Total livestock emissions account for up to 14.5% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Counteractive measures, such as circular economy concepts and negative emission …

This article summarizes the most important and current methods for the determination of total
organic carbon (TOC) in solid samples. The methods presented are chemical oxidation …

Thermal analysis techniques have long been used in the study of soils, particularly in clay
mineralogy. While there exists a large volume of literature (including several books) on the …

Anaerobic digestate originating from food waste has been studied herein for two different
purposes. Firstly, for combustion, co-granulation of the digestate and medium density …

A study aimed to monitor the composting process and to evaluate the effectiveness of
indicators able to define the stability of a compost obtained by mixing municipal solid waste …

The possibility to use thermal analysis for a quick characterisation of chemical changes in
the organic matter of composted materials was tested. Nine samples were taken at …

The municipal solid wastes in Nigeria contain all sources of unsorted wastes, such as
commercial refuse, construction and demolition debris, garbage, electronic wastes etc …

Anaerobic digestion of livestock wastes (swine manure (SM) and poultry litter (PL)) and
vegetable processing wastes (VPW) mixtures was evaluated in terms of methane yield …

The follow-up of different physico-chemical parameters (TOC, TKN, C/N) over 14 months
showed more rapid composting and greater maturation for the DPGC compost (containing a …

Biological [dynamic respiration index (DRI); chemical humification indexes: humification
index (HI), degree of humification (DH) and humification rate (HR); and thermoanalytical …