Top-down model for dynamic simulation of cold-storage plants

Impact of Building and Refrigeration System’s Parameters on Energy Consumption in the Potato Cold Storage

“…Therefore, the energy performance of the existing cold storage facility needs to be assessed and discussed properly because the poor performance of the storage facilities not only increase the energy consumption but also responsible for low quality of refrigerated product (Gottschalk, K., Nagy, L., 2003;Nourian, F., Ramaswamy, H.S., 2003). In recent past, few researchers have emphasized to improve the energy efficiency and operation in the potato storages in different parts of the world including India (Chourasia & Goswami, 2009;Hasse, H., Becker, M., Grossmann, K., Maurer, 1996;Marchant, A.N., Lidstone, P.H. and Davies, 1994;USAID, 2009;Xie, J., Qu, X.H., Shi ,J.Y.…”

“…They also suggested some possible solutions to improve the energy performance of the storage. Hasse et al (Hasse, H., Becker, M., Grossmann, K., Maurer, 1996) accessed the potential for energy savings by improving automation and control in the refrigeration system. Devres and Bishop (Devres, Y. O. and Bishop, 1995) studied the energy consumption, using a theoretical model, in a real potato cold storage in the UK climate.…”

A continuous/discrete simulation of controlled atmosphere (CA) cool storage systems: validation using industrial CA cool storage

“…Models that describe the complete cool/cold storage systems have been proposed by some investigators [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Often, validation of such complete refrigeration system simulation models is restrained by the limitation of obtaining experimental data for all the model variables and space and time restrictions in obtaining and presenting the results.…”