Vapour Pressure Deficit

Vapour Pressure Deficit

Vapour Pressure Deficit, or "VPD", is the difference (deficit) between the amount of moisture in the air and how much moisture the air can hold when it is saturated. Once air becomes saturated water will condense out to form clouds, dew or films of water over leaves. It is this last instance that makes VPD important for greenhouse regulation. If a film of water forms on a plant leaf it becomes far more susceptible to rot. On the other hand, as the VPD increases the plant needs to draw more water from its roots (and if it is a cutting, dry out and die). For this reason the ideal range for VPD in a greenhouse is from 0.45 kPa to 1.25 kPa, ideally sitting at around 0.85 kPA. As a general rule, most plants grow well at VPDs of between 0.8 to 0.95 kPa [ [http://www.hydro.co.nz/1_information/1_vpd/info_vpd.html Autogrow Systems Ltd. web site, humidity page, accessed October 13, 2006] ]

Computing VPD for plants in a greenhouse

To compute the VPD [ [http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/0804.html Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet, Greenhouse Condensation Control, accessed October 13, 2006] ] we need the ambient (greenhouse) air temperature, the relative humidity and if possible, the canopy air temperature. We must then compute the saturation pressure. Saturation pressure can be looked up in a psychrometric chart or derived from the Arrhenius equation, a way to compute it directly from temperature is

vp_{sat} = e^{A/T + B + CT + DT^2 + ET^3 + Fln T}kPa

where

A = -1.88x10^4 B = -13.1 C = -1.5x10^{-2}D = 8x10^{-7} E = -1.69x10^{-11} F = 6.456

"T" – Temperature of the air in K,"T"(K) = "T"(°C) + 273.15

We compute this pressure for both the ambient and canopy temperatures.

We then can compute the actual partial pressure of the water vapour in the air by multiplying by the relative humidity:

vp_{air} = vp_{sat}*relative humidity

and finally VPD using vp_{sat} - vp_{air} or vpcanopy sat - vp_{air}when the canopy temperature is known.

ee also

water vapor is closely related to this subject

References

External links

[http://www.autogrow.com/vpd_calc.php Autogrow Systems on-line VPD calculator]


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