2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research and Development of Energy-Saving Cultivation Equipment (ESCE) on Closed Plant Factory with Artificial Light
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26660196
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKANO Kazuhiro 新潟大学, 自然科学系, 教授 (70188994)
SAKAGUCHI Jun 新潟県立大学, 国際地域学部・国際地域学科, 教授 (90300079)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 完全人工光型植物工場 / 省エネ型栽培設備 / 省エネルギー / ランニングコスト / 空調用電力消費量 / 照明用電力消費量 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, energy-saving cultivation equipment (ESCE) is developed to reduce running cost on closed plant factory with artificial light. Red and blue LED lights are used in ESCE. Inner surface of the ESCE is covered by light reflection materials of which efficiency is 99%. By decreasing the light becoming heat not being used for the photosynthesis of plants, the energy reduction effect is provided in not only the power consumption for illumination but also the power consumption for air conditioning in the factory. ESCE is designed using computational fluid dynamics. Plant cultivation experiments are performed. Weight of harvest plants and electric power consumption by the ESCE are compared with conventional plant cultivation equipment.
The ESCE needs about a half electric power consumption to produce the same harvest weight compared with conventional equipment.
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| Free Research Field |
建築・都市環境工学
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