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The pork industry is getting lots of help from researchers around the nation who are looking for solutions to waste management issues. Compared to five years ago, we've come a long way. Here are a few examples of ongoing projects.
Tomasz Wiltowski, a chemical engineer at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, Ill., is developing an inexpensive catalytic reactor that could cut swine barn odors. He is focusing on para-cresol, a highly concentrated chemical compound found in swine buildings. Wiltowski plans to draw the building's air through catalytic converters that can speed up the process by which this compound combines with oxygen.
According to the researcher, it will be similar to the way catalytic converters work in cars.
"The end products...