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INTRODUCTION
Demand for cold storages have been increasing rapidly
over the past couple of decades so that food commodities
can be uniformly supplied all through the year and food
items are prevented from perishing. India is having a unique
geographical position and a wide range of soil thus
producing variety of fruits and vegetables like apples,
grapes, oranges, potatoes, chilies, ginger, etc. Marine
products are also being produced in large quantities due to
large coastal areas.
The cold storage facilities are the prime infrastructural
component for such perishable commodities. Besides the
role of stabilizing market prices and evenly distributing both
on demand basis and time basis, the cold storage industry
provide other advantages and benefits to both the farmers
and the consumers. The farmers get the opportunity to get a
good return of their hard work. On the consumer sides they
get the perishable commodities with lower fluctuation of
price.
Very little theoretical and experimental studies are
being reported in the journal on the performance
enhancement of cold storage.
Energy crisis is one of the most important problems the
world is facing nowadays. With the increase of cost of
electrical energy operating cost of cold storage storing is
increasing which forces the increased cost price of the
commodities that are kept. So it is very important to make
cold storage energy efficient or in the other words reduce its
energy consumption. Thus the storage cost will eventually
comes down. In case of conduction we have to minimize the
leakage of heat through wall but in convection maximum
heat should be absorbed by refrigerant to create cooling
uniformity thought out the evaporator space. If the desirable
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parameter
Control
parameter
Combination
Heat
transfer
Relative
humidity
Air velocity
Exp.
S/N
Ratio for
Temperature
difference
Larger the
of control
no.
(0c)
better
parameters
(m/s)
(%)
(KJ)
1
2
3
4
1
1
1
2
1
2
3
1
1
2
3
2
0.74
0.74
0.74
1.25
2
5
8
2
0.85
0.90
0.95
0.90
13162.61
13954.63
14746.05
21196.58
82.3868
82.8944
83.3735
86.5253
5
6
2
2
2
3
3
1
1.25
1.25
5
8
0.95
0.85
22401.23
20075.48
87.0054
86.0533
7
8
3
3
1
2
3
1
1.76
1.76
2
5
0.95
0.85
29416.29
26359.37
89.3718
88.4187
1.76
0.90
27944.56
88.9259
V.
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Overall mean
Air velocity
Temperature difference
(m/s)
(0c)
Relative humidity
of S/N
(%)
ratio(SNo)
82.8849
86.0946
85.6196
86.5280
86.1062
86.1152
88.9055
86.1176
86.5836
Low
Medium
High
86.1061
Delta=larger6.0206
0.0230
0.9640
smaller
Rank
Mean S/N ratio vs air velocity, temperature difference and relative humidity figure.
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Air velocity
Temperature difference
Relative humidity
(m/s)
(0 )
(%)
Low
-3.2212
-0.0115
-0.4865
Medium
0.4219
0.0001
0.0091
High
2.7994
0.0115
0.4775
SS
temperature
+(0.00012)*3+(0.01152)*3]
=0.0008
SS
Relative
+(0.00912)*3+(0.47752)*3
=1.3942
difference=[(-0.01152)*3
=0.0004+0.0000+0.0004
humidity=[(-0.48652)*3
=0.7100+0.0002+0.6840
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Source
Air
velocity
(m/s)
Temperatur
e
difference
(0c)
Relative
humidity
(%)
Error
Total
Notation
Degrees
of
freedom
Sum of
squares(SS)
Mean
squares(MS)
F ratio
%
contribut
ion
292173121
146086561
949.68
0.00
1
97.13
dT
238398
119199
0.77
0.56
3
0.08
RH
8087833
4043917
26.29
0.03
7
2.69
307655
153828
300805007
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