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Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University,
Khon Kaen, Thailand 40002
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Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University,
Khon Kaen, Thailand 40002
*Corresponding Author: Tel: 043 343 117, Fax: 043 202 849
E-mail: krit_jae@hotmail.com
Abstract
This paper presents mathematical modeling of an Evaporative Air-conditioning System and
cooling loads for a poultry house. The model is derived from evaporative air-conditioning process and
characteristics of the poultry house having a size of 125x14x4 m3 while the air-conditioning system is
modeled by the well-know direct evaporative cooling process with assumption to occurred along a
constant enthalpy line, an approach for constructing cooling load model is considered base on three
components which are desired air temperature, internal and external heat load of the poultry house and
relative-humidity of ambient and internal air zone. These mathematical will then be used to consider some
control methods that suitable for air-conditioning control in the poultry house. Due to the model revealing
uncertain characteristic a sliding mode control technique which has ability to against uncertainties and
disturbances has been selected in this work to construct a guideline control law for air-conditioning in the
poultry house. It has been noted that sliding mode control law in this work is in general form and used as
a guideline to control such system only. Some components of the control law have to be update with
special adaptation law which has still be developing. Although, such control law has not be completed yet
in this work. Solution of heat load model showed that results from simulation of the mathematical models
and real system are quite similar. So, it can ensure that the model can then be applied for an evaporative
cooling system design and also controller design. This will increase convenience for a new poultry house
development process and reduce faulty design of the cooling system.
Key words: Sliding mode control, Poultry houses, Evaporative cooling
.
1. Introduction increase its power generation to serve this
Currently, demand of energy has been need. The closed system poultry houses in farm
increasing each year. A power plant must industry of Thailand are one sector that uses
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Nomenclature
Ac Ceiling area (m2) Qinf il / vent Leakage heat from air into and out off the poultry house (kW)
Ac Heat exchanger evaporation area of cooling pad (m2) Qlamp Heat load from a lamp system (kW)
ACH Number of air change (h-1) Qroom Heat load of the house system (kW)
Aground poultry house ground area (m2) Qwall Heat load through the wall into the poultry house (kW)
Ar The roof area (m2) SH Heat exposure of Chicken (W / unit)
Aw Area of wall (m2) t time (s)
Cpa Humid heat capacity (kJ / kgK) Ta,i Internal temperature of humid air (K)
h Heat convection coefficient (W/m2K) Ta,o Outside air temperature (K)
hc,i Coefficient of heat convection inside the ceiling (W/m2K) Tc Ceiling Internal temperature (K)
hc,o Coefficient of heat convection outside the ceiling (W/m2K) Tdb,0 Exiting dry-bulb temperature (oC)
hc,ri Coefficient of thermal convection of internal the roof Tdb,i Entering (typically ambient) dry-bulb temperature ( oC)
(W/m2K) Tground Surface temperature at a depth L (K)
hc,ro Coefficient of convection of the external the roof (W/m2K) Th Poultry house temperature (oC)
hc,wi Coefficient of heat convection inside the wall (W/m2K) Tr Roof temperature (K)
hc,wo Coefficient of heat convection outside the wall (W/m2K) Ts Air temperature under the roof (K)
hfg Latent heat of evaporation (kJ / kg) Ts Air temperature under the roof (K)
hr,ro Coefficient of heat radiation of the external the roof (W/m2K) Tsky Sky temperature (K)
hr,wo Heat radiation coefficient of the external wall (W/m2K) Twb,i Entering (typically ambient) wet-bulb temperature (oC)
Itθw Solar radiation (W/m2) V Internal air volume (m3)
kground ground conductivity (W / mK) V0 Specific air volume in the poultry house (m3/kg)
Lground Ground depth with constant temperature throughout Vg Internal poultry house volume (m3)
the year (m) W0 Humidity ratio out the poultry house (kg vapor / kg dry air)
mair mass flow rate of air (kgair/h) Wa Humidity ratio in the poultry house (kg vapor / kg dry air)
mwater mass flow rate of water (kgwater/h) watt total amount of watt in the lighting system (w)
N Number of chicken (unit) ws humidity ratio of the supply cooled air (kg H2O/kg dry air)
P Air pressure (kPa) αR Coefficient of absorption of solar radiation on the roof
Pg Saturated air pressure (kPa) ΔTlm The difference in temperature between the cooling pad
Qce Heat load from the Ceiling into the poultry house (kW) evaporation and air temperature outside and inside
Qch Sensible and latent heat from chicken (kW) the poultry house (K)
Qevap heat used to evaporate water (kW) εsat Saturation effectiveness
Qground Changing heat between ground and internal air (kW) θwIt Solar radiation (W/m2)
large amount of energy. Current selection of great help. In views of the country, it can reduce
equipments such as a pump and a fan is not energy import and the farm owners can reduce
suitable and many farm owners construct their production cost then get more benefit in
chicken’s house by duplicating from an oversea manufacturing process.
