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Manure Management and Processing

 

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Value-added Manure Processing:
  • NEW!Utilization of processed hog manure separation products in Manitoba. Funded through MPC, MRAC, MHPEC, MITACS learn more, downloadable pdf summary
    - Project leader Mario Tenuta; Graduate students Oscar Molina (PhD. candidate) and Jolene Rutter (MSc. candidate)
  • Assessing the efficacy of chemically-enhanced solid-liquid separation for management of phosphorus in hog manure. MLMMI funded
    - Project leader Francis Zvomuya
  • Reclaiming phosphorus from liquid pig manure: Precipitation of P as struvite (MgNH4PO4) from stored and anaerobically digested manure and implications for use as fertilizer
    - Project leader Nazim Cicek; Graduate student Joe Ackerman (PhD. candidate)
  • Modeling anaerobic digestion of pig manure at 50° latitude in Western Canada: Options for improving the energy balance of methane production in cold climates.
    - Project leader Nazim Cicek

    • learn more about this research program

    Completed Projects:
  • Anaerobically digested solid beef feedlot manure: N2O emissions and nutrient (N, P) availability and release
    Published in Animal Feed Science and Technology 166–167 492– 502
    -Project leader Fracis Zvomuya (W. Chiyoka)
  • Kinetics of struvite precipitation
    Published in Water Science and Technology: WST 61(12) 3228–3234
    - Project leader Nazim Cicek (E. M. Jordaan)
  • Anaerobic digestion: Capacity of co-digestion with glycerol (a biodiesel by-product) to boost methane production from liquid pig manure
    Published in Transactions of the ASABE. 54(2): 723-727
    - Project leader Nazim Cicek (O. Wohlgemut)
  • Evaluation of the opportunity for manure treatment/processing technologies to achieve manure phosphorus balance. MLMMI funded Read the review (June 2010)
    - Project leader Nazim Cicek; Graduate student Joe Ackerman (PhD candidate)

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    Manure Storage:
  • Biofiltration for mitigating methane emission from covered hog manure storage: Preliminary phase of designing and testing a bioifiltration system for removing greenhouse gas emissions from covered hog manure storage
    - Project leader Qiang Zhang

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    Odour Mitigation:
  • Development of dispersion-based setback distance guidelines for Manitoba
    - Project leader Qiang Zhang
  • Characterization and monitoring of odour from various liquid manure separation products
    - Project leader Qiang Zhang
  • Comparison of odour emissions between Aerway and non-Aerway manure application methods at the La Broquerie Project Site learn more
    - Project leader Qiang Zhang
    • Completed Projects:
  • Modelling greenhouse gas emissions from stored manure: Evaluation of dietary manipulation effects learn outcomes, read the Final Report Manure Gas Research Facility (MANGAS-RF)
    - Project leaders Ermias Kebreab and Mario Tenuta
  • Design and testing of an enclosed biofilter Final report 2004
    - Project leader Danny Mann
  • Evaluation of a modular, interior-mounted biofilter Final report 2009
    - Project leader Danny Mann
  • Agricultural biofilters - Reflections on a decade of research Read the 2010 report
    - Project leader Danny Mann

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