The crystallization effects of boron (B) powder on the phase, full width at half maximum (FWHM) values, and critical properties were investigated for in-situ reacted MgB2 bulk superconductors. The semi-crystalline B powder was heat-treated at different temperatures of 1000, 1300 and 1500˚C for 5 hours in an Ar atmosphere. Then, using as-received and heat-treated B powders, the MgB2 samples were prepared at 600˚C for 40 hours in an Ar atmosphere. As the heat-treatment temperature of the B powder increased, both the particle size of the B powder and crystalline phase increased. In the case of MgB2 samples using B powders heat-treated at above 1300˚C, unreacted magnesium (Mg) and B remained due to the improved crystallinity of the B powder. As the heat-treatment temperature of B powder increased, the critical current density of MgB2 decreased continuously due to the reduction of grain boundary density and superconducting volume caused by unreacted Mg and B.

Swelling of the heat-treated netting for gillnet was estimated through the netting height in square acrylic tank. Experimental Nylon netting and PBSAT netting were heat-treated by using the high-degree vacuum method in hot water after net making. Heat-treatment temperatures were conducted with Nylon netting 105°C and PBSAT netting 62°C, 65°C, 66°C, 67°C. The swelling measurement method of a netting using the square tank was capable of the reduction measurement errors comparing with measurement methods of a mesh inner angle and the shortening rate of a mesh size. In addition, this method was available to comparison evaluation for each netting more easily. Wet type heat-treatment apparatus with high-degree vacuum was shown higher 7∼8°C inner side temperature than a setting temperature. The tensile strength and elongation of Nylon netting and PBSAT netting were shown higher wet condition than dry condition. The tensile strengths of PBSAT monofilaments in dry and wet condition were sharply decreased at heat-treatment temp. 75°C than heat-treatment temp. 74°C

FeS2 has been widely used for cathode materials in thermal battery because of its high stability and currentcapability at high operation temperature. Salts such as a LiCl-KCl were added as a binder for improving electrical per-formance and formability of FeS2 cathode powder. In this study, the effects of the addition of Li2O in LiCl-KCl binderon the formability of FeS2 powder compact were investigated. With the increasing amount of Li2O addition to LiCl-KClbinder salts, the strength of the pressed compacts increased considerably when the powder mixture were pre-heat-treatedabove 350oC. The heat-treatment resulted in promoting the coating coverage of FeS2 particles by the salts as Li2O wasadded. The observed coating as Li2O addition might be attributed to the enhanced wettability of the salt rather than itsreduced melting temperature. The high strength of compacts by the Li2O addition and pre-heat-treatment could improvethe formability of FeS2 raw materials.

Salt bath heat treatment is usually used but recently vacuum heat treatment is increased for the heat treatment of hot work die steels. The differences in two heat treatment processes were compared by testing the mechanical properties of heat treated products. With two different features of processes, mechanical properties such as hardness, tensile strength and impact strength of products show very different results. “In this study, salt bath heat treated products” showed higher tensile strength and impact strength than vacuum heat treated products but hardness was not much different. These lower mechanical properties of vacuum heat treated products are due to differences in heating and quenching process

A thin Cu seed layer for electroplating has been employed for decades in the miniaturization and integration of printed circuit board (PCB), however many problems are still caused by the thin Cu seed layer, e.g., open circuit faults in PCB, dimple defects, low conductivity, and etc. Here, we studied the effect of heat treatment of the thin Cu seed layer on the deposition rate of electroplated Cu. We investigated the heat-treatment effect on the crystallite size, morphology, electrical properties, and electrodeposition thickness by X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscope (AFM), four point probe (FPP), and scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements, respectively. The results showed that post heat treatment of the thin Cu seed layer could improve surface roughness as well as electrical conductivity. Moreover, the deposition rate of electroplated Cu was improved about 148% by heat treatment of the Cu seed layer, indicating that the enhanced electrical conductivity and surface roughness accelerated the formation of Cu nuclei during electroplating. We also confirmed that the electrodeposition rate in the via filling process was also accelerated by heat-treating the Cu seed layer.

We demonstrated size control of Au nanoparticles by heat treatment and their use as a catalyst for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) growth with narrow size distribution. We used uniformly sized Au nanoparticles from commercial Au colloid, and intentionally decreased their size through heat treatment at 800 oC under atmospheric Ar ambient. ST-cut quartz wafers were used as growth substrates to achieve parallel alignment of the SWNTs and to investigate the size relationship between Au nanoparticles and SWNTs. After the SWNTs were grown via chemical vapor deposition using methane gas, it was found that a high degree of horizontal alignment can be obtained when the particle density is low enough to produce individual SWNTs. The diameter of the Au nanoparticles gradually decreased from 3.8 to 2.9 nm, and the mean diameter of the SWNTs also changed from 1.6 to 1.2 nm for without and 60 min heat treatment, respectively. Raman results reconfirmed that the prolonged heat treatment of nanoparticles yields thinner tubes with narrower size distribution. This work demonstrated that heat treatment can be a straightforward and reliable method to control the size of catalytic nanoparticles and SWNT diameter.

