Welcome to Greenhouses’s documentation!¶
| Organization: | University of Liège |
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| Date: | Aug 02, 2019 |
Greenhouses is an open-source library for dynamic modelling of greenhouse climate developed in the Modelica language. The library aims at providing a modeling framework capable of simulating not only the energy flows of a greenhouse climate but also the complex interactions and energy flows relative to systems coupling the greenhouse e.g. generation and storage units. A number of platforms are currently available for greenhouse climate simulation, but none of them is open-source. Moreover, no platform is currently available for simulating the energy integration of greenhouses with other systems. The goal of Greenhouses is to fill this gap.
For greenhouse-scale simulation, the proposed library includes the modeling of greenhouse construction elements, indoor climate, heating systems, ventilation systems and crop yield. To the end of performing system-scale simulations, the library includes robust performance-based models of several generation units (e.g. CHP and heat pumps) as well as a model of thermal energy storage. The library also includes several pre-programmed control systems for climate control (heating circuit, window’s aperture, supplementary lighting, etc.) and operation control of the HVAC units.
Explore the Examples package to get a feeling of the modeling possibility that the Greenhouses library offers!
Downloading Greenhouses¶
Greenhouses can be downloaded from its github repository (using the Clone or Download button on the right side of the screen): https://github.com/queraltab/Greenhouses-Library
License¶
The Greenhouses package is free software licensed under the Modelica License 2. It can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of this license.
Main developers¶
- Queralt Altes-Buch (University of Liège, Belgium)