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2017 HKCBEES TOKYO CONFERENCE

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2017 5th International Conference on Agriculture and Biotechnology

(ICABT 2017)

December 27-29, 2017,

Tokyo, Japan

HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU

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Table of Contents 2017 HKCBEES Tokyo Conference Introductions 7

Presentation Instructions 8

Keynote Speaker Introductions 9

Brief Schedule for Conference 17

Detailed Schedule for Conference 19

Session 1

L2005: Evaluating the effectiveness of the combined effect of ultrasound and copper sulphate,

potassium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide on Microcystis aeruginosa

Xiaoge Wu and Junli Liu

21

L1013: Public’s willingness to pay for expanding the solid refuse fuel facilities in Korea: A

contingent valuation study

Hyo-jin Kim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

22

L0002: Measuring Perform-Achieve-Trade: Analysis of Indian Cement and Pulp & Paper

Industries

Hena Oak

23

L3004: Brief Description of Business Model and Construction of Conceptual Model about

Environmental Management Industry from the Perspective of Stakeholders

Yong WANG, Rongbing HU

24

L0011: Administration and Regulation: A study of Taiwan’s Interior Design and Construction

Regulatory System

Chih-Yuan Chang

25

L0009: Spatial Justice: Creating a Unisex Restrooms in Taiwan

Chih-Yuan Chang

26

L4014: Classification of Urban Climate Zones (UCZs) to Understand Urban Heat Island

Phenomena

Dongwoo Lee and Kyushik Oh

27

L4015: Improving the Thermal Environment in Socially Vulnerable Areas in Seoul through Green

and Grey Infrastructure

Heeju Kim, Kyushik Oh, Dongwoo Lee

28

L4016: Analysis of the Changes in Urban Thermal Environments Considering Development

Densities (FAR and BCR)

B. Park, K. Oh, and S. Hong

30

Session 2

H0011: Replication and Occlusion Body Formation of Spodoptera exigua Multicapsid 31


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Nucleopolyhedrovirus in a Homologous Cell Line

Sudawan Chaeychomsri, Win Chaeychomsri, Jindawan Siruntawineti, Motoko Ikeda and

Michihiro Kobayashi

H1001: Grouping Method Using Graph Theory for Agricultural Workers Engaging in Manual

Tasks

Shinji KAWAKURA, Ryosuke Shibasaki

32

H1003: Simultaneous UV-C and Ultrasonic Energy Treatment for Disinfection of Tomatoes and

Its Antioxidant Properties

Okon J. Esua, Nyuk Ling Chin ,Yus A. Yusof

33

H1004: Evaluation of biochemical factors from mixed animal wastes feedstock in biogas

production

Nanh Lovanh, Graciela M.L. Ruiz-Aguilar, John Loughrin

34

H0010: Determinants of indigenous fruits consumption frequency among rural households:

Evidence from Mutale local municipality, South Africa

Rudzani Nengovhela, Amon Taruvinga and Abyssinia Mushunje

35

H0012: Honey value addition initiatives selection choices among smallholder beekeepers: Case

of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Tina Hans, Amon Taruvinga and Abyssinia Mushunje

36

H0013: The Use Of Transferable Breeding Container For Population Enrichment Of Pollinator,

Forcipomyia spp. In The Cocoa Ecosystem

Saripah Bakar, Alias Awang

37

H0015: An assessment of community’s perceptions of IK based handicrafts in Amathole District

Municipality, South Africa.

Raphael Mudemba, Amon Taruvinga and L. Zhou

38

H4002: Effect of Concentration of Silicon and Sucrose in Medium on Recovery of Dianthus

caryophyllus ‘Green Beauty’ from Hyperhydricity

Luc The Thi, Ji Eun Park, Young Gyu Kim and Byoung Ryong Jeong

39

H4003: Effect of Supplemental LEDs on Growth and Development of Codonopsis lanceolate

Seedlings

Dong Il Kang, Jin Zhao, Xiuxia Ren, Hai Kyoung Jeong, Ya Liu, Ziwei Guo, and Byoung

Ryong Jeong

40

H0005: Climate Change Effects on Plants

Ebru Orhun

41

L1020: Distribution and Incidence of Apple Powdery Mildew in a Mixed Cultivar Orchards and

Relationship to Disease Severity

Amitabh Singh, Krishna P. Singh, Govind S. Rajwar

42

Session 3

L1015: Performance and combustion characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with waste 43


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vegetable oils

Abdullah A Abuhabaya

L2010: A GIS Based Analysis of Earth Crust Temperature at Depth for Geothermal Energy

Exploration in Afghanistan

Mohammad Abed Anwarzai, and Ken Nagasaka

44

L1017: Development of fuel production technology using for biomass

Hee Joo Han, Young Ho Lee, Gyun Ro Lee, Dae Won Park

45

L0017: A Japanese Utility Renewable Energy Management

Amin Mohammadirad, Sho Kainose and Ken Nagasaka

46

L4012: Performance Analysis by Supporting Electrolytes for Vanadium Bromine Redox Flow

Battery

Youngho Lee, Miae Kim, Joonhyeon Jeon

47

L4013: An Effect of Imidazolium as Bromine Complex Agents on Zinc-Bromine Hybrid Flow

Battery

Donghyeon Kim, Yongbeom Kim, Joonhyeon Jeon

48

L2013: Interfacial control of transition metal -based nanostructures as electrode materials for

electrochemical sensors

Wen Zhang, Li Dong, Hongxiu Du, and Degang Fu

49

L1010: A study on the polymeric nano fiber by electrospinning method

Sang Hyun Lee, Sang Moon Lee, Soon Woong Chang, Sung Su Kim

50

H0002: Supercritical fluid extraction of red pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) seeds

Asiah Abdullah, Siti Salwa Abd Gani, Nor Fadzillah Mohd Mokhtar, Taufiq Yap Yun Hin1,

Zaibunnisa Abdul Haiyee, Suhana Mustafa

51

H0006: Subcritical CO2 Extraction, Chemical Characterization and Biological Potential of

Essential Oil from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni

Uswatun Hasanah Zaidan, Syahida Ahmad, Azizah Abdul Hamid and Fahmi Yusof

52

L1006: High purity and concentration of acetate production via thermophilic syngas (CO/H2)

fermentation with mixed culture in a hollow fiber membrane biofilm reactor

Nan Shen, Raymond J. Zeng

53

L3002: Resveratrol Production in Genetically Modified Synechococcus elongates PCC7942 via

Carbon Dioxide Conversion

LIANG-JUNG CHIEN, MENG-PING HUANG, JIAN-AN PAN

54

Session 4

L0001: Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology based on Recent Benthic Foraminifera in Cikadal

Beach, Ciletuh Geopark, West Java, Indonesia

Reisha Navelie, Hany Nabila, Lia Jurnaliah, Winantris, Mega Rosana

55

L2003: Abundance of anammox bacteria in partial nitrification-anammox (PNA) process 56


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Qingkun WANG and Jianzhong HE

L2012: Community structure and Functional Species in Food / Paper Waste Reactor

Lu Li, Yu Qin, Kengo Kubota, Yu-You Li

57

L3007: The influence of cyanobacterial extracellular polymeric substances on coagulation

processes

Feng Sun, Aijuan Qian

58

L1014: A Study on Methane Production and Microbial Communities Characteristics of

Psychrophilic Anaerobic Digestion Using Food Wastewater Anaerobic Digestion Sludge as a

Inoculum

Min Joo. Lee, Seoyun. Hwang, Nari. Lee and Joonhong. Park

59

L3001: Doped and multilayer biocompatible materials prepared by hybrid laser deposition

Miroslav Jelinek, Tomas Kocourek, Jan Remsa, Petr Pisarik, Jan Miksovsky

61

L3009: Improving transcriptional activity of human cytomegalovirus major immediate-early

promoter by mutating NF-κB binding sites

Danyang Wang, Jinke Wang

62

L4005: On-nylon Membrane Detection of Nucleic Acid Molecules by Rolling Circle

Amplification

Xinhui Xu, Jinke Wang

63

L2008: Effects of Fe (II) on anammox activity and functional genes expression

Ding Jing

64

L0010: Effects of Glucose and Ferrous Supplements and Culture Conditions on Lipopeptide

Biosurfactant from Pseudomonas spp.

Thanawat Choopraserdchok, Dusit Athinuwat and Pumnat Chuenchomrat

65

L2001: Direct butanol production from food wastes by an Amylolytic Clostridium

Chen Zhang, Jianzhong He

66

L2002: Hydrodynamics analysis of fish movement in steady swimming for modeling of fish robot

Ali S. Vaghefi and M. Abbaspour

67

Session 5

L0004: Investigation into the destruction potential of Zr-doped TiO2 nanoparticles for the

abatement of H2S gas

Naeem Shahzad

68

L0006: Fine Particle Emission from Smokeless Incense Burning

Aungsiri Tipayarom and Nadtapon Warigool

69

L1019: A Common Goal: Reducing Worldwide Hazard Air Pollution from Diesel Engine

Generators

Stephen Oltjen

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L3008: Graphene-Induced Surface Vacancy of Zn2SnO4 for the Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven

Photocatalytic Oxidation of NO

Wing kei Ho, Yuhan Li

71

L1008: Startup and kinetic characteristics of a three-stage nitrification moving bed biofilm

reactor (MBBR)

Miao Zhang, Chengda He, Yongzhen Peng, Jun Wu

72

L2006: Fluidized Ceramic Membrane Reactor Combined with Activated Carbon Particles for

Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Michael Lim, Muhammad Aslam, Enyoung Park, Rizwan Ahmad, Deaun Kwon, Soomin

Chang and Jeonghwan Kim

73

L0014: Preparation of Sulfur-Impregnated Carbonaceous Adsorbent from Rice Husk for Heavy

Metal Removal from Aqueous Solution

Takaaki Wajima

74

L3003: Bio-photoelectrocatalytic System for Synergistic Treatment of Dye Wastewater

Xizi Long, Xianning Li

75

L1018: Fouling Mechanisms in Microfiltration with Sodium Alginate in High Ionic Strength

Conditions

Hoseok Jang, Amine Charfi and Jeonghwan Kim

76

L4020: Effect of Spent Mushroom Substrate on Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils with

Heavy Metals

Kokyo Oh, Hongyan Cheng, Teng Wang, Chiquan He, Pengpeng Xiong, Jungang Wang

77

L4011: Trends in Air Concentration of TGM and Analysis of Behaviors of Atmospheric Mercury

in Korea

Rhokho Kim, Seung Ha Lee, Dan Bee Kim, Young Jae Lee, Sang Bo Lee, Jung Su Kim

78

Poster

H4001: Production of Whitening and Anti-aging materials from Lipid Extracted Microalgae

Jinwoo Kim

79

List of Listeners 80

One Day Tour 81

Conference Venue 82

Note 83

Feedback Information 87


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2017 HKCBEES Tokyo Conference

Introductions

Welcome to CBEES 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan. The objective of the Tokyo conference is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Agriculture and Biotechnology.

2017 5th International Conference on Agriculture and Biotechnology (ICABT 2017)

Paper publishing and index: ICABT 2017 papers will be published in the following

Journals:

International Journal of Social Science and Humanity (IJSSH, ISSN:

2010-3646), and be Indexing: Google Scholar, Engineering & Technology

Digital Library, Crossref, Index Copernicus, and ProQuest.

Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies (JOAAT, ISSN:

2301-3737), and all papers will be included in the Engineering &

Technology Digital Library, and indexed by Ulrich's Periodicals Directory,

Google Scholar, Engineering & Technology Digital Library, Crossref and

Electronic Journals Digital Library.

Conference website and email: http://www.icabt.org/; [email protected].

http://www.ijesd.org/

http://www.ijesd.org/

http://www.etlibrary.org/?m=fbook&a=article&bid=71

http://www.etlibrary.org/?m=fbook&a=article&bid=71

http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/International+Journal+of+Social+Science+and+Humanity,p5521,3.html


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Presentation Instructions

Instructions for Oral Presentations

Devices Provided by the Conference Organizer:

Laptop Computer (MS Windows Operating System with MS PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat

Reader)

Digital Projectors and Screen

Laser Sticks

Materials Provided by the Presenters:

PowerPoint or PDF Files (Files should be copied to the Conference laptop at the beginning of

each Session.)

Duration of each Presentation (Tentatively):

Regular Oral Presentation: about 12 Minutes of Presentation and 3 Minutes of Question and

Answer

Keynote Speech: about 40 Minutes of Presentation and 5 Minutes of Question and Answer

Instructions for Poster Presentation

Materials Provided by the Conference Organizer:

The place to put poster

Materials Provided by the Presenters:

Home-made Posters

Maximum poster size is A1

Load Capacity: Holds up to 0.5 kg

Best Presentation Award One best oral presentation will be selected from each oral presentation session, and the

Certificate for Best Oral Presentation will be awarded at the end of each session on Dec 27-28,

2017.

Dress code Please wear formal clothes or national representative of clothing.


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Keynote Speaker Introductions

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Kokyo Oh

Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan

Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He

graduated with his MSci degree and Ph.D. degree (soil science) in Chinese Academy of

Sciences, and was honored as a STA research fellow by Japan government from 1997 to 1999.

The research areas include soil science, environmental conservation, environmental chemistry,

and atmospheric environment. His current research is mainly on soil remediation,

environmental agronomy, atmospheric PM2.5 and water environment conservation. He has

published more than 90 publications.


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Topic: “Contamination of Agricultural Soils and its Conservation with Phytoremediation

technology”

Abstract- Extensive contamination of agricultural soils with various heavy metals has been a

great health concern worldwide, because of their potential reactivity, toxicity, mobility and

long-lasting effects on the ecosystems. There is a great need to develop effective technologies

for treatment of these contaminated soils as recoverable soil resources. There are some

conventional soil treatment technologies including physicochemical and thermal processes,

anyway, they are usually extremely expensive, and destroy the soil bio-productivity, possibly

leading to the loss of soil resources.

