Effects of airflow on odorants' emissions in a model pig house - A laboratory study using Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 410-411, Issue , 2011, Pages 161-171

  Saha, Chayan Kumer ^a   Feilberg, Anders ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Adamsen, Anders Peter S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Emission; Hydrogen sulfide; Temporal variation; Ventilation rate; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

CARBON CHAINS; EMISSION ABATEMENT; HENRY'S CONSTANTS; HIGH SOLUBILITY; LABORATORY STUDIES; MODEL SPACES; ODOR COMPOUNDS; PIG BUILDING; PIG HOUSE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROTON-TRANSFER REACTION MASS SPECTROMETRIES; REAL TIME; SLURRY PIT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRIMETHYLAMINE; VENTILATION RATE;

AMMONIA; HOUSES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; KETONES; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENOLS; PROTONS; SULFUR DETERMINATION; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

2 BUTANONE; 4 ETHYLPHENOL; ACETIC ACID; ACETONE; AMMONIA; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; FATTY ACID; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDOLE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; KETONE; METHANETHIOL; PARA CRESOL; PHENOL; PROPIONIC ACID; TRIMETHYLAMINE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIRFLOW; AMMONIA; BUILDING; CARBON EMISSION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ODOR; SLURRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIRFLOW; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CALIBRATION; EVAPORATION; FLOW RATE; HUMIDITY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC WASTE; PH; PIG HOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSFER REACTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON TRANSPORT; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MANURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ODORS; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 80655127651     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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