[Bldg-sim] Greenhouse "Climate Battery"

[Chris Yates]

Arpan,

You could also talk to Equa in Sweden. They have a building modelling 
tool (IDA ICE) and a tunnel modelling tool (IDA Road and Tunnel). They 
both use Equa's general purpose physics solver. The tunnel tool in 
particular can model the temperature field in the earth/ rock 
surrounding the tunnel (as well as network airflow, vehicle movement and 
pollutant transport). It would probably be trivial for the guys at IDA 
to implement some of the tunnel models in ICE to provide you with a 
"climate battery" model.

Chris

On 25/04/2012 18:30, Arpan Bakshi wrote:
>
> Anyone have experience modeling a greenhouse "climate battery"?
>
> Did you use IES, DB/E+ or none of the above?
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> More information about the strategy --
> Hot air from the top half of the greenhouse volume is stored in a 
> below grade heat sink using large ducts which extract air using a fan. 
> (image below)
>
> Reference
> http://ecosystems-design.blogspot.com/2010/07/tci-lane-ranch-community-greenhouse.html 
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