Renewable Energy Applications in Livestock Production
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 March 2020) | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editor
Interests: livestock barn ventilation; heating and cooling; agricultural air quality; renewable energy applications in livestock barns
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to publish your original research in this Special Issue that highlights the use of renewable energy in livestock production. Although this topic is also covered in other science and engineering journals, we seek to provide comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research on this important topic in a single issue. Consequently, we hope that this Special Issue will not only serve researchers (animal scientists, engineers, economists), but also manufacturers, policy makers, and commodity groups, leading to greater cooperation and application of renewable energy in livestock production.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Experimental evaluation of renewable energy in livestock production;
- Modeling of renewable energy system/s in livestock production;
- Economics of renewable energy system/s in livestock production;
- Renewable energy impacts on air quality (indoor or ambient), animal welfare, and/or performance.
Here, renewable energy is defined to broadly encompass on-farm applications of solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, wave/tidal, hydroelectric, and hydrogen energies. This Special Issue will not consider studies on materials that might be used to generate renewable energy. This Special Issue will publish original research (including case studies) and invited review papers. Review papers will only be accepted by invitation of the Guest Editor; interested researchers should submit an outline of the review paper (including justification) and a short CV to the Guest Editor.
Prof. Dr. Sanjay Shah
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- solar
- thermal
- heating
- cooling
- PV
- wind
- biomass
- heat storage
- phase change material
- geothermal
- animal welfare
- animal performance
- economics
- modeling
