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A method and plant for the treatment of an organic waste material in liquid form, e.g. liquid manure from livestock, the method comprising filtering fibres and particles from the liquid, subjecting the liquid to anaerobic fermentation in a biogas reactor, separating a substantially sterile and particle-free permeate stream from the biogas reactor, e.g. using ultrafiltration, subjecting the permeate stream to treatment with an ammonia stripper at an elevated temperature and preferably at reduced pressure to remove substantially all ammonia and carbon dioxide and to result in an ammonia fraction and a nutrient salt fraction, and separating the nutrient salt fraction into a fertiliser concentrate fraction and a water fraction, e.g. using reverse osmosis. The end products of the method are clean water, ammonia concentrate, fertiliser concentrate containing salts of P and K, compost and high-quality biogas with a high methane content.

A composite biological agent with ternary microorganism for composting process of agricultural waste is composed of a composite biological agent I, a composite biological agent II, and a composite biological agent III, which is characterized in that the composite biological agent I is composed of bacillus, actinomycetes, microzyme and lactobacillus, the composite biological agent II is composed of trichoderma, ergillus, penicillium and trametes versicolor, and the composite biological agent III is composed of photosynthetic bacterium, azotobacter, phosphorus bacteria, and silicate bacterium. 30-60% composite biological agent I, 30-60% composite biological agent II, 10-20% composite biological agent III are mixed or applied to the process of composting process of agricultural waste in phases. Each component ratio and recruitment of biological agents can be both properly adjusted with different dung materials and dung purpose, thereby achieving purpose of using microorganism resources efficiently and raising fermentation efficiency.

Methods and systems for a subsurface upflow wetland for wastewater treatment that includes a series of parallel treatment cells, each cell including from bottom to top, a layer of gravel, a layer of sand over the gravel to remove pathogens from a septic effluent, a pollution control medium above the sand layer to remove nutrients, total suspended solid, and biochemical oxygen demand and a growth media mixture layered on top of the pollution control media to grow plants, and a gravity distribution system to distribute effluent to the series of parallel treatment cells. The pollution control medium includes at least one recycled material and at least one naturally occurring material. In an embodiment it includes recycled tire crumb, sand and limestone or recycled tire crumb, compost, sand and limestone.

A composition is provided that includes particulates from wood, chaff, hulls, crop compost, biochar, or waste residue, wood or crop ash and biochar, and a nitrogen source from waste residue from gasification processes, food processing waste water or other residual by-products of forest, aquatic, food or feed processing. Ideally, all of the components are environmentally friendly, from natural products, and free of manufactured chemicals.

Systems and methods are provided for converting organic waste materials from a municipal waste stream to useful products. Organic waste materials having a wide range of compositions such as, for example, yard waste, food waste, paper, and the organic fraction of municipal solid waste are converted into a uniform biomass that is suitable for conversion to useful products, such as fuels. Through the use of a biomixer and a hydropulper, as well as through sorting and screening, the organic waste materials are progressively reduced in size and cleaned of contamination. The resulting uniform biomass is suitable for anaerobic digestion to produce biogas and a residual solid that is suitable for producing a high quality compost.

The invention belongs to the field of environmental protection, relating to a method for processing food waste by using black soldier fly larvae and comprising the following steps: coarse crushing the food waste and then adding auxiliary materials to obtain culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae; and grafting black soldier fly spawn on the surface of the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae so that the larvae hatched by the black soldier fly spawn acquires the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae, thereby processing and cleaning the food waste. Before the black soldier fly larvae ages, a polypide collecting container is externally connected to the area for piling up the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae and is filled with dry rice bran powder so as to guide to collect the aged black soldier fly larvae; and the rest of the processed culture materials for the black solider fly larvae is dried and then prepared into microbial organic fertilizer. The invention has strong processing capability, rapid processing speed compared with the common compost, the processing period is 4-5 days; after being processed, the volume of the food waste is reduced by 10-30%, the peculiar smell of the waste is lightened; and the invention can obtain excellent microbial organic fertilizer and insect bioprotein at the same time.

