Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15255/KUI.2016.050

Emission of Gases during Composting of Solid Waste

Dajana Kučić orcid.org/0000-0001-8427-6482 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Department of Industrial Ecology, Marulićev trg 19, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Felicita Briški ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Department of Industrial Ecology, Marulićev trg 19, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Composting is a biochemical process converting organic components into stable compost with release of heat, water, CO₂ and NH₃. The objective of this work was to determine the amount of CO₂ and NH₃ in the exhaust gases during composting of tobacco waste (TW) and mixture of tobacco and grape waste (TGW). The cumulative evolved CO₂ during 21 days of composting of TW and TGW, per mass of volatile matter, was 94.01 g kg–1 and 208.18 g kg–1, respectively, and cumulative evolved NH₃ during composting of TW and TGW, per mass of volatile matter, was 504.81 mg kg–1 and 122.45 mg kg–1, respectively.


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Keywords

composting; agro-industrial waste; adiabatic closed reactor; ammonia emission; carbon dioxide emission

Hrčak ID:

186979

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/186979

Publication date:

4.10.2017.

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