Browsing Civil Engineering (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Fenton, Owen"
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Antimicrobial compounds (triclosan and triclocarban) in sewage sludges, and their presence in runoff following land application
Healy, Mark G.; Fenton, Owen; Cormican, Martin; Peyton, Dara P.; Ordsmith, N.; Kimber, K.; Morrison, Liam (Elsevier, 2017-04-28)The reuse of treated municipal sewage ( biosolids ) on land is an effective method to divert waste away from landfill and to use an alternative, low cost method of fertilisation. While legislation has mainly focused on the ... -
Appraisal and ranking of poly-aluminium chloride, ferric chloride and alum for the treatment of dairy soiled water
Mohamed, A.Y.A.; Siggins, Alma; Healy, Mark G.; Ó hUallacháin, Daire; Fenton, Owen; Tuohy, Patrick (Elsevier, 2020-04-29)Land spreading of dairy soiled water (DSW) may result in pollution of ground and surface waters. Treatment of DSW through sludge-supernatant separation using chemical coagulants is a potential option to reduce the negative ... -
Assessment of the hydraulic and filter performance of different drainage stone aggregates to elucidate an optimum size range for use in clay-textured soils
Byrne, Ian; Healy, Mark G.; Fenton, Owen; Tuohy, Patrick (Elsevier, 2023-01-18)On poorly drained grassland farms in Ireland, stone aggregates remain the only in-field drain envelope material used by contractors. A variety of aggregate sizes and lithologies are currently in use, but their performance ... -
Bioaccumulation of metals in ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) following the application of lime stabilised, thermally dried and anaerobically digested sewage sludge.
Healy, Mark G.; Ryan, Paraic C.; Fenton, Owen; Peyton, Dara P.; Morrison, Liam (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2016-05-09)The uptake and accumulation of metals in plants is a potential pathway for the transfer of environmental contaminants in the food chain, and poses potential health and environmental risks. In light of increased population ... -
Dairy processing sludge and co-products: a review of present and future re-use pathways in agriculture
Shi, W.; Healy, Mark G.; Ashekuzzaman, S.M.; Daly, K.; Leahy, J.J.; Fenton, Owen (Elsevier, 2021-06-22)The dairy industry is one of the largest global producers of wastewater and generates huge volumes of dairy processing sludge (DPS). There are two main types of DPS, lime-treated dissolved air floatation sludge and ... -
Developing and validating a decision support tool for media selection to mitigate drainage waters
Ezzati, Golnaz; Healy, Mark G.; Christianson, Laura E.; Feyereisen, Gary; Thornton, Steven; Daly, Karen; Fenton, Owen (Elsevier, 2019-07-26)The nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) and ammonium (NH4-N) and/or dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) load in drainage water from farms can be managed by reactive or biological media filters. The nutrient content of the drainage ... -
Estimation of Maximum Biosolids and Meat and Bone Meal Application to a Low P Index Soil and a Method to Test for Nutrient and Metal Losses
Lucid, Joseph D.; Fenton, Owen; Healy, Mark G. (2013)The aim of this study was to develop (1) a method for the calculation of the maximum legal rate at which meat and bone meal (MBM) and biosolids should be applied to land, which took into account the soil phosphorus (P) ... -
Evaluation of amendments to control phosphorus losses in runoff from dairy soiled water.
Fenton, Owen; Serrenho, Ana; Healy, Mark G. (Springer, 2011-12-01)Amendments with the potential to reduce phosphorus (P) losses from agricultural grassland arising from the land application of dairy-soiled water (DSW) were investigated. Optimal application rates were studied, and associated ... -
An examination of maximum legal application rates of dairy processing and associated STRUBIAS fertilising products in agriculture
Shi, W.; Fenton, Owen; Ashekuzzaman, S. M.; Daly, K.; Leahy, J. J.; Khalaf, N.; Hu, Y.; Chojnacka, K.; Numviyimana, C.; Healy, Mark G. (Elsevier, 2021-10-09)The dairy industry produces vast quantities of dairy processing sludge (DPS), which can be processed further to develop second generation products such as struvite, biochars and ashes (collectively known as STRUBIAS). These ... -
A framework for determining unsaturated zone time lags at catchment scale
Vero, Sara E.; Healy, Mark G.; Henry, Tiernan; Creamer, Rachel E.; Ibrahim, Tristan G.; Richards, Karl G.; Mellander, Per-Erik; McDonald, Noeleen T.; Fenton, Owen (Elsevier Masson, 2016-12-10)The responses of waterbodies to agricultural programmes of measures are frequently delayed by hydrological time lags through the unsaturated zone and groundwater. Time lag may therefore, impede the achievement of remediation ... -
Impact of P inputs on source-sink P dynamics of sediment along an agricultural ditch network
Ezzati, Golnaz; Fenton, Owen; Healy, Mark G.; Christianson, Laura E.; Feyereisen, Gary; Thornton, S. F.; Chen, Qing; Fan, Bingqian; Ding, J.; Daly, Karen (Elsevier, 2019-12-19)Phosphorus (P) loss from intensive dairy farms is a pressure on water quality in agricultural catchments. At farm scale, P sources can enter in-field drains and open ditches, resulting in transfer along ditch networks and ... -
Impacts of zeolite, alum and polyaluminium chloride amendments mixed with agricultural wastes on soil column leachate, and CO2 and CH4 emissions.
