Peat composition

Table 8. Composition and Heating Value of Biomass, Wastes, Peat, and Coal...

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Tsutsuki, K., Kondo, R. and Shiraishi, H. (1993). Composition of lignin-degradation products, lipids and opal phytoliths in a peat profile accumulated since 32,000 years B.P. in Central Japan. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 39 463-474. 

At the opposite end of the fertility scale from ricefields are peat bogs in pluvial landscapes. Nutrient inputs come almost entirely from rainfall, and the nutrient reserves in the organic matter buffering the soil solution are small (Moore and Bellamy, 1974). The chemistry of peat bogs is therefore precarious and changes in the composition of the rainfall can have a large effect on the composition of the soil solution. 

Hayes, M.H.B. (1997) Emerging concepts of the composition and structures of humic substances. In Hayes, M.H.B. and Wilson, W.S. (eds) Flumic Substances in Soils, Peats and Waters. The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-30. 

Wood, peat, and coal, though so different in physical appearance, are nevertheless very closely allied in composition, all the three being chiefly composed of ligneous fibre, a compound of three simple elements— carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Physical effects have induced certain changes in some kinds of peat and... 

Darwin states that, in the Southern hemisphere, peat does not ocour nearer to the equator than the latitude of 45° that the composition there met with results from the decomposition of the plants and grasses. The circumstenco that no mosses, so far as can he ascertained by strict examination, enter into the species of peat found in South America, favors this view. 

Yery copious details of the composition of the ashes of most of the peats of Ireland have been given, in a former table, at page 52, to which tbe reader is referred. 

Petrographic continuity of layers may reflect widespread simultaneous deposition of a given maceral composition. If this is true, it is probable that physical and chemical aspects of the peat swamp are more significant factors than local florisbc similarities in establishing the organic composition of the layer. 

Peat wax has somewhat the same composition as montan wax. It has only been produced on a limited scale in Ireland, where it is processed from the native peat. It has asphaltic constituents that tend to make it incompletely miscible with paraffin waxes. 

Carbonaceous Material. Any material relating to or contg C such as woodmeal, sawdust, cereal flours, lignite, coal, peat, bark, cork etc. It is used as the fuel ingredient of composite expls... 

Yamazaki, C., Ishiga, H., Dozen, K. et al. (2000) Geochemical compositions of sediments of Ganges delta of Bangladesh - arsenic release from peat Earth Science, 54, 81-93. 

Clapp, C. E., Dawson, I. E., and Hayes, M. H. B. (1979). Composition and properties of a purified polysaccharide isolated from an organic soil. In Proceedings, International Symposium on Peat in Agriculture and Horticulture, Schallinger, K. M., ed., Special Publication 205, Agriculture Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel, pp. 153-167. 

Figure 7.3. Van Krevelen diagram. Black squares plot the changes of the elemental composition during heating of peat material at 350°C at oxic conditions as reported in Ahnendros et al. (2003).

Rollins, M. S., Cohen, A. D., and Durig, J. R. (1993). Effects of fires on the chemical and petrographic composition of peat in the Snuggedy Swamp, South Carolina. Int. J. Coal Geol. 22,101-117. 

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