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Characteristics of Fatty Acid Composition and Properties by Blending of Vegetable Oils (식물성 기름의 혼합을 통한 지방산 조성 및 이화학적 특성 변화)

  • Lee, Tae Sung;Lee, Yong Hwa;Kim, Kwang Soo;Kim, Wook;Kim, Kwan Su;Jang, Young Seok;Park, Kwang Geun
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.624-632
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    • 2012
  • As there have been lately many worldwide resource challenges such as potential exhaustion of fossil fuels, sudden rise of oil price and ever-rising grain pricing due to global food crisis, there have been more interests focused on recycling vegetable oils and fats into clean natural fuel and producing new resources based on waste cooking oil as a part of reusing waste resources. An Experiment was performed by using ratio of 50:50, 75:25 (w/w) mixture of based rapeseed oil, camellia oil, and olive oil. 50:50, 25:75 (w/w) mixture of based palm oil. The result was that the oleic acid ($C_{18:1}$) got the lowest percentage of 42.8%, when we combined the mixture of rapeseed oil and soybean oil. While the highest percentage of 72.1% was when the mixture of camellia oil and rapeseed oil were combined at 50:50 ratio. In 75:25 (w/w) case, mixture of rapeseed oil and soybean oil got the lowest. The highest ratio was the mixture of camellia oil and olive oil. Based on the component of palm oil, the total saturated fatty acid was decreased. It is expected that stabilizing oxidation through controlling of fatty acid after mixture and that liquidity at a low temperature. The acid value indicated that stabilizing oxidation got a range of highest to lowest. Camellia oil ranked as the highest, followed by olive oil, and the oil seeds as the lowest in rank. Controlling iodine value through mixture and improvement of stabilizing oxidation will provide a good quality. The quality of color has no significant change about mixture in ratio and maintenance. The reduction of the cost of refining process is expected by controling of mixture ratio at biodiesel production in the future.

Effects of replacing fish oil with palm oil in diets of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) on muscle biochemical composition, enzyme activities, and mRNA expression of growth-related genes

  • Ayisi, Christian Larbi;Zhao, Jinliang;Yame, Chen;Apraku, Andrews;Debra, Grace
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.25.1-25.9
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    • 2019
  • Background: Due to the continuous demand for fish coupled with decline in capture fisheries, there is the need to increase aquaculture production to meet the demand. Aquaculture is faced with high cost of feeding since fish oil and fish meal are expensive. In view of this, there are calls to explore alternatives that are cheap and reliable. Objectives: This study on Oreochromis niloticus was conducted to evaluate the effects of replacing fish oil (FO) with palm oil (PO) at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% on muscle fatty acid and proximate composition as well as growthrelated enzyme activities and mRNA expression. Methods: Oreochromis niloticus were fed five experimental diets (33% crude protein and 10% crude lipid) for 8 weeks. Feed had variation in fish oil and palm oil contents. After the 8 weeks feeding trial, five fish were sampled from each tank (15 from each treatment) and euthanized using an excess dose of tricaine methane sulfonate (MS-222 at 200 mg/L). Fatty acid and enzyme activities were analyzed using standard protocols. Also, RT-qPCR was used to quantify the expression levels of selected growth-related genes. Results: Fish fed 25% PO recorded the least muscle protein content and was significantly lower than the group fed 100% PO. Paired box protein 7 (Pax-7) enzyme activity was significantly higher in the group fed 50% PO compared to the groups fed 25% PO and 100% PO, while caplain-3 (Capn-3) was significantly lower in the group fed 0% PO compared to all other groups. There was a significant difference among treatments with respect to mRNA expression of Pax-7 and Capn-3. Group fed 25% PO had significantly lower mRNA expression of Pax-7, while the group fed 75% PO recorded significantly higher mRNA expression of Capn-3 compared to groups fed 0% PO, 25% PO, and 100% PO. Pearson's correlation analysis revealed that Igf-I and Igf-II mRNA expression have significant correlation with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids content in muscle. Conclusion: The results suggest muscle protein content could be modified if FO is replaced with PO. Also, mRNA expression of Pax-7 and Capn-3 is affected by replacing FO with PO.

