INNOTARDOR Operational Group: Innovative sustainable cooling system for mushroom cultivation
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018 -2018
- Assigned Budget 10.000,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Cataluña
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://ruralcat.gencat.cat/documents/20181/5202516/Redacci%C3%B3+GO_2016_004_T…
Creation of an Operational Group to promote the INNOTARDOR project, whose overall objective is the analysis and design of a new air conditioning system to guarantee the required comfort conditions in the flowering rooms of the Ben Fet Bolet mushroom production line at TEB VERD's farm in Sant Antoni de Vilamajor.
This system should prevent production stoppages during the summer, due to the inability to use air conditioning units due to the associated high electricity consumption, and the generation of drafts that are counterproductive to mushroom flowering.
• Modeling the thermal behavior of the Bolet Ben Fet farm to obtain the necessary thermal demands and satisfy the maximum comfort conditions that favor optimal production.
• Analysis of radiant emission systems that maximize the efficiency of terminal elements, enhancing the reduction of energy and economic consumption, while satisfying the required thermal comfort demands.
• Analysis of energy production systems and utilization of existing natural resources (wells) to maximize energy generation performance.
The system developed in this project has proven to be an innovative and viable solution, both technically and economically, allowing the required comfort levels to be achieved with a significant reduction in consumption.
This consists primarily of a new emission system that allows the mushroom flowering rooms to be cooled with water from an irrigation well. When the temperature of the well water is sufficiently low, the only consumption associated with the cooling system is the pumps used to propel the working fluid through the tubes.
On the other hand, when the well temperature is insufficient, cooling is achieved through an auxiliary system consisting of a geothermal heat pump or a cooling tower.
Both solutions involve mitigation measures to reduce the activity's contribution to climate change, since they eliminate the CO2 emissions associated with the electricity consumption that would be generated with other cooling technologies.
- Coordinator/entity name: Teb Verd SCCL
- Coordinator/entity email: carles.diaz@teb.org
- TEB VERD SCCL
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