FABRICATION OF BIOFILTER AND PIPING IN AQUAPONICS FARMING

Abstract

 Aquaponics (AP) is a combination of hydroponics and a recirculating aquaculture system that has played a significant role in abbreviating the negative environmental impacts of demanding fish farming and crop production. It is a completely environmentally friendly production system due to its full recycling likely for nutrients and waste. It is a symbiotic merger of two food production disciplines within a closed recirculating system: I aquaculture (fish farming) and (ii) hydroponics (plant cultivation in water without soil). Aquaponics is an environment friendly food production system that uses aquaculture and hydroponics to cultivate crops and fish without the use of soil. It is a low-cost symbiotic cycle between the fish and the plant. In an aquaponic system, fish waste (ammonia) is fed into the plant bed, which acts as a bio-filter and absorbs nitrate, which is also required for plant growth. Aquaponics is a technique to grow plants using alternate farming technique which replace traditional methods with limited water supply. Aquaponics is a cross between aquaculture and hydroponics, which is the practice of growing plants without soil. This project is going to achieve an optimum design and fabrication of the biofilter and complete layout for specific medicinal plant production.

The work deals with aquaponics farming for medicinal plants like stevia etc. A farming technique which uses aqua-species waste to grow plants. A major part of this project will focus on design and fabrication of biofilter of aquaponics system. The various biofilter design will be done and best one will be selected.