The invention discloses a method for processing inapplicable tobacco leaves by musca domestica larvae to prepare a biological protein feed, and belongs to the technical field of environmental protection. The method for processing the inapplicable tobacco leaves by the musca domestica larvae to prepare the biological protein feed comprises the steps of: crushing fresh inapplicable tobacco leaves until the grain size of the crushed leaves is 1-5mm; adding bran, mixture of rice chaff and husk, feather meal and spray-dried animal blood cells to prepare compost; and inoculating housefly eggs at the surface of the compost, cultivating the housefly eggs for 5 days at 25-35 DEG C, collecting the compost containing the musca domestica larvae, drying and preparing the biological protein feed. The method disclosed by the invention is strong in handling capacity, small in floor area, and low in energy consumption in the processing process, achieves the resource utilization of the inapplicable tobacco leaves, changes waste into precious resources, improves the environmental health, simultaneously produces the biologic protein feed, and has a good application prospect.

A soil manipulating tool is disclosed which has a handle (12) and a soil penetrating portion (14). The soil penetrating portion (14) is formed from a helical or spiral rod or wire (13) which defines a cavity (18). The rod or wire (13) may be hollow so that fertilizer or other liquid material can pass through the hollow rod wire (13) into the soil in which the tool is to be used. The tool may also include an abutment member for limiting the amount of penetration of the tool into the soil to facilitate churning up of the soil and a blade may also be provided across one of the spirals of the portion (14) to provide a chopping of soil so that a hole can be formed by removal of a plug of soil but at the same time leaving loosened soil at the bottom of the hole. The tool has particular application in aerating and manipulating composted material and the removal of composted material from a compost bin as well as garden applications for the formation of holes, and the aeration of soil facilitating plant growth.

The invention includes a method and apparatus for composting organic material and maintaining composting conditions within preselected limits. Composting according to the method can occur within a sealable container. Adjusting the composition of the organic material to within preselected limits converts the organic material to a compostable mixture. The composition is adjusted by amending the organic material and by mixing the amended organic material with a bulking agent and an inoculant. Incubating forms a composting mixture from the compostable mixture. The method includes the steps of monitoring and adjusting conditions of the composting mixture to maintain the conditions within preselected limits. The conditions of the composting mixture are adjusted by aerating the composting mixture or remixing the composting mixture. The remixed composting mixture is incubated to yield composted organic material.

The invention relates to a method for comprehensively recycling the fecal sewage of large-scale livestock and poultry farms and farmland crop straws, which comprises the following steps of: (1) performing anaerobic digestion, namely regulating the solid content of the fecal sewage of livestock and poultry to be between 5 and 10 percent, adding anaerobic digestion inocula, and performing the anaerobic digestion to generate methane; (2) performing energy utilization on the methane, namely purifying the methane obtained in the step (1) to be used as fuel gas or allowing the purified methane to be used for power generation to perform energy utilization; (3) performing solid-liquid separation, namely performing the solid-liquid separation on biogas residues and biogas slurry which are obtainedin the step (1) to obtain the biogas slurry and the biogas residues of which the moisture content is about 60 percent; (4) preparing a biological organic compound fertilizer from the biogas slurry, and mixing the biogas residues and part of biogas slurry with the straws and part of excrement to perform aerobic compost; and (5) mixing and performing the aerobic compost, namely mixing part of biogas slurry obtained in the step (3) and the crushed straws, regulating the moisture content of the mixture to be between 50 and 60 percent, and performing the aerobic compost. In the method, clean resources are recovered by the anaerobic digestion, and the biogas slurry is used for producing the biological organic compound fertilizer with a high additional value.

