The importance of indoor air environment gets higher because time of staying in indoor such as house or car become longer due to a change of the life pattern on human society. One of major pollution sources, VOCs or odor could be reduced or controlled by using adsorbent. It may be valuable for used catalyst to be applied in the adsorption of VOCs or odor. This could reduce the cost of adsorbent. In this work, the potential of used zeolites such as HZSM-5 catalyst and FCC catalyst as an adsorbent for removing acetaldehyde was investigated. Their adsorptive performances were compared with those of active carbon and MCM-41. The removal performace of used HZSM-5 was similar to that of active carbon due to its higher surface area. But used-FCC catalyst showed the lowest performance. These results suggest that used HZSM-5 can be applied to cheap adsorbent for acetaldehyde removal.

Absorption characteristics of acetaldehyde (one of odors) were investigated using a bubble tank. The capacity of reaction tank made of acrylic is I liter and the experiment was carried out as semi-batch mode (for given absorbent packing, acetaldehyde was fed continuously with flow rate of 2 L/min). As operating variables of experiment, concentration of acetaldehyde (40~100 ppm), absorption temperature (25~45℃), and packing volume of absorbent (100~300 ㎖) were applied. The experimental results showed that the removal efficiency of acetaldehyde decreased as 20~30%, with increasing concentration of acetaldehyde in the range of 40~100 ppm, and decreased as 15~30%, with increasing absorption temperature in the range of 25~45°C, while it increased with increasing packing volume of absorbent. Reaction rate which is measured by experiment is well matched with the calculated one from theoritical rate equation.

The deodorization performances of ammonia, acetic acid and acetaldehyde were tested for each of all forty five air cleaners sold in the online shops and department stores. The removal performances of toluene and formaldehyde were also investigated and the results were compared to the deodorization performances for the air cleaners. Filter-type and complex type air cleaners which used activated carbon filters showed superior in odor removal performances to those of ionizer type and wet type air cleaners. Toluene and formaldehyde were readily removed for the most of filter-type and complex type air cleaners. Ionizer air cleaners had little removal ability for the toluene and formaldehyde.

우리나라 캠벨얼리 포도주의 발효 중 효모 천이단계에서 분리된 당 내성 토착형 효모 균주 S. cerevisiae S13과 D8 균주로 MBA 포도주를 발효하여 그 특성을 산업용 포도주 효모 W-3 균주와 비교하였다. 토착형 효모 두 균주의 경우 발효초기 가용성 고형분의 감소 및 알코올 생성이 다소 지연되었으나 발효 종료 후 D8 포도주는 12.4%, S13 포도주는 11.8%로서 대조균주 W-3 포도주의 12.0%와 알코올 함량이 유사하거나 다소 높았다. Malic acid의 함량의 경우 D8 포도주는 W-3 포도주와 유사한 수준을 나타내었으나 S13 포도주는 W-3 포도주의 약 71.9% 수준으로 매우 낮았다. 아세트알데히드, 메탄올, 프로판올, 이소프로판올, 이소아밀알코올 등의 함량 역시 D8 포도주와 S13 포도주 모두가 W-3 포도주보다 매우 낮게 나타났다. 특히 메탄올의 함량은 S13 포도주가 98.6 mg/L, D8 포도주가 112.0 mg/L로서 W-3 포도주의 192.8 mg/L에 비하여 각각 51.1%, 58.1%의 낮은 수준을 나타내었다. 또한 색도를 나타내는 L, a, b 값은 S13, D8 포도주 모두에서 W-3포도주보다 낮게 나타났으며 관능평가 결과 색에 있어서 S13 포도주가 W-3 포도주보다 다소 높은 점수를 얻었으나 통계적으로 유의적인 차이는 보이지 않았다.