Seminar 9 -- Achieve Resource Efficiency in Controlled Environment Agriculture

2024 ASHRAE Annual Conference

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Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) grows crops year-round under controlled conditions including lighting, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients. CEA has the potential to contribute to improving community benefits and to addressing grand challenges such as climate change and food security. However, the energy-intensive nature and high carbon footprint make the CEA industry difficult to be sustainable. This seminar presents different modeling techniques for predicting performance of complexed CEA facilities, operational controls and emerging technologies to improve the resource efficiency of CEA systems and reduce environmental impacts.

1. Modeling Thermal Loads in Indoor Cultivation Spaces William Stober, Stober Engineering, Santa Rosa, CA
2. The Role and Impact of CHP, Thermal Storage, Battery Storage and Absorption Cooling Technologies in Controlled Environment Agriculture Energy Dispatch Jacob Seiler, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
3. An Integrated Modeling Approach for Controlled Environment Agriculture Liping Wang, PhD, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
4. Detailed Energy Modeling for Indoor Agriculture Jeffrey Kelley, Owner/Founder, Kelley Energy Management LLC, Brentwood, MO