Water-from-Air Article Links
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pre-1960
Chaptal, L. (1932). La lutte contre la sécheresse: La captation de la vapeur d'eau atmosphérique. La Nature 60 (2):449–454.
Midowicz, W. (1948). An old method of obtaining water from the air in dry localities. Meterorol. Mag. 77, 18–19.
1960–1969
1970–1979
Gerard R. D. & Worzel J. L. (1972) Atmospheric water extraction over the ocean, Beneficial Modifications of the Marine Environment. Proceedings of Symposium Sponsored by National Research Council and Dept. of the Interior, Washington, DC, March 11, 1968, Washington, DC, National Academy of Sciences, 66-78.
Landsberg, H. E. (1972). Discussion, Beneficial Modifications of the Marine Environment. Proceedings of Symposium Sponsored by National Research Council and Dept. of the Interior, Washington, DC, March 11, 1968. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 78–81.
Starr, V. P., Anati, D. A., & Gaut, N. E. (1972). Controlled Atmospheric Convection in an Engineered Structure. Nordic Hydrology 3, 1–21.
1980–1989
Smith, M. F. (1983). Pure water out of thin air? The Certificated Engineer, 56 (12):190.
Elmer, T. H. & Hyde, J. F. (1986). Recovery of Water from Atmospheric Air in Arid Climates. Separation Science and Technology 21(3), 251–266.
1990–1999
Beysens, D. A., Milimouk, I., & Nikolayev, V. (1998). Dew recovery: old dreams and actual results. In Proceedings: First International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, Vancouver, Canada, 19–24 July 1998, eds. R. S. Schemenauer and H. Bridgman, 269–272.
2000–2009
Hamed, M. (2000). Absorption-regeneration cycle for production of water from air-theoretical approach. Renewable Energy, 19, 625–635. doi:10.1016/S0960-1481(99)00068-3
Clus, O., Sharan, G., Singh, S., Muselli, M., and Beysens, D. (2007). Simulating and testing a very large dew and rain harvester in Panandhro (NW India), in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew (La Serena, Chile, 23–27 July 2007), 311–314.
Polkowska, Z., Blas, M. Klimaszewska, K., Sobik, M., Malek, S., and Namiesnik, J. (2008). Chemical Characterization of Dew Water Collected in Different Geographic Regions of Poland. Sensors 2008, 8, 4006–4032.
Habeebullah, B. A. (2009). Potential use of evaporator coils for water extraction in hot and humid areas. Desalination 237 (1-3), 330-345.
2010
Kurra, N., Scott, A., & Kulkarni, G. U. (2010). Electrocondensation and Evaporation of Attoliter Water Droplets: Direct Visualization Using Atomic Force Microscopy. Nano Research, 2010, 3(5): 307–316. This is an Open Access article.
Narayan, G. P., Sharqawy, M. H., Summers, E. K., Lienhard, J. H., Zubair, S. M., and Antar, M. A. (2010). The potential of solar-driven humidification-dehumidification desalination for small-scale decentralized water production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 14 (4), 1187-1201.
2011
Audah, N., Ghaddar, N., & Ghali, K. (2011). Optimized solar-powered liquid desiccant system to supply building fresh water and cooling needs. Applied Energy, 88(11), 3726–3736. [Click for Article in Press version]
Hamed, A. M., Aly, A. A., & Zeidan, El-Shafei B. (2011). Application of Solar Energy for Recovery of Water from Atmospheric Air in Climatic Zones of Saudi Arabia. Natural Resources, 2, 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/nr.2011.21002
2012
Hastbacka, M., Dieckmann, J. and Brodrick, J. (2012). 'Smart' Irrigation Systems. ASHRAE Journal 54(8):76–79. [ASHRAE's description of the article at this link should have stated the topic as, "Air-conditioner condensate can replace potable water for landscape irrigation."]
2013
2014
Bergmair, D., Metz, S. J., de Lange, H. C., and van Steenhoven, A. A. (2014). System analysis of membrane facilitated water generation from air humidity. Desalination, 339, 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.02.007
Kabeel, A. E., Abdulaziz, M., & El-Said, E. M. S. (2014). Solar-based atmospheric water generator utilisation of a fresh water recovery: A numerical study. International Journal of Ambient Energy, 37, 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2014.882864
Milani, D., Qadir, A., Vassallo, A., Chiesa, M. & Abbas, A. (2014). Experimentally validated model for atmospheric water generation using a solar assisted desiccant dehumidification system. Energy and Buildings, 77, 236–246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.041
2015
Bergmair, D., Metz, S. J., de Lange, H. C., and van Steenhoven, A. A. (2015). A low pressure recirculated sweep stream for energy efficient membrane facilitated humidity harvesting. Separation and Purification Technology, 150, 112–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2015.06.042
2016
Khalil, B., Adamowski, J., Shabbir, A., Jang, C., Rojas, M., Reilly, K., & Ozga-Zielinski, B. (2016). A review: dew water collection from radiative passive collectors to recent developments of active collectors. Sustain. Water Resour. Manag. (2016) 2:71-86. DOI 10.1007/s40899-015-0038-z. This is an Open Access article.
