Composting of green waste: Observations from windrow trials and bench-scale experiments

Environmental Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1149-1155

  Adams, J D W ^a   Zennaro, M ^b   Frostick, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composing; Moisture; glucosidase activity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPOSTING; GREEN MANUFACTURING; MOISTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; COMPOSING; COMPOSTING TEMPERATURE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; GLUCOSIDASE ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; ORGANIC MATTER DEGRADATIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

WASTE TREATMENT;

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; ORGANIC MATTER;

BIOASSAY; COMPOSTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPOSTING; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BENCH SCALE COMPOSTING; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DRY MASS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOISTURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLID WASTE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WINDROW COMPOSTING;

EID: 52949150803     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330801987673     Document Type: Article

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