company or a large company in Thailand. The Currently, Thailand has a large number of
lack of concern in specific atmosphere that chicken farms that have been transformed their
varies from one region to other region and heat poultry house from open system to be closed
load leads to failure production and consuming system which has the better air condition
more energy. If there are design features to control.
save energy and provide effective power Although the closed system needs higher
management for poultry industry, it will be a production cost but it gives more profit with
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small time period in return of investment simulation and experimental results. The results
compared to the old open system. The of comparison and conclusion are given in
evaporative cooling system that is used to section 6. Then, the application of sliding mode
control temperature, moisture content, and control method will be express in section 7.
amount of air change is one part of the closed
house system this part consumes a lot of
energy. Especially in tropical region such as
Thailand, the need to use power in a pump and
a fan motor for temperature, moisture, and air
velocity control has been rising. So if the
construction of poultry house and its evaporative
cooling system are suitable with real heat load,
the efficient energy using in the system will be
occurred. Then energy conservation in the Figure 1 The poultry house in this study
poultry house could be done. Moreover, the right (a case study of chicken farm in
heat load calculation leads to suitable air Khon Kaen, Thailand)
conditioning control and may increase
productivity as well if chickens feel comfort. To 2. Evaporative air-conditioning system
achieve these goals, the mathematical models of in a poultry house [1, 2]
heat load for a closed poultry house has to be The evaporative cooling system is
derived firstly. The mathematical model is very shown in Figure 2. It can solve the problem of
important in an evaporative cooling system environmental control in the poultry house such
design and useful for construction planning of a as temperature and ventilation control with the
new poultry house. Furthermore, in order to lower energy consumption comparing to the
design some controller to control air condition in vapor compression refrigeration. Principle of
the house, the heat load model and its relation evaporative cooling is evaporation of water will
with the evaporative cooling system are reduce dry bulb temperature of hot incoming air
unavoidable. This study interested in the heat and increase humidity simultaneously. This is
load modeling that occurs in a poultry house of because sensible heat in the hot air will be used
Figure 1 (a case study farm in Khon Kaen, in evaporative phenomena of water and change
Thailand). The sliding mode control technique to be latent heat stored in the cooled
also applied to the model of the system. To air. Although high investment, the evaporative
show relationship between heat load and cooling system still be attractive due to its
evaporative cooling, section 2 and 3 explain idea advantages as the followings.
and theory of evaporative cooling process. And The advantages of the close poultry
all heat load portions will be discussed in section house system
4. Section 5 will express procedure to compare 1. Prevent outbreak of disease effectively.
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2. Can increase the number of chickens area of contact between water and hot air. Heat
per unit area. from the hot air passing through the pad will
3. The growth rate and feed conversion cause the evaporation of water flowing in the
rate (FCR) can be improved. pad. The dry bulb temperature of the air passed
4. Shorten duration of a crop. through the cooling pad will be lowered and its
5. Chickens have higher weight than the relative humidity (RH) will be increased (Figure
chickens come from the open house 3b).
