Pure Harvest Smart Farms is now growing strawberries, lettuce, and melons in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Adnan Javed, General Manager, Trane EMEA had this to say: "We're talking about a country that's 80% desert, with very limited agricultural resources. All the non-arable land means that the UAE must import about 90% of its food. The UAE government has been trying to change that by encouraging local food production, which it hopes will increase food security, particularly in cases of natural disaster or emergency."
Pure Harvest believes its greenhouses can be part of that solution. Small yet high-producing oases of arable land, these installations are similar to other forms of indoor agriculture, except that they leverage natural light. Inside, every aspect of the growing environment is carefully monitored and maintained, from temperature to humidity, air movement, and carbon dioxide levels.
To help them construct such a system, Pure Harvest looked to Trane for a solution: a modular electric thermal management array comprised of Trane heat pumps and centrifugal chillers using R-1233zd refrigerant. A sustainable electric solution, the Trane system was designed to meet the combined heating and cooling requirements of the greenhouse and do so using minimum power and water, as high efficiency is central to Pure Harvest's economic model.
Majed Halawi, VP of Engineering & Construction, Pure Harvest Smart Farms said: "Reliability and efficiency correlate directly to production, and therefore the cost of the agricultural produce coming from the greenhouse. It's our ability to grow high-quality food intensively and close to where it's consumed that allows us to deliver fruits and vegetables at comparable prices to imports."
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