Design of Sprout Aeroponics Equipment
- DOI
- 10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.361How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sprout; aeroponics equipment; SolidWorks; design
- Abstract
Objective: to solve cultivation equipment problems for industrial cultivation of sprout, sprout aeroponics equipment that features vertical cultivation, aeroponics, ozone sterilization, water magnetization, automatic control technology and etc., is designed in this paper. Methods: SolidWorks 3D design software is used to design the components and overall structure of the sprout aeroponics equipment, and advanced measures including motion simulation and interference checking are used to modify the design for optimized structure design. Results: this design has achieved 100% light utilization, significantly better than vertical cultivation, but its space utilization rate is slightly lower than that of shelve cultivation, accounting for about 94% of 3-layer shelve cultivation equipment. Compared to vertical cultivation, this equipment can also save 35% water and shorten plant growth cycle by 1 day, and improve production by 22%. Conclusions: this equipment produces quality sprouts with higher yield. It not only features high space utilization rate, but also saves irrigation water, reduces disease risk, shortens plant growth period and cut labor cost for production management, providing advanced cultivation equipment for sprout farms and indicating great market potential.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yi Guo AU - Lanfen Chen AU - Jin Zong Suo Lang AU - Zhen Yang PY - 2016/06 DA - 2016/06 TI - Design of Sprout Aeroponics Equipment BT - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1783 EP - 1789 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.361 DO - 10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.361 ID - Guo2016/06 ER -