Modeling ammonia emissions from broiler litter at laboratory scale

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1683-1694

  Liu, Z ^a   Wang, L ^a   Beasley, D B ^a   Shah, S B ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic flow through chamber; Emission model; Flux; Freundlich partition coefficient; Mass transfer coefficient; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC FLOWS; EMISSION MODEL; FREUNDLICH; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

AERODYNAMICS; AMMONIA; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUNNELS;

WIND TUNNELS;

AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; PARAMETERIZATION; PH; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 70449638099     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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