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Methods for the Treatment of Cattle Manure—A Review
Font Palma, Carolina
Font Palma, Carolina
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2019-05-15
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Environmental concerns, caused by greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere and overrunning of nutrients and pathogens to water bodies, have led to reducing direct spread onto the land of cattle manure. In addition, this practice can be a source of water and air pollution and toxicity to life by the release of undesirable heavy metals. Looking at the current practices, it is evident that most farms separate solids for recycling purposes, store slurries in large lagoons or use anaerobic digestion to produce biogas. The review explores the potential for cattle manure as an energy source due to its relatively large calorific value (HHV of 8.7–18.7 MJ/kg dry basis). This property is beneficial for thermochemical conversion processes, such as gasification and pyrolysis. This study also reviews the potential for upgrading biogas for transportation and heating use. This review discusses current cattle manure management technologies—biological treatment and thermochemical conversion processes—and the diverse physical and chemical properties due to the differences in farm practices.
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Font-Palma, C. (2019). Methods for the treatment of cattle Manure—A review. C, 5(2), 27. doi:10.3390/c502002
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MDPI
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C-Journal of Carbon Research
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10.3390/c5020027
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2311-5629