Reza Keshavarz Afshar

Covering and Flaring Manure Storage Units as a Methane Mitigation Strategy for Small- to Midsize Dairy Operations in the United States

Abstract Covering manure storages and flaring the captured methane (cap-and-flare) offers a technically feasible mitigation pathway for small- and midsize dairies that has received limited attention relative to anaerobic digestion (AD). While AD systems are more economically feas...

Economic competitiveness of separated dairy manure solids as a phosphorus fertilizer substitute

Manure solid-liquid separation offers a potential pathway for redistributing nutrients from livestock-intensive, nutrient-surplus regions to cropland with fertilizer demand, but the competitiveness of separated manure products with synthetic phosphorus fertilizer depends on manur...