Environmental Control

Code: ERU10438M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Rural Engineering

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Through this master's course the student will acquire skills to solve problems and actuate in the climatisation of farm buildings

Sustainable Development Goals

2. Erradicar a fome - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

The main goals are to prepare the students with the necessary competences in order to analyse and select environmental control systems of the buildings used in the agro-food sector, such as in the production sector (greenhouses or animal buildings) or in the conservation and transformation sector (storing facilities, cold chambers and drying facilities).

1. Introduction. Importance of the environmental control in rural buildings
2. Energy and mass balances. General and simplified equations; Project conditions; Heat transfer processes.
3. Psychometrics. State equations; Temperature and air humidity; psychometric map; Environmental control processes.
4. Thermal insulation. Heat transfer through construction materials; Thermal resistance and global heat transfer coefficient.
5. Condensation. Surface condensation and control methods.
7. Ventilation. Objectives; methods to calculate ventilation rates; Natural and forced ventilation.
8. Acclimatization. Heating systems. Cooling systems; Resolution of problems to determine heating/cooling needs for greenhouses, cold facilities and animal buildings.