POULTRY BMPS

Odor complaints from residential and commercial areas concerning poultry houses are increasing as more people move from urban centers to rural areas near poultry facilities. Several new technologies and methods of alleviating airborne pollutants that cause dust and odor emissions from poultry houses do exist, but very little documentation of pollutant load reductions for these technologies is available for producers wishing to make sound purchasing decisions... In the Evaluation of Electrostatic Particle Ionization and BioCurtain Technologies to Reduce Dust, Odor and other Pollutants from Broiler Houses project, two technologies will be tested for their ability to reduce emissions of odor-causing ammonia and particulate matter. The first technology is Electrostatic Particle Ionization (EPI), which uses an array of stainless steel electrodes that generate an electric field capable of negatively charging the air particles within the poultry house. The particles are then attracted to..

Primary location: College Station United States