• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2001

Acquisition of precise information on drying characteristics of wood is indispensable for the improvement of drying schedules and wood quality. Recognition of the exact moisture content at which drying defects such as checks occur during drying with given drying conditions may be essential to reduce drying losses. In this study an image-processing system was combined with a laboratory-scale wood dry kiln for experiments and the surface of tree disk of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) was monitored to investigate the behavior of check formation over all the drying process. This system showed good potential for improving drying schedules and wood product quality.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.39-48
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• 1993

End-matched disks of 7.7cm thickness were part-time dried in vacuum press dryer to investigate the drying characteristics by using drying schedules and end treatments. The ginkgo disks could be dried faster with severer end checks and ring failures by C schedule than by S schedule. There were no significant differences in drying rates and amounts of end checks, ring failures and V-shaped checks occurred between ginkgo disks end-taped with Korean traditional paper (KTP) and those untreated. The drying time of walnut disks was slightly reduced by end-taping with KTP. And the length of end checks and V-shaped checks and the frequency of defected disk were decreased more effectively than those untreated. The tangential strains and tangential drying stresses near bark sides of ginkgo and walnut disk untreated were developed in the early stage of drying and incresed slightly curvi-linearly above fiber saturation point (fsp) and more curvi-linearly below fsp. The influence of end-taping with KTP on the drying rate for impermeable walnut disk was stronger than that for permeable ginkgo disk.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.61-70
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• 1994

This study was executed to find the applicability of press drying of tree disk by investigating the shrinkage and drying defect and to form appropriate model by comparing the actual moisture content(MC) and internal temperature in respect of drying time with calculated values based computer simulation to which was applied finite difference method. In press drying disk, heating period, constant drying rate period maintained plateau temperature at 100$^{\circ}C$ and falling drying rate period were significantly distinguished. Actual MC and internal temperature were analogous to those calculated at comparing points. Heat transfer model formed by Fourier's law using specific heat of moist wood and conduction coefficient considering fractional volume of each element of wood cell wall, bound water, free water and air showed applicability as basic data to developing heat expansion, shrinkage and drying stress during press drying. Also mass transfer model formed by Fick's diffusion law using water vapor diffusion coefficient showed applicability. Longitudinal shrinkage was developed by pressure of hot press and tangential shrinkage was restrained by hygrothermal recovery. The heart check, surface check and ring failure were occurred differently in species, but V-shaped crack didn't develop.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 1996

This study was carried out to investigate the vacuum drying characteristics of 50mm- and 75mm- thick tree disks of some domestic softwoods for substituting the conventional hardwoods as the materials for wood crafts. Though the elapsed drying times from green to in-use moisture content(MC) were largely shortened by vacuum drying, the tree disks treated by EWS couldn't be dried to in-use MC, and so sapwood stains also were occurred severely. We suggest EWS treatment is undesirable for the species with very high sapwood portion or vacuum drying with hot water circulation heating system. Heart checks were slight, but sapwood checks, which have never been trouble in drying process of tree disks, were severe. For the reasonable explanation it is suggested MC differences between sapwood and heartwood were large and most of tree disks had already no barks before drying test. Ginkgo was vacuum-dried with very slight drying defects such as heart checks, sapwood checks. V-cracks and sapwood stains. In Korean red pine and pitch pine V-cracks were severely occurred. And it was found the special feature that most of these defected tree disks contained several V-cracks within one tree disk. It can be considered as the causes that the region of sapwood was defected by the several checks at the early drying stage because of the steep MC gradient along the radial direction, and then at the later drying stage the drying stresses due to differential shrinkage were concentrated on these brittle spots.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.187-194
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• 2012