system in same period. This cooling process has a parameter to
6. Prevent bugs and pests to interfere the indicate the performance of an evaporative
chickens. cooling device called “efficiency of evaporative
7. Low fatality rate. cooling system()”. This is usually expressed in
8. Can reduce the number of workers to term of performance saturation(sat). It is the
take care of the chickens. ratio between the actual reduced temperature of
the system to the maximum reduced
3. Evaporative Cooling System [1, 3] temperature in theory. This performance is
An adoption of evaporative cooling system evaluated by
is to control weather so that ensure comfortable
condition for the chickens. The evaporative T −T
εsat = T db ,i −T db ,o × 100% (1)
db ,i wb ,i
cooling system is categorized by its
characteristic of cooling into 2 processes which Thus, the dry bulb temperature (Tdb,o) out
are direct and indirect mode. However, this work of cooling pad can express as
will discuss only the direct evaporative cooling
process as shown in Figure 3. The cooling Tdb ,o = Tdb ,i −
εsat
× (Tdb ,i − Twb ,i ) (2)
100
process starts with forcing hot air through a
cooling pad (Figure 3a) which has high surface
(a) (b)
.
Figure 3 (a) A Cooling pad used in the process of evaporative Cooling
(b) Psychometric chart illustrating the constant enthalpy Process for
Direct Evaporative Cooling [1]
Note that a nominal performance From eq.(3) and (4), the mass flow rate
saturation and pressure drop can be obtained by of air and water can be calculate then be used
specific air inlet velocity, cooling pad thickness. to control the system. However, in order to
To reduce the poultry house temperature to be develops close loop control system, the cooling
Th , air mass flow rate through the cooling pad load analysis is necessary.
will vary under the heat load as written by, For the water consumption, it can be
calculated by the air mass flow rate and
mair =
Total sensible &𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ
𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 (𝐵𝑡𝑢 /ℎ
)
Enthalpy of the dired air zone −enthalpy of the supply air form cooling pad (Btu /kg dry air )
humidity ratio of the air that leaves the cooling
(3) pad as given by
or mwater = mair × ws (5)
mair =
Q sensible +Q latent
C pa (T h −T db ,0 )
(4)
where mair is mass flow rate of air in kgair/h
Where Qsensible and Qlatent are total sensible and ws is humidity ratio of the supply
latent cooling load, respectively. cooled air in kg H2O/kg dry air
4. Thermal equilibrium within increases, the heat will transfer into internal
a poultry house [3,4,5] side. Some will go out to the sky and some will
The mathematical models of the poultry be accumulated in the roof. Equation (8) and (9)
house will be constructed from heat occurring express heat load that comes from the roof and
external and within the house (see Figure 4). its ceiling.
Heat load from solar radiation and ambient For the roof, the equation is given by
Q roof = Ar [ αr Itθw + hr,ro (Tsky − Tr ) +
temperature transferring through various parts of
the house are detailed in section 4.1 to 4.4. And hc,ri (Ts − Tr ) + hc,ro (Ta,o − Tr )] (8)
the internal heat load releasing from the chicken Then, the energy balance equation of the
and lamp is formulated in section 4.5 and 4.6 ceiling is
then section 4.7 expresses relationship between Q ce = Ac [hc,ci Ta,i − Tc + hc,co (Ts,o − Tc )] (9)
heat used to evaporate water and the desired
internal dry bulb air temperature out of cooling 4.3 Energy transfers through concrete floor
pad. (Qground)
Thermal energy balance that occurs in the In this part, the convection and
poultry house can be written as radiation can be neglected. Heat increasing
within the house will be transferred to the floor by
Q room = ΣQ wall + Q ce + Q infill /vent + Q ch + conduction expressed that as
Q lamp − Q ground − Q evap (6) Q ground =
k
L
Aground ground
(Ta,i − Tground ) (10)
ground
And each term in the right hand side of 4.4 Heat load caused by infiltration and
equation (6) will be detailed as following. ventilation into a poultry house ( Qinfil/vent)
Ventilation in a poultry house brings heat
4.1 Energy transfers through the walls to a and humidity in and out of the house. The
poultry houses (Qwall) relation that explains infiltration and ventilation
Calculation of the heat transfer through has been defined in equation (11)
ACH (V)
the walls of the poultry house uses energy Q infil /vent =
3600 V 0
Cpa Ta − T0 + Wa − W0 hfg
balance equation from three components which (11)
are radiation, inside and outside convection.