In this paper, heat treatment on the cutting device for automatic welding electrode is proposed. The electrode can be fed continuously by general automatic welding. When the leading end of wire is bent, it must be cut with the constant length. The wire has been cut by manual method previously but the automatic cutter device is proposed and designed in this study. These new device parts are designed and the heat treatment of cutter is determined analytically. The numerical three-dimensional analysis is carried out by means of DEFORMTM-HT, the common heat-treatment software. The meshes are divided with tetrahedral elements. As the result, the highest hardness is observed at the end edge of cutter and especially the hardness at edge is reached even HRc 64.3. The layer, 90% of which consists of martensite structure, is extended to the end edge of cutter. And the layer, 50% of which consists of the micro-structure, becomes its middle area. Because the mechanical property can be predicted by this analytical approach, it is not necessary to have any onsite heat treatment. The life of cutter can be improved by using this study result.

본 연구에서는 열처리가 야콘의 항산화 활성에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 열처리 온도(100 및 121℃)와 시간 (15, 30 및 60분)에 따른 항산화 성분 및 항산화 활성 변화를 조사하였다. 열처리 후 야콘의 갈변도, 유리형 및 결합형 폴리페놀 함량, 유리형 및 결합형 플라보노이드 함량, DPPH radical 소거 활성 및 ABTS radical 소거 활성을 측정하였 다. 열처리 후 야콘의 갈변도, 유리형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량과 항산화 활성은 열처리 온도와 시간에 따라 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가하였고, 결합형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량은 감소하였다. 야콘의 유리형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량은 121℃, 60분 열처리 시 생야콘에 비해 각각 1.2배 및 1.1배로 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가하였다. 또한, 야콘의 DPPH radical 소거 활성 및 ABTS Radical 소거 활성도 121℃, 60분 열처리 시 생야콘에 비해 각각 1.7배 및 2.0배로 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가였다. 야콘의 갈변도, 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량과 DPPH radical 및 ABTS radical 소거 활성 간의 상관관계를 분석한 결과, 높은 상관관계(p<0.01)가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과, 열처리 방법을 통해 야콘의 항산화 성분과 항산화 활성을 강화시킬 수 있으며, 이를 활용한 기능성 식품 소재 개발이 가능할 것으로 생각된다.

This study investigated a developed process for producing a composite bipolar plate having excellent conductivity by using coal tar pitch and phenol resin as binders. We used a pressing method to prepare a compact of graphite powder mixed with binders. Resistivity of the impregnated compact was observed as heat treatment temperature was increased. It was observed that pore sizes of the GCTP samples increased as the heat treatment temperature increased. There was not a great difference between the flexural strengths of GCTP-IM and CPR-IM as the heat treatment temperature was increased. The resistivity of GPR700-IM, heat treated at 700℃ using phenolic resin as a binder, was 4829 μΩ·cm which was best value in this study. In addition, it is expected that with the appropriate selection of carbon powder and further optimization of process we can produce a composite bipolar plate which has excellent properties.

Porous Ti-systems with unidirectionally aligned channels were synthesized by freeze-drying and a heat treatment process. TiH2 powder and camphene were used as the source materials of Ti and sublimable vehicles, respectively. Camphene slurries with TiH2 content of 10 and 15 vol% were prepared by milling at 50˚C with a small amount of oligomeric polyester dispersant. Freezing of the slurry was done in a Teflon cylinder attached to a copper bottom plate cooled at -25˚C while unidirectionally controlling the growth direction of the camphene. Pores were generated subsequently by sublimation of the camphene during drying in air for 48 h. The green body was heat-treated at 1100˚C for 1 h in a nitrogen and air atmosphere. XRD analysis revealed that the samples composed of TiN and TiO2 phase were dependent on the heat-treatment atmosphere. The sintered samples showed large pores of about 120 mm which were aligned parallel to the camphene growth direction. The internal wall of the large pores had relatively small pores with a dendritic structure due to the growth of camphene dendrite depending on the degree of nucleation and powder rearrangement in the slurry. These results suggest that a porous body with an appropriate microstructure can be successfully fabricated by freeze-drying and a controlled sintering process of a camphene/TiH2 slurry.