Recently, phytoremediation as a cost effective and environmentally friendly soil treatment

technology has been developed, in which green plants are used to remediate the contaminated

soils without destroying the soil properties. The traditional phytoremediation are mainly used

special plants known as hyperaccumulators.

In the current report, the characteristics and development of phytoremediation were

introduced, and a profitable phytoremediation strategy was suggested. The profitable

phytoremediation used resourceful plants, instead of the special hyperaccumulator plants, for

both utilization and remediation of the contaminated soil. In this strategy, the owners of

contaminated sites possibly cost nothing, but can obtain economic income through selling the

resources crops to factories for production of biofuel or to the market as ornamental flowers.

Through this way, the practical application of phytoremediation can be effectively promoted,

and then the agricultural soil resources can be conserved.

To test the feasibility of the suggested strategy, experiments from pot culture to field

demonstration were carried out. The results showed that phytoremediation using resourceful

plants work effectively for remediation of contaminated soils as well as for generation

economic benefits to the owners of contaminated sites. Therefore, we suggest the profitable

phytoremediation system as a reasonable choice for remediation of contaminated sites. (This

work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI No.16H05633).


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Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Byoung Ryong Jeong

Division of Applied Life Science (BK21+ Program), Graduate School, Gyeongsang National

University, Republic of Korea

Prof. Byoung Ryong Jeong has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Colorado

State University, USA, and postdoctoral studies from University of Missouri-Columbia, USA,

and Chiba University, Japan. He is a professor in Department of Horticulture and the former

Dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Republic

of Korea. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as

an editor-in-chief of Horticulture, Environment and Biotechnology, and president of the

Korean Society for Floricultural Science. His current research is mainly on Climate Change,

Conservation Biology, Genetics, Climatology, Ornamental Horticulture, Plant Tissue culture

and micropropagation.


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Topic: “Quality, Quality Shifting, and Positioning of Night Interruption Light Affect

Flowering, Morphogenesis, and Photoperiodic Gene Expressions in Chrysanthemum”

Abstract-The quality, quality shifting, positioning and supplementary night interruption light

(NIL) on morphogenesis, flowering, and photoperiodic gene expressions was investigated in

Dendranthema grandiflorum ‘Gaya Yellow’ (qualitative short day plant, SDP). The plants

grown in a closed-type plant factory under a light intensity of 100 μmol m-2

s-1

PPFD provided

by light emitting diode (LEDs) under four different treatments with different sub-treatments

(methodology section). Our results propose that morphogenesis, flowering, and transcriptional

factors of chrysanthemum were highly affected by quality and position of the NIL. The

morphological and physiological results showed that NI-B light was essential for growth and

development. The photoreceptor gene expression analysis (phyA, phyB and cry1) perceived

NI-R and NI-Fr in all four treatments by increasing their expression levels for early flower

initiation, visually also seen in our morphological results. Further, our results also indicated

that the NI-B onto the OL has a potential applicability to use in production of potted SDPs

due to subsequent height inhibition. Additionally, our results represented a useful practical

technique for flowering control as an alternative method of using the blackout curtains during

the LD seasons.


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Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Hyo Choi

Dept. of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences,Gangneung-Wonju National University,

South Korea

Dr. Hyo Choi is meteorologist, environmental scientist and physical oceanographer with over

40 years experiences in numerical modeling researches as Overseas invited senior researcher

by Korean Government of Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI (now,

KIOST) of KAIST), Ministry of Science & Technology, a high-level Researcher (nominated

by President of Korean Government) of National Fisheries & Research Development Institute

(NFRDI), Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, and Full Professor of Gangneung-Wonju

National University. He obtained 2 Ph.D. degrees from Dept. of Civil Engineering, University

of Texas at Austin, USA (1984) and College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University,

Beijing; China (2004). His research interests cover a variety of fields in Meteorology,

Environmental Science & Engineering and Physical Oceanography. He acted as not only

Interpreter and Investigator of Korea Antarctic Scientific Expedition Team for two times

(1985~1987), but also Korean Government Representative for Inter-governmental Meetings

on Antarctic Treaty and Science Policies. He has been President of Korean Environmental

Sciences Society (2002~2003), President and Vice President of Asia-Oceania Geosciences

Society, Singapore (Atmospheric Section-60 Nations), Director General of Donghae Coastal

Region Research Institute (1989~1991) and Dean of the Graduate School, Gangneung-Wonju

National University, Korea (2009~2011, 2011~2012). In present, he is Director General of

Atmospheric & Oceanic Disaster Research Institute, Korea (2014~Present), High-end Foreign

Expert of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, China (CAS; 2015~Presen), and also

acting as Editor-in-Chief of 13 international journals (USA, Singapore, India) and Editor of

25 ones (USA, UK, Italy, Canada, etc.) in Environmental Pollution, Disaster, Agriculture,

Food sciences, Water resources, Lake and rivers, GIS, Physical sciences, Oceanography,

Fishery and Meteorology.


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Topic: “Trapping of Particulate Matters Transported by Westerly Downslope Wind Storm in

Thermal Internal Boundary Layer due to Easterly Onshore Wind in the Korean Coast for a

Dust Storm Period”

Abstract- Hourly variations of particulate matters (PM10, PM2.5, PM1) measured by

GRIMM-1107 Aerosol Sampler were analyzed from May 5 to May 13, 2007. Before a dust

storm period, until May 7, 2007, PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 concentrations near the ground were

very low with no influence of dust transportation from China to an eastern coastal city

(Gangneung), Korea. Their maximum values of each PM concentrations were 62.28μg/m3

,

43.07μg/m3

, 30.75μg/m3

, while their minima were 26.46μg m-3

, 22.28μg m-3

, 14.02 μg m3

,

respectively. For a dust storm period on May 7 ~ 8, when a great amount of dust transported

from China to the city in the Korean eastern coast under a westerly wind, PM10, PM2.5 and

PM1 concentrations reached maximum values of 357.48μg/m3

, 83.04μg/m3

, 65.76μg/m3

,

respectively. Otherwise, their minima were 52.04μg/m3

, 28.34μg/m3

, 21.83μg/m3

, which were

still bigger than ones before the dust period. In the period of dust storm period, coarse

particulate matter (> 2.5 μm) rather than fine particulate matter (2. 5 μm and 1 μm ) mad a

great contribution to the formation of high PM concentrations at this city. As cold front

passed by the city on May 8, the original northwesterly wind shifted into southwesterly wind,

which blew down from Mt. Taegulyang (895m height) in the east of Gangneung city toward a

downwind side (Gangneng city) and became a strong downslope wind storm of 21.5m/s.

This westerly wind storm confronted easterly onshore wind consisting of both easterly

cyclonic wind and sea breeze) from the East Sea toward the city, resulting in a calm cavity

covering the whole city. Streamline calculated by WRF-3.6 numerical meteorological model,

air trajectory by Hysplit model and TOMS Aerosol Index showed that huge amounts of dust

particles transported from both Gobi Desert and Nei-mongo in the northern China toward

Gangneung city of Korea and the transported dust particles might combine with local

particulate matters or gases emitted from vehicles on the road of the city and should be

trapped and merged within a calm zone of shallower thermal internal boundary layer in the

coastal city, resulting in maximum PM concentrations at 1700LST, May 8. Just before sunset.


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Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Chiharu Ishii

Hosei University, Japan

Chiharu Ishii received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University, Japan in

1997. From 2002 to 2009, he was an Assistant Professor with Kogakuin University. Currently,

he is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hosei University, Japan. His

research interests are in medical robotics, assistive technology and robust control. He is a

member of JSME, SICE, RSJ, IEEJ and IEEE.


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Topics “Challenge for Development of the Surgical Robot”

Abstract- Recently, robotic surgery using the surgical robot such as da Vinci surgical system

has been performed clinically in the field of laparoscopic surgery. On the other hand, most

recently, the type of operation called single-port surgery (SPS) has been performed in the field

of laparoscopic surgery by surgeon. Unlike the conventional laparoscopic surgery, in SPS,

multiple surgical instruments are inserted through only one incision hole on the umbilicus.

SPS can further reduce the stress on the patient during laparoscopic surgery. However, SPS

requires surgeons to have an advanced technique and experience because the surgical

operation is performed in a limited space.

In this talk, the haptic surgical robot for single-port surgery developed in our laboratory,

termed "HASROSS", is presented. HASROSS consists of two robotic arms with forceps

manipulator and one robotic laparoscope. The robotic arms with forceps manipulator are

manipulated by haptic input device Omega 7 made by Force Dimension Inc. In addition, a

grasping force of the forceps and a force added to the forceps shaft are fed back to the surgeon

through the Omega 7. While, the robotic laparoscope is controlled by using a motion sensor,

"Kinect for Windows", so that the surgeon can operate the laparoscope with his/her head

motions. Some experimental results are shown and discussed.


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Brief Schedule for Conference

Day 1

Dec 27, 2017 (Wednesday) 10:00~17:00

Venue: Lobby of HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU

Participants Onsite Registration & Conference Materials Collection

Dec 27, 2017 (Wednesday) 14:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia Keynote Speech I 14:00~14:40

Prof. Kokyo Oh is from Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan

Topic: “Contamination of Agricultural Soils and its Conservation with

Phytoremediation technology”

Coffee Break: 14:40~15:00

Session 1: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia

9 presentations-Topic: “Environmental Management and Urban Planning”

Day 2

Dec 28, 2017 (Thursday) 8:50~18:50

Venue: Fuyo1/3Room / Minuet Room / Freesia Room

Arrival Registration, Keynote Speeches, and Conference Presentations

Morning Conference

Venue: Fuyo1/3Room Opening Speech 8:50~9:00

Keynote Speech II 9:00~9:45

Prof. Byoung Ryong Jeong is from Division of Applied Life Science (BK21+

Program), Graduate School, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea

Topic: “Quality, Quality Shifting, and Positioning of Night Interruption Light

Affect Flowering, Morphogenesis, and Photoperiodic Gene Expressions in

Chrysanthemum”

Keynote Speech III 9:45~10:30

Prof. Hyo Choi is from Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea

Topic: “Trapping of Particulate Matters Transported by Westerly Downslope

Wind Storm in Thermal Internal Boundary Layer due to Easterly Onshore Wind in

the Korean Coast for a Dust Storm Period”

Coffee Break & Photo Taking 10:30~11:00

Keynote Speech IV 11:00~11:45

Prof. Chiharu Ishii is from Hosei University, Japan

Topic: “Challenge for Development of the Surgical Robot”

Lunch 11:45~12:45

Venue: Fuyo 1/3 Room

Afternoon Conference


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Session 2: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room

12 presentations-Topic: “Agricultural

Science and Engineering”

Session 3: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room

12 presentations-Topic: “Energy and

Chemical Engineering”

Coffee Break 15:45~16:00

Session 4: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room

12 presentations-Topic: “Biological

Science and Technology”

Session 5: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Freesia Room

11 presentations-Topic: “Air Pollution

Management and Water Treatment”

Dinner:19:00

Venue: Restaurant in HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU

Tips: Please arrive at conference room 10 minutes before the session beginning to

upload PPT into conference laptop.


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Detailed Schedule for Conference Dec 27, 2017 (Wednesday)

Venue: Lobby of HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU 10:00-17:00 Arrival and Registration

Note: (1) The registration can also be done at any time during the conference.

(2) The organizer doesn’t provide accommodation, and we suggest you make an early reservation.

(3) One best oral presentation will be selected from each oral presentation session, and the Certificate

for Best Oral Presentation will be awarded at the end of each session on Dec 27-28, 2017.

Dec 27, 2017 (Wednesday)

Venue: Freesia 14:00~14:40 Keynote Speech I

Prof. Kokyo Oh of Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan

Topic: “Contamination of Agricultural Soils and its Conservation with

Phytoremediation technology” 14:40~15:00 Coffee Break

15:00~17:15 Session 1

Topic: “Environmental Management and Urban Planning”

Dec 28, 2017 (Thursday)

Venue: Fuyo1/3Room / Minuet Room / Freesia Room

8:50~9:00

Welcoming Speech

Prof. Kokyo Oh


9:00~9:45

Keynote Speech II

Prof. Byoung Ryong Jeong

Division of Applied Life Science (BK21+ Program), Graduate School,

Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea

Topic: “Quality, Quality Shifting, and Positioning of Night Interruption Light Affect

Flowering, Morphogenesis, and Photoperiodic Gene Expressions in Chrysanthemum”

9:45~10:30

Keynote Speech III

Prof. Hyo Choi

Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea

Topic: “Trapping of Particulate Matters Transported by Westerly Downslope

Wind Storm in Thermal Internal Boundary Layer due to Easterly Onshore Wind in the

Korean Coast for a Dust Storm Period”

10:30~11:00 Coffee Break & Photo Taking


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11:00~11:45

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Chiharu Ishii

Hosei University, Japan

Topic: “Challenge for Development of the Surgical Robot”

11:45~12:45 Lunch

Venue: Fuyo 1/3 Room

12:45~15:45

Session 2

Minuet Room

Topic: “Agricultural Science and

Engineering”

Session 3

Freesia Room

Topic: “Energy and Chemical Engineering”

15:45~16:00 Coffee Break

16:00~19:00

Session 4

Minuet Room

Topic: “Biological Science and

Technology”

Session 5

Freesia Room

Topic: “Air Pollution Management and

Water Treatment”

19:00 Dinner

Venue: Restaurant in HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU


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Let’s move to the Sessions!

Session 1

Tips: The schedule for each presentation is for reference only. In order not to miss your presentation,

we strongly suggest that you attend the whole session.

