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Impact assessment of energy conservation strategies in swine barns through benchmarking and building simulation

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2008

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Masters

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Energy input is vital in every swine operation as it directly affects production performance and overall profitability. With the increasing trend in energy prices and feed costs, the swine industry needed to find ways to improve energy use efficiency in their operations in order to reduce overall cost of production. The goals of this study were to gather benchmark information on current energy usage in swine barns through survey and energy audit, and evaluate different energy-saving measures through building simulation. The results of the survey showed that the average electricity and gas cost was $6.50/head for farrow-to-finish barns, $1.70/head for grow-finish barns, $0.59/head for nursery and $1.95/head for farrow-wean barns. Significant difference (P

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energy consumption, swine barn, energy audit, computer simulation

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Master of Science (M.Sc.)

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Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering

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Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering

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