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JOURNAL OF WATER SUPPLY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-AQUA
Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 357-374Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2018.174
Keywords
atmospheric water; dew collection; radiative cooling; water resources
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- FONDECYT project from CONICYT (Chile) [11140863]
- Plan de Mejoramiento Institucional en Eficiencia Energetica y Sustentabilidad Ambiental [ULS-1401]
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Dew harvesting can be a supplementary source of freshwater in semiarid and arid areas. Several experiments on small-scale dew condensers (usually of 1 m(2)) have been carried out in many places in the world; however, few experiments have been conducted on large-scale collectors integrated into buildings. This work aims to assess one year of dew water harvesting in Combarbala (Chile) using a painted galvanised steel roof as collecting surface. The roof (36 m(2)) was coated with a highinfrared-emissivity paint containing aluminosilicate minerals (OPUR, France). Dew measurements were conducted daily from September 2014 to August 2015. The dew yield and its relationship with meteorological variables were analysed. The results show that despite the low nocturnal relative humidity throughout the year (average: 48%), dew collection occurred on 56.1% of the recorded days. The daily average collection rate was 1.9 L d(-1), with a maximum of 15 L d(-1). The maximum daily dew yield is correlated strongly with relative humidity and correlated weakly with air temperature and wind speed. Considering the same rooftop can collect dew and rain, it was estimated that over one year dew water could contribute to roughly 8.2% of the total water collected, considering both sources.
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