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Front. Energy Res., 26 September 2022
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Study of Solar Combined Air Energy Greenhouse Heating System Model

Wang Hao,Wang Hao1,2Wei JintaoWei Jintao2Zhang RuifengZhang Ruifeng1Xu Zhenjun
Xu Zhenjun1*
  • 1College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China
  • 2Qingdao Institute of Technology Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Qingdao, China

At present, it is difficult to bring centralized heating to rural areas owing to factors such as scattered distribution, distance from towns and cities, and difficulty in laying public pipes. According to research, most rural residents use inefficient household heating facilities, thereby resulting in serious environmental pollution and a decline in the quality of life of residents. In order to alleviate environmental pollution, the use of solar energy, air energy, and other renewable energy for rural heating of such decentralized buildings is of profound significance. This study analyzed the distribution characteristics of solar energy resources and solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system, established and solved a mathematical model of the solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system, calculated solar heat collection and solar heating energy consumption. From the data analysis, the relationship among heat gain power, heating power, and the water temperature of the water storage tank of the heat pump system was obtained. The mathematical model of the storage tank of the solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system was solved, and the operating conditions and volume of the storage tank of the solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system were determined. The study also analyzed the solar heat collection and solar heating energy consumption in Qingdao, thereby pointing out the advantages of the solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system, and finally obtained the best heating scheme.

Introduction

Greenhouses are an important infrastructure of modern agriculture. The development direction of modern greenhouse is large-scale, high-tech, factory, greenhouse product diversification, characteristic, low energy consumption and environmental protection (Wei, 1999). In the cold areas of north China, the energy consumption of the greenhouse heating load during winter is quite large, thereby accounting for 60–74% of the operating cost of greenhouses (Zhu, 2005). The average winter temperature in northern China is 5°C, and the negative accumulated temperature is 1–4 times higher than that in the same latitude around the world (Liao et al., 1998). Due to the high heat transfer coefficient of greenhouse covering materials and the inability of plants in the greenhouse to store a lot of heat, greenhouse heating is quite different from that of ordinary buildings. The most important characteristic of the greenhouse are the poor thermal inertia of the envelope and the huge temperature difference between day and night (Gao, 2012). These are the temperature regulation methods that are mainly followed for greenhouses in China (Zhou, 2003): (1) adding cover; (2) hot-water heating method; (3) wood heating method; (4) heating coal-fired hot blast stove temperature raising method; (5) electric heating; and (6) solar thermal storage pool, which is mainly used to collect and store solar energy. In recent years, solar energy technology has been widely applied at home and abroad (Ma, 2003). At the same time, as a type of green technology of energy saving, heat pumps are highly efficient, provide environmental protection, and have been increasingly applied in the field of facility agriculture (Mao et al., 2004).

There is a serious lack of energy in rural areas in China, remote and isolated areas are in urgent need of energy supply, and the use of solar energy is one of the main ways to solve the heating needs of greenhouses in these areas (Wang and Cheng, 2007). The use of solar energy for greenhouse heating, although energy saving and environmentally friendly, is subject to the weather and meets the needs of all-weather heating with difficulty (Zhang and Chen, 2008). With the rapid development of modern agriculture in China, energy saving, high efficiency, and environmental protection have become the development themes of facility agriculture, and greenhouse heating equipment and heating methods have also been developed in that direction (Liu et al., 2008). In recent years, solar energy technology has been widely used at home and abroad (Luo et al., 2007). Meanwhile, heat pumps, as an energy-saving, high-efficiency, and environmentally friendly green technology, are also being increasingly used in the field of facility agriculture (Luo et al., 2007; Fang et al., 2008). The traditional heating equipment relies on conventional energy to heat up during the day and most nights during winter, which can meet the heating requirements, but it produces problems, such as high heating cost, low efficiency, and environmental pollution. To improve the propane refrigeration system of the natural gas shallow cooling unit, the factors affecting the energy consumption of the propane compressor were analyzed, and it was found that reducing the condensing temperature of the propane at the outlet of the compressor could ensure that the grade and quantity of the cold quantity provided by the refrigeration system would not decrease and effectively reduce the energy consumption of the propane compressor (Fang and Zhuang, 2014). The cooling capacity of the cryogenic methane washing process is provided by a refrigeration cycle using the product gas CO as the working mass, which has high energy consumption (Li et al., 2013). The ternary hybrid refrigeration system provides the cooling capacity for the separation system to meet the heating demand of some low-temperature-distillation tower reboilers and effectively recovers the cooling capacity of the process logistics through precooling and subcooling of the refrigerant (Di, 2003). Process model of separation refrigeration system using demethanizer, Process simulation, parameter sensitivity analysis and process optimization of old refrigeration system in Yangzi ethylene plant (Xu and Gong, 2010).

