scholarly journals Biochar can be used to capture essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improve soil physico-chemical properties

Solid Earth ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 953-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Ghezzehei ◽  
D. V. Sarkhot ◽  
A. A. Berhe
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Properties ◽  
C Sequestration ◽  
Agricultural Runoff ◽  
Dairy Manure ◽  
Dairy Wastewater ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Essential Nutrients ◽  
Ammonium N ◽  
Physico Chemical

Abstract. Recently, the potential for biochar use to recapture excess nutrients from dairy wastewater has been a focus of a growing number of studies. It is suggested that biochar produced from locally available excess biomass can be important in reducing release of excess nutrient elements from agricultural runoff, improving soil productivity, and long-term carbon (C) sequestration. Here we present a review of a new approach that is showing promise for the use of biochar for nutrient capture. Using batch sorption experiments, it has been shown that biochar can adsorb up to 20–43% of ammonium and 19–65% of the phosphate in flushed dairy manure in 24 h. These results suggest a potential of biochar for recovering essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improving soil fertility if the enriched biochar is returned to soil. Based on the sorption capacity of 2.86 and 0.23 mg ammonium and phosphate, respectively, per gram of biochar and 10–50% utilization of available excess biomass, in the state of California (US) alone, 11 440 to 57 200 tonnes of ammonium-N and 920–4600 tonnes of phosphate can be captured from dairy waste each year while at the same time disposing up to 8–40 million tons of excess biomass.

scholarly journals Biochar can be used to recapture essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improve soil quality

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1101-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Ghezzehei ◽  
D. V. Sarkhot ◽  
A. A. Berhe
Keyword(s):  
C Sequestration ◽  
Agricultural Runoff ◽  
Dairy Manure ◽  
Dairy Wastewater ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Waste Biomass ◽  
Essential Nutrients ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Ammonium N

Abstract. Recently, the potential for biochar use to recapture excess nutrients from dairy wastewater has been a focus of a growing number of studies. It is suggested that biochar produced from locally available waste biomass can be important in reducing release of excess nutrient elements from agricultural runoff, improving soil productivity, and long-term carbon (C) sequestration. Here we present a review of a new approach that is showing promise for the use of biochar for nutrient capture. Using batch sorption experiments, it has been shown that biochar can adsorb up to 20 to 43% of ammonium and 19–65% of the phosphate in flushed dairy manure in 24 h. These results suggest a potential of biochar for recovering essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improving soil fertility if the enriched biochar is returned to soil. Based on the sorption capacity of 2.86 and 0.23 mg ammonium and phosphate, respectively, per gram of biochar and 10–50% utilization of available excess biomass, in the state of California (US) alone, 11 440 to 57 200 t of ammonium-N and 920–4600 t of phosphate can be captured from dairy waste each year while at the same time disposing up to 8–40 million tons of waste biomass.

Nutrient cycling differs between cropped soils with century-old and recently pyrolyzed biochar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Burgeon ◽  
Julien Fouché ◽  
Sarah Garré ◽  
Ramin Heidarian-Dehkordi ◽  
Gilles Colinet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Cycling ◽  
Soil Solution ◽  
Nutrient Dynamics ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

