Efeito da digestão anaeróbia e da estabilização com cal na mineralização do carbono e do azoto de lamas de ETAR

• Autor(a) principal: Bancessi, Aducabe
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Henrique Manuel, Fangueiro, David, Duarte, Elisabeth, Cabral, Fernanda, Vasconcelos, Ernesto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5005
• topic: nitrogen; carbon; stabilization; sewage sludge; mineralization

This work aims to evaluate the N and C mineralization in a Haplic Arenosol amended with 3 different sewage sludge: mixture of primary and secondary sewage sludge (MSS), anaerobically digested sewage sludge (DSS) and anaerobically digested sewage sludge treated with quicklime (LimeDSS). Two aerobic incubations, one to follow N mineralization and the other one to assess CO2 emissions, were performed during 140 days. MSS promoted soil N immobilization during the first days of incubation and higher CO2 emissions (46% of the applied C was lost), consequence of a high content of non-stabilized organic matter. In DSS there was nitrogen net mineralization but only 17% of the applied carbon was mineralized, showing that anaerobic digestion stabilized the sludge organic matter. Sewage sludge treatment with quicklime reduced its NH4+ content, but enhanced carbon (40%) and nitrogen (39.2%) mineralization after soil application. Anaerobic digested sewage sludge (DSS) seems to be the most interesting treatment, since it ensured a high level of available N to plants and a great contribution to C sequestra-tion in soil.