Biotrickling filter for the treatment of exhaust air from a pig rearing building: Ammonia removal performance and its fluctuations

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-252

  Melse, Roland W ^a   Ploegaert, Johan P M ^a   Ogink, Nico W M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA LOADING; AMMONIA LOADING RATES; AMMONIA MEASUREMENTS; AMMONIA REMOVAL; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ANIMAL HOUSE; BIOTRICKLING FILTERS; CONTACT TIME; DISSOLVED AMMONIA; EXHAUST AIR; FULL SCALE; LOADING CONDITION; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN BALANCE; NITROUS OXIDE; OUTLET AIR; OUTLET CONCENTRATION; REGULATORY PERFORMANCE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; REMOVAL RATE; SEASONAL PATTERNS; WATER BUFFERS; WATER TEMPERATURES;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOFILTERS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

LOADING;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84868017669     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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