1308results about "Agricultural fishing" patented technology

A multi-function, field-deployable resource harnessing apparatus 600 having, in its embodiments, an inflatable reflector apparatus 610 comprising a least one manufactured parabolic mirror made from a pressure-deformable reflective covering of an inflatable ring for focusing electromagnetic energy from radio frequency radiation (RF) through the ultraviolet (UV) radiation including solar energy for (1) heating and cooking, (2) electrical power generation, (3) enhancing the transmission and reception of radio signals, (4) enhancing vision in low-light environments, and / or (5) projection of optical signals or images. The device also has non-electromagnetic uses, such as the collection and storage of water, harnessing of energy from a fluid stream, and / or harnessing wave energy. A first main embodiment of the inflatable reflector apparatus 610 generally utilizes two pressure-deformable membranes, at least one of which is reflective. A second main embodiment utilizes a reflective membrane and a transparent membrane. In addition to the reflector apparatus 610, the modular apparatus 600 typically further includes modular assemblies to increase versatility, facilitate use, and / or enhance safety such as, for example, a modular support and orienting assembly 612, a separate support ring 614, a safety shield or cage 616, a focal point support assembly 618, a safety cover 620, a safety net or mesh 622, and a stabilizing assembly 624. Portability is enhanced by complete collapsing of the inflatable device.

The present inventors have found the presence of a nanobubble that has not been confirmed conventionally, and established a method for producing nanobubbles. The inventors have determined the theoretically expected characteristics of the produced nanobubbles, found new characteristics by analyzing data experimentally collected, and elucidated the relationship among the characters. Specifically, the inventors have found that a nanobubble has features such as decrease of the buoyant force, increase of the surface area, increase of the surface activity, generation of a local high-pressure field, interface activating action, and sterilizing action thanks to electrostatic polarization. By the association among the features, any of wide variety of objects can be cleaned with high performance and with light environmental load thanks to the function of adsorbing foul components, the function of cleaning the surface of an object quickly, and the sterilizing function, and polluted water can be purified. Nanobubbles can be applied to an organism to recover from fatigue and effectively used for chemical reactions.

A self-contained, floating aquaculture tank for containing fish and other aquatic animal, plant, and algal species. The aquaculture tank includes a series of panels joined together by flexible connecting joints to form a cylinder-shaped tank enclosure with a conical bottom surrounded at or near the open end by a water-resistant and buoyant foam or other material. The tank is placed into a body of water where it floats and maintains the same water temperature as the surrounding body of water. The tank includes a waste cone at the bottom of the tank enclosure to which the lower portion of each panel is attached. The tank may also include devices for harnessing wind or solar energy to power lights, air pumps, and water pumps that may be components of the invention.

A floating island comprising one or more layers of nonwoven mesh material and optional buoyant nodules. The mesh material is optionally coated with a spray-on elastomer or inoculated with nutrients or microorganisms. The island can include buoyant growth medium, floats, buoyant blocks, a prefabricated seed blanket, a dunking feature, capillary tubes, wicking units and / or bell flotation units. A larger embodiment is comprised of nonwoven mesh material, buoyant nodules, supplemental flotation units, stepping pads and optional load distribution members. Other optional features include a stepping stone flotation assembly, a stepping stone / vertical buoyant member flotation assembly, and a floating log assembly. The buoyancy of the island can be adjusted with a rigid framework of horizontal members, vertical members that can be moved vertically within the island, and / or a framework of prefabricated flotation tubes and cross members. The present invention also covers a floating island with a boat docking location.

The invention discloses a river crab integrated culture method in ponds. The river crab integrated culture method in the ponds comprises the following steps of preparing the ponds; equipping the ponds with escape-proof facilities, water inlet and drainage facilities and bottom aeration facilities; breeding snails, river crabs, freshwater shrimps, dark sleepers and Aristichthysnobilis; planting aquatic plants; feeding feedstuff; managing water quality and sloughing. According to the river crab integrated culture method in the ponds, the ecological layout is adjusted, the self-purifying capacity of the ponds is improved, the pressure exerted on creatures by eutrophication of a water environment and the ponds can be released, the ecological balance and the stabilization of the water quality can be kept, and accordingly the disease incidence are reduced and the foundation for achieving high and stable yields is laid; meanwhile, existing culture facilities are fully taken advantages of, the comprehensive productivity of the ponds is improved, and accordingly the overall economic benefits are improved. The river crab integrated culture method in the ponds is beneficial to utilizing solar energy and the feedstuff to the utmost, preventing diseases and improving the capacity of resisting natural and market risks. Through the embodiment of the river crab integrated culture method in the ponds, the disease incidence of the crabs cultured in the ponds can be reduced, and the culture loss and culture risks can be reduced. The predicted comprehensive benefits of the culture can be improved, and meanwhile the pollution of the ecological environment of a water area caused by the culture can be reduced.

