90% Water Saving with Invention of Iranian Researcher
“‘Plant Factory’ saves 90% of water consumption in one case, in addition to many other benefits,” Mostafa Shateri, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Islamic Azad University’s Semnan branch and the managing-director of the knowledge-based ‘Pouya Fanavaran Energy’ company, told ANA.
He said that countries like the US, Japan, China and Malaysia are pioneers in using this technology.
“Our company made efforts to indigenize the know-how in this field and set up Iran's first ‘plant factory’ in Semnan province, which, in addition to thousands of benefits, will save 90 percent of water consumption in just one case,” Shateri said.
In a relevant development, an Iranian knowledge-based company designed and manufactured a smart water meter to save water, despite the harsh US sanctions imposed on the country’s technology sector.
“Energy saving is the main pillar of economic development and sustainability while facing the global energy crises,” Majid Mohammadi, the managing-director of Iran’s Innovation and Smartization Center, told ANA.
“In line with indigenization of the products and equipment used in the country, specially in the field of water saving, the smart mechanical water meters have been produced by the Iranian researchers via using internal capacities,” he added.
“The product which enjoys remote reading capability can in the meantime show automatically volumetric consumption and costs as well as the customer’s consumption information for the past ten years. To do so, an optical port with the battery life warranty of five years has been utilized,” the official added.
Mohammadi said that the water meter is capable of warning water leakage and remotely turning on and off water from the tap, noting that the device has been manufactured under the harshest US sanctions against Iran and has been approved by the Energy Ministry of Iran.
“The smart meter automatically alarms the customers to manage their consumption to prevent freshwater waste and can also concurrently alerts them of the high amount of consumption and costs,” he added.
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