Design and Performance Analysis of a Seasonal Ice Storage System for Cooling Chinese Solar Greenhouses

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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To identify an energy-saving solution to cool Chinese solar greenhouses during summer nights, we present a design for a seasonal ice storage system that uses a storage tank to store winter cold energy in water to serve as a source of cold air in the summer. The parameters of the seasonal ice storage system were designed based on the cooling demand of the greenhouse in the summer. To optimize the cooling effect in the heat exchange system, a computational fluid dynamics model was developed to select the size of the heat transfer pipes, and a validation experiment was conducted in the greenhouse. The impacts of the insulation material and size of the heat exchange pipes on system performance have been discussed. The field experiment was conducted in Shenyang to validate the performance of the ice storage system. The best cooling effect in cultivation area was 6.7°C, and the average temperature difference between the beginning and end of the run in the greenhouse was 4.4°C. This system increased heat exchange performance while lowering air temperature in the greenhouse.
Date of issued
Creator Xuan GU Rui WANG Tianlai LI Hui XU
Subject computational fluid dynamics optimize temperature winter
Publisher Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Received Date 2020-10-01
Accepted Date 2021-04-28
Available Online
Volume 56
Issue 2
spage 147
epage 161
DOI 10.6090/jarq.56.147
Language eng

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