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Utilization of $CO_2$ Influenced by Windbreak in an Elevated Production System for Strawberry  

Kim, Y.-H. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Lee, I.-B. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Chun, Chang-Hoo (Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University)
Hwang, H.-S. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Hong, S.-W. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Seo, I.-H. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Yoo, J.-I. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Bitog, Jessie P. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
Kwon, K.-S. (Department of Rural System Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.18, no.1, 2009 , pp. 29-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
The influence of windbreak to minimize the ventilation velocity near the plant canopy of a greenhouse strawberry was thoroughly investigated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. Windbreaks were constructed surrounding the plant canopy to control ventilation and maintain the concentration of the supplied $CO_2$ from the soil surface close to the strawberry plants. The influence of no windbreak, 0.15 m and 0.30 m height windbreaks with varied air velocity of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 m/s were simulated in the study. The concentrations of supplied $CO_2$ within the plant canopy of were measured. To simplify the model, plants were not included in the final model. Considering 1.0m/s wind velocity which is the normal wind velocity of greenhouses, the concentrations of $CO_2$ were approximately 420, 580 and 653 ppm ($1{\times}10^{-9}kg/m^3$) for no windbreak, 0.15 and 0.30 m windbreak height, respectively. Considering that the maximum concentration of $CO_2$ for the strawberry plants was around 600-800 ppm, the 0.30 m windbreak height is highly recommended. This study revealed that the windbreak was very effective in preserving $CO_2$ gas within the plant canopy. More so, the study also proved that the CFD technique can be used to determine the concentration of $CO_2$ within the plant canopy for the plants consumption at any designed condition. For an in-depth application of this study, the plants as well as the different conditions for $CO_2$ utilization, etc. should be considered.
Keywords
computational fluid dynamics (CFD); $CO_2$ utilization; elevated cultivation; greenhouse; Strawberry;
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