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Abstract(s)
At the present there is a high pressure toward the improvement
of all production processes. Those improvements can target distinct
factors along the production chain. In particular, and due to recent tight
energy efficiency policies, those that involve energy efficiency. As can be
expected, agricultural processes are not immune to this tendency. Even
more when dealing with indoor productions. In this context, this work
presents an innovative system that aims to improve the energy efficiency
of a trees growing platform. This improvement in energy consumption
is accomplished by replacing an electric heating system by one based
on thermodynamic panels. The assessment of the heating fluid caudal
and its temperature was experimentally obtained by means of a custom
made scaled prototype whose actuators status are commanded by a
Fuzzy-based controller. The obtained results suggest that the change in
the heating paradigm will lead to overall savings that can easily reach
60% on the energy bill.
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Keywords
Energy efficiency Renewable energy Fuzzy controller
Citation
Coelho, J.P.; Gonçalves, José; Braz-César, M.T.; Dias, José (2016). A new plant growth system rig based on thermodynamic solar energy. In 12th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control. Guimarães
Publisher
Springer