Process of Solar Air Greenhouse Combined Heating System

The refrigerant R134a is used in the solar air greenhouse combined heating system, and the compressor used is the Bizell piston compressor. The compressor compresses the refrigerant to high temperature pressure and transfers the refrigerant to a condensing coil, which then condenses it to a liquid state. The condensing coil is placed in the hot water storage bucket, and the water in the bucket is heated using the condensing coil. Liquid refrigerant passes through a liquid storage device, liquid mirror, and filter dryer, which is throttled by the expansion valve, becomes a low-pressure and low-temperature liquid refrigerant, and enters the solar plate collector to evaporate and absorb heat. The vaporized refrigerant is separated from the superheated gas by the gas–liquid separator into the low-pressure end of the compressor and compressed into a high-temperature and high-pressure liquid refrigerant. The hot water in the hot water storage tank is pumped into the fan coil unit in the greenhouse. The fan coil emits heat inside the greenhouse to maintain the temperature inside the greenhouse. The hot water is returned to the hot bucket to complete the hot water circulation. The solar plate collector in this system is processed from an aluminum plate, and its surface is painted black to absorb sunlight (Li, 2022a; Li, 2022b).

System Mathematical Model

Heat Load Model

The greenhouse heating loss is mainly composed of heating loss of the envelope, cold air infiltration, and cold air invasion. The calculation formula of heat load (Zhang and Chen, 2011) is as follows:

Q=Q1+Q2+Q3(1)
Q1=KnFn(tit0)(2)
Q2=0.5kfVN(tit0)(3)
Q3=uiAi(tit0)(4)

Here, Q1 is the heat loss of the envelope structure; —Cold air permeates heat loss; —Ground heat loss; —Heat transfer coefficient of greenhouse envelope at n floor, W/(m2∙K), = 3 W/(m2∙K); —Surface area of the n greenhouse envelope, m2; —Wind power factor, = 1; —Greenhouse air volume, m3; —Number of chamber air changes, h-1, Greenhouse once/12 h; —Ground heat transfer coefficient in zone i, W/(m2∙K); —Area of block i, m2; —The n greenhouse indoor heating design temperature, K = 18°C; —The n greenhouse outdoor heating design temperature, K. = 2°C.

Compressor Model

For small rolling-rotor compressors, the refrigerant flow rate and compressor power can be calculated using the following equation.

1 Refrigerant mass flow rate

mr=nλVd60viuiAi(tit0)(5)

where vi is the compressor suction specific volume expressed as m3/kg; n is the heat loss of envelope structure, taking the value of 2880 r/min; C is compressor speed, taking the value of 0.91; and Vd is the compressor theoretical discharge volume, taking the value of 13.40 cm3/r.

2 Compressor power

The compressor input electrical power is:

Wcm=mrPeviλcmkk1[(PcPe)kk11](6)

where λcm is the total efficiency of the compressor; Pc is the evaporation pressure and condensation pressure, Pa; and k is the compression process multivariate index.

Solar Flat Plate Evaporator Model

Experimental study of direct expansion solar heat pump water heater.

Solar water supply systems require temperatures lower than 60°C and the use of collectors with glass cover. According to the energy balance can be obtained that as the design conditions under the pressure drop is small, you can ignore the pressure drop of the refrigerant in the tube.

