Performance of Various Filtering Media for the Treatment of Cow Manure from Exercise Pens—A Laboratory Study.

Álvarez-Chávez, Elizabeth; Godbout, Stéphane; Rousseau, Alain N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3439-2124; Brassard, Patrick et Fournel, Sébastien (2022). Performance of Various Filtering Media for the Treatment of Cow Manure from Exercise Pens—A Laboratory Study. Water , vol. 14 , nº 12. p. 1912. DOI: 10.3390/w14121912.

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During summer and winter months, pastures and outdoor pens represent the conventional means of providing exercise for dairy cows housed in tie-stall barns in the province of Québec, Canada. Unfortunately, outdoor pens require large spaces, and their leachates do not meet Québec’s environmental regulations. Therefore, there is a need to develop alternative approaches for these so-called wintering pens. A sustainable year-long approach could be a stand-off pad consisting of a filtering media to manage adequately water exiting the pad. Different filtering materials can be used and mixed (gravel, woodchips, biochar, sphagnum peat moss, sand, etc.). To find the best material and/or mixes, a laboratory study was carried out using 15 PVC pipes (5 cm in diameter and 50 cm long) to test five different combinations of materials over a 3-week period. Different contaminant-removal efficiencies were achieved with the alternative materials, including for chemical oxygen demand (11–38%), phosphates (8–23%), suspended solids (33–57%), and turbidity (23–58%). Alternative treatments with sand, sphagnum peat moss, and biochar improved the filtration capacity when compared to the conventional material (woodchips). However, after three weeks of experimentation, the treatment efficiency of sand gradually decreased for pollutants such as suspended solids and phosphates.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	dairy production; stand-off pad; water treatment; urine filtration; sphagnum peat moss; biochar; woodchips; nitrogen removal; Québec
Centre:	Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt:	14 oct. 2022 20:18
Dernière modification:	14 oct. 2022 20:18
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/13077

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