Fe–Mn–Ce/ceramic powder composite catalyst for highly volatile elemental mercury removal in simulated coal-fired flue gas

Jianrong Li,Jinsheng Chen,Yanke Yu,Chi He 한국공업화학회 2015 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.25 No.-

The Fe–Mn–Ce/CP catalyst prepared by the incipient-wetness impregnation method was investigated for elemental mercury (Hg0) removal in simulated coal-fired flue gas. The incorporation of Fe could remarkably enhance the SO2-resistance of Fe–Mn–Ce/CP catalyst at low temperature, and the existence of water vapor had negative impact on Hg0 removal efficiency. More than 95% of Hg0 could be removed at 100 8C under the conditions of 60 ppm HCl, 3% O2 (v/v), 5% H2O (v/v) and 400 ppm SO2. Hg-TPD results indicated that Hg0 adsorption amount decreased after the addition of H2O or SO2. The XPS results revealed that the incorporation of Fe could enhance the contents of high valence Mnx+ (i.e., Mn3+/Mn4+) and Ce3+ species in the composite catalysts, which are favorable for the oxidation process of elemental mercury. The surface characteristics were not the primary factor determining the catalytic activity. Overall, the catalytic performance of the Fe–Mn–Ce/CP catalyst was closely related to the Fe3+ state, high ratios of (Mn4+ + Mn3+)/Mn2+ and high content of not fully coordinated cerium species.

Acute and repeated dose 26-week oral toxicity study of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 in Kunming mice and Sprague-Dawley rats

Li, Chunmei,Wang, Zhezhe,Li, Guisheng,Wang, Zhenhua,Yang, Jianrong,Li, Yanshen,Wang, Hongtao,Jin, Haizhu,Qiao, Junhua,Wang, Hongbo,Tian, Jingwei,Lee, Albert W.,Gao, Yonglin The Korean Society of Ginseng 2020 Journal of Ginseng Research Vol.44 No.2

Background: 20(S)-ginsenoside-Rg3 (C₄₂H₇₂O₁₃), a natural triterpenoid saponin, is extracted from red ginseng. The increasing use of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 has raised product safety concerns. Methods: In acute toxicity, 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 was singly and orally administrated to Kunming mice and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats at the maximum doses of 1600 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg, respectively. In the 26-week toxicity study, we used repeated oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 in SD rats over 26 weeks at doses of 0, 20, 60, or 180 mg/kg. Moreover, a 4-week recovery period was scheduled to observe the persistence, delayed occurrence, and reversibility of toxic effects. Results: The result of acute toxicity shows that oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 to mice and rats did not induce mortality or toxicity up to 1600 and 800 mg/kg, respectively. During a 26-week administration period and a 4-week withdrawal period (recovery period), there were no significant differences in clinical signs, body weight, food consumption, urinalysis parameters, biochemical and hematological values, or histopathological findings. Conclusion: The mean oral lethal dose (LD₅₀) of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3, in acute toxicity, is above 1600 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg in mice and rats, respectively. In a repeated-dose 26-week oral toxicity study, the no-observed-adverse-effect level for female and male SD rats was 180 mg/kg.

Acute and repeated dose 26-week oral toxicity study of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 in Kunming mice and Sprague – Dawley rats

Chunmei Li,ZhezheWang,Guisheng Li,ZhenhuaWang,Jianrong Yang,Yanshen Li,Hongtao Wang,Haizhu Jin,Junhua Qiao,Hongbo Wang,Jingwei Tian,Albert W. Lee,Yonglin Gao 고려인삼학회 2020 Journal of Ginseng Research Vol.44 No.2

Background: 20(S)-ginsenoside-Rg3 (C42H72O13), a natural triterpenoid saponin, is extracted from redginseng. The increasing use of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 has raised product safety concerns. Methods: In acute toxicity, 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 was singly and orally administrated to Kunming miceand SpragueeDawley (SD) rats at the maximum doses of 1600 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg, respectively. In the26-week toxicity study, we used repeated oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 in SD rats over 26weeks at doses of 0, 20, 60, or 180 mg/kg. Moreover, a 4-week recovery period was scheduled to observethe persistence, delayed occurrence, and reversibility of toxic effects. Results: The result of acute toxicity shows that oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 to mice andrats did not induce mortality or toxicity up to 1600 and 800 mg/kg, respectively. During a 26-weekadministration period and a 4-week withdrawal period (recovery period), there were no significantdifferences in clinical signs, body weight, food consumption, urinalysis parameters, biochemical andhematological values, or histopathological findings. Conclusion: The mean oral lethal dose (LD50) of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3, in acute toxicity, is above 1600mg/kg and 800 mg/kg in mice and rats, respectively. In a repeated-dose 26-week oral toxicity study, theno-observed-adverse-effect level for female and male SD rats was 180 mg/kg.

