1340 results about "Aquatic organisms" patented technology

A phospholipid extract from a marine or aquatic biomass possesses therapeutic properties. The phospholipid extract comprises a variety of phospholipids, fatty acid, metals and a novel flavonoid.

The invention provides a shrimp-fish-shellfish-alga multi-unit culture and aquatic organism regulation system thereof. A shrimp culture zone, a fish culture zone, a shellfish culture zone, a large scale alga cultivation zone, a probiotics and microalga culture zone, a water processing zone and an emergency drainage system are arranged in a closed water circulation culture system, wherein the culture water circulates in different culture and water processing units. As the water circulates in different culture units and is utilized in multiple levels by various aquatic organisms of different trophic level and ecological niche, the system gives the various aquatic organisms full play to the positive bait resource complementarity, prevents the aquatic organisms from directly competing on living space and dissolved oxygen and reduces the mutual damage caused by organic remains and metabolic waste, achieves the 'self-modification' and 'biomanipulation' of the culture environment, enables the environment itself to recover from the pollution in culture process, and decontaminates the seawater culture environment.

The invention discloses a method for removing water eutrophication, which comprises the following steps of: investigating a community structure of aquatic organisms in water body, and finding a missing link or broken link in a food chain according to an investigation result; stocking predacious fishes in the water body, removing small trash fishes and herbivorous fishes from the water body by adopting a medicament mode or a manual fishing mode, and regulating the community structure of the fishes in the water body; planting submerged plants, floating plants and emergent aquatic plants in the water with the depth of 0 to 1.5m; and stocking filter-feeding fishes, filter-feeding shellfishes, detritus feeding benthonic animals and herbivorous fishes in the water body. The method for removing water eutrophication can realize the removal of the water eutrophication and ecological restoration for large-scale water body of which the parameters cannot be manually controlled, effectively inhibit the outburst of algal bloom and keep the stable quality of the water body.

A controlled eutrophication system and process are disclosed. The system includes the combination of a partitioned aquaculture system in conjunction with an anaerobic digester. Wastewater containing pollutants, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, are fed to the partitioned aquaculture system. Algae within the system converts the pollutants into algal biomass. Fish populations, in turn, control the algal populations. The fish populations may then be periodically harvested for human or animal consumption. A polishing chamber is contained in the system in which aquatic organisms remove substantial amounts of the algae from batch fed additions of water. The water is then discharged to an external water source containing virtually no pollutants. In one embodiment, the biomass excreted by the aquatic organisms in the system are collected and fed to a digester. In the digester, the biomass is converted to a hydrocarbon gas and collected for its fuel value, while the liquid fraction is collected for its fertilizer value.

An automated biomonitoring system for monitoring water quality includes an exposure chamber for housing an aquatic organism having ventilatory behavior and body movement sensitive to water quality. Electrodes capture electrical signals produced by the organism during its ventilatory behavior and body movement, and a controller responsive to signals from the electrodes determines one or more ventilatory parameters based on the signals. The ventilatory parameters are compared with corresponding thresholds to determine when the water to which the organism is exposed has caused physiological stress to the organism. The signals captured by the electrodes may be corrected for variations in water conductivity so that the signals processed by the controlled are not influenced by conductivity.

An antifouling paint composition comprising an enzyme, such as endopeptidase, Subtilisin (EC 3.4.21.62) and Alcalase(R), and a rosin compound, wherein the enzyme is effective to reduce or prevent fouling by aquatic organisms of a surface coated with the composition. Also disclosed is a method for preventing fouling of a surface by aquatic organisms.

The invention relates to an in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system for an urban river water body. The in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system is capable of effectively preventing the problems of unqualified fluvial cross section water body and aquatic ecosystem damage and further improving the landscape effect. According to the technical scheme adopted by the invention, the method is as follows: close-to-nature riverside buffer zones are constructed on side banks of a river reach from upstream to downstream; the river reach, at which the close-to-nature riverside buffer zones are positioned, is internally and sequentially provided with a pretreatment unit, a first ecological floating bed unit, a first ecological filtration dam unit, an aquatic plant unit, a second ecological floating bed unit, a second ecological filtration dam unit, a biomembrane-enhanced purification unit including a plug-flow aeration unit, a habitat improvement unit and an aquatic organism functional group construction zone from upstream to downstream. The in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system does not need to occupy land area except for a riverway, is stable in treatment effect, does not influence drawing off of floodwater in the riverway, can be used for solving the problems of unqualified fluvial cross section water body and aquatic ecosystem damage and improving the landscape effect, and has great economical and social benefits.

