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The use of heat transfer coefficients in estimating sensible heat loss from the pig

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

L. E. Mount
L. E. Mount
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ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT
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Summary

Heat transfer coefficients are used to calculate convective and radiant heat losses from pigs of 4, 20 and 60 kg body weight at 20 and 30 °C environmental temperatures for different wind speeds. Comparisons with heat losses estimated from whole-animal calorimetry suggest that calculations with heat transfer coefficients can lead to useful approximate estimates of heat loss from the pig.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , December 1977 , pp. 271 - 279
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1977

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