Rainwater Energy Harvesting Using Micro-Turbines in Downpipes

Micro-scale Energy Harvesting

Development of Piezoelectric Micro-energy Harvesting System Using Voltage Doubler

Nowadays renewable micro-energy harvesting system is becoming attractive, because this energy is free which leads to reduce energy cost. Piezoelectric is one of the common energy harvesting systems. Generally, the output of a piezoelectric transducer is a small AC voltage and its power is also small. As a result, the convertion of this low AC voltage into DC voltage by using rectifier diode is ...

Rainwater harvesting system using a non-parametric stochastic rainfall generator

With water becoming an even scarcer resource, rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are becoming increasingly more commonplace as mechanisms to capture and store rainwater for both agricultural and domestic use. Three important engineering considerations associated with the construction of RWH systems are the capture surface area, the tank volume required for specific demand levels, and the number...

A Rainwater Harvesting Technology by Roof Coating Using TiO2

Rainwater utilization has great potentials for recovering hydrological cycles, for buffering extreme run-off situations in the watercourses, and for reducing the costs for water supply in urban area. However, little information is available on the water qualities and runoff properties of collected rainwater, which is critical for efficient design and maintenance strategies of rainwater harvesti...

Potential Rainwater Harvesting Improvement Using Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

The amount of water on earth is the same and only the distribution and the reallocation of water forms are altered in both time and space. To improve the rainwater harvesting a better understanding of the hydrological cycle is mandatory. Clouds are major component of the hydrological cycle; therefore, clouds distribution is the keystone of better rainwater harvesting. Remote sensing technology ...