Abstract: Methods for cleaning a substrate are disclosed. The substrate comprises a dielectric surface and a metal surface. The methods comprise providing a cleaning agent to the reaction chamber.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for cultivating plant products without soil comprising a plurality of shelves for cultivating plant products. The shelves have a reference axis and comprise: a supporting frame, a plurality of cultivation bars which have an approximately rectilinear shape, extend along respective longitudinal axes, and are coupled to the supporting frame so as to be arranged approximately coplanar and alongside one another, and have the respective longitudinal axes parallel to the reference axis and mechanical spacing members, which are interleaved between the adjacent cultivation bars, and are each structured so that the actuation of a mechanical spacing member causes a variation of the distance transverse to the reference axis, between two cultivation bars immediately adjacent to the same member. The invention also concerns a method for cultivating plant products.

Abstract: Plant cultivation system comprising a cultivation container, a plurality of cultivation trays for cultivating the plants, which are arranged on a series of cultivation planes arranged one on top the other with respective pre-set heights relative to a horizontal reference plane, a box-shaped air distribution duct having two air diffusion walls which extend approximately vertically in the cultivation container and which are parallel to each other and dimensioned so as to be adjacent to the cultivation trays. The air diffusion walls are facing the respective cultivation trays in the cultivation planes and have a plurality of through openings which are facing the respective cultivation trays and are designed to selectively convey the conditioned air from the air distribution duct to the same.

Abstract: System for cutting and collecting vegetable products arranged on at least one cultivation shelf. The cultivation shelf has a base to which root portions of the products cling, and a cultivation face opposite the base and from which epigeal portions of the vegetable products extend. The system has: a loading station to support the cultivation shelf in an upside down position, wherein the base is arranged above the cultivation face so that the epigeal portions of the products extend from the cultivation face below the relative root portions and remain suspended and extended by gravity below the cultivation face; a cutting unit to cut the epigeal portions suspended below the cultivation face, so as to separate them by gravity from the root portions clinging to the base of the cultivation shelf; and a collection station to collect the epigeal portions cut and separated by gravity from the cultivation shelf.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for cultivating plant products without soil comprising a plurality of shelves for cultivating plant products. The shelves have a reference axis and comprise: a supporting frame, a plurality of cultivation bars which have an approximately rectilinear shape, extend along respective longitudinal axes, and are coupled to the supporting frame so as to be arranged approximately coplanar and alongside one another, and have the respective longitudinal axes parallel to the reference axis and mechanical spacing members, which are interleaved between the adjacent cultivation bars, and are each structured so that the actuation of a mechanical spacing member causes a variation of the distance transverse to the reference axis, between two cultivation bars immediately adjacent to the same member. The invention also concerns a method for cultivating plant products.

Abstract: A method for cultivating plant products without soil, comprising the following steps: preparing at least one cultivation shelf, which comprises one or more seeding and growth bars made of plastic material, which are provided with seats adapted to house seeds and have on the corresponding bottom walls a through opening structured for being traversed by, and remaining in direct contact with, the roots of the plant product during growth thereof, arranging seeds within the seats in direct contact with the inner surface of said seats, without any interposition of one or more support/gripping layers of the roots of the plant products, supplying the bars with fertilizer-based substances.

Abstract: A system for cultivating plants comprising a plurality of cultivation shelves for cultivating plants, support frames structured to support the cultivation shelves so as to form one or more horizontal cultivation planes that develop along a first horizontal direction, an aeroponic feeding system, which is provided with nebulizing devices that are arranged at the cultivation shelves for spraying the liquid towards the cultivation shelves themselves, and a suction duct arranged at the nebulizing devices to suck up the nebulised liquid dispersed by the same.