The invention discloses a mixed plant culture medium and a preparation method thereof. The culture medium comprises peat and an agricultural and forest residue compositing fermentation medium, wherein the volume proportion of peat to agricultural and forest residue compositing fermentation medium is (30-50):(50-70). The mixed culture medium prepared by the method in the invention has the advantages of balanced nutrition, high nutrition component contents and stable physical property. The mixed culture medium prepared by the method in the invention is reasonable in nutrition structure and convenient for absorption of foliage plants and meets the growth requirement of the foliage plants, thereby improving the culture survival rate and viewing effect of the foliage plants.

The invention provides a soil improvement type straw compound organic fertilizer and a preparation method of the soil improvement type straw compound organic fertilizer. The soil improvement type straw compound organic fertilizer is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30 to 35 parts of rice straw, 25 to 30 parts of animal excrement, 20 to 25 parts of biological charcoal, 10 to 15 parts of soybean meal, 5 to 10 parts of cassava residue, 5 to 10 parts of diatom ooze, 2 to 2.5 parts of plant ash, 2 to 2.5 parts of turfy soil, 2 to 3 parts of zeolite powder, 3 to 4 parts of a microorganism bacterium agent, 2 to 3 parts of sodium benzoate, 2 to 3 parts of ammonium monohydrogen phosphate, 1 to 2 parts of calcium chloride, 1 to 2 parts of amino acid, 1 to 2 parts of starch, 1 to 2 parts of molasses powder and 1 to 2 parts of humic acid. The soil improvement type straw compound organic fertilizer takes plant wastes as raw materials; the quality of soil can be easily improved and the production cost can also be reduced, so that the physicochemical properties of the soil are improved, and the structure of the soil is comprehensively improved, and furthermore, the soil quality has the effects of softness, air permeability, water retention and fertilizer conservation; the aim of producing an environment-friendly high-quality organic fertilizer through preferably selecting heavy metal capable of being passivated, the biological charcoal capable of improving the fertilizer efficiency of the organic fertilizer, and conversion products of organic wastes including the biological humic acid and the like as composting base materials, and optimizing a composting process.

Provided is a lactic acid-based resin composition that comprises a lactic acid-based resin (component (A)), and an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (component (B)) and/or an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer ionomer (component (C)). The lactic acid-based resin composition has good physical properties in melt and can be efficiently formed into films and laminates through casting or extrusion lamination. The paper laminates obtained through extrusion lamination with the resin composition have good moisture barrier property, and have the advantages of good antibacterial ability, good biodegradability and low combustion heat. And the moldings obtained from the resin composition of the invention have a characteristic which is excellent in impact strength. Further, the films and sheets formed of the resin composition have good low-temperature heat-sealability and hot-tack sealability, and the resin composition well serves as a sealant. The resin composition is favorable to various materials in a broad range, for example, for wrapping and packaging materials for foods, drinks, electronic appliances, medicines and cosmetics, for materials for use in agriculture, civil engineering and construction and for materials for compost, etc.

The subject invention provides methods for producing homogenous organic base fertilizer for plant nutrition and soil fertility. Also provided by the subject invention are value added fertilizer products for plant nutrition and soil fertility and concentrated liquid formulations/nutrient supplements that provide the value added nutrients to fertilizer products. Methods according to the invention involve the application of concentrated liquid(s) and/or dry formulation(s) comprising a mixture of one or more plant nutrient(s), one or more additional organic compound(s), one or more penetrate(s), and one or more optional supplement(s) into one or more organic base material(s). These organic base materials include, and are not limited to, biosolids, activated sludge, municipal compost, animal manures (e.g., horse, cow, chicken, pig, and sheep), and composted organic byproducts.

Ar anaerobic-aerobic reactor for preparing composit is composed of fermentor, ventilation system, stirring system, and heating system. The said fermentor has a sieve plate to divided it into thepartsand a stirring axle driven by motor. Its fermenting chamber is a sealed unit with circulating water both jacket for heating it and liquid inlet and outlet, and features that the anaerobic digestion and aerobic reaction are conduted in a single equipment.

