• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1997년도 하계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.89-98
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• 1997

This study was conducted to develop an automatic nutrient-solution control system for small-scale growers. The nutrient-solution control system consisted of a low-cost and precise metering device and a personal computer. The system controlled electric conductivity(EC) and pH of nutrient-solution based on the time-based feedback control method with the information about temperature, EC, and pH of the nutrient-soIution. The performance of the nutrient-solution control system was evaluated through the control of EC and pH while compared with those of commercial nutrient-solution control system. Also an experimental cultivation of tomato was conducted to verify and to improve the developed system. Results of this study were as follows. 1. An automatic nutrient-solution control system based on a low-cost and precise metering device was developed. 2. The developed system controlled EC and pH within $\pm$0.05 mS/cm and $\pm$0.2 pH full scale error respectively at $24^{/circ}C$. 3. When using the commercial system, the controlled values of EC and pH of the 500l of water were 1.29 mS/cm and 6.1 pH for the setting points of 1.4 mS/cm and 6.0 pH respectively at $22^{/circ}C$. 4. The developed nutrient-solution control system showed $\pm$0.05 mS/cm of deviation from the setting EC value over the experimental cultivation period. 5. The deviation from the average values of Ca and Mg mass content in the several nutrient-solution were 0.5% and 1.8% respectively.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.328-338
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• 1990

The objective of this study was to develop automatic systems of nutrient solution management for optimal nutrient solution environment and labor saving in water culture which enables factory crop production. In this study, an automatic control system and its driving program are developed to prepare, supply, and recover nutrient solution and to keep the optimal solution concentration level using microcomputers. Based on this study, the following conclusions are obtained: 1. The concentration measured by the system using oscillating circuit designed and built in this study, gave good agreements with the actual nutrient solution. 2. In water culture, the period of 12 hours for measuring concentration, pH, and temperature of the nutrient solution was optimum. Addition of control solution due to the decrease of the nutrient solution concentration is required in every 3 to 5 days. 3. It is estimated that the period of the whole solution change is 15 days, however, further research is needed to assure it. In addition, this period must be shortened in the future. 4. Both the hardware and software of the developed optimal nutrient solution control system in the water culture are working very well, however, it is necessary to develop a more economical one-chip micro controller to substitute for the microcomputer.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.383-389
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• 1995

This study was conducted to develop an automatic nutrient control system for trickle application of nutrient solution. Temperature, electric conductivity(EC). pH and dissolved oxygen(DO) were selected as control variables. A controller using single-chip microcomputer was constructed. An automatic control system for nutrient solution and a controller using single-chip microcomputer with control algorithm were developed. The control system was tested, and could control temperature, EC and pH within the error ranges of $pm 0.2^{circ} pm 0.2mS/cm, pm 0.1pH$, respectively.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.744-746
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• 1998

Control effect of acidified nutrient solution on bacterial wilt of tomato plants was tested by examining the degree of bacterial growth inhibition and plant damage due to the acidity. Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal bacterium of bacterial wilt of tomato plants, showed 105 times population reduction when the bacterium was cultured in the acidified nutrient solution (pH 3.5∼4.0). However, fruit yields were decreased only fifteen to twenty percents. These results suggest that control of the bacterial wilt of tomato plants may be possible with supplying acidified nutrient solution.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.365-372
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• 1998

This study was carried out to develop a nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system, which used a low-cost metering device instead of expensive metering pumps and a fuzzy logic controller. A low cost and precise overflow-type metering device was developed and evaluated by testing the flow discharge for the automatic nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system for snail-scale hydroponic sewers. The fuzzy logic controllers, which could predict and meet the desired values of EC and supply rate of nutrient solution were developed and verified by simulation and experiment. this fuzzy logic controller, whose algorithm consists of four crisp inputs, two crisp outputs and nine rules, was developed to predict the desired value of EC and supply rate of nutrient solution and two crisp inputs, one crisp output and nine rules used to control EC to the desired values. The nutrient-solution mixing-and-supplying system showed satisfactory EC control performance with the maximum overshooting of 0.035 mS/cm and the maximum settling time of 15 minutes in case of increasing 0.7 mS/cm. also, the accuracy of the overflow-type metering device in terms of the full-scale error was 2.29% when using solenoid valve only and 0.2% when using solenoid valve and flow control valve together.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.123-129
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• 1998

본 실험은 엔디브 양액재배에 적합한 배양액을 조성하고. 새로 조성한 배양액(SCUE)의 효과를 검토하고자 수행하였다. 엔디브 재배에 적합한 배양액을 양수분 흡수율에 의해 조성한 결과 NO$_3$-N 15.0, NH$_4$-N 1.0 PO$_4$-P 3.0. K 10.0, Ca 5.0, Mg 3.5 me.$\ell$$^{-1}$가 적당하였다. 새로 조성한 서울시립대 엔디브액 (SCUE)과 유럽의 엔디브액간의 재배실험 결과, 배양액간의 생육 및 수량은 차이가 없었지만, pH와 EC의 변화폭은 새로 조성한 양액에서 적었다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1993

