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.

최근 곤충병원성 선충은 생물학적 살충제로서 크게 주목을 받고 있다. 이러한 곤충병원성 선충의 in vitro배양, 저장, 수송 과정에서는 낮은 용해도와 물질전달 문제 때문에 적절한 산소 공급이 매우 중요하다. 4종의 서로 다른 Steinernema 곤충병원선충에 대하여 5L 생물반응기를 이용하여 온도를 변화시키면서 산소요구도(OUR)들을 측정하였다. 13~17범위에서는 모든 Steinernema종의 산소 요구도는 0.5 mmolO/L.min 이하였다. S. glaseri Dongrae와 S. carpocapsae Pocheon의 경우 산소요구도(mmolO/L.min)는 21에서는 각각 0.4와 0.75, 에서는 와 3.2, 29에서는 2.8와 5.8였다. 그러나 50~150rpm의 교반속도에서는 산소 요구도의 변화가 그다지 크지 않았다. S. glaseri NC, S. glaseri Dongrae, S. glaseri Mungyeong 그리고 S. carpocapsae Pocheon종의 비산소 요구도()는 에서 각각 0.3, 0.5, 0.3, 그리고 0.2mmolO/cell.min였다. 곤충병원성 선충의 크기와 온도가 증가됨에 따라 또한 증가하였다.