A process for the recovery of nitrogen from anaerobically digested liquid waste and for the collection of the nitrogen as nitrate compounds that can be used to produce fertilizer and compost, includes stripping ammonia from anaerobically digested liquid waste, and converting the ammonia into nitrates via nitrification.

The invention discloses a hermetia illucens breeding system and belongs to the technical field of green cultivation. The hermetia illucens breeding system comprises a culture pond and a ceiling arranged at the upper part of the culture pond; the culture pond is sequentially provided with a water absorption layer, a heating device and a grid layer from bottom to top; the heating device comprises a heating tape and a fixing frame for fixing the heating tape; a compost is put on the upper part of the water absorption layer; the heating device is located in the compost; the grid layer is located on a surface layer of the compost; a lifting device is arranged on the side of the culture pond; the lifting device drives the heating device to lift; and a heat preservation cover is arranged at the top of the culture pond. Hermetia illucens is bred by using the hermetia illucens breeding system, so that the survival rate of hermetia illucens larvae is high and the hermetia illucens is not affected by an external environment; furthermore, the hermetia illucens is easily separated from the compost and insect feces do not need to be cleaned, so that the cost of manpower and material resources is greatly reduced. In addition, the compost in the culture pond is digested and fermented in the hermetia illucens breeding process and can be directly returned to the field as an organic fertilizer, so that the hermetia illucens breeding system is economical and environmentally friendly.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an organic fertilizer by fermenting cow dung compost. According to the method, two times of composting fermentation are adopted and a composting promoter is added, so that the fermentation speed and the composting degree can be quickly increased; meanwhile, polyacrylamide, bentonite, cocoanut active charcoal and the like are added to reduce the moisture in cow dung and achieve the effect of deodorizing; sodium bicarbonate and triple superphosphate are added to generate carbon dioxide which can expand the cow dung, so that the permeability is increased; the early-stage fermentation temperature of the cow dung can be increased by the heat released from reaction, so that the activity of natural fermentation bacteria agents in the cow dung is improved; meanwhile, when the heat generated by the cow dung after a period time of composting is overhigh, the polyacrylamide absorbs the moisture in the cow dung to achieve the effect of reducing the temperature and to reduce turning times; after the fermentation is completed, the organic fertilizer prepared by drying and dewatering is high in fertilizer efficiency, durable and efficient, has the effects of retaining water, sterilizing and improving soil, and can promote the rapid growth of crops, thus improving the yield and the quality of the crops.

A self-supporting earth facing module has a tubular sock to be filled with compost or fill material and a geogrid sheet which wraps around the circumference of the tubular sock with upper and lower extensions extending lengthwise to one side of the sock. The geogrid sheet is joined by a high-strength seam to the circumference of the sock. The module forms an integrated unit that can be used to form sequenced horizontal earth layers and serve as facing for a geosynthetically stabilized earth wall or slope. The sock may be vegetation-supportive and have built-in connectable irrigation tubing. The modules are installed in consecutive vertical lifts with a granular interlock zone to provide a connection medium for tying adjacent modules to each other and to the reinforced soil zone, and which may include connection to supplemental geogrids that extend the width of the reinforced zone for taller slopes and walls.

Treatment of refused pollutant is carried out by EC treating for sludge in sewage treatment plant, removing heavy metal, pesticides and antibiotics residues, entering into sludge dewatering apparatus to dewater, delivering dewatered sludge to air-drying farm to air dry, adding into additives to adjust N, P and K proportion in sludge, entering dried sludge into composting chamber to compost, transferring air to composing chamber, spraying water while timing agitating, adding into EM, fermenting, delivering manure mixture to livestock farm and feeding by earthworm. Earthworm's excrement can be used as biological organic fertilizer. It's cheap and economical.

