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
  • A01G9/24—Devices or systems for heating, ventilating, regulating temperature, illuminating, or watering, in greenhouses, forcing-frames, or the like
  • A01G9/243—Collecting solar energy
• • 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
  • A01G9/24—Devices or systems for heating, ventilating, regulating temperature, illuminating, or watering, in greenhouses, forcing-frames, or the like
  • A01G9/247—Watering arrangements
• • 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
  • A01G9/24—Devices or systems for heating, ventilating, regulating temperature, illuminating, or watering, in greenhouses, forcing-frames, or the like
  • A01G2009/248—Devices or systems for heating, ventilating, regulating temperature, illuminating, or watering, in greenhouses, forcing-frames, or the like with distillation of water
• • 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
  • Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02A40/00—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production
  • Y02A40/10—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production in agriculture
  • Y02A40/25—Greenhouse technology, e.g. cooling systems therefor
• • 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
  • Y02P60/12—Technologies relating to agriculture, livestock or agroalimentary industries using renewable energies, e.g. solar water pumping

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a structure for the cultivation of plant species, particularly of the type that uses water that is not directly usable for irrigation, such as salt water, brackish water, or the like.
• the aim of the present application is therefore to solve the above mentioned technical problems, eliminating the drawbacks in the cited known art and hence providing a structure that makes it possible to cultivate plant species using water that is not directly usable for irrigation, while at the same time increasing the cultivatable surface even in situations where agricultural land is not available.
• an object of the invention is that it is structurally simple.
• Another object is to provide an invention that is low cost and which can be made with the usual conventional systems.
• a structure for the cultivation of plant species characterized in that it is constituted by a platform, floating on the sea or on water that is not directly usable for irrigation, installed on which are a greenhouse and a solar desalination plant to which said water that is not directly usable for irrigation is pumped or sent by capillary action or by vacuum.
• Figure 1 is a three-quarters side view of the invention in which the solar desalination plant is integrated in the greenhouse;
• Figure 2 is a three-quarters side view of the invention in which the solar desalination plant is not integrated in the greenhouse;
• Figures 3 and 4 are transverse cross-sections of a solar desalination plant that is not integrated in the greenhouse;
• Figures 5 and 6 are transverse cross-sections of the greenhouse with an integrated desalination plant.
• the reference numeral 1 generally designates a structure for the cultivation of plant species which is constituted by a platform 2, floating on the sea 3 or on water that is not directly usable for irrigation.
• the floating platform 2 can be made of wood, metal, concrete or other adapted materials and can use watertight elements that ensure that it floats, such as barrels, drums, tanks or bottles.
• an agricultural greenhouse 4 is provided that can have a structure of metal, wood, bamboo or other materials, and can be circular or polygonal in shape.
• the greenhouse 4 has a frame that is made up of a plurality of posts 5, cross-members 6 and trusses 7 which define the walls 8 and a roof 9 that is transparent to light.
• the greenhouse 4 then has a covering on the frame which can advantageously be made of transparent or semi-transparent materials such as glass, ETFE, polyethylene or other materials.
• a solar desalination plant 10 is installed on the greenhouse 4, preferably proximate to the roof 9, and can be integrated in the agricultural greenhouse 4 or be separate from the greenhouse 4.
• the solar desalination plant 10 as shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4, can also not be integrated in the greenhouse 4, but arranged for example to one side of it; thus the number of solar desalination plants 10 can be whatever is desired according to specific requirements.
• the desalination plant 2 is powered by the heat energy of the sun which causes the evaporation of the salt water 3 or of the brackish or polluted water or of water that in any case cannot be directly used for irrigation which is sent thereto by way of a first pump 11 or sent by capillary action through a plurality of pipes 12 or by vacuum.
• Water vapor 13 is thus generated and is then made to condense in the form of clean, fresh water 14, for example at the transparent surface arranged on the roof 9.
• the water 13 evaporated by the solar desalination plant 10 is collected on an adapted duct 17 and conveyed, by way of an adapted pipe 15, to an adapted tank 16.
• an absorbent support such as a sheet made of jute or cotton or other absorbent material, such absorbent support being arranged at a basin 19, which constitutes said solar desalination plant 10, or being supported by a net (not shown).
• the vapor 13 can be sucked with a second pump, not shown, and then sent to a tank 16 outside the greenhouse 4 where the condensation occurs.
• the solar desalination plant 10 can be made up of a closed and transparent box-like structure that also comprises part of the roof 9 of the greenhouse 4 which has a transparent upper surface 18 made of glass, polycarbonate, ETFE or other materials that are capable of allowing the passage of solar radiation and of preventing the egress of the water vapor 13 produced.
• the upper closure of the greenhouse 4 and the upper closure of the solar desalination plant 10 can coincide, if the solar desalination plant 10 is integrated in the greenhouse 4, or not coincide, if the solar desalination plant 10 is not integrated in the greenhouse 4.
• the water 3 that cannot be directly used for irrigation is arranged in the basin 19 which is made of metal, plastics or other materials.
• the invention fully achieves the intended aim and objects, a structure having been obtained which makes it possible to cultivate plant species using water that is not directly usable for irrigation, at the same time increasing the cultivatable surface thanks to its placement on expanses of water or on the sea and thus not occupying agricultural land.
• the solution shown is further structurally simple, is low cost and can be provided with the usual known systems.

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