Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science 2015

Estimating Carbon Fractions of Plant and Soil Organic Materials from Ozonation Chemiluminescence

Authors
Pingping Fan, Guangli Hou, Yan Liu
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Pingping Fan
Available Online July 2015.
DOI
10.2991/icaees-15.2015.17How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Soil organic matter; Carbon (C) fractions; Ozonation; Chemiluminescence.
Abstract

The determination of C fractions in lab requires prior extraction steps that are laborious and time-consuming. Ozonation chemiluminescence can avoid the problem and has been successfully used to measure the C and N compounds in air or water, thus was proposed to determine C fractions of organic materials. Twenty-six different organic materials including soil organic matter and decomposed plant roots were examined. The changes of C fractions and molecular C structures for organic materials were studied during the ozonation process. Based on the ozonation process, three independent models were set up to predict C fractions by the luminescence characteristics. During ozonation all the three atoms of ozone were synthesized to the structure of new organic matter, thus the amount of carboxyl, carbonyl, or O-alkyl increased. C fractions can be assessed by the index of power function for luminescence intensity or luminescence time. Although some uncertainty exists in the models, this methodology provides a significant step forward from the traditional lab approach.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science 2015
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
July 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-130-8
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icaees-15.2015.17How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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