Utility-based Virtual Cloud Resource Allocation Model and Algorithm in Cloud Computing

Zhu Jianrong,Li Jing,Zhuang Yi 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Grid and Distributed Comp Vol.8 No.2

How to satisfy the users’ QoS requirements while improving the resource utilization is one of the key technologies in cloud computing environment. In our work, a virtual cloud resource allocation model VCRAM-U (Utility-based Virtual Cloud Resource Allocation Model) is proposed. In our model, the problem of virtual cloud resources allocation is abstracted as a utility-maximization problem, taking tradeoffs between the utility of the data center and the performance of the applications into account, and maximizing the utility on the premise of meet user’s performance. We design a local decision algorithm and a global decision algorithm to solve our model. Experimental results show that the virtual cloud resources can be managed and allocated efficiently by our model and algorithms. In addition, our model can get a higher utility of the data center compared with other models.

Removal of basic dye (methylene blue) from aqueous solution using zeolite synthesized from electrolytic manganese residue

Changxin Li,Hong Zhong,Shuai Wang,Jianrong Xue,Zhenyu Zhang 한국공업화학회 2015 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.23 No.-

The zeolite synthesized from electrolytic manganese residue (EMRZ) was investigated as adsorbents to remove methylene blue (MB), a cationic dye, from aqueous solutions. The effects of various experimental parameters, such as contact time, initial MB concentration, temperature and pH on the adsorption capacity were investigated. The results showed that the adsorption behavior of EMRZ was greatly affected by pH and temperature. And higher solution pH and temperature resulted in higher adsorption capacity of MB. The experimental data were also analyzed by the Langmuir and Freundlich models of adsorption. The adsorption of MB onto EMRZ agrees well with the Langmuir isotherm and the thermodynamic parameters such DH, DS and DG were determined to be +37.46 kJ mol1, +201.03 J mol1 K1, 23.45 to 25.46 kJ mol1, respectively, showing adsorption to be an endothermic yet spontaneous process. Moreover, pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models were considered to evaluate the rate parameters. The adsorption process could be described well by pseudo-second-order model, with an activation energy of +13.71 kJ mol1. These results indicate that the synthesized EMRZ is a promising and low-cost adsorbent for removing dyes from wastewater due to the high adsorption capacity.

Power Saving Scheme by Distinguishing Traffic Patterns for Event-Driven IoT Applications

( Shenji Luan ),( Jianrong Bao ),( Chao Liu ),( Jie Li ),( Deqing Zhu ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2019 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.13 No.3

Many Internet of Things (IoT) applications involving bursty traffic have emerged recently with event detection. A power management scheme qualified for uplink bursty traffic (PM-UBT) is proposed by distinguishing between bursty and general uplink traffic patterns in the IEEE 802.11 standard to balance energy consumption and uplink latency, especially for stations with limited power and constrained buffer size. The proposed PM-UBT allows a station to transmit an uplink bursty frame immediately regardless of the state. Only when the sleep timer expires can the station send uplink general traffic and receive all downlink frames from the access point. The optimization problem (OP) for PM-UBT is power consumption minimization under a constrained buffer size at the station. This OP can be solved effectively by the bisection method, which demonstrates a performance similar to that of exhaustive search but with less computational complexity. Simulation results show that when the frame arrival rate in a station is between 5 and 100 frame/second, PM-UBT can save approximately 5 mW to 30 mW of power compared with an existing power management scheme. Therefore, the proposed power management strategy can be used efficiently for delay-intolerant uplink traffic in event-driven IoT applications, such as health status monitoring and environmental surveillance.

Experimental study on seismic behavior of exterior composite beam-to-column joints with large size stiffened angles

Peng Wang,Zhan Wang,Jianrong Pan,Bin Li,Bo Wang 국제구조공학회 2020 Steel and Composite Structures, An International J Vol.37 No.1

The top-and-seat angles with double web angles are commonly used in the design of beam-to-column joints in Asian and North American countries. The seismic behavior analysis of these joints with large cross-section size of beam and column (often connected by four or more bolts) is a challenge due to the effects from the relatively larger size of stiffened angles and the composite action from the adjacent concrete slab. This paper presents an experimental investigation on the seismic performance of exterior composite beam-to-column joints with stiffened angles under cyclic loading. Four full-scale composite joints with different configuration (only one specimen contain top angle in concrete slab) were designed and tested. The joint specimens were designed by considering the effects of top angles, longitudinal reinforcement bars and arrangement of bolts. The behavior of the joints was carefully investigated, in terms of the failure modes, slippage, backbone curves, strength degradation, and energy dissipation abilities. It was found that the slippage between top-and-seat angles and beam flange, web angle and beam web led to a notable pinching effect, in addition, the ability of the energy dissipation was significantly reduced. The effect of anchored beams on the behavior of the joints was limited due to premature failure in concrete, the concrete slab that closes to the column flange and upper flange of beam plays an significant role when the joint subjected to the sagging moment. It is demonstrated that the ductility of the joints was significantly improved by the staggered bolts and welded longitudinal reinforcement bars.

