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Article

The Effect of Pelletized Lime Kiln Dust Combined with Biomass Combustion Ash on Soil Properties and Plant Yield in a Three-Year Field Study

by
Donata Drapanauskaitė
1,2,
Kristina Bunevičienė
1,
Regina Repšienė
1,
Danutė Karčauskienė
1,
Romas Mažeika
1 and
Jonas Baltrusaitis
2,*
1
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Instituto al. 1, Akademija, LT-58344 Kedainiai, Lithuania
2
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, B336 Iacocca Hall, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Land 2022, 11(4), 521; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040521
Submission received: 14 February 2022 / Revised: 21 March 2022 / Accepted: 1 April 2022 / Published: 4 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture and Ecosystem Services)
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Abstract

Extensive application of mineral fertilizers resulted in high soil acidity, which is one of the major problems for crop production and soil degradation. Industrial solid waste, such as lime kiln dust and wood ash, can be used as alternative liming materials to benefit sustainable agricultural development. In this work, pelletized lime kiln dust with and without wood ash was utilized as liming material and the results of the three-year field study were compared with conventional mineral-based liming materials. It was determined that pelletized lime kiln dust satisfies the requirements posed by the recent European Union regulations to qualify as liming materials. The application of 2000 kg/ha Ca equivalent pelletized lime kiln dust increased soil pHKCl by ~0.55 pH units. Moreover, pelletized lime kiln dust significantly increased spring wheat grain yields ranging from 33.6% to 40.4%, depending on the pellet size. The usage of these liming materials not only increased crop yield but also decreased heavy metal concentration in soil. Due to high alkalinity, carbonate content, easy handling, and the transportation of pelletized lime kiln dust with and without wood ash, the materials have the potential to be used in agriculture as liming materials to reduce soil acidification and increase crop productivity or be used as soil amendments.
Keywords: lime kiln dust; pellets; soil chemical properties lime kiln dust; pellets; soil chemical properties

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Drapanauskaitė, D.; Bunevičienė, K.; Repšienė, R.; Karčauskienė, D.; Mažeika, R.; Baltrusaitis, J. The Effect of Pelletized Lime Kiln Dust Combined with Biomass Combustion Ash on Soil Properties and Plant Yield in a Three-Year Field Study. Land 2022, 11, 521. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040521

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Drapanauskaitė D, Bunevičienė K, Repšienė R, Karčauskienė D, Mažeika R, Baltrusaitis J. The Effect of Pelletized Lime Kiln Dust Combined with Biomass Combustion Ash on Soil Properties and Plant Yield in a Three-Year Field Study. Land. 2022; 11(4):521. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040521

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Drapanauskaitė, Donata, Kristina Bunevičienė, Regina Repšienė, Danutė Karčauskienė, Romas Mažeika, and Jonas Baltrusaitis. 2022. "The Effect of Pelletized Lime Kiln Dust Combined with Biomass Combustion Ash on Soil Properties and Plant Yield in a Three-Year Field Study" Land 11, no. 4: 521. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040521

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Drapanauskaitė, D., Bunevičienė, K., Repšienė, R., Karčauskienė, D., Mažeika, R., & Baltrusaitis, J. (2022). The Effect of Pelletized Lime Kiln Dust Combined with Biomass Combustion Ash on Soil Properties and Plant Yield in a Three-Year Field Study. Land, 11(4), 521. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040521

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