220 results about "Aquaponics" patented technology

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.

An inexpensive, complete integrated aquaponic aquarium system that uses air pressure to pump water and waste from the bottom of an aquarium into a planter where terrestrial plants are grown. Included in this system is an aquarium lighting system, unique undergravel funnel filter system, grow lights, aquarium heater, and a power regulation system that turns the grow light on and off in regular intervals.

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.

An aquaponic system generally comprises an aquarium module, a garden module and a reservoir module. The aquarium module is generally configured to be installed on a supporting structure (e.g. a cabinet). The garden module is generally configured to be installed on the supporting structure near the aquarium module, in front, beside or even all around it. The garden module is generally configured to support terrestrial and / or semi-aquatic plants. The reservoir module is typically installed inside the supporting structure with the utilities (e.g. pumps). The system is generally designed such that the waste water from the aquarium module flows to the garden module where it irrigates the plants and where it is at least partially filtered by plants which consume at least some of the waste products contained in the water.

A plant-cultivation method and system that aids automation of farms / lawns, home-farms, roof-farms, etc.The plants are held on the conveyor preferably the whole of their life. By the operation of conveyor, the plants visit the central plant processing space on a routine basis, throughout the life of the plants. As many processes as wanted are centralized including routine watering, nutrient feed, pruning, inspecting, harvesting, planting, etc. Multiple types of plants can be grown simultaneously.Enables fully automated electric-powered maintenance of lawn, lawn / garden. No more noisy gasoline lawn mowers, water hoses, sprinklers, etc.Helps make green cities by converting roofs of buildings in to lawns / farms. Homeowners can install the automated roof-farms, enjoy the harvest and sell to neighbors. Saves home energy costs. Saves on fossil fuel by reducing transport.Helps use non-fertile lands for farming.Less investment on resources, greenhouses. Helps men & machines to work at their maximum efficiency. Easy adaptation with hydroponic, aquaponic or aeroponics farming. Suitable for large and small-scale farms.

The invention belongs to the field of aquaculture, and particularly relates to a fish and vegetable mutualism system. The box-type fish and vegetable mutualism breeding system comprises a water pool, a net box body, a floating bed and vegetable planting floating plates, and is characterized by further comprising supporting frames and a trickle irrigation device. The floating bed is a round or square framework formed by mutually connecting long block-shaped objects or tubular objects and is hollow, the block-shaped objects or tubular objects are floating bed edges, and the supporting frames are arranged on the floating bed edges; the net box body is composed of net pieces, is provided with lateral surfaces and a bottom surface, is a semi-sealed box body and is hollow, the upper edges of the net box body are arranged above the floating bed edges and connected and fixed to the floating bed through the supporting frames; the vegetable planting floating plates are provided with vegetable holes. When the box-type fish and vegetable mutualism breeding system is used, the floating bed is arranged on the water surface, the net box body downwards penetrates through the floating bed and is sunk into water, and the vegetable planting floating plates are arranged on the water surface of the floating bed for planting vegetables. The box-type fish and vegetable mutualism breeding system is high in fish and vegetable yield, can provide organic aquatic products and vegetables, and is simple in structure, environmentally friendly, ecological, convenient to operate and favorable for wide popularization.

An aquaponic system includes a frame, an aquarium located at a lower portion of the frame and provided with a motor, a plurality of cultivating tanks arranged on the frame and having two opposite sides provided with a plurality of inlet tanks and a plurality of outlet tanks, and a strainer unit mounted on the frame. Each of the outlet tanks is connected with a lower one of the inlet tanks. The strainer unit includes a water outlet port connected with the water inlet pipe, a water inlet port connected with a water feeding pipe, two hollow clamping plates located between the water outlet port and the water inlet port, a filtering sponge clamped between the two clamping plates, a fertilizer ferment chamber located under the water inlet port, and a drain pipe connected with the fertilizer ferment chamber.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to aquaponics system. The aquaponics system may be comprised of a pole assembly comprising a pole having one or more pole cups affixed to the pole in a vertical orientation; an aquaculture assembly comprising a tank having a pole anchor centered therein, wherein the pole anchor is configured to receive a bottom portion of the pole, a plurality of struts configured to stabilize the pole within the tank, and at least one tank cover positioned at an opening of the tank; and a hydroponic assembly comprising one or more grow pans, wherein the one or more grow pans are removably coupled with the pole assembly, and at least one tray positioned within at least one grow pan.

The invention provides a fish and vegetable co-existing planting and breeding method, and belongs to the technical field of ecological breeding methods. The fish and vegetable co-existing planting and breeding method comprises the steps that an ecological floating bed is arranged in a pond, vegetables are planted on the ecological floating bed, and fishes are bred in the pond. According to the fish and vegetable co-existing planting and breeding method, the method is simple, convenient and free of pollution, aquaculture and vegetable planting are organically combined in a same water body, an ecological planting and breeding mode that water does not need to be replaced, vegetables do not need to be fertilized, and resources can be recycled is achieved, the ecological floating bed is adopted to plant the vegetables, the important improving effect can be achieved for the pond water quality.