1 Refrigerant side flow heat transfer equation (Chai et al., 2008; Chen et al., 2011; Kuang and Wang, 2005):

Qr=mr(hr2hr1)=αiAi(TpTrm)(7)

The formula, Qr—Heat absorbed by Refrigerant, W; mr—Refrigerant mass flow, kg/s; αi—Convective heat transfer coefficient on refrigerant side surface, W/(m2·K); Ai—Tube surface area, m2; Tp—Tube wall temperature, K; Trm—Average inlet and outlet temperature of refrigerant, K.

2 Compressor power

Qd=AdF[SULc(TrmT0)](8)

The formula, Qd—Effective heat gain of heat collector plate, W; Ad—Micro-element length heat collection area on the upper surface of trace element heat collecting plate, m2; S—The difference between absorbed and emitted radiation from the heat collector plate, W/m2; ULC—Total heat loss coefficient of heat collector plate, m2, W/(m2·K); —Heat collection efficiency factor of collector plate; T0—Ambient temperature, K.

U1c=(5.7+VW+4εσT03)(9)

where ambient temperature is K, Boltzmann constant (blackbody radiation constant) is 5.67 × 10 − 8W/(m2∙K4), the outdoor wind speed and the calculated outdoor wind speed in winter in the Chengyang area are taken in this paper, and T0 is the ambient temperature, K, which is the unit of measurement of standard error in the total number.

Taking into account the installation angle and direct sunlight, sky radiation, and reflection of solar radiation from the ground, the total solar radiation is calculated as follows:

S=ITcosθt+(1+cosβ2)Idh+(1cosβ2)Itρg(10)

The formula, —Indicates the intensity of radiation projected on a horizontal surface; —Indicates the intensity of diffuse reflection projected on a horizontal surface; —Indicates the angle of projection of direct sunlight on inclined and horizontal surfaces; —Indicates the tilt angle of the collector plate installation; —Indicates the reflectivity of the ground to the total solar radiation, in engineering calculations, we usually take the average value as 0.2.

For an inclined surface facing due south, formula for calculating the .

For an inclined surface facing due south formula for calculating the formula, —Hour Angle; —Angle of incidence; —Local latitude; —Angle of declination; —inclination of collector surface (Duffie J.A. et al., 1991).

3 Heat balance equation inside and outside the tube:

Qcl=βQr(11)

Here, the coefficient introduced by considering impurities, such as oil, in the refrigerant takes a value of 0.9 in the model.

Mathematical Model of Condenser

Condenser (tank) uses immersion condensing spiral coil, and collectors are similar to the enthalpy difference in the direction of the length of the equal division of a number of microelements. When the enthalpy difference is small, the length of each microelement is also very small, which can be approximated by straight pipe section to deal with, and corrected using the spiral tube correction factor. For each microelement, the following control equation can be established.

1 Refrigerant side flow heat transfer equation:

Qr=mr(hr1hr2)=α1A1(TwTrm)(12)

2 Water-side heat transfer equation:

QW=MWCpWdTWdTτ(13)

where hot water heating power is expressed in W; total mass of water in the tank is expressed in kg; specific heat of water is expressed in kJ/(kgK); water temperature is expressed in K; and time is expressed in s.

3 Heat balance equation inside and outside the tube:

QW=Qr(14)

4 Microelement thermal conductivity equation:

Qr=UcdAcd(TrmTwm)(15)

The formula, —Heat transfer coefficient of overall on external surface area, W/(m2·K); —Heat transfer area between condensing coil and water, here is the exterior area of the condensing coil, m2; —Average temperature of water, K。

The heat transfer coefficient of the condensing coil to water can be calculated according to the formula:

Ucd=1Acd,0aiAcd,i+δmAcd,0kmAcd,m+1aw(16)

where metal tube wall thickness is m; thermal conductivity of metal pipe wall is expressed by W/(m2·K); surface heat transfer coefficient of the refrigerant in the condensing coil is expressed by W/(m2·K); water-side surface heat transfer coefficient is expressed by W/(m2·K); inside and outside areas of condensing coils is expressed in m2; and average surface area of condensing coils is expressed in m2.

