Demeyer, A. and Nkana, J.C.V. and Verloo, M.G. (2001) Characteristics of wood ash and influence on soil properties and nutrient uptake: an overview. Bioresource Technology , 77 (3). pp. 287-295.
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Abstract
Wood industries and power plants generate enormous quantities of wood ash. Disposal in landfills has been for long a common method for removal. New regulations for conserving the environment have raised the costs of landfill disposal and added to the difficulties for acquiring new sites for disposal. Over a few decades a number of studies have been carried out on the utilization of wood ashes in agriculture and forestry as an alternative method for disposal. Because of their properties and their influence on soil chemistry the utilization of wood ashes is particularly suited for the fertility management of tropical acid soils and forest soils. This review principally focuses on ash from the wood industry and power plants and considers its physical, chemical and mineralogical characteristics, its effect on soil properties, on the availability of nutrient elements and on the growth and chemical composition of crops and trees, as well as its impact on the environment
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department of Applied Analytical and Physical Chemistry, University of Gent, Coupure Links 653, Belgium |
| Subjects: | Soil Science and Microbiology > Soil Sciences |
| Divisions: | Other Crops |
| Depositing User: | Syamala |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2011 06:12 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2011 06:12 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0960-8524(00)00043-2 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/1733 |
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