Vivar, M. (2014) Clean Water PV Sensors. In: Proyectos 2013 - Máster Universitario en Hidrología y Gestión de los Recursos Hídricos. Instituto IMDEA Agua. ISBN 978-84-616-8388-8
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Currently 708 million people lack access to a safe water supply, most of them in rural areas with limited infrastructures and resources. Unsafe water and poor sanitation cause 80% of all diseases in the developing world. This project is focused on the development of simple, cost-effective, easy to operate and maintain, and socially acceptable domestic water purification units. It is a challenge that requires the application of scientific knowledge from various disciplines. Solar disinfection technologies use the bactericidal effect of UV radiation or convert the solar energy into heat for pasteurization. But their widespread is highly affected by efficiency, cost and reliability. Natural UV water treatment (WT) only uses 5% of the total available solar energy, limiting the system efficiency dramatically and increasing the cost. And all solar WT lack lowcost sensors to detect when the water is clean, reducing their ‘usability’ in developing regions. We will develop low-cost clean water sensors suitable for all solar disinfection technologies by using PV solar cells that can measure received irradiance and water temperature based on their current and voltage. No sensors based on this idea have been built or considered yet despite the plummeting of silicon technologies costs and their potential high impact.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > QE Geology S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Depositing User: | José Ángel Gómez Martín |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2014 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2014 09:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imdea-agua.org:13000/id/eprint/383 |
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