Book description
Natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods are occurring with increasing frequency. In emergencies, pure drinking water is quickly the most important item. Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies provides the tips and techniques for supplying potable drinking water at low cost in the direst circumstances.
Succinct and readable, this manual describes the various options for correcting unsanitary or unsatisfactory drinking water. Several treatment methods for contaminated water are reviewed and the pros and cons of each are discussed.
- Covers long-term technologies including sand filtration, packaged filtration units, pressurized filtration systems and natural filtration
- Addresses short-term strategies such as reverse osmosis-based filtration, cartridge filtration systems, and solar pasteurizations systems
- Describes disinfection systems, energy-saving applications, cost considerations and HA/DR applications
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright page
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Technologies for Short-Term Applications
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Chapter 3: Solar Pasteurization
- Abstract
- 3.1 Microbiology of Water Pasteurization
- 3.2 Use of Solar Cookers for Drinking Water Production
- 3.3 Devices Designed Specifically for Water
- 3.4 Simple Devices from Common Materials
- 3.5 Commercial Devices in Production
- 3.6 Devices with Recovery Heat Exchange
- 3.7 Water Pasteurization Indicators
- 3.8 Multi-use Systems
- 3.9 The Greenhouse Effect
- 3.10 Use of SOPAS in Conjunction with SODIS
- 3.11 SODIS and Titanium Dioxide
- 3.12 SOPAS and SODIS Technology Evaluation
- Chapter 4: Disinfection Systems
- Chapter 5: Technologies for Long-Term Applications
- Chapter 6: Emerging Technologies for Emergency Applications
- Chapter 7: Water Infrastructure Development for Resilience
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): Butterworth-Heinemann
- ISBN: 9780124115316
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