Format:
1 online resource (322 pages)
ISBN:
9781617281327
Series Statement:
Agriculture Issues and Policies
Content:
Intro -- AGRICULTURAL WASTES -- AGRICULTURAL WASTES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 POTENTIAL RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF WASTE DERIVED FROM ANIMAL AGRICULTURE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Definition of Agricultural Waste -- POTENTIAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH AGRICULTURAL WASTE -- Natural Steroid Hormones -- Steroid Hormones Associated with Animal Waste in New Zealand -- Bacterial Pathogens from Animal Waste -- AGRICULTURAL WASTE UTILIZATION -- Production of Bioethanol -- Energy Production from Agricultural Waste -- Biogas Production -- Production of Biochar -- Benefits from Biochar -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 ANIMAL WASTE AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES: CURRENT LAWS AND LEGISLATIVE ISSUES* -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CERCLA AND EPCRA -- ENFORCEMENT AGAINST AFOS -- CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST -- POLICY ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 3 REPROCESSING AND PROTEIN ENRICHMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WASTES BY THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC DIGESTION (TAD) -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF CONVENTIONAL WASTE DISPOSAL PROCESSES -- Incineration, Overland Disposal and Sea Disposal -- Landfilling -- Biochemical and Microbiological Changes in Landfill -- OVERVIEW OF CONVENTIONAL WASTE TREATMENT PROCESSES -- Composting -- Development of Compost -- Microbiology of Compost -- Environmental Requirements for Composting -- ANAEROBIC DIGESTION (AD) -- Fundamentals of Anaerobic Digestion -- Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion -- Overview of Silage Making (Ensiling) -- THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC DIGESTION -- Aeration of TAD Processes -- Operational Temperatures Employed in TAD -- Effect of Waste Load on Process Heating -- Effect of Substrate Load on Process Development -- Microbiology of Aerobic Thermophilic Digestion -- Physiological Features of Thermophiles Important in TAD.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781607413059
Additional Edition:
Print version Agricultural wastes
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Agricultural wastes New York, NY : Nova Science Publ., 2009 ISBN 9781607413059
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Landwirtschaft
;
Abfallbehandlung
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Recycling
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Abfallbehandlung
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Recycling
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