Afternoon, Dec 27, 2017 (Wednesday)

Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia

Session 1: 9 presentations-Topic: “Environmental Management and Urban

Planning”

Session Chair: Prof. Kokyo Oh

L2005 Presentation 1 (15:00~15:15)

Evaluating the effectiveness of the combined effect of ultrasound and copper sulphate,

potassium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide on Microcystis aeruginosa

Xiaoge Wu and Junli Liu

Yangzhou University, China

Abstract- Harmful cyanobacterial blooms are increasing environmental issues and required

novel removal technology since the required doses of algaecides may cause further

environmental pollution or treatment facility damage. This study suggests the ultrasound

mediated transfer of algaecides as a promising high efficiency and low energy cost strategy

for harmful algal control. We evaluated the effectiveness of copper sulphate, potassium

permanganate and hydrogen peroxide combined with 40 kHz (0.14 W/cm3) and 800 kHz

(0.03 W/cm3) ultrasound. Copper sulphate combined with 800 kHz (0.03 W/cm3) ultrasound

leads to 30% of cell lysis. Potassium permanganate combined 800 kHz (0.03 W/cm3) within

30 seconds sonication showed an oxidation effects of most of the cyanobacterial cells. Low

doses of hydrogen peroxide combined with ultrasound slightly reduced M. aeruginosa

population. 800 kHz (0.03 W/cm3) is recommend since it could promote intracellular

algaecides delivery without high energy cost which may due to the mechanical resonance

impelled by the ultrasound forming stable cavitational oscillation. This is the first report that

illustrates the usage of high frequency ultrasound at low intensity to promote algaecides into

cyanobacterial cells.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L1013 Presentation 2 (15:15~15:30)

Public’s willingness to pay for expanding the solid refuse fuel facilities in Korea: A contingent

valuation study

Hyo-jin Kim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea

Abstract-Solid refuse fuel (SRF) is a solid fuel which is produced from non-hazardous

combustible waste. When we use SRF as an energy source rather than fossil fuel, SRF can

mitigate greenhouse gas emissions compared with the fossil fuels. For this reason, the

expansion of the SRF manufacturing and utilizing facilities is widely demanded in Korea so

as to reduce waste disposal, decrease the crude oil imports, and respond to climate change.

Thus, the Korean government is considering the enhancement the ratio of combustible waste

into SRF from 16% in 2014 to 100% in 2020. In order to expand the utilization of the SRF,

the number of SRF utilizing facility multiplies fourfold in 2020. This study attempts to assess

the public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the expansion of the SRF facilities in Korea. To this

end, a contingent valuation (CV) survey of randomly selected 1,000 households was

conducted in Korea by using person-to-person interviews. We used one-and-one-half-bound

dichotomous choice question in the CV survey and applied the spike model to deal with the

zero WTP responses. The results show that the yearly mean WTP for the expansion of the

SRF facilities is estimated to be KRW 2,479 (USD 2.17) per household, which is statistically

significant at the 1% level. The aggregate national value amounts to KRW 46.4 billion (USD

40.5 million) per year. This information will be useful in evaluating and planning SRF

policies and projects.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L0002 Presentation 3 (15:30~15:45)

Measuring Perform-Achieve-Trade: Analysis of Indian Cement and Pulp & Paper Industries

Hena Oak

Jawaharlal Nehru University, INDIA

Abstract- India launched the Perform-Achieve-Trade (PAT) scheme for firms in the eight most

energy intensive industries in 2007. The purpose was to induce efficient use of energy through

trade in Energy Saving Certificates. The scheme identified the most polluting firms from each

of these industries and set individual energy intensity reduction targets. The first PAT cycle

runs from 2012-2015 and targets have to be met within this period. This is the first time India

has adopted tradable permit scheme for dealing with an environmental problem. The objective

of this paper is to quantify the PAT effect for two out of the eight identified industries viz.

Cement and Pulp & Paper industries. The paper uses difference-in-differences to estimate the

energy intensity of firms in the implementation years. The technique of difference-in-

difference-in-differences is used to get even more robust results. Finally an OLS model is

estimated to include other factors that influence the energy intensity of firms from these two

industries. The paper finds PAT did not have a significant impact on the average energy

intensity, but the coefficient of triple interaction term is significantly negative. All other

explanatory variable shave the expected signs.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L3004 Presentation 4 (15:45~16:00)

Brief Description of Business Model and Construction of Conceptual Model about

Environmental Management Industry from the Perspective of Stakeholders

Yong WANG, Rongbing HU

Southeast University, China

Abstract- Competition among enterprises is no longer the competition between products, but

the competition between business models. Innovation in business models is a booster for the

development of environmental management industry. The article starts with the literature of

the business model of environmental management industry and analyzes the present research

situation and characteristics. Then, the conceptual model of environmental management

industry business model is constructed and its internal meaning is expounded from the

perspective of stakeholders.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L0011 Presentation 5 (16:00~16:15)

Administration and Regulation: A study of Taiwan’s Interior Design and Construction

Regulatory System

Chih-Yuan Chang

Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan

Abstract- The establishment of the interior design and construction regulatory system was

triggered by the 1995 Wei-Er-Kang Restaurant fire incident which caused a high death toll.

Pressed by public opinion and the will of the people, the government finally revised the

building administration law and regulations substantially and tailored interior design and

construction law and regulations according to the environment and system of Taiwan.

Taiwan's interior design and construction administration system was built for the

administration of two targets: people, the action subject, and buildings, the object. The system

was modified in three stages. The study found that the system is characterized by a graduation

transition from the initial public safety protection orientation to putting emphasis on

simplifying the interior design and construction system, modifying the interior construction

permit application, and implementing the certificate renewal and retraining systems for

interior design and construction companies and professional technical personnel to improve

professional quality.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L0009 Presentation 6 (16:15~16:30)

Spatial Justice: Creating a Unisex Restrooms in Taiwan

Chih-Yuan Chang

Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan

Abstract- This study recommended that Taiwan’s unisex restroom designs, on the basis of

building usage types and public usage characteristics, be divided into single and complex

types in order to adapt to local conditions. In addition, in furthering the use of unisex

restrooms, governments should not only consider the standpoint of the user (such as male,

female, transgender) in design and planning, but also take into account general users’

experience. Based on the concepts of the United Nations’ “Convention on the Elimination of

all Forms of Discrimination Against Women" for the elimination of discrimination against

women (such as elderly or handicapped women), equality of acquiring resources and

gender-equal rights, the unisex restroom indeed needs to be set and the State should take

appropriate measures to protect the rights of women.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L4014 Presentation 7 (16:30~16:45)

Classification of Urban Climate Zones (UCZs) to Understand Urban Heat Island Phenomena

Dongwoo Lee and Kyushik Oh

Research professor in the Research Institute of Spatial Planning & Policy, Hanyang University,

Seoul, Korea.

Abstract- In order to achieve effective urban heat island mitigation, it is necessary to

understand and apply urban climatic information in urban planning. In this regard, the urban

climate zone (UCZ) concept is useful in urban thermal environment planning because it offers

integrated information on climate characteristics and related spatial elements. Therefore,

in-depth investigation should be conducted on the relationship between urban climate

phenomena and urban spatial elements through systematic and scientific analysis.

This study consists of four parts. First, weather observation data were obtained from 280

AWSs (Automatic Weather Stations), which were observed on cloudless days with

moderate-low wind speed. Using these data, air temperature maps of the study area were

prepared by natural neighborhood interpolation method. Next, potential independent variables

were prepared as a GIS DB, including topography, land use, land cover, urban form, human

activities, and locational characteristics to predict air temperature. Third, influential urban

spatial elements were identified to classify UCZs by step-wise regression analysis. Finally,

UCZs boundaries in the study area were delineated by K-means clustering analysis. In

addition, the spatial characteristics of each UCZ were identified.

As a study result, impervious surface area ratio, building surface fraction, albedo, spacing

from green spaces, and spacing from subway stations, and NDVI were determined as

significant variables. In addition, UCZs in study areas classified into mountainous areas,

urban forests, urban parks, high-rise built up areas with green spaces, low-rise built up areas

with similar building height, mid-rise built up areas with roads, mid-rise built up areas with

many buildings, high-rise built up areas, high-rise built up areas with roads, and mid-rise built

up areas without green spaces.

Through a series of statistical analyses, this study was able to identify more detailed and

clearer UCZ boundaries (100m×100m) and explain statistically significant urban spatial

characteristics for better understanding of urban climate phenomena. The methods presented

in this study can be effectively applied to other cities that have similar weather conditions and

urban development patterns.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L4015 Presentation 8 (16:45~17:00)

Improving the Thermal Environment in Socially Vulnerable Areas in Seoul through Green

and Grey Infrastructure

Heeju Kim, Kyushik Oh, Dongwoo Lee

Department of Urban Planning and Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea

Abstract- Seoul is a representative city of Korea for its excessive urban developments and

lack of sufficient green space due to its high-density land use. As a result of the increasingly

built-up areas (of land cover) and impervious surface ratio by urbanization, average urban

temperatures have been rising, which has led to higher instances of the urban heat island

phenomenon. The urban heat island effect in turn, can alter or directly control urban air

circulation patterns that can eventually and significantly negatively impact the lives of the

public. In worst case scenarios, fatalities occur and thus, it is urgent that preparations be

rendered in the form of practical policies aimed at reducing air temperatures and urban heat

island areas.

There have been various efforts underway to employ green and grey infrastructure in the form

of green roofs, street trees planting, cool roofs and cool pavements on the road. Recently, the

thermal environment in Seoul has become a growing concern and is particularly problematic

to vulnerable social groups including the elderly, children, and members of low-income

households. Therefore, the role of green infrastructure as a means to reduce urban

temperatures in heat vulnerable areas needs to be more emphasized.

The purpose of this study is to identify and introduce a new urban green infrastructure to

improve the thermal environment, and specifically targets urban heat vulnerable areas. First,

to determine heat vulnerable areas in Seoul, mapping of air temperatures was conducted with

Automated Weather Station (AWS) data to pinpoint urban heat island areas. Second, after

examining the social characteristics of the population and economic indicators for the elderly

population (>65 years), the population of the very young (<5 years), and low-income

members, the location of all these groups was ascertained within urban heat island areas. Then,

overlapping urban heat island areas and the spatial distribution of the socially vulnerable

groups was conducted to identify urban heat vulnerable areas. Third, ENVI-met simulations

were implemented to analyze the effects of air temperature reduction by introducing green

and grey infrastructure in the heat vulnerable areas.

The study results determined urban heat vulnerable areas to identify areas for the new urban


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green infrastructure and estimated the urban temperature reduction effects through senario

analyses of various new green infrastructure for socially vulnerable groups in Seoul. Such

results can be used as a basis for urban green infrastructure planning for improvement of

environmental welfare for socially vulnerable members within heat vulnerable areas.


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Time: 15:00~17:15

Venue: Freesia


Planning”


L4016 Presentation 9 (17:00~17:15)

Analysis of the Changes in Urban Thermal Environments Considering Development Densities

(FAR and BCR)

B. Park, K. Oh, and S. Hong

Hanyang University, Korea

Abstract- Due to recent global climate changes and higher concentrations of populations

around the world, cities have been more frequently experiencing phenomena such as heat

waves and tropical nights during the summer. This can be said to be the result of the

relationship between air temperature increase and thermal comfort degradation. Research on

this subject is significance for their impact on the quality of life for urban dwellers as well as

for their recommendations on sustainability for future generations. This study selected three

analysis areas of the urban thermal environment that have been exacerbated in Seoul. Changes

in the present conditions of urban thermal environment and in urban development form and

density were analyzed in relation to temperature and thermal comfort. As a result, the

temperature of the summer was found to have decreased by an average of 1°C while PET also

decreased by an average of 0.5 °C when building coverage ratio(BCR) was reduced by 10%,

even though the floor area ratio(FAR) increased due to the changes in urban development

form and density. In other words, the building coverage ratio had a greater influence on the

urban thermal environment than the floor area ratio, and the reduction of the building

coverage ratio improved the urban thermal environment. This was judged to be due to the

influence of wind path and building shade caused by changes in form, size, and layout of

buildings because of the decrease of building coverage ratio. To improve the urban thermal

environment in the future, it is necessary to consider wind path and building shadow when

establishing medium- and long-term urban planning. The results of the present study can be

used as basic data for spatial decision-making of urban planning when considering

improvement of the urban thermal environment.


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Session 2



Afternoon, Dec 28, 2017 (Thursday)

Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room

Session 2: 12 presentations-Topic: “Agricultural Science and Engineering”

Session Chair: Prof. Byoung Ryong Jeong

H0011 Presentation 1 (12:45~13:00)

Replication and Occlusion Body Formation of Spodoptera exigua Multicapsid

Nucleopolyhedrovirus in a Homologous Cell Line

Sudawan Chaeychomsri, Win Chaeychomsri, Jindawan Siruntawineti, Motoko Ikeda and

Michihiro Kobayashi

Kasetsart University, Thailand

Abstract- A continuous cell line, designated SENL1, has been established from Spodoptera

exigua. The susceptibility of this cell line to its homologous virus, S. exigua multicapsid

nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV), was evaluated on the basis of cytopathic effects, virus

replication and morphogenesis in the infected cells. This cell line was highly susceptible to

SeMNPV. By 3 days postinfection (pi), 99% of the cells contained occlusion bodies (OBs).

