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Murat Kacira is director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center and he is a professor in the Biosystems Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering in Cukurova University in Turkey and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering from The Ohio State University in USA. His research involves automation, environmental control, alternative energy integrated CEA systems and resource use optimization in controlled environment agriculture systems including greenhouses and vertical farming based plant factories with artificial lighting. He is a member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). He serves as Chair of the Division Precision Horticulture Engineering under ISHS.Show Less
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Courses
- BTEBiosystems Thermal Engineering
- AICEAApplied Instrumentation for Controlled Environment Agriculture
Grants
- ADVANCEA: Advancing Controlled Environment Agriculture Through Data-Driven Decision Making and Workforce Development
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$465.7K
Active - SRS RN: Transforming Rural-Urban Systems: Trajectories for Sustainability in the Intermountain West
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$557.0K
Active - Red Sea Farms and The University of Arizona Collaborative Research
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$168.1K
Active - Improving the Profitability and Sustainability of Indoor Leafy-Greens Production
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$276.9K
Active - NRT-INFEWS: Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$3.0M
Active - Hydroponic Lettuce Variety Trail
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$4.2K
- Evaluating Effects of Environment Conditions of an Indoor Aeroponics System for Crop Production
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$78.0K
- Microgravity Crop Production: Meeting the Challenges of Water/Nutrient Delivery, Volume Management, and Providing Diet Diversity for the International Space Station
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$224.8K
- Evaluating Effects of Carbon Nanoparticles on Crop Growth, Yield, Water use Efficiency with Hydroponically Grown Tomato Crop.
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$84.9K
- Building a Western Commercial Mushroom Research Network (WMRN)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$49.3K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Cascading Colorado River cuts bring focus to future of Arizona agriculture
2022
- Lunar Lasers and Cosmic Crops: NASA Funds UArizona Space Exploration Missions
2020
- Researchers to Study Viability of Vertically Farming Leafy Greens
2020
- The Future of Farming Takes Root
2018
- Alumni-Owned Company Awarded $100K Grant
2015
- Energy Department Awards UA-Led Team $8M to Research Algae Biofuel
2013
- UA Partners with Saudi Arabia to Create Sustainable Farming Systems
2012
- Mission Possible or Impossible? UA Space Systems Engineer Has the Answer
2011
- UA Engineers Build Lunar Vegetable Garden
2010
Publications (102)
Recent
- Predictive Modelling and Computer Vision Based Decision Support to Optimize Resource Use in Vertical Farms
2022
- Product temperature Model Predictive Controller design for a Greenhouse-type solar dryer
2022
- span style= font-size:12pt; Optimal Planting Density: Effects on Harvest Time, and Yield /span
2022
- span style= font-size:12pt; Evaluating the Performance of Flexible, Semi‐Transparent Large‐Area Organic Photovoltaic Arrays Deployed on a Greenhouse /span
2022
- Advances in modeling with CFD of greenhouse type solar dryers
2022
- span style= font-size:12pt; Analysis of climate uniformity in indoor plant factory system with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) /span
2022
- Energy partitioning and spatial variability of air temperature, VPD and radiation in a greenhouse tunnel shaded by semi-transparent organic PV modules
2021
- span style= font-size:12pt; Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems /span
2021
- Organic photovoltaic modules integrated inside and outside a polytunnel roof
2021
- Emerging opportunities for organic photovoltaics (OPV) applications to greenhouse systems: an inter-scalar review
2021
- Evaluating the performance of flexible, semi-transparent large-area organic photovoltaic arrays deployed on a greenhouse
2021
- span style= color:#33312d;font-size:13px; Recent developments in protected cultivation /span
2021
- Semi-Transparent Organic Photovoltaics Applied as Greenhouse Shade for Spring and Summer Tomato Production in Arid Climate
2021
- Proceedings of the III International Symposium on Innovation and New Technologies in Protected Cultivation
2020
- Microclimate and crop performance in a tunnel greenhouse shaded by organic photovoltaic modules--Comparison with conventional shaded and unshaded tunnels
2020
- CFD-Model simulation of the microclimate parameters within the boundary layer of leaves in a greenhouse
2020
- Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS)
2020
- Design and implementation of a low-cost sensor network to monitor environmental and agronomic variables in a plant factory
2020
- Special Issue of eJHS - VertFarm
2020
- Enhancing Resource Use Efficiency in Plant Factory
2020
- Comparison of organic photovoltaics installed inside and outside a greenhouse and the effect on output and lifetime.
