A critical review of nitrogen mineralization in biosolids-amended soil, the associated fertilizer value for crop production and potential for emissions to the environment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 541, Issue , 2016, Pages 1310-1338

  Rigby, Hannah ^a,c   Clarke, Bradley O ^b   Pritchard, Deborah L ^a   Meehan, Barry ^b   Beshah, Firew ^b   Smith, Stephen R ^c   Porter, Nichola A ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Denitrification; Land application; Mineralization; Plant available nitrogen; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DENITRIFICATION; DEWATERING; FERTILIZERS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOILS; STABILIZATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL STABILIZATION; GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; LAND APPLICATIONS; MESOPHILIC ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PLANT AVAILABLE NITROGENS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

BIOSOLIDS;

CARBON; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; BIOSOLID; CROP PRODUCTION; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; SLUDGE; SOIL AMENDMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOSOLID; CLIMATE; CROP PRODUCTION; DEWATERING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CROP PRODUCTION; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; SOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 84945236961     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.089     Document Type: Review

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