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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 6 Comparison of the elemental weight composition between the cultivation bed and waste mushroom bed in an oven-dry base

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

 

C

H

N

O

Ash

Total

Cultivation bed, W0 a (g)

556.8

65.1

7.4

502.3

19.6

1151.2

Waste mushroom bed, W1 b (g)

112.0

12.6

1.5

106.1

16.9

249.1

Weight loss; (1-W1/W0) × 100 (%)

79.9

80.6

79.7

78.9

13.8

78.4

Shiitake mushroom c (g)

40.2

5.3

2.0

38.1

3.0

88.6

  1. a, b Element weight of cultivation bed and waste mushroom bed, respectively
  2. c Sum of six repeated harvests from one cultivation bed