• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.733-737
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• 2012

본 연구는 미세유체의 수력학적 조절을 통한 단분산성 다중 액적 형성방법을 기술한다. 다중 액적을 형성하기 위해 별도의 표면 개질이 필요 없는 co-flowing stream 시스템과 유리 모세관을 이용하여 미세유체 칩을 제작하였다. 유리모세관 미세유체 칩 내부로 0.5 wt% Tween 20이 함유된 증류수, n-hexadecane (5 wt% Span 80), 그리고 10 wt% poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) 수용액을 흘려줌으로써 단분산성 다중 액적(W/O/W)을 성공적으로 형성하였다. 더불어, 내부 액적의 개수를 제어하기 위해 수력학적 변수로 작용하는 중간 유체와 최외각 유체의 부피유속을 고정시키고 내부 유체의 부피유속을 조절하는 방법을 사용하여 다양한 내부 액적을 지니는 다중 유화 액적을 성공적으로 완성하였다. 이와 같은 미세유체 시스템을 통해 형성된 다중 액적은 내부물질의 종류에 따라 다양한 화학반응을 위한 하나의 독립된 마이크로 반응기로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2007

The catalytic activity of transition metals (Cu, Co, Mn, Fe and Ni) supported on ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ for the oxidation of toluene was investigated in the microreactor of fixed-bed type. The catalytic activity of transition metals for the oxidation of toluene turned out to be increasing in the order of Ni$Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts for the oxidation of toluene increased with the increasing loadings of copper, reached the maximum activity at 5% loadings of copper, and decreased with higher loadings of copper in the catalysts. The activity of $Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts for the oxidation of toluene decreased with the increasing calcination temperatures. This might result from the decreasing surface area of catalysts due to the sintering of copper oxide as well as ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ supports. The 5wt% $Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts calcined at $400^{\circ}C$ for 4 hrs in the air showed the highest activity for the oxidation of toluene. Mutual inhibition was observed for the binary mixture of toluene and xylene. The activity of the easy-to-oxidize toluene was greatly decreased while the difficult-to-oxidize xylene was slightly decreased in the binary mixture of toluene and xylene. It might suggest that the inhibition of toluene and xylene in the binary mixture resulted from the competitive adsorption for the adsorbed oxygen on the catalytic surface.

• 에너지공학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.189-201
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• 1999

범용 열가소성 플라스틱(polyethylene(PE), polypropylene(PP), polystyrene(PS), polyethylene-terephthalate(PET), acrylonitrile-butandiene-styrene(ABS))과 폐윤활유의 동시처리 열분해반응 실험을 수행하였다. 반응실험은 40$m\ell$ 용량의 회분식 미분반응기(microreactor)를 이용한 실험과 1리터 용량의 autoclave를 이용한 실험의 두 가지로 구분하여 행하였다. 전자의 경우는 통계적 실험적계획법(statistical experimental design)의 하나인 회전계획실험(rotatable design experiments)으로서 오각형 실험계획(pentagonal experimental design)에 의거한 반응변수 실험을 수행한 후 반응표면(response surface)을 회기분석법에 의하여 분석함으로써 최대의 오일 수율을 얻을 수 있는 최적 반응조건을 추적, 결정하였다. Autoclave 반응실험의 기본적인 목적은 실제 연속공정에 있어서 열분해 반응기 거동을 모사하기 위한 전초단계로서 충분한 시료의 확보를 통하여 이 때 생성된 연로유의 체계적인 분석(비등점분포특성, 진공증류, 기체분석, 원소분석, 발열량, 비중 등)을 행함으로써 연료유 수율 및 품질을 모사하고자 하였다. 미분반응기 실험에 있어서 주 범용열가소성수지인 PE, PP 그리고 PS는 각각의 최적반응조건하에서 거의 100%에 가깝게 오일로 전환되었지만 응축수지인 PET와 그래프트공중합수지인 ABS의 오일수율은 각기 78% 및 90%로서 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. Autoclave를 이용한 실험의 경우 혼합플라스틱을 폐유에 대하여 40wt% 혼합하여 열분해하였을 때, 80wt% 오일, 15wt% 코우크, 그리고 나머지 5wt%는 탄화수소기체(C1-C6)로 전환되었다. 진공증류(252$^{\circ}C$,2 torr) 결과, 기/액-분리도는 3으로서 이는 생성오일의 75wt%가 경질연료유(가솔린, 등유, 경유)로 회수 가능하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.1785-1791
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• 2010

