Land application of thin stillage from a grain sorghum feedstock

• Published in: Biomass Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 245 - 267
• Main Authors: Jenkins, Joseph W., Sweeten, John M., Reddell, Donald L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier B.V 1987; Applied Science Publishers
• Subjects: Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; alcohol; Biological and medical sciences; energy; Ethanol; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General agronomy. Plant production; Irrigation. Drainage; land application; nitrogen mineralization; Other nutrients. Amendments. Solid and liquid wastes. Sludges and slurries; Soil-plant relationships. Soil fertility. Fertilization. Amendments; sorghum; stillage; Use of agricultural and forest wastes. Biomass use, bioconversion; wastewater; alcohol; wastewater; sorghum; nitrogen mineralization; Ethanol; land application; stillage; energy; Distillery by product; Monocotyledones; Organic matter; Fertilizing irrigation; Alcohol; Organic fertilization; Inorganic element; Cereal crop; Waste water; Cynodon dactylon; Sorghum bicolor; Gramineae; Mineralization; Angiospermae; Sandy loam soil; Organic nitrogen; Nitrogen; Soils; Waste reuse; Nutrient; Spermatophyta; Yield; Fodder crop; Inceptisols; Triticum aestivum; Organic amendment

Thin stillage, the wastewater from ethyl alcohol production after separation of wet solids, has high concentrations of organic solids, nitrogen and potassium and may be utilized in a land application system. Thin stillage from a grain sorghum feedstock was applied weekly using sprinkler irrigation t...