ENGINEERING FACTOR AFFECTING ORGANIC COMPOST PRODUCTION

Zaalouk, A. K.; Mosallam, M. A.; EL-Soaly, I. S.; Mohamed, A. L.; Khfagy, O. N.

doi:10.21608/mjae.2020.95779

ENGINEERING FACTOR AFFECTING ORGANIC COMPOST PRODUCTION

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Prof. of Ag. Eng., Fac. of Ag. Eng., Al-Azhar Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

² Prof., Ag. Eng. Res. Inst., Ag. Res. Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

³ M.Sc. Student of Ag. Eng., Fac. of Ag. Eng., Al-Azhar Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

10.21608/mjae.2020.95779

Abstract

This study make it in abo grida factory of recycling waste damietta, aims to evaluting the effect of three levels of ventilation: 0.7, 1.2 and 1.7 L/m and two levels of agitation: 25 and 50 rpm on the fermentation of an oraganic waste. An agitated and aerated composter and wetting compster was constructed to achive this goal. The study ended to that 0.7 L/m vintillation rate and 25 rpm agitating rate is the best compered to the other tested levels.

Main Subjects

Biosystems Engineering

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