The HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System is an industrial-grade hydrogen water system for commercial drip irrigation — glasshouses, nurseries, vineyards, turf and controlled-environment agriculture. It connects inline with an existing irrigation or circulation line and delivers continuous hydrogen-rich water at high flow rates and high dissolved hydrogen concentration.
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Overview
Built for commercial operators
Engineered for commercial growers and facility operators, the HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System provides stable hydrogen-rich irrigation water using a high-purity PEM/SPE electrolyzer.
Installation is simple: connect the unit to the facility’s existing circulation line and begin supplying hydrogen-rich water immediately. No separate hydrogen storage or cylinder logistics is required.
Applications
Hydrogen-rich water for agricultural irrigation
The HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System produces hydrogen-rich water on demand — 20 L/min at 3,000–5,000 ppb dissolved hydrogen (sensor-verified) — for drip irrigation across:
- Glasshouses and controlled-environment farms
- Botanic gardens and arboreta
- Vineyards and nurseries
- Hydroponic farms
- Turf, lawns and golf courses
A single unit scales from small pilot trials up to deployments of approximately 10 hectares.
Field evidence
What the field and academic evidence shows
Hydrogen-rich water irrigation has been studied across a range of crops and trial designs. The two strongest data points on file are:
Six-year programme · China
Rice near Shanghai
Run jointly with an industrial partner and an agricultural university, recording an average yield increase of 18.8% with reduced lodging and disease incidence.
Peer-reviewed · South Korea
Cherry tomato trial
A controlled two-year study that found yield and single-fruit weight significantly higher than a conventional-fertiliser control group, alongside improved root-zone microbial activity.
Commercial-scale glasshouse cases also report yield gains in the 6–25% range, along with improved fruit sweetness, stronger root development, and reduced fertiliser or pesticide input in some cases.
On-site generation
Why on-site electrolysis matters
Two technical routes exist for producing hydrogen-rich irrigation water. The choice between them affects logistics, safety, and how consistently the crop actually receives dissolved hydrogen.
Route 1
Cylinder-supplied hydrogen
Hydrogen gas is delivered in cylinders, then dissolved into irrigation water via separate nanobubble equipment. This adds delivery scheduling, storage, changeover logistics, and a continuous cylinder supply chain to manage on site.
Route 2 — HERO Irrigation
On-site PEM/SPE electrolysis
Generates hydrogen on demand from water and electricity using a PEM/SPE cell. No cylinder storage, no delivery scheduling, and no changeover downtime — the same approach used in the larger commercial-scale cases on file.
Hydrogen escapes water quickly once dissolved. That means delivery throughput matters: water needs to reach the root zone via drip irrigation before it off-gasses. The HERO Irrigation system’s 20 L/min output is sized for that constraint at glasshouse and multi-hectare scale.
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HS Code: 8543.3000.90 — Electrical machines and apparatus having individual functions.
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- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Singapore
- United Arab Emirates
- Hong Kong
- South Korea
- Thailand
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HS Code
8543.3000.90 — Electrical machines and apparatus having individual functions.
Performance
- Hydrogen water output
- 20 L/min
- Dissolved hydrogen (sensor-verified)
- 3,000–5,000 ppb
- Dissolved hydrogen (methylene-blue titration)
- 2,000–4,000 ppb
- Hydrogen purity
- 99.99% (PEM/SPE electrolysis)
- Recommended flow capacity
- Up to 6,000 L/day
- Output pressure
- 0–0.2 MPa
- Inlet water pressure
- 0.1–0.4 MPa
- Input power
- 800 W
- Voltage
- 100–240 V ±15%, 50–60 Hz
Physical
- Model
- WZ-S
- Product name
- HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System
- Material
- Stainless steel enclosure
- Dimensions
- 550 × 350 × 970 mm (W × D × H)
- Weight
- 83 kg including accessories
- Protection
- IP54 · Class I
- Input water
- Potable, RO or distilled — TDS ≤ 50 ppm, 5–40 °C
- Outlet connection
- G1/2 thread, 8 mm push-fit with valve
Operating requirements
- Temperature: 0–40°C
- Humidity: <85%
- No direct sunlight; no open flames
- Good ventilation required
- Horizontal placement
- Front panel facing the operator
- Power supply: 110–220V, 50–60Hz
- Power supply must be properly grounded
Applications
- Greenhouse & glasshouse irrigation
- Hydroponics & vertical farming
- Nurseries & propagation
- Open-field horticulture
- Turf & landscape irrigation
Compliance
CE · EMC (2014/30/EU) compliant
Compliance marks describe the hardware and its manufacturing — not medical or therapeutic status.
