Diurnal and seasonal variations of odor and gas emissions from a naturally ventilated free-stall dairy barn on the Canadian prairies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study characterized the seasonal concentration (C) and emission (E) patterns of odor, ammonia (NH3), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) over the course of a whole year and their diurnal patterns in cold, warm, and mild seasons for a naturally ventilated free-stall dairy barn. It was found that seasonal odor and NH3 and H2S emissions varied greatly: from 17.2 to 84.4 odor units (OU) sec−1 AU−1 (AU: animal unit, 500 kg of animal body mass), from 0.27 to 0.92 mg sec−1 AU−1, and from 3 to 105 μg sec−1 AU−1, respectively. The overall concentrations of odor and NH3 were higher in the winter, whereas the emissions were higher in the mild and warm seasons. Diurnal variation was most significant for odor emission (OE) in the mild season when the ratio of maximum (279.2 OU sec−1 AU−1) to minimum value (60.5 OU sec−1 AU−1) was up to 4.6. The indoor air quality was also evaluated by considering not only the health effect of individual gases, but also the additive effect of NH3 and H2S. Results showed that the indoor air quality was poorest in cold seasons when NH3 C could exceed the threshold limit set out in occupational health regulation, and in fact could worsen due to the additive effect of the two gases. Further, it was suggested NH3 was a good indicator for predicting odor concentration (OC) or OE. The impact of climatic parameters on odor and gases were also examined, and it was found ventilation rate (VR) negatively affected OC and NH3 C, but positively impacted OE and NH3 E. Using 70% of the total data, a multilinear model for OE was developed as a function of VR and indoor relative humidity and was validated to be acceptable using the rest of the data.Implications: Diurnal and seasonal variations of odor, NH3, and H2S concentrations and emissions were monitored for a naturally ventilated dairy barn in a cold region. The emission factors were calculated and indoor air quality was evaluated. The overall odor and NH3 concentrations were higher in winter, whereas emissions were higher in the mild and warm seasons. Diurnal variation was most significant for odor emission in the mild season, when the ratio of maximum to minimum value was up to 4.6. The results can be used to estimate odor and gas emissions from other dairy barns in Canada and other cold regions.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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