Immobilization and assessment of heavy metals in chicken manure compost amended with rice straw-derived biochar

  • Hui Li
  • , Wei Wu
  • , Xue Min
  • , Wenyong Zhan
  • , Ting Fang
  • , Xinju Dong
  • , Yanhong Shi

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Abstract

In this study, a 30-days laboratory experiment was implemented to investigate the impact of additive biochar on the stabilization of heavy metals in chicken manure compost. Results showed that after the addition of rice straw-derived biochar, heavy metals were more stabilized except Cu, of which the residual fractions distinctly decreased due to the interaction with organic functional groups from biochar. Given the bioavailability of heavy metals, the biochar addition at a 10% proportion decreased the concentration of CaCl2-extractable Cr, Zn, Ni, and Cd. Besides, CaCl2-extractable As did not differ significantly between treatments with and without biochar addition. Furthermore, the CaCl2-extractable Cu was higher than the control, in agreement with the observed changes in speciation. Environment pollution assessment by integrating potential ecological risk assessment explicated the chicken manure compost reached avery high-risk pollution level, and decreased with biochar addition. Therein, Cd was the dominant pollutant with very high potential risk.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalEnvironmental Pollutants and Bioavailability
Volume33
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was financially supported by the Nature Science Research Project of Anhui province (NO.2008085QC139), The Natural Science Foundation of the Education Department of Anhui Province (NO.KJ2019A0207), Anhui Science and Technology Major Project (NO.18030701186), Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(NO.2008085QC139), The Open Fund of Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Ecological Conservation and Pollution Prevention (NO.FECPP202003), The Project Startup Foundation for Advanced Talents AHAU (NO.YJ2018-56), Special Project in Old Revolutionary Base Area and Impoverished County of Anhui Province (No.201904f06020053).

Keywords

  • Compost
  • biochar
  • chemical speciation
  • heavy metals
  • risk assessment

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