In Korea, wide spread use of whole cottonseed, which is primarily a GMO plant imported from foreign countries and being fed to animals as raw state, has aroused concern that it may disturb the existing ecology of the country unless dispersion of the seed is under proper control. The objective of this study was to elucidate the changes in various nutritive parameters due to heat treatment and to determine the effective condition for removing germination ability of whole cottonseed (WCS). Of the various temperatures applied (76, 78, 80, 85, 100°C/30 min) 85°C for 30 min was confirmed to be the lowest temperature treatment which resulted in a complete removal of the germination ability of WCS. Therefore, based on the determined temperature condition (85°C 30 min) we tried to examine the changes of various nutritional parameters, including nutrient composition, in vitro digestibilities and ruminal protein degradabilities, comparing raw whole cotton seed (RWCS) and heated whole cotton seed (HWCS). Some changes in amino acid composition were observed with heat treatment of WCS, but these were regarded to originate from the variation in plant quality and seed morphology, which are usually affected by different environmental factors during the vegetation period. As for fatty acid composition, no significant differences were observed to occur during heat treatment. However, WCS heated at 85°C for 30 min in a circulating oven showed a significant decrease (p<0.05) of in situ rumen degradability in both dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP), as compared to raw WCS. Overall results obtained in the study indicate that the heating condition used in this study, which was proven to be the most appropriate and economic to remove germination ability of WCS, may also improve the nutritional value of the ruminant with regard to reducing its protein degradability within the rumen.

As a specialty oil, furan fatty acids have gained special attentions since they are known to play important roles in biological systems including human. Although several studies reported chemical synthesis of furan fatty acids, their synthesis consisted of complicated chemical multistep with chemical catalysts. Recently, a simple one-step heat treatment method was developed to produce a novel furan fatty acid, 7,10-epoxy-octadeca-7,9-dienoic acid (7,10-EODA) from a dihydroxyl fatty acid 7,10-dihydroxy-8(E)-octadecenoic acid (DOD). In this report we studied about optimization of environmental conditions for the maximum production of 7,10-EODA from DOD by heat treatment. Production of 7,10-EODA was maximized at over 85℃ for at least over 48 hour in hexane. Solvent volume for maximum production should be over 300 mL per 10 mg DOD.

The effects of heat treatment temperature (HTT) of polyacrylonitrile-based carbon f-ber (CF) on the mechanical, thermal, and tribological properties of C/C composites were investigated. It was found that HTT (graphitization) of CF affects the thermal conductivity and mechanical and tribological characteristics of C/C composites. Thermal treatment of fibersat temperatures up to 2800°C led to a decrease of the wear rate and the friction coefficientof C/C composite-based discs from 7.0 to 1.1 μm/stop and from 0.356 to 0.269, respectively. The friction surface morphology and friction mechanism strongly depended on the mechanical properties of the CFs. The relief of the friction surface of composites based on CFs with finalgraphitization was also modified,compared to that of composites based on initial fibers.This phenomenon could be explained by modificationof the abrasive wear resistance of reinforcement fibersand consequently modificationof the friction and wearing properties of composites. Correlation of the graphitization temperature with the increased flexuraland compressive strength, apparent density, and thermal conductivity of the composites was also demonstrated.

환경친화적인 농산물 살균소독 세척방법으로 소성칼슘 및 열처리에 의한 신선편이 브로콜리 저장 중 품질 및 미생물적인 안전성 향상 효과를 구명하기 위하여 본 연구를 수행하였다. 브로콜리를 절단한 뒤 수돗물, 50μL·L-1 염소수 및 1.5g·L-1 소성칼슘 용액과 45℃의 수돗물 열처리, 열처리와 살균소독제를 혼합한 45℃의 1.5g·L-1 소성칼슘 용액에서 각각 2분 세척하였다. 그리고 신선편이 브로콜리를 50μm PE 필름에 포장하여 5℃에서 9일 저장하면서 기체조성, 전기전도도, 미생물수, 색 및 관능적인 품질을 조사하였다. 포장내부의 기체조성은 열처리에서 O2 농도가 낮고, CO2 농도는 높았으나 비열처리구에서는 살균소독 방법 간에 차이가 없었다. 소성칼슘 및 염소수 살균소독처리는 수돗물 처리보다 신선편이 브로콜리의 미생물 감소에 효과적이었고 열처리는 저장 3일까지는 효과가 있었으나 6일 이후에는 나타나지 않았다. 전기전도도는 소성칼슘 + 열처리에서 높게 나타났고, 색은 저장기간이 지나면서 명도가 낮아지고 황색도는 증가하였으나 살균소독 처리간에는 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 신선편이 브로콜리 저장 중 미생물수는 소성칼슘 단독처리가 염소수와 비슷한 수준으로 저장 9일 동안 일반세균수 제어효과를 나타냈고, 대장균군도 수돗물 처리보다 저장기간 내내 적게 나타났다. 또한 브로콜리 절단면의 변색 억제에는 열처리가 효과적이었으나 이취는 높게 나타났으며, 비열처리구에서 소성칼슘 용액처리는 염소수와 같이 수돗물보다 외관이 우수하고, 이취가 적게 나타났다. 따라서 소성칼슘 처리는 환경친화적인 방법으로서 신선편이 브로콜리의 염소 살균소독 세척을 대체할 수 있는 방법으로 판단되었다.