Kumar, M. & Yadav, A. (2016). Comparative study of solar-powered water production from atmospheric air using different desiccant materials. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2016.1200692
2017
Hao, X., Geng, S., Yuan, L., & Luo, B. (2017). Study of composite scheme of absorption/desorption method and condensation method for extracting water from air. Procedia Engineering 205, 2069–2075. This is an Open Access article.
Mahal, S. K. & Alimin, A. J. (2017). Advancement in the Technology of Solar Powered Liquid Desiccant Systems for Fresh Water Production from Atmospheric Humidity. International Review of Mechanical Engineering, 11(3), 191–199. Digital Object Indentifier (DOI) link is - https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v11i3.10953
Subiantoro, A. (2017) Expander-based atmospheric water harvesting in the tropics. Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, 14(3), 1–8. dx.doi.org/10.3233/AJW-170020 [Accepted version of manuscript available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318293129]
2018
Bagheri, F. (2018). Performance investigation of atmospheric water harvesting systems. Water Resources and Industry 20, 23–28. This is an Open Access article.
Kim, H., Rao, S. R., Kapustin, E. A., Zhao, L., Yang, S., Yaghi, O. M., & Wang, E. N. (2018). Adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates. Nature Communications 9: 1191, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03162-7 This is an Open Access article.
Li, R., Shi, Y., Shi, L., Alsaedi, M., & Wang, P. (2018). Harvesting Water from Air: Using Anhydrous Salt with Sunlight. Environmental Science & Technology 52(9), 5398–5406. This is an Open Access article.
Li, R., Shi, Y., Alsaedi, M., Wu, M., Shi, L., & Wang, P. (2018). Hybrid Hydrogel with High Water Vapor Harvesting Capacity for Deployable Solar-Driven Atmospheric Water Generator. Environmental Science & Technology 52, 11367–11377. This is an Open Access article.
2019
Hanikel, N., Prévot, M. S., Fathieh, F., Kapustin, E. A., Lyu, H., Wang, H., Diercks, N. J., Glover, T. G., & Yaghi, O. M. (2019). Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester. ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 10, 1699–1706.
2020
Farghally, H. M., Ahmed, N. M., El-Shafy, A., Nafeh, A., Fahmy, F. H., Hassan, A. A., & Sweelem, E. A. (2020). Water from Air Production System based on Solar Energy in Egypt. International Journal of Mechanics, Volume 14, 2020. This is an Open Access article.
Fill, M., Muff, F., & Kleingries, M. (2020). Evaluation of a new air water generator based on absorption and reverse osmosis. Heliyon 6 (2020) e05060. This is an Open Access article.
Humphrey, J. H., Brown, J., Cumming, O., Evans, B., Howard, G., Kulabako, R. N., Lamontagne, J., Pickering, A. J., & Wang, E. N. (2020). The potential for atmospheric water harvesting to accelerate household access to safe water. Lancet Planet Health. 2020 Mar;4(3):e91-e92. This is an Open Access article.
Hung, L. C., Lu, L. V., Tuan, P. D., & Anh, L. H. Q. (2020). Research and development of the moisture separation system to extract water to meet the needs of people living in drought area. European Journal of Climate Change 2:1, 14–21. This is an Open Access article.
Jarimi, H., Powell, R., & Riffat, S. (2020). Review of sustainable methods for atmospheric water harvesting. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies 2020, 00, 1–24. This is an Open Access article.
Loo, S-W., Vásquez, L., Paul, U. C., Campagnolo, L., Athanassiou, A., & Fragouli, D. (2020). Solar-Driven Freshwater Generation from Seawater and Atmospheric Moisture Enabled by a Hydrophilic Photothermal Foam. ACS App. Mater. Interfaces 2020, ,12, 10307‒10316. Made available [free of charge] through a Creative Commons CC-BY License.
