The history of modern Korean ‘kimchi’ can be traced through the history of the wordforms ‘dihi’ (디히), ‘dimchΛi’ (딤 ), and ‘thimchΛi’ (팀 ) in ancient Korean texts. As native Korean words, the ‘dihi’ word line (‘dihi’, ‘dii’, ‘jihi’, and ‘ji’) constitutes an old substratum. This word line coexisted with the ‘dimchΛi’ word line (dimchΛi, jimchΛi, and kim∫chi) from the Hanja ‘沈菜’. ‘Ji’, which is the last word variation of ‘dihi’, and is still used today as the unique form in several Korean dialects. In standard Korean, however, it only serves as a suffix to form the derivative names of various kimchi types. ‘DimchΛi’ is believed to have appeared around the 6th-7th centuries, when Silla began to master Chinese characters. Hence,‘dimchΛi’ reflects either the Archaic Chinese (上古音) or the Old Chinese (中古音) pronunciation of the Hanja, ‘沈 菜’. With the palatalization of the plosive alveolar [t], ‘dimchΛi’ changed to ‘jimchΛi’. The Yangban intellectuals’ rejection of the palatalization of the plosive velar [k] led to the hypercorrection of ‘jimchΛi’ into ‘kimchΛi’. It is precisely the hypercorrect ‘kimchΛe’ that gave the wordform ‘kim∫chi’, which has eventually become the standard and predominant form in today’s Korean language. Regarding ‘thimchΛe’, it reflects the Middle Chinese (Yuan Dynasty) pronunciation of the Hanja ‘沈菜’ and was used mainly in writing by Yangban intellectuals.

Pretreatment of eliminating FFA is needed to make biodiesel from animal fat recovered from leather wastes because its acid value is high. This study was carried out to investigate the influence of 4 different pretreatment methods, which are heterogeneous catalyst method, ion exchange resin method, low pressure.high temperature method, and alkali method on the eliminating FFA and fatty acid composition. The results showed that the rate of eliminating FFA increased in the order of alkali method > catalyst method > low pressure high temperature method > ion exchange method. In the case of pretreatment of alkali method using NaOH, the rate of eliminating FFA appeared more than 86% regardless of acid value. Therefore, it was considered that alkali method using NaOH was the most effective in the view of economical and productive aspects, taking it into account that the acid value of animal fat recovered from fleshing scrap generated during leather making processes was 7 to 8.

Fleshing scrap is a kind of wastes produced during leather making process and used in the test of manufacturing biodiesel. The early step of manufacturing biodiesel is fat recovery from fleshing scrap. Hence, we investigated the influence of the way of fat recovery on the fatty acid composition. We used three different recovery ways, that is chemical method by protein decomposition with acid/fat recovering, physical method by protein denaturalization with heat and vacuum/fat pressing, and biodiesel method by protein decomposition/fat recovering. The biological method yielded the best results in terms of appearance transparency. It was most effective to lower acid value. Also the recovered fat by biological method would be favorable methyl-ester reaction raw material for biodiesel because it contains more than 5% of oleic acid among unsaturated fatty acid.

Flesh wasters from tannery create major environmental problems. Despite their considerable fat content, these waster do not find important usage. Their disposal is also troublesome and costly. We have investigated the possible use of this fat as the production of biodiesel(fatty acid methyl esters) by transesterification using with fossil fuels. The fat released the waste by boiling water under the optimal condition (i.e., temperature, 120℃; decompression, 200mbar) and used to dry without refining for the production of fatty acid methyl esters. Under the optimal condition, the experimental value of biodiesel yield was about 96%. The result of the chemical and GC analysis showed fatty acid composition and characteristics of biodiesel. Evaluation of the product indicated that it was suitable for use as a biodiesel fuel. In result of this experiment oil extract from fleshing process can be transformed into an environmentally affination fuel, to provide economical and ecological profits.

본 연구에서는 모발의 내부 및 외부구조에 자외선이 미치는 영향에 관하여 조사를 수행하였다. 자외선이 조사된 모발의 형태학적 및 화학적 구조의 변화를 알아보기 위해 주사전자현미경(SEM), 투과전자현미경(TEM), 공초점레이져주사현미경(CLSM) 등을 사용하였다. SEM상에서 자외선이 조사된 모발은 자외선에 의한 화학적 산화반응에 의해 표면이 거칠고 부풀어진 형태를 보였다. 이황화결합(disulfide bond)의 산화에 의한 시스테인산(cysteic acid)의 분해로 팽윤부위가 관찰되었다. 또한 자외선 조사에 의해 표면색의 변화를 나타내었다. TEM 분석결과 버진헤어(virgin hair)의 경우에는 매끄러운 표면구조를 나타내었지만, 자외선 조사모발에 있어서는 거칠고 모수질층이 갈라진 형태를 보여주었다. 모피질층에 존재하는 멜라닌 입자의 크기가 감소하고 소실되는 것이 관찰 되었다. CLSM에 의해 3차원적 구조의 입체영상을 얻을 수 있었으며, 광학분할에 의해 버진헤어는 강한 형광을 나타내었지만, 자외선 조사모발은 낮은 형광을 보여주었다. 이는 버진헤어의 경우 자동형광을 나타낼 수 있는 방향족 아미노산이 많이 존재하는데 비해 자외선 조사모발은 방향족 아미노산이 파괴되어 낮게 나온 것으로 여겨진다.