Plant nutrition on fly-ash
Plant nutrition on fly-ash
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粉煤灰上的植物营养
作者:
W. Rees;G. Sidrak
The term "Fly-ash" is used to describe an industrial waste material which is produced after the combustion of pulverized coal. Modern power stations produce large quantities of this waste material and the satisfactory disposal of it may present a problem. In some cases it is deposited on lo~v-lying meadows in the form of a low spoil heap or used as a filler for valleys and sand pits. When tipping operations are completed it is anticipated that at tempts will be made to cover the surface of the ash with some form of plant cover. The field experiments of R e e s and S k e l d i n g 12 on the summit of a spoil heap at Hams Hall power station, Warwickshire, indicated that a grass ley could be established if the surface of the ash was first covered with a layer of sewage sludge or sludge/soil mixtures. There were no drought problems although the ash deposit was about forty feet in height. A problem which may arise however concerns the effect of the ash particles on plants roots. This might occur in time when soil and ash became intermixed if the practices of rotational farming were employed on such areas. A knowledge of the plant/ash nutrition interrelationships would appear important in this respect. Such information would be valuable also in cases where a soil or sludge covering was unavailable and a direct seeding of the ash was the only suitable alternative. The natural plant colonization of freshly deposited Hams Hall ash differs markedly from early successional stages which characterize the Black Country waste areas (Reesla) . The power station ash becomes covered with the