10 Losordo Tran RAS Design Innovations Linking RAS and Aquaponics

8/18/2019 10 Losordo Tran RAS Design Innovations Linking RAS and Aquaponics

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RAS DESIGN INNOVATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES:

LINKING RAS AND AQUAPONICS FOR REDUCED EFFLUENT DISCHARGE

Thomas M. Losordo, PhDPrincipal Scientist & Chief EngineerAquaculture Systems EngineeringPentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, Raleigh,NC

Huy TranAquaponics Development ManagerPentair Aquatic Eco-SystemsApopka, FL


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They Started with a Brewery Built in the 1890’s

The Historic Business and Landmark had fallen into Disrepair


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• Create a Fish and Plant Production Systems within the City

• Existing Building Provides Advantages of Lower Capital Costs & Subsidies for Redevelopme

• Create a System that Produces Fish and Plants at Rates to meet our Market Demand

Goals for this Project

Take Unproductive Urban Structures and Make I Productive Again

Making Abandoned This

Into Productive This

Blending RAS and AquaPonics:: Engineering Flexibility Into Fish & Plant ProductionPlant


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Started by Adding Infrastructure

A New Well for a Consistent

Source of High Quality Waterwith High Alkalinity

Dependable Power with a

Favorable Rate Structure

Updated and Modern Acce

Newly Added Water, Power and Site AccessBlending RAS and AquaPonics:: Engineering Flexibility Into Fish & Plant ProductionPlant


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Created the Design: Linked RAS to a Plant Growing System

Designing a system that would fit within the walls and between the column


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Poly-tanks fitted with EcoTraps with Sludge Collectors & External Stand Pipe

Design Detail: 12.5 m3 tanks with EcoTrap 110 Particle Trap

• Each Tank has a EcoTrap 110 PartiTrap, a Sludge Collector and exter

Stand Pipe


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Design Detail: Flow to Drum-Screen & MBBR

• MBBR nitrifying capacity for ammonia from 40 kg feed / day


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Design Detail: Water Treatment & Return System

Constant Flow Pumps, UV Filters, Heat Pumps, Oxygen ContactorsBlending RAS and AquaPonics:: Engineering Flexibility Into Fish & Plant ProductionPlant


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Plant receive an optimum level of light yielding optimum growth rates

• Each Tray is lit with twenty 250-watt T5Grow Lights, 5500K (cool lamps forleafy growth) suspended about 0.5 mabove the plants; A total of 300 bulbs

per floor.

• Pictured above are the drain lines leading from theTrays to the Drum Screen Filter or first stage of theMoving Bed Bio Reactor (MBBR)

Blending RAS and AquaPonics:: Engineering Flexibility Into Fish & Plant ProductionPlant

Farm Operation


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Farm Operation:

• The Stained Wate

is also due theaddition ofChelated Iron

Water Reuse Systems without Ozone Result in Clear but Stained Wate


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Farm Operation: Starting Up the Plant Production

• Fish

productionfrom thefacility isexpected to23 – 28 mt p

year

The Link Between the Fish and Plants occurs at the Biofilter


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• Easier water

qualitymonitoring andcontrols

• Higher

productivity/m2

• Labor cost formultiple crop

Operational Culture Density met the Design Criteria

Farm Operation: Close Proximity of Fish and Plants


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Plant Production: From Seedling to Marketable Product

Some of the product

can be harvest as

early as 25 days

(Baby Greens)


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Expected Production from this Facility

Waste water will be collected in the basement of the building, solids

removed and some water reusedBlending RAS and AquaPonics:: Engineering Flexibility Into Fish & Plant ProductionPlan

• Fish productionfrom thefacility isexpected to 23 – 28 mt pyear

• Annual planyield of 450mt of lettucand freshherbs


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Harvesting Plants at Three Levels

A Movable Lift Provides Access to the Plants at Three Levels


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Plant Production from this Facility

Produce are cut and to market in two to three hours


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Acknowledgements

Urban Organics, 700 Minnehaha Ave East, St. Paul, Minnesota

Dave Haider,

Managing Partner

Anthony Johannes

Assistant Manager

Kristen Koontz Haider

Fred Haberman

Christopher Ames

Urban Organics

St. Paul MN

www.urbanorganics.com

King Abdullah Universi

http://www.urbanorganics.com/http://www.urbanorganics.com/


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RAS DESIGN INNOVATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES:

THE DESERT AGRICULTURE RESEARCH INITIATIVE (DARI)

Thomas M. Losordo, PhDPrincipal Scientist & Chief EngineerAquaculture Systems Engineering

Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, Raleigh,NC

Huy TranAquaponics Development ManagerPentair Aquatic Eco-Systems

Apopka, FL

King Abdullah Universi

of Science & Technolog


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A 13 square mile coastal site north of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST

