Energy-saving design and control strategy towards modern sustainable greenhouse: A review

M Zhang, T Yan, W Wang, X Jia, J Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
A greenhouse is an energy-intensive sector with substantial greenhouse gas emissions and
extensive energy consumption. Energy-saving greenhouse strategies become particularly …

Mineral scaling induced membrane wetting in membrane distillation for water treatment: Fundamental mechanism and mitigation strategies

H Chang, Y Zhu, L Huang, Z Yan, F Qu, H Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling-induced wetting phenomenon seriously affects the application of membrane
distillation (MD) technology in hypersaline wastewater treatment. Unlike the large amount of …

Methodologies of control strategies for improving energy efficiency in agricultural greenhouses

S Zhang, Y Guo, H Zhao, Y Wang, D Chow… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
The greenhouse sector accounts for the largest portion of total final energy consumption in
agriculture in most countries. One efficient way to minimize the total energy consumption in …

[HTML][HTML] Energy-efficient ai-based control of semi-closed greenhouses leveraging robust optimization in deep reinforcement learning

A Ajagekar, NS Mattson, F You - Advances in Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As greenhouses are being widely adopted worldwide, it is important to improve the energy
efficiency of the control systems while accurately regulating their indoor climate to realize …

[HTML][HTML] A review from design to control of solar systems for supplying heat in industrial process applications

JD Gil, A Topa, JD Álvarez, JL Torres… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of solar thermal systems to produce heat for industrial processes is a feasible option
that is gaining increasing interest in recent years as an initiative toward the zero-carbon …

Dynamic optimization with flexible heat integration of a solar parabolic trough collector plant with thermal energy storage used for industrial process heat

J Immonen, KM Powell - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing need to reduce fossil fuel consumption used for industrial process
heat to slow the effects of climate change. Using solar thermal heat is a viable way to …

Model predictive control of smart greenhouses as the path towards near zero energy consumption

C Bersani, A Ouammi, R Sacile, E Zero - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Modern agriculture represents an economic sector that can mainly benefit from technology
innovation according to the principles suggested by Industry 4.0 for smart farming systems …

A novel approach for solar greenhouse air temperature and heating load prediction based on Laplace transform

L Huang, L Deng, A Li, R Gao, L Zhang… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar greenhouses have provided favorable microclimates for improving and increasing
crop production. As a significant factor of microclimates, greenhouse indoor air temperature …

An iot architecture for water resource management in agroindustrial environments: A case study in almería (Spain)

M Muñoz, JD Gil, L Roca, F Rodríguez, M Berenguel - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current agricultural water panorama in many Mediterranean countries is composed by
desalination facilities, wells (frequently overexploited), the water public utility network, and …

Theoretical analysis of heat pump assisted air gap membrane distillation

M Bindels, B Nelemans - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Three configurations for heat pumps for simultaneously heating and cooling of vacuum
assisted air gap membrane distillation (V-AGMD) are proposed and theoretically analysed …