Greenhouse gas emissions from home composting in practice

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 174-182

  Ermolaev, Evgheni ^a   Sundberg, Cecilia ^a   Pell, Mikael ^a   Jönsson, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Carbon dioxide; Food waste; Methane; Nitrous oxide

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING CONDITIONS; FOOD WASTE; HOME OWNERS; INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS; MANAGEMENT FACTORS; MEDIAN VALUE; MIXING FREQUENCY; NITROUS OXIDE;

COMPOSTING;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; OXYGEN;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPOST; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

SWEDEN;

AMMONIA; BIOLOGICAL WASTE; BW; CARBON DIOXIDE; FOOD WASTE; FW; GARDEN WASTE; GHG; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; GREENHOUSE GAS; GW; GWP; HOUSEHOLD WASTE; HW; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATION; RSD; SA; STRUCTURAL AMENDMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84887554164     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.10.049     Document Type: Article

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