Empirical Model and Kinetic Behavior of Thermophilic Composting of Vegetable Waste

Huang, Jow-Lay; Wang, Chun‐Hung; Jih, Charng-Gwo

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(2000)126:11(1019)

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“…Lapid [13] created a model to simulate inoculation of recycled solid waste and to facilitate handling of organic wastes at the north of Metro, Manila in the Philippines. Huang [14] proposed an empirical model for simulating the thermophilic composting process for vegetable wastes. Bari et al [15] conducted a series of kinetics analyses on composting processes that were operated under various aeration modes.…”

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Process kinetics of inoculation composting of municipal solid waste

Zhang

Liu

2005

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Process kinetics of inoculation composting of municipal solid waste

Zhang

Liu

2005

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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“…To analyse the kinetics of composting wet vegetable market residues, pre-drying was necessary. Self-heating during the intensive rotting phase (Huang et al 2000) guarantees phytohygienization of the material. In Germany, compost should meet the quality measures of the RAL (RAL: Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung) or BGK (Bundesgütegemeinschaft Kompost), if it is to be marketed as a soil conditioner for horticulture, agriculture or landscaping.…”

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Solid and liquid residues as raw materials for biotechnology

Gallert

Winter

2002

Naturwissenschaften

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In the past few decades huge amounts of solid and paste-like wastes of domestic and industrial origin have been deposited on sanitary landfills worldwide. Only a small proportion was incinerated, where incineration plants were available. Since primary resources, such as ores for metal production or crude oil for the production of gasoline, diesel, solvents and plastics, or coal and natural gas as sources for energy or chemicals are not available in unlimited quantities, and because the deposition of residues, wastes and worn-out commodities on sanitary landfills causes pollution of the atmosphere, the soil and the groundwater due to hazardous gaseous emissions and toxic leachates, wastes from households and from industry must be avoided or minimized at an early stage. Whenever waste material can be recycled it must be re-introduced into production processes and the non-recyclable fractions should be used as a fuel for energy recovery. After incineration, the highly toxic dust fractions of ashes and slags resulting from burning the wastes should be deposited on sanitary landfills, while the granulated mineral slag fractions could be used as a substitute for the sand in cement as a construction material. Here we review various processes for the treatment of organic fractions of differently composed wastes to upgrade them to more valuable, re-usable products or at least to recover their energy content. Upgrading processes of organic wastes include composting, biogas fermentation, production of organic acids and solvents, and biopolymer or biosurfactants production. We also include biological purification procedures for the most important components of wastes, such as chitin from the shells of Crustaceae. Typical examples from pilot-scale or full-scale studies are discussed for each process.

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“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License substance (Huang et al, 2000;Stocks et al, 2002). Vermi-composing is on the other hand, a biotechnological process of composting in which certain species of earthworms are used to enhance waste conversion and produce a better product called vermicompost (Khan and Ishaq, 2011).…”

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Composition of different composts and vermicompost and effects of their application rates on growth parameters of pot grown tomato

Balemi¹

2017

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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Two sets of pot experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of different compost types (market compost, home compost and vermicompost) and their rates on growth of pot grown tomato. During the first experiment, two compost types (market and home composts) each applied at four rates (0, 200, 400 and 800 g/pot) were evaluated while during the second experiment all the three compost types including vermicompost each applied at five rates (0, 200, 400, 600 and 800 g/pot) were evaluated. The chemical compositions of the composts were analyzed using appropriate laboratory procedures. Results revealed that market compost had the highest available P, exchangeable K and total S content whereas vermicompost had the highest organic matter and total N content followed by market compost. Growth parameters increased with increasing rates of home compost and vermicompost, but decreased with increasing rate of market compost. Shoot nutrient content varied much between compost types than compost rates. Shoot nitrogen and potassium concentration was higher with the application of market compost; phosphorus concentration was higher with the application of vermicompost while sulphur concentration was the highest with the application of home compost. Growth reduction at the highest market compost application could be ascribed to higher pH and total soluble salt content, especially chloride and potassium.

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Empirical Model and Kinetic Behavior of Thermophilic Composting of Vegetable Waste

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Process kinetics of inoculation composting of municipal solid waste

Process kinetics of inoculation composting of municipal solid waste

Solid and liquid residues as raw materials for biotechnology

Composition of different composts and vermicompost and effects of their application rates on growth parameters of pot grown tomato

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