Research Paper on Design and Development of Agricultural Polyhouse Cooler for Temperature Control During Summer

Authors

  • Omkar Hasbe U.G Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
  • Sayali Vadagave U.G Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
  • Adhiraj Ghatge U.G Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
  • Manasi Shetty U.G Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
  • Omkar Patil U.G Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT’s college of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

Keywords:

polyhouse, cooler, misting, greenhouse, summer, temperature

Abstract

During the summer season or during hot climates, the plant in the polyhouse or greenhouse needs the controlled temperatures for their optimum growth. If the temperature exceeds the required temperature, it starts damaging the newly springs of buds of plants affecting their productivity. There’s not only the temperature that should be controlled. Polyhouse plants are also affected by the relative humidity. And managing both at the same time is not an easy task. Relative humidity I the moisture content present in the air. To lower the relative humidity, the more water can be vaporized allowing more heat to be removed. Traditionally, the owners manually spray waters. But spraying water manually has lots of disadvantages like water clogging, pipes all-round them which proof that this method is so much complex. We need something simple and that requires minimal efforts and also environment friendly and also that requires less space. The whole traditional misting setup costs much, well we have designed this project that overcome all these problems proving itself much more beneficial for the owners. The advantages of this mist system are that there is no use of more pipes in the system and the construction is also less in the system. This design mists and controls the temperature without using lot of water and it can be automated and so on. This project also helps to decrease the amount of gases that harms environment that comes under greenhouse effect and hence protecting the ozone layer. Nowadays, computerized control systems are available which can integrate temperature, light intensity, relative humidity, CO2, plant moisture, nutrient requirement, and plant-protection measures.

References

https://greenhouseinfo.com/how-build-greenhouse-misting-system/

Cooper, Garry X. "The Many Applications of Misting Systems." The Many Applications of Misting Systems EzineArticles.com. http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Many-- Applications-of- Misting-Systems&id=4527720

John W. Bartok, Jr., Extension Professor Emeritus & Agricultural Engineer, department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT – 2013 “fan-pad- evaporative-cooling-systems” Published on The UMass Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment is the home of UMass Extension and the Mass. Ag. Experiment Station. https://ag.umass.edu/greenhouse-floriculture/fact- sheets/fan-pad-evaporative-cooling-systems

Dr. Michael R. Evans, Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville “Section 2: Summer Cooling Systems” https://greenhouse.hosted.uark.edu/Unit06/Section02.html

Rabbi B, Chen ZH, Sethuvenkatraman S. Protected cropping in warm climates: A review of humidity control and cooling methods. Energies. 2019;12(14):2737.

https://www.polygongroup.com/en-US/blog/how-humidity-affects-the-growth-of- plants/

https://www.indiaagronet.com/indiaagronet/Hi_Tech/contents/Inner%20Climatic.htm#:~:text=Th e%20availability%20of%20suitable%20temperature,required%20vegetables%20 and%20fruits%20etc.&text=During%20this%20process%20some%20energy,night%20an d%20increase%20its%20temperature

https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/misting-systems.html

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. "Cooling system". Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 Feb. 2016, https://www.britannica.com/technology/cooling-system.

https://www.cloudburst.com/mist-cooling-principle/

Downloads

Published

2021-05-24

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021)

Section

Articles

License

Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form

(to be completed by authors)

I/ We, the undersigned author(s) of the submitted manuscript, hereby declare, that the above manuscript which is submitted for publication in the STM Journals(s), is not published already in part or whole (except in the form of abstract) in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation, and, is not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

  • I/We will not withdraw the manuscript after 1 week of submission as I have read the Author Guidelines and will adhere to the guidelines.
  • I/We Author(s ) have niether given nor will give this manuscript elsewhere for publishing after submitting in STM Journal(s).
  • I/ We have read the original version of the manuscript and am/ are responsible for the thought contents embodied in it. The work dealt in the manuscript is my/ our own, and my/ our individual contribution to this work is significant enough to qualify for authorship.
  •  I/We also agree to the authorship of the article in the following order:

Author’s name                                    

 

1. ________________

2. ________________

3. ________________

4. ________________

 

We  Author(s) tick this box and would request you to consider it as our signature as we agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when it is published by this journal.