Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks
Recycling of animal manure and its uses as a fertilizer for crop growth could meet increasing demand of nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen. However, one of the major issues with manure application is the presence of pathogenic bacteria in manure and associated risks to food, and public hea...
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| description | Recycling of animal manure and its uses as a fertilizer for crop growth could meet increasing demand of nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen. However, one of the major issues with manure application is the presence of pathogenic bacteria in manure and associated risks to food, and public health. Further, manure-borne bacteria causes greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the presence of moisture under anaerobic conditions, and recently a substantial emphasis is given to advance manure management for mitigating GHG emissions and associated environmental and climate effects. The application of microwave technology could play a crucial role in mitigating these risk conditions, and improve livestock waste management and its application. In this research, a novel microwave powered method for treating dairy manure was developed and a series of experiments were undertaken to understand to what extent microbes including pathogenic organisms such as <italic>E. coli</italic> and moisture in manure can be controlled to determine the adequate conditions that potentially reduce the methane emissions, and protects public and environmental health. We found that microwave based treatment technology is capable of inactivating dairy manure-borne bacteria, and moisture rapidly, which are potentially responsible for biological methane emissions and microbial risks to food, and public health. Results suggest that a limited time (< 5 min) exposure to microwave can eliminate pathogen indicator such as <italic>E. coli</italic> from manure, and reduces microbial activities and regrowth of microbes. These results indicate that the capacity of microwave to generate heat and eliminate microbes could control the unwanted bacteria and excess moisture in manure rapidly, and reduce public and environmental health risks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-da738decc4364016bc30579e2b601fca2025-08-20T02:34:55ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Microwaves2692-83882024-01-01441009102810.1109/JMW.2024.349216610767697Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health RisksAditya Pandey0https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8065-2905Omeed Momeni1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-9055Pramod Pandey2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-7977Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COE University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COE University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USADepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, SVM University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USARecycling of animal manure and its uses as a fertilizer for crop growth could meet increasing demand of nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen. However, one of the major issues with manure application is the presence of pathogenic bacteria in manure and associated risks to food, and public health. Further, manure-borne bacteria causes greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the presence of moisture under anaerobic conditions, and recently a substantial emphasis is given to advance manure management for mitigating GHG emissions and associated environmental and climate effects. The application of microwave technology could play a crucial role in mitigating these risk conditions, and improve livestock waste management and its application. In this research, a novel microwave powered method for treating dairy manure was developed and a series of experiments were undertaken to understand to what extent microbes including pathogenic organisms such as <italic>E. coli</italic> and moisture in manure can be controlled to determine the adequate conditions that potentially reduce the methane emissions, and protects public and environmental health. We found that microwave based treatment technology is capable of inactivating dairy manure-borne bacteria, and moisture rapidly, which are potentially responsible for biological methane emissions and microbial risks to food, and public health. Results suggest that a limited time (< 5 min) exposure to microwave can eliminate pathogen indicator such as <italic>E. coli</italic> from manure, and reduces microbial activities and regrowth of microbes. These results indicate that the capacity of microwave to generate heat and eliminate microbes could control the unwanted bacteria and excess moisture in manure rapidly, and reduce public and environmental health risks.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10767697/Climate changemethane emissionsmicrowave treatmentpublicand environmentmicrowaves in climate change |
| spellingShingle | Aditya Pandey Omeed Momeni Pramod Pandey Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks IEEE Journal of Microwaves Climate change methane emissions microwave treatment public and environment microwaves in climate change |
| title | Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks |
| title_full | Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks |
| title_fullStr | Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks |
| title_short | Development of a Novel Microwave Powered Method for Reducing Moisture and Microbes for Mitigating Public and Environmental Health Risks |
| title_sort | development of a novel microwave powered method for reducing moisture and microbes for mitigating public and environmental health risks |
| topic | Climate change methane emissions microwave treatment public and environment microwaves in climate change |
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