World Potato Congress (WPC) has a new webinar in its ongoing series on January 14 at 9 a.m. ET.
“The Impact of Climate Change on Removing Energy from a Potato Storage with an Ambient Air Ventilation System,” will be presented by Todd Forbush with Techmark, Inc.
Presentation Outline
Ambient air potato storage ventilation systems rely on cool outside air to remove energy from the potato storage resulting from both field heat and potato respiration. These systems do not contain mechanical refrigeration equipment, so proper ambient air quality is critical to successful energy removal from the potato storage.
This presentation will begin by discussing a view of the ventilation system as an “energy conveyor” rather than a fan or fans with specific ventilation capacity. The quality of the ambient air will be discussed and the impact that air quality (temperature and moisture content) will have on the energy carrying capacity of the air system.
These principles will then be applied to ambient air potato storage ventilation with input from different climate change models. The results of this evaluation will serve as a point of view that can be utilized for evaluating future needs for ambient potato storage ventilation systems as we face changing environmental conditions.
