Performance characterisation of a small milk cooling system with ice storage for PV applications |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Tropics and Subtropics Group, Universität Hohenheim (440e), Stuttgart 70599, Germany;2. Research Group of Applied Thermal Engineering (CREVER), University Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda Països Catalans 26, Tarragona, Spain;1. Solar Energy Research Institute, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan, China;2. Zhejiang Solar Energy Product Quality Inspection Center, Zhejiang, China;3. Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | The presented work proposes a calculation method to estimate the transient performance of a small on-farm milk cooling system for PV applications. The system employs 3 kg ice for fast cooling of 17 L milk in conventional 20-L-milk-cans. Two units of a commercial DC refrigerator operate at −10 °C and at 4 °C for ice production and milk preservation respectively. The development of milk temperature and energy consumption during a cooling event was studied experimentally at different ambient temperatures of 20 °C, 30 °C and 40 °C. A computational model was developed and validated where thermal resistances and COP were adjusted with experimental data. The results between 20 °C and 40 °C ambient temperature show a COP reduction of around 30% and a total daily energy consumption increase of around 100%. The specific total energy consumption of the system per litre milk was between 30 Wh/L and 58 Wh/L for the studied ambient temperature range. The suggested model can be used for the optimisation of photovoltaic stand-alone systems at specific locations. |
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