A room-temperature curable organopolysiloxane composition is provided, which includes (A) an organopolysiloxane with the terminals blocked with a hydroxyl group, a hydrolysable group, or both these types of groups, and (B) an organosilicon compound containing a hydrolysable group, a partial hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, or a mixture of the two, and (C) a polysiloxane containing an oxyalkylene group bonded to a silicon atom via, for example, a C—C—Si linkage. Application of this composition to an underwater structure is able to generate an antifouling coating that is effective in preventing the adhesion and growth of aquatic organisms on the surface of the underwater structure, and displays superior long term endurance of this antifouling effect.

An automated biomonitoring system for monitoring water quality includes an exposure chamber for housing an aquatic organism having ventilatory behavior and body movement sensitive to water quality. Electrodes sense electrical signals produced by the organism during its ventilatory behavior and body movement, and a controller responsive to signals from the electrodes determines a plurality of ventilatory parameters based on the signals. The ventilatory parameters are compared with corresponding thresholds to determine when the water to which the organism is exposed has caused physiological stress to the organism.

One embodiment of an apparatus and method for treating agricultural animal wastewater that costs less to build, is easy to operate, and requires little energy input. The method employs natural systems for wastewater treatment; an initial anaerobic digestion treatment followed by batch floating aquatic plant treatment. The batch floating aquatic plant treatment of effluent and subsequent batch discharge provides increased control of the treatment process. Opportunistic collection and use of biogas and floating aquatic biomass results in additional benefits. The apparatus reduces the cost and land area required for the system by subdividing a lagoon into an anaerobic digestion treatment zone below the apparatus and a floating aquatic plant treatment zone above the apparatus. In addition, the apparatus is disposed in the lagoon in such a way that it facilitates the collection of biogas evolving from anaerobic digestion treatment beneath the apparatus by diverting it to areas to be collected.

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 provides a simulation experiment device and a method of alternating current, direct current and impact performance of a large earth screen. The device mainly comprises a rectangular simulated slot, an earth screen model equivalently reduced, an alternating and direct current experimental power supply, an impact current generator and a precise positioning system, and is characterized in that metal grids are laid on four walls and the bottom inside the rectangular simulated slot, so as to form a mesh backflow electrode; a liquid medium is injected into the slot; the earth screen model is designed and manufactured according to the experimental objective and content; the precise positioning system comprises an electrically controlled traveling crane and a total station; and the electric potential in any position in the rectangular simulated slot is convenient to measure at a fixed point through the coordination work of the electrically controlled traveling crane and the total station. The simulation experiment device and the method can meet the experimental research on direct current, power frequency and impact grounding properties of the large earth screen, can also be extensively applied to the fields, such as the experimental research of influence on aquatic organism and metal pipelines by an alternating and direct current system and corrosive property, and the like, and have the advantages of simplicity in operation, large power capacity, durability, flexibility and diversity in refitment and the like.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating ballast water, the apparatus being capable of treating ballast water so as to meet the ballast water standard established by the IMO exactly at low costs. The treatment apparatus of the present invention comprises a filter (4) that filters sea water to trap aquatic organisms, a bactericide supply apparatus (5) that supplies bactericide to the filtrate sea water, and a venturi tube 7 that introduces the sea water to which the bactericide is added, to produce cavitation in the sea water, thereby diffusing the bactericide and also damaging and destroying aquatic organisms in the sea water.

The invention relates to an ecological repairing method of eutrophicated water bodies in rivers and lakes and sediments, and provides a construction method of an organism structural system for synchronously repairing eutrophicated water bodies in rivers and lakes and sediments in situ by means of emergent aquatic plants, submerged plants, benthonic animals, fishes and microorganisms. The light enhancing oxygen-enriched organism structural system for synchronously repairing eutrophicated water bodies in rivers and lakes and sediments in situ has the double effects of synchronously and ecologically repairing polluted water bodies and sediments and providing habitats for aquatic organisms and microorganisms. The system comprises a lens reflective light enhancing surface water emergent aquatic plant survival area, a hollow prismoid free sliding middle water purifying area, a sediment-water interface submerged plant, a benthonic animal and fish survival area, a microorganism enriched intensified sediment purifying area and an oxygen-enriching fixed rod. The system provided by the invention can synchronously and ecologically repair the water bodies and the surface sediments, has the characteristics of good pollutant removing effect, stable and lasting treatment effect and the like, and is suitable for synchronously repairing water bodies in rivers and lakes and sediments in situ.

