Acid-tolerant Nitrifying Bacteria to Generate Acidity Needed to Operate Ammonia Scrubbers
Channel: Livestock & Poultry Environ. Learning Community
Date: 2015-05-14

The full proceedings paper is at: www.extension.org/72846

Although acid scrubbers can capture ammonia in exhaust air from animal facilities, they are not cost-effective because the nitrogen captured has roughly the same value as the acid.  The objective of this work was to develop an NH3 scrubber that uses acid-tolerant nitrifying bacteria to generate the acid needed for scrubbing NH3.