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Eliminating Waste : Strategies for Sustainable Manure Management - Review -

  • Richard, T.L.;Choi, H.L.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.1162-1169
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    • 1999
  • Modern livestock production facilities face both challenges and opportunities with respect to sustainable manure management practices. Nutrient recycling is constrained by the size of modern livestock operations, the low nutrient density of liquid manures, and the spatial and temporal variability of manure nutrient concentrations. These constraints can and must be addressed or farmers will be increasingly drawn to nutrient wasting strategies such as anaerobic lagoons, wetlands, and other systems designed to treat and discharge nutrients to the environment. Intentional discharge of nutrients is difficult to justify in a sustainable agricultural production system, since replacing those nutrients through chemical fertilization requires considerable expenditure of energy. In contrast, there are several currently viable technologies which provide the homogenization and stabilization needed to successfully compete against chemical fertilizers, including composting, pelletization, and anaerobic digestion. Some of these technologies, particularly anaerobic digestion and composting, also open up increased opportunities to market the energy and nutrients in manure to non-agricultural uses. Future advances in biotechnology are likely to demonstrate additional options to transform manure into fuels, chemicals, and other non-agricultural products.

A Study on Inorganic Chemical Treatment Method of Animal Wastes Using by Electroflotation for Recycle (전해부상 장치를 이용한 축산폐수의 유기질비료와 용수 재활용에 관한 연구)

  • Sung Ki-chun;Kim Yong-Ryul;Kim Ki-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.588-591
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    • 2004
  • There is an increasing interest in the use of electrochemical methods for the animal waste treatment The technologies using the electrochemical method provide ideal tools for approaching industrial and animal wastes problems. Unlike other chemical treatments, the electrochemical systems do not make the volume of the secondary waste increase. The electrochemical methods can be operated with electrochemical apparatus and inorganic agent allow selective separation and recovery and even quieter than others. This study concerns design factors, electrode construction and wastewater treatment process of the electrochemical apparatus. The experiment of color, COD and BOD removal is much effective in using electrochemical method with ultrasonication and ozonation.

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Effect of Inoculum and Carbon Sources Difference on Characteristics of Anaerobic Digestion (접종원 및 탄소원의 차이가 혐기소화 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Yong Jun;Ryu, Jeong Won;Lee, Sang Rak
    • Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.474-481
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    • 2017
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effects of inoculum and carbon sources on anaerobic digestion characteristics. The treatments were combinations of inoculum (digestate of cattle manure and rumen fluid) with carbon sources (starch, cellulose, and xylan). Anaerobic digestion was performed in triplicate at $37^{\circ}C$ for 18 days at 100 rpm. Sampling was performed at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, and 18 days to measure pH, ammonia-N, volatile solids reduction, the cumulative methane content, and the cumulative methane production. There was a significant difference in methane content depending on the carbon source and there was a significant difference in pH, ammonia-N, methane production, and methane content depending on the inoculum (P < 0.05). The results of methane production were higher in the digestate of cattle manure treatment than in the rumen fluid treatment (P < 0.05). In this study, different digestive patterns depending on the type of carbon source could be used as basic research data to set the hydraulic residence time of anaerobic digestion facilities. In addition, the use of ruminal fluid as an inoculum may help accelerate the hydrolysis and acid production steps.

Water quality management of Doam lake around the pasture area (목장지대 주변에 위치한 도암호의 수질관리)

  • Cho, Jae-Heon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 1998
  • Doam Lake is located around the pasture area and Yongpyung Resort. Because of the waste load of domestic animals, nutrient concentration of the stream is high. In this study, waste load of Doam Lake watershed is calculated, and QUAL2E model is applied to the upper part of the Songcheon to calculate the input boundary concentration of Doam Lake. And WASP5 model is applied for the water quality modeling of Doam lake. The results indicate that advanced treatment of domestic animal wastes is necessary for the lake water quality management.

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Evaluation of Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification Based Methods for the Detection of African Swine Fever Virus from Food Waste

  • Siwon Lee;Junhwa Kwon;Su Hyang Kim;Jin-Ho Kim;Jaewon Jung;Kyung-Jin Lee;Ji-Yeon Park;Taek-Kyun Choi;Jun-Gu Kang;Tae Uk Han
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.334-339
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    • 2022
  • African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious and lethal pathogen that poses a threat to the global pork industry. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) has placed strict surveillance measures for ASFV. The possibility of long-term survival of ASFV in raw meat or undercooked pork has been reported. Accordingly, the problem of secondary infection in food waste from households or waste disposal facilities has emerged, raising the need for ASFV monitoring of food waste. However, most of the previously reported ASFV gene detection methods are focused on clinical monitoring of pigs. There are very few cases in which their application in waste has been verified. Since ASFV diagnosis requires rapid monitoring and immediate action, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) may be suitable, but this requires conformity assessment for LAMP to be used as a diagnostic technique. In this study, six LAMP methods were evaluated, and two methods (kit and manual) were recommended for use in diagnosing ASFV in food waste.