Operation & maintenance
- Hydrogen nano-bubbles are visible immediately at startup.
- Typical continuous operation is 1–4 hours.
- Dissolved hydrogen dissipates to near-zero within roughly 2 hours of stopping — time treatment to irrigation cycles.
- Short draws (≤5 min) within 2 hours retain most of the dissolved hydrogen.
- Descaling maintenance every 3–6 months depending on water hardness; no user-serviceable parts.
Installation
Simple connection to the facility’s existing circulation line.
Frequently asked questions
It dissolves hydrogen gas generated by PEM/SPE electrolysis into water as nano-bubbles, delivering 20 L/min of hydrogen-rich water measured at 3,000–5,000 ppb by dissolved-hydrogen sensor and 2,000–4,000 ppb by methylene-blue titration.
The unit is plumbed inline with an existing circulation or irrigation line. Water is drawn through the hydrogenation circuit and returned to the line, so no reconfiguration of emitters, drippers or tanks is required.
Filtered, low-sediment water is required upstream of the unit. Suspended solids and heavy mineral loading shorten membrane life, so pre-filtration is specified on any raw or bore-water source.
100–240 V AC, 50/60 Hz single phase. Because the unit accepts wide-voltage input, the same machine operates on standard mains supply in most territories.
Up to approximately 6,000 L/day of hydrogen-rich water, which typically covers glasshouse, nursery, vineyard, turf and botanic-garden drip-irrigation blocks up to about 10 hectares depending on irrigation schedule and emitter density.
No. Hydrogen is generated on demand from water and dissolved immediately into the irrigation stream. There is no pressurised gas storage in the system.
Routine maintenance is limited to inspecting the pre-filter, checking the water circuit for leaks and periodic cleaning of the electrolysis circuit according to the product manual supplied with the unit.
Two independent methods are published: an electrochemical dissolved-hydrogen sensor reading and a methylene-blue titration reagent test. Both are reported because titration typically reads lower than sensor measurement.
CE, including EMC Directive 2014/30/EU compliance. These marks describe the hardware and its manufacture; they are not medical, therapeutic or agronomic approvals.
Nanobubble technology context
Hydrogen Nano-bubble Technology in Irrigation & Water Treatment
Nanobubbles are gas bubbles below roughly 200 nanometres in diameter. Because they are far smaller than the bubbles produced by a conventional aerator or venturi, they do not rise and burst at the surface: they disperse through the water column and stay in suspension for far longer, which is what growers mean by nano-bubble stability, nano-bubble retention and low nano-bubble lift. A nanobubble generator is simply the device that produces that dispersion, usually as inline nano-bubble injection on the pressurised side of a pump.
Most nanobubble equipment in horticulture dissolves oxygen or air, and some water-remediation equipment dissolves ozone. Oxygen and air nanobubbles are used for water oxygenation and root-zone oxygenation — raising dissolved oxygen in irrigation water, hydroponic nutrient solution and aquaculture ponds. Ozone nanobubbles are used for oxidative water remediation and line hygiene. All three are oxidative or neutral gases: they change the oxygen status of the water, and the accepted mechanism is gas transfer, not redox signalling.
Hydrogen nano-bubbles are the advanced modality in the same delivery format. The HERO Irrigation system uses on-site PEM/SPE electrolysis to infuse 99.99%-purity molecular hydrogen as nano-bubbles directly into the irrigation line immediately before the dripper — pump-inline dosing, no chemical inputs, no storage cylinders, and no change to the existing pipework. Molecular hydrogen is a small, neutral, highly diffusive molecule, so nano-bubble dispersion carries it through the emitter and into the root zone rather than releasing it at the surface. Where oxygen nano-bubbles act on the dissolved-oxygen budget, hydrogen acts as a selective reducing species in the water and the root zone — a different mechanism, and the reason hydrogen nano-bubble infusion is treated as the higher-specification option for irrigation, controlled-environment agriculture, turf, nurseries and vineyards. The two are compatible: hydrogen infusion does not displace an existing dissolved-oxygen programme.
Evidence framing, stated plainly. Strongest: the physical chemistry of nano-bubble formation, stability and dispersion, and the measurable hydrogen concentration delivered at the emitter (3,000–5,000 ppb on this system). Moderate: published plant-science work on hydrogen-rich water and root-zone redox behaviour, most of it small-scale or glasshouse-scale. Gaps: long-run, multi-season, crop-specific yield data across soil types and water chemistries is still limited, and site conditions vary. We publish the mechanism and the delivered concentration; we do not publish crop-performance guarantees.
