Agenda

USDA-IFAFS-APEACB Project Meeting 1 on January 16-18, 2002

Aerial Pollutant Emissions from Animal Confinement Buildings

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
http://engineering.purdue.edu/~odor/IFAFS/

Wednesday, January 16

The meeting will begin at an egg laying facility owned by Rose Acres. For those of you who need to drive directly to the farm, driving instructions are available on the meeting web site. To visit the farm, you must not have been around other birds or poultry facilities for 48 hours prior to this visit. Please plan accordingly.

3:00 Van departs Purdue Memorial Union Hotel to visit field site.

4:00 Tour Purdue’s emission monitoring site at White County Egg Farm, Monon, IN.

see http://65.116.164.195/EPAmain.htm for real-time data display.

5:45 Leave farm and drive to West Lafayette.

6:30 Arrive at hotel

7:30 Dinner – Bruno's Swiss Inn, in the Levee Plaza; 205 E State St, (765) 743-1688. (Just behind Long John Silver’s/Wendy’s; near the Wabash Landing 9 movie theater.)

Project Overviews (15 min), Computer AV will be available.

4-state EPA/IN/Purdue (emission measuring) Dr. Al Heber

6-state IFAFS (livestock emissions), Dr. Larry Jacobson

3-state IFAFS (poultry emissions) Dr. Rich Gates

2-state EPA/PSF (swine emissions) Dr. Al Heber

Thursday, January 17 (Room 113 ABE Building) Ethernet connections available for laptops for those who need to check email.

One of main objectives of this meeting is to review and edit a draft Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) to be circulated at the meeting. According to the proposal, it is Purdue’s responsibility to lead the development and execution of the QAPP. Most of the QAPP will not be site specific. However, there will be significant parts that are site specific. Thus, it would be very helpful if each participating university has chosen its site and gathered pertinent site-specific details that affect the QAPP. It will result in a more fruitful meeting. The following agenda will be a mix of presentations, demonstrations and discussion. There will be time for discussion within each segment.

8:00 Welcome, Dr. Vince Bralts, Head, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

8:05 Gas concentration measurements

Air sampling from multiple points

Bypass flows, sampling period duration, location, condensation, etc.

Chemiluminescence method (ammonia)

Calibration, hardware, software, response time issues, NO and NO2.

Pulsed fluorescence method (hydrogen sulfide)

Photoacoustic infrared method (carbon dioxide)

10:00 Break

10:30 Airflow, psychrometrics, pressure, and wind measurements

Results of dirty and clean fan tests.

Lab demonstration of FANS analyzer.

“Sweet spot” vane anemometers for continuous monitoring.

Fan operation monitoring using digital inputs.

Site-specific options.

12:00 Lunch –Sagamore Room, Purdue Memorial Union. The Wabash Room has been reserved for our group. Please note that this is a dutch-treat buffet lunch.

1:15 Dust measurement with TEOM technology

Demonstration of TEOM

Inspection of dirty PM10 inlet (from layer house)

Presentation of data collected at laying house

Challenging technical issues

3:00 Break

3:30 DAQ Program

Lab demonstration of hardware and software

Data observation, presentation, and transfer using the internet

5:30 Adjourn

6:00 Dinner (on your own - If several of the group members would like to dine together, Dr. Heber suggests Khana Kazana, an Indian buffet restaurant in the Chauncey Hill area.)

Friday, January 18 (ABE Room 113)

8:00 Odor sampling and evaluations

9:00 Data format, validation, analysis and reporting

10:00 Break

10:30 Review and feedback to distributed draft QAPP

11:30 Wrap up

12:00 Adjourn