An ocean wave energy system for generating power from ocean waves includes a platform supporting an array of hollow columns whose respective lower ends are in fluidic communication with ocean waves and whose respective upper ends are in air communication with a turbine arrangement such that wave motion occurring at the lower ends is operable to cause air movement within the columns for propelling the turbine arrangement to generate power output. The system further includes one or more position-adjustable and / or angle-adjustable submerged structures near the lower ends of the columns for forming ocean waves propagating in operation towards the lower ends of the columns to couple the waves in a controllable manner into the hollow columns.

A system and method of sustainable aquaponics that vertically integrates unique aquaponic system designs with alternative aquaculture fish feed sources, fingerling production methods, alternative aquaculture / farmed fish grow out models, and green energy sources that yield organic produce in the form of fruits and vegetables. A raceway system serves for grow-out throughout the warm and cold months. During the summer months, fish can be spawned and fed for steady growth, while during the winter months, the fish continue to grow at slower quite acceptable growth rates. The present invention derives its water from an open, natural, established pond or lake ecosystem to ensure that the raceways are adequately seeded with all of nature's good and bad bacteria and algae. The present invention can include winter quarters for the fish that is well-insulated and heated to ensure that the fish are comfortable and will continue growing and spawning throughout winter months.

Disclosed is a mobile terminal having multi-directional camera lens modules. The mobile terminal includes a first camera lens module; a second camera lens module located opposite to the first camera lens module; and a printed circuit board interposed between and electrically connected to the first and second camera lens modules to apply an image signal or image signals captured through the first and second camera lens modules to a main body of the mobile terminal.

The described invention is an integrated multi-trophic farming process and methods thereof that creates a linkage between aquaculture, hydroponics, agriculture, and algae production. The process and methods described herein enable one skilled in the art of aquaculture, agriculture, hydroponics, and / or algae production to integrate aquaculture practices with their respective industry. The process and methods described within are applied to freshwater, brackish, and / or saltwater aquaculture production systems. The processes and methods described herein enable one skilled in the art to produce fish and / or aquatic animals in conjunction with plant and / or algae crops with less consumption of water, feed, and / or fertilizers when compared to conventional open source farming practices such as but not limited to aquaculture, agriculture, and / or algae production

The invention discloses a fresh water scale pond ecological breeding system. The system comprises five parts, namely a breeding pond, a pond water normal-position distributed treatment part, a pond discharge water abnormal-position centralized treatment part, a backwater function recovery treatment part and a pond water quality compensation treatment part. Breeding water aquatic ecology, pond breading and an aquaculture engineering technology are integrated organically; and pond microcirculation is formed through absorption, decomposition and nitrification functions of microorganisms, algae and the aquatic plants, particularly continuous removal of aquatic plants with growth and intermittent water supply, so that the utilization rate of pond eutrophic substances is improved, and breeding backwater is restored. The system has the remarkable effects of water saving and emission reduction and provides the high-efficiency pond ecological breeding system which is novel in process and is high in operability and economic and practical and has a unique structure for fishery industrialization and scale production.

System and methods for monitoring the growth of an aquatic plant culture and detecting real-time characteristics associated with the aquatic plant culture aquatic plants. The systems and methods may include a control unit configured to perform an analysis of at least one image of an aquatic plant culture. The analysis may include processing at least one collected image to determine at least one physical characteristic or state of an aquatic plant culture. Systems and methods for distributing aquatic plant cultures are also provided. The distribution systems and methods may track and control the distribution of an aquatic plant culture based on information received from various sources. Systems and methods for growing and harvesting aquatic plants in a controlled and compact environment are also provided. The systems may include a bioreactor having a plurality of vertically stacked modules designed to contain the aquatic plants and a liquid growth medium.

