Spherical storage facilities as an energy-saving innovation in small business forms

Orenburg State Agrarian University, Orenburg, Russia

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Abstract

Ensuring food security is a priority for the development of Russian agriculture. In this regard, the increase in the number of refrigeration plants for storing agricultural and other products, which require a significant amount of electric energy to generate cold, necessitates the search and development of new energy-efficient sources of cold supply. The solution to this problem is possible due to the commissioning of fruit and vegetable storages of a buried type of spherical shape. The calculation of heat losses indicates a significant superiority of such fruit and vegetable storages over standard ones - with flat enclosing surfaces, and the use of cold charging of the carrier soil mass contributes to the regulation of the storage mode of products in the optimal range of temperature values, which ensures a long period of quality assurance.