Thermal Expansion Valve Model

The thermal expansion valve model includes the following control equations:

Flow characteristic equation

The refrigerant flow rate through the thermal expansion valve can be calculated according to the following formula:

mτ=(0.2005ρ1+0.634v0)A02ρ1Δp(17)

The formula, —Expansion valve inlet and outlet enthalpy, J/kg —Differential pressure before and after the valve hole, Pa —Flow coefficients, using empirical formulas from the literature —Minimum flow area of valve orifice, m2—Inlet liquid refrigerant density, kg/m3—Outlet refrigerant specific volume, m3/kg.

Air Source Evaporator Model

On rainy days and at night, the evaporator gains heat from the surrounding air through the spiral finned tubes and collector plates, and the heat pump works as an air source:

Qe=mr(h1h4).(18)

The formula—Refrigerant flow rate, —Refrigerant enthalpy at evaporator outlet; —The refrigerant enthalpy of the evaporator inlet.

Fan Coil Model

1 Chilled water heat balance equation

cw=twτcwuwtwx=αbnFw(tbtw)(19)

2 Coil heat exchanger coil wall heat balance equation

tbτ=αbnFw(twtb)+abwFa(tatb)(20)

3 Air-side humidity equilibrium equation

ρadaτ+ρauadax=KFa(dgda)(21)

4 Energy equation

Q0=ρaUaA(ha,iha,o)(22)

The formula represents heat transfer coefficient, which is expressed as W/(m2·K); cross-sectional area of air passing through the coil heat exchanger is expressed as m2; specific heat capacity of guest product is expressed as J/(m3·K); moisture content, based on 1 kg of dry air, is expressed as g/kg; heat transfer area per unit volume of fluid is expressed as m2/m3; enthalpy is expressed as J/kg; mass transfer coefficient between air and the outer surface of the coil is expressed as kg/(m2·s); coil heat exchange is expressed as W; temperature is expressed as K; fluid flow rate is expressed as m/s; coefficient of heat transfer between air and the outer surface of the coil is expressed as kg/(m2·s); fluid density is expressed as kg/m3; and duration of a single stay is expressed as s.

Subscript, —Wet air; —Coil wall surface; —Between the chilled water and the inner surface of the coil; —Between the air flow and the outer surface of the coil; —Coil heat exchanger outer surface saturated with air; —Import; —The entire coil; —Export; —Frozen water.

Air-Side Heat Transfer Equation

Heat exchange of primary heat exchanger at dry working conditions.

The air on the outside of the evaporator tube in winter is an exothermic cooling process from the inlet to the outlet, and according to the state parameters of the air, its cooling process have three conditions: dry condition and wet condition.

The heat exchange volume in the dry condition is calculated by the following formula (Sun, 2008):

dQa=αa(ηfdAf+dAP)(tatw)(23)

The formula, —Air-side heat transfer coefficient, W/(m2·K); —Fin efficiency; —Fin area, m2; —Base tube area, m2; —Temperature, K.

Subscript, —Air; —Frosting; —Ribs; —Pipe Wall; —Base Management;

The fin efficiency is calculated using the following formula.

ηf=th(ml)ml(24)

The formula represents thermal conductivity of rib material, which is expressed as W/(m2·K) and the average thickness of ribs is expressed as m.

l=(1.065Rr0)[1+0.8051lg(1.065R/r0)](25)

The heat exchange coefficient on the air side was used from the literature (Kong et al., 2010).

The heat exchange volume at wet working conditions is calculated using the following equation (Hikari, 1983):

dQa=ξαa(ηfξdAf+dAp)(tatw)(26)

The formula—Moisture dispersion coefficient —Fin efficiency under wet working conditions;

Moisture dispersion coefficient, the calculation of fin efficiency under wet working conditions is referred to literature 22.

Characteristic Analysis of Solar Air Energy Greenhouse Heating System

The project is located in Qingdao, Shandong province, the southern tip of Shandong Peninsula, at the longitude 119°30′E–121°00′E and latitude 35°35′N–37°09′ N. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west, uplifted on both sides of the north and south, and concave in the middle. Located in the warm temperature difference between day and night on January 28 sunrise at 7:03 and sunset at 17:20. Cloudy, RH 39%, no continuous wind direction and light breeze.