중합효소 연쇄반응(PCR)을 수행하려면 세포 용해(cell lysis)와 DNA추출(DNA purification)과정이 포함된 시료 전처리 과정을 거쳐야 한다. 종래의 시료 전처리 과정은 계면활성제와 같은 세포용해 버퍼를 이용하거나 열 또는 전기적 방법으로 세포막 파열을 유도하여 세포벽을 깬 후에 잔여물 처리과정을 거쳐 DNA를 추출하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 마이크로 비드와 PDMS 기둥을 이용한 필터가 있는 시료 전처리용 바이오칩을 설계 및 제작하였다. 또한 제작된 바이오칩을 사용하여 $80^{\circ}C$에서 2분간 세포용해를 수행하고 DNA를 추출하였다. 칩에서 전처리과정을 거친 시료내의 DNA농도와 순도를 측정하고 DNA PCR과 겔 전기영동을 통해 시료 전처리용 바이오칩의 성능을 평가하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1826-1832
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• 2007

We describe the fabrication of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEG-DA) hydrogel microstructures with a high aspect ratio and the use of hydrogel microstructures containing the enzyme ${\beta}$-galactosidase (${\beta}$-Gal) or glucose oxidase (GOx)/horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as biosensing components for the simultaneous detection of multiple analytes. The diameters of the hydrogel microstructures were almost the same at the top and at the bottom, indicating that no differential curing occurred through the thickness of the hydrogel microstructure. Using the hydrogel microstructures as microreactors, ${\beta}$-Gal or GOx/HRP was trapped in the hydrogel array, and the time-dependent fluorescence intensities of the hydrogel array were investigated to determine the dynamic uptake of substrates into the PEG-DA hydrogel. The time required to reach steady-state fluorescence by glucose diffusing into the hydrogel and its enzymatic reactions with GOx and HRP was half the time required for resorufin ${\beta}$-D-galactopyranoside (RGB) when used as the substrate for ${\beta}$-Gal. Spatially addressed hydrogel microarrays containing different enzymes were micropatterned for the simultaneous detection of multiple analytes, and glucose and RGB solutions were incubated as substrates. These results indicate that there was no cross-talk between the ${\beta}$-Gal-immobilizing hydrogel micropatches and the GOx/HRP-immobilizing micropatches.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.540-544
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• 2008

혼합플라스틱에 대한 열분해특성실험을 스테인레스 스틸의 회분식 미분반응기에서 수행하였으며, 혼합플라스틱의 혼합비율은 22 wt.% HDPE, 17 wt.% LDPE, 27 wt.% PP, 12 wt.% PS, 16 wt.% ABS, 6 wt.% PVC이었다. 열분해온도는 $410{\sim}450^{\circ}C$ 이었으며 각 열분해생성물의 수율은 무게측정을 통해 얻었으며, 액상생성물의 분자량분포는 GC-SIMDIS 방법을 통해 측정하였다. 혼합플라스틱 열분해의 경우 반응온도와 시간이 증가할수록 고상잔류물의 수율증가와 액상생성물의 수율감소 그리고 액상생성물의 평균 분자량 감소가 두드러졌다. 혼합플라스틱에 포함된 PVC의 약 20%가 염소가스형태로 배출됨을 알 수 있었다. 혼합플라스틱 열분해에서 말단절단의 속도계수인 활성에너지 값은 50.2 kcal/mole 이었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2011

디메틸 에테르(DME)는 최근 청정 연료로서 주목을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 메탄올 탈수반응을 통한 디메틸 에테르(DME)의 제조에 대하여 조사하였다. 이때 촉매는 제올라이트 계열인 고체산 촉매를 이용하였다. 조촉매로서 세리아가 반응전환율뿐만 아니라 DME 생성 선택도도 증가시키는 것을 발견하였다. 실리카/알루미나의 조성비와 촉매 표면의 세리아의 무게함량을 변화시켜 최적의 촉매를 선정하였다. 5 wt%의 세리아가 첨가된 ZSM5-30의 DME에 대한 반응선택성이 가장 뛰어났으며, 이 촉매는 메탄올 내에 포함되어 있는 수분의 영향을 거의 받지 않았다. 마이크로 반응기에서 얻은 데이터를 가지고 반응 속도식을 구하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.1406-1411
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• 2012