Degradation Kinetics of Three Veterinary Antibiotics in Composted and Stockpiled Manure

  • Kim, Sung-Chul;Yang, Jae-E.;Ok, Yong-Sik;Jung, Doug-Young;Carlson, Kenneth
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2012
  • Two typical animal waste management practices, composting and stockpiling, were evaluated for their effect on the degradation of three veterinary antibiotics (VAs), chlortetracycline (CTC), tylosin (TYL), and monensin (MNS). The VAs were applied to horse manure plots subject to composting or stockpiling, and core samples were collected over a period of time. Selected buffer solutions were used to extract the VAs and analysis for concentration was conducted with solid phase extraction (SPE) followed by high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) technique. The VAs demonstrated rapid dissipation within ten days followed by a gradual decrease in concentration until the end of the experimental period (141 days). All three VAs degraded more rapidly in the composting samples than in the stockpiling samples, particularly between 20 and 60 days of the observation period. Degradation of the three VAs generally followed a first-order kinetic model, and a fitted model with a calculated rate constant was determined for each treatment. TYL in composting showed the fastest degradation, with a calculated rate constant of $0.91day^{-1}$; the slowest degradation was exhibited by MNS in stockpiling, with rate constant of $0.17day^{-1}$. Calculated correlation coefficients ranged from 0.89 to 0.96, indicating a strong correlation between measured concentrations and fitted values in this study. Although concentration of TYL in composting treatment showed below detection limit during the test period, this study suggests that composting can reduce animal waste contaminants prior to field application as fertilizer.

Effect of Organic Loading Rate and Hydralic Retention Time on the Volatile Fatty Acid Production in 2- Step Anaerobic Fermentation System of Swine Wastes (돈분의 2단계 혐기발효시 산생성 단계에서의 유기물 부하율과 체류시간에 따른 휘발성지방산의 생산량)

  • 김범석;이상락;맹원재
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 1998
  • It is known that the anaerobic fermentation of organic matter (OM) is divided into 2 phases, acidogenic phase in which OM is digested into volatile fatty acid (VFA), and methanogenic phase where the produced VFA is converted to CH4 and CO2. In a natural fermenting procedure, these 2 phases occur at the same time. However the total production of end products (methane) may be limited if these 2 phases occur at the same time. This is believed to be due to the difference in growth rate, substrate-utilizing efficiency and favorable environment for each microbes (acidogens and methanogens), involved in each phase. It is therefore suggested for the maximum recycling of organic waste (such as animal waste) through providing 2 different steps in fermenting procedure, acidogenic phase and methanogenic phase, in each case the activity of involved microbes can be maintained at the maximum level. The results obtained from these experiments are summarized as follows : The loading rates of swine waste were made through 2.5, 5 and 10 gVS / l / d to identify its acidogenic fermenting character in this study. The VFA yield was maximized at 10 gVS / l / d of loading rate. On the basis of this study was executed to identify the optimum HRT of 1, 2 and 4 days at 10 gVS / l / d of loading rate in acidogenic phase. The maximum VFA yield was obtained at 1 days of HRT.

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Recent Progress in Understanding Host Mucosal Response to Avian Coccidiosis and Development of Alternative Strategies to Mitigate the Use of Antibiotics in Poultry Production

  • Lillehoj, Hyun-Soon;Lee, Sung-Hyen;Jang, Seung-Ik;Kim, Duk-Kyung;Lee, Kyung-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.275-284
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    • 2011
  • As the world population grows and developing countries become more affluent, the global consumption of meat will increase by more than 50% within the next 10 years. Confronting the increased demand for poultry food products are emerging field diseases, increasing regulatory bans of antimicrobial growth promoters, high-density growth conditions, and waste management. Although biotechnology offers solutions to some of these challenges, basic studies are needed to better understand the complex interaction between the intestinal microbiome, host immunity and the environment. This presentation will focus on emerging strategies to enhance gut immunity and to decrease economic losses due to poultry diseases. This presentation will highlight recent developments in coccidiosis research and provide information on host immunity, immunomodulation, and the latest advances in dietary and nutritional approaches against coccidiosis. Such information will magnify our understanding of host-parasite biology, mucosal immunology, and design of future nutritional interventions and vaccination strategies for coccidiosis.