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Optimisation of water quality parameters to model recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) performance

17 Sep 2017
Offered by: University of Tasmania
Scholarship funds: PhD program

Scholarship description

Recirculation Aquaculture Systems (RAS) use recirculation technology to maintain water quality through physical, chemical and biological treatment in order to reduce water exchange and address issues such as biosecurity, production costs and nearness to market. RAS are increasingly important in aquaculture including Atlantic salmon farming ( ; Carter 2015). RAS can be used across the Atlantic salmon life-cycle: eggs and young animals are maintained in freshwater and then transferred to seawater. In Tasmania, the salmon farming industry uses and continues to develop more sophisticated freshwater hatcheries based, however the salmon are then on-grown in the sea. However, the University of Tasmania is building an experimental facility (EAF) that will employ RAS technology for research on large salmon in seawater. IMAS also runs several freshwater RAS.
RAS employ various types of software and models and the aim of this PhD is to understand the characteristics of input and output data required for optimisation software. The optimisation software is provided by PanLogica, a world leading supplier of optimisation software to the global aquaculture industry, and the student will work with PanLogica and IMAS on both freshwater and seawater RAS production optimisation.

Scholarship location:Australia

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Source: UTAS.EDU.AU

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