How is the amount of organic carbon contained within a material that will readily decay and transform to either methane or carbon dioxide is calculated by means of Proximate analysis or any simple analysis in laboratory?
Any paper or relevant resource recommendations?
I can't provide an authoritative answer, but at a guess, starches and sugars would be among the more rapidly degradable fractions. I suspect that these would 'prime' degradation of more resistant components
Hello, for emitted CO2 you can use modified(for your purpose) soil respiration analysis, its simple and just include incubation a sample with a potassium hydroxide(KOH) to catch and absorb CO2 and after that you can titrate it with a hydrochloric acid (HCl) to calculate how much CO2 it absorbed and sample emitted.
We do in a same time a control experiment with an empty jar and incubate in it hydroxide as well, to make a correction.
But I'm sure there is a lot of advanced and new methods exist, this one is simple and can be applied in any laboratories.