which type of construction and design required for SLAUGHTERHOUSE EFFICIENCY ?
What comes to mind when thinking about slaughterhouses? Meat hooks, blood, knives, animals and people engaged in a deadly spectacle and carnivore feast. Noise and the unmistakable sweet noxious smell of blood mixed with effluvia, disinfectants, and lots of steam. In the slaughterhouse flesh becomes meat in a mechanized and literally bone-chilling production. They may be vile, repulsive, and hideous, but slaughterhouses also hold great fascination. Before there were theme parks and movie theaters, people flocked to slaughterhouses in order to quench their thirst for thrills derived from horror. When the World Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893, more visitors went to the stockyards than to any of the Exposition’s own attractions. In turn-of-the-century Berlin, visits to the slaughterhouse were so popular that special tour books were printed to guide visitors through the facility. Even in the 1950s, one still could take a tour through the Chicago stockyards five times a day.
These reports tell you about constructing energy saving slaughterhouses: * Utility Usage In Small Slaughter Plants,” ARS-S-174, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March 1978. * “Slaughterhouse and Slaughterhouse Design and Construction,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, P.J. Eriksen,1978. The first report describes a study of ten small slaughter plants (less than 125 head per week). According to the study, water usage at these plants could be reduced by 3%-32% and energy usage by 2%-21% if the slaughter rooms were operated at capacity. This suggests that, with proper attention to initial design, slaughterhouses can become more resource efficient. Sources: http://energyexperts.org/EnergySolutionsDatabase/ResourceDetail.aspx?
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- which type of construction and design required for SLAUGHTERHOUSE EFFICIENCY ?
