Publications [#58214] of J. Jeffrey Peirce

Papers Published

1. Rammon, Desiree A. and Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Biogenic nitric oxide from wastewater land application, Atmospheric Environment, vol. 33 no. 13 (1999), pp. 2115 - 2121 [S1352-2310(98)00417-8]
   (last updated on 2007/04/09)

   Abstract:
   The importance of municipal wastewater land application to nitric oxide production and transport in soil was studied through the formulation and conduct of a comprehensive laboratory testing protocol. Nitric oxide (NO) is a precursor in the formation of tropospheric ozone which can directly impact public health and the environment. It is the uncertainty in the NO budget, and its relation to O₃, that motivates the need for measurements and modeling of NO flux from soils. Wastewater-amended soil is potentially one important component of that budget. NO emissions reported here were measured from: a well-characterized unamended soil, water-amended soil, and wastewater-amended soil in the laboratory in a dynamic test chamber. Laboratory results indicate that NO emissions from the selected sandy loam soil ranged from 0.3 to 0.4 ng N m^-2 s^-1 per cm² of unamended soil, while water-amended soil emissions ranged from 0.4 to 0.7 ng N m^-2 s^-1 per cm². NO flux from wastewater-amended soil ranged from 1.0 to 1.2 ng N m^-2 s^-1 per cm² of applied soil.

   Keywords:
   Atmospheric composition;Nitrogen oxides;Soil pollution;Ozone;Environmental impact;Gas emissions;