Thesis
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT SCALE COMPOSTING SYSTEM TO MEASURE AIR EMISSIONS AND NUTRIENT CHARACTERISTICS FROM DAIRY MANURE USING DIFFERENT AMENDMENTS
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
05/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006971
Abstract
The dairy industry is the main agriculture driver in Idaho. Dairy production produces large quantities of manure concentrated in the Magic Valley. The raw manure produces gas emissions and has the potential to leach nutrients into water sources posing an environmental concern. An adaptable pilot-scale composting system consisting of ten reactors was designed and evaluated to determine the feasibility of the composting system and to simulate on-farm composting. Data trends show that composting was achieved for several weeks without carbon correction. This system has the potential to implore many types of on-farm treatment effects at the pilot scale.
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- Title
- DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT SCALE COMPOSTING SYSTEM TO MEASURE AIR EMISSIONS AND NUTRIENT CHARACTERISTICS FROM DAIRY MANURE USING DIFFERENT AMENDMENTS
- Creators
- ANTHONY SCOTT SIMERLINK
- Contributors
- Tarah S Sullivan (Chair)Mario E de Haro-Marti (Committee Member)Lynne Alane Carpenter-Boggs (Committee Member)Liang Yu (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 107
- Identifiers
- 99901125940001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis