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Improved climate control for potato stores by fuzzy controllers.

Author(s) : GOTTSCHALK K., NAGY L., FARKAS I.

Summary

The main tasks for climate controllers in potato bulk stores are to keep the storage climate in appropriate conditions for quality conservation. To avoid extra energy costs by using cooling systems, the internal climate of potato bulk stores is controlled with outdoor air. A conventionally designed controller is difficult to adapt to optimal climate control to reduce quality loss. However, a controller designed with fuzzy logic is found as advantageous for adapting control parameters to improve the control process. A test stand is built to ventilate and to control two samples of potato bulks simultaneously with the same outdoor weather conditions for comparisons. Several experiments were carried out to compare climate controllers with different control algorithms, i.e. conventional to a different conventional and conventional to fuzzy.

Details

  • Original title: Improved climate control for potato stores by fuzzy controllers.
  • Record ID : 2005-0262
  • Languages: English
  • Publication date: 2003
  • Source: Source: Comput. Electron. Agric./Pap. Int. Workshop artif. Intell. Agric., Budapest
    vol. 40; n. 1-3; 127-140; 5 ref.

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