Water scarceness and soil salinisation are major problems in many parts of the humanity . In many countries , people miss the resources to access unexampled water sources or to effectively plow and recycle it .
Today we have a go at it make for with chemical substance is far from future validation . In direct contrast , the software of sustainable technologies to treat water and soil has far - reaching positive impingement . This goes some agency to explaining the continual advance and adoption of cutting - boundary water treatment technology .
" The effectiveness of these technologies patently depend on all form of condition , but often a combining of different approaches can precede to even good results , " Raymond Lescrauwaet explicate . As a commercial-grade technical specialist , he work with the Swiss multinationalAqua4D , which developed a H2O - smart technology for treating pee - with a hugely positive impact on soil , plants and irrigation management . “ In our region ( the Netherlands ) these coating still have a somewhat exclusive character , but for agriculturist elsewhere in the world it is a cracking help . As far as Aqua4D is concerned , we already have more than 1500 systems running in gardening and farming in Europe , the U.S. , South America , Central Asia , and Africa . There are several object lesson of growers with many one C or even yard of hectare , who have stunningly improved their land thanks to Aqua4D , and now bring through more than 20 percent of their water usance ( such as , for example , at thisapple growerin Turkey and thisspinach growerin Spain ) . This is without chemical substance or upkeep cost , and often directly connected to solar panels . ”
Water - smart technologies for efficient and optimize irrigationHowever , the point here is not to promote Aqua4D specifically , nor other technologies . The key retainer here is that these technology can often be perfectly combine with other smart innovations to produce a cascade of positive effect . With Aqua4D the water itself is treated - the water molecules . These are restructured by part hydrogen bond ( account in Dutchhere ) , so that nutrients are better absorbed , leaching is better , soil health is optimise , improved nematodes are controlled , and more . “ Because this engineering refines the molecular H2O social system , it fundamentally improve the overall irrigation efficiency , taking it to its higher level of precision , ” lend Lescrauwaet .
Another option and bright applied science could be enriching urine with oxygen . oxygenate water intend healthy , ' endure ' water , which plants and grunge aliveness can use well . That is why it is good to add , and inquiry is ongoing for ways to dissolve more O in water system , even more than is potential with exist technologies .
A successful example of this is theVital Oxidizer , a ware from manufacturer Presscon . Here , piddle under pressure is push through a limited constricted plane section in a organ pipe ( for the technician among you : cavitation go on in the piddle via a venturi effect ) . This then allows the absorption of more O mote ( other incontrovertible impression go on , which can not be fully explained yet ) . Raymond Lescrauwaet excuse : “ Oxygen in piss is of the essence for water quality . Less oxygen think , among other thing , fewer ( good ) bacterium and more source , which prefer a low - atomic number 8 environment . In addition , without oxygen organic dissipation is hardly broken down and pollutes water silos and pipes . ” Because the aforementioned Aqua4D technology refines the molecular water structure , very in all probability more oxygen as ' nano atom ' can be absorbed and these also will remain useable longer . This certainly raises the challenging possibility of combining both Aqua4D and Vital Oxidizer . This is exactly what ’s now happening , with pilot projection starting in , among others , cucumber , bell pepper , tomatoes , chrysanthemums and lisianthus , in cooperation withJVR tecmar . ”
Adding CO2 to decrease pH?So far so good , but there are yet further new technical possibilities which serve alleviate common problems in horticulture . For representative , every grower recognize the problem of a too eminent pH in drainage water . Water with a pH that is too high – or , indeed , too downhearted - will soak up less nutrients and there will be a shortage of other naturally happen stark naked materials .
“ The grower therefore adds nitric back breaker or phosphoric Elvis to impart that pH value down . But that has a downside : it involves many thousands of liters per class and is corrosive and harmful to the flora ” . These are the words of crop advisor Arno Westhoven , who has of late taken on the task of usher in an option to the gardening sector . " It ’s simple : sum up CO2 to water and the pH value live on down , " tell Arno . “ In the world of Pisces the Fishes tank and fish farms , everyone is familiar with that , in a large variety of different industries it has applications , but strangely enough it has not yet become well - live in gardening . CO2 is good for growth , hoi polloi are empower one C of one thousand to pump it into the greenhouse , but the neutralizing consequence on irrigation piss has astonishingly not been noticed much . ”
Using CO2 in the weewee imply an improvement of the water system quality . food are better take in , so that also less ( unnecessary ) evaporation takes place . The consequence is also that the need for works protection products is decreasing , as a result of which , cultivation automatically becomes more sustainable and more environmentally friendly . In addition , algae as well as mineral deposits are greatly reduced .
The concept behind add CO2 is largely like to that of the Vital Oxidizer ( i.e. through a venturi ) . The CO2 injection technique SOLVOCARB ® was developed by the industrial multinational gas giantLinde , but although this company is concerned in fish land , so far it has not focused on horticulture . Arno Westhoven therefore arrive up with the idea of introducing it into this world on their behalf . “ That is how I came into contact with Raymond Lescrauwaet and now we seek to show growers what is still possible to improve their body of water quality in a sustainable way . ”
In horticulture there are now a number of user of CO2 injection venturi system , as well as a golf row wheeler dealer and a large football club . A system will soon be instal at a greenhouse for the first metre - a orotund chrysanthemum grower – for a practical trial .
Ultrasonic treatmentAnother trouble all growers will recognize is that of biofilm and algae . “ Algae are indeed a major problem for many horticultural business concern , ” says Yves Peeters , technical advisor at Maritech . This party applies ultrasonic engineering - in other words , producing specific sound waves to accomplish a certain result . “ Think of cleanup of equipment or remove biofilm or other deposits . But there is another skillful impression : after research - in fussy by the Belgian researcher and inventorThomas Hillaire- it turn out that algae could be kill with low - power ( ultrasonic ) well-grounded Wave . ”
This proficiency has now been making its direction into water basins all over the man over the past two decades . The actual gadget can easy be installed in water pipes using a deoxythymidine monophosphate - part , or be placed on a float on the water control surface . The sound Wave it emits collide with the weak undivided - celled algae , which literally get a blow . This will cause a cracking in the cellular telephone membrane of the vacuole and they will die .
Yves Peeters explains : “ The result is mild , the waves are so weak that no side effects occur . The big vantage is that no chemistry is involved ; you create a stressful environment in which alga and some other micro - organisms can not get , and which also foreclose the formation of biofilm . Moreover , the ultrasonic signal is compose in such a way that no resistance can be progress up . ”
Evolution of versions
The technologies develop by Thomas Hilaire – namely Aquasonic and Biosonic - are already widely used in lettuce and love apple crop , in which one is often confronted with pathogens such as phytophthora , pythium and fusarium .
There is also an program in recreational lakes and Pisces the Fishes ponds , in which the technology attacks the blue - honey oil alga . Finally , a major advantage of the technique is that no campaign or circulation is take , which also make it possible to treat standing water .
Sustainable opportunity , sustainable profitsIn conclusion , we can say that examining water quality and act on it is practically always useful . Improvements can be achieve in almost every crop by optimizing the circumstance of the useable irrigation H2O and safeguarding it from often unneeded defilement . In this way , water supply itself is a sustainable opportunity , bring forth more with less .
For more information : Raymond LescrauwaetAqua4D - Lescrauwaet BVE:[email protect ]
Arno WesthovenWesthoven Agro AdviesE:[email protected ]
Yves PeetersMaritech CVE:[email protect ]
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