Greenhouse heating equipment selection spreadsheet

Journal Article · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1994 · Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin; (United States)

OSTI ID:7010246

Rafferty, K

A large percentage of the projects in which the Geo-Heat Center has participated have been greenhouses. In most cases, our involvement has been related to the selection of heating equipment for the structure. The wide variety of equipment, growers preferences and resource temperatures can make the selection a complicated process. As with any project, the cost of the equipment is a primary consideration. To manually evaluate the cost of five or six alternate systems for each project is prohibitive due to the time required. As a result of these issues, the Geo-Heat Center has developed a spreadsheet entitled [open quotes]Greenhouse Heating Equipment Selection[close quotes] (GHS). GHS is a tool for evaluating the cost (both capital and operating) of six types of greenhouse heating systems: unit heaters, finned pipe, bare tube, fan coil, combination bare tube/fan coil and low temperature unit heaters. A future modification of the spreadsheet will allow a propane unit heater peaking system to be added to any of the above systems.

• OSTI ID: 7010246
• Journal Information: Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin; (United States), Journal Name: Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin; (United States) Vol. 16:1; ISSN GCQBDW; ISSN 0276-1084
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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