Objective
Water stress and water scarcity have emerged as a global crisis in recent times, prompting the United Nations to declare water as a scarce resource and prioritize clean water as one of its sustainable development goals (SDG – 6).
In this context, sustainable, passive water harvesting technologies are crucial to supplement conventional water systems to meet ever growing water demands.
This symposium will introduce the fundamentals of solar thermal desalination techniques and atmospheric water harvesting techniques, followed by recent advances in such techniques, followed by discussion of unsolved problems and future prospects of sustainable water harvesting and its long term environmental implications.
Key topics to be covered:
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Fundamentals of sustainable water harvesting
Heat transfer, thermodynamics and phase change processes -
Solar thermal desalination
Heat transfer, thermodynamics and phase change processes -
Atmospheric water collection
Fog and dew collection strategies, filmwise and dropwise condensation, inertial fog collection, droplet dynamics -
Environmental implications of sustainable water harvesting
Eligibility of participants
PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members in Science and Engineering disciplines, with an interest in the topic of clean Water.