A Western-style Co-educational Campus for Research

& Graduate Education

Ki Abd ll h U i it f S i & T h l (KAUST


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Facilities and Faculty to rival any University in North America




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DARI Site at the KAUST Campus


D A i l R h I i i i


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Creating New Technology to Grow Animal Protein and Plants in a Coast

Environment Using Seawater, Brackish Water, and Minimal Freshwate

Desert Agriculture Research Initiative:

The Seawater Green-space Project

D t A i lt R h I iti ti


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4 Hectare Project Site: 12,000 m2 Single Story Facility

Desert Agriculture Research Initiative

Aquaculture

AquaPonics

LED Nursery

Seawater Cooled Greenhouses

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At some point, if not now, discharge of nutrients from marine aquaculture

will be regulated, limited or prohibited


How does a Project in Saudi Arabia relate to Salmon Cultu

Breeding salt tolerance

into valuable food crops………

Dr. Nina Fedoroff, DARI DirectorMember of the National

Academy of Sciences; Plant

Geneticist & Breeder


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Pentair is excited to partner with KAUST to design and

deliver the Aquaculture and AquaPonics technology for DA

A facility capable of producing freshwater & saltwater plants and animals



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Aquaculture and AquaPonics R & D Facilities

A facility capable of concurrently producing freshwater & saltwater crops

Aquaculture

Production

BroodstockNurseryRAS

Primary

WasteTreatment

WaterStorage

PlantGrowth

Greenhouse

Desert Agriculture Research Initiative


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Aquaculture Lab & Demonstration System

The research facility is capable of producing 6 tonnes of fish annually

Broodsto

Hatchery

Nursery System

Nutrition LabGrowout System

RAS Filter

Technology

Aquaculture: Brood Stock Systems


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Aquaculture: Brood-Stock Systems

Three Independent RAS Brood-stock Systems

•3 – 3 Tank Brood-Stock Systems

•1 – Air-washed bead filter

•1 – UV Filter

•1 – Moving Bed Biofilter

•1 – Heat Pump

•3 – 1.5 m3 Brood-stock tanks

Aquaculture: Nursery Systems


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Aquaculture: Nursery Systems

Three Independent RAS Brood-stock Systems

•2 – 6 Tank Growout Systems

•6 – 4.5 m3 Fibreglass tanks•1 – 40 micron Drum Screen Filt

•1 – Moving Bed Biofilter

•1 – Fixed Bed Bead Filter

•1 – Ozone Contactor

•1 – Foam Fractionator

•1 – Heat Pump


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Aquaculture / AquaPonics Systems

Capable of operating the aquaculture and aquaponics together or separately

AquacultureProduction

AquaPonics

Trays

Water StorageRAS Technology

Waste

Storage

Primary

Waste

Treatment

RAS Linked via Primary Waste Treatment to AquaPonics


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RAS Linked via Primary Waste Treatment to AquaPonics

RAS Waste to Treatment, Treated Effluent to Plant Culture, Sludge Storage

Primary

Waste

Treatment

RAS Technology

Plant

Troughs

Primary Waste Treatment Technology


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Primary Waste Treatment Technology

Belt Filters provide a proven method of thickening solid waste in aquacultur

From: www.salsnes-filter.com

Primary Waste Treatment: Membrane Filter Technology

http://www.salsnes-filter.com/http://www.salsnes-filter.com/http://www.salsnes-filter.com/http://www.salsnes-filter.com/http://www.salsnes-filter.com/


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Primary Waste Treatment: Membrane Filter Technology

Membrane Bio-Reactors (MBR’s) show great promise in treating wastewate

An MBR is a compact-built

purification system combiningthe biological degradation step

with a membrane separation

step.

From:

http://www.x-flow.com

AquaPonics Systems Consume Nutrients and Clarify Wate

http://www.x-flow.com/http://www.x-flow.com/http://www.x-flow.com/http://www.x-flow.com/


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With deep trough AquaPonics, bacteria play a large role in nutrient recycling

• Freshwater or halophytic grown on

Styrofoam boards floating in the trays.

• Waste nutrients are removed by root mass

as the water flows through the trays.

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AcknowledgementsKing Abdullah Universityof Science & Technology


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Acknowledgements

Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, 2395 Apopka Blvd, Apopka FL 32703

Ed Aneshansley

Engineering Manager

Bill Peacock

Senior Designer

Rick Jones

Field Services Engineer

Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems

Beverly MA

www.PentairAES.com

of Science & Technology

Dr. Nina Federoff, Directo

Desert Agriculture ReseaInitiative

Dr. Aftab Alum

Researcher

Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons

Consulting Scientist

King Abdullah University

Science & Technology
http://www.aquaticeco.com/http://www.aquaticeco.com/

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