Abstract
This studies were conducted to evaluate efficiency of microbial inoculator for active composting of food wastes. The Microbial inoculators used in this studies were purchased from different comparise to evaluate their effectiveness for composting of food waste in Korea. The number of bacteria growing at $30^{\circ}C$ in commercial inoculator collected were below $91.0{\times}10^8\;CFU/g$ which were counted from well cured compost made by animal manure. The number of bacteria in commercial microbial inoculator, such as FL, VP, B9, CM and GE were higher than that of composted at $50^{\circ}C$ or $60^{\circ}C$ of incubation temperature. Fungi were counted in GR, VP and B9 as over $10^3CFU/g$ at $30^{\circ}C$ of incubation temperature, while fungi of all the commercial inoculator collected could not grown at $50^{\circ}C$ and $60^{\circ}C$. Actinomycetes in most of the these had higher number($10^5CFU/g$) than that of compost : however, it was not detected at $60^{\circ}C$ incubation temperature from all the samples collected. The amount of carbon dioxid production was order to VP>HU>B9>GE>CM>Control>Compost in the lab scale composting test with or without inoculation of commercial inoculators, however, but the difference in carbon dioxide production was similar among each treatments. The effect of inoculation on composting parmeter such as pH changes, temperature increasing and change of chemicals properties were a little among each treatments, with or without inoculation of commercial inoculator in active composting of food waste. Using commercial inoculator did not show any statistical difference in food waste composting process under various condition such as pH changes, temperature changes, etc.
음식물 쓰레기 퇴비화를 위한 미생물제 첨가 효과를 검토하기 위해 시판 미생물제 중의 미생물 활성과 퇴비화시의 접종효과를 조사하였다. 14종의 시판 미생물제의 배양온도에 따른 세균수 측정한 결과 $30^{\circ}C$에서는 대조구로 사용한 완숙퇴비의 $91.0{\times}10^8\;CFU/g$ 보다 모두 적게 나타났으며 $50^{\circ}C$와 $60^{\circ}C$에서는 각각 5종과 6종의 미생물제가 완숙퇴비 보다 적게 조사되었다. 사상균의 경우 $30^{\circ}C$에서는 4종의 미생물제가 $10^5CFU/g$이상 존재하는 것으로 나타났으나 $50^{\circ}C$와 $60^{\circ}C$에서는 $10^3CFU/g$에서 검출되지 않았다. 방선균의 경우 $30^{\circ}C$와 $50^{\circ}C$에서 DE를 제외한 13종의 미생물제에서 $10^5CFU/g$ 이상으로 검출되었으나 $60^{\circ}C$에서는 전시료구에서 검출되지 않았다. 음식물 쓰레기에 미생물제를 접종하여 퇴비화 과정중의 $CO_2$ 가스 발생량을 실험실 조건에서 조사한 결과 VP>HU>B9>GE>CM>Contrl>Compost 순으로 조사되었으나 발생량의 차이는 거의 없는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 간이 음식물 쓰레기 퇴비화 장치에 선발한 미생물제를 접종한 후 퇴비화 실험을 수행한 결과 부숙온도 유기물 및, pH 변화에 영향이 거의 없었으며 중금속 양이온함량에서도 차이가 인정되지 않았다.