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Condensate Harvesting Demonstration Sites
September 14, 2021

Arizona Phoenix Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationCondensate is directed to a storage tank from which it is distributed to help irrigate the landscape. Habitat at the Phoenix Convention CenterTank storage…

Condensate Harvesting Publications and Online Resources

Condensate Calculatorwww.buildinggreen.com/calc/calc_condensate.cfm “Condensate Water Recovery: Cost Effective Water Conservation” by Karen Guz, ASHRAE Journal, Vol. 47, No. 6, June 2005, pages 54-56.Great write-up of condensate’s potential and challenges. “Harvesting Air-Conditioning Condensate in Jeddah,…

Active water harvesting case study
August 3, 2021

Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory. College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters). Average annual precipitation 11 inches (280 mm).…

The energy costs of different sources of water. Those within red boxes are free on-site waters.
Energy costs of condensate and other waters
July 9, 2021

The following chart shows you the energy costs (from pumping, transport, cooling, and/or treatment) of various sources of water… Note the especially high end of the kWh/gallon range for on-site AC (air conditioning)…

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