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@PHDTHESIS{Mukherjee:811744,
author = {Mukherjee, Santanu},
title = {{A}nalysis of biomixtures to determine the fate of
pesticides},
volume = {332},
school = {Universität Bonn},
type = {Dr.},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-04111},
isbn = {978-3-95806-163-7},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {xix, 136 S.},
year = {2016},
note = {Universität Bonn, Diss., 2016},
abstract = {Worldwide, water contamination from agricultural use of
pesticides has received increasing attention within the last
decades. In general, sources of pesticide water pollution
are categorized into diffuse (indirect) and point sources
(direct). To reduce point pollution from farm yards, where
the spray equipment is washed, biobed orbiofilter systems
are conventionally used to treat the washing water. The
organic material usually used in these systems is often not
environmentally sustainable (e.g.peat) and incorporated
organic material such as straw leads to a highly
heterogeneous water flow, with negative effects on the
retention and degradation behavior of the pesticides.
Therefore, the objective of this present study was to
substitute the classical materials (peat and straw) with
bioenergy residues namely biochar and digestate to
investigate their effects on fate of pesticides in soil at
different mixing ratios. Prior to study the pesticides fate,
the microbial respiration was measured over 3 months to gain
information about the turnover rate of the organic
biomixtures, which can be used as an indirect indicator of
the soils/biomixture degradation potential for pesticides
and provides information about the long-term stability of
the material. Mixtures of biochar and digestate showed an
intermediate CO$_{2}$ flux compared to the single addition
of biochar or digestate, whereby the oxygen consumption in
presence of biochar was generally significantly lower
compared to the consumption after addition of digestate
only. Additionally, to correlate the microbial respiration
with the dissipation (or degradation) potential of
pesticides a laboratory incubation study was performed over
135 days with three contrasting pesticides (bentazone,
boscalid, and pyrimethanil). In general, biochar based
mixtures resulted in stronger binding of all studied
pesticides, and therefore, ensued higher dissipation. On the
other hand, 5 \% and 30 \% digestate based mixtures enhanced
mineralization and addition of 5 \% biochar to these
mixtures showed a desired balance between stronger
sequestration and mineralization for all pesticides. A
sorption-desorption study revealed that biochar and
digestate based mixtures caused stronger sorption for all
compounds compared to bare soil. K$_{d}$ and K$_{oc}$ values
of the pesticides were different according to their
physico-chemical properties and quality (nature) of organic
matter. Desorption was hysteretic for all pesticides.
Overall, this thesis elucidated and updated the knowledge of
the mechanisms for Cturnover rates of novel biomixtures for
biopurification (or biobed) systems along with the long term
behavior of three different pesticides and their interaction
with these biomixtures. However, future work is required to
qualify these mixtures for long-term (>3 yrs) outdoor
biofilter constructions under varying hydraulic and chemical
conditions.},
cin = {IBG-3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:0001-2016080816},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/811744},
}