Nguyen, H. L., Hanikel, N., Lyle, S. J., Zhu, C., Proserpio, D. M., & Yaghi, O. M. (2020). A Porous Covalent Organic Framework with Voided Square Grid Topology for Atmospheric Water Harvesting. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 2218–2221. [2021-08-11; The full text of this article is available at http://yaghi.berkeley.edu/pdfPublications/20COFWater.pdf ]
Wang, J., Dang, Y., Meguerdichian, A. G., Dissanayake, S., Kankanam-Kapuge, T., Bamonte, S., Tobin, Z. M., Achola, L. A. & Suib, S. L. (2020). Water Harvesting from the Atmosphere in Arid Areas with Manganese Dioxide. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2020, 7, 1, 48–53.
Zhou, X., Lu, H., Zhao, F., & Yu, G. (2020). Atmospheric Water Harvesting: A Review of Material and Structural Designs. ACS Materials Letters 2020, 2, 671–684. This is an Open Access article.
2021
Bendre, A., Birla, H., Choudhary, C., Potbhare, G., Jawadwala, B., & Inamdar, S. (2021). Water from Air: Desiccant System Design and Simulation. International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, 9(4), April 2021, 1‒7. This is an Open Access article.
Casallas, I., Pérez, M., Fajardo, A., & Paez-Rueda, C-I. (2021). Experimental Parameter Tuning of a Portable Water Generator System Based on a Thermoelectric Cooler. Electronics 2021, 10, 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020141. This is an Open Access article.
Cattani, L., Magrini, A., & Cattani, P. (2021). Water Extraction from Air: A Proposal for a New Indicator to Compare Air Water Generators Efficiency. Energies 2021, 14, 224. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010224 This is an Open Access article.
Congedo, P. M., Baglivo, C., & Negro, G. (2021). A New Device Hypothesis for Water Extraction from Air and Basic Air Condition System in Developing Countries. Energies 2021, 14, 4507. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14154507. This is an Open Access article.
Fill, M. & Kleingries, M. (2021). Modeling and Simulation of Either Co-Current or Countercurrent Operated Reverse-Osmosis-Based Air Water Generator. Membranes 2021, 11, 913. This is an Open Access article.
Guo, Z., Zhang, L., Monga, D., Stone, H. A., & Dai, X. (2021). Hydrophilic slippery surface enabled coarsening effect for rapid water harvesting. Cell Reports Physical Science 2(4),100387. This is an Open Access article.
Haechler, I., Park H., Schnoering, G., Gulich, T., Rohner, M., Tripathy, A., Milionis, A., Schutzius, T. M., & Poulikakos, D. (2021). Exploiting radiative cooling for uninterrupted 24-hour water harvesting from the atmosphere. Sci. Adv. 7, eabf3978 (2021) This is an Open Access article.
Liu, X., Trosseille, J., Mongruel, A., Marty, F., Basset, P., Laurent, J., Royon, L., Cui, T., Beysens, D., & Bourouina, T. (2021). Tailoring silicon for dew water harvesting panels. iScience 24, 102814, July 23, 2021. This is an Open Access article.
Lord, J., Thomas, A., Treat, N. & others. (2021). Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy. Nature 598, 611–617 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03900-w This is an Open Access article.
O'Callaghan, P., Adapa, L.M., & Buisman, C. (2021). Assessing and and anticipating the real world impact of innovative water technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production 315 (2021) 128056. [not specifically about water-from-air technologies but relevant nonetheless]
Sibie, S. K., El-Amin, M. F., & Sun, S. (2021). Modeling of Water Generation from Air Using Anhydrous Salts. Energies 2021, 14, 3822. This is an Open Access article.
Sultan, M., Bilal, M., Miyazaki, T., Sajjad, U., & Ahmad, F. (2021). Adsorption-Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting: Technology Fundamentals and Energy-Efficient Adsorbents. IntechOpen. This is an Open Access article.
Teku, K., Yadav, J. S., Rao, V. S., Raghu, M., & Kumar, G. U. (2021). Experimental Analysis of Potable Water Generation using Humidified Air. Research and Applications of Thermal Engineering 4(1), 1‒9. This is an Open Access article.
Yang, J., Barrila, J., Ott,, C. M., King, O., Bruce, R., McLean, R. J. C., & Nickerson C.A. (2021). Longitudinal characterization of multispecies microbial populations recovered from spaceflight potable water. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41522-021-00240-5 This is an Open Access article.
