Assessment of manure compost used as soil amendment—A review

E Goldan, V Nedeff, N Barsan, M Culea… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organic waste management is an important concern for both industries and communities.
Proper management is crucial for various reasons, such as reducing greenhouse gas …

Current approaches and future trends in compost quality criteria for agronomic, environmental, and human health benefits

MP Bernal, SG Sommer, D Chadwick, C Qing… - Advances in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Organic wastes are composted to stabilize organic matter, reduce the moisture content,
increase the concentrations of plant nutrients, eliminate pathogens and weed seeds …

Metagenomic analysis of microbial consortia enriched from compost: new insights into the role of Actinobacteria in lignocellulose decomposition

C Wang, D Dong, H Wang, K Müller, Y Qin… - Biotechnology for …, 2016 - Springer
Background Compost habitats sustain a vast ensemble of microbes specializing in the
degradation of lignocellulosic plant materials and are thus important both for their roles in …

Evaluation of maturity and stability parameters of composts prepared from agro-industrial wastes

D Raj, RS Antil - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in physical, chemical and biological
parameters to assess the maturity and stability of composts prepared from mixture of …

An approach to include soil carbon changes in life cycle assessments

BM Petersen, MT Knudsen, JE Hermansen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2013 - Elsevier
Globally, soil carbon sequestration is expected to hold a major potential to mitigate
agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. However, the majority of life cycle assessments …

Evaluation of maturity parameters and heavy metal contents in composts made from animal manure

HJ Ko, KY Kim, HT Kim, CN Kim, M Umeda - Waste management, 2008 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate a variety of maturity indices and heavy metal
concentrations in the composting process. A full-scale study was performed on animal …

Impact of temperature, inoculum flow pattern, inoculum type, and their ratio on dry anaerobic digestion for biogas production

MS Hossain, TU Karim, MH Onik, D Kumar… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
This study is aimed to apply dry anaerobic digestion (DAD) for methane (CH4) enriched
biogas production from unsorted organic municipal solid waste (MSW). Cumulative biogas …

Chemical structures and characteristics of animal manures and composts during composting and assessment of maturity indices

J Huang, Z Yu, H Gao, X Yan, J Chang, C Wang, J Hu… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Changes in physicochemical characteristics, chemical structures and maturity of swine,
cattle and chicken manures and composts during 70-day composting without addition of …

Successions and diversity of humic-reducing microorganisms and their association with physical-chemical parameters during composting

B **, X Zhao, X He, C Huang, W Tan, R Gao… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
Humic-reducing microorganisms (HRMs) could utilize humic substances (HS) as terminal
electron mediator to promote the biodegradation of recalcitrant pollutants. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of phytotoxicity of compost during composting process

SM Selim, MS Zayed, HM Atta - Nature and science, 2012 - researchgate.net
The phytotoxicity of compost as germination index (GI) was evaluated during composting
period. This study suggested that NH4+-N and heavy metals in the organic wastes were …