A system, method, and computer program product for an aquaponics, and greenhouse system, including a solar greenhouse insulated on north, east and west sides and with glazing on a south side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing a fish tank; and a plurality of grow beds coupled to the fish tank. The grow beds each including a geyser pump powered by an air pump to pump water from the fish tank to the grow bed and aerate water of the fish tank, and a bell siphon to drain the water from the grow bed back into the fish tank.

The invention relates to an aquaponic facility with closed water circulation, including at least one aquaculture unit and at least one hydroponic unit, characterized in that the aquaculture unit has at least one water outlet which is functionally connected with the hydroponic unit by a one-way valve such that water from the aquaculture unit can be supplied to the hydroponic unit, and the hydroponic unit has at least one cold trap, wherein the at least one cold trap is functionally connected with the aquaculture unit in such a way that the water obtained from the at least one cold trap can be supplied to the aquaculture unit, as well as its use.

A sustainable food production system, known as aquaponics, is housed in at least a portion of an intermodal shipping container. In some embodiments, the food production system can be housed fully in one intermodal shipping container or may span multiple shipping containers that can be stacked vertically, end-to-end or side-to-side. An ecosystem is created in the shipping containers where fish fertilize plants and plants clarify the water for the fish. The containers are designed to be plug-and-play and are expandable. Because they are intermodal (ISO) shipping containers, they can be easily shipped anywhere in the world. In the area of a standard parking space (8 feet by 20 feet), about 1,500 fish per year and hundreds of vegetables monthly can be raised.

A system, method, and computer program product for an aquaponics, and greenhouse system, including a solar greenhouse insulated on north, east and west sides and with glazing on a south side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing: a fish tank; grow beds coupled to the fish tank; and hydroponic tanks respectively coupled to the grow beds. The grow beds are coupled to a fish tank geyser pump internal to the fish tank, and a hydroponic tank geyser pump internal to a respective one of the hydroponic tanks. The fish tank and hydroponic tank geyser pumps are powered by an external air pump via an air selector switch to pump and aerate water from the hydroponic tank to the grow bed and to pump water from the fish tank to the grow bed and aerate water of the fish tank.

The invention discloses a method for realizing ecological aquaculture method by regulating the water quality of a high-yield aquaculture pond. The method integrates micropore oxygen increasing technology, a fish and vegetable co-existing technology and a water quality regulation micro-ecological agent using technology, so that the water quality of the high-yield aquaculture pond can be improved substantially, the water transparency can be improved, total ammonia nitrogen, nitrite nitrogen, total phosphorus and total nitrogen in water can be reduced, the pH of water can be stabilized, the density of blue algae, green algae and euglena which are harmful to aquaculture can be reduced obviously, diatom, dinoflagellate and cryptomonad which can serve as bait are not influenced obviously, an experimental pond is relatively stable in the aspect of zooplankton, accordingly, micro-ecological balance of the aquaculture water can be improved and stabilized, the yield can be increased, the earnings can be increased for a farmer, and the method can be widely applied to ecological breeding of various types of aquatic animals and plants.

The modular aquaponics assembly includes a frame, at least one tray adapted for retaining water and supporting at least one container for retaining a growing medium therein for support plants. A light fixture is disposed within the frame above the at least one tray, and an aquarium for supporting aquatic fauna is positioned near the bottom of the frame. A water circulating system is provided for circulating water from the aquarium through the at least one tray and back to the aquarium. In one embodiment, the frame is adapted to removably sit on top of the aquarium. In another embodiment, an outer skin encloses the frame, aquarium and other components to create an aesthetically pleasing structure that is both decorative and functional.

The invention relates to an intelligent ecological fish-vegetable intergrowth culture box, which comprises an LED (light emitting diode) plant growth lamp (1), a plant growth tray (2), an aquatic animal culture area (3) and an aquatic plant cultivation tray (4). The LED plant growth lamp (1) is hung above the culture box through a barb member, the plant growth tray (2) is connected to the aquatic plant cultivation tray through five cylinders, the aquatic animal growth area (3) is the space of the culture box, the aquatic plant cultivation tray (4) can be paved with filter materials such as perlite, cobblestone and active carbon. The LED plant growth lamp (1) adopts a wireless network signal receiver to receive the light quality of a computer host, and the light source is automatically adjusted through a luminescence signal. The plant growth tray (2) is in a barrier form, and materials such as sponge, foam plates and fibers can be used as the culture medium. The aquatic animal culture area (3) is provided with an EC sensor, a water level adjusting device and a temperature sensor. The intelligent ecological fish-vegetable intergrowth culture box is used for the planting and cultivation in high mountains, grassland, plant factories, greenhouses, households and regions which are lack of water.

