EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ENERGETIC POTENTIAL OF THE ANAEROBIC CO-TREATMENT OF DIFFERENT AGRICULTURAL AND AGRO INDUSTRIAL RESIDUALS AND WASTE

摘要

The residuals and waste arising from the zootechnical, the agricultural and the agro industrial activities, represent for many different Italian sites a serious environmental and economical problem. The intensive livestock represent a serious threat for the water, for the soil and for the air, as a consequence of the relevant production of nitrate and GHG gas. The increased restriction, imposed by the recent rules to cattle breeding and to the practice of spreading manure on agricultural soils, constrains the breeders to find some alternative solutions, generally represented by the adoption of aerobic and/or anaerobic facilities, that can lead to an higher sustainability of the whole activity.