There is a storage for seed stocks of sweet potato in the Section of Upland farming, Kyushu Agricultural Experiment Station, it has 7m width, 9m depth, and 2.5m height, and is constructed by concrete blocks, the inner wall and ceilling are covered with heat insulators 5cm thick, and the floor is bare soil surface.
Temperatures in the storage were measured by a recording thermometer from Nov. 1962 to Jan. 1964 the results are shown in table 1. It always keeps higher about 20°C than that in the open air. The temperature at the begining of 1963 fell down, and it was difficult to keep safe store of sweet potato roots, therefore, an electric heater was needed for some time.
The difference in daily mean temperature between inside and outside Δθ is represented by
Δθ=(Q
R+Q
E+G+X)τ/c,
where
QR is the respiration heat of sweet potato and it is estimated about 25cal/h.kg.,
QE is the heat by electric heater,
G is the heat exchange to the ground,
X is the residual term, τ is the time constant and
c is the heat capacity of the storage.
The heat balances of this equation are shown in table 3. When temperature changes regularly such as θ
t=θ
0+αt, the temperature difference is
Δθ
t-Δθ
0={(Q
R+Q
E+G+X)τ/c-ατ-Δθ
0}(1-e
-t/τ)
The results are shown in table 4.
X terms were obtained rather larger, they consist of heat by solar radiation and latent heat of evaporation or condensation, the former is estimated order of 200-300kcal/h, and the later changes by conditions, for example, when the open air temperature is rising, that is α>0, the heat which the storage recieved is spent on evaporation in the storage and
X becomes smaller.
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