We fabricated dual-phase free-standing polymeric membrane for high performance CO2/N2 separation, introducing amphiphilic, CO2-philic copolymer via one-step free radical polymerization, or (2-[3-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]ethyl methacrylate)-graft-poly(oxyethylene methacrylate) (PBE). PBE filler partially interacts with Pebax polymer matrix to generate the interconnected CO2 philic network, exhibiting a microphase-separated, or dual-phase behavior in Pebax matrix. The performance of CO2/N2 separation was increased according to the PBE content, with the maximum selectivity at 5 wt%. The enhancement of Pebax/PBE CO2-philic membrane was attributed to the formation of CO2-philic channel consisting of ether oxygens and triazole groups. The best performance was CO2 permeability of 175.3 Barrer and CO2/N2 selectivity of 48.2.

SiAlON-based ceramics are some of the most typical oxynitride ceramic materials, which can be used as cutting tools for heat-resistant super-alloys (HRSA). SiAlON can be fabricated by using gas-pressure reactive sintering from the raw materials, nitrides and oxides such as Si3N4, AlN, Al2O3, and Yb2O3. In this study, we fabricate Ybm/3Si12-(m+n)Alm+nOnN16-n (m=0.3, n=1.9, 2.3, 2.7) ceramics by using gas-pressure sintering at different sintering temperatures. Then, the densification behavior, phase formation, microstructure, and hardness of the sintered specimens are characterized. We obtain a fully densified specimen with β- SiAlON after gas-pressure sintering at 1820℃ for 90 min. under 10 atm N2 pressure. These SiAlON ceramic materials exhibited hardness values of ~92.9 HRA. The potential of these SiAlON ceramics for cutting tool application is also discussed.

본 연구에서는 고투과성을 가지는 기체분리막 제조를 위해 6FDA와 APAF를 이용하여 하이드록시 폴리이미드를 합성하였다. H-NMR과 FT-IR 분석을 통해서 HPI의 합성여부를 확인하였으며 열적특성을 알아보기 위해 Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)와 thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA)를 측정하였다. 특히 합성된 HPI는 약 450℃에서 polybenzoxazole (PBO)로 변환이 됨을 확인 가능하였다. 고투과성 고분자 분리막의 제조를 위해 고분자, 용매 그리고 비용매-첨가제를 포함하는 3성분계의 시스템을 도입하였으며, 상전이법을 이용하여 HPI 비대칭 평막을 제조하였다. 최종적으로 각성분들에 따른 모폴로지 변화를 전계방출주사현미경(FE-SEM)을 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

가스상의 체적분율과 압력강하는 기액이상류에 대한 이해와 예측에 있어서 매우 중요한 인자이다. 또한 그것들은 산업용 대용량의 열교환시스템 및 선박에 설치되는 보일러 및 냉동시스템의 설계에 있어서 필수적인 항목이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 파이프의 모든 경사각도에서 기액이상류 가스상의 체적분율과 압력손실을 예측할 수 있는 이론적 해석 방법을 제시한다. 여기서의 이론적 해석은 2유체 층상류 모델을 기초로 하고 있다. 또한 이론적 해석결과와 기존의 실험결과와 비교한 결과에 대해서도 제시한다.

The effects of reaction temperature and precursor concentration on the microstructure and magnetic properties of nanoparticles synthesized as final products of iron acetylacetonate in chemical vapor condensation (CVC) were investigated. Pure phase was obtained at temperature above and crystallite size of nanoparticles decreased with lowering precursor concentration. Also, the coercivity decreases with decreasing crystallite size of nanopowder. The lowest coercivity was 7.8 Oe, which was obtained from the nanopowder sample synthesized at precursor concentration of 0.3M. Then, the crystallite size of nanoparticles was 8.8 nm.

In the present research, we prepared the activated carbon (AC) sorbents to remove gas-phase mercury. The mercury adsorption of virgin AC, chemically treated AC and fly ash was performed. Sulfur impregnated and sulfuric acid impregnated ACs were used as the chemically treated ACs. A simulated flue gas was made of SOx, NOx and mercury vapor in nitrogen balance. A reduced mercury adsorption capacity was obtained with the simulated gas as compared with that containing only mercury vapor in nitrogen. With the simulated gas, the sulfuric acid treated AC showed the highest performance, but it might have the problem of corrosion due to the emission of sulfuric acid. It was also found that the high sulfur impregnated AC also released a portion of sulfur at 140℃. Thus, it was concluded that the low sulfur impregnated AC was suitable for the treatment of flue gas in terms of stability and efficiency.

Various efforts have been made to increase use of renewable energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Korea as economic and population growth have increased. Bio-energy is a renewable form of energy unlike fossil fuels and is not included in greenhouse gases because it is carbon neutral (sometimes referred to as “climate neutral”) and is exempted from total CO2 emissions. In this study, we determined the low heating value (kcal/kg) and elemental composition using the biogenic content of “wood” and a solid recovered fossil fuel “polyethylene product” to confirm the solid recovered fuel value. Biomass content was also determined using the selective dissolution method and 14C-method (AMS). Additionally, we developed a gas sampling system to collect gases emitted after combustion at 850oC to determine biomass content by AMS.

A rapid and simple method for the quantitative determination of volatile fatty acids (VFAs; propionic acid, n-butyric acid, i-valeric acid and n-valeric acid) and indoles (phenol, p-cresol, 4-ethyl phenol, indole and skatole) in pig slurry and dog excrement using solid-phase micro-extraction (SPME) coupled to gas chromatography was evaluated. 50/30 ㎛ DVB/CAR/PDMS (Divinylbenzene/Carboxen/Polydimethylsiloxane) fiber was used to extract the target compounds in aqueous media. Sample amount and adsorption time was standardized for the routine analysis. Detection limits were from 0.11 to 0.15 ㎍/L for VFAs and from 0.12 to 0.28 ㎍/L for indoles and the correlations observed (R2) were 0.975～1.000. This method was applied to the pig slurry, fertilizer, compost and dog excrement. In nearly all cases, the indoles were detected in concentrations of higher than their limits of detection (DOLs). But the VFAs in swine manure were below their DOLs.

In this study, the experiments which use the dry absorbent has been executed in order to find optimum HCl absorptionconditions. The absorbents in this experiment were Ca(OH)2-A, Ca(OH)2-B and CaO. They were put in a fixed-bed reactor.The reaction temperature of HCl/Ca(OH)2 systems were between 200~400oC and those of HCl/CaO systems werebetween at 500~700oC. The reaction gases were HCl and N2 mixtures (3000ppm). The reaction gas of 2L·min−1 wasfed into the reactor. As temperature increased, the conversion ratio of HCl in Ca(OH)2 particles also increased.Consequently, Ca(OH)2-B showed the maximum conversion ratio of 19% at 400oC. CaO also showed the similar tendencywith the result of Ca(OH)2. In case of same particle sizes, as reaction temperature increased, the reaction rate constant(k) also increased. The highest reaction rate constant of Ca(OH)2-B was 3,952min−1 at 400oC. All absorbents in thisexperiment showed that the reaction rate decreased with increasing the size of the particles at each temperature condition.The kinetics of the reaction between sorbents and HCl molecules showed that the activation energies were about 2.71~6.85kcal·mol−1 (averager 4.53kcal·mol−1) for Ca(OH)2-A, about 1.3011.51kcal·mol−1 (average 6.10kcal·mol−1) forCa(OH)2-B, and about 2.5314.3kcal·mol−1 (average 6.91kcal·mol−1) for CaO depending on conversion ratios.