Feasibility Analysis of Photovoltaic System Equipped with an Aquaponics Combined with Open Culture Adapting to Arid Region

Abstract

An aquaponics system combined with open culture and photovoltaic system adapting to arid region has been developed for sustainable food production. The demonstration test on the aquaponics system has been conducted to investigate the technical feasibility by utilizing a small-scale aquaponics system built in the farm field of Tottori University in Tottori, Japan. In order to set the system in impoverished arid region without electricity, the amount of electric power generation by photovoltaic system was predicted by using the typical calculation model and measured solar radiation, to facilitate the calculation about a suitable scale of photovoltaic system.