Fog-water collection for community use

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 52-62

  Fessehaye, Mussie ^a,c   Abdul Wahab, Sabah A ^b   Savage, Michael J ^d   Kohler, Thomas ^c   Gherezghiher, Tseggai ^e   Hurni, Hans ^c  

^a Ministry of National Development   (Eritrea)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e Vision Eritrea   (Eritrea)

Author keywords

Climatic and topographical conditions; Fog formation; Fog water use; History of fog collection

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; CLIMATIC AND TOPOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS; FOG COLLECTIONS; FOG FORMATION; FOG WATER; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT;

FOG;

EID: 84884547001     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.063     Document Type: Review

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