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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 1166-1174Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2011.0131
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the EMSL facility
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This study evaluated the use of biochar produced from anaerobic digester dairy fiber (ADF) to sequester phosphorus (P) from dairy lagoons. The ADF was collected from a plugged flow digester, air-dried to <8% water content, and pelletized. Biochar was produced by slow pyrolysis in a barrel retort. The potential of biochar to reduce P in the anaerobic digester effluent (ADE) was assessed in small-scale filter systems through which the effluent was circulated. Biochar sequestered an average of 381 mg L-1 P from the ADE, and 4 g L-1 ADF was captured as a coating on the biochar. There was an increase of total (1.9 g kg(-1)), Olsen (763 mg kg(-1)), and water-extractable P (914 mg kg(-1)) bound to the biochar after 15 d of filtration. This accounted for a recovery of 32% of the P in the ADE. The recovered P on the biochar was analyzed using P-31 nuclear magnetic resonance for P speciation, which confirmed the recovery of inorganic orthophosphate after liquid extraction of the biochar and the presence of inextractable Ca-P in the solid state. The inorganic phosphate was sequestered on the biochar through physical and weak chemical bonding. Results indicate that biochar could be a beneficial component to P reduction in the dairy system.
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