Dew Water

ISBN-13: 9788793609471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 366 str.

Daniel A. Beysens

Opis

During the past 20 years, dew collection has been investigated as a serious supplemental source of fresh water. Dew Water offers a thorough review of dew, its formation characteristics and potential for dew collection, for audiences that include policymakers, non-governmental organisations involved in development aid, engineers, urban planners, researchers and students.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Participants of the Reviewing Process
• 1. History
• 2. Water on Earth
• 3. Atmosphere and Materials Radiative Properties
• 4. Humid Air
• 5. Dew Nucleation and Growth
• 6. Dew Collection by Gravity
• 7. Dew Yield Estimation
• 8. Computational Fluid Dynamics
• 9. Dew Measurement and Collection
• 10. Dew Chemistry and Biology
• 11. Economical Aspects
• Appendices (The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation; Relation Between Vapor and Heat Transfer Coefficients ; Slab and Hemisphere Emissivities; Volume of a Spherical Cap; Wetting & Super Wetting Properties; Sand Blasting Roughness; Relation Dew Yield - Dry Air Cooling)
• Author Index
• Keyword Index

O autorze

Daniel Beysens