Biofiltration for mitigation of methane emission from animal husbandry

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5460-5468

  Melse, Roland W ^a   Van Der Werf, Arjan W ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Bioclear Environmental Biotechnology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOFILTERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXHAUST GASES; EXTRAPOLATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MANURES; METHANE; OXIDATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

ANIMAL HOUSES; BIOFILTRATION; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; MANURE STORAGE;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; WATER;

BIOFILTRATION; GAS SEPARATION; METHANE EMISSION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AIRFLOW; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXHAUST GAS; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMIDITY; INOCULATION; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOCYSTIS; METHYLOMONAS METHANICA; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; METHANE; ODORS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEWAGE;

EMISSION; EXHAUST GAS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MANURE; METHANE; STORAGE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 22344438713     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048048q     Document Type: Article

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