Optimum sampling of municipal solid wastes

Terashima, Yutaka; Urabe, Shinro; Yoshikawa, Katsuhiko

doi:10.1016/0361-3658(84)90028-6

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“…The accurate measurement of compost MC, bulk density, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, specific heat content, etc. is important for estimating handling, storage, treatment, disposal, and reuse costs for composting (US EPA, 1997;Terashima et al 1984;Martin et al 1995). The overall accuracy depends on the sampling and analysis techniques used.…”

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Development of a Rapid Moisture Content Method For Compost Materials

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Tingley

1998

Compost Science & Utilization

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One of the most important design and operating parameters at composting facilities is moisture content. Existing standard gravimetric oven methods required a minimum of 19 hours to complete. In this study, by reducing the amount of sample, the time required to complete a standard gravimetric oven method was reduced to nine hours. A new infrared moisture balance method was also developed that reduced the analysis time to 33 minutes. The new infrared method, however, requires one apparatus for each result. The relative precision of the new infrared method was compared to two standard methods using five different materials: straw, celery, paper industry biosolids, municipal biosolids, and cured municipal compost. The new infrared method gave equivalent accuracy on all the materials tested, except for the low moisture content (five percent) material (straw).

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Development of a Rapid Moisture Content Method For Compost Materials

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Tingley

1998

Compost Science & Utilization

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“…Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Romania, and Poland participated in the project, which lasted for 3 years and was concluded in 2004. Apart from an extensive number of sources in the Scott (1995) Work in harmonising sampling and analytical protocols related to municipal solid waste conversion to energy International Energy Agency (IEA) Gay et al (1993) Cost-effective solid-waste characterization methodology Bovay Northwest Inc., US participating countries, the SWA-tool manual has synthesised experiences from France (ADEME), the Netherlands (RIVM), US (EPA, ASTM, Rugg), Japan (Matsuto and Ham, 1990;Matsuto and Tanaka, 1993;Terashima et al, 1984) and many others. However, from information received in October 2006, the Solid Waste Analysis (SWA)-tool was not in prospect of becoming a European standard.…”

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