The invention relates to systems and methods for regulating algal biomass in offshore waters near an oil and gas production platform. The systems of the invention encompasses a plurality of modules for managing nutrients, algae, and aquaculture, including enclosures for containing aquatic organisms, and various operating subsystems that are operably associated with surface and underwater structures of the platform. In one embodiment of the invention, aquatic organisms are cultured in eutrophic water to feed on algae, thereby reducing the algal biomass. In other embodiments, the diversity of algae in an algal bloom is modified and the productivity of oligotrophic water is increased.

The invention provides a biological filler bag for sewage treatment and application thereof. The biological filler bag is made by the following steps: filling a filler substrate in a fiber cloth bag made of fiber cloth, and sealing. The main raw material of the fiber cloth is a polyester fiber, a polypropylene fiber or a mixture thereof; and the diameter of the polyester fiber or polypropylene fiber is 2-8 dtex, and the length is 30-86mm. The biological filler bag provided by the invention has abundant pore sizes and large specific area, and thus, can provide a habitat for aquatic organisms and promote mass proliferation of microbes; and the biological filler bag can be used for growing aquatic plants, and is beneficial to the growth of aquatic animals. The biological filler bag also has the function of filtering impurities in a water body. The biological filler bag is applicable to sewage treatment, and has the characteristics of favorable film forming property, multiple biologic species and favorable pollutant removal effect (especially for N and P in a water body).

The invention relates to a water quality online security early warning system and method thereof. The water quality online security early warning system comprises a biology avoidance behavior sensor which consists of two testing tubes, wherein, the two tubes are communicated through a two-way in the middle and parallel with each other; the two tubes are respectively provided with two groups of stainless steel monitoring electrodes, each group of electrodes consists of a signal transmitting electrode and a signal receiving electrode, wherein, the signal transmitting electrode forms a positive rotation low voltage alternating electric field in the testing tube, and the signal receiving electrode can induce changes of the electric field; the changes of the electric field are transmitted to a signal collecting device, and displayed through a display after being processed. The invention can display behavior change signal of a tested biology with the mode of electrical signal received from multi-point monitoring, can achieve online biology monitoring of original position, online and real time via analyzing and evaluating the electrical signal, and can warn early against unknown contaminants in water body, and has very important indicating effect for the investigations of environmental pollution, in particular for paroxysmal and severe accidental changes.

The invention discloses a method for establishing an urban landscape water body ecological system. The method comprises the following steps: improving a water body substrate; planting submerged plants by using a method that upright posts are adopted to mark areas, so as to establish an underwater frost; planting layered emergent aquatic plants; putting zooplankton (daphnia magna) so as to improve the transparency of the water body; putting aquatic organisms such as fishes, shrimps and shells, so as to complete the water body ecological system; maintaining and managing the ecological system. Through the adoption of the method, the quality of the water body can be remarkably improved, the transparency can be greater than 2.0m, the quality can meet the III-type water quality standard for a long time, black, smell and dirty water bodies with blue-green algae can be thoroughly eliminated, and the water body is always kept clear completely.

The invention discloses a method for constructing ntaxial system ecology for fishes, grasses and shellfishes in the fresh-water substance, which is characterized by effectively combining the ecological character of water with the ecological and physiological properties of aquatic organisms to build and repair the ecology of the water substance by the synergy of the symbiotic mode of various organisms such as sunken plants, emergent aquatic plants, floating plants, shellfishes, filter fishes, carnivorous fishes, predatory fishes, omnivorous fishes and herbivorous fishes, giving full play to theself-purification capacity of the ecological system of the water substance, controlling pollution to the water substance and protecting the environment of the waters. The method of the constructing ntaxial system ecology for fishes, grasses and shellfishes in fresh-water substance of the invention can be suitably popularized in and applied to waters such as rivers, lakes, pools and streams.