RU2292707C2 - Mavitor - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: growing of plants, in particular, technique for utilization of plants in bioenergetic complex.

SUBSTANCE: mavitor is adapted for reducing sizes of plant during growing thereof by providing turning of sprout in spiral path due to changes in light pulse within light-impermeable reactor. Apparatus may be used as measurement instrument in selecting optimal kinds of plants for bioenergetic complex, and also in floristics for changing of plant configuration.

EFFECT: increased efficiency and wider operational capabilities.

4 cl, 2 dwg

Description

The invention relates to bioenergy devices associated with the utilization of energy released during the vegetation of plants.

The aim of the invention is the selection and adaptation of plants for use in bioenergy complexes.

One of the most important requirements for plants used in a bioenergy device is the ability to quickly increase their mass during the growing season and at the same time as much as possible to increase the volume, in particular the height of the plant, due to the size of which there is a need for a significant increase in the section of vegetation pipes.

There are two possibilities for this: either reduce the height of the plants without compromising its other qualities, or choose the most suitable from known plant species.

The proposed device combines both of the above functions. The name of the device is taken in accordance with the combination of words: mavis (lat. Magis - more + volo - bow and tor - strength, power).

A device for growing plants using a laser, however, it does not provide a compact plant [6].

The essence of the invention lies in the fact that the seedling is fixed in a holder mounted on a table in the center of the reactor, closed with a cap to ensure light tightness. As you know, one of the most important factors in the growth and development of plants, and in particular, higher plants has light, due to which plants produce chlorophyll. This refers to sunlight and artificial light sources close to it (including a helium-neon laser) [2, 4].

As you know, light falling on photosensitive sections of seedlings passes to the tips of root hairs even along a bent stem, which acts like a glass fiber [3].

Light controls the growth of plants: they grow in the direction of greater illumination, their sensitivity to light is so great that the shoots of some plants, which are kept in the dark during the day, react to a flash of light lasting 0.002 s. The reaction occurs after 20 minutes and reaches its peak in about an hour [4].

How much the stem bends in the direction of the flash depends on the amount of light that hits it. For example, bamboo shoots, the thickness of which reaches several centimeters, are lengthened by 2 mm every 5 minutes, i.e. in 4 hours they add 10 cm in height [4].

In view of the above, a laser unit is installed above the reactor, equipped with a timer that provides a pulsed supply of a laser beam, which, penetrating into the reactor, falling onto the face of a floating mirror prism suspended inside the reactor, reflecting from it onto one of the mirrors located concentrically around the central vertical axis of the reactor , in turn, they are directed to the upper germ of the plant, initiating a spiral rotation of the germ around the central axis of the reactor. The laser beam, rotating due to the floating mirror prism around the central vertical axis, simultaneously enters the center of one of the cells located concentrically around the central vertical axis of the reactor below the plant holder and filled with a viscous solution, where, as a result of interference, the electrical contacts located on the edge of the cell are closed, providing periodically alternating aerosols of the nutrient solution to the plant roots with the ability to increase the volume supplying as the plant and gas mixture grow to remove root system metabolites supplied under pressure from the container with the nutrient solution and the cylinder with the gas mixture, the reactor is equipped with a tray for collecting condensate of the nutrient solution and deflectors for removing gases, the deflectors located in the cap reactor, used as handle caps.

A table with a plant holder is mounted on the platform of the electronic scale, and a light translucent horizontal plate freely rests on the seedling, equipped with sensors located at the edges of the plate in contact with scaled staff rails located on the inside of the reactor, while the weight and foot sensors are connected through an automated system control system (ACS) with a monitor on which data on the mass of the plant and its height are periodically displayed. The reactor is equipped with an inlet of a heater providing a constant predetermined temperature inside the reactor, favorable for the growth of this type of plant.

