Vermicomposting of tannery sludge mixed with cattle dung into valuable manure using earthworm Eisenia fetida (Savigny)

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7941-7945

  Vig, Adarsh Pal ^a   Singh, Jaswinder ^b   Wani, Shahid Hussain ^a   Singh Dhaliwal, Salwinder ^c  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KHALSA COLLEGE   (India)

^c PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Eisenia fetida; Leather industry; Solid waste; Tannery sludge; Vermicomposting

Indexed keywords

C:N RATIO; CATTLE DUNG; DRY WEIGHT; EARTHWORM EISENIA FETIDA; EISENIA FETIDA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INITIAL VALUES; LEATHER INDUSTRY; POPULATION BUILD-UP; SHORT PERIODS; TANNERY SLUDGE; VERMI-COMPOSTING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SOLID WASTES; TRANSITION METALS;

MANURES;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMPOSTING; EARTHWORM; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MANURE; MORTALITY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SOLID WASTE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPOSTING; DEGRADATION; DRY WEIGHT; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FETIDA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FECES; MANURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PH; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; TANNERY SLUDGE; VERMICOMPOST; VERMICOMPOSTING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; MANURE; OLIGOCHAETA; SEWAGE; SOIL; TANNING;

BOS; EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 79960844240     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.056     Document Type: Article

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