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Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slatted dairy barn floors cleaned by robotic scrapers

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  • Alessandro Chiumenti

    (Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy)

  • Francesco da Borso

    (Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy)

  • Andrea Pezzuolo

    (Department of Agroforesty and Landscape, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy)

  • Luigi Sartori

    (Department of Agroforesty and Landscape, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy)

  • Roberto Chiumenti

    (Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy)

Abstract

The design of animal housing and manure management systems are key factors in livestock farming. Frequent removal methods, in fact, allow for the reduction of gasses produced from fermentations of the organic matter contained in manure, that affect animal welfare and farmer health and are emitted from animal housings into the atmosphere as a consequence of ventilation. The present study aims to evaluate the performance of a Robotic Scraper (RS) operating on the floors in a full-scale, operative free-stall dairy barn. The research is focused on the evaluation of gaseous emissions from the two types of floors (concrete and rubber mat coated), and with and without RS operation. The floors with rubber coating demonstrated higher emission rates of ammonia (NH3), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4) compared to the uncovered concrete floors, both before and after RS operations. The operation of RS, furthermore, determined significant reduction of greenhouse gasses (GHG) but did not have relevant effect in terms of NH3 emission, which reduced only of 1.4% from concrete floors, but increase of 12.7% from rubber coated floors.

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  • Alessandro Chiumenti & Francesco da Borso & Andrea Pezzuolo & Luigi Sartori & Roberto Chiumenti, 2018. "Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slatted dairy barn floors cleaned by robotic scrapers," Research in Agricultural Engineering, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 64(1), pages 26-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlrae:v:64:y:2018:i:1:id:33-2017-rae
    DOI: 10.17221/33/2017-RAE
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