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Next-Generation Greenhouses for Food Security
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ISBN: 1839680768 183968075X Year: 2021 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,


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Plastic greenhouses for warm climates.
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ISBN: 9251011680 Year: 1982 Publisher: Rome : FAO,


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Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth
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ISBN: 9783319111346 3319111337 9783319111339 3319111345 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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A discussion of challenges related to the modeling and control of greenhouse crop growth, this book presents state-of-the-art answers to those challenges. The authors model the subsystems involved in successful greenhouse control using different techniques and show how the models obtained can be exploited for simulation or control design; they suggest ideas for the development of physical and/or black-box models for this purpose. Strategies for the control of climate- and irrigation-related variables are brought forward. The uses of PID control and feedforward compensators, both widely used in commercial tools, are summarized. The benefits of advanced control techniques—event-based, robust, and predictive control, for example—are used to improve on the performance of those basic methods. A hierarchical control architecture is developed governed by a high-level multiobjective optimization approach rather than traditional constrained optimization and artificial intelligence techniques.  Reference trajectories are found for diurnal and nocturnal temperatures (climate-related setpoints) and electrical conductivity (fertirrigation-related setpoints). The objectives are to maximize profit, fruit quality, and water-use efficiency, these being encouraged by current international rules. Illustrative practical results selected from those obtained in an industrial greenhouse during the last eight years are shown and described. The text of the book is complemented by the use of illustrations, tables and real examples which are helpful in understanding the material. Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth will be of interest to industrial engineers, academic researchers and graduates from agricultural, chemical, and process-control backgrounds. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.


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CO2 : a valuable source of carbon
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ISBN: 1447158296 1447151186 1447151194 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Springer,

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As the annual production of carbon Dioxide (CO2) reaches 30 billion tones, the growing issue of the greenhouse effect has triggered the development of technologies for CO2 sequestration, storage and use as a reactant. Collecting together the reports of the Congress at University of Rome (Campus Bio-medico) held 16th April 2012, CO2: A Valuable Source of Carbon presents and discusses promising technologies for the industrial exploitation of CO2.   Divided into two parts, the current technology is evaluated and summarized before European and national projects are presented. The focus on CO2 recovery, particularly in value-added production, proposes applicable methods to develop sustainable practices  and even to mitigate greenhouse gas emission from large-scale fossil fuels usage.   Including current data and real-world examples, CO2: A valuable source of carbon  provides students, engineers, researchers and industry professional with up-to-date material and potential areas for development and research.


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Computer application in agricultural environments (Proceedings of the 42nd Nottingham Eastern School.
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ISBN: 0407004297 1322209456 1483161951 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Butterworths,

Environment and the experimental control of plant growth
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ISBN: 0122214501 9780122214509 Year: 1975 Volume: 6 Publisher: London Academic Press

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