‘Inno+ Air inside: Combining animal welfare and economically responsible business management.’
The Grefte family, owners of SunBro
The Grefte family, owners of SunBro
An air scrubber system is the ideal solution to reducing harmful emissions. Intensive livestock farming is legally obliged to descrease the emission of ammonia, odour and particulate matter in order to reduce the impact on the environment. Therefore, Inno+ has developed a system to tackle this.
The air scrubbers work rather simple, though effective:
For maximum removal of dust, odour and ammonia, it is necessary to continuously control the wash water quality. The two most important parameters that are controlled and regulated are the pH and the conductivity of the wash water. A constantly regulated pH is necessary to achieve optimum removal of ammonia and odour molecules. The conductivity control is necessary to control the desired maximum nitrogen content in the drain water.
Watch the video below to get a better understanding of how our air scrubber system works.
Inno+ has three different types of advanced air scrubbers available:
Next to our systems for use in pig or poultry stables, we also have air washers used for manure treatment. These prefabricated chemical air scrubbers are designed to be used after the Big Dutchman CompoLiner manure treatment system.
When connected to the CompoLiner, the air eventually enters the scrubber part from the bottom. After being intensely rinsed in the horizontal washing bed, the process water is dosed with acid and recirculated until it reaches a certain pollution level. At the end, clean water is added to the process water of the air scrubber.
All the measurements, valves and controls are fully automated for easy operation. The wastewater can be used as a liquid fertilizer as it contains ammonium sulphate. Download our the whitepaper for more details on the CompoLiner-Airscrubber.
Energy that is lost during the washing process can be recovered and reintroduced into the production process to provide the animals with an optimal climate environment. This means the animals experience more well-being and better health.
We combined the best airscrubbers with heat recovery for ‘Kuijpers Kip’, a poultry house located in The Netherlands. Watch the video below for more details.
Together with Big Dutchman, a biological air scrubber was provided to David Grone, a pig farmer located in Prat, in the region of central Brittany, France. The plan was to build a new building suitable for 3000 piglets. Big Dutchman was asked to provide the building with a complete farm ventilation system.
During the first phase of the project, air washers weren’t included in the building and local authorities weren’t pleased about this, because of the harmful emissions and smells that would hinder the environment and local neighbours. The Porcus air scrubber system was chosen to counter these negative effects. The system used for this project was made and tested at the Inno+ factory in the Netherlands and then shipped as a single unit for installation.
Pig Farmer David Grone was very pleased with the result, and stated: We are very pleased with our decision to invest in this type of system and would recommend it to anyone needing to install air scrubbing
The systems of Inno+ have several advantages that might be interesting for you.
The advanced air scrubbers are easy to maintain and control.
Reducing harmful emissions is still an important topic for livestock farmers. Because of this, we are continuously looking for the best suitable solution to tackle this problem. In the past 15 years, we have realized numerous projects for reducing harmful emissions in livestock houses, and with great success. However, the experience we obtained during these 15 years, as well as collaborating with several pig farmers, we have successfully developed two brand new air scrubber systems.
These new systems are biological and chemical air scrubbers that reduce harmful emissions more effective than ever before. For example, our new chemical system can reduce ammonia by 90%.
The real-time data recording system can be continuously monitored from a central location by our technical team to ensure the optimum performance that was agreed upon. This allows our customers to respond to changes in their business and to repair any problems that arise, so that they can achieve their emission reduction targets continuously.
Are you interested in our air scrubber systems and would you like to receive more information on our other smart farming solutions? Please contact us here. We are happy to help you.
Porcus - Airscrubbers for pigs
Improved ammonia, odour, and dust reduction. Bigger scrubber (60%).
Standard
Improved ammonia, uses more acid (20%).
Pollo - Airscrubbers for poultry
Pollo – L (layers)
Only available as chemical scrubber.
Pollo – M/B (Broilers)
DLG-certified chemical airscrubber for Broilers (DLG-Prüfbericht 6260)
Only available as chemical scrubber.
Specific to Pollo
General for dust
Other
Minimum surface calculations based on the following
Eg. At an exhaust air volume flow of, for example, 300.000 m3/h we have the following results:
Skids
A skid is termed as a ‚‘engineered frame for equipment‘, in this case the technology that drive the air washer.
Module
A Module is a complete prefab air scrubber in a plastic housing
Due to air capacities it is recommended to use built-in for poultry instead of modules, due to practicalities on sizing.
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