Nanobubble questions
What are nanobubbles in irrigation?
Nanobubbles are gas bubbles smaller than about 200 nanometres suspended in irrigation water. Unlike aeration bubbles they do not rise and burst, so they remain dispersed through the line and pass through drippers and emitters with the water rather than venting at the surface.
How do hydrogen nano-bubbles differ from oxygen nanobubbles?
Oxygen and air nanobubbles raise dissolved oxygen — a gas-transfer effect used for water oxygenation and root-zone oxygenation. Hydrogen nano-bubbles deliver molecular hydrogen, a small neutral molecule that behaves as a selective reducing species in water. The delivery format is the same; the chemistry is not. Hydrogen infusion is complementary to, not a replacement for, a dissolved-oxygen programme.
What is the difference between micro-bubbles and nano-bubbles?
Micro-bubbles are measured in micrometres and still have enough buoyancy to rise and coalesce within minutes. Nano-bubbles are two to three orders of magnitude smaller, have negligible lift, and stay in suspension long enough to travel the length of an irrigation run.
Do nano-bubbles improve water infiltration?
Nano-bubble infusion changes the gas content and interfacial behaviour of the water rather than its bulk viscosity. Infiltration and wetting-front behaviour are reported in field and glasshouse work but depend heavily on soil type, water chemistry and irrigation scheduling, so we describe the mechanism rather than promising an infiltration figure.
Are nano-bubbles used in CEA and hydroponics?
Yes. Controlled-environment agriculture, hydroponics and vertical farming are the most common settings for nanobubble equipment, because the nutrient solution is recirculated and closely monitored. Hydrogen nano-bubble infusion is applied the same way: inline, on the pressurised side of the pump, ahead of the distribution manifold.
How stable are hydrogen nano-bubbles?
Nano-bubble stability is a function of size distribution and surface charge, not of the gas alone. Because the system infuses immediately before the emitter, retention time between injection and delivery is short by design, which is why the delivered concentration at the dripper (3,000–5,000 ppb) is the figure we specify rather than a shelf-life claim.
Can nano-bubbles be used in turf management?
Turf and golf irrigation is a standard nanobubble application, typically through the existing pressurised distribution system. Hydrogen nano-bubble injection integrates the same way, inline at the pump house, without changing sprinkler or valve hardware.
What is inline nano-bubble injection?
Inline nano-bubble injection means the generator sits within the irrigation line itself and infuses gas into the flowing water under pressure, rather than treating water in a holding tank. It is also described as pump-inline dosing, and it keeps the treated water travelling straight to the emitters.
How do nano-bubbles support root-zone conditions?
Because nano-bubbles remain dispersed rather than venting, gas reaches the root zone with the irrigation water instead of being lost in the line. Oxygen nano-bubbles act on root-zone oxygenation; hydrogen nano-bubbles introduce a reducing species into the same zone. Both are mechanisms of delivery — site response depends on crop, substrate and water chemistry.
Can nano-bubble systems be used for irrigation water treatment and remediation?
Nanobubble equipment is widely used in irrigation water treatment, aquaculture oxygenation and water remediation. The HERO Irrigation system is a hydrogen infusion device: it adds molecular hydrogen to the water and does not disinfect, filter or replace an existing water-treatment or filtration stage.
Informational content describing hardware and water-treatment mechanisms. Not agronomic advice, and no crop-performance or health claims are made.
Documentation & downloads
Full product documentation for the HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System. The manual is also emailed to you automatically after purchase.
Where website copy and the document differ, the document prevails.
Secondary Applications — Pools, Spas & Aquaculture
HERO Irrigation is built first for agriculture. The same 20 L/min circulation output is also used in wet wellness and aquaculture settings where continuous hydrogen-rich water at commercial flow rates is required.
No medical, therapeutic, or disease-prevention claims are made.
Scaling to multi-hectare irrigation deployments
The 20 L/min output delivers hydrogen-rich water directly into an existing drip-irrigation network — no separate equipment needed. A single unit scales from small pilot trials up to full glasshouse, lawn and golf course drip-irrigation deployments of approximately 10 ha. Installation is a straightforward outlet-to-pipe connection. Published research on hydrogen-rich irrigation is early-stage and study-specific; no yield, disease or plant-health claims are made.
More on hectare-scale deployment: hydrogen water for glasshouse irrigation and hydrogenated water in agriculture.
Order the HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System
The HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System is $16,311, ordered online through the same secure checkout as every other machine in the range. Free worldwide delivery with duties included.
Planning a multi-site rollout or need an installation consultation? Contact the team and we will scope the circulation connection with you.