The new & renewable energy including solar heat has been widely used to reduce the fossil fuel. Air-heating collector of solar heat is usually known as technology that supplies the hot air to indoor room. However, this study aims to investigate the possibility of cold room by air-heating collector of solar heat. The thermal flow in cold room was simulated using ANSYS-CFX program and thus the behaviors of cold air were evaluated with standard k-ε turbulence model. As the results, there was space in indoor room not showing cooling effect in case that both inlet and outlet were installing at bottom. Inlet temperature showed greater cooling effect than inlet velocity. Furthermore it was confirmed that the location and the temperature, respectively, capable of cooling indoor room could be predicted by changing the attached position of inlet and outlet.

자연열(태양열)을 효율적으로 이용하기위해 1999년부터 2000년 까지 2년간 상면적이 100m2인 3동의 유리온실에 각기 다른 집열시스템을 설치하였다. 즉, 집열면적과 경사도가 각각 24m2, 50˚로서 현재 시판되고 있는 태양열 집열기(평판형, Solar hart Inc.)를 이용하는 방법, 직경과 송풍량이 각각 1m, 2.5m-3.m-2 .min로서 라디에이터가 부착된 2개의 유동팬을 천장부에 설치하고 천창을 밀폐한 후 온실상부의 열을 집열하는 방법, 온실의 중도리 전부를 물이 순환되는 각관 (75x45x3t, 1m 간격x10줄x온실길이 12m=120m)으로 설치하여 집열하는 방법 등으로 하였다. 각 동마다 지하에 26톤의 저수 능력을 갖는 D2000xW1500xL8600의 축열조를 설치한 후 중간을 막아 저온수조와 고온수조로 구분하였고, 수조 중간 1.5m 높이에 통수로를 내어 일정량의 물(약 15톤)이 지속적으로 순화될 수 있도록 하였다. 최저기온 9℃로 설정하여 1,000m2를 공간 난방할 경우 난방연료 절감율은 태양열 집열기, 유동팬 및 각관에서 각각 7%, 19%, 28%로 나타났다. 태양열 집열기를 이용하는 대부분의 농가에서는 40~50m2 정도의 집열면적을 갖는 집열기를 이용하고 있는데 이 경우 년간 난방연료 절감율은 14% 정도로서 경제성이 없으며, 유동팬도 집열효율에 비해 제작, 설치 및 유지비가 과다하게 소요되므로 경제성이 없다. 각관의 경우 관 자체의 자재비나 설치비에 추가부담이 적으면서 집열효율이 비교적 높기 때문에 관의 부식, 골조 표면적 증가에 의한 시설내 차광 증가, 중도리의 각형 구조로 인한 강도저하 등의 문제가 해결되면 집열 방법으로 고려될 수 있을 것이다.

To use effectively the solar energy in greenhouse heating, a high performance solar collector should be developed. And then the size of the solar collector and thermal storage tank should be determined through the calculation of heating load. The solar collector must be set in the optimum tilt angle and direction to take daily solar radiation maximally, and the flow rate of heat transfer fluid through the solar collector should be kept in the optimum range. In this research, the performance tests of a capillary tube solar collector were performed to determine the optimum water flow rate and the results summarized as follows. 1. The regressive equations for efficiency estimations of the capillary tube solar collector in the open loop were modeled in the water flow rate of 700-l,000 l/hr. 2. The optimum water flow rate of the solar collector was estimated by the second order polynomial regression and the maximum efficiency was 80% at the water flow rate of 850 l/hr. 3. The solar thermal storage system consisted of a capillary tube solar collector and a water storage tank was tested at the water flow rate of 850 l/hr in the closed loop, and obtained the solar thermal storage efficiency of 55.2%. 4. As the capillary tube solar collector engaged in this experiment was made of non-corrosive polyolefin tubes, its weight was as light as 1/30 of the flat plate solar collector made of copper tubes. Therefore it was considered to be suitable for the greenhouse heating system.