Retention and Transport of Nitrate and Ammonium in Loamy Sand Amended with Clinoptilolite Zeolite

• Published in: Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering Vol. 139; no. 9; pp. 755 - 765
• Main Authors: Piñón-Villarreal, Aldo R, Bawazir, A. Salim, Shukla, Manoj K, Hanson, Adrian T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Reston, VA American Society of Civil Engineers 01.09.2013
• Subjects: Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General agronomy. Plant production; Irrigation. Drainage; Technical Papers; United States; New Mexico; North America; America; USA, New Mexico; Irrigation; Ammonium; Nitrate leaching; Sand; Retardation; Soil amendment; Anion exclusion; Solutes; Sand (soil type); Amendment; Anions; Urea-ammonium-nitrate (UAN 32); Clinoptilolite zeolite; Soil types; Agriculture; Underground leaching; Zeolite; Nitrogen; Ammonium-nitrogen; Soil management; Nitrate; Adsorption; Solute transport; New Mexico; Clinoptilolite; Ammonium nitrate; Nitrate-nitrogen; Water pollution; Loamy sand soil

AbstractAgricultural soils of southern New Mexico, especially sand and sandy loams receiving numerous nitrogen (N) fertilizations, are prone to leaching large amounts of N to shallow groundwater. Adsorption and leaching experiments were conducted to investigate the use of clinoptilolite zeolite (CZ)...