Measuring gas emissions from livestock buildings: A review on uncertainty analysis and error sources

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-231

  Calvet, Salvador ^a   Gates, Richard S ^b   Zhang, GuoQiang ^c   Estellés, Fernando ^a   Ogink, Nico W M ^d   Pedersen, Søren ^c   Berckmans, Daniel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING VENTILATIONS; EMISSION MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MECHANICAL VENTILATION; NATURALLY VENTILATED BUILDINGS; NO REFERENCE METHODS; VENTILATED BUILDINGS; VENTILATION MEASUREMENTS;

AGRICULTURE; BUILDINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; RANDOM ERRORS; RESEARCH; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

VENTILATION;

EID: 84885028602     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.11.004     Document Type: Review

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