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Development of CFD Model for Estimation of Cooling Effect of Fog Cooling System in Greenhouse  

유인호 (서울대학교 농공학과)
김문기 (서울대학교 농공학과)
권혁진 (서울대학교 농공학과)
김기성 (서울대학교 농공학과)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.11, no.2, 2002 , pp. 93-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out not only to develop CFD model for numerically simulating fog cooling system but also to verify the validity of the developed model by data measured in fag cooling greenhouse. In addition the developed model was applied to investigate the effects of spraying water temperature, spraying water amount, spraying interval and evaporation percentage on the performance of the fog cooling system. According to the simulation results, the temperature differences between the measured and predicted temperatures at each measurement point were $0.1~1.4^{\circ}C$ in case of no shading and $0.2~2.3^{\circ}C$ in close of shading. The humidity differences were 0.3~6.0% and 0.7~10.6%, respectively in the cases of no shading and shading. Because the predicted data showed a good agreement with the measured ones, the developed model is supposed to be able to predict the cooling effect of the fog cooling system. The performance of fog cooling system was greatly influenced by spraying water amount, spraying interval and evaporation percentage, but it was not influenced by spraying water temperature.
Keywords
CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics); fog cooling system; greenhouse;
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