Energy usage in swine barns and potential energy conservation measures were evaluated in
\nthis study. A survey of 28 swine facilities showed large variability in energy used per hog
\nproduced between barns. Energy audits conducted in four selected barns identified the various
\nareas, equipment, and practices in the barn that contributed significantly to the total overall
\nenergy consumption, thereby aiding in prioritizing areas for intervention. Using computer
\nsimulation, various potential strategies that can be applied in a barn in terms of lighting, creep
\nand space heating, fans, feed motor, and heat recovery were examined. Simulation results for a
\ntypical 600-sow operation showed that potential annual savings up to 47,391 kWh electricity (79
\nkWh\/sow) or 88,404 m3 natural gas (147 m3\/sow) can be attained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Energy usage in swine barns and potential energy conservation measures were evaluated in this study. A survey of 28 swine facilities showed large variability in energy used per hog produced between barns. Energy audits conducted in four selected barns identified the various areas, equipment, and practices in the barn that contributed significantly to the total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931],"tags":[8882,1060,3550,6113,2375,231,9265,6701,6702,27278,383,1882,497,491,9465,6904,46,6703,316,20007,269,6704,333,6705,6706,5381,414,9464,10859,22808,16262,289,17743,104,51,431,35,25059,288,1954,20911,18011,24994,2446],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prairie-swine-centre","tag-al","tag-barn","tag-barn-design","tag-barns","tag-conservation","tag-cover","tag-creep","tag-creep-area","tag-economic-advantage","tag-energy","tag-energy-consumption","tag-energy-usage","tag-energy-use","tag-equipment","tag-evaluating-energy-usage-and-various-energy-conservation","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feed-moor","tag-gas","tag-gh","tag-heat","tag-heat-recovery-system","tag-heating","tag-heating-fans","tag-less","tag-light","tag-lighting","tag-message-from-the-president","tag-nat","tag-pic","tag-pl","tag-practices","tag-prod","tag-sow","tag-space","tag-survey","tag-swine","tag-swine-barn-survey","tag-swine-barns","tag-swine-facilities","tag-t","tag-tot","tag-usa","tag-variability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}