Optimum design of Chinese solar greenhouses for maximum energy availability

D Xu, S Fei, Z Wang, J Zhu, Y Ma - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
… Given the aging of greenhouse facility, there is a need for investigating the transformation of
greenhouses to maximize solar energy utilization. In this study, Chinese solar greenhouse (…

Integration of solar technology to modern greenhouse in China: Current status, challenges and prospect

T Wang, G Wu, J Chen, P Cui, Z Chen, Y Yan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
… The solar integration to agricultural greenhouse in the form of modern solar greenhouse has
the potential to simultaneously respond to the declining availability of suitable land and the …

A climate-based analysis of photosynthetically active radiation availability in large-scale greenhouses across China

C Wang, J Du, Y Liu, D Chow - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
… study of greenhouse performances in China was presented in … availability, this study first
employed RADIANCE to calculate the global solar irradiance received inside the greenhouses. …

Renewable and sustainable strategies for improving the thermal environment of Chinese solar greenhouses

K Cao, H Xu, R Zhang, D Xu, L Yan, Y Sun, L Xia… - Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Chinese solar greenhouses (CSGs) play an important role in horticultural development, … to
the other greenhouse styles. CGSs are fully passive solar greenhouses for vegetables without …

[HTML][HTML] Solar radiation allocation and spatial distribution in Chinese solar greenhouses: Model development and application

X Zhang, J Lv, J Xie, J Yu, J Zhang, C Tang, J Li, Z He… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
… ’s solar radiation availability. The Chinese solar greenhouse has a unique opaque envelope
that is designed for maximizing the solar energy available for heating. The most critical …

A review on opportunities for implementation of solar energy technologies in agricultural greenhouses

S Gorjian, F Calise, K Kant, MS Ahamed… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
… effect on food production and availability can be … solar Chinese greenhouses. In another
study, the effect of increasing the size of the span on the indoor climate of Chinese greenhouses

Agricultural friendly single-axis dynamic agrivoltaics: Simulations, experiments and a large-scale application for Chinese solar greenhouses

W Zhang, Z Yue, H Ma, Y Gao, W Liu, X Huang… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
… within the open spaces amidst Chinese Solar Greenhouses (CSGs), incorporating … power
plants on available land but also injects vitality into the operation of traditional greenhouse

Energy sustainability performance of a sliding cover solar greenhouse: Solar energy capture aspects

X Tong, Z Sun, N Sigrimis, T Li - Biosystems Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar Greenhouse (LSG) that uses an elliptical south shape, used in traditional Chinese solar
greenhouses… night outside-temperature after high solar energy availability (sunny); and (B) …

Research on the size optimization of photovoltaic panels and integrated application with Chinese solar greenhouses

K Zhang, J Yu, Y Ren - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
… In recent years, the development of PV power generation has continued to expand, and
the amount of available vacant land is decreasing rapidly; as a result, the combination of PV …

Performance study of an active solar water curtain heating system for Chinese solar greenhouse heating in high latitudes regions

T Xia, Y Li, Z Sun, X Wan, D Sun, L Wang, X Liu, T Li - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
… Therefore, we divided Chinese solar greenhouse into independent solar heating system
and independent north wall thermal insulation system and used a low thermal conductivity and …