Engineering Principles, Modelling and Economics of Evaporative Coolers

ISBN-13: 9780323900393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Daniel Ingo Hefft; Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji; Ts Workneh

Spis treści

1. Evaporative coolant structure as a sustainable storage structure for extending the shelf life of food produce

2. Historic use of evaporative coolant structures by continent

3. Modern cooling and its advantages and disadvantages: A review 

4. Theoretical design principles and practice of evaporative cooler

5. Evaporative cooling principles: Direct, indirect, indirect air cooling, and direct evaporative cooling

6. Evaporative coolant structure as an alternative to cold storage or controlled atmosphere storage for the preservation of fruits and vegetables 

7. Construction of different types of evaporative coolant structure for preservation of fruits and vegetables

8. Zero-energy evaporative cooling technology and the prospective for fresh produce postharvest handling most especially for the preservation of fruits and vegetable

9. Application of natural material such as charcoal in evaporative coolant structure

10. The challenges and solutions to corrosion and other forms of construction material degradation in evaporative cooling structures

11. Recent advances in the application of sensors used in evaporative coolers to monitor chamber environmental parameter

12. Alternative energy sources that could be utilized in the operation of evaporative coolant structures most especially in rural communities

13. Edible coatings and evaporative cooling best practice guidelines for extension of preservation of fruits and vegetables

14. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of airflow inside an evaporative cooler for storage of fruits and vegetables

15. Socio-economic aspect of evaporative coolant structure

16. Role of government and policymakers towards supporting the deployment of evaporative coolant structure

17. Renewable energy integration into a low-cost evaporative cooling system for fresh produce storage

18. Numerical and experimental investigation of the potential of combining evaporative cooler with a CoolBot air conditioner for a low-cost tomato cold storage

19. Application of computational fluid dynamics modelling for coolers

20. The influences of different cold storage environments on the mechanical and physiological quality of stored amadumbe (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott)

21. Development of evaporative coolers over time