Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings
Commercial areas are generally fully paved and with more impervious land cover than residential areas. This paper demonstrates a wall-mounted rainwater harvesting system designed to deal with limited land space. An arrangement of three tanks in series was used on a commercial shop lot where flat r...
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| author | Foo, Swee Wen Mah, D.Y.S. Emily, Ayub Bartholomew |
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| description | Commercial areas are generally fully paved and with more impervious land cover than residential areas. This
paper demonstrates a wall-mounted rainwater harvesting system designed to deal with limited land space. An
arrangement of three tanks in series was used on a commercial shop lot where flat roofs generate large amounts
of runoff. The system is compact, and can be installed and fitted close to any wall, promoting the efficient use of
space. Analytical procedures and computational fluid dynamic modelling were used to explore the system’s
potential. This rainwater harvesting system, with its three water storage tanks, works well, and is suitable for
implementation and can be integrated into urban stormwater management. |
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| spelling | unimas-179252017-10-04T00:55:30Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17925/ Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings Foo, Swee Wen Mah, D.Y.S. Emily, Ayub Bartholomew TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering Commercial areas are generally fully paved and with more impervious land cover than residential areas. This paper demonstrates a wall-mounted rainwater harvesting system designed to deal with limited land space. An arrangement of three tanks in series was used on a commercial shop lot where flat roofs generate large amounts of runoff. The system is compact, and can be installed and fitted close to any wall, promoting the efficient use of space. Analytical procedures and computational fluid dynamic modelling were used to explore the system’s potential. This rainwater harvesting system, with its three water storage tanks, works well, and is suitable for implementation and can be integrated into urban stormwater management. IWA 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17925/1/Modelling%20rainwater%20harvesting%20for%20commercial%20buildings%20%28abstract%29.pdf Foo, Swee Wen and Mah, D.Y.S. and Emily, Ayub Bartholomew (2017) Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings. Water Practice & Technology, 12 (3). ISSN 1751-231X https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319286968 doi: 10.2166/wpt.2017.077 |
| spellingShingle | TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering Foo, Swee Wen Mah, D.Y.S. Emily, Ayub Bartholomew Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title | Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title_full | Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title_fullStr | Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title_short | Modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| title_sort | modelling rainwater harvesting for commercial buildings |
| topic | TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering |
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