Murnane, John G.; Fenton, Owen; Healy, Mark G. (Elsevier, 2017-11-02)This study aimed to quantify leaching losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and carbon (C), as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions from stored slurry and from packed soil columns surface applied with ... -
Influence of soil phosphorus status, texture, pH and metal content on the efficacy of amendments to pig slurry in reducing phosphorus losses
O’ Flynn, Cornelius J.; Fenton, Owen; Wall, David; Brennan, Raymond B.; McLaughlin, Mike J.; Healy, Mark G. (Wiley, 2017-12-13)Cost effective strategies for using chemically amended organic fertilizers need to be developed to minimize nutrient losses in surface and groundwater. Coupling specific soil physical and chemical characteristics with ... -
An integrated assessment of nitrogen source, transformation and fate within an intensive dairy system to inform management change.
Clagnan, Elisa; Thornton, Steven F.; Rolfe, Stephen A.; Wells, Naomi S.; Knoeller, Kay; Murphy, John; Tuohy, Patrick; Daly, Karen; Healy, Mark G.; Ezzati, Golnaz; von Chamier, Julia; Fenton, Owen (Public Library of Science, 2019-07-23)From an environmental perspective optimised dairy systems, which follow current regulations, still have low nitrogen (N) use efficiency, high N surplus (kg N ha-1) and enable ad-hoc delivery of direct and indirect reactive ... -
An integrated connectivity risk ranking for phosphorus and nitrogen along agricultural open ditches to inform targeted and specific mitigation management
Opoku, D. G.; Healy, Mark G.; Fenton, Owen; Daly, K.; Condon, T.; Tuohy, Patrick (Frontiers Media, 2024-02-19)On dairy farms with poorly drained soils and high rainfall, open ditches receive nutrients from different sources along different pathways which are delivered to surface water. Recently, open ditches were ranked in terms ... -
Investigating the suitability of synthetic envelopes as an alternative or complement to stone aggregate in clay-textured soils in Ireland
Byrne, Ian; Healy, Mark G.; Fenton, Owen; Tuohy, Patrick (Elsevier, 2022-12-21)In Ireland, agricultural landscapes dominated by high rainfall and poorly drained soils have high densities of in-field pipe drains surrounded by stone aggregate envelopes. Unlike other countries, there is limited availability ... -
A methodological framework to determine optimum durations for the construction of soil water characteristic curves using centrifugation
Vero, Sara E.; Healy, Mark G.; Henry, Tiernan; Creamer, Rachel E.; Ibrahim, Tristan G.; Forrestal, Patrick J.; Richards, Karl G.; Fenton, Owen (De Gruyter Open, 2016-12-30)During laboratory assessment of the soil water characteristic curve (SWCC), determining equilibrium at various pressures, is challenging. This study establishes a methodological framework to identify appropriate experimental ... -
Mineral fertiliser equivalent value of dairy processing sludge and derived biochar using ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and spring wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Shi, W.; Healy, Mark G.; Ashekuzzaman, S. M.; Daly, K.; Fenton, Owen (Elsevier, 2022-08-20)As supply chains of chemical fertilisers become more precarious, raw or derived bio-based fertilisers (herein referred to as bio-fertilisers) from the dairy processing industry could be good alternatives. However, their ... -
Mitigating ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from stored cattle slurry using agricultural waste, commercially available products and a chemical acidifier.
Kavanagh, Ian; Fenton, Owen; Healy, Mark G.; Burchill, William; Lanigan, Gary J.; Krol, Dominika J. (Elsevier, 2021-02-05)Bovine slurry and its subsequent storage are significant sources of ammonia (NH3) and greenhouse gases (GHGs). Chemical acidification of manures has been shown to significantly reduce these emissions. Waste products, derived ... -
Nitrate removal rate, efficiency and pollution swapping potential of different organic carbon media in laboratory denitrification bioreactors.
Healy, Mark G.; Ibrahim, Tristan; Lanigan, Gary; Serrenho, Ana; Fenton, Owen (Ecological Engineering, 2012-01-01)Laboratory denitrifying bioreactors, which use an organic carbon (C) rich media to enhance microbial reduction of nitrate (NO3-) to nitrogen (N) gases, are used worldwide to protect surface and groundwater. To highlight ...