Electron microscopy indicated that the OBs of SeMNPV produced in infected SENL1 cells

were on average significantly larger than those produced in the infected larvae. Aberrant

morphogenic characteristics such as abnormal OB formation and virion occlusion were

observed in the SeMNPV-infected cells. A significant reduction in virions and nucleocapsids

per OB was noted in the SeMNPV OBs produced in the infected cells when compared with

the OBs produced in infected larvae. However, SeMNPV OBs obtained from infected SENL1

cells were infectious for S. exigua larvae, demonstrating that virus replication in vitro yielded

viable progeny. The results from the present study suggest that the morphology and biological

activity of SeMNPV OBs are influenced by some factors both in host cells and virus

interactions. Thus, SENL1 cells may provide an in vitro system for studying possible cell

effects on SeMNPV OB morphogenesis and ODV occlusion.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H1001 Presentation 2 (13:00~13:15)

Grouping Method Using Graph Theory for Agricultural Workers Engaging in Manual Tasks

Shinji KAWAKURA, Ryosuke Shibasaki

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Abstract- Agricultural directors and managers might employ several grouping methodologies

of physical working members to enhance the quality of work and collaborations. In this

prospective study, the authors aim to execute and demonstrate the results of a grouping

analysis based on the spanning tree method in the field of graph theory. The participants—six

experienced agricultural manual workers and six novices—were asked to crop middle-sized

root vegetables by hand in a sitting position. The authors handled the data and executed the

analyses in VBA. The authors also used Scilab libraries and packages to execute timeline

wavelet analyses with accumulated acceleration data obtained from the outdoor agricultural

workers’ dominant lower arms and the left side of their waists. The authors present qualitative

data of the workers’ groupings using standard deviations (SD) of the vertical acceleration data.

The main index values were SD values of the acceleration data in the dominant frequency

zone. After performing the dotting process, the authors successively connected pairs of dots to

separate them into two groups. The authors developed several charts and compared them with

those from the common and validated analysis of principal components method. These

methods could be used to improve the grouping and categorizing for agri-business and related

research.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H1003 Presentation 3 (13:15~13:30)

Simultaneous UV-C and Ultrasonic Energy Treatment for Disinfection of Tomatoes and Its

Antioxidant Properties

Okon J. Esua, Nyuk Ling Chin, Yus A. Yusof

Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract- The simultaneous use of UV-C radiation at 640 or 900 µWcm-2

and ultrasonic

energy of 13.78 W/L at 40 kHz was applied on tomatoes to study its ability to disinfect

tomatoes from microbes. Total aerobic bacteria and yeast and mold population decreased with

increase of UV-C dosage application from 0.72-10.76 kJ/m2 at constant ultrasonic energy

supply. At simultaneous treatment dosage of 6.46 kJ/m2, total aerobic bacteria reduced 2 log

reductions significantly (p<0.001). Yeast and mold survivors were undetected at higher

dosage treatment from 4.31 to 10.76 kJ/m2. Lower dosage treatment from 0.72 to 2.15 kJ/m

2

presented minor log reductions of 0.14 to 0.75. The treatment also stimulated 41.26-50.37%

increase of total phenols from an initial value of 13.38 mg GAE 100g-1

FW. Antioxidant

activity increase from 27.51-36.07% was obtained at dosage level of 8.61 kJ/m.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H1004 Presentation 4 (13:30~13:45)

Evaluation of biochemical factors from mixed animal wastes feedstock in biogas production

Nanh Lovanh, Graciela M.L. Ruiz-Aguilar, John Loughrin

USDA-ARS, USA

Abstract- Animal wastes can serve as the feedstock for biogas production that could be used

as alternative energy source. The green energy derived from animal wastes is considered to be

carbon neutral and offsetting those generated from fossil fuels. In this study, an evaluation of

methane production from animal wastes with different nitrogen and carbon sources was

carried out. Anaerobic batch reactors containing different mixtures of animal wastes and

potential inhibition sources were set up to evaluate methane potential. The results showed that

methane productions increased as the solid concentrations, temperature and total carbon

increased. However, biogas production decreased substantially when ammonia concentrations

in the feedstock were high. The addition of carbon to the feedstock provided a better substrate

for methane production during anaerobic digestion of animal wastes. Methane productions

were more than several times greater from reactors with feedstock amended with additional

source of carbon than the ones with just animal wastes (e.g., swine, poultry or just dairy) or

acclimated microbes. Thus, it appears that additional carbon source is necessary to increase

methane production from animal waste anaerobic digester. Inhibitor such as ammonia appears

to hinder the biomethanation in the anaerobic digestion of animal wastes for optimum

methane production.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H0010 Presentation 5 (13:45~14:00)

Determinants of indigenous fruits consumption frequency among rural households: Evidence

from Mutale local municipality, South Africa

Rudzani Nengovhela, Amon Taruvinga and Abyssinia Mushunje

University of Fort Hare, South Africa

Abstract- Rural households across South Africa experience food and nutritional insecurity.

Given the claimed nutritional benefits of indigenous fruits (IFs), their availability and

accessibility in rural areas, several researchers believe they can significantly contribute to

rural household food and nutritional security. However, literature highlights that their

consumption in recent years has generally remained low and in some incidences reported to

be declining. This paper investigated factors that influence indigenous fruits consumption

frequency among rural households using 200 randomly selected households from 10 villages

in Mutale local municipality, South Africa. Results indicate that a majority of the respondents

(78%) consumed indigenous fruits on weekly to monthly basis, mostly in summer when they

are abundantly available. Several socio-economic and perception based factors are estimated

to condition rural households’ indigenous fruits consumption frequency worth targeting. We

therefore argue that, caution should be exercised when indigenous fruits are targeted as food

and nutrition security supplements for rural households bearing in mind the periods of the

year they are available and drivers of their consumption frequency.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H0012 Presentation 6 (14:00~14:15)

Honey value addition initiatives selection choices among smallholder beekeepers: Case of the

Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Tina Hans, Amon Taruvinga and Abyssinia Mushunje


Abstract- The aim of this study was to determine factors that influence honey value addition

selection choices among smallholder beekeepers. This was against a background where honey

value addition is reported to be very low, yet very beneficial in terms of formal market access

and increased revenues. A census of all active smallholder beekeepers in the Eastern Cape

Province during the period of study was considered for this study. Using descriptive statistics

to profile most common value addition initiatives pursued by beekeepers, the study found that

liquid honey processing, bottling and beeswax processing were the major value addition

pursued by the farmers. Regression estimates revealed that honey value addition selection

choices among smallholder beekeepers were mainly conditioned by; gender, household size,

group membership, training, quantity of honey harvested, number of colonized hives, access

to market information and extension services. Several policy insights were generated mainly

focused on institutional and technical support.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H0013 Presentation 7 (14:15~14:30)

The Use of Transferable Breeding Container For Population Enrichment Of Pollinator,

Forcipomyia spp. In The Cocoa Ecosystem

Saripah Bakar, Alias Awang

MALAYSIAN COCOA BOARD, Malaysia

Abstract- The study aims to investigate the potential use of breeding substrates (cocoa pod

husk, banana stump, and combination of cocoa pod husk and Cocoa pod borer infested pods)

for an enhancement population of pollinators, Forcipomyia spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).

The numbers of pollinators was monitored at intervals of two weeks at four distances (2, 5, 8

and 12 m) from the breeding sites. This observation was carried out for the period of 94 days.

Field study demonstrated that the emergence of pollinators was higher at Day 52 (2.875a),

and significantly different with Day 66 (1.563bc), Day 80 (1.250bc), Day 12 (1.042bc), Day

94 (0.792c) and Day 1 (0.792c). The numbers of male (1.063a) and female (1.813a)

pollinators were recorded highest at Day 52. Cocoa pod husk recorded the highest number of

male (1.115a) and female pollinators (0.792a), followed by banana stump, control and

combination of cocoa pod husks and CPB’s infested pods. Higher number of pollinators were

recorded at a distance of 2 m (1.7600a) from the breeding sites, followed by 12 m (1.740a), 8

m (1.480a) and 5 m (1.323a). The overall observation suggested that cocoa pod husk can be a

good breeding substrates for cocoa pollinators.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H0015 Presentation 8 (14:30~14:45)

An assessment of community’s perceptions of IK based handicrafts in Amathole District

Municipality, South Africa.

Raphael Mudemba, Amon Taruvinga and L. Zhou


Abstract- The use of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) based skills and technologies in the rural

livelihood activities have been practiced for ages. However, there are fears that rapid

modernization is driving deprecation of such retro technologies in society. Thus, studying

communities’ perceptions of IK based technologies in off-farm livelihoods activities could be

conducive to further development and poverty alleviation in rural communities. The use of

Indigenous Knowledge-based technologies and skills in crafts activities is a major livelihood

contributor to rural households in South Africa. The present study employed a cross-sectional

survey of 300 households in Amathole District Municipality of South Africa to assess

communities’ perceptions of the use of IK based technologies in handicrafts making. Results

indicate a strong regard for Indigenous Knowledge-based technologies and skills in off-farm

livelihood strategies and environmental management. We, therefore, urge for a policy

framework that recognizes and promote the use of such tacit knowledge in alleviating poverty

and food insecurities in rural areas.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H4002 Presentation 9 (14:45~15:00)

Effect of Concentration of Silicon and Sucrose in Medium on Recovery of Dianthus

caryophyllus ‘Green Beauty’ from Hyperhydricity

Luc The Thi, Ji Eun Park, Young Gyu Kim and Byoung Ryong Jeong


University, Jinju, South Korea.

Abstract- Micropropagation of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), a popular ornamental plant,

is often hindered by hyperhydricity, a physiological disorder with succulent appearance. The

Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, supplemented with different concentrations of silicon

(Si; 0, 50 and 100 mg∙L-1) and sucrose (0 and 3%, w/v), was dispensed in 500 mL jars

covered with a rigid lid and a ventilation filter [high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter

(Nihon Millipore Ltd., Yonezawa, Japan)]. All cultures were maintained in a culture room

with 70% relative humidity (RH), and 300 μmol·m-2·s-1 photosynthetic photon flux density

(PPFD) and a 16 h (day)/8 h (night) photoperiod provided by white light emitting diodes

(LED). After six weeks of culture the growth traits, photosynthetic capacity, and biochemical

markers such as activities of antioxidant enzymes and contents of nutrients were measured.

The results showed that growth and development of carnation plantlets were strongly affected

by the presence of 3% sucrose in the medium as higher percent recoveries were observed in

the sucrose-containing treatments. Further increase up to 80.3% in recovery was observed in

the treatment of 3% sucrose plus 100 mg∙L-1 Si supplementation. However, these plantlets

had shoots shorter in length and had lower chlorophyll contents than those in the other

treatments. On the other hand, growth traits such as fresh weight, dry weight, shoot length,

and root length were improved in the lower, 50 mg∙L-1 Si treatments. In conclusions, sucrose

and Si had a synergy effect for enhanced recovery, and also for growth and development of

micropropagated carnation ‘Green Beauty’. These findings may be utilized for solving the

problems of hyperhydricity in other carnation cultivars also.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H4003 Presentation 10 (15:00~15:15)

Effect of Supplemental LEDs on Growth and Development of Codonopsis lanceolate

Seedlings

Dong Il Kang, Jin Zhao, Xiuxia Ren, Hai Kyoung Jeong, Ya Liu, Ziwei Guo, and Byoung

Ryong Jeong


University, Jinju, South Korea.

Abstract- Codonopsis lanceolata is a vine plant native in South Korea and belongs to

Campanulaceae family. This plant is cultivated in a number of places in Korea, and its root is

used in traditional medicines as antitussive, expectorant and antidote. In the transplant

production stage, compactness and uniformity are important to achieve high-quality

cultivation afterward. However, this aspect has seldom been investigated to produce compact

and uniform seedlings of C. lanceolata. In this study, seedlings of C. lanceolata were grown

with different LEDs for four weeks in a glasshouse with an average daily maximum light

intensity of 490 μmol·m-2·s-1 PPFD coming from the sun (50% shading, the highest instant

light intensity of 580 μmol·m-2·s-1 PPFD) with 16 h/day of supplemental lighting at 200

μmol·m-2·s-1 PPFD from either blue LED (LED-B), red LED (LED-R), white LED

(LED-W), or mixed (white: red: blue =1: 1: 2) LED (LED-M). The environmental condition

was 32/25 ℃ day/night temperatures, 85% relative humidity, and a natural photoperiod of 14

h. The average internode length, epicotyl length, hypocotyl length, and shoot length of

seedlings under the LED-B were significantly shorter than those under LED-R, LED-W or

LED-M. Furthermore, the shoot density, including the ratio of dry shoot weight to shoot

length or fresh shoot weight to shoot length of seedlings, was significantly greater than those

under LED-R, LED-W or LED-M. Overall, the results showed that LED-B treatment

benefited the production of more compact and uniform seedlings of C. lanceolate.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



H0005 Presentation 11 (15:15~15:30)

Climate Change Effects on Plants

Ebru Orhun

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Abstract- According to the Fifth Synthesis Report on Climate Change Panel (IPCC),

increasingly consumption of fossil fuels of human being with the largest contribution to the

global warming, including CO2, CH4, N2O, water vapor as by factors of greenhouse gas

(GHGs) formed which is caused the temperature to increase progressively of the world. In

this case, it is not possible to get back, gradually in the agricultural sector, one of the industry

that is found to have the highest sensitivity to the global warming, is getting felt more severe.

So that is an integral part of the plants (hence plant production) and because they are still

prone or vulnerable to the effects of global warming is clear. Researches showed that effects

of global warming on plants; plant germination and growth and these were also reflected into

their production. In this study, the effect of global warming on plant and plant growth which

is the subject of our communique was discussed in general terms and explained with relevant

examples.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Minuet Room



L1020 Presentation 12 (15:30~15:45)

Distribution and Incidence of Apple Powdery Mildew in a Mixed Cultivar Orchards and

Relationship to Disease Severity

Amitabh Singh, Krishna P. Singh, Govind S. Rajwar

Himalayan Institute of Pharmacy & Research/Department of Agriculture, Atak Farm,

Rajawala-248007, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Abstract- Apple powdery mildew epidemics, caused by Podosphaera leucotricha (Ell. and Ev.)

