Journal of Bio-Environment Control ISSN:1229-4675(Print) 2765-3641(Online) 생물환경조절학회지

This study is the heating energy saving test of the high-bed strawberry crown heating system. The system consists of electric hot water boiler, thermal storage tank, circulation pump, crown heating pipe(white low density polyethylene, diameter 16mm) and a temperature control panel. For crown heating, the hot water pipe was installed as close as possible to the crown part after planting the seedlings and the pipe position was fixed with a horticultural fixing pin. In the local heating type, hot water at 20~23°C is stored in the themal tank by using an electric hot water boiler, and crown spot is partially heated at the setting temperature of 13~15°C by turning on/off the circulation pump using a temperature sensor for controlling the hot water circulation pump which was installed at the very close to crown of strawberry. The treatment of test zone consisted of space heating 4°C + crown heating(treatment 1), space heating 8°C(control), space heating 6°C + crown heating(treatment 2). And strawberries were planted in the number of 980 for each treatment. The heating energy consumption was compared between November 8, 2017 and March 30, 2018. Accumulated power consumption is converted to integrated kerosene consumption. The converted kerosene consumption is 1,320L(100%) for space 8°C heating, 928L(70.3%) for space 4°C + crown heating, 1,161L(88°C) for space 6°C + crown heating). It was analyzed that space 4°C + pipe heating and space 6°C + crown heating save heating energy of 29.7% and 12% respectively compared to 8°C space heating(control).