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Evaluation of fly ash-surfaced pens as a control for fugitive dust emissions from beef cattle feedyards
| dc.creator | Kantor, Theodore Lee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:41:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:41:07Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1995 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-K366 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Increased emphasis on environmental quality has focused attention on the environmental impacts of agricultural operations. For years, beef cattle feedyards have been under pressure to manage and reduce fugitive dust emissions. Because of this increased attention, the need for a new method of dust emission control is being realized. The evaluation of a possible dust control method was undertaken by collecting particulate samples around feedyard pens surfaced with different treatments. One set of pens was surfaced with fly ash from a coal-fired power plant, while the other set, surfaced with caliche, served as a control. Five sampling trips were completed for a total of 492 TSP samples and 288 PM10 samples. Results indicate that statistically significant differences in particulate levels were not consistently obtained on either side of the study area. Similarly, comparison of concentrations upwind and downwind of the two different treatments showed no consistent pattern to indicate that surfacing pens with ash will create a reduction in the dust emissions from the surface of the pens. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | agricultural engineering. | en |
| dc.subject | Major agricultural engineering. | en |
| dc.title | Evaluation of fly ash-surfaced pens as a control for fugitive dust emissions from beef cattle feedyards | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | agricultural engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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