In this study, the antibacterial effect was evaluated to determine the benefits of high speed drying (HSD) and far-infrared radiation drying (FIR) compared to the freeze drying (FD) method. Citrus press-cakes (CPCs) are released as a by-product in the citrus processing industry. Previous studies have shown that the HSD and FIR drying methods are much more economical for drying time and mass drying than those of FD, even though FD is the most qualified drying method. The disk diffusion assay was conducted, and the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) were determined with methanol extracts of the dried CPCs against 11 fish and five food-related pathogenic bacteria. The disk diffusion results indicated that the CPCs dried by HSD, FIR, and FD prevented growth of all tested bacteria almost identically. The MIC and MBC results showed a range from 0.5-8.0 mg/mL and 1.0-16.0 mg/mL respectively. Scanning electron microscopy indicated that the extracts changed the morphology of the bacteria cell wall, leading to destruction. These results suggest that CPCs dried by HSD and FIR showed strong antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria and are more useful drying methods than that of the classic FD method in CPCs utilization.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2004

참나무는 소나무와 함께 우리나라의 대표적 수종이나 아름다운 목리에도 불구하고 건조가 어려워 다양하게 사용되지 못하였다. 본 연구를 통해 굴참나무 판재와 원판의 효율적 건조방법을 찾고자 노력하였다. 먼저 마구리 도포제 효과를 조사한 결과 4가지 마구리 도포제 중 PVAc 접착제를 두껍게 도포한 것이 가장 좋은 효과를 나타냈다. 천연건조속도는 1.2%MC/일로 미농무성(USDA)의 안전건조속도(safe drying rate) 1-3%MC/일을 초과하지 않았다. 본 연구에 사용된 USDA의 참나무 열기건조 스케쥴은 천연건조된 국산굴참나무재를 내부 할열없이 함수율 8%까지 건조하는데 효과적이었다. pallet형 잔목을 사용하여 참나무 원판의 V-크랙을 막고자 하였으나 성공하지 못했다. 그러나 일반 잔목 건조에 비해 V-크랙의 갈라진 면이 깨끗했으며 다른 할열은 거의 발생하지 않았다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2017

In this study, spray-drying yield and morphological characterization of spray-dried cellulose nanofibril (CNF) and TEMPO-oxidized nanocellulose (TONC) depending on spray-drying condition and surfactant addition was investigated. As spray-drying temperature increased, the yield of spray-dried CNF was increased. The highest spray-drying yields in both nanocelluloses were found at didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride (DDAC) addition of 2.5 phr at all investigated temperatures. The spray-dried CNF was the sphere-like particle, but the spray-dried TONC showed both rod and sphere-like morphology. The average diameter of spray-dried CNF was decreased with increasing DDAC addition amount, resulting in the increase of specific surface area.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.477-482
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• 1998

A biosensor with PZT piezoelectric ceramic crystal was developed for the detection of formaldehyde gas. Poled PZT piezoelectric ceramic disk was made from ZrO2, TiO2 and Nb2O5, together with the addition of PbO and polyvinyl alcohol, through various processes of mixing, calcination drying, crushing, forming, sintering, polishing, ion coating and poling. Oscillator circuit of sensor was made of operational amplifier(AD811AN). Formaldehyde dehydrogenase was immobilized onto a piezoelectic ceramic crystal, together with the cofactors, reduced glutathione and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. The effect of flow rate on the sensitivity was determined by varing the flow rate of carrier gas from 24.7mL/min to 111.7mL/min through detector cell. The results indicated that as the flow rate was increased, the recovery rate was increased. And a significant increase in the sensitivity was observed in enhanced flow rate of carrier gas. Frequency difference(ΔF) of immobilized PZT piezoelectic disk increased proportionally to the concentration gas and reproduced to repeated exposures of formaldehyde gas(28ppm, Δ68Hz).

