Hydrogen-Rich Irrigation for Commercial Glasshouses
A water-quality addition to the irrigation and fertigation system already installed in your head house. HERO Irrigation treats the pressurised feed line — 20 L/min (5.3 gal/min) at 3,000–5,000 ppb dissolved hydrogen — and the treated water reaches the crop through the same drip, dripper-stake or micro-irrigation hardware you run today.
Supplied worldwide by YBG Global at a fixed US$16,311 price — DDP to selected destinations (freight, duties and import handling included) or DAP elsewhere (freight included; import duties, VAT and customs handling payable by you on arrival). Remote-guided commissioning is included, by card or against a purchase order. Full product specifications live on the HERO Irrigation product page.
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Unscripted output verification. A standard production unit running into a small vessel — the visible milky plume is the nano-bubble output itself, at the same 20 L/min and 3,000–5,000 ppb rated on the line. No edit, no narration, no studio. Full footage and context →
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Installation & operation
Hydrogen-rich glasshouse irrigation means dosing the glasshouse irrigation feed with molecular hydrogen at nano-bubble scale, so water reaching the root zone carries 3,000–5,000 ppb of dissolved hydrogen (sensor-verified) instead of none. The HERO Irrigation WZ-S generates it on demand by PEM/SPE electrolysis at 99.99% purity and injects it in-line at 20 L/min (5.3 gal/min) on the existing pressurised main in the head house, without altering EC, pH or nutrient recipes. YBG Global makes no yield claim: the machine's output, purity and in-line stability are instrumented and certified, while crop-response evidence is limited to reported trials — most relevantly a peer-reviewed glasshouse cherry-tomato study in China (Shanghai 2021, Nanjing 2023; Li et al. 2024, Plants 13(3), 443, doi:10.3390/plants13030443), with a six-year rice programme in China as secondary support. No multi-season commercial glasshouse trial is on file, and that is stated as an open gap.
5.3 gal/min (US)
sensor-verified
≈ 1,585 gal/day (US)
≈ 25 acres
100–240 V single-phase
Model WZ-S · 550 × 350 × 970 mm (21.7 × 13.8 × 38.2 in) · 83 kg incl. accessories (183 lb) · IP54 · CE and EMC (2014/30/EU) compliant
It runs alongside your irrigation and fertigation system
YBG Global does not supply irrigation hardware, climate computers or fertigation controllers, and does not ask you to change the ones you have. If your house runs Netafim, Priva, Certhon or any other commercial greenhouse irrigation, fertigation or climate-control infrastructure, that stays exactly as commissioned. HERO Irrigation connects in-line on the pressurised main in the head house and treats the water passing through it — a water-quality dimension those systems do not address, rather than a competing way of delivering or scheduling water.
No change to delivery or control hardware
Drippers, dripper stakes, gutters, mats, valves, filters and irrigation scheduling are untouched. Zone design and emitter selection remain your irrigation designer's decision.Fertigation and EC/pH control untouched
Injection sits in-line on the feed main; dosing units, mixing tanks and nutrient recipes continue as configured. Hydrogen is not an oxidant — it does not scavenge, bleach or react with nutrient chemistry, and it does not shift EC.Recirculating or drain-to-waste
Both layouts are supported. Treatment happens on the feed side, so return-line disinfection, filtration and drain analysis continue exactly as designed.Head-house footprint, single-phase power
550 × 350 × 970 mm (21.7 × 13.8 × 38.2 in), caster-mounted, 800 W from a standard single-phase supply — realistic for a plant-room bay without a three-phase upgrade.Trial data, on the record
Hydrogen-rich water irrigation has been studied across a range of crops and trial designs. These are the two strongest data points on file — each labelled with its evidence standing.
Cherry tomato — two-year controlled study
Hydrogen nanobubble water raised yield per plant by 39.7% and 26.5% in the 2021 Shanghai trial and by 39.4% and 28.2% in the 2023 Nanjing trial, against conventional-fertiliser controls, with improved fruit quality and root-zone microbial activity. Li et al. (2024), Plants 13(3), 443 — doi:10.3390/plants13030443
Rice — Qingpu, 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 across the programme. Industry partner programme, not peer-reviewed; no public source on file.
These are reported trial results, not a yield guarantee — commercial outcomes vary with crop, climate and growing practice. The full evidence file, with sources and an honest note on evidence quality, is maintained at hydrogenmachines.com.au/HERO-Irrigation.
For protected cropping the most directly relevant of these is the peer-reviewed Chinese cherry-tomato work — a glasshouse-grown crop, irrigation-delivered, run against a conventional-fertiliser control over two years. The six-year rice programme is reported here as secondary supporting evidence from a different crop and growing system. Both are reported trial results, not a promise of what your house will do, and no multi-season trial across a commercial glasshouse portfolio is on file. What is documented to instrument grade is the machine: dissolved-hydrogen concentration, 99.99% purity, output rate and in-line stability are measured and certified, and the mechanism is set out on the hydrogen nano-bubble technology page.
These trials measured dissolved molecular hydrogen specifically, not combined oxyhydrogen gas — the distinction is explained on hydrogen vs. oxyhydrogen for irrigation.
Pair irrigation with Climate Systems — one engineering team for both
A heated glasshouse burns fuel as well as pumping water: climate boilers, CO₂ dosing plant, propagation houses and processing or packing facilities. YBG Global's Climate Systems oxyhydrogen generators retrofit to an existing boiler's combustion-air stream — no burner replacement, no re-tubing, no stored gas — so the water side and the heat side of the site can be addressed by the same supplier under one commercial agreement.
Lower input costs, not just higher yield
Field data on hydrogen-rich water irrigation points to a second potential benefit alongside yield: lower fertiliser dependency.
A peer-reviewed two-year cherry tomato trial (Li et al., 2024, Plants) found that hydrogen nanobubble water applied without any fertiliser at all produced higher yield, sugar–acid ratio, and lycopene content than a conventional fertiliser-only control group. In other words, the hydrogen treatment didn't just reduce how much fertiliser was needed — in this trial, it outperformed fertiliser entirely.
For growers facing rising input costs, this points to hydrogen-rich irrigation as a genuine input-cost lever, not only a yield or quality improvement.
Read the full case study: can hydrogen-rich irrigation reduce fertiliser use? →
See the system running on a glasshouse irrigation main
HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System in operation — cabinet-mounted, in-line with existing glasshouse fertigation infrastructure.
Commercial glasshouse buyer FAQ
Where in a glasshouse water loop does the unit sit?
Does it work with a recirculating or drain-to-waste system?
Will it interfere with my climate computer or fertigation controller?
What glasshouse-relevant evidence is on file, and what is not claimed?
Can irrigation and climate-side equipment be specified together?
Can it be bought against a purchase order rather than by card?
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Buy by card at US$16,311 DDP, or request a pro-forma invoice for bank transfer against a purchase order. Use the landed-cost calculator above to see the delivered figure for your country before you commit.