Sawdust and natural zeolite as a bulking agent for improving quality of a composting product from anaerobically stabilized sewage sludge

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 7545-7552

  Zorpas, Antonis A ^a   Loizidou, Maria ^b  

^a ENVITECH Ltd   (Cyprus)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Composting; Leach ability; Partitioning; Phytotoxic; Zeolite

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; HEAVY METALS; METALS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SILICATE MINERALS;

ACID NEUTRALIZATION CAPACITY; APPLIED (CO); BULKING AGENTS; CLINOPTILOLITE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELSEVIER (CO); FINAL COMPOST; FINAL PRODUCTS; GERMINATION INDEX; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES (HS); IN ORDER; METAL LEACHABILITY; NATURAL ZEOLITE (NZ); P H VALUES;

MIXTURES;

ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; ZEOLITE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMPOSTING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMIC SUBSTANCE; NEUTRALIZATION; PARTITIONING; PHYTOTOXICITY; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; STABILIZATION; ZEOLITE;

ARTICLE; COMPOSTING; GERMINATION; LEACHING; PH; PHYTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAWDUST; SLUDGE; SLUDGE STABILIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; FERTILIZERS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS, HEAVY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WOOD; ZEOLITES;

EID: 45649085440     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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