2020
- Design and implementation of a low cost microcontroller in controlled environment agriculture
2020
- Integrating organic photovoltaics (OPVs) into greenhouses: Performance of OPVs and their effect on greenhouse microclimate and crop
2020
- Agricultural plastics secure CEA ubiquitous applications in 21st century
2019
- Outdoor behaviour of organic photovoltaics on a greenhouse roof
2019
- Comparison of energy use efficiency of greenhouse and indoor plant factory system
2019
- Design and implementation of low a cost microcontroller in controlled environment agriculture
2019
- Testing organic photovoltaic modules for application as greenhouse cover or shading elements
2019
- Modelling the impact of air discharges caused by natural ventilation in a poultry house
2019
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research and application in Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2018
- Assessment using CFD of the wind direction on the air discharges caused by natural ventilation of a poultry house
2018
- Development and analysis of dynamical mathematical models of greenhouse climate: a review
2017
- Autonomous monitoring and control of microalgae production system
2017
- Crop Production and Energy Generation in a Greenhouse Integrated with Semi-transparent Organic Photovoltaics film
2017
- Autonomous and timely detection of suboptimal microalgae growth
2017
- Analysis of Environmental Uniformity in a Plant Factory Using CFD Analysis
2017
- Investigating the impact of the wind direction on the air exchange rates and gas discharge in a naturally ventilated poultry house using CFD
2016
- Controlled Environment Agriculture for Effective Plant Production Systems in a Semiarid Greenhouse
2016
- Use resources wisely: waste management and organic liquid fertilizer use in greenhouse production system.
2016
- Crop reflectance monitoring as a tool for water stress detection in greenhouses: A review
2016
- Computational modelling of thermal and humidity gradients for a naturally ventilated poultry house
2016
- Multi-Wavelength Based Optical Density Sensor for Autonomous Monitoring of Microalgae
2015
- Use resources wisely: Waste Management and Organic Liquid Fertilizer Use in Greenhouse Production System
2015
- Assessment of gas dispersion inside and outside of a poultry house by means of a 3D CFD model
2015
- Greenhouse technology for cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions
2015
- Design and implementation of a computer vision-guided greenhouse crop diagnostics system
2015
- A CFD Study on Improving Air Flow Uniformity in Indoor Plant Factory System
2015
- Multi-wavelength based optical density sensor for autonomous monitoring of microalgae sensors
2015
- System dynamics of a photovoltaic integrated greenhouse
2014
- The use of user define functions in CFD simulations for greenhouse environment.
