APPLICATION OF A DAY-NIGHT TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE ENERGY CONVERTER FOR POWER SUPPLY OF REMOTE AGRICULTURAL FACILITIES

Abstract

Due to the development of information technologies, microelectronics and control systems, all electronic devices are being minimized. In some cases there is a need for electricity supply to remote agricultural facilities, for example, nomadic apiaries, remote pastures, hunting camps, reindeer herder camps. To solve this problem, the article proposes to use power supply devices based on the day-night temperature difference developed by the authors. (Research purpose) The research purpose is increasing the environmental safety and the reliability of energy supply of autonomous hybrid energy complexes based on renewable energy sources using the device of the daily temperature difference in their construction. (Materials and methods) The article proposes a method for producing energy using the day-night temperature difference. The advantages of the method are the absence of harmful environmental influences, safety for humans and nature, the inexhaustibility of the source, the possibility of using the device anywhere and the simplicity of technical implementation at the modern level. The authors have developed a methodology for calculating the device, its structural elements for electrical strength for autonomous power supply of remote agricultural production facilities. Classical methods for calculating charged containers with a dynamic change in their values at ambient temperature drop have been used in the research. (Results and discussion) Equation presented allows the calculation of a converter for a given capacity of autonomous power supply to remote agricultural production facilities. The advantages of the energy converter device, that is free of radioactive materials, there are the absence of combustion processes, gases, odors or volatile fractions. (Conclusions) The service life of the device can be long, up to hundreds of years. This technology can also be successfully used in the power supply on planets and space objects, for example, on the Moon, Mars, and other planets, where the temperature difference can reach up to hundreds of degrees.