Solvita Respiration products

Solvita CO2-Burst provides the means for commercial laboratories to easily and efficiently measure CO2 respiration from dried, sieved soil once rewetted. The procedure includes a specified wetting method to adjust soils close to 50% of available pore-space with water, avoiding the artifact of over-wetting. The updated (2019) protocol contains vetted protocols to assure CO2 is within a normal 0 – 3% range for which Solvita has validated, linear response.  Measuring soil CO2 respiration has never been easier than with Solvita, and the accuracy of Solvita when used according to procedure rivals all competing methods.

Solvita  is designed to readily enable practical, on-site compost testing. Chemistry skills are not necessary to conduct an accurate Solvita test.  Results are obtained in less than a day and provide both a useful guide to how far along compost is and a realistic interpretation of composting quality. Many composters worldwide employ Solvita to monitor and ensure compost quality in the course of the entire composting process to monitor the process and report end-product quality.