RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.5424/sjar/2010083-1253
A1 Valiño López, Vanesa
A1 Perdigones Borderias, Alicia
A1 García Fernández, José Luis
A1 Luna Sánchez, Luis
T1 Experimental evaluation of a radiant heated floor coupled to an air-to-water heat pump for the cooling of greenhouses
JF Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research
YR 2010
FD 2010
VO 8
IS 3
SP 580
OP 591
K1 air temperature difference; cooling strategies; heat pump performance modelling; power consumption
AB This paper describes the experimental cooling of a greenhouse in Madrid (Spain) using a radiant heated floor (RHF) coupled to an air-water heat pump (HP). Two cooling scenarios were studied over the summers of 2005 and 2006: natural ventilation + a shading screen (control system), and natural ventilation + a shading screen + an RHF (concrete) coupled to an air-water heat pump (i.e., in cooling mode; nominal power, 34.1 W m–2). Using the difference between the outside and inside air temperatures, it was concluded that at 0.5 m above the floor the RHF system reduced the temperature by 1.1°C in 2005 and 0.8°C in 2006. Both cooling scenarios were compared with other cooling technologies: the use of the natural ventilation + shading + RHF gave a smaller air temperature difference than fogging at a height equal to or lower than 0.5 m. A model based on the heat pump performance curves was constructed to predict its power consumption and good predictions of the variation over the day were obtained. The power consumption of the heat pump was 104.8 Wh m–2 d–1 (from 13:00 to 18:00 h) under our test conditions in Madrid. The RHF-HP system may only be appropriate for cooling greenhouses under certain circumstances, e.g., when growing high value crops or when cost is not a limiting factor, as its initial investment cost is about € 38 m–2.
PB INIA
SN 1695-971X
LK https://oa.upm.es/8728/
UL http://revistas.inia.es/index.php/sjar/article/view/1253