• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2023

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.328-334
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• 2013

A greenhouse heating system to improve heat pump performance using inside and outside air of greenhouse as a heat source selectively and cut $CO_2$ enrichment costs by delay of greenhouse ventilation was developed. In this system, thermal storage modes divided into inside circulation mode using surplus solar energy and outside circulation mode using outside air heat. The thermal storage modes were designed to be switched mutually according to inside greenhouse temperature and six temperature values were input to control the heat pump operating, thermal storage mode switching and greenhouse heating automatically. Operating characteristics of this system were tested in a plastic greenhouse of non-ventilation condition. The results of test showed that the inside circulation mode began at about 11:00 and lasted for about 210 minutes and inside greenhouse temperature was maintained between $20{\sim}28^{\circ}C$ in spite of non-ventilation. System heating COP of the inside circulation mode in the daytime was 3.35, which was 36% and 25% higher than that of the outside circulation modes in the nighttime and daytime respectively.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 1999

Natural ventilation in a four and one-half span, double polyethylene commercial greenhouse was investigated with actual data collected at Quailcrest Farm near Wooster, Ohio. Moreover, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical technique, FLUENT V4.3, was used to predict natural ventilation rates, thermal conditions, and airflow distributions in the greenhouse. The collected climate data showed that the multi-span greenhouse was well ventilated by the natural ventilation system during the typical summer weather conditions. The maximum recorded air temperature difference between inside and outside the greenhouse was 3.5$^{\circ}C$ during the hottest (34.7$^{\circ}C$) recorded sunny day; the air temperatures in the greenhouse were very uniform with the maximum temperature difference between six widely dispersed locations being only 1.7$^{\circ}C$. The CFD models predicted that air exchange rates were as high as 0.9 volume per minute (A.C. .min$^{-1}$ ) with 2.5m.s$^{-1}$ winds from the west as designed.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.195-206
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• 2012

This study is about an analysis of surplus solar energy by important greenhouse types as well as setting temperature different by using Typical Meteorological Year data which was secured in order to provide basic data for designing an optimum thermal storage system to accumulate surplus solar energy generating in greenhouses during the daytime. Depending on the setting temperatures of $15{\sim}19^{\circ}C$ for greenhouse heating during day and night, surplus heat amounts were varied at the rate of about $0.2{\sim}6.9%/4^{\circ}C$ with some variations according to the greenhouse types and regions. On the other hand, the variations of supplemental heat requirements were about $29.7{\sim}50.0%/4^{\circ}C$. Depending on the setting temperatures for greenhouse ventilations(low $25{\sim}29^{\circ}C$ and high $27{\sim}31^{\circ}C$), surplus heat amounts were varied at the rate of about $-9.9{\sim}-35.6%/4^{\circ}C$ in auto-type greenhouse. But in single-type greenhouses, they were about $-5.1{\sim}-13.4%/4^{\circ}C$. There were not significant changes in supplemental heat amounts depending on setting temperatures of ventilation for both greenhouse types and regions.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.218-231
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• 2005

This paper reviews the engineering approach needed to support humans during their long-term missions in space. This approach includes closed plant production systems under microgravity or low pressure, mass recycling, air revitalization, water purification, waste management, elimination of trace contaminants, lighting, and nutrient delivery systems in controlled ecological life support system (CELSS). Requirements of crops f3r space use are high production, edibility, digestibility, many culinary uses, capability of automation, short stems, and high transpiration. Low pressure on Mars is considered to be a major obstacle for the design of greenhouses fer crop production. However interest in Mars inflatable greenhouse applicable to planetary surface has increased. Structure, internal pressure, material, method of lighting, and shielding are principal design parameters for the inflatable greenhouse. The inflatable greenhouse operating at low pressure can reduce the structural mass and atmosphere leakage rate. Plants growing at reduced pressure show an increasing transpiration rates and a high water loss. Vapor pressure increases as moisture is added to the air through transpiration or evaporation from leaks in the hydroponic system. Fluctuations in vapor pressure will significantly influence total pressure in a closed system. Thus hydroponic systems should be as tight as possible to reduce the quantity of water that evaporates from leaks. And the environmental control system to maintain high relative humidity at low pressure should be developed. The essence of technologies associated with CELSS can support human lift even at extremely harsh conditions such as in deserts, polar regions, and under the ocean on Earth as well as in space.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.176-185
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• 2018

As global warming accelerates, greenhouse gas reduction becomes more important. Carbon dioxide dry reforming is a promising green-house gas reduction technology that can obtain CO and $H_2$ which are high value-added materials by utilizing $CO_2$ and $CH_4$ which are greenhouse gases. However, there is a significant coking problem during operation of the dry reforming reactor. Because the carbon dioxide dry reforming is a strong endothermic reaction, the temperature of the reactor drops near the reactor inlet and causes coke formation. To solve this problem, it is important to ensure that the reaction takes place in a temperature range where coke production is minimized. In this study, we proposed a design method that can maintain reaction temperature in the region where the coke is rarely generated by using the new catalyst configuration method. The design method also optimizes the reactor by solving the optimization problem which minimizes the reactor length for a given reaction conversion by using the fuel flow rate, catalyst density, and output temperature by section as optimization variables.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.296-305
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• 2006

The heterogeneity of crop transpiration is important to clearly understand the microclimate mechanisms and to efficiently handle the water resource in greenhouses. A computational fluid dynamic program (Fluent CFD version 6.2) was developed to study the internal climate and crop transpiration distributions of greenhouses. Additionally, the global solar radiation model and a crop heat exchange model were programmed together. Those models programmed using $C^{++}$ software were connected to the CFD main module using the user define function (UDF) technology. For the developed CFD validity, a field experiment was conducted at a $17{\times}6 m^2$ plastic-covered mechanically ventilated single-span greenhouse located at Pusan in Korea. The CFD internal distributions of air temperature, relative humidity, and air velocity at 1m height were validated against the experimental results. The CFD computed results were in close agreement with the measured distributions of the air temperature, relative humidity, and air velocity along the greenhouse. The averaged errors of their CFD computed results were 2.2%,2.1%, and 7.7%, respectively.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2011

