Speciation of heavy metals during co-composting of livestock manure

• Authors: Shazia Gul , Alia Naz , Iftikhar Fareed , Abdullah Khan , Muhammad Irshad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Heavy metals determination in manures provides beneficial information to predict the availability and the potential contamination of environment. Therefore, a study was carried out to investigate heavy metals changes in livestock manure during a co-composting process. The metals were stepwise fractionated into exchangeable, adsorbed, organically bound, carbonate precipitated and residual forms by extracting with 0.5M KNO3, de-ionized water, 0.5M NaOH, 0.05M Na2EDTA and 4M HNO3, respectively. During the extraction process, the amount of metals remained highly dependent on an extraction method and stage of manure composting. Extractions released heavy metals contents in the final composted manure as Zn > Cu > Pb > Cr > Ni > Cd. Irrespective of the days of composting, extracting agents differed in the order HNO3 > Na2EDTA > NaOH > KNO3 > H2O for all heavy metals. Higher concentrations of heavy metals were observed during the early stages of composting. Conversely, there was a progressive increase in the concentrations of K, Ca and Mg during composting of manure. Total C in the manure reduced with composting days.

Keywords

EN

heavy metals; fractionation; composting; manure; temporal changes

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 19-23

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2015

online

19 - 9 - 2015

Contributors

author

Shazia Gul

• University of Haripur, Department of Environmental Sciences, Hattar Road Haripur, Pakistan

author

Alia Naz

• University of Haripur, Department of Environmental Sciences, Hattar Road Haripur, Pakistan

author

Iftikhar Fareed

• University of Kurdistan, Department of Natural Resources Engineering and Management, Hewler, Iraq

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Abdullah Khan

• University of Haripur, Department of Environmental Sciences, Hattar Road Haripur, Pakistan

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Muhammad Irshad

• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Abbottabad, Pakistan

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pjct-2015-0044