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Jun 15, 2010

Insight into Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Biological Wastewater Treatment and Biosolids Disposal

Publication: Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management
Volume 14, Issue 3

Abstract

All degradable organic materials are decomposed by microorganisms, and considerable amounts of nitrogen end up as gaseous metabolites. No matter what procedure is chosen for getting rid of organic wastes (wastewater treatment, landfiling, and composting), microbial communities will always be involved in the decomposition process, and hence, emissions of greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O) , are inevitable with these processes. N2O is an influential greenhouse gas, vital on climate change, and also is a depleting substance of stratospheric ozone. Any instantaneous or eventual N2O emissions during wastewater treatment, biosolids landfilling, and composting must be measured as anthropogenic intrusion of global N2O cycle, and thus plays a decisive role in ozone depletion. This paper reviews the current available literatures concerning N2O emissions from wastewater treatment facilities, biosolids landfilling, and composting. The outcome of this survey portrays that each process can release a huge amount of N2O to the atmosphere.

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Acknowledgments

The writers are sincerely thankful to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Grant No. UNSPECIFIEDA4984, Canada Research Chair) and Greater Moncton Sewerage Commission (GMSC) for financial support. The views or opinions expressed in this article are those of the writers and should not be construed as opinions of USEPA.

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Puspendu Bhunia [email protected]
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, 751 013. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Research Associate, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Centre Eau, Terre et Environnement), Universite du Quebec, 490 rue de la Couronne, Quebec, QC, Canada G1K9A9. E-mail: [email protected]
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