Laminar Airflow
Providing superior chick quality by uniform environmental conditions on egg /chick level.
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Providing superior chick quality by uniform environmental conditions on egg /chick level.
The specially designed, perforated radiators create pressure differentials that distribute the air in a uniform flow of parallel air layers. The air speed is uniform throughout the egg mass – from top to bottom as well as from front to back. The airflow is precisely the same at every location within the machine.
How does it work?
Laminar airflow ensures that the optimal temperature that the MicroClimer technology produces is homogenously delivered to every single egg. Such precision control of the temperature of each individual embryo translates into chick quality that is not only outstanding, but also highly uniform.
Producing perfect quality day-old chicks starts with understanding the basic needs of the embryo in terms of four key parameters: Oxygen, CO2 removal, water removal, and embryo temperature control. Each of these parameters must be simultaneously controlled in order to deliver the environmental conditions necessary for optimal embryo development to each and every egg in the incubator.
The MicroClimer Controller gives you a complete overview and total control of the incubator environment. With a full-color, touch-screen interface and an easy-to-understand menu, it is extremely user-friendly for hatchery personnel. The main menu screen displays at a glance all the important incubation parameters for each individual section:
HatchTech’s in-house hatchery management consultants use the input from the HatchTech Research Department to develop standard incubation profiles. These profiles contain all the set points for each specific phase of the incubation process. Since all HatchTech MicroClimers are linked to the corporate head office in Holland, we are able to provide you with real-time guidance and software updates at any time.
Incubating each embryo at the optimal temperature is the most crucial factor to achieve good embryo development and superior chick quality. The MicroClimer makes it possible to achieve this in each individual section of the incubator.
How does it work?
The MicroClimer constantly controls the temperature in an extremely fine-tuned way. This ensures a perfect temperature for every single embryo in the setter and hatcher, and superior chick quality for our customers.
One of the first and most important steps in the incubation process is the pre-heating of eggs from storage temperature to the optimal incubation temperature.
With the Uniform Embryo Activator™, the complete pre-heating process conveniently takes place inside the incubator itself. The UEA™ gradually increases air temperature in incremental steps from the storage temperature to the ideal incubation temperature over a carefully fine-tuned time frame. The MicroClimer laminar airflow technology ensures that air is uniformly delivered to each and every egg.
The UEA™ ensures a uniform developmental startup of the embryo’s and a small hatching window at the end of the incubation cycle. What’s more, a gradual, controlled pre-heating process also results in lower embryonic mortality and higher hatchability results.
In gas-sealed incubation, moisture that is lost from the eggs is retained inside the incubator. This moisture has a naturally small droplet size that creates the excellent heat transfer environment that is necessary for uniform and optimal, early embryonic development. The construction and design of the MicroClimer Setters and Hatchers ensures perfect gas-sealed incubation.
How does it work?
Gas-sealed incubation and the uniform incubation conditions in the MicroClimer create the best possible heat-transfer conditions, and the proof is in the results: Eggs hatched under these conditions have a measurably higher overall hatch rate of 1%.
After the first phase of the incubation process, ventilation is necessary to provide the embryos with sufficient O2 and to remove CO2 and moisture. To achieve the best relative humidity during this phase, HatchTech has developed the U-Vaporator™, which automatically produces a remarkably fine vapor of water droplets just 1 micron in size.
How does it work?
The perfect humidity conditions combined with the uniform laminar airflow and optimum air temperature mean that each embryo in every position in the incubator stays at the ideal temperature in every stage of the incubation process. This perfect environment means that uniform – and optimal – chick quality is guaranteed.
During the incubation process, the needs of the embryos change. In the first stage, the embryo’s metabolism – and therefore O2 consumption and CO2 production – is low. No ventilation is necessary. Because of the gas-sealed environment, CO2 levels rise faster. This is beneficial to early embryonic development since high CO2 levels stimulate blood vessel development.
In MicroClimer Setters and Hatchers, the timing and amount of fresh air that enters the machine is determined by the levels that are set for relative humidity and CO2 concentration. When either of these levels rise above the maximum set point, the inlet and exhaust vents will gradually open and fresh air will enter the setter or hatcher.
During the final phase of incubation, the embryo requires the most O2 and is producing high levels of CO2. Ventilation is increased, which results in lower relative humidity levels. At this stage, laminar airflow, uniform cooling and high air velocity create the optimum late incubation environment, and provide the uniform cooling that embryos need.
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