That is 4.5 Heat load due to the chicken (Qch)
Q wall = Aw [ αw Itθw + hr,wo (Tsky − Tw ) + The heat load that transfers from the
hc,wi (Ta,i − Tw ) + hc,wo (Ta,o − Tw )] (7) chicken to a poultry house depends on the
weight and number of chickens in a poultry
4.2 Energy balance through a roof and ceiling house. It can be written as
(Qroof, Qce) Q ch = N × SH (12)
The most of heat to the roof comes from
the sun. When temperature of the roof
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4.6 Heat load from a lamp system (Qlamp) the real condition can be calculated from those
Because of installation of lighting, heat models. To verify those heat load models, the
from the lighting system will be released to the heat load at the real environment can be
house’s air zone. That can be calculated by measured via the air temperature difference as
equation (13) will be discussed in section 5.1. The
Q lamp = (watt × 0.057)/1000 (13) temperature and humidity inside the house can
be measured by the pocket weather meter
Where watt is total amount of watt in the lighting device (Kestrel 3500). Additionally, the internal
system. temperature, humidity, and even heat load can
be calculated by the procedure in section 5.2 to
4.7 Heat used to evaporate water (Qevap) 5.4 as provided below.
It is a part of heat used to evaporate
water. This process will increase humidity of the 5.1 Calculation of the thermal heat load at the
air flowing through a cooling pad. The heat used real environment
in water evaporative process can be obtained The heat load at an actual circumstance
from a model in equation (14). can be roughly estimated by the changing of the
Q evap = hAc ∆Tlm (14) temperature of the air before entering a poultry
where house and after leaving a poultry house. Amount
T −T − T −T
∆Tlm = db ,i wb db ,o
T db ,i −T wb
(15)
wb
of the air flowing through the house can be
ln
T db ,o −T wb
measured from the wind speed at the end of the
house and fan performance curve. Then
5. Heat load model verification
substitute all parameters into equation (16).
To calculate the heat load, the equations
Q = mCP ∆T (16)
form 1 to 15 have to be used. Parameters in
Where m is mass flow rate of air in kgair/h
these equations were conducted from structure
∆T is The difference in temperature
and weather details collected at a case study
between exiting dry-bulb temperature of cooling
farm in Khon Kaen province, Thailand. The
pad and exhaust air (K).
poultry house has size of 125 x 14 x 4 m3. Its
data has been collected on July 2009,
5.2 Temperature in the house.
November 2009, and March 2010 to analyze the
Due to there are infinity temperature value
real heat load and then used to verify the
distributed along the poultry house, the
mathematical heat load model of the poultry
mathematical modeling to estimate the
house (information of the collected data see
temperature in the house will be focused on the
appendix A). The parameters that will be used in
air temperature out of the cooling pad as in the
heat load calculation process consist of the
equation (2) from the evaporation process.
