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Article

Life Cycle Saving Analysis of an Earth-Coupled Building without and with Roof Evaporative Cooling for Energy Efficient Potato Storage Application

by
Ramkishore Singh
1,
Dharam Buddhi
2,
Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin
3,
Chander Prakash
4,
Saurav Dixit
3,5,*,
Gurbir Singh Khera
5,
Sergei A. Solovev
6,
Svetlana B. Ilyashenko
7 and
Vinod John
8
1
School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
2
Uttaranchal Institute of Technology, Uttaranchal University, Uttarakhand 248007, India
3
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia
4
School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
5
School of Management and Commerece, K.R. Mangalam University, Gurugram 122103, India
6
Institute of Digital Technologies and Economics, Kazan State Power Engineering University, 420066 Kazan, Russia
7
Basic Department of Trade Policy, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, 117997 Moscow, Russia
8
Amity University, Noida 201301, India
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2022, 15(11), 4076; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15114076
Submission received: 20 April 2022 / Revised: 16 May 2022 / Accepted: 25 May 2022 / Published: 1 June 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Design of Energy System for Low-Energy Residential Buildings)
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Abstract

Preservation of potatoes in a controlled cool environment (i.e., in cold storage) consumes a substantial amount of energy. The specific energy consumption in Indian cold storage has been estimated to be between 9 and 26 kWh/ton/year. In this article, the potential for minimizing the energy consumption in the refrigeration process of cold storage through passive cooling concepts (i.e., roof evaporative cooling and the earth integration of the storage building) was explored. These passive concepts of cooling have shown significant potential for lowering the cooling loads and the energy consumption in different types of buildings. Therefore, a feasibility analysis for a potato storage building, considering the effect of the passive cooling concepts, was conducted for three different climatic conditions (i.e., hot–dry, warm–humid, and composite) in India. The energy saving potentials in the cold storage were assessed by quantifying the thermal energy exchange between the indoor and outdoor environments using the modified admittance method. The effect of heat transfer through the building envelope on total energy consumption was estimated for the building having various sunken volumes (buried depths) without and with roof evaporative cooling. Further, the economic feasibility of adopting passive concepts was assessed in terms of life cycle saving compared to the base case. Results indicate that earth coupling without and with evaporative cooling has substantial potential to reduce the cooling load and can produce significant savings.
Keywords: refrigerated preservation building; potato storage; earth coupled building; evaporative cooling; life cycle saving refrigerated preservation building; potato storage; earth coupled building; evaporative cooling; life cycle saving

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Singh, R.; Buddhi, D.; Vatin, N.I.; Prakash, C.; Dixit, S.; Khera, G.S.; Solovev, S.A.; Ilyashenko, S.B.; John, V. Life Cycle Saving Analysis of an Earth-Coupled Building without and with Roof Evaporative Cooling for Energy Efficient Potato Storage Application. Energies 2022, 15, 4076. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15114076

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Singh R, Buddhi D, Vatin NI, Prakash C, Dixit S, Khera GS, Solovev SA, Ilyashenko SB, John V. Life Cycle Saving Analysis of an Earth-Coupled Building without and with Roof Evaporative Cooling for Energy Efficient Potato Storage Application. Energies. 2022; 15(11):4076. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15114076

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Singh, Ramkishore, Dharam Buddhi, Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin, Chander Prakash, Saurav Dixit, Gurbir Singh Khera, Sergei A. Solovev, Svetlana B. Ilyashenko, and Vinod John. 2022. "Life Cycle Saving Analysis of an Earth-Coupled Building without and with Roof Evaporative Cooling for Energy Efficient Potato Storage Application" Energies 15, no. 11: 4076. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15114076

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Singh, R., Buddhi, D., Vatin, N. I., Prakash, C., Dixit, S., Khera, G. S., Solovev, S. A., Ilyashenko, S. B., & John, V. (2022). Life Cycle Saving Analysis of an Earth-Coupled Building without and with Roof Evaporative Cooling for Energy Efficient Potato Storage Application. Energies, 15(11), 4076. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15114076

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