Design of a Rotary Sprout Vertical Cultivation Device

DOI

10.2991/msmee-17.2017.309How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rotary; sprout; vertical cultivation

Abstract

Sprouts need substantive water in the growth process, which will cause a high manual irrigation cost. Besides, manual irrigation is usually uneven. To solve this problem, a rotary sprout vertical cultivation device is designed to realize automatic irrigation and guarantee evenness of irrigation during growth of the sprouts. Test results show that this device can save more than 35% of irrigation water, raise sprout yield by more than 8% and reduce the labor cost by more than 30% against the manual irrigation. It features a reasonable structure, reliable working performance, and a beautiful outline. It can meet the demand from agricultural development in cities and thus is easy to be promoted in sprout production and display.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yi Guo
AU  - Jiwu Ma
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Design of a Rotary Sprout Vertical Cultivation Device
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Materials Science, Machinery and Energy Engineering (MSMEE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1707
EP  - 1711
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/msmee-17.2017.309
DO  - 10.2991/msmee-17.2017.309
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