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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Primer on atmospheric water harvesting technologies

Indian Prime Minister Modi was reported enquiring whether a turbine could be used to harvest water from moisture in the air and oxygen too, thus serving as a three-in-one machine. Three components of the system , Wind mills, Atmospheric water generator, Water splitting to produce Oxygen, Hydrogen are well known.

Here we look at review paper on atmospheric water harvesting technologies.

The scope of this paper is to review different types of sustainable water harvesting methods from the atmospheric fogs and dew. In this paper, we report upon the water collection performance of various fog collectors around the world. We also review technical aspects of fog collector feasibility studies and the efficiency improvements. Modern fog harvesting innovations are often bioinspired technology. Fog harvesting technology is obviously limited by global fog occurrence. In contrast, dew water harvester is available everywhere but requires a cooled condensing surface. In this review, the dew water collection systems is divided into three categories: i) dew water harvesting using radiative cooling surface, ii) solar-regenerated desiccant system and iii) active condensation technology. The key target in all these approaches is the development of an atmospheric water collector that can produce water regardless of the humidity level, geographical location, low in cost and can be made using local materials.


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