Graduation Semester and Year
2016
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Cheng Luo
Abstract
Supervising Professor: Cheng Luo A sponge has porous structures. It is capable of both storing and transmitting water. In this work, we explored the possibility of applying three different types of sponges to collect fog. We also compared their fog-collection efficiencies with that of a typical Raschel mesh that is widely used in the field to collect fog. We found that, for three different fog speeds, the fog-collection efficiencies of three tested sponges were 39% to 93% those of the typical Raschel mesh, indicating that the sponges could serve as alternative fog collectors when well-developed collectors were not available. Sponge 3 has the best performance. Its fog-collection efficiencies were 52% to 93% those of the typical Raschel mesh.
Keywords
Sponges, Fog collection, Porous structure, Darcy's Law
Disciplines
Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Jae Jun, "HARVESTING OF WATER FROM FOG USING SPONGES" (2016). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 1003.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/1003
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington