ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Sustainable Water Harvesting from the Atmosphere Using Solar-Powered Thermoelectric Modules
 
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Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
 
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
 
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Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
 
 
Submission date: 2018-12-27
 
 
Final revision date: 2019-02-24
 
 
Acceptance date: 2019-03-06
 
 
Online publication date: 2019-10-04
 
 
Publication date: 2020-01-16
 
 
Corresponding author
Caner Koc   

Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(2):1197-1204
 
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of solar-powered thermoelectric elements (Peltier) to harvest water from the atmosphere. An Arduino-controlled model capable of harvesting water from air was designed and used in laboratory experiments. The developed prototype system was analyzed by using a package program using computational fluid dynamics. During the experiments, temperature and humidity data were recorded on a computer. We found that the Peltier used in the system developed temperature and relative humidity differences between the inlet air and outlet air from the system. These differences in temperature and humidity created an environment for harvesting water by condensing the humidity in air.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
 
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