Design and Application of a Seasonal Solar Soil Heat Storage System Applied in Greenhouse Heating

Abstract

A seasonal solar soil heat storage (SSSHS) system applied in greenhouse heating has been designed and introduced. The system consists of solar collector subsystem, soil heat storage subsystem, greenhouse heating subsystem, hydronic subsystem and control subsystem. By applying soil heat storage, solar energy stored in the soil under the greenhouse can be transferred and utilized in winter to realize the utilization of cross-seasonal energy. TRNSYS is used to simulate the process and effect in the system of the solar energy collection and soil heat storage in Shanghai, and the simulation is calibrated to improve the precision of the TRNSYS model. When the indoor air temperature of the greenhouse is kept at 12°C throughout the year, the energy saving by using the SSSHS system in Shanghai can be 46.2kWh/(m2∙year).