HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System
An industrial hydrogen nano-bubble injection system for irrigation water in controlled-environment agriculture. Dissolved hydrogen at nano-bubble scale supports root-zone oxygenation and plant-physiology response across greenhouse, nursery and horticultural operations.
Built for commercial glasshouse, nursery and horticultural operations, HERO Irrigation installs in-line with your existing irrigation mains and runs continuously through the growing season. A single unit scales drip-irrigation deployments up to approximately 10 hectares. Heated sites can pair it with the Glasshouse Boiler Oxyhydrogen Generator on the climate side, quoted per installation.
It sits ahead of the equipment you already run — irrigation pumps, irrigation piping, filter banks, irrigation controllers and fertigation systems stay untouched — so it suits drip and micro-sprinkler networks, furrow irrigation, sub surface irrigation and pressurised mains drawn from a canal irrigation system alike. In hot, water-scarce regions that includes date palm irrigation system layouts and desert farm irrigation schemes, where drought resistant irrigation technology and water efficient irrigation carry the most weight. Because hydrogen is produced on site by electrolysis, nothing is dosed into the line: chemical free irrigation, contaminant free irrigation water, and a sustainable irrigation solution that leaves no additive residue behind.
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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
Grower-focused resources and the consumer presentation of this system live at hydrogenmachines.com.au. Enterprise-scale agricultural water programs: ybgindustrial.com.
Reservoir recirculation to root-zone delivery
HERO Irrigation operates on the unpressurised side of the irrigation circuit. It draws from the reservoir and recirculates the water until the target dissolved-hydrogen condition is reached; the site irrigation pump then supplies the pressure required by the field network.
Water reservoir
An open, non-pressurised water source — for example, a 1,000 L holding tank.
HERO Irrigation unit
Draws reservoir water, dissolves hydrogen into it and returns the flow to the tank for recirculation until saturated.
Irrigation pump
Draws the hydrogen-rich water from the reservoir and pressurises the downstream irrigation main.
Drip irrigation system
Distributes the pressurised hydrogen-rich water through field drip lines to the plant root zone.
Hydrogen nano-bubble output into irrigation water
HERO Irrigation system in operation — hydrogen nano-bubble output into irrigation water.
Built for the way your operation irrigates
The same HERO Irrigation system, specified for the way different operations run water — global direct purchase, DDP to selected destinations and DAP elsewhere, and one engineering team from checkout to commissioning. Growers come to it from the same direction: drought resilient farming under tightening water allocations, and documented trial work on whether hydrogen-rich water can increase crop yield without a heavier fertiliser bill. The trial record is set out below, caveats included — we certify the machine's output, not a harvest.
Sod & turf production
A root-zone tool for a root-zone crop — broadacre coverage per unit, no change to sprinklers or controllers.Explore →Greens, tees & fairways
A pump-house upgrade, not a course reconstruction — fixed price, card checkout, no tender cycle.Explore →Wine & table grapes
Drip-native by specification — one unit per block, fertigation untouched, DDP to wine regions worldwide.Explore →Adds to your existing drip system
For international commercial vineyard buyers: compatibility with Netafim/Rivulis/Toro drip, dual metric and US units, PO ordering and paired Climate Systems options.Explore →Runs alongside your fertigation system
For commercial glasshouse and protected-cropping buyers: head-house installation, Netafim/Priva/Certhon compatibility, recirculating or drain-to-waste, PO ordering.Explore →Production & propagation
One water treatment reaching every zone — head-house footprint, continuous duty across production cycles.Explore →Protected cropping & field
Greenhouse, hydroponic and field-drip operations — a clear scale path from one unit to a fleet.Explore →
Shown to scale beside a commercial glasshouse — a 970 mm cabinet on casters that parks beside the irrigation main it serves.
Model WZ-S · 550 × 350 × 970 mm · 83 kg incl. accessories · IP54 · CE and EMC (2014/30/EU) compliant
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 — independently run, and verifiable at the source.
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. Industrial field-demonstration programme, not journal peer review — no public citable source is on file, so it is reported as programme data.
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
These are independent 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.
Cabinet dimensions & siting
Compact footprint — 550 × 350 × 970 mm on casters — drops into the pump room beside the irrigation main it serves.
The same unit also serves small recirculating volumes — plunge pools, spas and small pools — where the dissolved-hydrogen plume is directly visible. Unscripted output footage and connection notes: secondary applications.
The HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System dissolves hydrogen at nano-bubble scale into irrigation water for glasshouses, nurseries and controlled-environment agriculture — US$16,311 worldwide (DDP to selected destinations, DAP elsewhere) with remote-guided commissioning, available to order online, including Australia, the United States, the Netherlands and the EU.
Lower input costs, not just higher yield
Field data on hydrogen-rich water irrigation points to a second, independently significant benefit alongside yield: a real reduction in fertiliser dependency.
In open-field trials across Shandong and Hebei, China, growers using electrolytic nanobubble hydrogen-locking irrigation reduced chemical fertiliser and pesticide consumption by more than 30%, alongside a 12–25% yield increase and measurable improvement in soil acidification and hardening.
A separate, peer-reviewed two-year cherry tomato trial (Li et al., 2024, Plants) found something sharper still: 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? →
Contaminated and marginal soils — a different question entirely
Alongside the yield and fertiliser-input work, a separate line of peer-reviewed research looks at something unrelated to input economics: how crops cope when the soil itself is contaminated with heavy metals. This is its own use case, and nothing in it supports or extends the fertiliser-reduction findings above.
A 2025 study in Environmental Pollution (Guo et al., 2025) grew water spinach in cadmium-contaminated soil under drip irrigation, comparing micro-nano bubble hydrogen water against tap water. The authors report — qualitatively, with no percentage figures given — improved yield, plant height and root development, higher chlorophyll content and photosynthetic rate, increased stress-response compounds associated with reduced cadmium uptake, and measurably improved rhizosphere soil with a restructured microbial community linked to lower cadmium bioavailability.
Read as a signal, not a specification: hydrogen-rich irrigation research also shows promise for crops grown on heavy-metal-contaminated or otherwise marginal soils. This citation is at abstract level — the full paper is paywalled and has not been independently read in full by us. No remediation, food-safety or contaminant-removal claim is made, and no figure is attached to this finding.
Before you order
What does the HERO Irrigation Hydrogen Nano-bubble System do?
Which growing operations is it designed for?
Does it work with my existing irrigation equipment?
Do I need to redesign my existing irrigation infrastructure?
Is the treated water free of chemicals and contaminants?
What are the key specifications?
How much does it cost and how do I order?
What does DDP delivery include?
Who makes the HERO Irrigation system?
Does YBG supply HERO Irrigation in the Netherlands and EU?
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Does YBG supply HERO Irrigation in Australia?
Deeper on the science — nano-bubble stability, dissolved-gas measurement, and how hydrogen compares with oxygen, air and ozone nano-bubbles: Hydrogen nano-bubble technology.