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Composting of vegetable waste.

Author: JI Chang; JJ Tsai; KH Wu
Edition/Format: Article Article : English
Publication:Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA, 2006 Aug; 24(4): 354-62
Database:From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Other Databases: ECOBritish Library Serials
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The effects of the aeration, seeding, and agitation on the composting of vegetable waste were studied in a laboratory-scale reactor. Experimental results showed that the final product at the end of a 4-day composting period met multiple maturity indices suggested by many researchers. The evolution of carbon dioxide during the composting process could be modelled with a modified Gompertz equation that described the  Read more...
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Document Type: Article
All Authors / Contributors: JI Chang; JJ Tsai; KH Wu
ISSN:0734-242X
OCLC Number: 111218154
Language Note: English
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The effects of the aeration, seeding, and agitation on the composting of vegetable waste were studied in a laboratory-scale reactor. Experimental results showed that the final product at the end of a 4-day composting period met multiple maturity indices suggested by many researchers. The evolution of carbon dioxide during the composting process could be modelled with a modified Gompertz equation that described the bacteria growth successfully. Multivariate regression analysis was used to study the effects of operating parameters on the carbon conversion. The response surface contour plots were constructed using the regression equation for the examination of the dependence of carbon conversion on operating parameters. The maximum carbon conversion of 14.54% was obtained when the percentage of seeding was set at 14.5%, the air suction rate was set at 2.6 L kg(-1) dry-solid min(-1), and the agitator operated half of the time, alternating on and off for every 5 min. Future work will focus on the application of the data and the experience gained in this work to composters of pilot and semi-commercial scales.

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