Modelling ammonia emission from swine slurry based on chemical and physical properties of the slurry

Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le Genie des biosystems au Canada

Volumn 51, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cortus, E L ^a,b   Lemay, S P ^c   Barber, E M ^a   Hill, G A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b PRAIRIE SWINE CENTRE INC   (Canada)

^c Research and Development Institute for the Agri environment Québec   (Canada)

^d South Dakota State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia emission; Mass transfer; Modelling; PH; Slurry; TAN

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA EMISSION; AMMONIA EMISSIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER; CRUDE PROTEINS; DATA SETS; GAS FILMS; HEADSPACES; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MODELLING; NEW MODEL; PH LEVELS; SLURRY PIT; SWINE SLURRY; TOTAL AMMONIACAL NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MASS TRANSFER; PH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TANNING;

SLURRIES;

EID: 77951826123     PISSN: 14929058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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