Disclosed is an automated aquaponics apparatus. The aquaponics apparatus may include at least one fish holding tank configured to contain water. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include at least one hydroponic unit. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include a bio-digester. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include an atmospheric water generator and a desalination reverse osmosis system. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include an energy production system configured to generate energy. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include at least one sensor configured to sense at least one variable. Further, the aquaponics apparatus may include a control unit configured to control an operational state of one or more of the at least one fish holding tank, the at least one hydroponic unit, the bio-digester, the desalination reverse osmosis system and the energy production system.

An aquaponics system including a rearing tank of a rearing system and cultivation beds of a cultivation system, wherein the cultivation beds are arranged vertically in two or more stages. The system includes a rearing and cultivation circulating system in which liquid in the rearing tank is supplied to each of the cultivation beds, and the liquid in each bed is returned to the tank, to thereby circulate through the tank, beds, and tank. Fish and shellfish can be reared in the rearing tank and a plant can be cultivated in the cultivation beds, with the liquid circulating through the circulating path. Both a cultivation circulating system in which the liquid circulates through the water storage tank, the cultivation beds, and the water storage tank, and a rearing circulating system in which the liquid circulates through the rearing tank, the water storage tank, and the rearing tank may be arranged.

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 as the hub 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. Plants like legal (licensed) cannabis for medical use can be grown in plant areas near the raceways with very high yields. The system may also be used to reclaim gray water using the biology of the system to purify it for agricultural use.

The invention provide a fish and vegetable co-existing water circulation system, comprising a fish and vegetable co-existing device, a nitration device, a leaf vegetable breeding device, and a water circulating supply device. In the fish and vegetable co-existing device, at least a fish is cultured in cultivated water, and the cultivated water is transmitted to the nitration device. The nitration device performs nitrification processing on the cultivated water of the fish and vegetable co-existing device, and transmits the cultivated water which goes through the nitrification processing to the leaf vegetable breeding device. The leaf vegetable breeding device uses cultivated water to breed at least a leaf vegetable. The water circulating supply device recycles the cultivated water in the leaf vegetable breeding device, and supplies the recycled cultivated water to the fish and vegetable co-existing device. Thus, the cultivated water continuously recycles among the fish and vegetable co-existing device, the nitration device, the leaf vegetable breeding device, and the water circulating supply device. The system drains the cultivated water without toxic substances, thereby effectively reducing environmental pollution, and recycling water resources, and preventing waste of water resources.

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 as the hub 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. Plants like legal (licensed) cannabis for medical use can be grown in plant areas near the raceways with very high yields.

The invention provides a fish and vegetable symbiotic system. According to the fish and vegetable symbiotic system, a breeding unit and a planting unit are arranged relatively independently so that different requirements of breeding and planting can be met. Breeding wastewater as organic liquid fertilizer is rich in all elements necessary for plant growing, also contains humic acid, amino acid and other nutrients, can improve the flavor of vegetables and has richer nutrients than hydroponic products. Thus, water obtained by removing suspended substances from waste water discharged from a breeding pool through a physical filter can be subjected to nutritional requirement adjustment through a nutrient conversion device to enable the pH value to drop to a range suitable for vegetable planting, and then the nutritional requirement adjusted water is delivered to the planting unit as organic liquid fertilizer. Water of the planting unit is absorbed and purified through plants and then the purified water can return to the breeding pool as water for breeding fish. Water evaporated by a system and water lost by plant transpiration is supplemented with fresh water supplemented by a water source supplementary device. Accordingly, the fish and vegetable symbiotic system provided by the invention can really achieve the zero emission standards.

The invention discloses a fish and vegetable coexistence cultivating and culturing system, which comprises a water tower, fish culturing tanks, a filtering pool, planting frames and a water recycling pool, wherein the water tower is communicated and connected with the fish culturing tanks, the fish culturing tanks are connected with the filtering pool, a water delivery suction pump is arranged on the filtering pool, each planting frame comprises a frame body and a planting pipe, a suspension rod is arranged at the top part of each frame body, the two ends of each planting pipe are opened, a first biochemical cotton filling material and a second biochemical cotton filling material are arranged in each planting pipe, are used for clamping vegetable roots and have nitrifying bacteria, a strip notch is formed in the side wall of each planting pipe, the output end part of the water delivery suction pump is communicated with a drip irrigation pipe, a water recycling pipe is arranged on the water recycling pool, and a water return suction pump is arranged on the water tower. The fish and vegetable coexistence cultivating and culturing system has the beneficial effects that the water in each culturing tank circulates and flows, so the high-density fish culturing is realized; the filtered culturing water can be used for performing drip irrigation on the vegetable seedlings to provide nutrients, so the water resource is effectively utilized, the waste of water resources is prevented, and the culturing cost of the vegetables and the cleaning and labor cost of each culturing tank are reduced.

