• Login
    View Item 
    •   SMARTech Home
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   SMARTech Home
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Mechanistic modeling of an aquaponic controlled-environment agriculture system: nutrient and water dynamics, harvest productivity, and waste treatment

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    DEBROTA-THESIS-2017.pdf (2.492Mb)
    Date
    2017-12-11
    Author
    Debrota, Kathleen H.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Aquaponics, the symbiotic co-culturing of fish and vegetable crops, is a promising technology for both food production and waste mitigation. As part of an urban ecosystem, controlled-environment-agriculture (CEA) systems would serve as nutrient transformation hubs, generating food and removing nutrient pollutants from local organic waste and wastewater. A mechanistic model of the nutrient and water dynamics of this emerging system is proposed here, based on Monod kinetics and the International Water Association’s Activated Sludge Models (ASM). This model functions to dynamically predict the nutrient transformation and food production capacity of an aquaponics CEA, and allows the optimization of crop and fish species selection, planting and stocking densities, fish food composition, feeding rate, maximum harvest rates, and other important factors with important economic, policy, and design decision implications.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/1853/59308
    Collections
    • School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Theses and Dissertations [1646]
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations [22398]

    Browse

    All of SMARTechCommunities & CollectionsDatesAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypesThis CollectionDatesAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypes

    My SMARTech

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage StatisticsView Google Analytics Statistics
    • About
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
    • Emergency Information
    • Legal & Privacy Information
    • Accessibility
    • Accountability
    • Accreditation
    • Employment
    • Login
    Georgia Tech

    © Georgia Institute of Technology

    • About
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
    • Emergency Information
    • Legal & Privacy Information
    • Accessibility
    • Accountability
    • Accreditation
    • Employment
    • Login
    Georgia Tech

    © Georgia Institute of Technology