A general synthetic method to make Fe3O4-δ (activated magnetite) is the reduction of Fe3O4 by H2 atmosphere. However, this process has an explosion risk. Therefore, we studied the process of synthesis of Fe3O4-δ depending on heat-treatment conditions using FeC2O4·2H2O in Ar atmosphere. The thermal decomposition characteristics of FeC2O4·2H2O and the δ-value of Fe3O4-δ were analyzed with TG/DTA in Ar atmosphere. β-FeC2O4·2H2O was synthesized by precipitation method using FeSO4·7H2O and (NH4)2C2O4·H2O. The concentration of the solution was 0.1 M and the equivalent ratio was 1.0. β-FeC2O4·2H2O was decomposed to H2O and FeC2O4 from 150˚C to 200˚C. FeC2O4 was decomposed to CO, CO2, and Fe3O4 from 200˚C to 250˚C. Single phase Fe3O4 was formed by the decomposition of β-FeC2O4·2H2O in Ar atmosphere. However, Fe3C, Fe and Fe4N were formed as minor phases when β-FeC2O4·2H2O was decomposed in N2 atmosphere. Then, Fe3O4 was reduced to Fe3O4-δ by decomposion of CO. The reduction of Fe3O4 to Fe3O4-δ progressed from 320˚C to 400˚C; the reaction was exothermic. The degree of exothermal reaction was varied with heat treatment temperature, heating rate, Ar flow rate, and holding time. The δ-value of Fe3O4-δ was greatly influenced by the heat treatment temperature and the heating rate. However, Ar flow rate and holding time had a minor effect on δ-value.

This study considered the effect of the heat treatment temperature on the compressive strength of coal powder compacts affected by density, porosity, and crystallinity. Coal powder compacts were made by pressing of milled coal powder and were heat treated at 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000℃. The density and porosity of the heat treated specimens at each temperature were measured using the Archimedes method and changes in crystallinity were analyzed using Raman spectroscopy. Increases in compressive strength at 600℃ or higher temperatures were proportionally related to increases in the density and the degree of crystallinity.

This study investigated the effects of annealing environment for the densification and purification properties of pure titanium coating layer manufactured by cold spraying. The annealing was conducted at /1 h and three kinds of environments of vacuum, Ar gas, and mixture gas were controlled. Cold sprayed Ti coating layer (as sprayed) represented 6.7% of porosity and 228 HV of hardness, showing elongated particle shapes (severe plastic deformation) perpendicular to injection direction. Regardless of gas environments, all thermally heat treated coating layers consisted of pure -Ti and minimal oxide. Vacuum environment during heat treatment represented superior densification properties (3.8% porosity, 156.7 HV) to those of Ar gas (5.3%, 144.5 HV) and mixture gas (5.5%, 153.1 HV). From the results of phase analysis (XRD, EPMA, SEM, EDS), it was found that the vacuum environment during heat treatment could be effective for reducing oxide contents (purification) in the Ti coating layer. The characteristic of microstructural evolution with heat treatment was found to be different at three different gas environments. The controlling method for improving densification and purification in the cold sprayed Ti coating material was also discussed.

In this study, mechanical tests and microstructural analyses including TEM analyses with EDX of precipitates in modified 9Cr-1Mo steel were carried out to determine the cause of embrittlement observed after heat-treatment, which limits the usage of the alloy for power plants. Mod. 9Cr-1Mo steel specimens at austenite temperature were quenched to the molten salt baths at 760˚C and 700˚C, in which the specimens were kept for 10 min ~ 10 hr with subsequent air-cooling. Impact tests showed that the impact value dropped abruptly when the specimens were kept longer than 30 min at ~760˚C reaching to minima in about 1 hr, and then increasing at further retention. The tensile strength of the specimens reached the minimum value without much change afterward, whereas the values of elongation showed the same trend as that of the impact value. The isothermally heat-treated steel at 700˚C also showed a minimum impact value in about 1 hr. These results suggest that the isothermal heattreatment at 760 and 700˚C for about 1 hr induces temporal embrittlement in Mod. 9Cr-1Mo steel. The microstructural examination of all the specimens with extraction replica of the carbides revealed that the specimens with temporal embrittlement had Cr2C, indicating that the cause of the embrittlement was the precipitation of the Cr2C. In addition, TEM/EDX results showed that the Fe/Cr ratio was 0.033 to 0.055 for Cr2C, whereas it was 0.48 to 0.75 for Cr23C6, making the distinction of the Cr2C and Cr23C6 possible even without direct electron diffraction analyses.