TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental investigations of a solar water treatment system for remote desert areas of Pakistan
AU - Jamil, Muhammad Ahmad
AU - Yaqoob, Haseeb
AU - Farooq, Muhammad Umar
AU - Teoh, Yew Heng
AU - Xu, Ben Bin
AU - Mahkamov, Khamid
AU - Sultan, Muhammad
AU - Ng, Kim Choon
AU - Shahzad, Muhammad Wakil
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-05-11
Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge the support provided by Northumbria University, Newcatsle upon Tyne UK, and Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT). Also acknowledged is the support provided by Engr. Muhammad Adeel (ex Undergraduate student at KFUEIT) for organizing the literature.
PY - 2021/4/13
Y1 - 2021/4/13
N2 - Pakistan is among the countries that have already crossed the water scarcity line, and the situation is worsened due to the recent pandemic. This is because the major budget of the country is shifted to primary healthcare activities from other development projects that included water treatment and transportation infrastructure. Consequently, water-borne diseases have increased drastically in the past few months. Therefore, there is a dire need to address this issue on a priority basis to ameliorate the worsening situation. One possible solution is to shift the focus/load from mega-projects that require a plethora of resources, money, and time to small domestic-scale systems for water treatment. For this purpose, domestic-scale solar stills are designed, fabricated, and tested in one of the harshest climatic condition areas of Pakistan, Rahim Yar Khan. A comprehensive overview of the regional climatology, including wind speed, solar potential, and ambient temperature is presented for the whole year. The analysis shows that the proposed system can adequately resolve the drinking water problems of deprived areas of Pakistan. The average water productivity of 1.5 L/d/m2 is achieved with a total investment of PKR 3000 (
AB - Pakistan is among the countries that have already crossed the water scarcity line, and the situation is worsened due to the recent pandemic. This is because the major budget of the country is shifted to primary healthcare activities from other development projects that included water treatment and transportation infrastructure. Consequently, water-borne diseases have increased drastically in the past few months. Therefore, there is a dire need to address this issue on a priority basis to ameliorate the worsening situation. One possible solution is to shift the focus/load from mega-projects that require a plethora of resources, money, and time to small domestic-scale systems for water treatment. For this purpose, domestic-scale solar stills are designed, fabricated, and tested in one of the harshest climatic condition areas of Pakistan, Rahim Yar Khan. A comprehensive overview of the regional climatology, including wind speed, solar potential, and ambient temperature is presented for the whole year. The analysis shows that the proposed system can adequately resolve the drinking water problems of deprived areas of Pakistan. The average water productivity of 1.5 L/d/m2 is achieved with a total investment of PKR 3000 (
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669149
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/8/1070
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104960036&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/w13081070
DO - 10.3390/w13081070
M3 - Article
SN - 2073-4441
VL - 13
SP - 1070
JO - Water (Switzerland)
JF - Water (Switzerland)
IS - 8
ER -
