Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : July 10, 2017 - July 12, 2017
The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of the solar chimney installed in the warehouse by variation of directions and to visualize the air flow in the warehouse. The objective crop is orange in this study. The air flow rate inside the solar chimney increases by stack effect. The solar chimney is installed in 30 degree intervals from the South to the East. The performance of the system was investigated by a computational fluid dynamics method. The results showed that the more solar chimney lean to the East, the less the air flow rate decreases in the case of installing the solar chimney on the wall. Therefore, in the case of installing on the roof, the solar chimney can ventilate during the day. By installing solar chimney, the system can lower the temperature of orange by 1.3 degC.
