Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
  • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
  • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
  • A01G9/022—Pots for vertical horticulture
  • A01G9/025—Containers and elements for greening walls
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
  • Y02P60/00—Technologies relating to agriculture, livestock or agroalimentary industries
  • Y02P60/20—Reduction of greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions in agriculture, e.g. CO2

Definitions

• the present invention relates, in a general manner, to the technical field of plant walls. It relates, more specifically, to a plant wall with internal air circulation.
• Each rack of such a structure has a frame, which supports meshed or meshed faces, in particular meshed and meshed front and rear faces.
• the bins are filled with a planting substrate, such as potting soil which, in the case of a perforated configuration of the faces through which these bins are made adjacent, can extend without interruption within the structure of the plant wall.
• a planting substrate such as potting soil which, in the case of a perforated configuration of the faces through which these bins are made adjacent, can extend without interruption within the structure of the plant wall.
• a network of water pipes and also a network of air tubes which extend in the thickness of the different juxtaposed and / or superimposed bins, so inside planting substrate filling these trays, crossing the horizontal and / or vertical joint planes between adjacent traps.
• the lower, upper and lateral faces of the bins being perforated, they allow the free passage of the air and water networks, from a locker to an adjacent rack, without the need for drilling or installation of special fittings, which facilitates the manufacture and implementation of the structure of the plant wall.
• the air network makes it possible to circulate polluted external or internal air, pulsed by a pump, to depollute this air in contact with the planting substrate, by a filtration effect to which is added a bacterial action according to the principle of biofilter. Obtaining such an operation assumes, however, that the air to be decontaminated is optimally removed in the planting substrate. In addition, in order to maintain an advantageous energy balance, the air must be diffused into the substrate with minimal energy consumption.
• the diffusion of air into the planting substrate is obtained by perforations provided in the air tubes.
• This solution certainly simple, does not provide a good distribution of air in the whole of a locker.
• a portion of the substrate is saturated with polluted air, while the volume of the trap keeps areas in which the air hardly reaches.
• the bad distribution of the air leads to an inefficiency of the function of depollution of this air.
• the distribution of air pulsed through perforations in the air tubes requires a relatively high power, so a large pump and very energy-consuming, delivering a high pressure that does not optimize the time of stay of the air in the substrate.
• the increase in the passage section of the perforations is not a suitable solution, because it entails a risk of penetration of the substrate into the air network, with the consequence of a risk of clogging of the air tubes, therefore a result which would be the opposite of what we want.
• the present invention aims to remedy the disadvantages previously described, and is therefore intended to provide, for a plant wall of the kind considered here, an internal air diffusion system that is more efficient, particularly a system spreading the air homogeneously in the bins, so in the planting substrate, so as to improve the depollution of this air, while increasing the energy efficiency.
• the subject of the invention is a plant wall with internal air circulation
• the plant wall comprising a structure composed of generally prismatic bins, intended to be juxtaposed and / or superimposed, each rack having a frame that supports meshed or meshed faces, in particular with a grid or meshed front face, the bins being designed to be filled with a planting substrate for plants developing at least on the front face of these bins, the plant wall comprising a distribution network air connected to means for pumping air and bringing air into the thickness of the different juxtaposed and / or superimposed bins, therefore inside the planting substrate, for a depolluting action, this plant wall being characterized in that the air distribution network comprises, arranged vertically inside each bin, at least one connected air distribution plenum to a pulsed air supply duct, the plenum comprising, on at least one of its two main faces, a window or air diffusion grille.
• the invention provides for the replacement of the perforated air distribution tubes with a plenum, which allows a distributed and homogeneous distribution of the air in each cell of the green wall, and therefore in the substrate. plantation filling this trap.
• the distribution of air through a window or grid of large section also allows a relatively slow diffusion of this air, optimizing the residence time of the air in the substrate for a more effective depolluting action, while by providing a saving of energy consumption necessary for the operation of the pump.
• the air diffusion window or grid may include a porous membrane through which air is diffused to the planting substrate, further slowing the flow of air while preventing undesirable entry of the substrate to the substrate. inside the plenum.
• each air distribution plenum, associated with a rack is fixed vertically to the frame of the rack, which ensures its precise positioning and its retention in place, even in the absence of substrate.
• the air diffusion grid contributes to the rigidity of the plenum and the assembly.
• each air distribution plenum is advantageously arranged vertically on the rear face of the corresponding bin, the plenum itself having a full back face and a front face with window or air diffusion grid.
• each air distribution plenum may, on the contrary, be arranged vertically at mid-thickness of the corresponding rack, so equal distance of the front and rear of the bin, the plenum itself having a front face with window or air diffusion grid, and a rear face also with window or air distribution grid.
