Improvement of the greenhouse climate using a solar air heater with latent storage energy

Salwa Bouadila, Sami Kooli, Safa Skouri, Mariem Lazaar and Abdelhamid Farhat

Energy, 2014, vol. 64, issue C, 663-672

Abstract: The use of latent heat to greenhouse heating in winter days is an important issue. The storage of the excess heat in greenhouses for sunny days in cold season is necessary with the increasingly up of the fossil fuel cost.

Keywords: Latent heat storage; Packed bed solar air heater; Control climate greenhouse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.10.066

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