internal temperature, internal relative humidity
and the temperature and humidity of the
surrounding. The heat load inside the house at
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5.3 Relative humidity in the house. Based on the results of the mathematical
The term of relative humidity can be models were found. The values of the three
calculated from the moisture ratio of the humid parameters (internal temperature, internal
air out of the cooling pad and the saturated air relative-humidity, Heat load) compared with the
pressure (Pg). This relations is shown below actual condition have some margin of
RHa =
W P a ,i
(17) error. However, the occurred errors could be
0.622 +W P a ,i g
stated in section 3. By using the energy balance Where v is the air velocity flows
of a poultry house in section 4, the total sensible passing the cooling pad, N Fan t is the control
and latent heat load could be calculated and a input, is the uncertain element that forms the
poultry house temperature Th should be defined lump uncertain element Bv, t v, t , f v, t is
by each operator (normally, temperature the known nonlinear function, and Bv, t is the
difference between the front and rear of a house known control gain.
should not be exceed 2 degree). Thus, from the In practice, the above equation could be
m air in Equation (3), air velocity that flows constructed by input/output measurement and
passing the cooling pad is given by system identification process using Matlab. By
vp
m air
(19) using the air velocity in Equation (19) to be
air Ap reference, a control law can be formulated
similar to the work of T. Radpukdee and P.
Where air is density of the humid air out of the Jirawattana [8]. That is
cooling pad and N Fan B f v p B c ksatY
1
Appendix A
Table A : Additional collected parameters for heat
load calculation form the farm in case study
Parameter Value Unit
Size of Poultry house 13.8x125x4 m3
(width x length x height)
Figure 5 the conventional boundary layer Size of Cooling pad 9x3.6x0.15 m3/unit
sliding mode control law with uncertainty (width x height x thickness)
Thickness of wall 0.0125 m
learning and compensation Wall conductivity 0.7200 W/m.k
Density of Wall 1860 kg/m3
Because of the uncertain element in Specific heat of Wall 0.84 kJ/kg.K
Equation (20) is assumed to be bound, the Thickness of Ceiling 0.0008 m
Ceiling conductivity 80.4 W/m.k
stability of the control system will be achieved Density of Ceiling 7860 kg/m3
uniform ultimate roundedness similar to the Specific heat of Ceiling 0.450 kJ/kg.K
Thickness of Ground 0.0125 m
system in [6,7,8]. To sum up, when the air Ground conductivity 0.7200 W/m.k
velocity through a cooling pad is controlled to Density of Ground 1860 kg/m3
Specific heat of Ground 0.84 kJ/kg.K
reach the reference value calculated from the
Heat exchanger evaporation area of 320 m2/m3
estimated cooling load, the mass flow rate of cooling pad
water will be offered simultaneously. Then the Number of air change 3,600.00 h-1
Internal air volume 300.00 m3
air at low temperature out of the cooling pad will Specific air volume in the poultry house 1.61 m3/kg
be occurred by evaporative process depending Specific heat of internal humid air 1.006 kJ/kg.K
Ground depth with constant temperature
on wet and dry bulb temperature of the incoming throughout the year
0.20 m
outside hot air and the cooling pad efficiency. Surface temperature at a depth L 25.00 o
C
Heat exposure of Chicken 0.0082060 W / unit
Due to variation of the incoming hot air Air velocity through Cooling pad
properties, the temperature of the supply cool air - July’09 1.53 m/s
- November’09 1.33 m/s
from the pad is hard to be controlled by the air - March’10 1.20 m/s
velocity only if some dehumidify device is not Out Temperature of poultry house
o
- July’09 26.13 C
installed [1]. However, the difference between o
- November’09 28.42 C
the supply cooled air temperature and - March’10 28.47 o
C
temperature at the end of a poultry house could
be controlled as implied from Equation (3). References
[1] Bom, Gret Jan and etc., 1999, Evaporative
Acknowledgement Air-Conditioning, Washington, D.C., U.S.A,
This research was supported by Cleaner The World Bank
Technology Internship Program, Khon Kaen [2] Prayut Neamtang, 2546, Reduction of Heat
Loads Through Poultry Roof, Department
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