RESEARCH REGARDING THE TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY VARIATION IN A POTATOES WAREHOUSE WITHOUT AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM

Abstract

The warehouse in which the researches were done has no automatic adjustment systems for temperature, humidity or airflow speed. In the warehouse floor there are placed channels through which the atmospheric air is circulated. This is necessary to correct these parameters. Also there are some electric radiators and a heating source with solid fuel for warming the warehouse in critical moments. The weekly measured values of the climatic phenomenon, both inside and outside the warehouse were processed and applied to the biological evolution of the potatoes tubercles from five different varieties. For each variety there were monitored 20 tubercles displaced at different heights in storing box-pallets. There were found different biological evolutions which mean that each potato variety needs different storing conditions.