The high fuel flexibility of Micro Gas Turbine(MGT) has boosted their use in a wide variety of applications. Recently, the demand for biogas generated from the digestion of organic wastes and landfill as a fuel for gas turbines has increased. We researched the influence of firing landfill gas(LFG) on the performance and operating characteristics of a micro gas turbine combined heat and power system. $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ simultaneous recovery process has been developed for field plant scale to provide an isothermal, low operating cost method for carrying out the contaminants removal in Land Fill Gas(LFG) by liquid phase catalyst for introduce into the green house for the purpose of $CO_2$ rich cultivation of the plants. Methane purification and carbon dioxide stripping by muti panel autocirculation bubble lift column reactor utilizing Fe-EDTA was conducted for evaluate optimum conditions for land fill gas. Based on inflow rate of LFG as 0.207 $m^3$/min, 5.5 kg/$cm^2$, we designed reactor system for 70% $CH_4$ and 27% $CO_2$ gas introduce into MGT system with $H_2S$ 99% removal efficiency. A green house designed for four different carbon dioxide concentration from ambient air to 1500 ppm by utilizing the exhaust gas and hot water from MGT system.

• Korean Architects
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• s.477
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• pp.79-84
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• 2009

오늘날 전 세계적으로 급격한 에너지 사용과 이에 따른 온실가스의 증가로 기후변화 현상이 세계 곳곳에서 나타나고 있다. 이러한 지구온난화는 산업화에 따른 에너지소비가 주요한 원인으로 꼽히고 있으며, 선진국에서는 에너지소비와 이산화탄소 방출을 줄이기 위한 노력을 적극적으로 추진하고 있다. 우리나라에서도 2013년부터는 온실가스 감축 의무 이행국에 포함될 것으로 예상되어 지속가능(sustainable)한 국가발전을 위한 노력을 기울이고 있으며, 저탄소 녹색성장을 화두로 적극 대처하고 있다. 우리나라는 세계10대 에너지 소비국이면서 97%의 에너지를 외국에 의존하고 있다. 더욱이 이산화탄소배출량은 세계9위를 차지하고 있다. 따라서 향후 선진국과 경쟁을 하기위해서는 산업구조를 시급히 개선하여 에너지 소비를 줄이고 이산화탄소 배출을 적극적으로 억제하여야 한다. 현재 국내에서 사용되는 전체 에너지 가운데 건물에서 소비되는 에너지는 약 40%정도를 차지하고 있다. 이에 따라 건물에서의 에너지 사용량을 줄이고 환경부하를 저감할 수 있는 친환경 건축물의 구축이 시급하며, 관련 기술 개발 및 실제 건축물에 적용을 위한 노력이 진행되고 있다. 친환경 건축 관련 기술은 오늘날 많은 신축 건물에 적용되고 있으나, 그 성능은 아직까지 미흡한 부분이 많다. 건축물의 설계단체에 환경성능 분석결과가 적절히 반영된다면 적은 노력과 비용으로 매우 우수한 친환경 건축물을 구축할 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 설계절차 및 성능분석 지원 시스템으로는 건축 설계단계에서 에너지 소비량을 포함한 친환경 성능을 분석하기에 많은 시간의 투입과 전문가의 도움이 필요하다. 다행히 최근에 이러한 건축물의 친환경 성능 분석에 건축정보모델링(Building Information Modeling, BIM)기술을 활용할 수 있는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 건축정보모델링은 컴퓨터를 이용하여 건축물의 설계 데이터뿐 만 아니라 관련 모든 정보를 모델링 하여 건축물의 설계단계부터 건물의 폐기단계까지 활용되는 기술이다. 이미 선진 외국에서는 활발한 연구가 진행되어 실용적용 단계에 있으며, 국내에서도 초기 연구가 진행 중이다. 이러한 건축정보모델링 기술이 친환경 건축물 구축기술에 활용된다면, 친환경 건축물 구축 및 성능 향상에 많은 도움이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 또한, 녹색 성장의 기반이 될 수 있는 건축물의 설계 및 시공, 유지관리가 가능해 질것이다. 따라서 이번 연재에서는 지속가능한 설계와 건축정보모델링을 활용한 건축 환경 성능을 분석에 관한 내용을 주제별로 다루고 그 사례를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.202-208
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• 1999

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of the frame ratio and greenhouse length on the transmissivities of direct and diffuse solar radiation in glasshouse using a computer simulation model developed by Kim and Lee(1997). Transmissivity of diffuse solar radiation slightly decreased as the frame ratio increased. There was no effect of number of spans on the transmissivity of diffuse solar radiation at the same frame ratio. In single or multispan glasshouse, transmissivity of direct solar radiation was 1.5-3.0% higher at the frame ratio of 11.3% than those at the frame ratio of 14.9%. Also the transmissivity of direct solar radiation was 1.5-3.0% lower at the frame ratio of 18.3% than those at the frame ratio of 14.9%. Effect of the increased or decreased frame ratio on the transmissivity of direct solar radiation was similar in I-W or S-N glasshouse. Since the high transmissivity of direct solar radiation exerted a beneficial influence upon the plant growth during winter season, the light and endurable structural members were needed to maximize the transmission of solar radiation in glasshouse. Transmissivity of direct solar radiation in I-W or S-N glasshouse did not vary with the length of 24.5m long or more.