MIPS Project Challenge:
AHPharma also created a radiant, hot-water flooring system that improves the performance of birds, lowers emissions from the house, and minimizes the land disposal of poultry litter by creating alternative uses of the created manure. For another of the company’s MIPS projects, it planned to demonstrate the effectiveness of its radiant floor heating system in documented trials for improved bird performance, energy savings, and creating litter with characteristics suitable for uses (heating pellets, fuel, or feed supplements) that minimize land-use application.

Project Scope:
For the radiant floor MIPS project, researchers were slated to: determine the relationship of litter moisture and litter bacteria loads; improve the design of the system; lower litter moisture during production; decrease the volume of litter produced; and incorporate a geothermal system within the current system.