TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mukherjee, Santanu
AU  - Tappe, Wolfgang
AU  - Weihermueller, Lutz
AU  - Hofmann, Diana
AU  - Köppchen, Stephan
AU  - Laabs, Volker
AU  - Schroeder, Tom
AU  - Vereecken, Harry
AU  - Burauel, Peter
TI  - Dissipation of bentazone, pyrimethanil and boscalid in biochar and digestate based soil mixtures for biopurification systems
JO  - The science of the total environment
VL  - 544
SN  - 0048-9697
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2016-00113
SP  - 192 - 202
PY  - 2016
AB  - Biopurification systems, such as biofilters, are biotechnological tools to prevent point sources of pesticide pollution stemming from on-farm operations. For the purification processes pesticide sorption and mineralization and/or dissipation are essential and both largely depend on the type of filling materials and the pesticide in use. In this paper the mineralization and dissipation of three contrasting 14C-labeled pesticides (bentazone, boscalid, and pyrimethanil) were investigated in laboratory incubation experiments using sandy soil, biochar produced from Pine woodchips, and/or digestate obtained from anaerobic digestion process using maize silage, chicken manure, beef and pig urine as feedstock.The results indicate that the addition of digestate increased pesticide mineralization, whereby the mineralization was not proportional to the digestate loads in the mixture, indicating a saturation effect in the turnover rate of pesticides. This effect was in correlation with the amount of water extractable DOC, obtained from the digestate based mixtures. Mixing biochar into the soil generally reduced total mineralization and led to larger sorption/sequestration of the pesticides, resulting in faster decrease of the extractable fraction. Also the addition of biochar to the soil/digestate mixtures reduced mineralization compared to the digestate alone mixture but mineralization rates were still higher as for the biochar/soil alone. In consequence, the addition of biochar to the soil generally decreased pesticide dissipation times and larger amounts of biochar led to high amounts of non-extractable residues of pesticide in the substrates. Among the mixtures tested, a mixture of digestate (5%) and biochar (5%) gave optimal results with respect to mineralization and simultaneous sorption for all three pesticides
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000369491500024
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.111
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/280329
ER  -