The invention discloses foundation of an offshore wind generation facility, particularly a semi-submersible type steel structure mounting foundation platform of offshore wind driven generators which is capable of moving on the sea, is simple in manufacturing and low in cost. The semi-submersible anchoring type offshore wind generating set with an integrated pedestal is characterized in that: seven wind driven generators are mounted on a regular hexagonal semi-submersible type steel structure integrated foundation platform; the seven wind driven generators are mounted on semi-submersible foundation buoyant boxes 2 with cylindrical bottoms at the six vertexes and the centre of the regular hexagonal semi-submersible steel structure integrated foundation platform respectively; the overall generating set floats on the sea; and the bottom of the overall generating set is fixed by a submarine anchoring facility 5. As the overall integrated foundation platform is submerged in water, the water plane of the generating set is very small, as a result, the generating set has excellent stability, instantaneous buoyancy caused by sea level fluctuation changes a little, and no matter the generating set in a towing state in normal weather or in an anchoring state in extreme weather, both the rigidity of the stability of the generating set can satisfy design demands; and the size of the regular hexagon is determined by the minimum separation required according to the mounting specification of the offshore wind driven generators.

The invention provides a movable semi-submersible multifunctional marine energy supplying platform. The movable semi-submersible multifunctional marine energy supplying platform comprises a semi-submersible ship body with the middle portion provided with a main buoyancy cabin, a tidal current energy generating set is installed on the lower section of the main buoyancy cabin, the back portion of a deck of the semi-submersible ship body is provided with hinges which are connected with an energy absorbing floating body arranged above the main buoyancy cabin through supporting arms, the deck of the semi-submersible ship body is provided with a plurality of stand columns each of which is divided into three sections from bottom to top, the lower section of each stand column is provided with a tidal current energy generating set, the middle section of each stand column is provided with a buoyancy adjusting cabin, the upper section of each stand column is provided with an equipment cabin, and each equipment cabin is internally provided with an energy converting device, an energy storing storage battery set and the like. The top portions of all stand columns are connected with an abovewater platform which is provided with a plurality of wind energy generating sets, solar power generation panels and sea water desalting plants, and the output ends of all energy converting devices are connected with the storage battery sets. A wave energy converting element is hinged between the floating body and the semi-submersible ship body deck, and a water blocking plate is installed on the back portion of the semi-submersible ship body. The movable semi-submersible multifunctional marine energy supplying platform is low in cost, convenient to move and high in practicality.

The invention provides a deep sea net cage culture integrated platform which comprises culture net cage subsystems which perform the fish culture function and composed of anti-wind wave net cages, a power supply subsystem using solar energy and wind energy to generate electricity, a supporting platform for fixing the power supply subsystem and the culture net cage subsystems in the special space and an anchoring subsystem. The power supply sub-system is installed on the supporting platform; the net cages are connected with the supporting platform in a flexible connecting mode, the anchoring subsystem is composed of a power supply subsystem anchoring device and a net cage subsystem anchoring device. The supporting platform is further provided with feed storage rooms, bait feeding devices, monitoring devices and a communication device. The platform can realize automatic net cage fish culture production in a sea area under highoceanic condition, and has the characteristics of strong wind wave resistance, environmental protection, and high production efficiency and the like, and is a comprehensive platform for supporting sea water fish culture from near-shore to deep sea.

This invention provides a vessel system and methodology that can be used to promote growth of phytoplankton in the oceans. Unmanned self-controlled wave-powered vessels are equipped with storage units for dispensing a fertilizer, and with sensors to monitor ocean conditions and effects. Fleets of vessels move autonomously by on-board processing of GPS and directional information, piloting a path that is coordinated by a central processing unit. The vessels travel through a defined target area, creating a detailed survey of chemical and biological characteristics that affect grown. The data are processed in a computer model to identify precise locations and precise amounts of fertilizer that will produce the best results. Projected benefits of fertilizing plankton include sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, and enhancing the marine food chain to improve the fish stock in and around the treated area.

The invention relates to a keep-alive transportation system and belongs to the field of keep-alive transportation. A keep-alive transportation system of abalones comprises an abalone loading zone and a keep-alive equipment zone. The keep-alive equipment zone is provided with a water tank containing circulating seawater and a smart control system. The smart control system is connected with a heat and cold supply subsystem, an atomization spraying subsystem, an aeration and oxygenation subsystem, a purification and sterilization subsystem and a car environment monitoring subsystem, and controls and drives operations of all the subsystems. The smart control system comprises an embedded industrial personal computer which is connected with a wireless data transmission module and a GPS positioning module, and therefore real-time remote monitoring is achieved; the GPS positioning module also controls the whole keep-alive process from the starting place to the destination. The heat and cold supply subsystem provides a refrigeration mode and a heat pump heating mode. The keep-alive transportation system of the abalones improves the survival rate of the abalones through whole-journey control and remote control, reduces transportation cost and greatly improves the economic benefit of keep-alive transportation.