• the only front face or the front and rear faces of the air distribution plenum include a peripheral zone outside the air distribution window or garrel. full. This zone can be rigid or more or less flexible.
• the solid peripheral zone has a constant width, on all sides of the window or air diffusion grid, so that this window or grid has a position centered on the plenum, therefore also in the locker.
• the area Full device has, above the window or air diffusion grid, a height greater than its height below the window or air diffusion grid.
• the window or grid remains centered relative to the substrate, despite the settlement of the latter.
• the homogeneous diffusion of air in the substrate therefore remains guaranteed over time.
• the invention also has as its object, as such, an air distribution plenum for a plant wall with internal air circulation, the plenum being a flat box of square or rectangular contour, comprising on its periphery a connection for its connection to a pulsed air supply duct, while at least one of its two main faces comprises an air diffusion window or grille.
• Figure 1 shows, seen in perspective and from the front, a plant wall locker with the air distribution network, in particular plenums, here simple grid;
• Figure 2 shows the rack of Figure 1, seen in perspective and from the rear;
• Figure 3 is a view from the front corresponding to Figures 1 and 2, showing the front face of the plenums;
• Figure 4 is a rear view corresponding to Figures 1 and 2, showing the rear face of the plenums;
• Figure 5 is a plan view from above corresponding to the preceding figures.
• Figure 6 is a side view corresponding to the previous figures.
• Figure 7 shows, seen in perspective and from the front, a plant wall locker with the air distribution network, in particular the plenums here double grid;
• Figure 8 shows the rack of Figure 7, seen in perspective and from the rear
• Figure 9 is a front view corresponding to Figures 7 and 8, showing the front face of the plenums
• Figure 10 is a rear view corresponding to Figures 7 and 8, showing the rear face of the plenums
• Fig. 1 is a plan view above corresponding to the preceding figures
• Figure 12 is a side view corresponding to the previous figures.
• Figures 1 to 6 show a rack 1, of parallelepiped general shape, constituting the structure of a plant wall.
• the rack 1 has a frame 2 formed of uprights 3, longitudinal members 4 and crosspieces 5, which delimit a front face 6, a rear face 7, an upper face 8, a lower face 9 and two lateral faces 1 0.
• the different 6 to 10 faces of the rack 1 may be grid faces, that is to say that they comprise a mesh or a mesh formed by metal son iques.
• the front face 6 of the rack 1 may have a grid formed by horizontal metal son and interwoven vertical son son.
• This front face 6 of the rack 1 may comprise a removable rectangular frame, which supports the horizontal and vertical wires forming the wire mesh.
• Bin 1 is juxtaposed and / or superimposed on similar bins to form the complete structure of a plant wall. All the racks 1 thus joined are filled with a planting substrate, on which grow plants 1 1 which appear at least on the front face 6 of the racks - see Figure 6.
• the green wall comprises an air distribution network 12, which comprises air supply tubes 1 3 and a pump 14 drawing air.
• the air supply tubes 13 are directed towards the different compartments 1, and they end at air distribution plenums 15 arranged inside the compartments 1.
• Each air distribution plenum 1 5 is in the form of a flat box which has a square or rectangular outline, with a front face 16 and a rear face 17.
• the front face 16 of the plenum 15 comprises a grid 18 of air diffusion, of square or rectangular shape.
• the gate 18 is surrounded by a full peripheral area 19.
• the rear face 17 of a plenum 15 is here a completely full face.
• the plenum 15 is mounted vertically in the rack 1, on the rear face 7 of this rack, being fixed to the frame 2, so that its grid 18 of air diffusion is turned towards the planting substrate filling this rack 1.
• the periphery of the plenum 15, for example the upper edge of this plenum, is connected by a connection 20 to an air supply tube 13.
• air drawn by the pump 14 is sent via the air supply tubes 13 to the inside of each plenum 15, which diffuses this air with a homogeneous distribution, through its grid 18, towards the inside of the planting substrate.
• the passage of the air through this substrate ensures a depollution of the air by a biofilter effect.
• the air diffusion grid 18 may comprise a porous membrane (not shown) through which air is blown to the planting substrate to prevent undesired entry of the substrate into the plenum 15.
• the full peripheral zone 19 of the front face 1 6 of the plenum 1 5 has, in its upper band, that is to say situated above the grid 1 8, a larger height H. that its height h in its lower band, that is to say below the grid 18.
• the settlement of the planting substrate inside the bin 1 is taken into account in anticipation, the grid 18 being off-center down.
• a photovoltaic panel 21 carried by the previously described structure can provide the electrical energy necessary for the operation of the pump 14 which circulates the air in the distribution network 12, comprising the supply tubes air 13 and the various plenums 15.
• Figures 7 to 12 show another embodiment, adapted to a plant wall in which the plants 1 1 are planted and develop both on the front face 6 than on the rear face 7 of the various lockers 1.
• each plenum 15 of air distribution is arranged vertically, and fixed to the frame 2, mid-thickness of the rack 1, this plenum 15 being as previously connected to a tube 13 of air intake, drawn by a pump 14.
• the plenum 15 has a first gate 18 on its front face 16, and a second gate 18 similar on its rear face 17. The air is thus diffused, from the plenum 15, to the planting substrate located in front of this plenum and simultaneously to the planting substrate located behind this plenum.
• the number of air distribution plenums in a rack, the plenum can be single or multiple;
• the configuration of the air distribution network in particular tubes or other air supply ducts, which can pass either in the thickness of the bins or outside these bins.

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