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Do lagoons near concentrated animal feeding operations promote nitrous oxide supersaturation? |
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| Authors: | Konstantinos C Makris Dibyendu Sarkar Stephan BH Bach |
| Institution: | a Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in association with the Harvard School of Public Health, 5 Iroon Street, 1105 Nicosia, Cyprus b Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA c Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA d Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA e Department of Biology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA |
| Abstract: | Animal wastewater lagoons nearby concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) represent the latest tendency in global animal farming, severely impacting the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions, including nitrous oxide (N2O). We hypothesized that lagoon wastewater could be supersaturated with N2O as part of incomplete microbial nitrification/denitrification processes, thereby regulating the N2O partitioning in the gaseous phase. The objectives of this study were: (i) to investigate the magnitude of dissolved N2O concentrations in the lagoon; and (ii) to determine the extent to which supersaturation of N2O occurs in wastewater lagoons. Dissolved N2O concentrations in the wastewater samples were high, ranging from 0.4 to 40.5 μg N2O mL−1. Calculated dissolved N2O concentrations from the experimentally measured partition coefficients were much greater than those typically expected in aquatic systems (<∼0.6 μg N2O mL−1). Knowledge of the factors controlling the magnitude of N2O supersaturation could potentially bridge mass balance differences between in situ measurements and global N2O models. |
| Keywords: | Supersaturation Nitrous oxide Climate change Global warming Animal waste Lagoons Wastewater |
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