Radical and Environmentally-friendly Agricultural Sprayer Technology using Ultra-Fine Bubbles

采用超细气泡的激进环保农用喷雾器技术

• 批准号: 51267
• 金额: $ 27.04万
• 依托单位: MAGGROW U.K. LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=51267
• 关键词: Radical; Environmentally; friendly; Agricultural; Sprayer

From time-to-time a technology comes along that offers potential for significant change and disruptive economic benefit, CDs and smart-phones being cases in point. More modest, but never-the-less significant is the emergent technology based on ultra-fine bubbles (UFBs), also known as nanobubbles. These UFBs are less than a millionth or so of a centimetre in diameter (1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), which in their stabilised form exhibit a range of remarkable properties, notably their longevity (the period of time they remain as bubbles), and importantly their capability for carrying, in aqueous media, gases of various kinds and bubble surface adherents. As a consequence, they are already realising ground-breaking applications in many aligned industries, including, cleansing-sterilisation, oil, gas, and mineral extraction processes, pharmaceutical, food-flavouring and cosmetic industry, with in-roads into medicine and cancer treatment; each with, or the potential for, £multi-million market values. That versatility in UFB properties, together with advances in UFB research are pointing to significant potential for purposely incorporating appropriately characterised bubbles into agricultural aqueous media, for spraying and irrigation purposes, and with a view to achieving more effective reductions in inputs (water, chemicals, etc.) more effective coverage, water usage, delivery of crop nutrients, pest-control agents and agents for control of plant diseases. The aim of this project is to establish the feasibility of integrating UFB and proven magnetic-assist technology in a generic platform that can be used to specify a wide-ranging modalities and applications, and the basis for new, economically viable and environmentally-friendly products and services. A successful outcome can also mean a significant step towards new UK enterprise and new employment opportunities. Appropriately managed the outcome can turn the £0.25million investment into a rolling agenda for enterprise, conceivably capable of achieving a 100-fold return-on-the investment within five years. The need for greater productivity in agriculture to meet food security challenge is without question, as is the need to do so with regard to environmental protection and climate change. UFB technology has the potential as a technological platform to contribute significantly to meeting these demands. But the benefits do not end there, effective land use and land reclamation are significant considerations in meeting the challenge, as are other planetary boundaries, including, emissions and climate change impact, land and water usage, bio-geo chemical flows and biodiversity.The risk in the investment is modest, the potential for substantive returns for the UK is enormous.

时不时地，一项技术沿着出现，它提供了重大变革和破坏性经济利益的潜力，CD和智能手机就是典型的例子。基于超细气泡（UFB）（也称为纳米气泡）的新兴技术更为温和，但其重要性却丝毫不减。这些UFB的直径小于百万分之一厘米左右（比人类头发的宽度小1000倍），它们在稳定的形式下表现出一系列显着的特性，特别是它们的寿命（它们保持为气泡的时间），重要的是它们在水介质中携带各种气体和气泡表面粘附物的能力。因此，它们已经在许多相关行业中实现了突破性的应用，包括清洁消毒，石油，天然气和矿物提取工艺，制药，食品调味和化妆品行业，以及进入医学和癌症治疗的道路;每个行业都有数百万英镑的市场价值或潜力。UFB特性的多功能性，以及UFB研究的进展，表明有目的地将适当表征的气泡引入农业水性介质中，用于喷洒和灌溉目的，并旨在实现更有效地减少投入（水，化学品等）的巨大潜力。更有效的覆盖面、用水、提供作物养分、虫害防治剂和植物病害防治剂。该项目的目的是确定将UFB和经过验证的磁辅助技术集成到通用平台中的可行性，该平台可用于指定广泛的模式和应用，以及新的，经济可行的和环保的产品和服务的基础。一个成功的结果也意味着向新的英国企业和新的就业机会迈出了重要的一步。如果管理得当，结果可以将25万英镑的投资转化为企业的滚动议程，可以想象，在五年内能够实现100倍的投资回报。毫无疑问，需要提高农业生产力，以应对粮食安全挑战，在环境保护和气候变化方面也需要这样做。超流化床技术作为一种技术平台，有潜力为满足这些需求作出重大贡献。但好处并不止于此，有效的土地利用和土地复垦是应对挑战的重要考虑因素，其他地球极限也是如此，包括排放和气候变化影响，土地和水的使用，生物地球化学流动和生物多样性。投资的风险是适度的，为英国带来实质性回报的潜力是巨大的。