Agriculture (Jan 2023)

Developing and Testing the Air Cooling System of a Combined Climate Control Unit Used in Pig Farming

  • Ivan Ignatkin,
  • Sergey Kazantsev,
  • Nikolay Shevkun,
  • Dmitry Skorokhodov,
  • Nikita Serov,
  • Aleksei Alipichev,
  • Vladimir Panchenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020334
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
p. 334

Abstract

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This article presents the results of developing and testing the air-cooling system of a combined climate control unit used in pig farming. The authors have found a water-evaporative system to be the most efficient for cooling the air supply. Cooling systems of this type consume 0.003 kW/kW of electric power to produce 1 kW of cold. Based on the developed mathematical model for water-evaporative cooling in the combined climate control unit, the authors have determined that an air supply with a temperature of 31.2 °C and a relative humidity of 30.4% can be cooled by 8.3 °C when saturated with moisture to a relative humidity of 90.0% (by 11.7 °C at 100%). Experimental studies of the cooling system confirmed the theoretically obtained data.

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