Development of a cost effective UV A&B transmissible coating for the Airbox LED-based lighting system

开发具有成本效益的 UV A

• 批准号: 521883-2017
• 负责人: Bougherara, Habiba
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=639991
• 关键词: Development; cost; effective; UV; A&B

Industrial partner BrezaWorks (BW) has recently developed an innovative platform for vertical farming calledthe Airbox. This Airbox is a controlled environment agricultural production platform tailored for the verticaland indoor farming industry. In the AirBox, plants grow in vertical grow towers, in pots and are suppliedautomatically with water and nutrients via hydroponic methods.Lighting for the Airbox is provided by BW proprietary in-house LED lighting, whose spectrum ranges fromsimple low level photon flux in the visible spectrum through to advanced spectra with UV A&B contributions,tailored to the needs of the individual grower. The design of the AirBox is such that it can accommodate theexisting lighting infrastructure of established grow-systems if desired.The current Airbox has two major problems: 1) the LED lightning system is currently open to the chamber andtherefore unprotected; and 2) the materials used for the grow-pots and grow-towers are not UV stable andtherefore degrade over time. The aim of this NSERC-Engage project is to solve these issues, and provide BWwith a low cost coating for its LED lightning system, as well as a lightweight material for its grow-towers andgrow-pots, ready to use for vertical farming.This project will directly train two graduate students on materials selection, manufacturing, characterization,and CAD modeling. These graduate students will benefit from regular visits at BW and direct involvementwith their technical staff. With this Engage project we will develop the required coating which would lead tonumerous additional commercial applications such as where there is risk of exposure to water or tacky plantbased films or new container materials that would support food preservation methods which would lead tosignificant reductions in spoilage of fresh produce. The potential applications are endless and would lead tosignificant employment opportunities for BrezaWorks and would significantly benefit Canada given that thebulk of material and all the manufacturing is located in Ontario.

工业合作伙伴布雷索克斯（BW）最近为垂直农业开发了一个创新的平台，称为Airbox。该空气盒是针对垂直行业和室内农业行业量身定制的受控环境农业生产平台。在空气箱中，植物在垂直生长的塔中生长在盆中，并通过水源方法在水和营养中供应。气箱的照明由BW专有内部内部LED照明提供，其光谱范围从simple范围内的simimple低水平光子在可见的光谱中与uv a＆b贡献的高级光谱相关的光谱，该光谱范围均可供您使用。空气箱的设计使得可以在需要的情况下容纳已建立的生长系统的持有照明基础设施。当前的空气箱有两个主要问题：1）LED闪电系统目前已向室内开放，因此未受保护； 2）用于生长坑和生长剂的材料不是紫外线稳定的，因此随着时间的流逝而降解。该NSERC参与项目的目的是解决这些问题，并为其LED闪电系统提供低成本涂层，以及用于其成长型和种植者的轻量级材料，准备用于垂直农业。该项目将直接培训两名研究生的材料选择，制造，表征和CAD模型的研究生。这些研究生将受益于BW的定期访问，并与他们的技术人员直接参与。通过此参与项目，我们将开发所需的涂层，这些涂层将引起诸如接触水或俗气的植物胶片或新容器材料的风险，这些涂层或新的容器材料将支持食品保存方法，这将导致新鲜农产品破坏的较大降低。潜在的应用是无穷无尽的，将为布雷萨沃克斯带来重要的就业机会，并且鉴于材料和所有制造业的布鲁克都位于安大略省。