주입이 신경재생에 미치는 영향 (EFFECT OF NERVE GROWTH FACTOR GENE INJECTION ON THE NERVE REGENERATION IN RAT LINGUAL NERVE CRUSH-INJURY MODEL)

  • 고은봉;정헌종;안강민;김성민;김윤희;장정원;이종호
    • Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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    • 제28권5호
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    • pp.375-395
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: Lingual nerve (LN) damage may be caused by either tumor resection or injury such as wisdom tooth extraction, Although autologous nerve graft is sometimes used to repair the damaged nerve, it has the disadvantage of necessity of another operation for nerve harvesting. Moreover, the results of nerve grafting is not satisfactory. The nerve growth factor (NGF) is well-known to play a critical role in peripheral nerve regeneration and its local delivery to the injured nerve has been continuously tried to enhance nerve regeneration. However, its application has limitations like repeated administration due to short half life of 30 minutes and an in vivo delivery model must allow for direct and local delivery. The aim of this study was to construct a well-functioning $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus for the ultimate development of improved method to promote peripheral nerve regeneration with enhanced and extended secretion of hNGF from the injured nerve by injecting $rhNGF-{\beta}$ gene directly into crush-injured LN in rat model. Materials and Methods: $hNGF-{\beta}$ gene was prepared from fetal brain cDNA library and cloned into E1/E3 deleted adenoviral vector which contains green fluorescence protein (GFP) gene as a reporter. After large scale production and purification of $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus, transfection efficiency and its expression at various cells (primary cultured Schwann cells, HEK293 cells, Schwann cell lines, NIH3T3 and CRH cells) were evaluated by fluorescent microscopy, RT-PCR, ELISA, immunocytochemistry. Furthermore, the function of rhNGF-beta, which was secreted from various cells infected with $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus, was evaluated using neuritogenesis of PC-12 cells. For in vivo evaluation of efficacy of $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus, the LNs of 8-week old rats were exposed and crush-injured with a small hemostat for 10 seconds. After the injury, $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus($2{\mu}l,\;1.5{\times}10^{11}pfu$) or saline was administered into the crushed site in the experimental (n=24) and the control group (n=24), respectively. Sham operation of another group of rats (n=9) was performed without administration of either saline or adenovirus. The taste recovery and the change of fungiform papilla were studied at 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks. Each of the 6 animals was tested with different solutions (0.1M NaCl, 0.1M sucrose, 0.01M QHCl, or 0.01M HCl) by two-bottle test paradigm and the number of papilla was counted using SEM picture of tongue dorsum. LN was explored at the same interval as taste study and evaluated electro-physiologically (peak voltage and nerve conduction velocity) and histomorphometrically (axon count, myelin thickness). Results: The recombinant adenovirus vector carrying $rhNGF-{\beta}$ was constructed and confirmed by restriction endonuclease analysis and DNA sequence analysis. GFP expression was observed in 90% of $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus infected cells compared with uninfected cells. Total mRNA isolated from $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus infected cells showed strong RT-PCR band, however uninfected or LacZ recombinant adenovirus infected cells did not. NGF quantification by ELISA showed a maximal release of $18865.4{\pm}310.9pg/ml$ NGF at the 4th day and stably continued till 14 days by $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus infected Schwann cells. PC-12 cells exposed to media with $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus infected Schwann cell revealed at the same level of neurite-extension as the commercial NGF did. $rhNGF-{\beta}$ adenovirus injected experimental groups in comparison to the control group exhibited different taste preference ratio. Salty, sweet and sour taste preference ratio were significantly different after 2 weeks from the beginning of the experiment, which were similar to the sham group, but not to the control group.

무인 항공기 이용 벼 병해충 방제기술 연구 (Application of unmanned helicopter on pest management in rice cultivation)

