Venturi in Aquaculture Engineering

Dissolved Oxygen (DO) is the single most important water parameter that makes shrimp or fish survive in the water and aquaculture production possible. Maintaining optimum DO levels in the pond water for high productions of shrimp or fish for maximum profitability in intensive aquaculture systems is just not possible without proper aeration to cope up with the necessary high feeding and stocking rates. The necessity of aeration in aquaculture systems is now accepted mostly by Industry. But there is still some controversy as to which is the most efficient method of aeration and circulation. We are going to introduce an efficient aeration which is combined with water current using a simple small device: Venturi. By aeration with venturi, we not only supply DO but also provide water current which is the same importance as aeration.