Agricultural Waste Management Laboratory
The Iowa State University Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Agricultural Waste Management (AWM) Laboratory is situated in the National Swine Research and Information Center (NSRIC) in room 3252. An Environmental Monitoring Instrumentation Lab is located on the first floor of NSRIC in room 315. There is also a lab located in the Livestock Environment Building and Research Center (LEBRC) six miles from Ames off of Highway 30.
Agricultural Waste Management Lab Personnel:
Dr. Robert Burns, | Lara Moody, Extension Program Specialist | |
Dr. Hong Li, Research Associate | Carl Pederson, Research Associate | |
Ross Muhlbauer, | Dan Andersen, Graduate Research Assistant | |
Brad Bond, Graduate Research Assistant | Randy Swestka, Graduate Research Assistant | |
Laura Pepple, Graduate Research Assistant | Steve Sell, Graduate Research Assistant | |
John Stinn, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Jacob Baker, Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
Gayle Bishop, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Joe Freund, Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
Jenae Baumert, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Amy Sroka, Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
Sarah Johnson, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Matt Muldoon, Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
Disha Labhasetwar, Undergraduate Research Assistant | J. Wyatt Hall, | |
Todor Mitev, International | ||
Recent Past Employees: | ||
Isha Khanijo, Graduate Research Assistant | Timothy Shepherd, Graduate Research Assistant | |
John Lester, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Ember Muhlbauer, Program Assistant | |
Jenny English, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Chris Xin, High School Research Assistant | |
Neil Heithoff, Undergraduate Research Assistant | Emil Mitev, International | |
Lauren Engfer | Jay Duncan, Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
Chantal Roberts | Robert Spajic, International Research Associate | |
Wei Wu-Haan, Graduate Research Assistant |
Current team projects include:
1. Non-Basin Technologies for Open Feedlot Runoff: Demonstration, Implementation, and Modeling.
2. Biogas Methane Potential from Animal Waste and Ethanol Byproducts.
3. Hydrogen Sulfide Spatial distribution and Worker Exposure in Swine Houses.
Past team projects include:
1. Concentration and Extraction of Phosphorus from Swine Manure Slurries (as Struvite).
2. Development and Testing of Hydrogen Sulfide Detection System for use in Swine Housing.
3. Quantification of Gaseous and particulate Emissions from Mechanically Ventilated Poultry Housing.
AWM Lab
Jenae is preparing samples for Total Phosphorous Analysis
Amy running Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen Analysis
Ross and Randy working in the Data Processing Area on their Hydrogen Sulfied detection project
The Agricultural Waste Management (AWM) Lab's mission is to develop and identify manure management systems that are environmentally sustainable, economically feasible and socially acceptable. The AWM Lab houses a data processing area (75 ft2) which has two computer work stations for use by project personnel and a project research area (650 ft2) has 175 ft2 of surface area for work-space and a six ft fume hood. The research area provides space to perform wet chemistry lab work, to prototype and operate bench scale treatment systems, and to simulate various waste management system components.
Equipment:
- Gas Chromatograph 5890 Series II HP
- Gas Chromatograph GC-14A Shimauzu
- Supreme Air Hood (Lab Fume Hood)
- Rapidstill II Lanconco
- Isotemp Muffle Furnace
- Isotemp Oven
- Spectrophotometer Genesys 6 Thermo Electron
- Spectronic 20 Bausch and Lomb
- Grating Spectrophotometer Beckman DB-G
- Model 23012 Rapid Digestor
- Model 23080 Rapid Digestor
Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, 100 Davidson Hall , Ames, Iowa 50011, 515-294-1434, abe
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