Project Title: UTP – BAT (British American Tobacco) Uganda
Client: BAT Uganda
BAT has been operating in Uganda since the 1950s. The majority of tobacco farmers in the area harvests the leaves and transports them to factory to be air-cured and dried. HulleySIM, with the help of the University of Strathclyde’s Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU), analysed the air movement within a proposed tobacco factory in Uganda, to be constructed for BAT to assess whether the internal conditions would be suitable for the tobacco.
The main purpose of this simulation was to assess the air distribution patterns under the current ventilation strategy, undertaken for summer conditions, investigating;
- The anticipated poor air supply to the centre of the factory area,
- Temperatures within the occupied areas close to ambient temperatures
- Temperatures in areas with poor air supply are up to 15°C above ambient