A closed recirculating aquaponics system combined with a biofloc tank for symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species, wherein the culture water for growing aquatic species is transferred to a plant growing apparatus, organic material in the culture water is used as nutrients for plant species and the water is purified in the plant growing apparatus, and purified water is reused as culture water for aquatic species to facilitate symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species without any need of culture water exchange, reducing cost for production and enhancing production efficiency.

This invention provides a vessel system and methodology that can be used to promote growth of phytoplankton in the oceans. Unmanned self-controlled wave-powered vessels are equipped with storage units for dispensing a fertilizer, and with sensors to monitor ocean conditions and effects. Fleets of vessels move autonomously by on-board processing of GPS and directional information, piloting a path that is coordinated by a central processing unit. The vessels travel through a defined target area, creating a detailed survey of chemical and biological characteristics that affect grown. The data are processed in a computer model to identify precise locations and precise amounts of fertilizer that will produce the best results. Projected benefits of fertilizing plankton include sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, and enhancing the marine food chain to improve the fish stock in and around the treated area.

The invention provides an integrated system of a floating offshore wind generator and a deepwater aquaculture net cage, and belongs to the technical field of marine renewable energy and aquaculture engineering. The integrated system comprises a wind generation system, a floating deepwater aquaculture system and an anchoring chain system, wherein the wind generation system comprises wind generators and a semi-submersible offshore floating platform; the semi-submersible offshore floating platform comprises an upper floating body, circular vertical columns and a lower floating body; the upper floating body and the lower floating body are of circular ring structures and are connected through three circular vertical columns; three wind generators are circumferentially uniformly distributed on the upper floating body; the floating deepwater aquaculture system comprises a closed circular net cage and pressing blocks; the upper part of the closed circular net cage is fixed to the bottom part of the lower floating body, and the lower part of the closed circular net cage is circumferentially uniformly provided with the pressing blocks; the wind generators of the wind generation system are used for supplying power to the floating deepwater aquaculture system; the anchoring chain system is an anchoring chain; one end of the anchoring chain is fixed to the lower floating body, and the other end of the anchoring chain is connected to a seabed, so that the lower floating body is connected to the seabed.

The invention relates to a technical method of triploid seed production of rainbow trout. The technical method comprises the following steps: in proper time after sperm-egg binding, carrying out thermal (shock) treatment on oosperm in low-temperature environment in a certain time interval, then restoring the original low-temperature environment and carrying out cooling water incubation; leading more than 80% of oosperms which need to be incubated into diploid oosperm to generate triploid oosperm after thermal shock treatment; and raising the triploid oosperm into triploid offspring seed (larval fish). The implementation of the technical proposal stops the discharging of a secondary polar body of the oosperm, induces the oosperm to produce another type of oosperm which is fused by the egg, the sperm nucleus and the secondary polar body with respective monoploid chromosome and contains triploid chromosome, namely triploid oosperm, and realize industrialization of triploid seed production. Each thermal inducing incubator can produce more than 40,000 of triploid oosperms for one time, and each reproduction period (October to February) can produce more than 2,000,000 oosperms. The inductivity of the triploid is more than 80%.

The invention discloses a penaeus vannamei farming method combining bioflocculation technology and a multi-trophic-level integrated farming mode. The penaeus vannamei farming method combining the bioflocculation technology and the multi-trophic-level integrated farming mode includes the steps such as early-stage preparations of farming conditions, putting of penaeus vannamei and small-size fish, swamp cabbage planting, starch addition and feeding feedstuff management. According to the method, the multi-trophic-level integrated farming mode and the bioflocculation technology are innovatively applied to penaeus vannamei farming in a combining mode, namely, a multi-trophic-level integrated farming system composed of polyculture of the penaeus vannamei, the small-size fish and swamp cabbages. Starch is added in the farming system to serve as carbon source cultivation biological floccules. The levels of ammoniacal nitrogen and nitrous nitrogen in a water body are controlled through a bioflocculation action. Simultaneously, residual bait and excrement are utilized to form bacterium floccules which prawns and the small-size fish can ingest and utilize, and therefore the survival rate of the penaeus vannamei and the efficiency of feed utilization are improved. Relative to an ordinary single-farming mode, aspects of ecological benefits, economic benefits and farming effects in the farming system all achieve obvious effects.

