Sentence examples for compost load size from inspiring English sources

The larger compost load size plays a vital role to achieve higher temperature.

Figure 2c shows that the temperatures of the composts with added starter culture and control increased quickly to thermophilic temperatures of 53°C and 51.1°C, respectively, on day 3 of composting due to the compost load size.

Both compost load sizes at 2 and 6 kg using onion peels as shown in Figure 2b present a quite similar temperature trend with compost using food waste, manure and bulking agent mixture by Cekmecelioglu et al. (2005).

The objectives of this work are to study the effects of two common bulking media, newspaper or onion peels with compost load sizes of 2 and 6 kg and the use of starter culture in kitchen-waste composting consisting of vegetable scraps and fish processing waste using an optimised formulation using the in-vessel system.

This study investigated the effects of bulking agent, newspaper and onion peels, composting waste load sizes of 2 and 6 kg, or the use of starter culture on kitchen-waste composting consisting of nitrogen-riched substrates, vegetable scraps and fish processing waste in an in-vessel system.

Open image in new window Figure 5 Composting using different load size of 2 or 6 kg with onion peels.

Open image in new window Figure 6 Composting using microbial treatments at 6-kg load size using onion peels.

For load size studies, the 2-kg compost had lower TOC content and higher nitrogen content than the 6 kg (Figure 5a,b).

Waste load size influences the temperature development during a composting process (Cayuela et al. 2006).

A smaller kitchen waste load size of 2 kg gave a shorter composting time by half when compared to the 6 kg.

Open image in new window Figure 4 Composting using different blends of bulking media, newspaper or onion peels at 2-kg load size.