Cooling of nutrient solution is essential to improve the growth environment of crops in hydroponic culture during summer season in Korea. This study was carried out to provide fundamental data for development of the cooling system satisfying the required cooling load of nutrient solution in hydroponic greenhouse. A numerical model for prediction of the cooling load of nutrient solution in hydroponic greenhouse was developed, and the results by the model showed good agreements with those by experiments. Main factors effecting on cooling load were solar radiation and air temperature in weather data, and conductivity of planting board and area ratio of bed to floor in greenhouse parameters. Using the model developed, the design cooling load of nutrient solution in hydroponic greenhouse of 1,000$m^2$(300pyong) was predicted to be 95,000 kJ/hr in Suwon and the vicinity.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.162-168
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• 1992

As the automation of nutrient solution management proceeds in the field of hydroponics, effective supporting systems to manage the nutrient solution by computer become needed. This study was attempt to predict the EC of nutrient solution using the neural networks. The multilayer perceptron consisting of 3 layers with the back propagation learning algorithm was selected for EC prediction, of which nine variables in the input layer were the concentrations of each ion and one variable in the output layer the EC of nutrient solution. The meq unit in ion concentration was selected fir input variable in the input layer. After the 10,000 learning sweeps with 108 sample data, the comparison of predicted and measured ECs for 72 test data showed good agreements with the correlation coefficient of 0.998. In addition, the predicted ECs by neural network showed relatively equal or closer to the measured ones than those by current complicated models.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.252-260
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• 2008

본 실험은 장미 식물공장에서 single-node cutting 'Versillia'의 양분흡수 특성을 구명하고 순환식 수경재배 시스템에 적합한 배양액 내 무기이온 조절방식을 구명하고자 수행하였다. 실험 기간동안 각 처리별 배양액 내 무기이온함량 변화를 살펴본 결과 EC 제어구의 경우 $NO_3$-N은 생육 후반이 되면 그 함량이 적정 범위 이상으로 증가 하였고 P와 Mg은 감소하였으며 배양액 첨가구는 전체적인 배양액 내 무기이온 함량이 증가하였다. 이에 비해 무기이온 제어구는 생육 기간동안 근권 내 적정 범위를 유지하였다. 광합성 효율을 나타내는 지표 중 하나인 Fv/Fm는 무기이온제어구와 배양액 첨가구에서 높았고 절화장, 생체중 등은 무기이온 제어구에서 높았다. 그러나 뿌리의 활성 정도를 측정해본 결과 무기이온 제어구에서 높았으나 배양액 첨 가구에서는 생육 초기에 배양액 내 pH 변화폭이 커서 가장 낮게 나타났다. 위의 결과를 종합하였을 때, 무기이온 조절(다량 미량원소 제어구와 다량원소 제어구)을 통해 배양액을 관리하는 것이 생육 전 기간 동안 근권 환경을 적절히 유지해 줄 수 있었고 이에 따라 절화 품질도 향상되므로 장미(single-node cutting) 순환식 수경재배에 적합한 근권 환경 제어방식이라고 할 수 있다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2000

본 연구는 다구역 양액재배에 적용할 수 있는 연속식 양액 자동조제공급 시스템 개발을 위한 목적으로 수행되었다. 기존의 정량펌프에 비해 정밀성 및 반복 구동회수에 대한 내구성이 우수하고 구동시간에 따라 토출량을 정밀 제어할 수 있는 원소별 농후액 공급조절장치를 개발하였으며, 개발된 원소별 농후액 공급조절장치의 시간당 토출량 실험 결과 결정계수는$R^2$＝0.9999이었고 3초~5초 구동시간동안의 회귀식에 의한 토출량과 실제 토출량 편차를 비교한 결과 최대 -1.23%로 나타나 회귀식에 의한 구동시간에 따른 토출량 제어가 가능함이 확인 되었다. 원소별 농후액 공급조절장치의 원소별 토출량 증감을 통하여 조성이 다른 양액을 조제할 수 있었으며, 생육단계에 따른 원소별 농도의 증감 조절에 사용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 원수유입량 편차 실험 결과 목표 원수유입량과 실제 원수유입량간의 편차는 2.73% 이내로 나타났다. 세척 과정을 통해 EC가 1.4~l.6mS/cm인 경우에는 0.5~0.6mS/cm, 2.4~2.5mS/cm인 경우에는 0.9~l.0mS/cm 정도로 낮추어 급액 후 잔류 양액의 영향을 줄일 수 있었다. 개발된 다구역 재배용 양액 자동조제공급 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 오이용 야마자키액 조성의 배양액 180$\ell$를 조제, 공급하였을 때 양액에 포함된 N $O_3$$^{-}$, 와 P $O_4$$^{3-}$ 이온에 대하여 실험실에서 조제한 양액의 이온 농포와의 비교 실험을 3회에 걸쳐 실시한 결과, 개발된 시스템으로 조제한 양액중에 포함된 N $O_3$$^{-}$ 이온과 P $O_4$$^{3-}$ 이온은 실험실에서 조제된 양액에 비하여 각각 2.36%, 5.15% 낮게 나타났다.