Ecological system for deep water environment restoration and construction method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12497306-B2
Application number	US-202217855991-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2022
Priority date	Jul 1, 2021
Publication date	Dec 16, 2025
Grant date	Dec 16, 2025

Abstract

An ecosystem for deep water environment restoration includes: a light-collecting device; an underwater lighting system connected to the light-collecting device and configured to provide light to a deep water layer of a water body; a photocatalytic bionic net comprising a photocatalytic material and a fiber and placed in the deep water layer; and an aquatic plant. When the photocatalytic material receives the light, the photocatalytic material is able to adsorb organic pollutants of the water body to the photocatalytic bionic net and catalyze degradation of the organic pollutants of the water body, concentrate microorganisms to allow the microorganisms to decompose the organic pollutants into nutrients required for growth of the aquatic plant, and absorb the light to catalyze decomposition of water to produce oxygen. When the aquatic plant receives the light, the aquatic plant is able to perform photosynthesis to release oxygen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An ecosystem for deep water environment restoration, comprising:
a light-collecting device, configured to collect light and transmit the collected light to a deep water layer of a water body to supply the collected light to an underwater lighting system; the underwater lighting system connected to the light-collecting device and configured to provide light collected by the light-collecting device to the deep water layer; a photocatalytic bionic net comprising a photocatalytic material and a fiber and placed in the deep water layer, wherein the photocatalytic bionic net is interwoven by a photocatalytic bionic rope, the photocatalytic bionic rope comprises the photocatalytic material and the fiber, and the photocatalytic material is coated on a surface of the fiber to form the photocatalytic bionic net; and an aquatic plant in the deep water layer, wherein the aquatic plant comprises at least one selected from vallisneria, polygonaceae, bengal waterdropwort herb, hydrilla, mimulicalyx, lotus, Zantedeschia hybrida, Potamogeton pectinatus, Potamogeton malaianus , ottelia, orchid, Cyperus altrnlifolius , iris and any combination thereof; wherein:
when the photocatalytic material receives the light, the photocatalytic material is able to;
adsorb organic pollutants of the water body to the photocatalytic bionic net and catalyze degradation of the organic pollutants of the water body,
concentrate microorganisms to allow the microorganisms to decompose the organic pollutants into nutrients required for growth of the aquatic plant, wherein the microorganisms comprise aerobic microorganisms and facultative microorganisms, and
absorb the light to catalyze decomposition of water to produce oxygen; and

when the aquatic plant receives the light, the aquatic plant is able to perform photosynthesis to release oxygen.

2 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic bionic net comprises a first photocatalytic bionic net placed in the deep water layer and a second photocatalytic bionic net placed on a surface of the water body.

3 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the light-collecting device is a solar panel and is configured to convert the light into an electric energy for the underwater lighting system.

4 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the underwater lighting system is an LED light strip and is arranged, in a winding manner, on the photocatalytic bionic net.

5 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the underwater lighting system is a bunching light-guiding rod.

6 . The ecosystem according to claim 5 , wherein the bunching light-guiding rod comprises a plurality of rods spaced apart from each other.

7 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic bionic net is provided with a load balancer to arrange the photocatalytic bionic net to a preset level of the water body.

8 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic material is able to adsorb a light with a wave length of 200 to 1200 nm.

9 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic material comprises at least one selected from a composite material of mesoporous graphene and a mesoporous photocatalyst, mesoporous titanium dioxide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and graphene, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and graphitic carbon nitride, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and a molecular sieve, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and an organic metal framework material, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and iron trioxide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and molybdenum disulfide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and silver nitrate, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and a bismuth-based photocatalyst, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and tungsten oxide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and tin oxide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and cadmium sulfide, a composite material of mesoporous titanium dioxide and zirconium dioxide, metal-doped mesoporous titanium dioxide, titanium dioxide self-doped by oxygen vacancies, a composite material of mesoporous titanium oxide and a photocatalyst self-doped by oxygen vacancies, and titanium oxide self-doped by titanous.

10 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic material is titanium dioxide, a composite material of titanium dioxide and graphene, a composite material of titanium dioxide and a molecular sieve, or any combination thereof.

11 . The ecosystem according to claim 1 , wherein the photocatalytic bionic net further comprises a conductive carbon electrode material.

12 . The ecosystem according to claim 11 , wherein the conductive carbon electrode material comprises at least one selected from graphene, conductive carbon black, carbon nanotube, carbon quantum dots, activated carbon, conductive graphite, conductive metal organic framework, gold nanopowder, silver nanopowder, copper nanopowder and any combinations thereof.

13 . A method for constructing the ecosystem for deep water environment restoration according to claim 1 , comprising:
cleaning up a floating object on a surface of a water body; providing a light-collecting device and an underwater lighting system connected to the light-collecting device and configured to provide light to a deep water layer of the water body; placing a photocatalytic bionic net comprising a photocatalytic material and a fiber in the deep water layer; and growing an aquatic plant in the water body; wherein
when the photocatalytic material receives the light, the photocatalytic material is able to
adsorb organic pollutants of the water body to the photocatalytic bionic net and catalyze degradation of the organic pollutants of the water body,
concentrate microorganisms to allow the microorganisms to decompose the organic pollutants into nutrients required for growth of the aquatic plant, and
absorb the light to catalyze decomposition of water to produce oxygen; and

when the aquatic plant receives the light, the aquatic plant is able to perform photosynthesis to release oxygen.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the photocatalytic material is a composite material of graphene and titanium dioxide, and is prepared by:
mixing metatitanic acid and sulfuric acid to prepare a titanyl sulfate solution; mixing the titanyl sulfate solution and graphene to prepare a mixture solution; adding an alkaline substance into the mixture solution to prepare a precipitate of titanium hydroxide; washing and drying the precipitate and heating the precipitate to obtain photocatalytic particles having a shell-core structure with a graphene core and a titanium dioxide shell as the photocatalytic material.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein a mass content of the metatitanic acid in the titanyl sulfate solution is in a range of 40% to 50%, or a mass ratio of metatitanic acid to sulfuric acid is in a range of 1:1 to 1:10.

16 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein a mass ratio of titanyl sulfate to graphene is in a range of 1:1 to 1:1000.

17 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein the alkaline substance comprises at least one selected from ammonia, sodium hydroxide, and calcium hydroxide, and a mass ratio of the alkaline substance to titanyl sulfate is in a range of 1:1 to 1:10.

Assignees

• Yunnan Huapu Quantum Mat Co Ltd
• Chongqing Institute Of East China Normal Univ
• Univ East China Normal

Inventors

• Zeng Heping
• Hu Mengyun

Classifications

• C02F2305/10

  Photocatalysts · CPC title

• C02F2103/007

  Contaminated open waterways, rivers, lakes or ponds · CPC title

• C02F2101/30

  Organic compounds · CPC title

• C02F3/32

  characterised by the animals or plants used, e.g. algae · CPC title

• C02F1/725

  by catalytic oxidation · CPC title