Salm. can be readily described in terms of the disease triangle. The role of different

environmental factors, viz., temperature, relative humidity, leaf wetness, sunshine and rainfall

were studied in relation to disease development. The present experiment was conducted

during the season 2003 to 2005 to determine a simplified assessment procedure by which

apple powdery mildew severity/index could be predicted from incidence data and develop

incidence-severity relationship in apple cultivars under Uttaranchal hilly conditions. The use

of percentage scales and keys of visual disease severity, remote sensing, and some indirect

methods like spore counts and disease incidence are considered valid approaches for disease

assessment. The relationship between increase in incidence of powdery mildew in relation to

severity can be established either by making sequential records in one tree during the progress

of an epidemic or by assessing many trees with different amounts of disease at one point of

time. The combination of several factors like the presence of susceptible host, virulent

pathogen, and congenial environment for disease development during receptive phenological

stage of apple tree was responsible for the incidence of the powdery mildew on apple.


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Session 3




Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room

Session 3: 12 presentations-Topic: “Energy and Chemical Engineering”

Session Chair: Prof. Chiharu Ishii

L1015 Presentation 1 (12:45~13:00)

Performance and combustion characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with waste vegetable

oils

Abdullah A Abuhabaya

King Abdulaziz University, KSA

Abstract- The present study aims to investigate the impacts of biodiesel blend ratio on

biodiesel’s performance, combustion and emission characteristics. Experiments were

conducted using JCB 444 TCA 74kW engine for neat biodiesel B100 and its blend fuels with

B5, B10, B15,B20, B30 and B40 of biodiesel at different engine speeds and loads conditions

without exhaust gas recirculation. The indicated engine power and torque using biodiesel

were found to be lower than that of using diesel fuel for all of tested loads. The decreased of

engine power and torque with biodiesel can be attributed to the lower calorific value of

biodiesel. An obvious decrease in carbon monoxide (CO) and total hydrocarbon (THC)

emissions was attained with the addition of biodiesel. Moreover, emissions of nitrogen oxides

(NOx) were simultaneously reduced compared with using standard diesel fuel at low to

middle loads. Finally, the strategy with biodiesel blends showed better combustion, emission

characteristics as well as economy performance among all the fuels. For the efficient use of

biodiesel blend fuels, it is suggested that the blend ratio should be carefully selected based on

the engine operating conditions.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L2010 Presentation 2 (13:00~13:15)

A GIS Based Analysis of Earth Crust Temperature at Depth for Geothermal Energy

Exploration in Afghanistan

Mohammad Abed Anwarzai, and Ken Nagasaka

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Abstract- The future green world, without of greenhouse gases, is possible to produce the

electricity from the renewable energy resources. The geothermal is one of the most potential

clean energy sources to be developed in the next century. The geothermal energy potential

study needs the temperature value and amount of stored heat in the underground rocks. The

purpose of this research is to determine the earth crust temperature at the depth of 3.5 to

10.5km for geothermal energy potential calculation in Afghanistan. The temperature at depth

prediction model is based on the tectonic ages, tectonic activity, geological structures, and hot

spring data. To achieve this goal, in GIS, the earth crust thickness, sediment thickness, surface

heat flow, mantle heat flow, and surface temperature have been mapped. The temperature

calculation formulas, as a function of depth, were applied in GIS model to estimate the

temperature at depth. The analysis contains the sediment and basement contribution along

with surface temperature correction considering the constant thermal conductivity and

radioactive heat generation in the crust. The resulting maps are plotted for each km of depths

from 3.5 to 10.5km. The calculation result is in the range of; minimum 39°C and maximum

347°C average temperature at the depth of 3.5km and 10.5 km respectively. The huge

geothermal energy (power production) is available; First in Helmand, Kandahar, and Herat

provinces, moreover, in northern and eastern deeper sedimentary region of the country at the

depth of 3.5km. Second in the all known geothermal fields of the country until the depth of 5

km.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L1017 Presentation 3 (13:15~13:30)

Development of fuel production technology using for biomass

Hee Joo Han, Young Ho Lee, Gyun Ro Lee, Dae Won Park

Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea

Abstract- In this study, we researched on feasibility of solid fuel process by torrefaction

methods by using sewage sludge. In this study, the experiment was performed by using raw

sludge generated from the first sedimentation area among sewage sludge. For torrefaction

method, the experiment was performed through 3 methods, which are drying method, fry

method, fry after drying method. When conducing drying torrefaction and fry torrefation

experiment, the reaction temperature was 200℃, 215℃ and 230℃ and reaction time was 15

minutes, 30 minutes and 45 minutes.

When conducing experiment by fry torrefaction after drying torrefaction, the reaction

temperature was fixed as 200℃, made products by progressing 15 minutes of fry torrefaction

after 15 minutes of drying torrefaction, 15 minutes of drying torrefaction and 30 minutes of

fry torrefaction, and made products not exceeding 45 minutes of total reaction time by

progressing 15 minutes of fry torrefaction after 30 minutes of drying torrefaction. For the

products generated by drying torrefaction method, we could get the reaction products conform

to solid fuel standard 3,500kcal/kg at the condition of reaction temperature content of the

product decreased to below 10％ at the condition of reaction temperature 230℃ and after

reaction time of 30 minutes of reaction time. In case of reaction product generated by fry

torrefaction method, it fulfilled solid fuel standard regardless of reaction temperature and

reaction time and below 10％ of moisture content. When combining drying method and fry

method torrefaction, we could remove moisture content of sewage sludge higher and could

observe the caloric value showed higher efficiency than drying torrefaction. Therefore, it was

observed that fry torrefaction method for solid fuel production of sewage sludge through

torrefaction method shows higher efficiency in terms of removing moisture content and

caloric value.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L0017 Presentation 4 (13:30~13:45)

A Japanese Utility Renewable Energy Management

Amin Mohammadirad, Sho Kainose and Ken Nagasaka

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Abstract- HOKKAIDO a northern island of Japan has high potentials of Solar and Wind

energies. However, HOKKAIDO Electric Power Company (HEPCO) declares that by

increasing Renewable Energy (RE) power such as Photovoltaic and Wind generation

(hereafter PV and Wind), they cannot interconnect to the grid because of interconnection

limitation and having surplus power in the grid. In this paper, for RE surplus power

management, we suggest two solutions. The first solution is to convert RE surplus power to

another type of energy which divided into two different methods. First, convert RE surplus

power to 100% heat. Second, convert RE surplus power to 50% heat, 40% hydrogen and 10%

electric cars. For this purpose, we use the Advanced Energy System Analysis Computer tool

called “Energy PLAN” to estimate RE surplus power in HOKKAIDO future energy system.

Then, we calculate and compare the conversation economic and environmental performances.

The second solution is to transfer RE surplus power to connected multi-area networks. For

this reason, we design load frequency control (LFC) in smart grid model of IEEE 30 bus test

system in MATLAB/SIMULINK to give such ability to transfer power from one area to

another. Finally, we compare both solutions economical and environment performances.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L4012 Presentation 5 (13:45~14:00)

Performance Analysis by Supporting Electrolytes for Vanadium Bromine Redox Flow Battery

Youngho Lee, Miae Kim, Joonhyeon Jeon

Department of Energy and Advanced Material Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul,

Republic of Korea.

Abstract- A vanadium bromine redox flow batteries (V/Br RFBs) have been attracting interest

as redox flow batteries that have shared the advantages of the all-vanadium redox flow

batteries (VRFBs) but removed the disadvantages. The V/Br RFBs employ a V (II) / V (III)

couple in the negative half-cell and a Br− / Br3− couple in the positive half-cell. In this paper,

the vanadium bromine unit cell was compared with and without a supporting electrolyte and

its electrochemical characteristics were analyzed. The experimental results showed that the

discharge capacity of the unit cell without the supporting electrolyte increased to double

compared to that of the unit cell with the supporting electrolyte, but the average coulombic

and voltage efficiency decreased by 8.8 % and 3.1 %, respectively, and the average energy

efficiency decreased by about 12.1 %. In addition, as the cycle progressed in a unit cell using

without the supporting electrolyte, a water-transfer phenomenon to the cathode electrolyte

affected the stability of the unit-cell over a long-term cyclic operation. As a result, although

the discharge capacity was increased due to the stabilization of the redox reaction by no

supporting electrolyte, the stability of the unit cell was deteriorated due to the decrease in

efficiency and the problem caused by the water-transfer phenomenon. This result will be

beneficial for the choice of the electrolyte for the V/Br RFBs.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L4013 Presentation 6 (14:00~14:15)

An Effect of Imidazolium as Bromine Complex Agents on Zinc-Bromine Hybrid Flow

Battery

Donghyeon Kim, Yongbeom Kim, Joonhyeon Jeon

Department of Energy and Advanced Material Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul,

Republic of Korea.

Abstract- A zinc–bromine hybrid flow batteries are a highly efficient rechargeable battery for

energy storage system, where the electrolyte containing dissolved zinc and bromide ions

flows through an electrochemical cell that reversibly converts chemical energy directly into

electricity. The charging and discharging processes are generally achieved through a reaction

of redox couples such as Zn2+ (aq) / Zn (s) and Br– (aq) / Br2 (l) in a zinc bromide electrolyte.

But generated bromine liquid can easily damage battery material and be evaporated, so

bromine complex agents have to be used in the electrolyte. The bromine complex agents is

based on a quaternary ammonium bromide and commonly used as N-methyl-N-ethyl

pyrrolidinium bromide which can degrade electrolyte conductivity and voltaic efficiency of

the zinc–bromine hybrid flow batteries. To overcome degradation, this paper describes

3-ethyl-1-methyl imidazolium bromide as the bromine complex agent, resulting in a high

performance of cyclic operation. To show the effectiveness of the proposed solution,

electrochemical analyses are carried out using a miniature zinc–bromine unit-cell. The

solution is then compared with the conventional electrolyte solution using N-methyl-N-ethyl

pyrrolidinium bromide. Experimental results show that using 3-ethyl-1-methyl imidazolium

bromide provide 5.18 % (5.80 %) higher voltaic (energy) efficiency at the current density of

20 mA cm-2. Therefore, this paper provides that new direction about effect of the bromine

complex agents for the zinc–bromine hybrid flow batteries.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L2013 Presentation 7 (14:15~14:30)

Interfacial control of transition metal -based nanostructures as electrode materials for

electrochemical sensors

Wen Zhang, Li Dong, Hongxiu Du, and Degang Fu


Abstract- Surface texture of nanostructured electrodes act as vital role in electrochemical

application. The surface structure and morphology of electrode materials will greatly affect

the activity of electrochemical sensors. Nanostructured transition metal oxides with large

surface area are beneficial to facilitating interfacial electrochemical reactions. Diffusion paths

for both electrons and ions could be shorten and interfacial redox reactions could be enhanced

due to the nanostructure characteristics. This is essential information for preparing metal

oxides products of the expected structure, and provides a strategy for modulating

nanostructure properties through their size and morphology. Accurate detection of glucose and

dopamine plays vital roles in early clinical diagnosis and disease prevention. Electrochemical

methods are drawing increasing attention due to the easy electrochemical oxidation of glucose

and dopamine. In this report, a series of transition metal -based nanostructured materials were

proposed through interfacial control of surface structures and used as electrodes for

biomolecules (glucose and dopamine) detection. The modulated electrodes materials exhibite

wide linear response ranges with high sensitivity, good selectivity and excellent

reproducibility.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L1010 Presentation 8 (14:30~14:45)

A study on the polymeric nano fiber by electrospinning method

Sang Hyun Lee, Sang Moon Lee, Soon Woong Chang, Sung Su Kim

Kyonggi University, Republic of Korea

Abstract- Nano technology is to make materials or elements processed precisely at a level of

nano meter (10-9m), 1/100,000 of a hair. Using characteristics of nano materials or elements

appropriately is expected to bring technical innovation in a various fields including electricity,

electronics, machinery, biotechnology, chemistry and energy. Studies on improving nano

technology with it applied to environment and energy have appeared recently. Cases that

applied nano materials in various fields including pollutant absorption technology using

porous nano materials representing wide specific surface area and nano structure technology

referring to outstanding mechanical strength and electro conductivity and filter and membrane

technologies have been reported. This study made nano materials with good structural and

mechanical strength using electrospinning which can make various kinds of materials and

verified a change in characteristics of a material depending on conditions. Additional

functions were added by using mixture of material and plating. This study applied nano

materials to CO catalytic combustion, separation membrane for water treatment and electrode

in electrolysis process and then evaluated its applicability.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



H0002 Presentation 9 (14:45~15:00)

Supercritical fluid extraction of red pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) seeds

Asiah Abdullah, Siti Salwa Abd Gani, Nor Fadzillah Mohd Mokhtar, Taufiq Yap Yun Hin1,

Zaibunnisa Abdul Haiyee, Suhana Mustafa

Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract- Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) with carbon dioxide as a solvent was performed

to obtain oil from red pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) seeds. The extraction process was

optimized by response surface methodology and the effects of extracting variables namely

temperature and pressure were evaluated. Central composite design was employed to develop

the model and to predict the optimum conditions. The highest oil yield was predicted to be

about 6.93 wt%, under optimal conditions of 47 oC and 4750 psi. At optimum conditions,

average experimental oil yield of 6.88 ± 0.06% was recorded and agrees well with the

predicted value. The chemical composition of the SFE and n-hexane extracted oils were

identified by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. GC-MS analysis

revealed negligible differences in fatty acid composition of oil extracted from both methods

with linoleic acid as the main component. In the studies of oil quality, the important

physicochemical properties of the extracted oil were also analyzed.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



H0006 Presentation 10 (15:00~15:15)

Subcritical CO2 Extraction, Chemical Characterization and Biological Potential of Essential

Oil from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni

Uswatun Hasanah Zaidan, Syahida Ahmad, Azizah Abdul Hamid and Fahmi Yusof

UNIVERSITY OF PUTRA MALAYSIA (UPM), MALAYSIA

Abstract- Many aromatic and medicinal plants are available in Malaysia from which the

essential oil (EO) can be extracted for multipurpose. Stevia rebaudiana essential oil (EO) was

extracted by using subcritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) method for the first time and

chemically characterized by means of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and

fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The highest productivity yield of the

extracted EO was found in the stevia to ethanol ratio of 1:0.5 with 5.6%, followed by the ratio

of 1:1 with 3.6% and 1:1.5 with 2.4%, which representing 89.32%, 92.45% and 81.42% of

identified compound, respectively. The principal components in the EO were lupeol acetate,

α-linoleic acid, hexadacanoic acid, and spathulenol. Interestingly, some new compounds were

identified such as epiputranjivol, globulol, betulinic aldehyde, ionone, and γ-sitosterol which

had not previously been reported in Stevia rebaudiana EO. EO has performed the most

effective antimicrobial activity against gram-positive, B. subtilis. Furthermore, Stevia

rebaudiana EO presented interesting scavenging activity against DPPH with IC50 of 0.91 ±

0.13 µg/ml comparable with standard ascorbic acid (0.51 µg/ml) and trolox (5.83 µg/ml), thus

reflecting essential oil as an excellent antioxidant source. High product quality of SC-CO2

employed for extracting Stevia rebaudiana essential oil could be a good source of natural

antimicrobial and antioxidant as a functional food component with possible applications in

food and pharmaceutical.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L1006 Presentation 11 (15:15~15:30)

High purity and concentration of acetate production via thermophilic syngas (CO/H2)

fermentation with mixed culture in a hollow fiber membrane biofilm reactor

Nan Shen, Raymond J. Zeng


Abstract- CO and H2 are main components of syngas. Bioconversion was a green way for fuel

production from syngas. Mixed culture fermentation (MCF) is recognized as one promising

approach to realize resources recovery.