Figure 1 shows the COP variation with solar radiation intensity. As it can be seen from Figure 2, COP of the system increases with the solar radiation intensity. The solar combined air energy greenhouse heating system’s biggest characteristic in solar panels is that the refrigerant directly absorbs heat from the environment and evaporation, the main source of energy is radiation from the sun, evaporation temperature increases with an increase in the radiation from the sun, and refrigerant phase-change heat absorption unit, which is the process of quality, is also increased. Thus, the system’s COP also increases. By the same token, COP increases with ambient temperature. In the numerical simulation results, the maximum error of heating time is 11.02%, the average error is 5.43%, the maximum error of COP is 13.40%, and the average error is 4.12%. The error is acceptable in the engineering application range, and the simulation results are in good agreement with the test results.

FIGURE 1
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FIGURE 1. Comparison of predicted and experimental values of COP and operation time.

FIGURE 2
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FIGURE 2. Comparison of experimental and theoretical calculation of instantaneous values.

Figure 3 shows the simulation comparison of the transient COP experiment of the system. As the temperature of condensed water increases, the COP of the system decreases due to the deterioration of condensation conditions. At the same time, solar radiation intensity changes due to cloud shielding when the system runs up to 16 min and 46 min, and the COP of the system also changes, which is consistent with the conclusion drawn in Figure 3. When the weather conditions change, in order to maintain a higher COP and a shorter system running time as much as possible, frequency conversion adjustment can be carried out on the heat pump system and the evaporation temperature can still be maintained in a reasonable range when solar radiation changes significantly. About the compressor running frequency effect on the COP of the system, the frequency and refrigerating capacity decrease, but the power reduction rate is greater than the heat; thus, the system COP in the reduced frequency is increased. Thus, we specially selected two days’ climate conditions, which were close to the experimental data, to compare, and the final measurements for the two groups’ experiment system’ COP was 4.87 and 5.3.

FIGURE 3
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FIGURE 3. Experimental simulation comparison of system COP transient values.

Figure 4 shows the power consumption of the compressor in this group of experiments. The power consumption of the compressor at 70 Hz increases significantly faster than that of the compressor at 50Hz; thus, the COP of the latter is greater. In addition, when the solar radiation intensity decreases and the heating time is prolonged, the system operating at high frequencies will decline rapidly due to increased power consumption of the compressor. However, in contrast, it takes 52 min to heat the water in the water tank from 27 to 50°C at 70 Hz and 78 min at 50 Hz. Therefore, it can be considered appropriately to increase the frequency of the compressor when the hot water is expected to be heated quickly. The frequency of the compressor has an extremely important influence on COP and the speed of hot water. The frequency of the compressor should be adjusted according to the climatic conditions and user needs.

FIGURE 4
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FIGURE 4. Compressor power consumption curve.

Conclusion

The centralized parameter model has satisfactory accuracy for the calculation of the transient process and the overall operation parameters of the solar air greenhouse combined heating system, and the calculation results have reference significance for guiding the experimental direction. It is evident that the COP increases with increasing ambient temperature. The results of the numerical simulation showed that the maximum error of heating time was 11.02% and the average error was 5.43%, whereas the maximum error of COP was 13.40% and the average error was 4.12%. The error is acceptable in the engineering application range, and the simulation results agree well with the test results.

Data Availability Statement

The raw data supporting the conclusion of this article will be made available by the authors, without undue reservation.

Author Contributions

WH conceived the idea and designed the experiments. The experiments were led by XZ, while WJ contributed to data analysis and interpretation along with writing paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords: greenhouse, solar energy, air energy, COP, heating system

Citation: Hao W, Jintao W, Ruifeng Z and Zhenjun X (2022) Study of Solar Combined Air Energy Greenhouse Heating System Model. Front. Energy Res. 10:927048. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.927048

Received: 23 April 2022; Accepted: 13 May 2022;
Published: 26 September 2022.

Edited by:

Yusen He, The University of Iowa, United States

Reviewed by:

Hardeep Singh, Sophia University, Japan
Sanjeev Kumar, Lovely Professional University, India

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*Correspondence: Xu Zhenjun, xuzhenjun@qau.edu.cn

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