Vegetative environmental buffers and exhaust fan deflectors for reducing downwind odor and VOCS from tunnel-ventilated swine barns

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-240

  Parker, D B ^a   Malone, G W ^b   Walter, W D ^c  

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

^b Malone Poultry Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Manure; Odor; Olfactometer; Shelterbelt; Swine; Tree buffer; VEB; Volatile organic compounds; Windbreak

Indexed keywords

OLFACTOMETER; SHELTERBELT; SWINE; TREE BUFFER; VEB; WINDBREAK;

AGRICULTURE; FARM BUILDINGS; FORESTRY; MANURES; ODOR CONTROL; ODORS; PHENOLS; SORPTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WIND TUNNELS;

VEGETATION;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FIELD SURVEY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRASS; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ODOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; PIG; PLUME; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHELTERBELT; SHRUB; TUNNEL; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 84856720785     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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