Measuring ammonia emission rates from livestock buildings and manure stores - Part 1: Development and validation of external tracer ratio, internal tracer ratio and passive flux sampling methods

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3003-3015

  Scholtens, R ^a   Dore, C J ^b   Jones, B M R ^b   Lee, D S ^b,c   Phillips, V R ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Emission rate; Livestock; Sulphur hexafluoride; Tracer gas

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST ABATEMENT; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MANURES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SLURRIES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA EMISSION; EXTERNAL TRACER; ITR;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AMMONIA; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MANURE; TRACER;

ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CATTLE FARMING; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 2342527848     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.02.030     Document Type: Article

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