Physicochemical characteristics of animal and municipal wastes decomposed in arid soils

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1392-1403

  Fares, Farouk ^a   Albalkhi, Akram ^a   Dec, Jerzy ^b   Bruns, Mary Ann ^b   Bollag, Jean Marc ^b  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; DRYING; MANURES;

EXOTHERMIC PEAKS; MUNICIPAL WASTE COMPOST (MWC); ORGANIC MATTER;

WASTES;

BIOGAS; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANIMAL WASTE; ARID SOIL; ARTICLE; BIOGAS MANURE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; DECOMPOSITION; FREEZE DRYING; MANURE; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL WASTE COMPOST; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROCESSING; SOIL; SOIL QUALITY; SOLAR DRYING; SUN; TECHNIQUE; VACUUM; VACUUM DRYING; WASTE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; DESERT CLIMATE; MANURE; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

ANIMALIA; ARIDA;

EID: 22944454168     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2004.0257     Document Type: Article

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