2014
- Automated machine vision guided plant monitoring system for greenhouse crop diagnostics
2014
- Multi-wavelength laser diodes based real time optical sensor for microalgae production application
2014
- Comparative performance of a greenhouse cooling strategy with natural ventilation and fogging under different outside climates
2014
- Poly-Culture Food Production Mass Balances Prediction in a Semi-Closed Lunar Greenhouse Prototype (LGH)
2014
- Design and Implementation of a Computer Vision Guided Greenhouse Crop Diagnostics System
2014
- Decision support system enabled lunar greenhouse system monitoring, control and management
2014
- Modelling Heat and Mass Transfer of a Broiler House Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
2014
- Effects of natural ventilation rate on temperature and relative humidity in a naturally ventilated greenhouse with high pressure fogging system
2014
- CFD modeling of microclimate in the leaf boundary layer, ecological niche of pests
2014
- Plant production, energy balance and monitoring-control-telepresence in a recirculating hydroponic vegetable crop production system: prototype lunar greenhouse
2014
- Predicting sensible and latent heat generation with CFD in animal housing for dairy cattle
2014
- Exposure of greenhouse workers to pesticide
2014
- Implementation of a greenhouse cooling strategy with natural ventilation and variable fogging rates
2013
- Analysis of microclimate uniformity in a naturally vented greenhouse with a high-pressure fogging system
2013
- Analysis of climate uniformity in a naturally ventilated greenhouse equipped with high pressure fogging system using computational fluid dynamics
2013
- Neural Network Predictive Control in a Naturally Ventilated and Fog Cooled Greenhouse
2012
- System Dynamics and Performance Factors of a Lunar Greenhouse Prototype Bioregenerative Life Support System
2012
- Simulated performance of a greenhouse cooling control strategy with natural ventilation and fog cooling
2012
- Effect of end-of-day far-red light from a movable LED fixture on squash rootstock hypocotyl elongation
2012
- Bio-regenerative Life Support System Development for Lunar/Mars Habitats
2012
- A comparison of Nannochloropsis salina growth performance in two outdoor pond designs: conventional raceways versus the ARID pond with superior temperature management
2012
- Description, Operation and Production of the South Pole Food Growth Chamber (SPFGC)
2012
- The past, present and future of CFD for agro-environmental applications
2012
- Wind tunnel measurement of aerodynamic properties of a tomato canopy
2012
- Computational fluid dynamics applications to improve crop production systems
2012
- Modified energy cascade model adapted for a multicrop lunar greenhouse prototype
2012
- Simulation of Fixed and Variable Pressure Fogging in Naturally Ventilated Greenhouse, Water and Energy Savings and Stability of Climate
2012
- The algae raceway integrated design for optimal temperature managemen
2012
- Comparison of three evapotranspiration models for a greenhouse cooling strategy with natural ventilation and variable high pressure fogging
2012
- Analysis of climate uniformity in a naturally vented greenhouse equipped with high pressure fogging system using CFD
2012
- Determination of porosity parameters for tomato canopy: An experimental study in a wind tunnel
2012
- Design and validation of robust controllers for fog and ventilation in mechanically ventilated greenhouses
2011
- Robust climate control of a greenhouse equipped with variable-speed fans and a variable-pressure fogging system
2011
- Validation of CFD simulations for three dimensional temperature distributions of a naturally ventilated multispan greenhouse obtained by wind tunnel measurements
2011
- Bio-regenerative Life Support Systems for Space Surface Applications
2011
- Morphological and textural plant feature detection using machine vision for intelligent plant health, growth and quality monitoring
2011
- A Node and Network Level Self-Recovering Distributed Wireless Sensor Architecture for Real-Time Crop Monitoring in Greenhouses
2011
- Assessment of the applicability of EU biomass technologies in Turkey
2009
- Strategy development and determination of barriers for thermal energy and electricity generation from agricultural biomass in Turkey
2009
- The effects of different irrigation regimes on cucumber (Cucumbis sativus L.) yield and yield characteristics under open field conditions
2005
- Optimization of vent configuration by evaluating greenhouse and plant canopy ventilation rates under wind-induced ventilation
2004
- Effects of side vents and span numbers on wind-induced natural ventilation of a gothic multi-span greenhouse
2004
- The effects of different drip irrigation regimes on watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.)] yield and yield components under semi-arid climatic conditions
2004
- Determining optimum tilt angles and orientations of photovoltaic panels in Sanliurfa, Turkey
2004
- Machine vision extracted plant movement for early detection of plant water stress
2002
- Establishing crop water stress index (CWSI) threshold values for early, non-contact detection of plant water stress
2002
- Design and development of an automated and non-contact sensing system for continuous monitoring of plant health and growth
2001
- Plant Water Stress Detection Using Machine Vision Extracted Plant Movement
2000
- Establishing crop water stress index (CWSI) threshold values for early and non-contact detection of plant water stress
2000
- Modeling naturally ventilated greenhouse designs for mediterranean climates
1999
- A CFD evaluation of naturally ventilated, multi-span, sawtooth greenhouses
1998
- Fluid dynamic evaluation of naturally ventilated gutter-connected greenhouses
1997