5,5'-Dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) was selected as an electron transfer mediator and was covalently immobilized onto high porosity carbon cloth to employ as a working electrode in an electrochemical $NAD^+$-regeneration process, which was coupled to an enzymatic reaction. The voltammetric behavior of DTNB attached to carbon cloth resembled that of DTNB in buffered aqueous solution, and the electrocatalytic anodic current grew continuously upon addition of NADH at different concentrations, indicating that DTNB is immobilized to carbon cloth effectively and the immobilized DTNB is active as a soluble one. The bioelectrocatalytic $NAD^+$ regeneration was coupled to the conversion of L-glutamate into ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate by L-glutamate dehydrogenase within the same microreactor. The conversion at 3 mM monosodium glutamate was very rapid, up to 12 h, to result in 90%, and then slow up to 24 h, showing 94%, followed by slight decrease. Low conversion was shown when substrate concentration exceeding 4 mM was tested, suggesting that L-glutamate dehydrogenase is inhibited by ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate. However, our electrochemical $NAD^+$ regeneration procedure looks advantageous over the enzymatic procedure using NADH oxidase, from the viewpoint of reaction time to completion.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.3409-3416
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• 2023

Licensing the next-generation of nuclear reactor designs requires extensive use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to investigate system response to many operational conditions, identify possible accidental scenarios and predict their evolution to undesirable consequences that are to be prevented or mitigated via the deployment of adequate safety barriers. Deep Learning (DL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support M&S computationally by providing surrogates of the complex multi-physics high-fidelity models used for design. However, DL and AI are, generally, low-fidelity 'black-box' models that do not assure any structure based on physical laws and constraints, and may, thus, lack interpretability and accuracy of the results. This poses limitations on their credibility and doubts about their adoption for the safety assessment and licensing of novel reactor designs. In this regard, Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are receiving growing attention for their ability to integrate fundamental physics laws and domain knowledge in the neural networks, thus assuring credible generalization capabilities and credible predictions. This paper presents the use of PINNs as surrogate models for accidental scenarios simulation in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). A case study of a Loss of Heat Sink (LOHS) accidental scenario in a Nuclear Battery (NB), a unique class of transportable, plug-and-play microreactors, is considered. A PINN is developed and compared with a Deep Neural Network (DNN). The results show the advantages of PINNs in providing accurate solutions, avoiding overfitting, underfitting and intrinsically ensuring physics-consistent results.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.799-807
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• 2006

The catalytic activity of $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts for the oxidation of toluene and toluene+xylene mixture was investigated in the microreactor of fixed-bed type. The calcination temperatures and loadings of $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts played the important role in the activity of catalysts for the oxidation of toluene. The increasing calcination temperatures and loadings of $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts increased the crystallite size of the platinum to result in the higher oxidation activity of catalysts. The catalytic activity for the toluene oxidation over $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts turned out to be increasing in the order of $500^{\circ}C\;<\;800^{\circ}C<600^{\circ}C\;<\;700^{\circ}C$ for calcination temperatures and 0.1 wt% < 0.3 wt% < 1.0 wt% for platinum loadings, respectively. The 1.0 wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts calcined at $700^{\circ}C$ for 3 hrs in the air showed the highest activity for the oxidation of the toluene. The decrease of oxidation activity of $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts calcined at $800^{\circ}C$ might result from the decrease of active sites by sintering of platinum metals as well as ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ supports. The 1.0wt% $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalyst showed the activity from the lower temperature at $120^{\circ}C$, reached the light-off temperature ($T_{50%}$) at $180^{\circ}C$, and leveled off its activity at $340^{\circ}C$ with the conversion of 100% 'Mutual promotion' effects were observed for the binary mixture of toluene and xylene. The activity of the easy-to-oxidize toluene was slightly increased with the existence of the xylene. It might suggest the different mechanism for the oxidation of toluene and xylene on the $Pt/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts on different sites, and its reaction of gaseous oxygen.