scholarly journals Technology of receiving fresh water from forcedly saturated air through the use of solar energy

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 04008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Mironov ◽  
Yuriy Ivanyushin ◽  
Evgeniy Zhernakov ◽  
Dmitriy Mironov ◽  
Oleg Stepanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Exhaustible Resource ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Drinking Quality

At present, as a result of climate change and man-caused impact on the environment, fresh drinking quality water deficit is observed in many regions of the world. The sufficiency of fresh water provides high quality of living, the stabilization of the internal and foreign political situation, especially in developing countries. A lot of fresh drinking quality water production technologies are known today. Most of them consume a significant amount of energy and pose a considerable danger to the environment. As a source of energy, as a rule, hydrocarbon raw material is used, which is an exhaustible resource. The authors developed a technology for obtaining fresh water of drinking quality from atmospheric air using the solar energy. The article provides a substantiation of the way of fresh water production from air and also describes the energy balance in its implementation.

scholarly journals The Quality of Stored Rainwater for Washing Purposes

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Struk-Sokołowska ◽  
Joanna Gwoździej-Mazur ◽  
Piotr Jadwiszczak ◽  
Andrzej Butarewicz ◽  
Piotr Ofman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tap Water ◽  
Safe Water ◽  
Effective Removal ◽  
Water Replacement ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
Water Analyses ◽  
Drinking Quality ◽  
Underground Tank

The use of rainwater for washing clothes is determined by its amount, composition and quality of washing. Raw rainwater is soft and free of pollution. The collected rainwater already contains pollution present in the atmosphere and washed away from roofs and other surfaces. It can also change its quality when stored in tanks. Washing clothes does not require drinking quality water but just clean, safe water that guarantees effective removal of dirt from fabrics. The study determined the physicochemical and microbiological changes of rainwater characteristics during retention. Rainwater was collected in a standard underground tank for 30 days and water analyses were conducted every 10 days. The possibility of tap water replacement in the household with collected rainwater for ecological clothes washing has been assessed.

Design and Development of a Small Multistage Flash Desalination System Using Aspen HYSYS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Islam ◽  
F. Banat ◽  
A. Baba ◽  
S. Abuyahya
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Chamber Pressure ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Heating Source ◽  
Aspen Hysys ◽  
Temperature Heat ◽  
Process Reliability ◽  
Desalination Technology

Abstract Fresh water demands are increasing day by day because of growing population, industrialization, and increased living standards. Desalination technology has become a significant solution of fresh drinking water for many parts of the world. Lack of fresh water resources in dry environments has encouraged the establishment of desalination processes and developed technology to compensate for water scarcity. The MSF (multistage flash) desalination technique has received wide spread acceptance due to low temperature heat source (waste heat/inexpensive energy), simple construction high process reliability and simple maintenance. MSF typically has the highest water production cost among available desalination technologies, which can be reduced with using solar energy/co-generation. Since Abu Dhabi is in the solar belt region and is blessed with huge solar energy, MSF desalination can be powered by solar power in addition to industrial waste/fossil fuel energy, which will significantly reduce the cost as well as carbon, footprint. In this research, multistage flash desalination is modelled using ASPEN HYSYS package V8. We have designed each components of the system, mostly heating source, vacuum/flash chambers, heat exchangers and developed the whole system. Some parametric study, i.e. feed rate, top brine temperature, heat input, pressure, productivity etc. of multistage flash desalination system has been conducted in this research. Two case studies have been conducted and found a relation between feed flow rate and water production rate as well as chamber pressure with vapor formation. This design will help to build the pilot plant, do experimental test and validate the model.

scholarly journals Effect of glass thickness on performance of double slope inward solar desalination still for fresh water production

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.K. Sivakumar ◽  
Y. Robinson ◽  
K. Saravanakumar
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Productivity ◽  
Heat Losses ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Solar Still ◽  
Glass Material ◽  
Glass Thickness ◽  
Solar Desalination

This paper deals with the effect of thickness of glass material which covered on double slope solar desalination still, performance of the solar still affected by thickness of the glass, which result in to major heat losses in the system. Two inward double slope desalination still with different glass thickness were designed, constructed and experimentally tested their performance. The glasses are inclined 200 from the center of the still. The solar energy collecting area of still is 1m2.The result shows that the variation in glass thickness will affect the efficiency of the still, desalination still with 4mm thickness gives 48% higher fresh water productivity compare to 6mm glass thickness.

scholarly journals The San Saturnino Basilica (Cagliari, Italy): An Up-Close Investigation about the Archaeological Stratigraphy of Mortars from the Roman to the Middle Ages

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1836-1853
Author(s):  
Fabio Sitzia
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Thermal Features ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Roman Age

The manufacturing technology of historical mortars from the Roman to Medieval period apparently has not undergone evolutions. As reported in the literature, a quality decrease in the raw material occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire. During the Roman Age, the mortars presented the requirements of long durability due to hydraulic characteristics, and in later times, the production has only partially maintained the ancient requirements. To focus on the different production technologies between Roman and Medieval mortar, this research presents the case study of San Saturnino Basilica (Italy), where an archaeological mortar stratigraphy from Roman to Middle Ages is well preserved. An archaeometric characterization was performed to compare the mortars of the Roman period with the mortars of the Medieval period collected from the case-study monument. This comparison was carried out by measuring some physical-mechanical, mineralogical, petrographic and thermal features that give more information about the durability and resistance to mechanical solicitations and weathering. After the characterizations, contrary to what is reported in the bibliography, a better quality of Medieval materials than Roman ones is pointed out. This has been highlighted by higher hydraulicity, mechanical performance, and a more appropriated particle-size distribution of aggregates.

scholarly journals Water from Air Production System based on Solar Energy in Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Production System ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Solar Thermal Energy ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Remote Areas

Fresh water supplies are among the most limiting conditions in arid regions. Drinking water shortage is chronic, acute and widespread in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The extraction of fresh water from the atmosphere has been adopted and developed as a new technology to provide water in remote areas. This paper concentrates on the extracting of potable water from air in remote areas using solar energy. A theoretical study for extracting water from atmospheric air is presented and performance of water production system based on standalone PV system was simulated and evaluated for two sites in Egypt; namely, Hurghada and Khargha Oasis. The unit extracts water by using solar thermal energy as the heating source for air and solar photovoltaic energy for supplying water production system driven fan. Perturb and observe (P&O) method for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) has been designed and simulated for the proposed PV system. A Mathematical and simulation models using MATLAB/ SIMULINK software have been developed for evaluating the performance of the proposed system. The effect of climate conditions; ambient temperature and solar radiation on the PV system output power based on P&O controller was also demonstrated. It was found that more amount of water from atmosphere can be extracted from densely humid and highly solar radiation regions.

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