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Research article1999Peer reviewed

Air concentrations of volatile organic acids in confined animal buildings-determination with ion chromatography

Mårtensson, Lennart; Mårtensson, Lennart ; Magnusson, Madeleine; Shen, Yin; Jönsson, Jan Åke

Abstract

In this study, the air concentration of organic acids were determined in samples collected from eight different animal buildings differing in building design, housing system and animals species. The samples were enriched with membrane enrichment technique and analyzed with ion-exclusion chromatography. Lactic, formic, acetic, propionic, iso-butyric, butyric, iso-valeric and valeric acids were found. The number of individual acids varied among the buildings. The highest total amounts of acids was found in an insulated swine building in which all of the analyzed acids were detected. The found concentrations of organic acids can not be considered as harmful to human health. However, together with other air pollutants organic acids creates an environment that is unhealthy.

Keywords

Air quality; Livestock buildings; Organic acid; Ammonia; Carbon dioxide; Working environment; Sweden

Published in

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
1999, Volume: 75, number: 1-2, pages: 101-108

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
    Analytical Chemistry

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(99)00072-9

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/121862