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Greenhouse Climate Control Systems by Enerdes®
A good control system for your climate can help you spend less time on technicalities and more time focussed on your crops, enabling you to grow and produce to the best of your abilities. We can engineer and supply the climate control systems for greenhouses. Alternatively, we can also support you with integration of Enerdes supplied systems and/or components into an existing or new control system. Enerdes has the expertise to help you get the most out of your greenhouse by being able to reliably and accurately control your greenhouse climate. You are welcome to contact us via the form for a quote or more information on greenhouse climate control systems at the bottom of the page.
The Enerdes expertise
Expertise of Enerdes
Enerdes is a worldwide pioneer in the innovation and development of high-end greenhouse climate control systems. Enerdes has a thriving Research and Development department and can rely on the expertise of its sister companies within Reinders Corporation, which has been providing climate control system since 1910. For over a century, Reinders and Enerdes specialists have been producing and improving state of the art climate control systems. The expertise within Enerdes allows us to give valuable climate control advise to greenhouse owners and provide optimal greenhouse climate control solutions for sharp prices.
Basics of greenhouse climate control
Greenhouse conditions are extremely important for crop quality and high yield rates. Factors that influence plant growth and plant health are environmental conditions such as but not limited to:
- Air humidity and moisture levels
- Air temperature
- Air circulation
- Irrigation water flow
- Irrigation water temperature
- Irrigation water pH and nutrients
For optimal product quality and yield, it is extremely important to monitor and control the greenhouse air flow and the environmental greenhouse conditions. As every plant and every greenhouse is unique, it is important to make the greenhouse climate control a system that consists of components that are perfectly collaborating with each other and are tailor-made to the needs of the customer, the specific greenhouse and its plant species. In order to control the indoor greenhouse conditions, Enerdes takes into account the outdoor conditions and the plant growing conditions. Outdoor conditions that are analysed and whose influence is anticipated upon, are for example:
- Outdoor temperatures
- Outdoor temperature fluctuations
- Outdoor Humidity levels
- Wind
- Air pressure
- Light
- Sun power
Integrated approach on climate control by Enerdes
Our experts are highly educated and can model your greenhouse and plants in order to design a greenhouse climate control system that is tailor-made and optimized for your conditions, crop quality and yield requirements. Enerdes offers an integrated approach to greenhouse climate control. We provide systems and control solutions for anything that is needed for optimal climate control. For example:
- Air circulation
- Air filtration
- Air disinfection
- Air Temperature regulation
- CO2 monitor and CO2 controller
- Irrigation systems
- Water filtration
- Water disinfection
- Water temperature regulation
These components can all be controlled by a central PLC, a programmable logic controller. Enerdes programs these inhouse, so we know the system inside and outside and are able to regulate the greenhouse climate smoothly.
Greenhouse climate modelling and robust control
Enerdes can model and simulate each greenhouse for its air circulation and water irrigation. It can optimize air flows, water flows, pressure drops and temperature ranges. This allows us to provide our customers with the most suitable components such as :
- Fans
- Pumps
- Chillers
- Heating and cooling equipment.
It is important the specifications and the quality of the Enerdes greenhouse climate control components are optimized for product quality, water consumption saving and energy consumption saving .
The climate systems expertise and years of greenhouse climate control experience allow Enerdes to design climate process control systems that are robust, reliable and extremely energy efficient.
Climate control solutions by Enerdes
Air circulation and air distribution
Appropriate ventilation and air motion are extremely important in a greenhouse for high product quality.
Air handling units: Enerdes Air Handling Units are the best performing and the most energy efficient air handling units in the world. The AHU systems create optimal greenhouse climate conditions and are uniquely designed for, amongst other greenhouse designs, the patented semi-closed greenhouses. AHU’s provide air motion and temperature control. This can be done with both inside and outside air. Many designs are available ranging from compact to large, medium climate to challenging climates and a budget model.
Enerdes fogging systems and industrial humidifiers control humidity levels. The systems control the moisture and provide evaporative cooling in the greenhouse.
Recirculation fans: Enerdes Recirculation fans bring the air in the greenhouse in motion and provide a homogeneous temperature distribution throughout the entire operating space. Uniform conditions in the greenhouse are critical for a reliable and repeatable crop production.