<p>The amendment of biochar to soils is often considered for its potential as a climate change mitigation and adaptation tool through agriculture. Its presence in tropical agroecosystems has been reported to positively impact soil productivity whilst successfully storing C on the short and long-term. In temperate systems, recent research showed limited to no effect on productivity following recent biochar addition to soils. Its long-term effects on productivity and nutrient cycling have, however, been overlooked yet are essential before the use of biochar can be generalized.</p><p>Our study was set up in a conventionally cropped field, containing relict charcoal kiln sites used as a model for century old biochar (CoBC, ~220 years old). These sites were compared to soils amended with recently pyrolyzed biochar (YBC) and biochar free soils (REF) to study nutrient dynamics in the soil-water-plant system. Our research focused on soil chemical properties, crop nutrient uptake and soil solution nutrient concentrations. Crop plant samples were collected over three consecutive land occupations (chicory, winter wheat and a cover crop) and soil solutions gathered through the use of suctions cups inserted in different horizons of the studied Luvisol throughout the field.</p><p>Our results showed that YBC mainly influenced the soil solution composition whereas CoBC mainly impacted the total and plant available soil nutrient content. In soils with YBC, our results showed lower nitrate and potassium concentrations in subsoil horizons, suggesting a decreased leaching, and higher phosphate concentrations in topsoil horizons. With time and the oxidation of biochar particles, our results reported higher total soil N, available K and Ca in the topsoil horizon when compared to REF, whereas available P was significantly smaller. Although significant changes occurred in terms of plant available nutrient contents and soil solution nutrient concentrations, this did not transcend in variations in crop productivity between soils for neither of the studied crops. Overall, our study highlights that young or aged biochar behave as two distinct products in terms of nutrient cycling in soils. As such the sustainability of these soils differ and their management must therefore evolve with time.</p>

scholarly journals Effect of Long Term Fertilization on Content and Uptake of Macro Nutrients in Sorghum-Wheat Cropping Sequence - A Review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayalakshmi Mitnala
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Central India ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Npk Fertilizers ◽  
Intensive Farming ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Food Grain ◽  
High Yielding Varieties

Sorghum and wheat are the premier food grain crops of the peninsular central India and in particular of Maharashtra. There has been a phenomenal increase in its production after mid sixties with the introduction of high yielding varieties. Increase in production was achieved through increase in area as well as productivity. Inputs like improved seeds, irrigation, fertilizers etc. has given a boost to productivity. Continuous addition of chemical fertilizers poses problems like toxicity due to high amounts of salts as residues of fertilizer and deterioration of the physico-chemical properties. Organic manure ameliorates this problem as organic matter helps in increasing adsorptive power of soil for cations and anions particularly phosphate and nitrate. Long term manuring and fertilizer experiments conducted in India showed declining trend in productivity even with the application of NPK fertilizers under modern intensive farming. Neither organic source alone nor inorganic fertilizers can achieve sustainability in crop production under intensive agriculture, where nutrient turnover in soil-plant system is much higher. However, their combined use appeared promising in enhanced crop productivity besides improving soil fertility.

scholarly journals Studies on Sediment Physico-Chemical Properties of the Ulhas River Flowing along Dombivli City near Mumbai

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Amol M. Jadhav ◽  
Pravin U. Singare
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
Pollution Load ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Heavy Pollution

Ulhas River which is one of the most polluted rivers of Mumbai receives heavy pollution load from the nearby Dombivali industrial belt. Previous studies reported along the Dombivali industrial belt has indicated that the pollution level is so much alarming that it has created threat to nearby residential areas and also to the Ulhas River flowing in the outskirts of the Dombivali City. It is feared that the toxic chemicals present in the industrial waste might affect the sediment ecosystem of the river. Hence this has provoked us to carry the systematic and detailed study of physico chemical properties of the sediment samples collected along the Ulhas River. The study was done during the year 2012 and 2013, at the sites where the industrial discharge from Dombivli industrial belt Phase I and Phase II joins the Ulhas River. The study was performed to understand the physico chemical properties such as pH, alkalinity, chloride and phosphates. Results of the study reveal that there is an urgent requirement for systematic and regular monitoring of pollution level along the Ulhas River which will further help in improving the industrial waste treatment procedure adopted, along the Dombivli industrial belt. It is expected that such scientific studies will be useful to determine the extent of pollution control measures required in order to avoid long term irreparable damage to the Ulhas River ecosystem.

