Energy partition and conversion of solar and thermal radiation into sensible and latent heat in a greenhouse under arid conditions

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1740-1747

  Al Helal, I M ^a   Abdel Ghany, A M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arid regions; Energy balance; Greenhouses; Heat factors; Radiation flux

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; ARID CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; ENERGY BALANCE EQUATIONS; ENERGY PARTITION; ENERGY PARTITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAY FUNCTIONS; FLOOR AREAS; HEAT FACTORS; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET RADIATION; PLANT SURFACES; RADIATION FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL RADIATIONS;

ARID REGIONS; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOORS; GREENHOUSES; HEAT RADIATION; LATENT HEAT; RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN; THERMOANALYSIS;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 79956341652     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. T. Boulard, and A. Baille Analysis of thermal performance of a greenhouse as a solar collector Energy in Agriculture 6 1987 17 26
2. C. Kittas, T. Bartzanas, and A. Jaffrin Temperature gradients in a partially shaded large greenhouse equipped with evaporative cooling pad Biosystems Engineering 85 2003 87 94 (Pubitemid 36579930)
3. C. Kittas, M. Karamanis, and N. Katsoulas Air temperature regime in a forced ventilated greenhouse with rose crop Energy and Buildings 37 2005 807 812 (Pubitemid 40682538)
4. N. Katsoulas, A. Baille, and C. Kittas Influence of leaf area index on canopy energy partition and greenhouse cooling requirements Biosystems Engineering 83 2002 349 359 (Pubitemid 35294798)
5. A. Arbel, O. Yekutieli, and M. Barak Performance of a fog system for cooling greenhouses Agricultural Engineering Researches 72 1999 129 136 (Pubitemid 129671494)
6. A.M. Abdel-Ghany, and T. Kozai Cooling efficiency of fogging systems for greenhouses Biosystems Engineering 94 1 2006 95 107
7. H. Fatanassi, T. Boulard, and J. Lagier Simple indirect estimation of ventilation and crop transpiration rates in a greenhouse Biosystems Engineering 88 4 2004 467 478 (Pubitemid 38991649)
8. T. Boulard, and A. Baille A simple greenhouse climate control model incorporating effects of ventilation and evaporative cooling Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 65 1993 145 157 (Pubitemid 24395227)
9. T. Boulard, and S. Wang. Greenhouse crop transpiration simulation from external climate conditions Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 100 2000 25 34 (Pubitemid 30112569)
10. G.N. Tiwari, P.K. Sharma, R.K. Goyal, and R.F. Sutar Estimation of an efficiency factor for a greenhouse: a numerical and experimental study Energy and Buildings 28 1998 241 250 (Pubitemid 128401651)
11. A. Ganguly, and S. Ghosh Modeling and analysis of a fan-pad ventilated floricultural greenhouse Energy and Buildings 39 2007 1092 1097 (Pubitemid 47043370)
12. A.M. Abdel-Ghany, and T. Kozai Concept of the un-cooled air in a greenhouse cooled by fogging in summer: an aid to estimate the cooling efficiency of a fogging system Environment Control in Biology 45 1 2007 9 18
13. H. Suhardiyanto, and Y. Romdhonah Determination of convective coefficient at the outside cover of a monitor greenhouse in Indonesia Applied Sciences in Environmental Sanitation 3 1 2008 37 46
14. A.M. Abdel-Ghany, and T. Kozai Dynamic modeling of the environment in a naturally ventilated, fog-cooled greenhouse Renewable Energy 31 2006 1521 1539 (Pubitemid 44051878)
15. Equation describing the physical properties of moist air at: http://www.natmus.dk/cons/tp/atmcal/ATMOCLC1.HTM and http://members.nuvox.net/ ∼on.jwclymer/wet.html.
16. A.M. Abdel-Ghany, and I.M. Al-Helal Solar energy utilization by a greenhouse: general relations Renewable Energy 36 2011 189 196
17. C. Stanghellini, Transpiration of the greenhouse crop canopies: an aid to climate management, PhD Thesis, Agriculture University of Wageningen 1987; xvi+150 pp.
18. J.L. Monteith, and M.H. Unsworth Principals of Environmental Physics 2nd ed. 1990 Arnold London
19. A.M. Abdel-Ghany, and T. Kozai On the determination of the overall heat transmission coefficient and soil heat flux for a fog-cooled, naturally ventilated greenhouse: analysis of radiation and convection heat transfer Energy Conversion and Management 47 2006 2612 2628
20. T. Takakura, C. Kubota, S. Sase, M. Hayashi, M. Ishii, K. Takayama, H. Nishina, K. Kurata, and G.A. Giacomelli Measurement of evapo-transpiration rate in a single-span greenhouse using the energy-balance equation Biosystems Engineering 102 2009 298 304