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http://dx.doi.org/10.5307/JBE.2003.28.3.225

Environmental Analysis in the Windowless Laying Hen Houses  

Hongwei Xin (National Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute)
Yi Liang (Dept. of the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University in USA)
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Journal of Biosystems Engineering / v.28, no.3, 2003 , pp. 225-230 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to analyze the environmental variation of layer house at Iowa State in the USA. The analyzed seasons for this study were summer and winter. Analyzing factors are inside temperature and relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, ammonia concentration and emission. All factors were collected every 30 second from each house with portable monitoring units. In this study, two types of laying hen houses were monitored at the same season. One was a manure belt house, the other was a high-rise house. In order to estimate the ventilation rates of the laying hen houses, carbon dioxide concentration balance was used in this study. Ammonia concentrations and emission rates of the manure belt house are much lower than those of the high rise house. Daily mean ammonia concentrations in the manure belt house and high-rise house ranged from 3 to 7 ppm and 5 to 34 ppm, respectively. The daily ammonia emission rates averaged 0.68g/h$\cdot$500kg and 0.73g/h$\cdot$500kg for the manure belt house and 0.93g/h$\cdot$500kg and 2.89g/h$\cdot$500kg for the high-rise house in summertime and wintertime, respectively. Summertime is associated with much higher ammonia emission rates than wintertime because of much higher ventilation rates and ambient air temperature, even though the concentrations may be lower.
Keywords
Environmental analysis; Ammonia concentration; Ventilation rates; Laying hen house;
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