Assessing the effect of different treatments on decomposition rate of dairy manure

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:182

Article

Khalil, Tariq M.¹  Higgins, Stewart S.¹  Ndegwa, Pius M.¹  Frear, Craig S.²  Stockle, Claudio O.¹ 

[1] Washington State Univ, Dept Biol Syst Engn, Pullman, WA 99164 USA

[2] Regenis Inc, 6920 Salashan Pkwy, Ferndale, WA 98248 USA

关键词: Dairy manure;    Manure treatments;    Decomposition rate constant;    Carbon mineralization;    Whole farm modeling;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.056

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) contribute to greenhouse gas emission, but the magnitude of these emissions as a function of operation size, infrastructure, and manure management are difficult to assess. Modeling is a viable option to estimate gaseous emission and nutrient flows from CAFOs. These models use a decomposition rate constant for carbon mineralization. However, this constant is usually determined assuming a homogenous mix of manure, ignoring the effects of emerging manure treatments. The aim of this study was to measure and compare the decomposition rate constants of dairy manure in single and three-pool decomposition models, and to develop an empirical model based on chemical composition of manure for prediction,of a decomposition rate constant. Decomposition rate constants of manure before and after an anaerobic digester (AD), following coarse fiber separation, and fine solids removal were determined under anaerobic conditions for single and three-pool decomposition models. The decomposition rates of treated manure effluents differed significantly from untreated manure for both single and three-pool decomposition models. In the single-pool decomposition model, AD effluent containing only suspended solids had a relatively high decomposition rate of 0.060 d(-1), while liquid with coarse fiber and fine solids removed had the lowest rate of 0.013 d(-1). In the three-pool decomposition model, fast and slow decomposition rate constants (0.25 d(-1) and 0.016 d(-1) respectively) of untreated AD influent were also significantly different from treated manure fractions. A regression model to predict the decomposition rate of treated dairy manure fitted well (R-2 = 0.83) to observed data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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