Mexico, Chapingo Autonomous
University
Natural Ventilation for
Mexican Greenhouses: Empirical Modeling Using Tracer Gases Technique
Pedro Romero, MS Student, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
A component of the US-Mexico TIES program for international
collaboration and research program between UA and Chapingo University
includes exchange of faculty and support of graduate students. Dr
Irineo Lopez is the advisor from Chapingo, and he has mentored natural
ventilation studies during the summer 2004 with Pedro Romero. Tracer
gas techniques were used to obtain empirical models in order to relate
ventilation rates –air volume that is being exchanged in a period- with
respect to measurable variables, such as air temperature, wind speed, wind
direction, solar radiation, among others.
Cooperators: Dr.
Irineo Lopez Cruz, Chapingo University, Dr. Chris Choi, ABE, and Dr. Gene
Giacomelli
In progress 2004 –
2005 |
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