12th
RAMIRAN International Conference
"TECHNOLOGY FOR RECYCLING OF MANURE
AND ORGANIC
RESIDUES IN A WHOLE-FARM PERSPECTIVE"
11th - 13th September, 2006
Conference venue: The historic open-air museum "The
Old Town", Aarhus, Denmark
( Now available )
Presentations and photos from Ramiran :
Photos from the Conference here
DIAS report Vol I here
DIAS report Vol II here
Final programme here
ORAL presentations in pdf-files:
Monday, 11 September
I-1
A farm level approach for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant livestock systems
René L.M. Schils, Jørgen E. Olesen, Agustin del Prado and Jean-François Soussana
I-2
Nutrient losses from manure management
Oene Oenema, Diti Oudendag and Gerard Velthof
I-3
Manure as a key resource to sustainability of smallholder farming systems in Africa: An introduction to the NUANCES framework
Ken Giller, Nico de Ridder, Mariana Rufino, Pablo Tittonell, Mark van Wijk and Shamie Zingore
I-4
Impact of nutrition on nitrogen, phosphorus and trace elements in pig manure and emissions in the air
Jean-Yves Dourmad and Catherine Jondreville
O-1
Reducing ammonia volatilisation from pig slurry through the reduction of dietary crude protein and the incorporation of benzoic acid
Fabrice Guiziou, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Patricia Saint Cast, Sylvie Picard and Marie-Line Daumer
O-3
Modelling methane emission from dairy cows
Allan Danfær and Martin Riis Weisbjerg
O-4
Dietary electrolytes affect slurry composition and volume from dairy cows
J. Sehested and P. Lund
O-5
Chicken manure treatment and application – an overview of the ASIA-PRO-ECO project CHIMATRA
Ina Körner, Henrich Roeper, Helmut Adwiraah, Rainer Stegmann, Jan Hujsmans, Nico Ogink, Ahmad Makmom Abdullah, Mohd Nasir Hassan, Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman and Thiam Ming Chee
O-16
Manure management practices in Mexico and In-vessel composting of food wastes in the UK: feedstock and output characteristics
Joel Velasco-Velasco, David Tompkins and Rob Parkinson
O-7
Farm location and manure management practices - Insights from a case study on pig production in Central Thailand
Pierre Gerber, Harald Menzi and Henning Steinfeld
Tuesday, 12 September
I-5
The contribution of separation technologies to the management of livestock manure
C.H. Burton
I-6
Interactions between biomass energy technologies and nutrient and carbon balances at the farm level
Uffe Jørgensen and Bjørn Molt Petersen
I-7
Biosecurity and arable use of manure and biowaste
Ann Albihn and Björn Vinnerås
I-8
The present status of rapid methods for on-farm analysis of manure composition with emphasis on N and P: What is available and what is lacking?
James B. Reeves, III
O-8
Slurry acidification – consequences for losses and plant availability of nitrogen and sulphur
Jørgen Eriksen and Peter Sørensen
O-9
Innovative technology for recycling of manure phosphorus with rapid amorphous phosphate precipitation
A.A. Szogi, M.B. Vanotti, P.J. Bauer, K.G. Scheckel and W.H. Hudnall
O-10
Removal of Salmonella contamination before using plant nutrients from household waste and wastewater in agriculture
Vinnerås, B., Nordin, A., Ottoson, J., Berggren, I., Albihn, A., Bagge, E. and Sahlström, L.
O-11
Effects of slurry additives and ozone treatment on odour emissions from pig slurry
Martin N. Hansen, Morten Bang, Arne G. Hansen and Anders Feilberg
O-12
Wet oxidation pre-treatment– the way to improve economics of energy production from manure?
