Insight into the roles of earthworm in vermicomposting of sewage sludge by determining the water-extracts through chemical and spectroscopic methods

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-100

  Yang, Jian ^a   Lv, Baoyi ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Xing, Meiyan ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence spectroscopy; Fourier transform infrared spectra; Sewage sludge; Vermicomposting; Water extract

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EISENIA FETIDA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRA; HUMIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; VERMI-COMPOSTING; WATER EXTRACTS;

EXTRACTION;

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYSACCHARIDE; WATER;

COMPOSTING; EARTHWORM; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HUMIFICATION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMIFICATION; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; VERMICOMPOST; VERMICOMPOSTING;

EISENIA FETIDA;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRA; SEWAGE SLUDGE; VERMICOMPOSTING; WATER EXTRACT;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MINERALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGOCHAETA; SEWAGE; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 84891358855     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.12.023     Document Type: Article

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