{"id":21280,"date":"2018-06-19T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:32:50","slug":"geothermal-systems-for-heating-in-pork-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/geothermal-systems-for-heating-in-pork-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Geothermal Systems for Heating in Pork Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Bernardo Predicala, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication: <\/strong>Centred on Swine, <em>Winter 2016 Volume 22 Number 2<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have displayed the cost of energy to a swine operation to range from $7 to $12 of every pig sold. This value has been increasing over the years and now represents the third largest cost in producing pigs. Of that energy, a survey of 28 swine farms in Saskatchewan identified that 80% of it was utilized for heating and ventilation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conventional heating systems utilize gas, oil or electricity whereas a geothermal system provides energy by using ground heat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An in barn evaluation of the geothermal system demonstrated approximately a 36% reduction in energy consumption for heating and ventilation in a room with a geothermal system installed during the heating system. This reduction was in comparison to a room that only had a conventional forced-convection heater<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Geothermal-Systems-for-Heating-in-Pork-Production.pdf\">Geothermal Systems for Heating in Pork Production<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Bernardo Predicala, Ph.D. Publication: Centred on Swine, Winter 2016 Volume 22 Number 2 Summary: Previous studies have displayed the cost of energy to a swine operation to range from $7 to $12 of every pig sold. This value has been increasing over the years and now represents the third largest cost in producing pigs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","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\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21314,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/21314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}