Only acetate and little butyrate (less than 1g/L) were detected in the small reactor at 55oC.

The VFAs yield was 229.06 C-mmol/L during day 0-20 and 412.66 C-mmol/L during day

22-38. The VFAs production rate was 12.67 C-mmol/(L∙d) during day 0-20 and 26.03

C-mmol/(L∙d) during day 22-38. The performance of syngas fermentation was also monitored

within 60 days in the big HFMBR with a surface area of 0.24 m2. Both of the VFAs

production yield and rate were higher in big HFMBR than small HFMBR within the initial 20

days (867.87 C-mmol vs 229.06 C-mmol and 43.35 C-mmol vs 12.67 C-mmol). There was

25.60 g/L of acetate was detected within 20 days in big HFMBR while only 19.76 g/L within

60 days in small HFMBR. The acetate production rate increased with the membrane surface

area that should be due to the biofilm surface attached on the hollow-fibre membrane.

Thermoanaerobacterium played the main role during acetate production at 55oC in this study.


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Time: 12:45~15:45

Venue: Freesia Room



L3002 Presentation 12 (15:30~15:45)

Resveratrol Production in Genetically Modified Synechococcus elongates PCC7942 via

Carbon Dioxide Conversion

LIANG-JUNG CHIEN, MENG-PING HUANG, JIAN-AN PAN

Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan

Abstract- Polyphenols are secondary metabolites of plants and are generally involved in

defense against ultraviolet radiation or aggression by pathogens. In food, polyphenols may

contribute to the bitterness, astringency, color, flavor, odor and oxidative stability. Plant

polyphenols have been found to be highly active in the human body, with a plethora of

health-promoting activities against a variety of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and

cancer, and with even the potential to slow aging.in this study, we genetically modified

cyanobacteria to produce plant polyphenol, resveratrol, via carbon dioxide conversion. We

constructed a tri-expression gene expression plasmid, pSCCA-6, encoding stilbene synthase

ligase (STS) from Vitis vinifera, an 4-coumaroyl: CoA ligase (4CL) from Arabidopsis thaliana,

and carbonic anhydrase (CA) from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, to allow

the simultaneous CO2 conversion to HCO3- and produce plant polyphenol compound,

Resveratrol. In this system, the highest plant polyphenol compound production obtained using

STS, 4CL and CA was 756 mg/L via 10 mM p-coumaric acid as the initial precursor.

15:45~16:00 Coffee Break


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Session 4




Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room

Session 4: 12 presentations-Topic: “Biological Science and Technology”

Session Chair: To be added

L0001 Presentation 1 (16:00~16:15)

Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology based on Recent Benthic Foraminifera in Cikadal Beach,

Ciletuh Geopark, West Java, Indonesia

Reisha Navelie, Hany Nabila, Lia Jurnaliah, Winantris, Mega Rosana

Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Abstract- Three recent sediment cores (P2S2, P1S1, and P3S1) about 38.5 cm – 47.5 cm

length collected from mangrove and coastal area in Cikadal Beach, Sukabumi, West Java,

Indonesia. Cikadal Beach is in the same area of Ciletuh Geopark, commonly be the main

geological object study in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to determine

paleoenvironment and paleoecology based on recent benthic foraminifers. The methodology

is using cluster analysis; the results are two dendrograms that explain sample association and

species association. Sample association divided into 5 biofacies, which are the depositional

environment of Biofacies A Transitional – Middle Shelf, Biofacies B Transitional – Middle

Shelf, Biofacies C Transitional – Middle Shelf, Biofacies D Transitional – Inner Shelf, and

Biofacies E Transitional – Middle Shelf. Whereas, species association divided into 2

dominant species, which are Ammonia spp and Operculina ammonoides from 17 determined

recent benthic foraminifers. From this result, the conclusions are the occurrence of

environmental changes during the deposition process takes place based on the results of the

correlation of the three cores. Based on low index diversity of research area, the existence of

ecological changes simultaneously with environmental changes.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L2003 Presentation 2 (16:15~16:30)

Abundance of anammox bacteria in partial nitrification-anammox (PNA) process

Qingkun WANG and Jianzhong HE

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abstract- Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have historically been operated to remove

nutrients without a clear understanding of the complex microbial interactions that are integral

to optimizing treatment processes. Anammox bacteria (AnAOB) have attracted attention

due to the potentials on saving energy and reducing organic chemical demands. Partial

nitrification-anammox (PNA) process is by far one of the most practical processes in

wastewater treatment using anammox. Sufficient partial nitrification is of importance to

retain ammonium-oxidising bacteria (AOB) but suppress nitrite-oxidising bacteria (NOB),

which is a critical parameter for sustaining the anammox process. Here we report the

recently developed PCR primers (targeting 16s rRNA genes) with higher efficiency and more

reliable to study the presence and abundance of AnAOB, AOB and NOB to assess the

performance of the PNA process. Compared to the published AnAOB primer pair, the newly

designed AnAOB PCR primer can detect more than 70% anammox bacteria strains in NCBI

GenBank database with 100% speicificity. PCR, qPCR and clone library results demonstrate

the specificity further with only one amplicon. With the kinetic tests, the newly designed

Amx primer can higher coverage percentage in three different sludge samples (13.76% vs

49.55%; 10.93% vs 20.99% and 23.43% 57.43%), which also well agreed with the AnAOB

activity measurement. AOB primer was successfully designed to target all five genera under

alpha-proteobacteria instead of single genus detection. The In silico test shows that it can

achieve up to 35% coverage (compared with most commonly used one CTO189f/RT1r with

20.5% coverage) with 94% specificity. On the other hand, NOB primer pairs were designed

to target specific single genus (i.e., Nitrobacter and Nitrospina). Both clone library and

qPCR results demonstrate the specificity of the two sets primer pairs. The In silico tests

show that the coverage can be up to 50% and 81%, respectively. These results, therefore, are

strongly to show that the newly designed primer pairs are powerful tools to study and assess

the performance of PNA process in wastewater treatment.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L2012 Presentation 3 (16:30~16:45)

Community structure and Functional Species in Food / Paper Waste Reactor

Lu Li, Yu Qin, Kengo Kubota, Yu-You Li

Tohoku University, Japan

Abstract- In this study, 16 samples of were taken from anaerobic digestion sludge in two

independent systems (M and T) and a recycled system separated with mesophilic (cM2) and

thermophilic (cT1) conditions. The substrate were changed in 4 stages to elevate the ratio of

food waste (FW) / paper waste (PW) from 100 to 50 percent. Our purpose is to analyze the

variation of community structure with the increase of paper waste in the substrate. The main

bacterial genera in these two systems include Ruminococcus, Lactobacillus, Clostridium,

Coprothermobacter, Defluviitoga, Cloacamonas, Bacteroides, Paludibacter, Anaerobaculum,

Leuconostoc, Thermoanaerobacterium, Syntrophomonas and Acetobacter. Main archaea

genera include Methanothermobacter, Methanosaeta, Methanosarcina, Methanoculleus,

Methanomethylovorans, Methanomassiliicoccus, Methanobacterium and Methanospirillum.

Temperature impacted significantly in independent systems of M and T, but little to the

recycled system (include cT1 and cM2). The main factor that caused the differences of

bacteria community between cT1 and cM2 is pH. Archaea community structures of cT1 and

cM2 were similar. FW/PW ratio only had a great influence on archaea community structure in

recycled system. With the increase of paper waste, the dominant archaea groups changed from

Methanothermobacter to Methanosaeta and at last to Methanosarcina.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L3007 Presentation 4 (16:45~17:00)

The influence of cyanobacterial extracellular polymeric substances on coagulation processes

Feng Sun, Aijuan Qian


Abstract- The hydrophobic and flocculation properties of cyanobacterial cells are closely

related to their extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). In this work, a serious of surface

characteristics of cyanobacterial cells with different EPS fractions were analyzed to evaluate

their influences on coagulation processes. With the removal of EPS fractions, the coagulation

efficiency of cyanobacterial cells was improved gradually. The microscope images of

cyanobacteria cells combined with microcystin release test showed that the cyanobacterial

cells in each EPS fraction removal phases could keep almost intact with little cell broken. The

surface of cyanobacterial cells presented higher hydrophobicity and lower zeta potential upon

deeper EPS extraction, which improved the ratio of particles in unstable state, and the

improvement level was tightly bound EPS (TB-EPS) > loosely bound EPS (LB-EPS) >

soluble EPS (S-EPS). Besides, the deeper EPS extraction further decreased the particle size of

cyanobacteria and thus increased their specific surface area of adsorption with coagulant. This

study provides scientific basis for the removal of cyanobacteria by enhanced coagulation.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L1014 Presentation 5 (17:00~17:15)

A Study on Methane Production and Microbial Communities Characteristics of Psychrophilic

Anaerobic Digestion Using Food Wastewater Anaerobic Digestion Sludge as a Inoculum

Min Joo. Lee, Seoyun. Hwang, Nari. Lee and Joonhong. Park

Yonsei Universiy, South Korea

Abstract- Anaerobic digestion process which is energy effective has become an alternative to

the treatment of various organic wastewater such as food waste water. However, the heating

energy consumption of the reactor for the mesophilic digestion is a problem. To solve this

problem, research on psychrophilic anaerobic digestion were actively done.

Hydrogenotrophic methanogens which are dominant in anaerobic digestion sludge of

mesophilic food wastewater are known to be advantageous for low temperature anaerobic

digestion than acetoclastic methanogens which are dominant in mesophilic sewage anaerobic

digestion sludge. According to these findings, psycrophilic anaerobic digestion using food

wastewater anaerobic digestion sludge as inoculum can be more advantageous than using

municipal wastewater sludge as inoculation source by the small change in microbial

community due to temperature. When anaerobic digestion is carried out under low

temperature conditions, it can be superior to the mesophilic anaerobic digestion with heating

energy in terms of total energy use. In this study, low temperature anaerobic digestion

efficiencies were measured by using laboratory scale batch reactor, 16S rRNA sequencing was

performed to analyze the microbial community of each condition and economic analysis was

performed using total energy consumption at low temperature. As a result of analysis of

methane production efficiency through batch reactor, it was confirmed that when food

wastewater anaerobic digestion sludge was used as an inoculum, it showed high activity at

low temperature than when municipal wastewater anaerobic digestion sludge was used as an

inoculation source. As a result of the microbial community analysis, the microbial community

structure changed significantly according to the temperature when the municipal wastewater

anaerobic digestion sludge was inoculated. Methane production was not stable due to this. On

the other hand, Methanoculleus, a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, was identified as the same

dominant methanogen regardless of the temperature when the food wastewater sludge was

inoculated. It showed stable methane production even at low temperatures because there was

no significant change in microbial community structure. As a result of economical analysis at

low temperature, psycrophilic anaerobic digestion using the food wastewater sludge as the


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inoculum was economically better than the case of the mesophilic anaerobic digestion by

adding the heating energy in the influent condition below 50,000 mg COD/L. This work

supported the feasibility of psychrophilic anaerobic digestion inoculated with food wastewater

anaerobic digestion sludge in terms of energy and cost effectiveness.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L3001 Presentation 6 (17:15~17:30)

Doped and multilayer biocompatible materials prepared by hybrid laser deposition

Miroslav Jelinek, Tomas Kocourek, Jan Remsa, Petr Pisarik, Jan Miksovsky

Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague

Abstract- Hybrid laser technology for synthesizing doped, nanocomposite, single and

multilayers of amorphous or nanocrystalline materials are presented. The technique use

method of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) or combination of PLD with magnetron sputtering,

radiofrequency discharges or two PLD running together. Examples of deposition and study of

doped biocompatible materials as Cr: DLC, Ti: DLC, Ag: DLC, Ag: hydroxyapatite, and

enhancement of sp3- DLC layers bonds by in situ ion gun bombardment are given.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L3009 Presentation 7 (17:30~17:45)

Improving transcriptional activity of human cytomegalovirus major immediate-early promoter

by mutating NF-κB binding sites

Danyang Wang, Jinke Wang


Abstract- Many mammalian gene expression vectors express the transferred genes under the

control of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) major immediate-early promoter (MIEP). The human

