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http://dx.doi.org/10.12791/KSBEC.2019.28.3.225

Efficiency of Different Roof Vent Designs on Natural Ventilation of Single-Span Plastic Greenhouse  

Rasheed, Adnan (Department of Agricultural Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Jong Won (Department of Horticulture Environment System, Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries)
Kim, Hyeon Tae (Department of Bio-Industrial Machinery Enineering., GyeongsangNational University (Institute of Agricultural and Life Sciences))
Lee, Hyun Woo (Department of Agricultural Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.28, no.3, 2019 , pp. 225-233 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the summer season, natural ventilation is commonly used to reduce the inside air temperature of greenhouse when it rises above the optimal level. The greenhouse shape, vent design, and position play a critical role in the effectiveness of natural ventilation. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was employed to investigate the effect of different roof vent designs along with side vents on the buoyancy-driven natural ventilation. The boussinesq hypothesis was used to simulate the buoyancy effect to the whole computational domain. RNG K-epsilon turbulence model was utilized, and a discrete originates (DO) radiation model was used with solar ray tracing to simulate the effect of solar radiation. The CFD model was validated using the experimentally obtained greenhouse internal temperature, and the experimental and computed results agreed well. Furthermore, this model was adopted to compare the internal greenhouse air temperature and ventilation rate for seven different roof vent designs. The results revealed that the inside-to-outside air temperature differences of the greenhouse varied from 3.2 to $9.6^{\circ}C$ depending on the different studied roof vent types. Moreover, the ventilation rate was within the range from 0.33 to $0.49min^{-1}$. Our findings show that the conical type roof ventilation has minimum inside-to-outside air temperature difference of $3.2^{\circ}C$ and a maximum ventilation rate of $0.49min^{-1}$.
Keywords
air flow; CFD; greenhouse cooling; greenhouse thermal environment;
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