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The greenhouse gas emission potential and phytotoxicity of biogas slurry in static storage under different temperatures

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With the booming development of biogas industry to treat organic waste in China, the by-product of biogas slurry was accompanied with a huge amount. Static storage process of biogas slurry was normally operated under different seasons before application to land which would cause nutrition decomposition and greenhouse gas emission. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the nutrition decomposition, greenhouse gas emission (CH4 and N2O), and phytotoxicity of biogas slurry under different static temperatures, furthermore to illuminate the network among them and functional microorganism. According to the results, higher temperature at 30 °C contributed to fast and complete degradation of COD. In addition, more quantity of NH4+ conversion and NO3− formation appeared at 30 °C. These factors resulted in relatively less crop toxicity together. CH4 was the dominant greenhouse gas emission than N2O and was highest in 30 °C treatment with total emission of 273.7 L/(m3·d) and greenhouse gas emission of 20.01 kg CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent). Lower temperature was conductive to N reservation and reduction of greenhouse gas emission, but making against with stabilization of organic matter and crop safety. At the same dilution times (≤3) of biogas slurry with deionized water, higher temperature at 30 °C could reduce 30 days of storage time, but 10 °C was still unsafe for crop. Structural equation model was further illustrated the positive effect of temperature on NO3−, CH4, GI, and N2O and negative on COD and NH4+. These results could help to monitor the environmental risk, evaluate the maturity, guide the irrigation scheme, and regulate the static storage condition of biogas slurry under different seasons.

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This study was supported by the Open Research Fund Program of Key Laboratory of Cleaner Production and Integrated Resource Utilization of China National Light Industry (Grant number: CP2021YB08) and Key Laboratory of Fertilization from Agricultural Wastes, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Grant number: KLFAW202101) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant number: 2019YFC1906303) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant number: 2019YFC1906004) and Research Foundation for Youth Scholars of Beijing Technology and Business University, China, (PXM2020_014213_000017, QNJJ2020-15).

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  1. School of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China

    Xingyao Meng, Mingcheng Zhu, Qingping Wang & Lianhai Ren

  2. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Food Chain Pollution Control, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China

    Xingyao Meng & Lianhai Ren

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Yafan Cai

  4. Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430064, Hubei, China

    Wei Liu

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Xingyao Meng: data curation, roles/writing—original draft preparation, completion of all the experiments, and writing—reviewing and editing. Mingcheng Zhu: roles/writing—original draft preparation, model analysis, and writing—reviewing and editing. Yafan Cai: funding acquisition. Qingping Wang: data curation and resources. Wei Liu: funding acquisition. Lianhai Ren: funding acquisition, data curation, and supervision.

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Meng, X., Zhu, M., Cai, Y. et al. The greenhouse gas emission potential and phytotoxicity of biogas slurry in static storage under different temperatures. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 46257–46269 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25645-x

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