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The Integrated Roof-Top Greenhouse Building IRTG is a new concept, derived from the conventional roof-top greenhouse, bringing features that boost technical performances and offer us a basic tool able to oppose global warming. By specific devices (water-to-water and air-to-air heat pumps, heat exchangers, water tanks, etc.) IRTGs are harvesting the available renewable energy resources (geo-thermal, solar, wind, etc.) which are stored and managed in an integrated way (Watergy). A ventilation system conveys oxygen enriched air from the greenhouse to the building and carbon dioxide enriched air from the building to the greenhouse. A generic model of this system is presented, along with illustrative simulations. If applied on large scale - the Green-Skyline City - one creates a strong carbon offset mechanism, opposing the global warming, overlapping the most active CO2 source, our cities. The IRTG temperature control demands self-adaptivity and intelligence, which in our approach are provided by fuzzy-interpolative controllers. One obtain such way Intelligent RTGs (iRTG).
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The research was supported by the research contract no. 9542/Dec. 22, 2017.
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Balas, M.M., Popa, M., Muller, E.V., Alexuta, D., Muresan, L. (2021). Intelligent Roof-Top Greenhouse Buildings. In: Balas, V., Jain, L., Balas, M., Shahbazova, S. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52190-5_5
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