Composting of waste algae : a review
Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Publié dans: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 34(2014), 7 vom: 05. Juli, Seite 1148-55 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2014
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| Accès à la collection: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.) |
| Sujets: | Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review Carbon footprint Compost stability Composting Composting process Waste algae Fertilizers Soil plus... |
| Résumé: | Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Although composting has been successfully used at pilot scale to manage waste algae removed from eutrophied water environments and the compost product applied as a fertiliser, clear guidelines are not available for full scale algae composting. The review reports on the application of composting to stabilize waste algae, which to date has mainly been macro-algae, and identifies the peculiarities of algae as a composting feedstock, these being: relatively low carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio, which can result in nitrogen loss as NH3 and even N2O; high moisture content and low porosity, which together make aeration challenging; potentially high salinity, which can have adverse consequence for composting; and potentially have high metals and toxin content, which can affect application of the product as a fertiliser. To overcome the challenges that these peculiarities impose co-compost materials can be employed |
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| Description: | Date Completed 21.01.2015 Date Revised 09.01.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1879-2456 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.01.019 |