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In 1998, we participated in an experiment sponsored
by the National Pork Producers Council at a corporate hog
farm in Utah. Open-path FT-IR was one of many different
technologies used to simultaneously monitor the emissions
from this facility. |
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Under a Small Business Innovative Research Grant from
the United States Department of Agriculture, we collected
hundreds of hours of open-path FT-IR data at this smaller
farm in Kansas. The purpose of this project was to
evaluate the potential of open-path infrared methods (not
necessarily FT-IR) for monitoring odor from these
operations. |
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Open-path FT-IR data must usually be correlated with
micro-meteorological data to be interpreted in a
meaningful way. We typically datalog temperature, wind
speed and direction, relative humidity, and atmospheric
pressure. This particular photo also shows a rain gauge,
useful for telling you when to go back inside the
trailer. . . |
