Laboratory and field mineralization of nitrogen from fermentation residues
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-1978
Abstract
The paper reports on a study to determine the nitrogen mineralization rate of an industrial fermentation waste and to relate rate of land application to potential leaching of mineralized nitrogen. Mineralization rates were determined by incubating soil-waste mixtures at 35 degree C in leaching tubes and periodically extracting the mineralized nitrogen. Fermentation wastes, obtained from the production of various antibiotics and organic acids, were also applied to field plots at rates of 0, 112, and 224 dry metric tons/ha. Soil samples were obtained periodically at predetermined depths and extracted for the determination of mineral-N. Under optimum conditions in the laboratory between 55 and 95% of the organic nitrogen added was mineralized in a 24-week period. Approximately 50% of the mineralization occurred during the first 2 weeks of incubation. Available nitrogen concentrations in field plots exceeded 100 ppm at the 45-cm depth for both the 112- and 224-metric ton/ha rates during the late summer of the year of application.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Journal of Environmental Quality
Volume
7
Issue
3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Wright, W. R.. "Laboratory and field mineralization of nitrogen from fermentation residues." Journal of Environmental Quality 7, 3 (1978). doi: 10.2134/jeq1978.00472425000700030009x.