Integrating Compost and Biochar towards Sustainable Soil Management
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F21%3APU141052" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/21:PU141052 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cetjournal.it/cet/21/86/225.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.cetjournal.it/cet/21/86/225.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3303/CET2186225" target="_blank" >10.3303/CET2186225</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Integrating Compost and Biochar towards Sustainable Soil Management
Original language description
Composting of biowaste to organic fertiliser promotes resource recycling with various environmental co-benefits, including mitigation of nutrient loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil enrichment. As produced from the pyrolysis of organic waste, biochar could be added to compost for enhanced performances. The use of either compost or biochar or both has shown a positive effect on the overall soil quality, such as increasing soil pH and electrical conductivity, increasing soil organic matter, promoting soil carbon storage, and reducing the bioavailability of heavy metals. However, studies have reported contradictory observations and varying degree on the positive effect of such amendments on the aspects mentioned above. This review aims to evaluate the effect of biochar on composting towards a greener and cleaner process. The interacting mechanisms among biochar, compost and biochar-compost amendment upon soil application are discussed. The addition of biochar to compost effectively reduces nutrient loss and gaseous emission and promotes humification. The presence of biochar enrich specific groups of microbes that encourage nitrogen immobilisation. Biochar is more effective in improving the soil carbon pool, whereas compost has a more direct and persistent impact on the soil pH and cation exchange capacity. Upon applying mixed compost with biochar in soil, the organic amendments reduced heavy metals' bioavailability through the respective mechanisms. Different effects of compost and biochar on the soil properties and microbial community were observed, depending on the amendment type, soil condition and length of the application period. Copyright © 2021, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20704 - Energy and fuels
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000456" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000456: Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Chemical Engineering Transactions
ISSN
2283-9216
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
86
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
1345-1350
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85109544344