Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Applications in Livestock Barns

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to publish your original research in this Special Issue, which highlights the use of renewable energy and energy conservation in livestock production. While this topic is also covered in other science and engineering journals, we seek to provide comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research on this important topic in a single issue. Consequently, we hope that this Special Issue will be useful for not only researchers (animal scientists, engineers, economists) but also manufacturers, policy makers, and commodity groups, leading to greater cooperation and application of renewable energy and energy conservation in livestock production.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Experimental evaluation of renewable energy and energy conservation in livestock production
• Modeling of renewable energy/energy conservation system/s in livestock production
• Economics of renewable energy/energy conservation system/s in livestock production
• Renewable energy impacts on air quality (indoor or ambient), animal welfare, and/or performance

Here, renewable energy is defined to broadly encompass on-farm applications of solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, wave/tidal, hydroelectric, and hydrogen energies. The scope of this Special Issue does not include studies on materials that might be used to generate renewable energy. This Special Issue will publish original research (including case studies) and invited review papers. Review papers will only be accepted by invitation of the Guest Editor; interested researchers should submit an outline of the review paper (including justification) and a short CV to the Guest Editor.

Prof. Dr. Sanjay Shah
Guest Editor

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