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MDPI, Applied Sciences, 5(13), p. 2900, 2023

DOI: 10.3390/app13052900

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Studies of Organic Matter in Composting, Vermicomposting, and Anaerobic Digestion by 13C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Journal article published in 2023 by Silvia Pizzanelli ORCID, Lucia Calucci ORCID, Claudia Forte ORCID, Silvia Borsacchi ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Composting, vermicomposting, and anaerobic digestion are three commonly applied processes for the transformation of organic waste into valuable products for soil amendment. The application of compost, vermicompost, and digestate to soil requires specific properties, such as maturity and stability, strongly related to the composition of organic matter. 13C solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SSNMR) has often been applied to follow the transformation of organic matter during waste treatment processes, as well as to assess the quality of the produced amendments and the effectiveness of the treatments. Thanks to the possibility of associating the 13C chemical shift to different functional groups of biomacromolecules present in the waste feedstocks and in the final products, thorough characterizations of organic matter have been performed exploiting 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning experiments, and semiquantitative descriptions of the evolution of the different groups during composting, vermicomposting and anaerobic digestion have been reported. Here, these studies are reviewed with the aim of highlighting the potential of the application of 13C SSNMR to these complex materials, as well as the critical issues and perspectives.