Aquaculture, also known as aqua farming, is the discipline of commercially farming aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic plants. Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions—in contrast to commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild marine fish.
SOLVOX® OxyStream, developed by Linde Gas (www.linde-gas.com), has been proven to improve the living conditions of fish inside the tank. It allows for a significant increase in fish production volume; optimizes fish meat quality; and considerably improves operations from an environmental standpoint. Since the launch of the technology last year, interest is burgeoning in this unique new lowpressure oxygenation system that is poised to transform the world of aquaculture.
The uniqueness of the technology is based on its ability to perform three critical functions in one system—dissolving oxygen in the water, producing the correct hydrodynamics, and stripping out potentially harmful inert gases like nitrogen—all via a very low energy requirement. The system is easily installed, including as a retrofit to existing fish tanks, and is virtually maintenance-free.
The technology has been developed by Linde in response to a progressive trend to move aquaculture production from sea cages to land-based sites for the full duration of a marine fish’s lifecycle. This change has presented the industry with the challenge of oxygenating large fish tanks that can accommodate fish stock from infancy to maturity.
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