The aerosol of the nutrient solution and the gas mixture are supplied under pressure to the roots of the plants in such a way that they abut against the blades mounted on the plant holder and rotate the holder together with the plant. The holder, mounted on bearings, in turn, through a mechanical drive and a multiplier, drives an electric generator located in the reactor, the energy of which is accumulated on the battery and used for the needs of the navigator.

The energy of the optical component of plant growth is determined in special units in g per mm per hour when the seedlings are illuminated with a red helium-neon laser (wavelength 633 nm) with a beam radius of 1.5 mm at a temperature of 20 ° C [5] (It is proposed to call this unit " mavis ").

The device, the principle of operation of which is explained above, is illustrated by drawings, where

figure 1 presents a section of the mavitor along AA in figure 2;

figure 2 - plan of the Mavitor along the cross-section BB in figure 1.

Figure 1 shows the reactor vessel 1, laser unit 2, reactor cap 3, plant sprout 4, plant holder 5, holder table 6, vertical central axis 7 of the reactor, laser beam 8, floating mirror prism 9, reflecting mirrors 10, focusing lenses 11, cuvettes 12 with thick solution and contacts 13 of the power supply, plate 14 above the plant, sensors 15 of plate 14, scaled rails 16 of the stock, container 17 with the nutrient solution, nozzles 18 of the spray of nutrient aerosol, cylinder 19 with the gas mixture, nozzle 20 for supplying gas mixture def vector 21 for removing metabolites of the root system of the plant, tray 22 for collecting condensate of the nutrient solution, air heater 23, ACS 24, monitor 25 with screen 26, electronic scales 27, holder blades 28 holder bearings 29, rotary mechanism of holder 30, multiplier 31, generator 32 and battery 33.

The device provides a compact plant for the rational use of the space of vegetation pipes, and can also be used as a measuring device when choosing the optimal plant species for the bioenergy complex and in the field of floristry, if necessary, change the configuration of plants.

References:

1. RU 2152149, 07/10/2000, Bull. No. 19.

2. Inyushin V.M., Ilyasov G.U., Fedorova N.N. Laser stimulator for the development of agricultural plants. - Alma-Ata: Kaynar, 1973.- 112 p., Ill.

3. Mandoli D.F., Briggs W.R. Optical fibers in plants // In the world of science. 1984, No. 10, S.66-75.

4. Paturi F. Plants - brilliant engineers of nature, - M .: Progress, 1979. - 311 p., Ill.

5. Sarkisov S.S. II, Garley MJ, Fields A. Generating circulation in nonlinear optical fluids with weak laser radiation // Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials // Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, San Diego, 4-6 august 2003, p.193- 204.

6. SU 1804290 A3, 03.23.1993.

Claims (4)

1. A device for growing plants, comprising a reactor, a laser unit and a table with a plant holder, characterized in that the laser unit is located above the cap of the reactor with the possibility of supplying the laser beam inside the opaque space of the reactor to a floating mirror prism that reflects the beam alternately to those arranged concentrically around the central vertical axis of the reactor reflecting mirrors that initiate rotation of the upper sprout of the plant, laid in a holder mounted on a table with axially with the central vertical axis of the reactor. 2. The device for growing plants according to claim 1, characterized in that it contains cuvettes with a viscous solution located below the holder of the plant to ensure interference of the solution under the influence of a laser and closing electrical contacts located at the edges of the cuvettes with the possibility of periodically alternating aerosols to the plant roots nutrient solution and gas mixture to remove metabolites of the root system of the plant. 3. The device for growing plants according to claim 1, characterized in that the table with the plant holder is mounted on an electronic scale, and the upper plant sprout is covered with a horizontal translucent plate with sensors located at the edges of the plate and in contact with the scaled rails of the foot rod, while the sensors through ACS are connected to the monitor screen. 4. A device for growing plants according to claim 2, characterized in that the plant holder is made with blades and mounted on bearings, and the pressurized aerosol of the nutrient solution and the gas mixture at the roots of the plant are directed to the blades of the plant holder with the possibility of communicating to the holder with the plant movement, and the holder of the plant through the drive and the multiplier drives the electric generator.

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