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Title: Impact of Building and Refrigeration System’s Parameters on Energy Consumption in the Potato Cold Storage
Authors: Singh, Ramkishore 
Lazarus, Ian Joseph 
Singh, S. P. 
Keywords: Potato cold storage;Energy efficient building;Refrigeration;Capacity utilization factor;Effective U-value
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: The Canadian Center of Science and Education
Source: Singh, R.; Singh, S.P. and Lazarus, I.J. 2014. Impact of building and refrigeration system’s parameters on energy consumption in the potato cold storage. Energy and Environment Research. 4(3) : 126-137.
Journal: Energy and environment research 
Abstract: 
Cold storage is a key element for long term preservation and distribution of perishable items. A large quantity of perishable items is gone wastage every year due to inadequate storage facility in the countries like India. Their energy extensive refrigeration process makes them accountable for substantial share of total energy consumption in the country. Moreover, energy inefficiency in operation and building designs in the existing cold storages inhibits expansion of desirable storage facility. This study aims to explore the building and refrigeration system’s parameters that may influence the overall energy consumption in the storage. A survey was conducted in ten Indian potato cold storages and detail data of their energy consumption, building construction and refrigeration systems was collected. The collected data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Trend analysis technique was also used to establish relationship between specific energy consumption and identified parameters. Results show that the utilization factor has major impact on the energy consumption in the storages and the existing cold storages are not utilizing their storage capacities fully. Comparatively higher energy consumption was observed in the cold storages that have low utilization factors. Building aspect ratios and effective U-value of the building envelop were also identified one of the crucial parameters that can play a major role to improve the energy performance of the cold storages. As expected, a negligible variation in the specific energy consumption of the storages with the specific installed refrigeration systems and AHUs was observed.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1235
ISSN: 1927-0569
DOI: 10.5539/eer.v4n3p126
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