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Effects of bamboo biochar addition on temperature rising, dehydration and nitrogen loss during pig manure composting. 

HUANG Xiang-dong1,2, XUE Dong1   

  1. (1Department of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, Henan, China; 2College of Environment and Resource Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)
  • Online:2014-04-18 Published:2014-04-18

Abstract:

Composting is an effective way to realize the treatment and recycling of livestock manure. However, traditional composting process has the problems of slow temperature rising, poor dehydration effect and serious nitrogen loss. Composting experiments of pig manure were carried out to investigate the influence of different rates of bamboo biochar addition on the temperature rising speed, dehydration effect and nitrogen loss during the composting process. The results showed that the addition of bamboo biochar could shorten the temperature rising time of the pile by 24-48 h, increase the dehydration rate by 13.6%-21.4%, and prolong the lasting time of the thermophilic phase by 216-264 h. The NH4+-N, NO3--N, and total nitrogen contents in the pile were higher under the treatments with bamboo biochar amendment than under the control, and moreover, the nitrogen fixation percentage increased by 28.3%-65.4% as compared to the control.