MIEP has been known as the strongest promoter in mammalian cells and utilized widely in

mammalian expression systems. There are four NF-κB binding sites (named as κBs) in the

human MIEP. In this study, we have constructed a multiple mutated MIEPs by changing the

natural κBs in the human MIEP into the high-affinity artificial sequences that were in vitro

selected by using systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) and

predicted by bioinformatics. With various transcriptional activity evaluations, we found three

mutated MIEPs with the transcriptional activity higher than the wild-type MIEP, which should

be useful and widely applicable in many mammalian transgene expression fields such as gene

engineering, gene therapy and gene editing. This study provides a useful approach for

promoter engineering in biotechnology. This study also produced a series of mutated MIEPs

with various transcriptional activities, which may be used for the fine control of gene

expression output in the future synthetic biology.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L4005 Presentation 8 (17:45~18:00)

On-nylon Membrane Detection of Nucleic Acid Molecules by Rolling Circle Amplification

Xinhui Xu, Jinke Wang

Southeast University (SEU) of China

Abstract- Positively-charged nylon membrane (NM) is a general solid-phase support for

nucleic acid detection due to its convenient immobilization of nucleic acid materials by direct

electrostatic adherence and simple UV crosslinking. Rolling circle amplification (RCA) is a

widely used isothermal DNA amplification technique for nucleic acid detection. Near-infrared

fluorescence (NIRF) is a new fluorescence technique with high sensitivity due to low

background. This study developed a simple method for detecting nucleic acid molecules by

combining the advantages of NM, RCA and NIRF, named NIRF-based solid phase RCA on

nylon membrane (NM-NIRF-sRCA). The detection system of this method only need two

kinds of nucleic acid molecules: target-specific probes with a RCA primer (P) at their 3′ end

and a rolling circle (RC). The detection procedure consists of four steps: (1) immobilizing

detected nucleic acids on NM by UV crosslinking; (2) hybridizing NM with specific probes

and RC; (3) amplifying by a RCA reaction containing biotin-dUTP; (4) incubating NM with

NIRF-labeled streptavidin and imaging with a NIRF imager. The method was fully testified

by detecting oligonucleotides, L1 fragments of various HPV subtypes cloned in plasmid, and

E.coli genomic DNA. This study thus provides a new facile method for detecting nucleic acid

molecules.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L2008 Presentation 9 (18:00~18:15)

Effects of Fe (II) on anammox activity and functional genes expression

Ding Jing

Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China

Abstract- Anammox is an energy efficient process in biological nitrogen removal, while its

wide application is limited by the sensitive microbial activity and long cell doubling time of

the anammox bacteria. Iron is known important for the growth of anammox bacteria, but the

detailed enhancement mechanism has not been discovered yet. In this study, Fe (II) was added

into an enriched anammox culture at four different concentrations (0.03, 0.09, 0.12 & 0.75

mM), and the performance of the culture was compared to investigate the stimulation and

inhibition effects of ferrous on anammox bacterial growth and activity. The results show that

0.09 and 0.12 mM Fe (II) enhanced anammox bacterial growth and activity. 0.12 mM Fe (II)

showed superiority to improve the total anammox activity and bacterial abundance, while

0.09 mM Fe (II) led to better performance on relative anammox activity. However, the

functional gene expression level under 0.09 mM and 0.12 mM Fe (II) conditions was not

higher than that under 0.03 mM condition. It is speculated that the elevated Fe (II)

concentration may not stimulate the functional gene expression, but enhance the activity of

the final synthesized proteins. 0.75 mM Fe (II) had an immediate inhibitory effect on

anammox activity, while the inhibition seemed to be reversible. Once inhibited, Candidatus

Kuenenia stuttgartiensis may have a stress response to detoxify the Fe inhibition. This study

provides more information about the effects of ferrous on anammox bacteria, and also

proposes some instructions for future application of anammox in wastewater treatment.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L0010 Presentation 10 (18:15~18:30)

Effects of Glucose and Ferrous Supplements and Culture Conditions on Lipopeptide

Biosurfactant from Pseudomonas spp.

Thanawat Choopraserdchok, Dusit Athinuwat and Pumnat Chuenchomrat

Faculty of Science and Technology, THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY, THAILAND

Abstract- To enhance lipopetide biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas spp., the effects of

medium and culture conditions were investigated. Nutrient broth (NB) supplemented with

glucose and molasses as carbon sources were used to increase biosurfactant yield. Cultivation

temperatures and initial pH were also studied. In this experiment, NB was used as a control to

produce biosurfactant with the yield of 0.58 g/L. The lipopeptide biosurfactant yield was

increased to 2.76 g/L when Pseudomonas spp. was cultured in NB supplemented with 1% w/v

glucose, 500 µM FeSO4, pH 9.0 and cultivation of 20°C for 72 h. Its specific growth rate was

0.25 h-1.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L2001 Presentation 11 (18:30~18:45)

Direct butanol production from food wastes by an Amylolytic Clostridium

Chen Zhang, Jianzhong He

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abstract- Food waste is one of the most severe environmental problem facing all over the

world, especially in mega-cities such as Singapore. To solve this problem, in this study, a

one-step fermentation process for production of butanol and hydrogen from food wastes by

amylolytic Clostridium sp. strain BOH3 is developed. Due to its advanced property of directly

synthesizing amylases (induced by starchy materials), strain BOH3 is able to naturally

hydrolyze 180 g/L of food wastes and produce 14.1 g/L of butanol and 16.2 mmol of

hydrogen. Enzymatic activity analysis shows that calcium could promote the activities of

amylases up to 33%. Thus, supplementation of external calcium ions to the food wastes

medium further improved butanol production to 16.6 g/L, which is 1.3-fold of that in a similar

study (12.5 g/L) and hydrogen to 18.2 mmol. The promoted amylase activities could shorten

the fermentation duration and enhance the butanol productivity to 0.17 g/L/h, which is

comparable to that (0.20 g/L/h) in glucose based medium. Therefore, this study offers a

promising approach to solve food waste problem and transfer them directly to biochemicals

and bioenergy.


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Time: 16:00~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room



L2002 Presentation 12 (18:45~19:00)

Hydrodynamics analysis of fish movement in steady swimming for modeling of fish robot

Ali S. Vaghefi and M. Abbaspour

Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Iran.

Abstract- Quantitative morphological and kinematic parameters of fish movement have been

studied here. BCF mechanism of two carangiform fish was taped by high speed digital video

and undulatory movement of each fish at different velocity was revealed. The amplitude of

this wave increases dramatically near the tail and it is very small near the head. Undulatory

movement of Pangasius sanitwongsei and Trout with different length and speed were recorded

by the digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) and image processing methods and optimal

coefficients of the movement equations and appropriate location of joints are experimentally

derived. The velocity of fish movement can be adjusted by changing oscillating amplitude,

frequency and the length of caudal fin, respectively. Finally finding in these researches

could be applied to design a fish robot.


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Session 5




Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room

Session 5: 11 presentations-Topic: “Air Pollution Management and Water

Treatment”

Session Chair: Prof. Hyo Choi

L0004 Presentation 1 (16:00~16:15)

Investigation into the destruction potential of Zr-doped TiO2 nanoparticles for the abatement

of H2S gas

Naeem Shahzad

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan

Abstract- Due to its toxicity, destruction of H2S gas has been an important topic of

researchers. Many studies have been carried for investigating various techniques for the

removal of this gas. One of those techniques is catalytic and photocatalytic destruction of H2S

gas using various catalysts including TiO2 owing to its significant potential for degradation of

various pollutants. This study investigates the destruction potential of Zr doped TiO2 for the

abatement of H2S gas. The catalysts were characterized using different techniques like XRD,

SEM, XRF. The catalytic experiments were performed using fixed bed catalyst system. The

samples were analyzed using GC-MC technique and it was revealed that the Zr doping of

TiO2 did not favour positively towards enhancing the H2S destruction potential as found in

other studies.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L0006 Presentation 2 (16:15~16:30)

Fine Particle Emission from Smokeless Incense Burning

Aungsiri Tipayarom and Nadtapon Warigool

Silpakorn University, Thailand

Abstract- The objective of this study is to determine concentrations, emission factors, and

emission rates of PM2.5 originated from smokeless incense burnings in comparison with

common and aromatic incense burnings. PM2.5 were collected and analyzed by Dusttrak II

Aerosol Monitors Model 8530 in enclosed chamber. The ascending concentrations of PM2.5

in burning smoke were from smokeless, aromatic, and common incenses, which were 0.37,

2.06, and 2.76 mg/m3, respectively. The PM mass emission factors for the common,

smokeless, and aromatic incense burnings ranged from 0.14-0.50, 0.04-0.16, and 0.25-0.48

mg/g, respectively. The corresponding order of PM mass emission rates was 0.004-0.011,

0.001-0.002, and 0.005-0.007 mg/min, respectively. Direct variations were found between

concentration and emission factor as well as between concentration and emission rate whereas

incense densities inversely varied in concentrations, emission factors and emission rates.

Furthermore, burning rates displayed no association with other parameters.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L1019 Presentation 3 (16:30~16:45)

A Common Goal: Reducing Worldwide Hazard Air Pollution from Diesel Engine Generators

Stephen Oltjen

Department of Defense, United States

Abstract- Diesel Engine Generators (DEG) are the most commonly used sources of electrical

energy generation worldwide due to diesel’s affordability and efficiency. Unfortunately, the

burning of diesel emits high hazardous air pollution (HAP) concentrations, labeling DEGs as

a major contributor to the ongoing anthropogenic damage of the environment. Enforcing

regulations on DEGs to reduce diesel emissions is necessary for environmental preservation.

In 2006 EPA established a requirement to reduce sulfur content in diesel, allowing advanced

pollution control technology such as the Discharge particulate Filter (DPF) and Selective

Catalytic Reduction (SCR) to be implemented. This equipment greatly minimizes diesel

particulate and NOx discharge. A stack analysis of a 1960s generator compared to that of a

2017 Diesel Rotary Uninterrupted Power Source (DRUPS) unit with a SCR and DPF can

prove the efficiency of the equipment. (Data to be presented during conference.)

Reducing anthropogenic HAP should be a common goal between countries worldwide.

Engineering controls have been proven to reduce diesel HAP, and should be implemented.

Achieving this goal would be a major victory in the worldwide effort on preserving the

natural environment and human health.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L3008 Presentation 4 (16:45~17:00)

Graphene-Induced Surface Vacancy of Zn2SnO4 for the Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven

Photocatalytic Oxidation of NO

Wing kei Ho, Yuhan Li

The Education University of Hong Kong, China

Abstract- As a ternary complex oxide with good physic-chemical stability, Zn2SnO4 is a

promising candidate in the photocatalytic application. However, Zn2SnO4 possesses a wide

band-gap (about 3.4 eV) and it inevitably suffers the intrinsic high recombination rate of

electrons and holes. In this paper, the effect of graphene on the structure and photocatalytic

activity of Zn2SnO4 was systematically studied based on the fact that graphene exhibits a

novel electronic property such as zero bandgap, high transparency, and high electronic

conductivity for storing and transporting electrons. It was found that the presence of graphene

not only induces the formation of SnO2, but also introduces Sn vacancy, resulting in the

visible light photocatalytic activity. The photocatalyst loaded with 3.0 wt.% of graphene

shows the highest photocatalytic activity in oxidation of NO and acetone under visible light

irradiation. Graphene can efficiently transfer the photo-generated electrons from the

conduction band of Zn2SnO4, retarding the recombination of carriers and therefore enhancing

the visible photo-reactivity. A visible-light-responsive photocatalytic reaction model based on

the three-component-photocatalyst SnO2/Zn2SnO4/graphene was put forward.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L1008 Presentation 5 (17:00~17:15)

Startup and kinetic characteristics of a three-stage nitrification moving bed biofilm reactor

(MBBR)

Miao Zhang, Chengda He, Yongzhen Peng, Jun Wu


Abstract- A two-sludge system consisting of A2/O and MBBR (Anaerobic Anoxic

Oxic-Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor) was developed. Stable and efficient denitrifying

phosphorus removal can be realized by high-efficiency utilization of influent carbon sources

in the A2/O reactor with the electron acceptors of NOx

--N in a three-stage nitrification MBBR

system (consisting of N1, N2, N3). How to successfully realize the MBBR startup was the key

for process optimization. The results showed that the biofilm matured within 18 days without

additional inoculation sludge. The average MLSS of three stages was 902.16, 678.80, 493.68

mg/L while the biofilm thickness was 95.30, 72.15, 50.28 μm, where the real-time control

parameters (pH and DO) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images confirmed the

improvement of nitrification performance. Meanwhile, the fluorescence in situ hybridization

(FISH) results revealed obvious differences of microbial community structure among three

stages. Additionally, the specific ammonium oxidation rate (SAOR) and half-saturation

constants of nitrification kinetics fitted by Monod equation also proved the otherness of three

stages, with KN (NH4+-N) of 2.04 - 2.31 mg/L and KO (O2) of 1.94 - 3.30 mg/L. The

incubation performances and kinetic parameters will provide theoretical reference for the

process application.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L2006 Presentation 6 (17:15~17:30)

Fluidized Ceramic Membrane Reactor Combined with Activated Carbon Particles for

Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Michael Lim, Muhammad Aslam, Enyoung Park, Rizwan Ahmad, Deaun Kwon, Soomin

Chang and Jeonghwan Kim

Inha University, Republic of Korea

Abstract- There are upsurge of interests in membrane technologies for water and wastewater

treatment. Polymeric membranes have been widely applied, but they are lack of resistance

against strong chemical agents and high water temperature which is often encountered with

high-strength wastewater such as metal-finishing industrial wastewaters. The use of ceramic

membrane consisting of metal oxide (i.e., Al2O3) is very attractive to treat the industrial

wastewaters due to its excellent chemical and thermal stability over the polymeric membranes.

