Techno-economic analysis of innovative production and application of solar thermal chilled water for agricultural soil cooling

• Main Authors: Olabomi, Rasaq Adekunle, Jaafar, A. Bakar, Musa, Md. Nor, Sarip, Shamsul, Ariffin, Azrin
• Format: Article
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2017
• Subjects: T Technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/66160/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.01.104
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tropical climate countries are net importers of temperate crops due to difficulties encountered in cultivating them, thus constant increase in prices of these crops is always experienced due to increasing demand. To meet the demands, efforts have been made to adapt temperate crops to tropical climat...