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Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture
Every year, huge amounts of bottom sediments are extracted worldwide, which need to be disposed. The recycling of bottom sediments for soil fertilization is in line with the long-promoted circular economy policy and enables the use of micro and macronutrients accumulated in sediments for soil fertil...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8706414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34947283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14247685 |
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author | Matej-Łukowicz, Karolina Wojciechowska, Ewa Strycharz, Joanna Szubska, Marta Kuliński, Karol Bełdowski, Jacek Winogradow, Aleksandra |
author_facet | Matej-Łukowicz, Karolina Wojciechowska, Ewa Strycharz, Joanna Szubska, Marta Kuliński, Karol Bełdowski, Jacek Winogradow, Aleksandra |
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description | Every year, huge amounts of bottom sediments are extracted worldwide, which need to be disposed. The recycling of bottom sediments for soil fertilization is in line with the long-promoted circular economy policy and enables the use of micro and macronutrients accumulated in sediments for soil fertilization. When considering potential agricultural reuse of the dredge sediments, the first necessary step should be to analyze whether the heavy metal content meets the obligatory criteria. Then, the contents of valuable elements required for plant growth and their ratios should be assessed. In this study, the content of nitrogen, organic carbon, phosphorus, and potassium was tested and iron, sulfur, calcium, and magnesium were also analyzed along vertical profiles of sediments extracted from four urban retention tanks in Gdańsk (Poland). The sediments were indicated to have a low content of nutrients (Ntot 0.01–0.52%, Corg 0.1–8.4%, P(2)O(5) 0.00–0.65%, K 0.0–1.0%), while being quite rich in Fe and S (0.2–3.3%, 0.0–2.5%, respectively). The C/N ratio changed in the range of 17.4–28.4, which proved good nitrogen availability for plants. The mean values of the Fe/P ratio were above 2.0, which confirms that phosphorus in the sediments would be available to the plants in the form of iron phosphate. To summarize, the bottom sediments from municipal retention reservoirs are not a perfect material for soil fertilization, but they are a free waste material which, when enriched with little cost, can be a good fertilizer. Future research should focus on cultivation experiments with the use of sediments enriched with N, P, Corg. |
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spelling | pubmed-87064142021-12-25 Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture Matej-Łukowicz, Karolina Wojciechowska, Ewa Strycharz, Joanna Szubska, Marta Kuliński, Karol Bełdowski, Jacek Winogradow, Aleksandra Materials (Basel) Article Every year, huge amounts of bottom sediments are extracted worldwide, which need to be disposed. The recycling of bottom sediments for soil fertilization is in line with the long-promoted circular economy policy and enables the use of micro and macronutrients accumulated in sediments for soil fertilization. When considering potential agricultural reuse of the dredge sediments, the first necessary step should be to analyze whether the heavy metal content meets the obligatory criteria. Then, the contents of valuable elements required for plant growth and their ratios should be assessed. In this study, the content of nitrogen, organic carbon, phosphorus, and potassium was tested and iron, sulfur, calcium, and magnesium were also analyzed along vertical profiles of sediments extracted from four urban retention tanks in Gdańsk (Poland). The sediments were indicated to have a low content of nutrients (Ntot 0.01–0.52%, Corg 0.1–8.4%, P(2)O(5) 0.00–0.65%, K 0.0–1.0%), while being quite rich in Fe and S (0.2–3.3%, 0.0–2.5%, respectively). The C/N ratio changed in the range of 17.4–28.4, which proved good nitrogen availability for plants. The mean values of the Fe/P ratio were above 2.0, which confirms that phosphorus in the sediments would be available to the plants in the form of iron phosphate. To summarize, the bottom sediments from municipal retention reservoirs are not a perfect material for soil fertilization, but they are a free waste material which, when enriched with little cost, can be a good fertilizer. Future research should focus on cultivation experiments with the use of sediments enriched with N, P, Corg. MDPI 2021-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8706414/ /pubmed/34947283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14247685 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Matej-Łukowicz, Karolina Wojciechowska, Ewa Strycharz, Joanna Szubska, Marta Kuliński, Karol Bełdowski, Jacek Winogradow, Aleksandra Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title | Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title_full | Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title_fullStr | Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title_full_unstemmed | Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title_short | Can Bottom Sediments Be a Prospective Fertilizing Material? A Chemical Composition Analysis for Potential Reuse in Agriculture |
title_sort | can bottom sediments be a prospective fertilizing material? a chemical composition analysis for potential reuse in agriculture |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8706414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34947283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14247685 |
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