Developing faculty and student collaboration for design and control of ventilation in swine facilities

• Grant number: 18/50020-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agricultural Engineering - Rural Buildings and Ambience
• Agreement: University of Illinois
• Mobility Program: SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade
• Principal Investigator: Daniella Jorge de Moura
• Grantee: Daniella Jorge de Moura
• Principal researcher abroad: Richard Stephen Gates
• Institution abroad: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola (FEAGRI). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/13981-8 - COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) SIMULATION ON SWINE FACILITIES, AP.R

Abstract

Ventilation systems for animal production is a key factor for optimal animal productivity and labor health. Ventilation provide reduction of hazardous gases, particulate matter, odor, gaseous contaminants, and also provide uniformity af lemperature e humidity. Ventilation performance prediction, for design and evaluation, can optimize lhe air exchange for animal buildings and improve animal welfare, production and economic efficiency. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a powerful tool for ventilation performance prediction. This proposal aims to expand the collaboration of graduate students and professors of UNICAMP from the Department of Agricultural Engineering, and students and professors of lhe University of IlIinois Urbana-Champaign, through the development and validation of a CFD models, for swine facililies. (AU)