In the bacterial processes involved in the mitigation of nitrogen pollution, an adequately high carbon-to-nitrogen (C : N) ratio is key to sustain denitrification. We evaluated three natural materials (woodchips, barley grains, and peanut shells) as carbon sources for low C : N wastewater. The amount of organic matter released from these materials to aqueous media was evaluated, as well as thei...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of different covers (oil, plastic film, perforated polystyrene float, peat and zeolites) on slurry settling characteristics and ammonia emission during storage and following surface application in the field. Laboratory trials were carried out for 15 days using a pilot scale device. Samples of 5 kg slurry were used. At the end of the storage peri...

As a preliminary to the consideration of automated, or more correctly mechanized, methods for the determination of total organic nitrogen the discussion of some general aspects of nitrogen determination is illuminating. There are at least four recent reviews, for example those by Bradstreet (1965), Fleck & Munro (I965), Jacobs (1965), and Munro & Fleck (1969), of the determination of nitrogen f...

Nitrogen-to-protein conversion factors were calculated for diets and fecal samples from three animal species fed low- or high-fiber diets. The conversion factors based on protein contents determined by amino acid analyses were calculated from total N (Kjeldahl analyses) and recovered amino acid plus NH3-N (amino acid analyses). Conversion factors based on protein contents determined by a fluore...

The objective of the present work is to compare the nitrogen contents measured by the fast method of Hach and the traditional Kjeldahl method, allowing for the influence of the variation in structure and macronutrient in the food content. Foods with a wide range of protein and moisture contents were selected. The nitrogen content of 25 food samples was measured with both methods. Some studies h...

In this study, an innovative aerobic/anoxic sludge bed bioreactor with two feeding regimes, continuous-fed (an up-flow sludge bed reactor (USBR)) and batch fed (sequencing batch reactor (SBR)), was evaluated for the treatment of an industrial estate wastewater with low BOD(5)/COD ratio. The process performance in the two regimes was compared. Two numerical independent variables (retention/react...

This report supplements the earlier report (13) which discussed the growth rates, water and mineral nutrient intake by the same group of plants. The data herein considered deal with the chemical composition of the leaf and stem tissues at different growth intervals of pineapple plants grown in nutrient solutions in the greenhouse and in soil under field conditions with different amounts of nitr...