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http://dx.doi.org/10.11001/jksww.2014.28.1.47

Inhibition effect of silica nanoparticle on the oxygen uptake rate of activated sludge  

Lee, Soo Mi (Department of Environment & Energy, Sejong University)
Cho, Jin Woo (Department of Environment & Energy, Sejong University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater / v.28, no.1, 2014 , pp. 47-54 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nanotechnology has become one of the fastest developing technologies and recently applied to a variety of industries. Thus, increasing number of nano materials including various nanoparticles would be discharged into wastewater and consequently entering a biological wastewater treatment process. However, the impact of the nano particles on biological wastewater treatment has not been estimated intensively. In this research, we investigated the effect of silica nanoparticle on the oxygen uptake rates (OURs) of activated sludge used in a conventional wastewater treatment process. The inhibition (%) values were estimated from the results of OURs experiments for the silica nanoparticles with various sizes of 10-15, 45-50, and 70-100 nm and concentrations of 50, 250, and 500 ppm. As results, the inhibition value was increased as the size of silica nano particles decreased and the injected concentration increased. The maximum inhibition value was investigated as 37.4 % for the silica nanoparticles with the size of 45-50 nm and concentration of 50 ppm. Additionally, the effect of size and concentration on the inhibition should be considered cautiously in case that the aggregation of particles occurred seriously so that the size of individual particles was increased in aquatic solution.
Keywords
Silica nanoparticle; activated sludge; OUR(oxygen uptake rate); toxicity; inhibition;
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