Inhibition of total oxygen uptake by silica nanoparticles in activated sludge
- Authors
- Sibag, Mark; Choi, Byeong-Gyu; Suh, Changwon; Lee, Kwan Hyung; Lee, Jae Woo; Maeng, Sung Kyu; Cho, Jinwoo
- Issue Date
- 11-2월-2015
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Silica nanoparticle; Inhibition; Oxygen uptake rate; Activated sludge; Wastewater treatment
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, v.283, pp.841 - 846
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
- Volume
- 283
- Start Page
- 841
- End Page
- 846
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/94403
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.10.032
- ISSN
- 0304-3894
- Abstract
- Nanoparticle toxicity to biological activities in activated sludge is largely unknown. Among the widely used nanoparticles, silica nanoparticles (SNP) have a limited number of studies associated with inhibition to the activated sludge process (ASP). We demonstrated SNP inhibition of activated sludge respiration through oxygen uptake rate (OUR) measurement. Based on the percentage inhibition of total oxygen consumption (I-T), we observed that smaller SNPs (12 nm, I-T = 33 +/- 3%; 151 nm, I-T = 23 +/- 2%) were stronger inhibitors than larger SNPs (442 and 683 nm, I-T = 5 +/- 1%). Transmission electron micrographs showed that some of the SNPs were adsorbed on and/or apparently embedded somewhere in the microbial cell membrane. Whether SNPs are directly associated with the inhibition of total oxygen uptake warrants further studies. However, it is clear that SNPs statistically significantly altered the composition of microbial membrane lipids, which was more clearly described by principal component analysis and weighted Euclidian distance (PCA-ED) of the fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) data. This study suggests that SNPs potentially affect the biological activity in activated sludge through the inhibition of total oxygen uptake. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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