The invention relates to a water body purification system formed by stereoscopic configuration of aquatic animals and plants, which comprises a culture mesh box, wherein the culture mesh box is a box body of which the six surfaces are closed; the water surface above the culture net box is provided with an artificial floating island; the middle part of the net box is provided with a submerged plant layer; the artificial floating island comprises a floating plate; the floating plate is uniformly provided with through holes; culture basins are put in the through holes; emerging plants are planted in the culture basins; the floating plate is fixed through a cord and an anchor; the floating plate is further provided with a light transmission port; a frame is mounted at the light transmission port; submerged plant culture basins are hung on the frame through cords; submerged plants are planted in the submerged plant culture basins; and fishes are put in the culture net box. According to the invention, the aquatic plants and animals are organically integrated by the artificial floating island and the culture net box, so that an all-ecological stereoscopic water quality purification system is formed, thus effectively purifying a water body, and simultaneously creating a landscape and producing economic benefits.

The invention discloses a preparation method of micro-nano sparkling water. The method sequentially includes the following steps of firstly, exerting pressure on gas-liquid mixed fluid to make the fluid rotate at a high speed, guiding the gas-liquid mixed fluid into an elliptic container, and forming a negative pressure axis in the middle of the elliptic container through the gas-liquid mixed fluid; secondly, concentrating mixed gas in the gas-liquid mixed fluid or external gas to the negative pressure axis under the suction force of the negative pressure axis in the elliptic container; thirdly, spraying the high-speed-rotating gas-liquid mixed fluid out of jet ports of the two ends of the elliptic container to product micro-nano bubbles. Compared with the prior art, the advantages of the micro-nano sparkling water are explored and applied to the field of scientific and technological agriculture such as soilless cultivation, fruit and vegetable cleaning, biological repairing, dirty water processing and the like, and a solution is provided for further utilizing the micro-nano sparkling water.

The invention discloses a sea bed nutrient lifting device and a method based on solar energy and wave energy. In the prior art, the sea bed nutrient lifting method is difficult to implement and has a high energy consumption. The device comprises a sea surface platform, underwater heat-insulating guide tubes and a sea bed heat-absorbing device, wherein the sea surface platform is formed by a top surface and a bottom surface, a compressible plastic heat-insulating water bag surrounds the sea surface platform to form closed space, a support plate is arranged at the middle of the closed space to divide the closed space into two chambers, the two chambers are communicated with each other, the underwater heat-insulating guide tubes are connected to the bottom surfaces of the chambers, and the two underwater heat-insulating guide tubes are communicated through the sea bed heat-absorbing device. Under the action of sea surface waves, the compressible plastic heat-insulating water bag pushes the upper-layer high-temperature sea water to flow into the lower-layer sea bed heat-absorbing device, resulting in heat exchange. The lower-layer sea water absorbs heat energy to lead to temperature rise and density drop and floats up under the action of buoyancy, so that the nutrient-enriched sea water deep in the sea is lifted up to the sea surface. The device and the method have the advantages of high efficiency and low energy consumption and are clean and environment-friendly.

The invention relates to a bottom-dwelling food organism medium for cultivating procambarus clarkia and a using method of the bottom-dwelling food organism medium; the medium and bottom sediment at bottom of a pool are mixed to be injected into river water filtered by a 60-mesh bolting-silk for cultivating aquatic bottom-dwelling organisms and proliferative waterweeds; the cultured food organism can replace more than 50% of artificial diet, the cultivation cost is greatly reduced, and the high-quality bottom-dwelling food organisms can provide a nutrient source for rapid growth of the procambarus clarkia, so as to greatly improve the growth size, yield and benefit; and the produced high-quality commodity shrimps can have improved market competitiveness, and reduced cultivation cost and cultivation risk.

Using electric power obtained by marine wind force and a tide, sea water is electrolyzed to produce fresh water, sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, caustic soda, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrogen, oxygen or the like, at the same time, unloaded malts, saw dust and the like are fermented to brew ethanol, carbon dioxide generated here is used for photosynthesis to culture vegetables and oxygen generated here is supplied to a fish preserve and an under reef where fish live to culture fishes and also returned to sea water dropped in the concentration of oxygen to suppress the generation of a red tide.

Provided is a memory device with a shared open bit line sense amplifier architecture. The memory device includes memory cell arrays, each memory cell array including bit lines, and a sense amplifier configured to couple to at least two bit lines a memory cell array and configured to couple to at least two bit lines of a different memory cell array.