Nanobubble Technology Helps Farmers in Iran to Double Annual Aquatic Production
At present, equipment related to nanobubble technology is produced domestically in Iran and this equipment is used in different industries like water purification, agriculture and fisheries. The use of nanobubble technology in some cities and villages has contributed significantly to the improvement of water quality in Iran. Nanobubble technology has been used in numerous greenhouses throughout the country, and this technology has been applied in the greenhouse sector too.
One of the areas that has a very high potential for utilizing nanobubble technology is the aquaculture industry. Nanobubble technology can have advantages for this sector like creating supersaturated oxygen conditions in ponds, ideal and uniform distribution of oxygen, and improving water quality. Reducing losses and significantly increasing production are other benefits of using nanobubble devices in aquaculture industry.
The annual production of aquatic products in the country's 25,000 aquaculture farms is about 500,000 tons, and if all these farms are equipped with the nanobubble system, the production will increase 100 percent.
In a relevant development last April, the managing director of an Iranian knowledge-based company active in the field of nanotechnology had also said that the company’s experts had applied a nanobubble system for the agricultural and aquatic industries.
“We produce and commercialize the nanobubble system which settles one of the most important challenges of industries involved with gas and fluids. Some industries deal with mixing gas in liquids, for which the nanobubble system can be a solution,” said Aref Dadgostar.
He explained that in the field of agriculture, the company’s focus is on greenhouse irrigation, where they can increase the amount of oxygen in the irrigation water with the nanobubble system which improves the root structure, adding that the absorption of nutrients by the root is higher with this method and the plant will grow more efficiently quantitatively and qualitatively.
“In the aquatic sector, we can inject oxygen into water with the highest efficiency with this system and distribute oxygen throughout the pool; therefore, the fish do not have the stress of absorbing oxygen in the water and have a better life in the pool which will increase the production three times,” Dadgostar said.
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