Temperature and deactivation of microbial faecal indicators during small scale co-composting of faecal matter

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-191

  Germer, Jörn ^a   Boh, Michael Yongha ^a   Schoeffler, Marie ^a   Amoah, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCOMPOSTING; COMPOST PILE; COMPOSTING PROCESS; CONCRETE BRICKS; CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS; E. COLI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FAECAL INDICATORS; FOOD WASTE; HEAT DEVELOPMENT; OUTER LAYER; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PLANT MATERIAL; SALMONELLA SENFTENBERG; SEMI-ARID CONDITIONS; SMALL SCALE; STABILISATION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPOSTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FECAL COLIFORM; HEAT BALANCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SANITATION; SEMIARID REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CARBON SOURCE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA SENFTENBERG; SEMIARID CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TROPIC CLIMATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GARBAGE; PLANTS; SALMONELLA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR SENFTENBERG;

EID: 70749109240     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.09.030     Document Type: Article

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