Composting sewage sludge amended with different sawdust proportions and textures and organic waste of food industry - Assessment of quality

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1641-1649

  Ammari, Tarek G ^a   Al Omari, Qusai ^a   Abbassi, Bassim E ^a  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Compost maturity parameters; Compost quality; Dewatered sewage sludge; Sawdust texture; Spectrophotometric ratios

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BLENDING; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPOSTING; DEWATERING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); SEWAGE SLUDGE; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WASTES;

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; C:N RATIO; COCOMPOSTING; COMPOST MATURITY; COMPOST QUALITY; COMPOSTING PROCESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FOOD INDUSTRIES; GROWTH MEDIUM; HUMIFICATION; ORGANIC WASTES; POTATO-PROCESSING; SEWAGE-SLUDGE-AMENDED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC RATIOS;

TEXTURES;

COMPOST; COMPOSTING; DEWATERING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRAW;

ALKALINIZATION; ARTICLE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; MOISTURE; ORGANIC WASTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SAWDUST; SLUDGE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84871942441     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.641589     Document Type: Article

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