Performance analysis of cold storage with energy heat recovery wheel

A cold storage is place where the various items such as vegetables fruits, medicines and potato etc. are stored to protect them from getting spoiled and to prolong their preservation period. This task is accomplished by storing the products at their preservation temperature and relative humidity etc. Preservation temperature for foodstuffs can be defined as the temperature at which its respiration rate would not harm the condition of foodstuffs in cold storage. Cold Storage required high electrical power consumption, therefore researchers is always trying to reduce the power consumption. In the present work an energy heat recovery wheel which is use to transfers heat from a warmer to cooler air streams has been utilized for energy saving in a cold storage and its detailed heat transfer and flow analysis has been carried out. A Potato cold-storage of capacity 5000 MT is taken for all analysis. It is observe that with the application of the heat recovery wheel the air infiltration/ventilation load is reduced from 10.724% to 1.51% and saving in running cost is observed as 25.5% per day.