Design and evaluation of a solar-based trigeneration system for a nearly zero energy greenhouse in arid region

Mohsenipour, Mahmoud; Ebadollahi, Mohammad; Rostamzadeh, Hadi; Amidpour, Majid

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.119990

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“…Solar energy has a huge potential to generate electricity and requires safe, clean and consistent power (Mohsenipour et al, 2020). Solar energy comes into two forms for electricity generation, such as solar thermal system or solar photovoltaic (P.V.)…”

Section: Solarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach

Azam

Rafiq

Shafique

et al. 2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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This study examines the short-and long-run of the causal correlation between economic growth (G.R.) and renewable electricity generation sources for a panel of 25 developing nations over the period 1990-2017. To do so, second-generation cross-sectional dependence (C.D.) test Im, K.S., Pesaran and Augmented Dickey-Fuller panel unit root test, panel cointegration, autoregressive distributed lag in view of the pooled mean group estimation and panel heterogeneous Dumitrescu Hurlin (2012) causality methods are utilised. The main findings indicate that the positive and significant impact of renewable electricity generation on G.R. shows that renewable electricity generation sources stimulate G.R. in the long run for these selected countries. It is also demonstrated that there is bidirectional causality between renewable electricity generation and G.R. both in the short run and long run. Based on our findings, the feedback hypothesis is valid for developing countries.

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Section: Solarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach

Azam

Rafiq

Shafique

et al. 2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…The assumption that, among renewable energies, solar greenhouses seem to be the best technological strategy to implement a zero net energy solution depends on in-depth analysis of the specific environmental context in which it is located and on its design and building features. Site, orientation, geometries, glazing, shading, insulation, thermal storage, and artificial lighting represent the main elements of an efficient greenhouse [118], even in arid regions [119]. Other studies investigate the possibility to implement hybrid systems to realize a ZNE greenhouse; for example, the use of photovoltaic panels and ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems [120].…”

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Model Predictive Control of Smart Greenhouses as the Path towards Near Zero Energy Consumption

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Modern agriculture represents an economic sector that can mainly benefit from technology innovation according to the principles suggested by Industry 4.0 for smart farming systems. Greenhouse industry is significantly becoming more and more technological and automatized to improve the quality and efficiency of crop production. Smart greenhouses are equipped with forefront IoT- and ICT-based monitoring and control systems. New remote sensors, devices, networking communication, and control strategies can make available real-time information about crop health, soil, temperature, humidity, and other indoor parameters. Energy efficiency plays a key role in this context, as a fundamental path towards sustainability of the production. This paper is a review of the precision and sustainable agriculture approaches focusing on the current advance technological solution to monitor, track, and control greenhouse systems to enhance production in a more sustainable way. Thus, we compared and analyzed traditional versus model predictive control methods with the aim to enhance indoor microclimate condition management under an energy-saving approach. We also reviewed applications of sustainable approaches to reach nearly zero energy consumption, while achieving nearly zero water and pesticide use.

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“…TRNSYS software was adopted for the transient simulation of the indoor greenhouse climate in several research [27]. This software showed high performance in this field [28]- [33]. Due to the dynamic nature of plant transpiration, modelling the thermal behaviour of a greenhouse using building software is more complicated.…”

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Effect of Greenhouse Design Parameters on the Heating and Cooling Requirement of Greenhouses in Moroccan Climatic Conditions

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Protected crop production is rapidly expanding in the Mediterranean Basin, and particularly in Morocco. Increased local and overseas demand for these products led to a rapid development in greenhouse usage encouraged by government policies. The aim of this study is to investigate key design parameters that affect the thermal behavior and the heating/cooling energy need of a greenhouse situated in Agadir (Morocco). The parameters include the cladding material characteristics, shape, orientation, and air change rate. The greenhouse is modeled by a developed thermal model using TRNSYS software. The model considers the presence of the plants inside the greenhouse by adding the heat and humidity gain into the heat and water balance of the greenhouse using an evapotranspiration sub-model. The effect of evapotranspiration on the greenhouse thermal behavior was also examined in this study. A validation of the current TRNSYS simulation and evapotranspiration model was made using previous studies from the literature, and the comparison showed fair agreement. The relative error of the annually heating demand obtained by this model is 1.66%, and the evapotranspiration model used in this study shows relative deviation less than 6.5%. The results of this study indicate that the East-West greenhouse orientation is the optimum orientation as it can reduce the annual cost of air-conditioning of the greenhouse by 9.28% compared to North-South orientation. Quonset shape is the optimum greenhouse shape in Morocco as it can save 14.44% of annual cost of airconditioning instead of the Even-span shape.

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Design and evaluation of a solar-based trigeneration system for a nearly zero energy greenhouse in arid region

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach

Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach

Model Predictive Control of Smart Greenhouses as the Path towards Near Zero Energy Consumption

Effect of Greenhouse Design Parameters on the Heating and Cooling Requirement of Greenhouses in Moroccan Climatic Conditions

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