Our Seawater Vertical Farm uses seawater to cool and humidify greenhouses and to convert sufficient humidity back in to fresh water to irrigate the crops and It has been developed in order to increase the efficiency of the system by exploting the stack effect. The design of the Seawater Vertical Farm is quite simple. It provides for five greenhouses suspended to five branches that also transport the seawater. No fans are required: the warm air is forced by the stack effect to flow upward through the central chimney. Here the warm and humid air will condense when in contact with plastic tubes where cool sea water is pumped. In the surface of the condenser the drops of fresh water will fall down, ready to be recollected in a tank to water the crops and for other uses.
We located our Seawater Vertical Farm in Dubai where the lack of fresh water and of local vegetables, the awful urban traffic, the transport problem and the high soil value makes realistic the idea of using some urban plots for intensive cultivation.
2009
2009