  • 박광호;김장규
    • 현장농수산연구지
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.43-58
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    • 2008
  • 항공방제, 특히 무인헬기에 의한 병해충 방제작업은 작업 자체의 편리성, 기동성, 생력 방제, 생산비 절감, 농촌 노동력 완화, 넓은 면적에 적기 일제 방제, 긴급 추가방제시의 효과 등(Nakashima 등, 2002) 유리한 측면이 많아 일본에서는 이용실적이 급격히 증가하는 추세이다. 우리나라에서도 1960년대 말 대여한 유인헬기로 김제, 김포, 김해 등지에서 이삭도열병과 이화명충에 대한 방제작업을 실시하여(식물환경연구소, 1970) 방제효율, 약해 문제 등 장단점을 비교적 상세히 검토하였다. 그 후 항공방제에 대한 적용약제 선발시험이 실시되었으나(농촌진흥청 2002~'03) 무인헬기에 의한 포장에서의 방제시험은 본 시험이 첫 단계라 생각된다. 본 시험 결과 잎도열병과 잎집무늬마름병의 발생정도가 초기에는 대체적으로 균일한 편이었으나 1차 방제 후의 정도에 차이가 있는 것은 약효의 측면도 있으나 고온 저습 상태의 지속, 벼의 성장에 따른 기주체 저항력의 증가, 포장별 비배관리에 따른 복합적인 요인이 작용했기 때문이라 생각된다. 예를 들어 포장 2의 경우 금년에는 시비를 하지 않았으나 벼의 생육상태와 번무도를 볼 때 전년도까지 많은 량의 질소질 비료가 투여 되었던 것으로 추측된다. 따라서 우수한 약제를 사용하더라도 과비상태에서는 병 발생이 많기 때문에(Kim 등, 1985) 약제방제 효과는 미흡하기 마련이다. 금년도 시험을 실시한 5개의 포장은 각각 다른 농가포장을 이용했기 때문에 무인헬기에 의한 방제효과를 단적으로 판정하기는 어려운 실정이다. 무인헬기에 의한 병해충 방제효과는 벼 뿐 아니라 잡초(農林水産航空協會, 2003), 채소류, 과수, 산림병해충에 대하여 실용성이 입증된 상태지만 우리나라에서 무인헬기를 본격적으로 도입, 방제작업에 활용하기 위해서는 다음 사항들이 고려되어 할 것이다. 1. 동일 포장에서 균일한 경종방법에 의한 시험 2. 병해충의 발생이 다른 기상조건하에서의 연차적 시험 3. 환경영향평가 등 결론적으로 위의 미비점이 보완되어 충분한 연구 자료가 뒷받침 된다면 무인헬기를 이용한 농작물, 산림병해충방제에 획기적인 계기가 마련될 것으로 기대된다.

