Continuous ammonia emission measurements from a commercial beef feedyard in Texas

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1823-1831

  Rhoades, Marty B ^a   Parker, David B ^b   Cole, N Andy ^c   Todd, Richard W ^c   Caraway, Edward A ^a   Auvermann, Brent W ^d   Topliff, Donald R ^a   Schuster, Greta L ^e  

^a WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Agriculture Research Service   (United States)

^d Texas Agri Life Research   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Backward lagrangian stochastic model; Beef feedyard; CAFO; Chemiluminescence; Emissions; Windtrax

Indexed keywords

CAFO; EMISSIONS; FEEDYARD; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; WINDTRAX;

AMMONIA; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DAIRIES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEAD OXIDE; MEATS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SULFUR;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONALITY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

BOS;

EID: 78649518428     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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