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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2015

Relationships between stability, maturity, water-extractable organic matter of municipal sewage sludge composts and soil functionality.

Luigi Sciubba, Luciano Cavani, Marco Grigatti, Claudio Ciavatta, Claudio Marzadori

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Characterization of composted sewage sludge during the maturation process: a pilot scale study.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luigi SciubbaDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, luigi.sciubba@unibo.it.
Luciano Cavani
Marco Grigatti
Claudio Ciavatta
Claudio Marzadori
University of Bologna · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compost capability of restoring or enhancing soil quality depends on several parameters, such as soil characteristics, compost carbon, nitrogen and other nutrient content, heavy metal occurrence, stability and maturity. This study investigated the possibility of relating compost stability and maturity to water-extractable organic matter (WEOM) properties and amendment effect on soil quality. Three composts from municipal sewage sludge and rice husk (AN, from anaerobic wastewater treatment plants; AE, from aerobic ones; MIX, from both anaerobic and aerobic ones) have been analysed and compared to a traditional green waste compost (GM, from green manure, solid waste and urban sewage sludge). To this aim, WEOMs were characterized through chemical analysis; furthermore, compost stability was evaluated through oxygen uptake rate calculation and maturity was estimated through germination index determination, whereas compost impact on soil fertility was studied, in a lab-scale experiment, through indicators as inorganic nitrogen release, soil microbial biomass carbon, basal respiration rate and fluorescein di-acetate hydrolysis. The obtained results indicated that WEOM characterization could be useful to investigate compost stability (which is related to protein and phenol concentrations) and maturity (related to nitrate/ammonium ratio and degree of aromaticity) and then compost impact on soil functionality. Indeed, compost stability resulted inversely related to soil microbial biomass, basal respiration rate and fluorescein di-acetate hydrolysis when the products were applied to the soil.

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Biological Oxygen Demand AnalysisCarbonGerminationLepidium sativumManureNitrogenSewageSoilSoil MicrobiologySolid WasteSolubilitySolventsVolatile Organic CompoundsWaterCarbonManureNitrogenSewageSoilSolid WasteSolventsVolatile Organic CompoundsWater

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