Comment on ''The moisture from the air as water resource in arid region: Hopes, doubt and facts'' by Kogan and Trahtman

Daniel Beysens (1, 2, 3, 4) , Iryna Milimouk (3, 5, 4) , Vadim Nikolayev (1, 6, 4) , Simon M. Berkowicz (4, 7) , Marc Muselli (4, 8) , Bert Heusinkveld (9) , A. F. G. Jacobs (9, 4)

1 SBT - Service des Basses Températures
2 PMMH - Physique et mécanique des milieux hétérogenes (UMR 7636)
3 ESEME : Équipe du Supercritique pour l'Environnement, les Matériaux et l'Espace : Équipe commune CEA-CNRS (2000-2014)
4 OPUR - Organisation Pour l'Utilisation de la Rosée
5 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux
6 SPEC - UMR3680 - Service de physique de l'état condensé
7 HUJ - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8 SPE - Sciences pour l'environnement
9 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]

Kogan and Trahtman [2003. The moisture from the air as water resource in arid region: hopes, doubts and facts. Journal of Arid Environments 53, 231–240] analysed the functioning of a passive dew condenser built by F.I. Zibold in 1912 in Feodosia, and proposed a model to explain how thousands of litres of condensed water might be generated per day based on Zibold's design. In a previous publication, some of the present co-authors explained why it was not possible to obtain high water yields with Zibold-style dew condensers and that Zibold was apparently unaware that the stone heaps in Feodosia were in fact ancient Scythian and Greek tombs. Kogan and Trahtman [2003] take issue with our findings, thus the reason for this comment.

Mots clés: Aerial wells; Dew; Dew condensers

Domaines: Ingénierie de l'environnement

Daniel Beysens, Iryna Milimouk, Vadim Nikolayev, Simon M. Berkowicz, Marc Muselli, et al.. Comment on ''The moisture from the air as water resource in arid region: Hopes, doubt and facts'' by Kogan and Trahtman. Journal of Arid Environments, 2006, 67 (2), pp.343-352. ⟨10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.01.011⟩. ⟨hal-01262864⟩