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Filtering by: Subject Broilers (Poultry) -- Housing -- Heating and ventilation Advisor Hellickson, Martin L.

Microprocessor control and numerical model for broiler house summer ventilation utilizing a rockbed heat sink

Creator:

Chen, Chaur-Fong

Abstract:

Summer brooding often requires some form of air modification in addition to maximizing ventilation rate to prevent animal heat stress and possible death due to hyperthermia. A rockbed thermal storage module was designed and constructed to provide sensibly cooled air for a broiler space under summer brooding conditions. A mathematical...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

Control and Numerical Model for Broiler House Summer Ventilation Utilizing a Rockbed Heat Sink