Can low-temperature fine mist cooling keep crops comfortable? The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute conducts a study

The autumn tiger has been roaring in recent days, and daytime highs across Taiwan, China are already unbearably scorching, let alone the greenhouse environment of midsummer, which is exceptionally hot and even affects crops. Now the Agricultural Research Institute has developed a "low-temperature micro-mist cooling system": the water it sprays can turn into tiny "mist droplets", which can effectively cool things down while also saving energy and preventing crops from becoming diseased due to excessive moisture.

"Our misting can also be used together with a management system." Huang Litung said that traditional greenhouse management uses manual methods, opening the skylights, ventilating, or installing control equipment such as fans and water walls, to cope with summer conditions that easily exceed 40 degrees C, but this also drives growers to consider increased production costs and carbon emissions.

But the system and equipment developed by the Agricultural Research Institute can use environmental monitoring to automatically spray micro-mist water and control the skylights, working with circulation fans to increase the drift distance and evaporation rate of the mist droplets, which can both cool the greenhouse and avoid affecting crop quality and growth, "only when humidity reaches 80% is spraying not recommended."

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