Determination of the mass transfer coefficient of ammonia emissions from dairy open lots using a scale model
2020
Ding, Luyu | Li, Qifeng | Wang, Chaoyuan | Zhang, Guoqiang | Jiang, Ruixiang | Yu, Ligen | Zheng, Wengang | Gao, Ronghua | Ma, Weihong | Zhang, Shirui | Shi, Zhengxiang
Open lots are commonly used to provide outdoor free ranging spaces for dairy cows in many countries such as China and the USA. For this type of operation, the manure characteristics, floor types and environmental conditions, which potentially affect gaseous emissions from manure, are quite different from those of indoor systems. The estimation of NH₃ emissions from manure depends greatly on the mass transfer coefficient, an empirical constant determined by environmental factors in the process-based emission model. Using a scale model, this study measured ammonia emissions to be expected from dairy open lots, based on different combinations of different surface air velocities (0.6–2.2 m s⁻¹), air temperatures (15–35 °C) and relative humidity values (20–60%). Based on the two-film theory, the overall mass transfer coefficient (KOL) of NH₃ was calculated from directly measured NH₃ emission rates and the ammonium nitrogen content, temperature, and pH of manure. As an indicator of the driving potential of gaseous volatilisation, the vapour pressure deficit (VPD) was estimated using air temperature and relative humidity. As the VPD and surface air velocity increased, the measured NH₃ emission rates ranged from 1.35 to 19.18 mg kg⁻¹ h⁻¹, and the estimated KOL of NH₃ from dairy open lots was within the range of 1.48 × 10⁻⁶ – 7.86 × 10⁻⁶ m s⁻¹. Using the air velocity and VPD as variables, a non-linear empirical model was developed to estimate the KOL for NH₃ emissions from manure on dairy open lots (R² = 0.69). The normalised mean error of the model was approximately 19.4%.
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