Strain Energy and Behaviour of Overconsolidated Soils

1967 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmer W Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Strain Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Earth Pressure ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Overconsolidated Clays ◽  
Overconsolidated Soils

Bjerrum recently presented a strain energy hypothesis which explains qualitatively the behaviour of overconsolidated clays and the phenomena of long-term slope failures in these soils. Quantitative evidence, gathered from a series of large-scale consolidation tests, is presented here which supports the strain energy hypothesis. The coefficient of earth pressure at rest was found to be a function of strain energy at a given value of OCR. It is also shown that the degree of disintegration of overconsolidated soils during a slaking test is related to strain energy. It is inferred from the results that mineralogy and the capacity of a soil to adsorb strain energy are related. The evidence suggests that certain physico-chemical properties may be quantitatively related to mechanical properties through the concept of strain energy.

Three long-term trials end with a quasi-equilibrium between soil C, N, and pH: an implication for C sequestration

Soil Research ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Conyers ◽  
Philip Newton ◽  
Jason Condon ◽  
Graeme Poile ◽  
Pauline Mele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Soil Organic Matter ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
C Sequestration ◽  
Soil Chemical Properties ◽  
Quasi Equilibrium ◽  
Soil C ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
N Fertility

The aim of this study was to assess the long-term changes in some key soil chemical properties at the completion of three long-term trials in south-eastern Australia and the relationship between those soil properties. From a soil organic matter perspective, the build-up of carbon (%C) requires an accumulation of nitrogen (%N), and the build-up of %C and %N fertility comes at the cost of soil acidity. Rotation, tillage, and stubble practices combine to alter the quantity, quality (C : N), and the depth distribution of organic matter in a soil, but the three soil chemical properties reported here seem to also be in quasi-equilibrium at the three long-term sites. The consequence is that if the build-up of soil organic matter leads to soil acidification, then the maintenance of agricultural production will require liming. The emission of CO2 when limestone reacts with soil acids, plus the C cost of limestone application, will negate a proportion of the gains from C sequestration as organic matter in soil. Such cautionary information was doubtless unforeseen when these three long-term trials were initiated.

scholarly journals Effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate on appetite vary depending upon site and structure

2004 ◽  
Vol 92 (S1) ◽  
pp. S23-S26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen French
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Dietary Fat ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Dietary Composition ◽  
Levels Of Processing ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Physico Chemical

The present review summarises the effects of different carbohydrate and fat structures on food intake and appetite and the differences in response at various levels of processing of macronutrients. Several physico-chemical properties of carbohydrate and fat molecules appear to influence the short-term satiating properties. However, long-term substantiation of these findings expressed in terms of food intake or body weight is not currently available. Such studies will be required to make clear recommendations regarding dietary composition to aid satiety.

scholarly journals Impact of Physico-Chemical Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystal/Silver Nanoparticle Hybrid Suspensions on Their Biocidal and Toxicological Effects

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1862
Author(s):  
Dafne Musino ◽  
Julie Devcic ◽  
Cécile Lelong ◽  
Sylvie Luche ◽  
Camille Rivard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Aqueous Suspension ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Molar Ratio ◽  
Biocidal Activity ◽  
Phagocytic Capacity ◽  
Toxicological Effects ◽  
Physico Chemical

There is a demand for nanoparticles that are environmentally acceptable, but simultaneously efficient and low cost. We prepared silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) grafted on a native bio-based substrate (cellulose nanocrystals, CNCs) with high biocidal activity and no toxicological impact. AgNPs of 10 nm are nucleated on CNCs in aqueous suspension with content from 0.4 to 24.7 wt%. XANES experiments show that varying the NaBH4/AgNO3 molar ratio affects the AgNP oxidation state, while maintaining an fcc structure. AgNPs transition from 10 nm spherical NPs to 300 nm triangular-shaped AgNPrisms induced by H2O2 post-treatment. The 48 h biocidal activity of the hybrid tested on B. Subtilis is intensified with the increase of AgNP content irrespective of the Ag+/Ag0 ratio in AgNPs, while the AgNSphere−AgNPrism transition induces a significant reduction of biocidal activity. A very low minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.016 mg AgNP/mL is determined. A new long-term biocidal activity test (up to 168 h) proved efficiency favorable to the smaller AgNPs. Finally, it is shown that AgNPs have no impact on the phagocytic capacity of mammalian cells.

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