Opposing Flows Technology Aquaculture Tanks being fabricated at its Parchman, Mississippi facility.
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Opposing
Flows Technology Aquaculture Tanks being produced at it's UK location
in Scotland. Only the highest quality materials are used. All hand laid
fiberglass.
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Opposing Flows Technology Filter Unit coming together at the Parchman, MS facility.
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Opposing
Flows Technology Aquaculture Tanks being produced at it's UK location
in Scotland. Only the highest quality materials are used. All hand laid
fiberglass.
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View of the harvest end of Opposing Flows Technology aquaculture tanks.
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Spray bars work on timers to remove foam from the system which contains submicron particles.
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Aqua 2100 system utilizes air to circulate water to the culture tank
from the clarifier. The system is designed to provide two “opposing
flows” of water, created by compressed air being introduced at the base
of each side of the tank. As the air rises through the water it not
only provides oxygen but also creates two opposing circulating flows.
This circular pattern enables solids to be gently drawn into the
outflow ports located at the bottom on both sides of the tank and
passed through, intact to the clarifier.
Tank with 6000 Tilapia at 1.25lb average size.
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This unique (Patented) “Opposing Flow” technology also creates a
continual current in the culture tank. After the biofilter, the
purified water is evenly distributed back into the culture tank,
entering from both sides of the tank causing the fish to align
themselves in the current, constantly swimming “ upstream” facing
either side of the 40’ long tank. With this constant swimming motion
the fish can metabolize the high protein feed into flesh which will
them a higher yield as compared to fish grown in circular aquaculture tanks.
Opposing Flows Technology Air Diffusers oxygenating the water.
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Oxygen is injected into the system at three points. One is in the biofilter area where there is 48 feet of Opposing Flows air diffusers.
The second is in the culture tank itself where there is 180 feet of
Opposing Flows air diffusers. The third is through the airlift water
return system. Only one blower is required to handle all three of these
processes and can also operate multiple tanks, although a backup is
recommended. With this system we have densities of .85 pounds per
gallon regularly.
Biofilter section of filter unit can easily handle 150 pounds of food per day.
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Clarifier
section of the filter unit. Water passes through here at a rate of 270
gallons per minute.
There are 5 stages of solids removal in these
filters.
The aquaculture tank is filtered 1.7 times per hour.
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