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.784-791
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• 2015

소나무 원판에 polyethylen glycol (PEG)를 주입시키면 건조 중 횡단면할렬을 막을 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 건조온도와 아세틸화처리가 PEG처리 목재에 미치는 효과를 조사하고자 다양한 온도에서 건조한 소나무 원판의 PEG잔류율(PPR)을 아세톤추출과 조습처리를 통해 측정하였다. 아세톤추출법으로 구한 PPR은 열기건조시편이 천연건조시편보다 최하 4배 높았으며, 열기건조시편은 변재의 잔류PEG율이 심재보다 2배 정도 높았다. 이러한 결과는 조습처리실험을 통해 검증되었다. 아세틸화처리에 의한 열기건조시편의 중량변화율(WPC)은 천연건조시편 보다 훨씬 적게 증가하거나 오히려 감소하였다. 무수초산이 잔류 PEG를 용출시켰기 때문으로 밝혀졌다. 따라서 PPR을 높이려면 열기건조하는 것이 천연건조보다 유리하나 아세틸화처리는 대부분의 PEG를 용출시켜 천연건조와 차이를 나타내지 않는다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.31-63
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• 1991

원판의 관행 열기건조시 잔적위치에 따른 건조속도(乾燥速度)의 차이는 심하였고, 원판의 직경이 변이가 클수록 건조속도(乾燥速度)의 변화기복도 심하였으나, 강압건조(減壓乾操)의 경우 건조속도(乾操速度)는 잔적위치와 원판 직경의 변이에 영향을 받지 않은 것이 확인되었다. 원판 내층(內層)의 접선방향 표면응력(表面應力)은 수종, 엔드래핑처리 및 직경생장부위(直徑生長部位)에 관계없이 미미한 압축응력(壓縮應力)을 나타냈고, 무처리 원판은 수(髓)로부터 6cm인 점을 임계점(臨界點)으로하여 수(髓) 부위쪽이 원주부(圓周部) 쪽보다 더 큰 압축응력(壓縮應力)을 나타내는 일계단상(一階段狀)의 분포모형을 보인 반면에, 한지 엔드래핑 원판은 균일한 분포모형을 나타냈는데, 이는 한지 엔드래핑의 경우 한지에 의한 표면수분 증발 억제효과로 심재와 변재부위간에 수분유동속도(水分流動速度)의 차이가 작았기 때문인 것으로 판단되며, 한지 엔드래핑은 내층(內層)의 압축응력(壓縮應力)을 억제하는 효과가 컸음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 수축이방법(收縮異方性)에 기인한 접선방향 응력은 원주선상에서 최대인장응력(最大引張應力)을 나타냈고, 수(髓)를 향할수록 점점 감소하여 수(髓) 근처에서 압축응력(壓縮應力)으로 전환되는 분포모형을 보였다. 건조종료시 오리나무, 호도나무 및 은행나무의 한지 엔드래핑 원판의 접선방향 최대인장응력(最大引張應力)은 무처리 원판보다 작았고, 한지 엔드래핑 원판의 V형 크랙발생 임계함수율(臨界含水率)도 무처리 원판에 비하여 더 낮게 나타났는데, 이것은 한지의 수분증발 억제효과에 따른 원판의 영구변형화(永久變形化)에 기인한 것으로 생각된다. 감압건조(減壓乾操) 응력분포시험(應力分布試驗)에서 V형 크랙은 한지(韓紙)와 알루미늄호일 엔드래핑 원판에서는 전혀 발생하지 않았고, 무처리 원판에서도 매우 경미하게 발생하였다. 또한 심재할열(心材割裂)도 오리나무와 호도나무의 한지(韓紙) 엔드래핑 원판에서는 전혀 발생하지 않았고, 기타의 원판에서도 그 발생 정도는 매우 경미하였다. 특히 한지는 물론 알루미늄호일 엔드래핑 원판의 감압건조(減壓乾燥)는 건조결함을 예방하는 데 효과적이었고, 더구나 은행나무는 110시간만에, 오리나무는272시간, 그리고 호두나무는 407시간만에 각각 이용함수율(利用含水率) 수준까지 건조가 가능하여, 건조시간이 크게 단축되었다.