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  Course Description
Course Name : Environment Control in Livestock Structures I

Course Code : TM-597

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : Second Cycle

Year of Study : 1

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 6

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. YILMAZ YILDIZ

Learning Outcomes of the Course : To know the importances of environment control for livestock housing.
To know the moist air and properties of moist air
PTo know the pychrometric processes (Sensible heating and cooling, evaporative cooling, heating and humidifying, cooling and dehumidifying and adiabatic mixing of moist air).
To know the heat transfers by conduction (One-dimensional steady conduction through a single and composite slab, coaxial cylinder and concentric sphere),
To know the heat transfer by convection (Forced convection in laminer and turbulent flow past a flat plate and through a tube),
Free convection (Free convection on a horizontal and vertical plate).

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : OPTIONAL COURSES
OPTIONAL COURSES

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : Aim of this lecture, to teach the ventilating, heating and cooling technics applied at the livestock structures for environmental control.

Course Contents : Introduction (The importances of environment control for livestock housing), Moist air, properties of moist air (Dry-bulb temperature, Wet-bulb temperature, relative humidity, humidity ratio, dew point temperature, specific volüme, density, enthalpy) and measuring of these properties, Psychrometric processes (Sensible heating and cooling, evaporative cooling, heating and humidifying, cooling and dehumidifying and adiabatic mixing of moist air), Psychrometric charts, Heat transfer basics (Thermal conduction, thermal convection and thermal radiation), Conduction (One-dimensional steady conduction through a single and composite slab, coaxial cylinder and concentric sphere), Convection (Forced convection in laminer and turbulent flow past a flat plate and through a tube), Free convection (Free convection on a horizontal and vertical plate).

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 İntroduction, The importances of environmen control for livestock housing. Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
2 Moist air, properties of moist air (Dry-bulb temperature, Wet-bulb temperature, relative humidity, humidity ratio) and measuring of these properties. Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
3 Moist air, properties of moist air (Dew point temperature, specific volüme, density, enthalpy) and measuring of these properties. Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
4 Psychrometric processes (Sensible heating and cooling). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
5 Psychrometric processes (Evaporative cooling, heating and humidifying, cooling and dehumidifying). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
6 Psychrometric processes (Adiabatic mixing of moist air). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
7 Psychrometric charts. Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
8 Psychrometric processes using the psychrometric charts (Sensible heating and cooling, heating and humidifying, cooling and dehumidifying ). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
9 Psychrometric processes using the psychrometric charts (Evaporative cooling, adiyabatic mixing). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
10 Heat transfer basics (Thermal conduction, thermal convection and thermal radiation). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
11 Conduction (One-dimensional steady conduction through a single and composite slab, coaxial cylinder and concentric sphere). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
12 Midterm exam.
13 Convection (Forced convection in laminer and turbulent flow past a flat plate). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
14 Convection (Forced convection in laminer and turbulent flow through a tube). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
15 Free convection (Free convection on a horizontal and vertical plate). Reading cited references. Lecture in classroom.
16/17 Final exam.


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  YILDIZ, Y., KARACA, C. DAĞTEKİN, M., (2010). Hayvan Barınaklarında Çevre Denetimi (Havalandırma, Isıtma, ısıtma ve Aydınlatma). ISBN: 978-975-377-75-6, Hasad Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti. Ümraniye-34760-İSTANBUL
 Holman, J. P., 1992. Heat Transfer. 7th Edition, McGrawe-Hill Book Company, Printed in Singapore
Required Course Material(s)  TAMER, Ş.,(1990). Klima ve Havalandırma, Cilt I: Genişletilmiş 2. Baskı. METEKSAN A.Ş., Ankara.
 MUTAF, S., (1980). Buharlaşma İle Serinletmenin Kümes İçi Çevre Koşullarına Etkisi. E.Ü.Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları No:341, Bornova-İzmir.
 MUTAF, S., R. SÖNMEZ, (1984) Hayvan Barınaklarında İklimsel Çevre ve Denetimi. E.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları No: 438, Bornova-İzmir.
 Özışık, M. N., 1989. Heat Transfer A Basic Approach. 4th Edition, McGrawe-Hill Book Company, Printed in Singapore


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 50
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 3 50
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Bachelor´s degree enables graduates to expand and deepen their knowledge, access knowledge through scientific research, information, evaluation, interpretation, and application 3
2 To be able to enhance knowledge by using limited or incomplete data, and be able to put this knowledge to good use scientifically, ethically and responsibly. 0
3 To be able to transfer, orally or in written form, the findings and processes of their work to the related groups or other people systematically and clearly 2
4 To be able to come up with solutions to problems by working independently, put the solutions into actual use and make oral and written presentations 0
5 To be able to devise new strategic approaches in unanticipated complex situations and be able to think up solutions by taking reponsibility 3
6 To be able to assess the strategic performance of workgroups and contribute to them 2
7 To have computer software and hardware knowledge required by the profession and develop competence in information and communication technologies 0
8 To be qualified in data collection, interpretation and announcement phases in their fields in a scientific and ethical manner; to preserve, learn and check the data as required 0
9 To attain full oral and written competence, both in the mother tongue and in a foregin language, to help those working in and out of their field of speciality 0
10 To understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context and gain the ability to correctly interpret it 0
11 To conrtibute to the process of becoming an information society by making known social and cultural imrprovements in an academic and professional context 0
12 To be able to strategically take the lead in solving original and interdisciplinary problems 0
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 4 56
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 3 10 30
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 10 10
    Final Exam 1 10 10
Total Workload: 148
Total Workload / 25 (h): 5.92
ECTS Credit: 6