| Title |
Development of Building System for Achieving an Optimal Growth Environment in a Vertical Smart Farm |
| Authors |
Kim, Handon ; Lee, Jeonga ; Choi, Seun ; Jang, Hyounseung ; Kim, Jimin |
| DOI |
https://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2021.22.4.003 |
| Keywords |
Vertical Smart Farm; Air Uniformity; Energy Consumption; Air Velocity; Air Temperature; CO2 Concentration |
| Abstract |
According to the IPCC, humans are influencing the climate system. Such changes in the climate system can cause problems in the supply of food ingredients in the agricultural field by changing the existing growing environment. To solve this problem, vertical farms can be a good alternative for a stable supply of food ingredients. Although the vertical smart farm pays close attention to maintaining and managing the growing environment of crops, it is difficult to uniformly implement temperature, humidity, illumination, oxygen, and carbon dioxide concentrations in the building space. As a result of conducting computational fluid dynamics analysis to ensure air uniformity, a remarkable result is that it is advantageous to continuously spray suitable carbon dioxide CO2 concentrations for a long period of time for air uniformity in a vertical smart farm. Through this result, it is possible to efficiently plan a growing environment system optimized for a vertical smart farm. Based on this study, if efficient crops are produced by creating an optimized growing environment for vertical smart farms, it will be able to contribute to the development of the agricultural field. |