‘Bioenergy from cattle manure? I mplications of anaerobic digestion and subsequent pyrolysis for carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil’
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Abstract Cattle manure can be processed to produce bioenergy, resulting in by‐products with different physicochemical characteristics. To evaluate whether application of such bioenergy by‐products to soils would be beneficial compared with their unprocessed counterpart, we quantified differences in greenhouse gas emissions and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics in soil. Three by‐products (15N‐labeled cattle manure, from which anaerobic digestate was obtained, which was subsequently pyrolysed) were applied to a loess and a sandy soil in a laboratory incubation study. The highest losses of soil C from biological activity (CO2 respiration) were observed in manure treatments (39% and 32% for loess and sandy soil), followed by digestate (31% and and 18%), and biochar (15% and and 7%). Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) ranged from 0.6% of applied N from biochar to 4.0% from manure. Isotope labeling indicated that manure N was most readily mineralized, contributing 50% to soil inorganic N. The anaerobic digestate was the only by‐product increasing the mineral N pool, while reducing emissions of N2O compared with manure. In biochar treatments, less than 18.3% of soil mineral N derived from the biochar, while it did not constrain mineralization of native soil N. By‐products of anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis revealed soil fertility in addition to environmental benefits. However, the reported advantages lessen when the declining yields of C and N over the bioenergy chain are considered.
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Biochar N can be decomposed, with subsequent metabolites utilised by microbes and plants.
“After 72 days incubation in an arable soil 10% of the biochar15 N, manufactured from Lolium perenne at 350 °C, was found to be taken up by the new grass biomass, clearly showing that biochar N can be decomposed, with subsequent metabolites utilised by microbes and plants.”
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- Authors
- Schouten, S., van Groenigen, J. W., Oenema, O., & Cayuela, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Department of Soil Quality Wageningen University PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands
- Venue
- GCB Bioenergy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-03-02
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 751-760
- ISSN
- 1757-1693 (ISSN-L)
- 1757-1707
- OpenAlex
- W1978279562
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 62
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- 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 7 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 8
- FWCI
- 9.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- GCB Bioenergy (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Community Marie Curie Fellowship (220868)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Keywords
- cattle manure, digestate, biochar, pyrolysis, soil carbon dynamics, soil nitrogen dynamics, nitrous oxide emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen mineralization, 15N labeling, soil respiration, soil fertility, loess soils, sandy soil
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