Yang, K., Pan, T., Lei, Q., Dong, X., Cheng, Q., & Han, Y. (2021). A Roadmap to Sorption-Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting: From Molecular Sorption Mechanism to Sorbent Design and System Optimization. Environmental Science & Technology. 2021, 55, 6542–6560. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00257
Young, S. L., Bethancourt, H. J., Ritter, Z. R., & Frongillo, E. A. (2021). The Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale: reliability, equivalence and validity of an individual-level measure of water security. BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e006460. This is an Open Access article.
2022
Almassad, H. A., Abaza, R. I., Siwwan, L., Al-Maythalony, B., & Cordova, K. E. (2022). Environmentally adaptive MOF-based device enables continuous self-optimizing atmospheric water harvesting. Nature Communications (2022)13:4873. This is an Open Access article.
Bilal, M., Sultan, M., Majeed, F., Farooq, M., Sajjad, U., Ibrahim, S. M., Khan, M. U., Azizi, S., Javaid, M. Y., & Ahmad, R. (2022). Investigating Adsorption-Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting Potential for Pakistan. Sustainability 2022, 14, 12582. This is an Open Access article.
Feng, A., Akther, N., Duan, X., Peng, S., Onggowarsito, C., Mao, S., Fu, Q., & Lolev, S. D. (2022). Recent Development of Atmospheric Water Harvesting Materials: A Review. ACS. Mater. Au. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialsau.2c00027. This is an Open Access article.
Feng, Y., Wang, R., & Ge, T. (2022). Pathways to Energy-efficient Water Production from the Atmosphere. Advanced Science 2022, 2204508. This is an Open Access article.
Guo, Y., Guan, W., Lei, C., Lu, H., Shi, W., & Yu, G. (2022). Scalable super hygroscopic polymer films for sustainable moisture harvesting in arid environments. Nature Communications 13, 2761 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30505-2. This is an Open Access article.
Katselas, A., Parin, R., & Neto, C. (2022). Quantification of Nucleation Site Density as a Function of Surface Wettability on Smooth Surfaces. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2022, 9, 2200246. This is an Open Access article.
Mittal, H., Al Alili, A., & Alhassan, S. M. (2022). Capturing water vapors from atmospheric air using superporous gels. Scientific Reports. (2022) 12:5626. This is an Open Access article.
Rahman, A., Kumar, P. & Dominguez, F. (2022). Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security at scale. Sci Rep 12, 20262 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24314-2. This is an Open Access article.
Sajan, C., Mohammed Muhsin, T., Vaishnav, P., Abhinand, C., & Yaroshkha, M. (2022). Atmospheric Water Generator. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Science. 10(7), 231‒242. This is an Open Access article.
Şenol, R., Salman, O., & Kaya, Z. (2022). Potable water production from ambient moisture. Applied Water Science 13, 10 (2023). This is an Open Access article.
Shan, H., Li, C., Chen, Z., Ying, W., Poredoš, P., Ye, Z., Pan, Q., Wang, J., & Wang, R. (2022). Exceptional water production yield enabled by batch-processed portable water harvester in semi-arid climate. Nature Communications 13, 5406. This is an Open Access article.
Shemelin, V., Pokorny, N., & Novotny, J. (2022). Experimental investigation of silica gel and zeolite coated fin-tube heat exchangers under arid climatic conditions. Energy Reports 8 (2022), 331‒341. This is an Open Access article.
Wasti, T. Z., Sultan, M., Aleem, M., & others. (2022). An overview of solid and liquid materials for adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 2022;14(3). This is an Open Access article.
Zhang, M., Liu, R., & Li, Y. (2022). Diversifying Water Sources with Atmospheric Water Harvesting to Enhance Water Supply Resilience. Sustainability 2022, 14, 7783. This is an Open Access article.
2023
Delhali, A., Assen, A. H., Mohammed, A., Adil, K., & Belmabkhout, Y. (2023). Enabling simultaneous valorization of tannery effluent and waste plastic via sustainable preparation of Cr-BDC MOFs for water adsorption. Scientific Reports 13, 14653 (2023). This is an Open Access article.
Leivas, F. R. & Barbosa, M. C. (2023). Atmospheric water harvesting using functionalized carbon nanocones. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2023, 14, 1–10. This is an Open Access article.
Wilson, C. T., Cha, H., Zhong, Y., Li, A. C., Lin, E., & El Fil, B. (2023). Design considerations for next-generation sorbent-based atmospheric water-harvesting devices. Device 1, 100052. This is an Open Access article.
Ybyraiymkul, D., Chen, Q., Burhan, M. & others. (2023). Innovative solid desiccant dehumidification using distributed microwaves. Sci Rep 13, 7386 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34542-9. This is an Open Access article.
2024