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Validation methods for the ammonia removal of an air scrubber on a poultry house using the acid use and the process water nitrogen balance.
Antonius Victor van Wagenberg, P.W.G. Groot Koerkamp
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The solution to the nitrogen crisis: the ECO Air Care captures up to 90% of ammonia from the house air.
This low-emission barn system starts working the moment fresh outside air reaches the unit, by conditioning this air before it enters the poultry house. Without external energy soures, the ECO Air Care system cools or heats the air entering the unit. The unit thus creates a comfortable, constant indoor climate, optimal for both animals and humas. View the animation.
Scratching and dust bathing in litter is natural chicken behaviour. This releases ammonia (is mainly nitrogen) and particulate matter into the air inside the poultry house. The ECO Air Care system removes these substances through ventilation, ensuring optimum air quality; better for the chickens' health and welfare. The outgoing air from the poultry house is "washed" in the ECO Air Care system to minimise environmental pollution, including nitrogen. The acidified washing water contains dissolved nitrogen. We call this drain water. Through the ECO Air Care unit, this is discharged to a storage silo.
The ECO Air Care system ensures a continuous supply and removal of air to keep the quality of the poultry house climate as optimal and constant as possible. Of course, it is important to ensure that the outgoing air is as clean as possible. That is why it is measured in three independent ways, 24/7. Through these measurements, it proofs conclusively that the nitrogen captured is dissolved in the drain water and that up to 90% cleaner air is released into nature.
Sensors measure how much nitrogen comes out of the air from the poultry house.
Sensores measure in the stored drain water how much dissolved nitrogen is not emitted into nature.
Sensors measure how much acid has been used in the ECO Air Care system. Again, it measures how much nitrogen is not emitted into nature.
The ECO Air Care, the low-emission barn system, has been installed at Ben Beerens' Greenfarm (Hoogeloon, NL). Besides conditioning incoming air, this unit also cleans the outgoing barn air. This captures emissions of ammonia, fine dust and odour. Part of the nitrogen from the poultry house is also captured, and is made available as an artificial fertiliser replacement. In this way, we contribute to circular agriculture.
Validation methods for the ammonia removal of an air scrubber on a poultry house using the acid use and the process water nitrogen balance.
Antonius Victor van Wagenberg, P.W.G. Groot Koerkamp
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