The invention relates to the method of a kind of using synergizing lawn plant to restore the heavy metal compound pollution in city life waste compost. In the period from seeding to mowing of grasses on lawn, fertilize EDTA into the waste compost base substance as per 5 - 30 mmol/kg; through fertilize EDTA, increase the extracting effect of lawn grasses to heavy metal in city life waste compost base substance, to make the effect of lawn glasses corresponding to the effect of heavy metal super-enriching plant. The application of the invention can not only rebuild waste compost industry, and realize the effective resource use of waste compost, but also provide scientific basis for complexing restoration of lawn grasses to heavy metal pollution area.

This invention relates to a method of manufacturing the fertilizer made from organic wastes such as food wastes, human excrements, animal excrements, slaugterhouse waste, henhouse waste, fish and shellfish wastes, vegetable wastes and agricultural wastes. Various wastes are mixed and crushed into certain sizes, processes for adjusting the water content, put into the treating tank and digested by mixing a calcined lime. The present invention utilizes a dolomite or mixture of calcined lime and dolomite to provide the first treatment material. This first treatment material is mixed with the supplement material such as charcoal, saw dust, loess, zoelite, chaff, or shell powder to give compost fertilizer. It is also mixed with agricultural products such a watermelons or melons which ferment to provide a special fertilizer for the agricultural product. The treatment material can be added to water and mixed with mugwort, medicinal herb, zeolite, loess, and then extracted to provide a liquid fertilizer. As the various organic wastes are changed to organic fertilizer, the acidified soil is improved, the environmental contamination can be prevented, and the high moisturizing and the fine porous of the soil prevent drought and fertilizer loss so as to raise fertilizing efficiency.

A system and method are provided for promoting vegetation growth on a steeply sloping surface. The system of the present invention includes anchors that are secured to the sloping surface, an inner mesh layer in contact with the slope, a geosynthetic layer placed over the inner mesh layer, and seeded compost material placed in the gap or space between the geosynthetic layer and the inner mesh layer. An outer mesh layer is placed over the geosynthetic layer to help stabilize the geosynthetic layer. The geosynthetic layer and outer mesh layer are also secured to the protruding anchors. Vegetation grows in the compost material and roots of the vegetation penetrate the inner mesh layer into the slope. An established root system stabilizes the slope. The seeded compost material provides an environment that greatly enhances the growth of vegetation on steeply sloping surface which otherwise do not have adequate soil to promote growth. The anchors provide additional structural stabilization for the slope and also provide a means to attach the layers of materials.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a mushroom culture material, and the main raw materials comprise wood chips, cotton seed hulls, wheat bran, corn cobs and weeds. Bran, rice bran, soybean meal, corn powder, and urea which are rich in organic nitrogen and vitamins and gypsum, calcium carbonate and other inorganic substances are appropriately matched as excipients, and glucose and other soluble sugars can also be added, therefore, the mushroom culture material is prepared. The preparation method aims at obtaining the raw materials locally, saving the cost and simplifying the method.

The invention provides a kitchen garbage treatment method. The kitchen garbage treatment method specifically comprises the following steps that kitchen garbage is sorted, so that metal products, plastic products, glass products and ceramic products are removed; the sorted kitchen garbage is smashed into pulp, beneficial bacteria are added for primary fermentation, and secondary fermentation is conducted after heat preservation; and after secondary fermentation is completed, young hermetia illucens is added into the pulp for reproduction, and the hermetia illucens and manure are collected. The method overcomes the defects that according to traditional landfill, incineration and compost treatment method, secondary pollution is prone to being generated and steps are complicated and has the advantages that secondary pollution is avoided, dehydration and deoiling are not needed, and terminal products with high value can be obtained. Furthermore, the temperature of primary fermentation is preferably 50-80 DEG C, the temperature of secondary fermentation is preferably 30-40 DEG C, it is guaranteed that the total time for primary fermentation and secondary fermentation is not longer than ten hours, and the treatment cycle is greatly shortened. During actual treatment, the total amount of garbage treated every day can as large as 100 tons, and kitchen garbage can be effectively treated in time.