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Wenbin Shi, Yichao Zhang, Yiming Li, Xing?an Liu, Sida Meng, Tianlai Li and Liping Zhao
To enhance the utilization of solar energy in Chinese solar greenhouses (CSGs), a new method for optimizing the internal lighting environment of CSGs using reflective films is proposed. The influence of different positions and angles of reflecting film o...
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Vasileios K. Firfiris, Zoi D. Kaffe, Sotirios D. Kalamaras, Antonios A. Lithourgidis, Anastasia G. Martzopoulou and Thomas A. Kotsopoulos
Agricultural product drying is of great importance as it is a reliable method for fruit and vegetable preservation. Tackling the high energy consumption of the process will reduce the final product cost and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. In this work...
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Néstor Santillán Soto,O. Rafael García Cueto,Sara Ojeda Benítez,Nicolás Velázquez Limón,Margarito Quintero Núñez,Michael Schorr
Solar radiation is one of the most important energy resources of our planet. The interest in its use as a renewable and clean energy to mitigate the greenhouse gases (GHG) effects has increased significantly. This paper evaluates the measurements of glob...
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Francesco Asdrubali, Franco Cotana and Antonio Messineo
Among solar passive systems integrated in buildings, sunspaces or solar greenhouses represent a very interesting solution. A sunspace is a closed, southbound volume, constituted by transparent surfaces, adjacent to a building, which reduces winter energy...
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Yiman Li, Michael Henke, Dalong Zhang, Chuanqing Wang and Min Wei
Experimental studies were conducted on the cultivation of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) at Shandong Agricultural University, China, from 2022 to 2023. Three cultivation patterns were designed as follows: a north?south orientation with a row spacing ...
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Lu Wang, Yiming Li, Zhouping Sun, Sida Meng, Tianlai Li and Xingan Liu
Solar greenhouses are commonly overheated during the day, and the remaining air heat can only be dissipated through ventilation, which is a severe energy waste problem. In order to improve the energy utilization of the greenhouse, this study proposes a w...
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Lizbeth Angelica Castañeda-Escobar, María Graciela Hernández-Orduña, Liliana Lara-Capistrán and Verónica Pulido-Herrera
The soils of agricultural crops begin to suffer from arvenses and pathogens that are harmful to new crops after going through several production cycles. The chemical control of these pathogens is carried out through fumigants, which are applied at doses ...
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Alice Sorrenti, Santo Fabio Corsino, Francesco Traina, Gaspare Viviani and Michele Torregrossa
This work reports the results obtained with an innovative configuration of a closed-static solar greenhouse for sludge drying. The novelty of the solar greenhouse configuration consisted in using a forced ventilation system to provide hot air for sludge ...
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Ibrahim Al-Helal, Pietro Picuno, Abdullah A. Alsadon, Abdullah Ibrahim, Mohamed Shady and Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghany
In arid climates, the optical properties of plastic-covered greenhouses deteriorate very quickly. To examine the effect of greenhouse shape and orientation on the degradation rate of cover optical properties, four greenhouse prototypes were constructed i...
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Yonggang Wang, Ruimin Xiao, Yizhi Yin and Tan Liu
Yield prediction for tomatoes in greenhouses is an important basis for making production plans, and yield prediction accuracy directly affects economic benefits. To improve the prediction accuracy of tomato yield in Chinese-style solar greenhouses (CSGs)...
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Mohammad Akrami, Alaa H. Salah, Mahdieh Dibaj, Maxime Porcheron, Akbar A. Javadi, Raziyeh Farmani, Hassan E. S. Fath and Abdelazim Negm
The need for sustainable desalination arises from fast-occurring global warming and intensifying droughts due to increasing temperatures, particularly in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions. Lack of water resources has meant that the countri...
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Hongdan Fu, Guoxian Zhang, Fan Zhang, Zhouping Sun, Guoming Geng and Tianlai Li
Soil-related obstacles resulting from continuous monoculture have limited the sustainable development of the tomato industry in China. An experiment on tomatoes with seven continuous monoculture treatments (the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th cro...
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Qi-Xun Zhang, Hai-Ye Yu, Qiu-Yuan Zhang, Zhong-Yuan Zhang, Cheng-Hui Shao and Di Yang
In this study we design and test a novel solar tracking generation system. Moreover, we show that this system could be successfully used as an advanced solar power source to generate power in greenhouses. The system was developed after taking into consid...
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Poppy Jane Coleman and Long Duc Nghiem
An excel-based model was developed to evaluate economic and environmental benefits of the solar-powered compaction garbage bins in public areas in Australia. Input data were collected from Brisbane and Wollongong City councils, and Sydney Olympic Park. T...
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Ibrahim Tursunovic and Davide Papurello
The energy sector is the main source of greenhouse gases, so it has the highest potential for improvement. The improvements can be achieved by generating energy from renewable sources. It is necessary to combine production from renewable sources with sto...
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M. A. Tawfik, Khaled M. Oweda, M. K. Abd El-Wahab and W. E. Abd Allah
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Haomiao Cheng, Qilin Yu, Mohmed A. M. Abdalhi, Fan Li, Zhiming Qi, Tengyi Zhu, Wei Cai, Xiaoping Chen and Shaoyuan Feng
The drip fertigation technique is a modern, efficient irrigation method to alleviate water scarcity and fertilizer surpluses in crop production, while the precise quantification of water and fertilizer inputs is difficult for drip fertigation systems. A ...
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Benedict Orari Ebangu, Edward Dintwa, Oboestwe Motsamai
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Commercial preservation of agro-produce by solar drying entails using large-scale dryer units that are generally not affordable by potential users in a rural setting. The objective of this study was to design a photo-voltaic greenhouse solar drying unit ...
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Ling-Hsi Chen, Jiunyuan Chen and Chiachung Chen
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a typical biological environmental process to influence leaf temperature, crop water requirement, and greenhouse microclimate. Affecting factors of ET include air temperature, air relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation,...
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Araceli Peña-Fernández, Manuel A. Colón-Reynoso and Pilar Mazuela
Greenhouses are instrumental in the advancement of regions globally. The geometric arrangement of these structures plays a pivotal role in governing sunlight distribution, facilitating ventilation, and managing condensation. The roof?s shape significantl...
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