<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This review is devoted to methodology that can help to assess emission of gases from poultry housings and could be used to expand the knowledge base of researchers, policymakers and farmers to maintain sustainable environment conditions for farming systems. Concentration and emission of ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide in poultry barns are discussed in this paper. Surveys of ammonia and greenhouse gases mean concentrations and emission factors in different poultry systems are showed. This paper is also gives the findings in emission mitigation, especially to different manure handling practices, management schemes, housing and facility designs for broilers and laying hens. Finally this paper focused on investigating practical means to reduce air emissions from animal production facilities.</p></abstract>

This review is devoted to methodology that can help to assess emission of gases from poultry housings and could be used to expand the knowledge base of researchers, policymakers and farmers to maintain sustainable environment conditions for farming systems. Concentration and emission of ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide in poultry barns are discussed in this paper. Surveys of ammonia and greenhouse gases mean concentrations and emission factors in different poultry systems are showed. This paper is also gives the findings in emission mitigation, especially to different manure handling practices, management schemes, housing and facility designs for broilers and laying hens. Finally this paper focused on investigating practical means to reduce air emissions from animal production facilities.

Emission of Harmful Gases from Poultry Farms and Possibilities of Their Reduction

National Agricultural and Food Centre, Research Institute of Animal Production Nitra, Hlohovecká 2, 951 41 Lužianky, Slovak Republic;

University of South Bohemia in Èeské Budĕjovice, Faculty of Agriculture, Czech Republic

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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This review is devoted to methodology that can help to assess emission of gases from poultry housings and could be used to expand the knowledge base of...

Emission of Harmful Gases from Poultry Farms and Possibilities of Their Reduction

Online veröffentlicht: 01. März 2015

Seitenbereich: 89 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eko-2015-0010

Schlüsselwörter
poultry, emissions, ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, mitigation

© 2015 Jan Brouček and Bohuslav Čermák

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Emission of Harmful Gases from Poultry Farms and Possibilities of Their Reduction

Online veröffentlicht: 01. März 2015

Seitenbereich: 89 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eko-2015-0010

Schlüsselwörterpoultry, emissions, ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, mitigation

© 2015 Jan Brouček and Bohuslav Čermák

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
poultry, emissions, ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, mitigation