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Economic competitiveness of separated dairy manure solids as a phosphorus fertilizer substitute.

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Τίτλος: Economic competitiveness of separated dairy manure solids as a phosphorus fertilizer substitute.
Συγγραφείς: Keshavarz Afshar R; Environmental Research, Dairy Research Institute, Rosemont, IL, USA. Electronic address: Reza.afshar@dairy.org., Kishore J; School of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA., Sadeghpour A; School of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA.
Πηγή: Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2026 Sep 01; Vol. 416, pp. 130698. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Aug 22.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401664 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-8630 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03014797 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: London ; New York, Academic Press.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Fertilizers* , Manure* , Phosphorus*, Dairying ; Animals
Περίληψη: Manure solid-liquid separation offers a potential pathway for redistributing nutrients from livestock-intensive, nutrient-surplus regions to cropland with fertilizer demand, but the competitiveness of separated manure products with synthetic phosphorus fertilizer depends on manure quality, acquisition price, and hauling distance. We developed a probabilistic techno-economic framework to evaluate separated dairy manure solids (SDMS) relative to synthetic phosphorus fertilizer under representative market and agronomic conditions and to identify transaction-level thresholds for competitive viability. The analysis combined Sobol global sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo uncertainty propagation, deterministic scenario surfaces, and leverage analysis. SDMS acquisition price was the dominant driver of variance in net savings, followed by P2O5 concentration and hauling distance. Competitiveness declined sharply with transport distance, with the 50% probability crossover occurring between 161 and 201 km and the most decision-sensitive range concentrated around 121-201 km under the modeled conditions. Scenario analysis showed that lower acquisition price and higher P2O5 concentration substantially expanded the viable hauling radius, while moisture reduction also improved competitiveness but with different marginal returns across the quality surface. The leverage surface showed that the relative benefit of dewatering versus P2O5 enrichment depends on the current product state; across much of the evaluated commercial range, a 1 percentage point reduction in moisture produced a greater gain in breakeven hauling distance than a 0.1 percentage point increase in P2O5 concentration, although the reverse held at low P2O5 concentrations combined with low moisture. The results also identified an acquisition-price ceiling beyond which additional processing no longer preserved competitiveness. These findings provide transaction-level economic criteria for manure redistribution and are implemented in NutrientChoice (https://www.dairyconservation.org/NutrientChoice), an open-source decision-support tool.
(Copyright © 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Dairy manure solids; Fertilizer substitution; Manure transport economics; Nutrient recovery; Phosphorus redistribution; Techno-economic analysis
Substance Nomenclature: 0 (Fertilizers)
0 (Manure)
27YLU75U4W (Phosphorus)
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260822 Date Completed: 20260917 Latest Revision: 20260917
Update Code: 20260917
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.130698
PMID: 42632138
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
Περιγραφή
ISSN:1095-8630
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.130698