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Compost expeiment: Ecoregion Kaindorf, Ecoregion Bayreuth


Contact: Daniel Fischer

Project: BMBF 01LY0909F


Location: Ecoregion Kaindorf, Austria & ecoregion Bayreuth, Germany

Cooperations: Professional local compost facility "Bindlacher Berg" (Deutschland) & professional compost facility "Sonnenerde" ecoregion Kaindorf (Austria)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": screening of feedstocks (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": screening of feedstocks (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": screening of feedstocks (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": biochar material (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": biochar material (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Bindlacher Berg": biochar material (photo: Daniel Fischer & MiSoo Kim)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde" (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde" (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde" (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Compost facility "Sonnenerde": compost pile turning (photo: Daniel Fischer)

Research points:

  • Practical application of the Terra Preta concept in cooperation with professional composting facilities
    • decentral waste processing and intelligent material flow managment
    • production of humus substrates with similar properties of Terra Preta
  • Comparison of different organic feedstock and biochar mixtures in various proportions and concentrations
    • testing carbon stability (carbon sequestration potential)
    • physicochemical characterization of end products (soil improvement benefits)

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