Air hoses: Air movement and uniform conditions are not only important in the top of the greenhouse, but especially close to the plants. Air hoses and recirculation under the gutters on which the plants are positioned, provide a constant air flow under and around the plants. This also prevents moisture build-up near the plants, which impedes mold development and crop diseases.
Fresh air intake: Enerdes has developed fresh air intake systems that meticulously control the amount of fresh air that is blown into the greenhouse and ensures proper air filtration in order to prevent rodents, dust and even microbes and mold from entering the greenhouse.
Air Treatment
Greenhouse dryers from Enerdes
Some greenhouses also dry their plants, fro example hemp dryers. Enerdes has developed high-end dryers that can be installed in drying rooms. The Enerdes dryers control the humidity levels and temperature in the drying room with incredible precision. The biggest challenges of plant drying are:
- Relative humidity level decrease rate control. If the drying process is too slow there is a risk of growing mould. If the drying process is too quick, product quality is damaged.
- Homogeneous moisture contents in the entire drying room
- Homogeneous air motion in the entire drying room
- Homogeneous temperature levels in the entire drying room
Enerdes has developed a high quality dryer that accounts for all these challenges and secures homogeneous product quality for each and every drying batch. The humidity level and thus plant moisture content is lowered over a certain time span with a rate that is completely tailored to the customer’s and the plant species requirements. The drying system has been uniquely developed by Enerdes and provides homogeneous air motion and moisture concentrations in the entire drying room, achieving a consistent product quality for all plants in short time spans.
Desinfection and filtration
Both filtration and disinfecting systems can clean the air from undesired microbes and moulds.
- Enerdes has developed an air disinfection system that contains a UVC module. The UVC module kills bacteria, viruses and mold spores, without affecting the air quality.
- Enerdes can design tailor-made solutions for filtration units to the desired level of filtration, which precisely control the amount of air that is treated. Our filtration systems can be designed to the required MERV or HEPA filtrations levels.
Odour control
Enerdes has produced many systems that provide odour control. These solutions each have their own advantages and include:
- Enerdes Carbon filters, based on activated carbon filtration. This is a market standard and effective solution.
- Enerdes Biofilters, based on odour and VOC neutralizing effect of the optimized microbes that develop in the biofilter. This is a completely harmless and environmentally friendly solution.
- Enerdes Vapour odour control, based on the odour neutralizing effect of essential oils. This is a solution that can be installed all around the greenhouse perimeter in order to prevent odours from reaching the neighbourhood.
Greenhouse irrigation - water sterilizer developed by Enerdes
Enerdes provides Sterilizers that allow for the greenhouse to safely reuse irrigation water and sterilize drain water, resulting high water efficiency. The disinfection percentage is 99.9% while retaining adequate oxygen levels, fertilizer and nutrient levels and pH levels.
Greenhouse heating and cooling
Enerdes has developed innovative solutions for heating and cooling of a greenhouse that minimize energy costs and are environmentally friendly. Heating and cooling greenhouse solutions made by Enerdes include but are not limited to:
- Flue gas condensers
- Flue gas ducts
- Cooling towers
- Cogeneration
- Double air blower
- Heated pipe infrastructure lay-out and optimization
- Cooling pads
- Boiler rooms
Enerdes Smart greenhouse control system
Our systems have constant equipment status monitoring and control, which have the option of remote access and remote management. Enerdes system statuses, greenhouse temperatures and humidity levels can be monitored and documented at every desired time interval. The greenhouse automation level is very high but systems can also be controlled manually if desired. Enerdes is always available for service or maintenance issues.
Applications of climate control for greenhouses
Enerdes climate control systems have been applied in many industries all over the world in every possible climate. Ranging from cold winter or icy dessert night temperatures to hot summers and extremely high day temperatures. Our systems significantly increase crop quality and have been installed in greenhouses such as but not limited to:
- Plants and vegetables, such as Tomatoes and Cucumbers
- Hemp
- Cannabis
Another application of our system is found in power plant glasshouses. Mirrors are placed in a glasshouse in order to turn energy from the sun into heat and steam. Here the humidity levels are extremely critical and must be controlled to perfection.