The composting of agricultural wastes and the new parameter for the assessment of the process

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 220-225

  Külcü, Recep ^a   Yaldiz, Osman ^b  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cattle manure; Composting; Composting dynamics; Greenhouse wastes; New kinetic parameter

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPOSTING; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSES; MANURES; MIXTURES;

CATTLE MANURES; COMPOSTING PROCESS; COMPOSTING REACTORS; FUNCTION OF TIME; OPTIMUM MIXTURES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PROCESS TEMPERATURE;

WASTE TREATMENT;

EID: 84899946651     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.097     Document Type: Article

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