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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 5 Elemental weight composition of an oven-dry cultivation bed

From: Fuel and material utilization of a waste shiitake (Lentinula edodes) mushroom bed derived from hardwood chips I: characteristics of calorific value in terms of elemental composition and ash content

Components

C

H

N

O

Ash

Total

 

Ratios used for the calculation (%)

Wood chip

48.79

5.49

0.16

44.89

0.67

100.0

Rice bran

48.10

6.98

2.63

34.39

7.90

100.0

Wheat bran

46.30

5.98

2.26

41.16

4.30

100.0

Inoculum

45.41

5.93

2.27

42.99

3.39

100.0

 

Weight (g)

Wood chip

438.6

49.3

1.4

403.5

6.1

898.9

Rice bran

36.0

5.2

2.0

25.7

5.9

74.8

Wheat bran

81.7

10.5

4.0

72.6

7.6

176.4

Inoculum

0.50

0.07

0.03

0.48

0.04

1.12

Total*

556.8 (48.4%)

65.1 (5.7%)

7.4 (0.6%)

502.3 (43.6%)

19.6 (1.7%)

1151.2 (100%)

  1. *Values in parentheses are a percentage of the total weight