eprintid: 4072 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/40/72 datestamp: 2023-11-09 16:15:44 lastmod: 2023-11-09 16:15:44 status_changed: 2023-11-09 15:57:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Vakili, M. creators_name: Zwain, H.M. creators_name: Rafatullah, M. creators_name: Gholami, Z. creators_name: Mohammadpour, R. title: Potentiality of Palm Oil Biomass with Cow Dung for compost production ispublished: pub keywords: Biomass; Composting; Decomposition; Oil shale, C/N ratio; Compost production; Cow dung; Decomposition mechanism; Electrical conductivity; Empty fruit bunches; Oil palm; Palm oil biomass, Palm oil note: cited By 4 abstract: Recently, researchers are focused on the use of biomasses generated in oil palm industry as compost to overcome their negative impacts and recycle them to produce a useful byproduct for agriculture. This study investigated formation of compost from Palm Oil Biomass (POB) by adding Cow Dung (CD). The experiment was carried out under shade in plastic bins at different POB and CD ratios (4:0, 3:1, 1:1 and 1:3) to activate decomposition mechanism up to 11 weeks. Decomposing materials was frequently moistened and turned accordingly. The addition of CD has facilitated the co posting process and treatment with 1:3 ratio of POB and CD had better quality than other treatments such that the C/N ratio, the Electrical Conductivity (EC) and pH for mature compost were 22.2, 2.83 mS.m-T and 7.81 respectively. © 2015, Korean Society of Civil Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. date: 2014 publisher: Springer Verlag official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84946484692&doi=10.1007%2fs12205-014-0420-7&partnerID=40&md5=83384e97558f4c2148cfccd5f4c7d6a7 id_number: 10.1007/s12205-014-0420-7 full_text_status: none publication: KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering volume: 19 number: 7 pagerange: 1994-1999 refereed: TRUE issn: 12267988 citation: Vakili, M. and Zwain, H.M. and Rafatullah, M. and Gholami, Z. and Mohammadpour, R. (2014) Potentiality of Palm Oil Biomass with Cow Dung for compost production. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 19 (7). pp. 1994-1999. ISSN 12267988