An Experimental Study of the Fuel Additive to Improve the Performance of a 2-Stroke Large Diesel Engine (2행정 대형 디젤엔진의 성능향상을 위한 연료첨가제의 실험적 연구)

  • Ryu, Younghyun;Lee, Youngseo;Nam, Jeonggil
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.620-625
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    • 2015
  • In an effort to reduce the onset of global warming, the International Maritime Organization Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO MEPC) proposed the reduction in ship speeds as a way of lowering the proportion of carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) in the Green House Gas emissions from ships. To minimize fuel costs, shipping companies have already been performing slow steaming for their own fleets. Specifically, the slow steaming approach has been adopted for most ocean-going container lines. In addition, because of the increased marine fuel cost that is required to enable increased capacity, there is an urgent need for more advanced fuel-saving technologies. Therefore, in this present study, we propose a fuel-cost reduction method that can improve the performance of diesel engines. We introduce a predetermined amount (0.025% of the amount of fuel used) of fuel additive (oil-soluble calcium-based organometallic compound). For improved experimental accuracy, as the test subjects, we utilize a large two-stroke diesel engine installed in land plants. The loads of the test engine were classified as low, medium, and high (50, 75, and 100%, respectively). We compare the engine performance parameters (power output, fuel consumption rate, p-max, and exhaust temperature) before and after the addition of fuel additives. Our experimental results, confirmed that we can realize fuel-cost savings of at least 2% by adding the fuel additive in low load conditions (50%). Likewise, the maximum combustion pressure was found to have increased. On the other hand, we observed that there was a reduction in the exhaust temperature.

Strategy for activation of bioenergy industry (바이오에너지 산업의 발전을 위한 제언)

  • Lee, Jin-Suk;Park, Soon-Chul
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.234-236
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    • 2006
  • Bioenergy emerges as a promising option for achieving the sustainable growth. However, bioenergy has poor cost competitiveness to the fossil fuels such as oil and coal. So many countries either developed or developing actively works for the implementation of various bioenergies. In this paper, the various supporting policies for the activation of the bioenergy business in the developed countries have been analyzed. Through the work, the desirable strategy for the promotion of bioenergy in our country have been suggested.

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The Development and Evaluation of Gear Machining Cells (기어가공 CELL 개발 및 평가)

  • Kim, Sunn-Ho;Kim, Sun-Ho;Park, Hwa-Young
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.87-100
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    • 1992
  • This paper presents FMC prototypes developed to propagate manufacuting automation for small and medium sized enterprises in Korea. The system consists of two cells used to machine oil pump drive gears, turing cell and hobbing cell. Characteristics and processes of the fears are anaylzed for the cell design. The system configuration and functions of individual component machines are described. Furthermore, the developed system is compared with the current manual system in terms of manpower and cost reduction and productivity increase.

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On 3-D measuring technique of large structure

  • Sawada, Hideyuki;Ichimura, Kazuo;Ishimatsu, Takakazu
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 1992
  • We present a system to measure 3-dimensional coordinates of large structures such as ships, buildings and oil tanks. Our system consists of two important units which are a laser spot pointer and a laser spot tracker. Employing a tactful image processing, our system has some features: e.g. downsize, cost, accuracy and robustness to hazardous environments.

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3-D Measuring system of huge structures using laser spot-ray projection

  • Ishimatsu, T.;Suehiro, K.;Okazaki, C.;Ochiai, T.;Matsui, R.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.1162-1166
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    • 1990
  • We present a system to measure 3-dimensional coordinates of huge structures like ships, buildings and oil tanks. Two important units are a laser spot projector and a laser spot tracker. Employing a tactful image processing, our system has some features :e.g. compactness, cost, accuracy and robustness to hazardous emvironments.

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The Impacts of Korea Train Express Service Quality on Railroad Management Performance (고속철도(KTX)의 서비스품질이 철도 경영성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Heung-Soon;Ju, Yong-Jun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1744-1759
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    • 2007
  • This study intended to identify the problems of the railroad which are raised as one of the 21C next-generation but to define the direction for the absence of the national policy and examine the competitiveness of railway transportation which is a Green Network with low environmental destruction and high energy efficiency as the continuable means of transportation for the 21st century with superiority to energy crisis caused by high oil price, conclusion of the Kyoto Protocol for worsened air pollution, and reduced cost of traffic jam.

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유통경로구조의 결정요인에 관한 연구 - 주요산업별(석유, 가전, 간이음식, 주류, 자동차) 비교 연구 -

  • 오세조;임영균;박종희;이승창
    • Journal of Distribution Research
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.147-196
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this study is th analyse the determinant factors of the marketing channel structures in the five industries, including homo-electronics, automobile, oil, liquors, and fast-food industries, on the basis of the transaction cost TCA and to develop the complementary and exensive conceptuai model for understanding the determinants of the channel structures. TCA is relatively weak and besides of the TCA varkables other environmental or relational variables are more likely to dorminate the channel structuring.

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