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Effects of Circulation Fans on Uniformity of Meteorological Factors in Warm Air Heated Greenhouse  

Yu, In-Ho (Protected Horticulture Experiment Station, NHRI, RDA)
Cho, Myeong-Whan (Protected Horticulture Experiment Station, NHRI, RDA)
Lee, Si-Young (Protected Horticulture Experiment Station, NHRI, RDA)
Chun, Hee (Protected Horticulture Experiment Station, NHRI, RDA)
Lee, In-Bok (Dept. of Rural Systems Eng., Seoul National University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.16, no.4, 2007 , pp. 291-296 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of horizontal air flow produced by circulation fans on horizontal and vertical profiles of meteorological factors. The three-dimensional distributions of air speed, air temperature, relative humidity and carbon dioxide $(CO_2)$ concentration were measured with and without the fans in operation. The uniformity of the spatial distribution of meteorological factors decreased as the outside air temperature decreased. In "fans off" condition, spatial variations of $4.7^{\circ}C$ in air temperature, 19% in relative humidity were detected. When the fans were operated, these variations were reduced to 2.2 and 6.3%, respectively. As the fan capacity increased, the difference in air temperature among sampling points decreased. The fan capacity of $0.0104m^3{\cdot}s^{-1}{\cdot}m^{-2}$ was enough to obtain a reasonable air flow in greenhouse. The vertical profiles of air temperature and $CO_2$ concentration were reasonably uniform regardless of measurement height and fan capacity. Further researches on the position of fans to reduce the difference in air temperature along the width and the effects of using a larger number of smaller fans are required.
Keywords
air circulation; chrysanthemum; circulation fan; temperature distribution;
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