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USDA-ARS Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, Columbia, MO 65211
Dep. of Agronomy, Colorado State Univ., Fort. Collins, CO 80523
* Corresponding author.
ABSTRACT
The study of specific, organic sewage sludge constituents is necessary to augment our knowledge of C and N mineralization in sludge-amended soils. A laboratory incubation study of seven sewage sludges was initiated to test the hypothesis that sewage sludge proteins are labile C and N sources. Sewage sludge proteins were extracted with H2O, 10% (v/v) Triton X-100, and 1.0 M NaOH and determined by the Lowry assay. Sewage sludges were mixed with Bresser sandy loam soil (fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustoll) at a rate of 10 g dry sludge kg–1 dry soil and incubated at 25 °C and 0.111 kg kg–1 soil water content for 12 wk to determine sludge C and N mineralization. Extractable sludge proteins were highly correlated to C mineralization (r2 = 0.94-0.96), but they were poorly correlated to N mineralization (r2 = 0.40-0.41). This supported the hypothesis that sludge proteins were a labile C source but not a labile N source. However, low molecular weight primary amines (assumed to be predominately protein degradation products) combined with the sludge C/N ratios were highly correlated to sludge N mineralization rates (r2 = 0.91). Nitrogen mineralization of sludge-amended soil followed either zero- or first-order kinetics. Kinetic models of the first-order systems showed that N mineralization was best described as the decomposition of two distinct organic-N pools. Sewage sludge proteins appear to be significant sources of labile C, and their degradation products apparently are critical N sources.
Received for publication September 10, 1991.
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