Ammonia emissions affected by airflow in a model pig house: Effects of ventilation rate, floor slat opening, and headspace height in a manure storage pit

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2113-2122

  Ye, Zhangying ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^b,c   Li, Baoming ^a   Strøm, Jan Søberg ^b   Dahl, Preben Jensen ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ammonia emission; Headspace; Slatted floor; Slurry pit; Ventilation rate

Indexed keywords

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; AMMONIA EMISSION; AMMONIA TRANSPORTS; DRY MATTERS; EMISSION RATES; FLOOR OPENINGS; HEADSPACE; INTEGRAL PARTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW VENTILATIONS; MANURE STORAGES; PIG BUILDINGS; PIG HOUSES; ROOM AIRS; SIDE-WALLS; SLATTED FLOOR; STATISTICAL MODELS; TOTAL AMMONIA NITROGENS; VENTILATION RATE;

AIR; AMMONIA; DAIRIES; FLOORS; FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS; HOUSES; MANURES;

VENTILATION;

AIRFLOW; AMMONIA; EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MANURE; MODELING; PIG; VENTILATION;

SUIDAE;

EID: 58149242964     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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