{"id":16615,"date":"2014-05-13T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:54:55","slug":"controlling-hydrogen-sulfide-emissions-from-swine-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/controlling-hydrogen-sulfide-emissions-from-swine-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling hydrogen sulfide emissions from swine operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High concentrations of H<sub>2<\/sub>S gas are a human and animal health hazard, and can increase the rate of corrosion in barn facilities. Metabolic inhibitors can decrease\u00a0H<sub>2<\/sub>S concentration, but they have not yet been tested in an open system, like a barn. This study isolated manure bacteria capable of metabolizing\u00a0H<sub>2<\/sub>S, and then conducted semi-pilot and room-scale evaluation. Two compounds, molybdate and nitrate, were found to reduce\u00a0H<sub>2<\/sub>S concentration. Nitrate is short acting, but molybdate can act for up to 6 months. Applying both 24-48 hours before activities that agitate manure is recommended. The study found application was financially feasible &#8211; with costs under 1% of total costs for a growth cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High concentrations of H2S gas are a human and animal health hazard, and can increase the rate of corrosion in barn facilities. Metabolic inhibitors can decrease\u00a0H2S concentration, but they have not yet been tested in an open system, like a barn. This study isolated manure bacteria capable of metabolizing\u00a0H2S, and then conducted semi-pilot and room-scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18634,9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-filtration-pork-insight-articles","category-environment","category-pork-insight-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16617,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}