Hinrich Uellendahl and Birgitte Ahring
O-13
Optimal plant nutrient distribution in and biogasification of manure separation products, separated with FeCl3 as coagulant
Maibritt Hjorth, Tavs Nyord, Anders M. Nielsen and Sven G. Sommer
O-14
Monitoring and optimisation of biogas production
Alastair Ward, Phil Hobbs, Peter Holliman and Davey Jones
O-15
Anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure with fruit wastes. Process development for the recycling in decentralised farm scale plants
Luís J. M. Ferreira
P-229
A new technology to process swine manure
Anni Kokkonen, Erkki Aura and Risto Seppälä
O-17
Behaviour of enteric micro-organisms in Canadian and French swine manure treatments
Anne-Marie Pourcher, Nora Aktouche, Caroline Côté, Pierre Rousseau, Stéphane Godbout and José Martinez
O-18
Managing manure by a greater understanding of its metabolic profile? Adopting new technologies
Philip John Hobbs, Matt Wade, Jon Williams and Dan Dhanoa
O-20
The effect of bioaugmentation on selected microbial parameters of swine slurry pits
Linda A. Torres-Villamizar, Roberto Reinoso, Juan. A. Alvarez, Mari Cruz García, Cristina León and Eloy Bécares
Wednesday, 13 September
O-21
Strategies to reduce diffuse nitrogen pollution from cattle slurry applications
J.R. Williams, E.Sagoo, B.J. Chambers, J. Lapworth, D.R. Chadwick and J.A. Laws
O-22
Nitrous oxide emissions from riparian buffers and treatment wetlands
Patrick G. Hunt, Terry. A. Matheny, K.S. Ro, and Ariel. A. Szogi
O-23
Land application of solid and liquid fractions from sedimented dairy slurry
S. Bittman, T.A. Forge, A. Liu, M. Chantigny, K. Buckley, C.G. Kowalenko, D.E. Hunt, F. Bounaix and A. Friesen
O-24
Utilization and losses of nitrogen and phosphorus from field-applied slurry separation products
Torkild Birkmose, Peter Sørensen and Gitte H Rubæk
O-25
Uptake of cation micronutrients by wheat from two different animal manures applied to a sandy loam soil
Claudia M.d.S. Cordovil and Fernanda Cabral
O-26
NH3 and GHG emissions from a straw flow system for fattening pigs: housing, and manure storage
Barbara Amon, Vitaliy Kryvoruchko, Martina Fröhlich, Thomas Amon, Alfred Pöllinger, Irene Mösenbacher and Anton Hausleitner
O-34
Effect of littered systems on pollutant emissions in gestating sows
Carlos Pineiro, Ana Isabel Pérez, Pilar Illescas, Gema Montalvo, Mariano Herrero, Rafael Giráldez, Mª José Sanz and Manuel Bigeriego
O-28
Nitrous oxide and di-nitrogen losses following application of livestock manures to agricultural land
Rachel Thorman, David Chadwick, Fiona Nicholson and Brian Chambers
O-29
Inventory of gaseous emissions (CH4, N2O, NH3) from livestock manure management in France using a mass flow approach
Armelle Gac, Fabrice Béline, Thierry Bioteau and Katell Maguet
O-30
A farm-scale internet-based tool for assessing the effect of intensification on losses of nitrogen to the environment
N.J. Hutchings, I.S. Kristensen, N. Detlefsen, B.M. Petersen and M.S. Jørgensen
O-31
Ammonia concentrations around 5 farms in the Central Plateau of Spain
Mª José Sanz, Carlos Monter, Mónica Vázquez, Francisco Sanz, Gema Montalvo, Pilar Illescas, Carlos Pineiro and Manuel Bigeriego
O-32
Simulation of Odour dispersion by natural windbreaks
Xingjun Lin, Suzelle Barrington, Jim Nicell and Denis Choiniere
O-33
Comparison of models and measurements for whole-farm ammonia emissions
T.H. Misselbrook, S.L. Gilhespy, R.E. Thorman, D. Sandars, A.G. Williams, C. Burton and R. Pinder
Background information
Local Organizing Committee :
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Dept. of Agricultural Engineering
Research Centre Bygholm
Schüttesvej 17
DK-8700 Horsens
Denmark
Sven G. Sommer
e-mail: sveng.sommer@agrsci.dk
Søren O. Petersen
Peter Sørensen
Hanne D. Poulsen
Martin N. Hansen
Scientific committee:
Maria-Pilar Bernal, Murcia, Spain
Colin Burton, Silsoe, UK
Reinhard Böhm, Hohenheim, Germany
Jacek Dach, Poznan, Poland
J.Y. Dourmad, St. Gilles, France
Csaba Juhász, Debrecen, Hungary
Adrian Leip, Ispra, Italy
Rok Mihelic, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tom Misselbrook, North Wyke, UK
J. Martinez, Rennes, France
Fiona Nicholson, Mansfield, UK
Søren O. Petersen, Tjele, Denmark
Hanne D. Poulsen, Tjele, Denmark
G. Provolo, Milano, Italy
Sven G. Sommer, Horsens, Denmark
Peter Sørensen , Tjele, Denmark
Achim Weiske, Leipzig, Germany