Optimal turning method of composting regarding hygienic safety

The new tuming method was proposed and verified its effectiveness to pathogens by laboratory scale experiments. Considering the results obtained from the previous studies, it could be said that tuming of a composting pile was essential in terms of hygienic aspects but the number of tuming should be minimized. Effectiveness of inactivation was estimated for each composting run. From this estimation,tuming by layers, which is different from conventional tuming that mixes compost pile entirely, was proposed and investigated its performance by experiments. Composting operations with static pile method, complete mix(conventional) tuming method, and proposed tuming( layer tuming) method were done and their effectiveness on inactivation of indicator microorganism was evaluated and compared.As results, the conventional tuming method was not a proper method in terms of pathogen inactivation, whereas, the proposed tuming method showed an excellent performance and should be employed in a composting operation.