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Control Number309807
Date and Time of Latest Transaction20150706093812.AM
General Information150706s |||||||||b ||00|||
Cataloging SourceSTII-DOST
Local Call NumberScienceDirect
Main Entry - Personal NamePuchades, Rosa
 Abad, Manuel
 García-de-la-Fuente, Rosana 1
 aCarrion, Carolina 1
 aFornes, Fernando0
Title StatementaLeaching composted lignocellulosic wastes to prepare container media Feasibility and environmental concerns by Fernando Fornes and 4 others
Physical Descriptionapages 1747-1755 computer file; text; 470kb
Summary, Etc.aThe leaching of salt and mineral elements from three composts prepared with residual vegetable crop biomass (melon, pepper or zucchini) was studied using methacrylate columns and distilled water. The benefits of the leached composts to be used for ornamental potted plant production were also analysed. After leaching 5 container capacities of effluent, both the electrical conductivity and the concentration of soluble mineral elements in compost leachates decreased substantially and remained close to the target levels. Composts reacted differently to leaching due to differences in the raw waste sources and the composting process and hence, in their physical and chemical characteristics. At the end of the experiment, after pouring 8 container capacities of water, the leaching efficiency of the salts was 96%, 93% and 87% for melon, pepper and zucchini-based composts, respectively. Mineral elements differed in their ability to be removed from the composts; N (NH(4)(+) and NO(3)(-)), K(+), Na(+), Cl(-), and SO(4)(2-) were leached readily, whereas H(2)PO(4)(-), Ca(2+), and Mg(2+) were removed hardly. Leached composts showed a range of physico-chemical and chemical characteristics suitable for use as growing media constituents. Potted Calendula and Calceolaria plants grew in the substrates prepared with the leached composts better than in those made with the non-leached ones. Finally, special emphasis must be paid to the management of the effluents produced under commercial conditions to avoid environmental pollution.0
Subject Added Entry - Topical TermaAgriculture -- Methods0
 aAgriculture0
 aCalendula -- Growth and Development0
 aEnvironmental Remediation -- Methods
LocationaDOST STII ScienceDirect NONPRINTS NP 13-14778 1 13-14778 Online/Download 2010-12-01
  
     
 
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