Optimal Day-to-Night Greenhouse Heat Storage: Square-Wave Weather

Ido Seginer, Gerrit van Straten, Peter van Beveren

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Abstract

Day-to-night heat storage is often practiced in cold-climate greenhouses. It is suggested to manage the heat storage by considering the co-state (virtual value) of the stored heat in the on-line optimization of the greenhouse environment. Examples worked out for a periodic square-wave weather show that a properly selected constant co-state can produce an optimal solution to the control problem. The optimal co-state is shown to change with time over the year. Maximizing the performance criterion can also be achieved by minimizing the time that the heat buffer is either completely empty or completely full.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th IFAC Conference on Sensing, Control and Automation Technologies for Agriculture AGRICONTROL 2016
EditorsL. Tang
PublisherIFAC
Pages375-380
Volume49
Edition16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameIFAC-PapersOnLine
PublisherElsevier
ISSN (Print)2405-8963

Keywords

  • Co-state
  • Constrained optimum
  • Greenhouse
  • Heat storage
  • Optimal control
  • Time on bounds

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