An aquaponics and greenhouse system, includes a solar greenhouse insulated on north, east and west sides and with glazing on a south side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing a fish tank, grow beds, and a hard filter. The grow beds and hard filter include geyser pumps in the fish tank powered by air pumps that pump water from the fish tank to the grow bed or hard filter and aerate fish tank water. The hard filter includes algae layer with an air stone powered by an air pump underneath to aerate the algae. Grow beds on the north side have a barrier layer over media, and with a mushroom bulk substrate layer disposed thereover. The air intake of the air pump of the hard filter or the air stone extract CO2 from the mushroom bulk substrate and pump the extracted CO2 to the algae layer.

The invention provides an improved modular aquaponics system for growing plants and fish together in a closed system whereby fish tank waste water is utilized by the plants as a source of fertilizer, thereby clarifying the water before returning it to the fish tank. The improvements comprise an improved plant grow tray, a prefabricated, “snap-together” grow tray system, an energy-efficient calibrated air displacement pump and a fish waste water clarifier having a baffle.

The invention discloses a fish-vegetable symbiotic system. The fish-vegetable symbiotic system comprises a fish culture pond, wherein the fish culture pond is connected with three physical and biological filters connected in parallel through a first tube, the physical and biological filters are connected with a water quality conversion tank through a second tube, the water quality conversion tankis connected with a nutrient activation tank through a third tube, the nutrient activation tank is connected with a vegetable planting tank through a fourth tube, and a planting oxygen solution blending tank and an oxygen solution recovery filter tank are connected onto the vegetable planting tank. The fish-vegetable symbiotic system has the advantages that the fish-vegetable symbiotic system is novel in structure and reasonable in design, due to ingenious ecological design, the water resource is saved, and the ecological symbiotic effect that vegetables can grow normally without fertilizationis realized. In the fish-vegetable symbiotic system, microbial bacteria decompose ammonia nitrogen in water into nitrite and nitrate which are further absorbed and utilized by plants as nutrients.

The invention relates to a treatment method of ecological breeding circulating water for turtles, and belongs to the technical field of aquaculture water treatment technology. The method comprises the following steps: (1) building a 'fish and vegetable' purifying pond; (2) building an biological filter tank; (3) building a purified water impounding reservoir; (4) recycling. According to the method, the aquaculture waste water is drained to the 'fish and vegetable' purifying pond to carry out primary purification through absorption and degradation of plants, and then is drained to the biological filter tank for the secondary purification through the clean-up effect of microbes. The water treated is promoted to a reservoir for recycling, so as to realize 'zero' drainage of the aquaculture water.

The invention discloses a courtyard-type fish and vegetable co-existing system which comprises a culture pond used for culturing fishes, a solid-liquid separator used for separating residual feeds andfish manure, a planting tank used for planting plants, and a tidal drainage device used for performing tidal drainage on the planting tank, wherein the culture pond comprises a culture water inlet and a culture water outlet; the solid-liquid separator comprises a separating water inlet and a separating water outlet; the separating water inlet of the solid-liquid separator is connected with the culture water outlet of the culture pond; the planting tank is provided with a planting water inlet and a planting water outlet; the planting water inlet of the planting tank is connected with the separating water outlet of the solid-liquid separator; the tidal drainage device is arranged at the planting water outlet of the planting tank; and the tidal drainage device is capable of tidally discharging the water in the planting tank into the culture water inlet of the culture pond. The courtyard-type fish and vegetable co-existing system disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of beinglow in water consumption, low in discharge capacity, high in planting and culturing benefits, environmental-friendly, sustainable and the like.

A prefabricated vertical aquaponic system, including: a first plant pot part; a second plant pot part coupled to the lower portion of the first plant pot part so as to rotate with the first plant pot part; a rotatable rotation part positioned at the lower side of the second plant pot part; a tank part coupled to the lower portion of the rotation part and storing a nutrient solution; and an induction part which is extended from the tank part to the first plant pot part, connects the first plant pot part, the second plant pot part and the rotation part, rotates by the rotation part so as to rotate the first plant pot part and the second plant pot part, and induces the nutrient solution of the tank part to the first plant pot part.

A system, method, and computer program product for an aquaponics, and greenhouse system, including a solar greenhouse insulated on north, east and west sides and with glazing on a south side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing a fish tank; and a plurality of grow beds coupled to the fish tank. The grow beds each including a geyzer pump powered by an air pump to pump water from the fish tank to the grow bed and aerate water of the fish tank, and a bell siphon to drain the water from the grow bed back into the fish tank.