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- Title
A CLOSED FLUX CHAMBER EXPERIMENT: TAPPING THE METHANE PRODUCING POTENTIAL OF EQUINE MANURE IN INDIAN CONDITION.
- Authors
Bala, P. A.; Kundu, S. S.; Rani, R. R.; Dedar, R. K.
- Abstract
The present project was undertaken to study the methane producing potential of horse manure under indigenous condition. For this, 60 days of feeding trial was conducted on six thoroughbred horses of average 450 kg weight and fed with gram-oats-wheat based ration with ad lib access to local grass and water. The faeces was collected and heaped in closed flux chamber in 10 and 20 kg treatment groups for collection of methane gas. The gas was collected from the air tight gasket fitted to the chamber and analyzed in GLC. The average methane produced from both the groups of manure heaps was high in the first week which reduced drastically in the second week, thereafter the average methane production reduced gradually till 7th week. The methane production in the experiment was at par with the IPCC (1997) default value of 2 tier of horse (10 gCH4/day), with 20 kg manure, while 10 kg manure produced lower average methane.
- Subjects
INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change; THOROUGHBRED horse; METHANE; FLUX (Energy)
- Publication
Veterinary Practitioner, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
0972-4036
- Publication type
Article