Environmental and Economic Assessment of a Greenhouse Waste Heat Exchange

R. Andrews and Joshua Pearce
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R. Andrews: Queen's University [Kingston, Canada]

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Abstract: As the economic costs of energy and the negative externalities associated with the combustion of fossil fuels threaten the economic viability of greenhouses in northern climates there is a renewed interest in the use of waste heat. This paper presents a technical and economic methodology to determine the viability of establishing waste heat greenhouses using the waste heat from industrial processes in northern climates. A case study is presented of an exchange between a tomato greenhouse and a flat glass manufacturing plant, which found the waste heat system is significantly more economic to operate than a purely natural gas system.

Keywords: industrial symbiosis; waste heat; exchange; greenhouse; industrial ecology; by-product exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09
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Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2011, 19 (13), pp.1446-1454. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.04.016⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.04.016

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