Diseño, construcción y evaluación de un colector de niebla: diseño y construcción de prototipos de captura y condensación de vapor de agua presente en el aire atmosférico.

Abstract

Water is a fundamental resource for life, however, there are places where, due to their location, they cannot easily obtain it, as is the case of the community of El Zapote, which has no connection to the public drinking water network, so they use pumps connected to streams or rivers to access this resource. This project proposes a modular design of a fog collector that collects the water droplets present in the fog when it passes through a Raschel mesh. The proposed design allows to perform all the necessary steps for the installation of a complete fog water collection system in a simple way and according to the needs of each sector. For this purpose, a standard fog collector is implemented with a collection area of 1 [m²] located at a height of 2 [m], framed by a metallic structure made with a square tube. The purpose of the modular design is to allow the standard collector to be transformed into a large collector at the end of the 1-month evaluation period. At the study site it is determined that the standard fog collector collects approximately 7 [l/month]. Since the performance evaluation of the collector was carried out in December, the dry season of the sector, the collector is sized under these conditions. Based on this, it is determined that to supply the water needs of a small school in the community, with a student body of 13 children, a large fog collector of approximately 40 [m²] should be installed.