Effects of long-term soil amendment with sewage sludges on soil humic acid thermal and molecular properties |
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Authors: | Fernández José M Hockaday William C Plaza César Polo Alfredo Hatcher Patrick G |
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Institution: | aCentro de Ciencias Medioambientales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 115 dpdo., 28006 Madrid, Spain;bDepartment of Earth Science, Rice University 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, United States;cDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University 4541 Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, VA 23529-0126, United States |
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Abstract: | Sewage sludges are frequently used as soil amendments due to their high contents of organic matter and nutrients, particularly N and P. However, their effects upon the chemistry of soil humic acids, one of the main components of the soil organic matter, need to be more deeply studied in order to understand the relation between organic matter structure and beneficial soil properties. Two sewage sludges subjected to different types of pre-treatment (composted and thermally dried) with very different chemical compositions were applied for three consecutive years to an agricultural soil under long-term field study. Thermal analysis (TG–DTG–DTA) and solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy were used to compare molecular and structural properties of humic acids isolated from sewage sludges, and to determine changes in amended soils. Thermally dried sewage sludge humic acids showed an important presence of alkyl and O/N-alkyl compounds (70%) while composted sludge humic acids comprised 50% aromatic and carbonyl carbon. In spite of important differences in the initial chemical and thermal properties of the two types of sewage sludges, the chemical and thermal properties of the soil humic acids were quite similar to one another after 3 years of amendment. Long-term application of both sewage sludges resulted in 80–90% enrichment in alkyl carbon and organic nitrogen contents of the soil humic acid fraction. |
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Keywords: | Composting Thermal-drying Sewage sludge Humic acids 13C NMR Thermal analysis |
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