Xavier Sort
3 Papers
23 Citations
Xavier Sort is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil organic matter & Compost. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
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Composting of Residuals Produced in the Catalan Wine Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a composting process was proposed to treat these two organic wastes for recycling its organic matter content to the vineyard crops, but experiments at laboratory-scale in static composting systems did not show positive results for different stalk:sludge mixtures due to the high moisture content of both wastes.
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Composting in the Catalonia wine industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how compost can reduce pathogens and increase soil organic matter in vineyards with new restrictions on direct application of residues from vineyards, with the goal of reducing pathogens and increasing organic matter.
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Recovery of organic wastes in the Spanish wine industry. Technical, economic and environmental analyses of the composting process.
Luz Ruggieri,Erasmo Cadena,Julia Martínez-Blanco,Carles M. Gasol,Joan Rieradevall,Xavier Gabarrell,Teresa Gea,Xavier Sort,Antoni Sánchez +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main organic wastes produced in modern wine industries include grape pomace (62%), lees (14%), stalk (12%), and dewatered sludge (12%).