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Greenhouse Cooling Using Air Duct and Integrated Fan and Pad System  

Nam, Sang-Woon (Department of Agricultural and Rural Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Young-Shik (Department of Plant Science and Technology, Sangmyung University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.20, no.3, 2011 , pp. 176-181 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fan and pad evaporative cooling system is one of the main cooling methods in greenhouses. Its efficiency is very high, but it has some disadvantages as temperature gradient in greenhouse is large. This study was conducted to reduce the internal temperature gradients in the fan and pad cooling greenhouses. Experiments on cooling performance were carried out in a greenhouse equipped with air duct and integrated fan and pad system as an idea of this study. It showed that the cooling efficiency of an integrated fan and pad system was 75.7% in the first stage and 88.6% in the second stage. When this cooling system was operated for an unshaded and a shaded greenhouse, there were cooling effects of $5.7\sim7.6^{\circ}C$ and $7.4\sim9.7^{\circ}C$ to the control greenhouse, respectively. Maximum temperature differences in a cooling greenhouse, with a length of 18m, were $1.6\sim1.7^{\circ}C$ for shaded conditions and $2.3\sim2.7^{\circ}C$ for unshaded conditions. This greenhouse cooling method, with air duct and integrated fan and pad system, can reduce about 40~50% of the internal temperature gradients in the usual fan and pad cooling greenhouses.
Keywords
air duct; greenhouse cooling; integrated fan and pad system; natural ventilation; temperature gradient;
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