Nevertheless, the porous ceramic membrane as pretreatment followed by post-treatment for

further treatment itself should not be enough to improve organic removal efficiency. In this

study, new hybrid membrane system was developed by combining fluidized ceramic

membrane reactor with activated carbon particles for the treatment of industrial wastewater.

Ceramic membrane consisting of Al2O3 with 0.1 µm pore size was submerged into a fluidized

membrane reactor. Granular activated carbon (GAC) particles were fluidized by recirculating

bulk solution through the reactor. Raw heavy-metal wastewater was applied to the membrane

reactor after its pH adjustment to neutral value. Transient behavior of membrane fouling was

observed by monitoring suction pressure in permeate line from the membrane. After pH

adjustment, total organic carbon (TOC) in raw heavy metal wastewater was removed by about

50 % due to its chemical precipitation. With hybrid fluidized ceramic membrane reactor, more

than 70 % of TOC in supernatant was further removed. Total suspended solid (TSS)

concentration was near zero in membrane permeate. During 8 hr operation, no increase in

suction pressure was observed under GAC fluidization 50% (v/v) at 25 L/m2.hr of set-point

permeate flux.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L0014 Presentation 7 (17:30~17:45)

Preparation of Sulfur-Impregnated Carbonaceous Adsorbent from Rice Husk for Heavy Metal

Removal from Aqueous Solution

Takaaki Wajima

Chiba University, Japan

Abstract- A novel carbonaceous adsorbent with heavy metal removal from aqueous solution

was prepared from rice husk using sulfur impregnation. The rice husk was immersed in 0.05 -

3 M K2S solution to prepare sulfur-immersed materials, and the immersed-materials were

heated at 100 - 700 oC in nitrogen gas to produce the sulfur-impregnated carbonaceous

adsorbent by pyrolysis. The contents of carbon and sulfur in the adsorbent and abilities of

adsorbent to remove heavy metals from aqueous solution were examined. The product

prepared from rice husk immersed in 1 M K2S solution by pyrolysis at 300 oC indicates a

maximum removal for nickel ion. This product has the removal ability of the heavy metals,

Ni2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Pb2+, Cu2+and Fe3+. With increasing the pH of the solution, removal of

heavy metal increase, and the order of increase for heavy metal removal is Fe3+ > Pb2+ ≒

Cu2+ > Zn2+> Cd2+ > Ni2+. The order of selectivity of the adsorbent in the mixed solution

indicates Fe3+ > Pb2+ > Cu2+ > Cd2+ > Zn2+≒ Ni2+, and the product can remove all metal

ions in the mixed solution above pH 6.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L3003 Presentation 8 (17:45~18:00)

Bio-photoelectrocatalytic System for Synergistic Treatment of Dye Wastewater

Xizi Long, Xianning Li


Abstract- In this study, a novel parallel circuit Bio-photoelectrocatalytic System was

established to enhance azo dye removal. Results showed that this system had synergistic

effects compared with the microbial fuel cell (MFC) alone. In the MFC part, a 56% decrease

in chemical oxygen demand (COD) and 85% decolorization were achieved, and further

reduced by 25% and 12% in the photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) part where titania nanotube

functioned as the photoelectrode. For one thing, the PEC raised the maximum current of the

MFC by 14.2%, which facilitated COD removal and decolorization in the MFC and promoted

adenosine triphosphate (ATP) level of anode microorganisms, for another,, this system

significantly increased the dye removal in the PEC. Besides, cyclic voltammograms

illustrated intermediate products degredation in this system. Hence, the system achieved

marked deep decolorization and rapid toxic intermediate products degradation of high

concentration azo dyes.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L1018 Presentation 9 (18:00~18:15)

Fouling Mechanisms in Microfiltration with Sodium Alginate in High Ionic Strength

Conditions

Hoseok Jang, Amine Charfi and Jeonghwan Kim

Inha University, Republic of Korea

Abstract- During algae bloom, the polysaccharide and proteins extracted from algal cell can be

agglomerated and structured as “egg-box” in presence of cationic component such as calcium.

It can affect low-pressure driven membrane process as a pretreatment of seawater reverse

osmosis process and the performance of the whole process. In this study, membrane fouling of

low-pressure driven membranes was investigated with sodium alginate in high ionic strength

conditions simulated for seawater. Dead-end filtration was performed to observe fouling

behavior at constant pressure mode of 0.2 bar at various concentrations (2, 20, 50 mg/L) of

sodium alginate as model compound at fixed ionic strength. Experimental results of permeate

flux decline were also compared with traditional Hermia model to understand dominant

fouling mechanism. Based on the comparison of the experimental permeate flux values and

the numerical values obtained by Hermia models, the model describing the best the

experimental data, corresponds to the fouling mechanism responsible of flux decline. The data

comparison uses the least squares method. For lower SA concentrations (≈ 2ppm) the

permeate flux decline occurs in two phases. The first phase is controlled by pore constriction

mechanism while the second phase is controlled by cake formation model. For higher SA

concentrations (≥ 20 ppm) the flux decline occurs in one phase controlled by cake formation

model. Under conditions of high ionic strength (0.6 M) permeate flux decline registered for

different SA concentrations is lower than the values registered under low ionic strength (0.03

M), which means that high ionic strength leads to lower fouling. Moreover, two fouling

phases have been observed until SA concentration of 20ppm, while a unique fouling phase

controlled by cake formation has been observed for SA concentration of 50ppm.


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L4020 Presentation 10 (18:15~18:30)

Effect of Spent Mushroom Substrate on Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils with Heavy

Metals

Kokyo Oh, Hongyan Cheng, Teng Wang, Chiquan He, Pengpeng Xiong, Jungang Wang


Abstract- Soil contamination with heavy metals is of great concern, due to the persistence of

these toxic elements in the ecosystem and their threat to ecological safety and human health.

Phytoremediation, the use of green plants for soil remediation, is a cost-effective and

eco-friendly technology to remediate contaminated soils. In order to promote the further

utilization of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) for enhancement of phytoremediation of

heavy mental contaminated soils, maize(Zea mays) and castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)

were used as energy crops with application of SMS to study their effects on Cu and Cr

(Maize), and Zn and Cd (castor oil plant), respectively. The effect of SMS application on the

plant growth, heavy metal accumulation potential, and morphology of these heavy metals

were investigated. The results showed that SMS application enhanced the above aground

biomass yields of maize ranged from 4.6% to 27%, and castor oil plant ranged from 40% to

190%, respectively. For castor oil plants, SMS enhanced the accumulation of Cd by

140-150% in root and 120-230% in shoot relative to control soil. SMS application also

enhanced the accumulation of Cu and Cr in maize, especially in the root system. Treatments

with SMS showed significant increase in the exchangeable Cu, Cr, Cd, and Zn, indicating that

SMS enhanced the activities of these heavy metals. The total contents in the soil were found

an average decrease rate of 9.4% for Cu and 0.8% for Cr, respectively, with application of

SMS. 5% addition of SMS could improve the nutrient availability and improve the soil quality.

The present study suggests that the maize and castor oil plants treated with SMS may have

potential for enhancing phytoremediation efficiency of heavy metals and for improving soil

quality. (This work was supported by International Cooperation Project of Shanxi No.

201703D421002 and JSPS KAKENHI No.16H05633).


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Time: 16:00~18:45

Venue: Minuet Room


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L4011 Presentation 11 (18:30~8:45)

Trends in Air Concentration of TGM and Analysis of Behaviors of Atmospheric Mercury in

Korea

Rhokho Kim, Seung Ha Lee, Dan Bee Kim, Young Jae Lee, Sang Bo Lee, Jung Su Kim

Air Quality Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research, South Korea.

Abstract- ‘Minamata Convention on Mercury’ was adopted in October, 2013 to protect

human health and the environment from anthropogenic releases of mercury. There is a

growing need to assess the source, transport and deposition of atmospheric Hg for evaluating

the effectiveness of the convention. In recent years, Korean researchers have also focused

their attention on the emission characteristics of mercury compounds and their behavior in the

atmosphere.

The objective of this study is to evaluate atmospheric Hg by analysing TGM concentrations

and using PSCF model in 3-4 sites of the national atmospheric Hg monitoring network from

2014 to 2016.

TGM concentrations of Tae-an was 2.10 ± 1.27 ng/㎥, Je-ju 1.56 ± 0.92 ng/㎥, Seoul 2.18

± 1.27 ng/㎥, and Incheon 2.63 ± 1.47 ng/㎥. Seasonal and monthly TGM variation in

Tae-an showed similar pattern with those of China’s background sites.

As a result of computer simulations using PSCF model, the emission contribution of local

pollution sources, such as coal-fired power plants, was high in spring, and there were no

apparent pollution sources in spring and autumn. In winter, eastern China and domestic

emission sources were simulated to have a great effect, and the results of the annual analysis

showed that the effect of long-distance movement was somewhat higher. In general, the

mercury concentrations in winter were significantly higher than those in other seasons. The

computer simulation results suggest that the long-distance movement of pollutants from

large-scale emission sources in China had a great effect. In addition, the increase of coal

consumption in winter in major domestic emission sources, such as coal-fired power plants, is

considered to have a great effect on this phenomenon.


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Poster Time: 8:50~19:00

Venue: Minuet Room

H4001 (8:50~19:00)

Production of Whitening and Anti-aging materials from Lipid Extracted Microalgae

Jinwoo Kim

Department of Food Science, Sunmoon University

Abstract- Microalgae are a promising feedstock for the production of biodiesel and large

amounts of lipid extracted microalgae (LEA) are produced as a by-product. In this study, acid

and enzymatic digestion were carried out to produce peptides less than 2 kDa from proteins in

LEA. The inhibition effects of peptides on tyrosinase and collagenase activities were

examined to confirm whitening and anti-wrinkle effects. As a result of SDS, peptides from

3.4-6.5 kDa were distributed broadly in distilled water extraction, and all proteins were

hydrolyzed under 2 kDa using hydrochloric acid and commercial enzyme. Tyrosinase

inhibitory activity of extract from LEA was not detected in the distilled water extract,

however 10.5% in the 6 mol HCl hydrosate and 20.7% in the enzyme hydrosate using

protease and Alcalase were detected. Collagenase inhibitory activities were 27.9% in the

distilled water extract, 30.6% in the 6 mol HCl, and 45.0% in the Alcalase extract. Both

results indicating that the tyrosinase and collagenase inhibitory activities increased mostly

when the protein was hydrolyzed into a small molecule peptide by Alcalase. It is concluded

that LEA was possible to produce cosmetic material with increased skin whitening and skin

regeneration effects through peptide production.

Dinner

19:00 Restaurant in HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA

SHINJUKU


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List of Listeners

Name Affiliation

Junghan Lee Inha University School of Medicine, Repulic of Korea

Young Ju Suh Inha University School of Medicine, Repulic of Korea

Min Ho Lee Chung-Ang University, Repulic of Korea

Lia Jurnaliah Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Winantris Sanusi Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Reisha Navelie Levia Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Miae Kim Dongguk university, Repulic of Korea

Joonhyeon Jeon Dongguk university, Repulic of Korea

Yongbeom Kim

Dongguk university, Repulic of Korea

Min Zhang Shenyang Agricultural University, China

Yong Hoon Lee

Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea

Win Chaeychomsri Kasetsart University, Thailand

Demberel Khatanbaatar Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


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One Day Tour

Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis,is the capital city of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures.

The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of

the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the

southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara

Islands.

The Sensoji Kannon temple is an ancient Buddhist

temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's

oldest temple, and one of its most significant. Formerly

associated with the Tendai sect of Buddhism, it became

independent after World War II. Adjacent to the temple is

a five-storey pagoda, Shinto shrine, the Asakusa Shrine,

as well as many shops with traditional goods in the

Nakamise-dōri.

Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower

in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 332.9

metres (1,092ft), it is the second-tallest structure in Japan.

The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that

is painted white and international orange to comply with

air safety regulations.

Built in 1958, the tower's main sources of income are

tourism and antenna leasing. Over 150 million people have

visited the tower. FootTown, a four-story building directly under the tower, houses museums,

restaurants and shops. Departing from there, guests can visit two observation decks. The

two-story Main Observatory is at 150 metres (490 ft), while the smaller Special Observatory

reaches a height of 249.6 metres (819 ft).

The Tokyo Imperial Palace (皇居 Kōkyo, literally

"Imperial Residence") is the primary residence of the

Emperor of Japan. It is a large park-like area located in

the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo and contains buildings

including the main palace (宮殿 Kyūden), the private

residences of the Imperial Family, an archive, museums

and administrative offices.

It is built on the site of the old Edo Castle. The total area including the gardens is 3.41 square

kilometres (1.32 sq mi). During the height of the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the palace

grounds were valued by some to be more than the value of all of the real estate in the state of

California.

The exactly tour line will be adjusted according to the situation on Dec 29, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izu_Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogasawara_Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogasawara_Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asakusa,_Tokyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_shrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asakusa_Shrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_masts_and_towers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minato,_Tokyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_orange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9A%87%E5%B1%85

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiyoda,_Tokyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_House_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California


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HOTEL SUNROUTE PLAZA SHINJUKU http://en.sunrouteplazashinjuku.jp/

Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku is a chic hotel located in the busy Shinjuku business district of Tokyo, Japan. Newly renovated in 2007 with sleek lines and modern accents, this Tokyo Shinjuku hotel's guestrooms are both contemporary and inviting for business and leisure travelers. Spacious and considerate, Hotel Sunroute offers guests competitive prices with special discounts and deals and the choice of a variety of guestrooms to meet each party's specifications.

CONTACT:

2-3-1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, 151-0053 Tokyo - Japan

Tel: +81-3-3375-3211

Fax: +81-3-5365-4110

[email protected]

http://en.sunrouteplazashinjuku.jp/


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