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