Perceptional Change of a New Product, DMB Phone

  • Kim, Ju-Young;Ko, Deok-Im
    • 마케팅과학연구
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.59-88
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    • 2008
  • Digital Convergence means integration between industry, technology, and contents, and in marketing, it usually comes with creation of new types of product and service under the base of digital technology as digitalization progress in electro-communication industries including telecommunication, home appliance, and computer industries. One can see digital convergence not only in instruments such as PC, AV appliances, cellular phone, but also in contents, network, service that are required in production, modification, distribution, re-production of information. Convergence in contents started around 1990. Convergence in network and service begins as broadcasting and telecommunication integrates and DMB(digital multimedia broadcasting), born in May, 2005 is the symbolic icon in this trend. There are some positive and negative expectations about DMB. The reason why two opposite expectations exist is that DMB does not come out from customer's need but from technology development. Therefore, customers might have hard time to interpret the real meaning of DMB. Time is quite critical to a high tech product, like DMB because another product with same function from different technology can replace the existing product within short period of time. If DMB does not positioning well to customer's mind quickly, another products like Wibro, IPTV, or HSPDA could replace it before it even spreads out. Therefore, positioning strategy is critical for success of DMB product. To make correct positioning strategy, one needs to understand how consumer interprets DMB and how consumer's interpretation can be changed via communication strategy. In this study, we try to investigate how consumer perceives a new product, like DMB and how AD strategy change consumer's perception. More specifically, the paper segment consumers into sub-groups based on their DMB perceptions and compare their characteristics in order to understand how they perceive DMB. And, expose them different printed ADs that have messages guiding consumer think DMB in specific ways, either cellular phone or personal TV. Research Question 1: Segment consumers according to perceptions about DMB and compare characteristics of segmentations. Research Question 2: Compare perceptions about DMB after AD that induces categorization of DMB in direction for each segment. If one understand and predict a direction in which consumer perceive a new product, firm can select target customers easily. We segment consumers according to their perception and analyze characteristics in order to find some variables that can influence perceptions, like prior experience, usage, or habit. And then, marketing people can use this variables to identify target customers and predict their perceptions. If one knows how customer's perception is changed via AD message, communication strategy could be constructed properly. Specially, information from segmented customers helps to develop efficient AD strategy for segment who has prior perception. Research framework consists of two measurements and one treatment, O1 X O2. First observation is for collecting information about consumer's perception and their characteristics. Based on first observation, the paper segment consumers into two groups, one group perceives DMB similar to Cellular phone and the other group perceives DMB similar to TV. And compare characteristics of two segments in order to find reason why they perceive DMB differently. Next, we expose two kinds of AD to subjects. One AD describes DMB as Cellular phone and the other Ad describes DMB as personal TV. When two ADs are exposed to subjects, consumers don't know their prior perception of DMB, in other words, which subject belongs 'similar-to-Cellular phone' segment or 'similar-to-TV' segment? However, we analyze the AD's effect differently for each segment. In research design, final observation is for investigating AD effect. Perception before AD is compared with perception after AD. Comparisons are made for each segment and for each AD. For the segment who perceives DMB similar to TV, AD that describes DMB as cellular phone could change the prior perception. And AD that describes DMB as personal TV, could enforce the prior perception. For data collection, subjects are selected from undergraduate students because they have basic knowledge about most digital equipments and have open attitude about a new product and media. Total number of subjects is 240. In order to measure perception about DMB, we use indirect measurement, comparison with other similar digital products. To select similar digital products, we pre-survey students and then finally select PDA, Car-TV, Cellular Phone, MP3 player, TV, and PSP. Quasi experiment is done at several classes under instructor's allowance. After brief introduction, prior knowledge, awareness, and usage about DMB as well as other digital instruments is asked and their similarities and perceived characteristics are measured. And then, two kinds of manipulated color-printed AD are distributed and similarities and perceived characteristics for DMB are re-measured. Finally purchase intension, AD attitude, manipulation check, and demographic variables are asked. Subjects are given small gift for participation. Stimuli are color-printed advertising. Their actual size is A4 and made after several pre-test from AD professionals and students. As results, consumers are segmented into two subgroups based on their perceptions of DMB. Similarity measure between DMB and cellular phone and similarity measure between DMB and TV are used to classify consumers. If subject whose first measure is less than the second measure, she is classified into segment A and segment A is characterized as they perceive DMB like TV. Otherwise, they are classified as segment B, who perceives DMB like cellular phone. Discriminant analysis on these groups with their characteristics of usage and attitude shows that Segment A knows much about DMB and uses a lot of digital instrument. Segment B, who thinks DMB as cellular phone doesn't know well about DMB and not familiar with other digital instruments. So, consumers with higher knowledge perceive DMB similar to TV because launching DMB advertising lead consumer think DMB as TV. Consumers with less interest on digital products don't know well about DMB AD and then think DMB as cellular phone. In order to investigate perceptions of DMB as well as other digital instruments, we apply Proxscal analysis, Multidimensional Scaling technique at SPSS statistical package. At first step, subjects are presented 21 pairs of 7 digital instruments and evaluate similarity judgments on 7 point scale. And for each segment, their similarity judgments are averaged and similarity matrix is made. Secondly, Proxscal analysis of segment A and B are done. At third stage, get similarity judgment between DMB and other digital instruments after AD exposure. Lastly, similarity judgments of group A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2 are named as 'after DMB' and put them into matrix made at the first stage. Then apply Proxscal analysis on these matrixes and check the positional difference of DMB and after DMB. The results show that map of segment A, who perceives DMB similar as TV, shows that DMB position closer to TV than to Cellular phone as expected. Map of segment B, who perceive DMB similar as cellular phone shows that DMB position closer to Cellular phone than to TV as expected. Stress value and R-square is acceptable. And, change results after stimuli, manipulated Advertising show that AD makes DMB perception bent toward Cellular phone when Cellular phone-like AD is exposed, and that DMB positioning move towards Car-TV which is more personalized one when TV-like AD is exposed. It is true for both segment, A and B, consistently. Furthermore, the paper apply correspondence analysis to the same data and find almost the same results. The paper answers two main research questions. The first one is that perception about a new product is made mainly from prior experience. And the second one is that AD is effective in changing and enforcing perception. In addition to above, we extend perception change to purchase intention. Purchase intention is high when AD enforces original perception. AD that shows DMB like TV makes worst intention. This paper has limitations and issues to be pursed in near future. Methodologically, current methodology can't provide statistical test on the perceptual change, since classical MDS models, like Proxscal and correspondence analysis are not probability models. So, a new probability MDS model for testing hypothesis about configuration needs to be developed. Next, advertising message needs to be developed more rigorously from theoretical and managerial perspective. Also experimental procedure could be improved for more realistic data collection. For example, web-based experiment and real product stimuli and multimedia presentation could be employed. Or, one can display products together in simulated shop. In addition, demand and social desirability threats of internal validity could influence on the results. In order to handle the threats, results of the model-intended advertising and other "pseudo" advertising could be compared. Furthermore, one can try various level of innovativeness in order to check whether it make any different results (cf. Moon 2006). In addition, if one can create hypothetical product that is really innovative and new for research, it helps to make a vacant impression status and then to study how to form impression in more rigorous way.

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