De novo assembly, characterization and annotation for the transcriptome of Sphaeroma terebrans and microsatellite marker discovery

Chong Han,Qiang Li,Xiufeng Li,Zhipeng Zhang,Jianrong Huang 한국유전학회 2018 Genes & Genomics Vol.40 No.2

Sphaeroma terebrans, an economically and ecologically important marine wood-boring isopod, is mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical mangroves. Nevertheless, available genomic and transcriptomic information for this isopod is extremely deficient. Here, we first performed the assembly of S. terebrans transcriptome by Illumina sequencing. A total of 51,092 high-quality unigenes with an average length of 641 bp were obtained and 19,915 unigenes were successfully annotated in four public databases. Only 9932 out of 19915 unigenes were commonly annotated by all four databases. In addition, 9609 unigenes were categorized into 54 function categories of Gene Ontology (GO), and 14,512 unigenes were successfully grouped into 25 functional categories of the EuKaryotic Orthologous Groups (KOG) database. Moreover, 11,507 unigenes were assigned to 228 pathways of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). Out of 51,092 unigenes, a total of 4257 different microsatellites with motifs range from di- to hexanucleotide were identified from 3324 unigene sequences. Among 64 primer pairs selected for validation, 35 were successful in PCR amplification and 13 exhibited obvious repeat polymorphisms in the wild population of S. terebrans in Dongzhaigang (Hainan Island). The transcriptome dataset and the identified microsatellite markers (SSRs) will provide abundant information for researches on the discovery of new genes, metabolic mechanism and genetic diversity of S. terebrans.

Norcantharidin Anti-Angiogenesis Activity Possibly through an Endothelial Cell Pathway in Human Colorectal Cancer

Yu, Tao,Hou, Fenggang,Liu, Manman,Zhou, Lihong,Li, Dan,Liu, Jianrong,Fan, Zhongze,Li, Qi Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.13 No.2

The present study was based on the unexpected discovery that norcantharidin exerted anti-angiogenesis activity when effects on growth of human colon cancer were studied. The aim was to further verify this finding and explore possible mechanisms using a tumor xenograft model in nude mice. We confirmed that norcantharidin (5 or 15 mg/kg) could inhibit angiogenesis of human colon cancer in vivo. In vitro, crossing river assay, cell adhesion assay and tube formation assay indicated that NCTD could reduce the migration, adhesion and vascular network tube formation ability of HUVECs. At the same time, the expression levels of VEGF and VEGFR-2 proteins which play important roles in angiogenesis were reduced as examined by western blotting analysis. Taken together, the results firstly showed NCTD could inhibit angiogenesis of human colon cancer in vivo, probably associated with effects on migration, adhesion and vascular network tube formation of HUVECs and expression levels of VEGF and VEGFR-2 proteins.

Purification, characterization and action mechanism of plantaricin JY22, a novel bacteriocin against Bacillus cereus produced by Lactobacillus plantarum JY22 from golden carp intestine

Xinran Lv,Luhuan Miao,Huanhuan Ma,Fengling Bai,Yang Lin,Mengtong Sun,Jianrong Li 한국식품과학회 2018 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.27 No.3

A novel bacteriocin-producing strain, Lactobacillus plantarum JY22 isolated from golden carp intestine, was screened and identified by its physiobiochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. This bacteriocin, named plantaricin JY22, was purified using ethyl acetate extraction and gel filtration. Its molecular weight was approximately 4.1 kDa by SDS-PAGE analysis. The partial amino acid sequence of plantaricin JY22 was DFGFDIPDEV. It was highly heat-stable and remained active at pH range from 2.5 to 5.5, but was sensitive to protease. Plantaricin JY22 had a bactericidal mode. Scanning electron microscope analysis indicated that plantaricin JY22 damaged the morphology of cells and spores for Bacillus cereus. Moreover, the plantaricin JY22 destroyed cell membrane integrity as confirmed by the leakage of electrolytes, the losses of Na?K?-ATP, AKP, nucleic acids (OD260nm) and proteins. SDS-PAGE of B. cereus proteins further demonstrated that plantaricin JY22 had a remarkable effect on bacterial proteins.