title: [Co-composting of high moisture vegetable waste, flower waste and chicken litter in pilot scale].
abstract: Co-composting of different mixture made of vegetable waste, flower waste and chicken litter were studied. The first stage of composting was aerobic static bed based temperature feedback and control via aeration rate regulation. The second stage was window composting. At first stage, the pile was insulated and temperatures of at least 55 degrees C were maintained for a minimum of 3 days. The highest temperature was up to 73.3 degrees C. This is enough to kill pathogens. Moisture of pile decreased from 75% to 56% and organic matter was degraded from 65% to 50% during composting. The value of pH was stable at 8. Analysis of maturity and nutrition of compost showed that end-products of composting ware bio-stable and had abundant nutrition. This shows that co-composting of vegetable waste, flower waste and chicken litter can get high quality compost by optimizing composting process during 45 days. Composting can decrease nonpoint resource of organic solid waste by recycling nutrition to soil and improve fertility of soil.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Xiangfeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hongtao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yongfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Xiangyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D002645:Chickens / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods; D014675:Vegetables / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods