Monitoring the performances of a real scale municipal solid waste composting and a biodrying facility using respiration activity indices

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Evangelou, Alexandros ^a   Gerassimidou, Spyridoula ^a   Mavrakis, Nikitas ^b   Komilis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Green Earth Ltd   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodrying; Calorific value; Composting; Mechanical biological pretreatment; Microbial respiration activity; Municipal solid wastes; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALORIFIC VALUE; COMPOSTING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE TREATMENT;

BIO-DRYING; BIOLOGICAL PRE-TREATMENT; COMPOSTING FACILITIES; DECOMPOSITION PROCESS; FINAL MOISTURE CONTENT; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW); RESPIRATION ACTIVITY;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL; SOLID WASTE;

COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC MATTER; RESPIRATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOCELL; BIODRYING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; GREECE; HEATING; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOISTURE; MONITORING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OXYGEN RELATED ACTIVITY INDEX; PERFORMANCE; RESPIRATION ACTIVITY INDEX; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SOIL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

GREECE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; SOLID WASTE;

EID: 84988526146     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5303-6     Document Type: Article

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