Recently,
Zhenbao No. 2, a semi-submersible abalone cultivation platform by ZPMC, was
shipped successfully to Putian Fujian Province.
Zhenbao
No. 2, which, though, is considered as the twin of Zhenbao No. 1, is designed
with quite different ideas in the structure, cultivation principle and
functions. The platform of the semi-submersible structure consists of the
ballast tank and two permanent dry cabins of E shape, weighing 360t
approximately. The platform can dive into the water to fight against the storm
with the ballasting of the tank in case of the typhoon of more than 12 levels.
The
platform is initiative in China with 4 column cabins and 24 cages of 2m in the
length, 2.4m in the width and 6m in the height in the center, cultivating 12t
abalone in 5,000 different boxes at one time. In the marine cultivation, the
upper surface of the cage is kept 3m from the water surface while the lower
surface 9m from it. The abalones are generally fed once every 3 days, in which
the 2 trolleys at the top of the cages are used to lift the cages out of the
water. Generally, one feeding can be completed with lifting cages three times,
making sure the manual cultivation changing to the mechanical and automatic
cultivation.
Meanwhile,
ZPMC, adhering to the environment protection principles, adopts the new wind
power generator and the invertor to distribute the wind power to consumption
units of trolley mechanical system, seawater monitoring system and AIS system,
making full use of rich marine wind power. All data of PH value, salinity and
content of oxygen of the seawater monitoring system can be transmitted
wirelessly to mobile terminals of users with the Telecommunication card. The
users can download a customer APP to master all the monitoring of the whole
platform easily, making sure the lazy feeding mode of learning about all
details with one mobile phone.
The new
cultivation equipment solves the problems of poor capacity against storms and
waves, much labor of manual operation and low livability of the abalone in the traditional
mode and also expands the present cultivation area to the far deep sea. It
increases the cultivation scale, promoting the rapid development of new
economic industries along the coastline of Fujian Province and supporting the
development of Maritime Fujian.