دورية أكاديمية
Effects of a Sprinkler and Cool Cell Combined System on Cooling Water Usage, Litter Moisture, and Indoor Environment of Broiler Houses
| العنوان: | Effects of a Sprinkler and Cool Cell Combined System on Cooling Water Usage, Litter Moisture, and Indoor Environment of Broiler Houses |
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| المؤلفون: | Jonathan Moon, Jan DuBien, Reshma Ramachandran, Yi Liang, Sami Dridi, Tom Tabler |
| المصدر: | Animals, Vol 13, Iss 18, p 2939 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Veterinary medicine LCC:Zoology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | broiler cooling, climate change, sprinkler, sustainability, water efficiency, Veterinary medicine, SF600-1100, Zoology, QL1-991 |
| الوصف: | Climate change is a serious challenge to food production around the world. Sustainability and water efficiency are critical to a poultry industry faced with global production concerns including increased demands for high-quality, affordable animal protein and greater environmental pressures resulting from rising global temperatures, flock heat stress, and limits on water availability. To address these concerns, a commercial sprinkler system used in combination with a cool cell system was evaluated against a cool cell system alone for two summer flocks of heavy broilers at Mississippi State University to determine effects of sprinkler technology on cooling water usage, litter moisture, and in-house environments. Environmental data were calculated and recorded throughout the flocks. The combination house exhibited a 2.2 °C (4 °F) increase in daily maximum temperature, lower coincident relative humidity, and a 64% (62,039 L/flock) reduction in average cooling water usage over the cool cell-only house. Litter moisture for the combination house tended to be numerically lower but showed no significant difference at several time points between and across flocks. A combined sprinkler/cool cell system reduced cooling water use by 64% over two flocks compared to a cool cell alone system and decreased in-house relative humidity levels. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2076-2615 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/18/2939; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-2615 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ani13182939 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/889fc52e584742f5b749dab881888108 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.889fc52e584742f5b749dab881888108 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20762615 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/ani13182939 |