Modelling of ammonia emissions from naturally ventilated livestock buildings: Part 2, air change modelling

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 246-258

  Bjerg, Bjarne ^a   Liberati, Paolo ^b   Marucci, Alvaro ^c   Zhang, Guoqiang ^d   Banhazi, Thomas ^e   Bartzanas, Thomas ^f   Cascone, Giovanni ^g   Lee, In Bok ^h   Norton, Tomas ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f Institute of Technology and Management of Agricultural Ecosystems   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^h Seoul National University   (South Korea)

ⁱ HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA EMISSIONS; EXHAUST VENTILATION SYSTEM; HYBRID VENTILATION SYSTEM; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS; LUMPED PARAMETER METHOD; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELLING; NATURAL VENTILATION;

AGRICULTURE; AIR; ANIMALS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DAIRIES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

VENTILATION;

EID: 84885032665     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.01.010     Document Type: Review

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