Use of digestate from a decentralized on-farm biogas plant as fertilizer in soils: An ecotoxicological study for future indicators in risk and life cycle assessment

Waste Management

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 378-389

  Pivato, Alberto ^a   Vanin, Stefano ^b   Raga, Roberto ^a   Lavagnolo, Maria Cristina ^a   Barausse, Alberto ^a   Rieple, Antonia ^a   Laurent, Alexis ^c   Cossu, Raffaello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Digestate; Ecotoxicity tests; Life cycle assessment; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOGAS; BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; FERTILIZERS; LIFE CYCLE; LUMINESCENCE; SOILS; TOXICITY;

DIGESTATE; DOSE-RESPONSE ASSESSMENTS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOTOXICITY TEST; EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOFERTILIZER; BIOGAS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTEMIA SP.; DAPHNIA MAGNA; EISENIA FETIDA; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BIOFUEL; FERTILIZER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; DRUG EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMALS; BIOFUELS; CRUSTACEA; FARMS; FERTILIZERS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 85010917672     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.12.009     Document Type: Article

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