{"id":6348,"date":"2010-08-16T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/engineering"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T22:10:54","slug":"engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/research\/engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Engineering<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The goals of the Engineering Research Program at the\u00a0Prairie Swine Centre are to:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Improve the barn&#8217;s physical environment and reduce overall production cost by developing economical and practical techniques and by modifying the barn operational systems to enhance efficiencies and ensure the health and safety of barn workers and animals. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Reduce the environmental footprint of pork production through breakthroughs in the science of odour and gas emissions, nutrient and water management, and utility and resource efficiency.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernardo_Presentation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15219\" alt=\"Bernardo_Presentation\" src=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernardo_Presentation-1024x553.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernardo_Presentation-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernardo_Presentation-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Current Projects in the Engineering Research Program:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Comparative evaluation of infra-red and forced air convection heating systems for hog barns<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Engineering and management measures to reduce environmental emissions and improve the work environment in swine barns<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Novel application of nanoparticles for controlling odor and gaseous emissions from swine barns<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Improving energy efficiency in swine barns to reduce cost of production <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Benchmarking water use and developing strategies for water conservation in swine production<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6525\" title=\"pressure washing\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-006-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering The goals of the Engineering Research Program at the\u00a0Prairie Swine Centre are to: Improve the barn&#8217;s physical environment and reduce overall production cost by developing economical and practical techniques and by modifying the barn operational systems to enhance efficiencies and ensure the health and safety of barn workers and animals. Reduce the environmental footprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15218,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348\/revisions\/15218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}