1. Effect of roof materials and weather patterns on the quality of harvested rainwater in Shanghai, China
- Author
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Zhang Xiaodong, Siqing Xia, Fan Bi, Yun Zhou, Jian Mao, Zhang Wei, and Boyu Xia
- Subjects
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Rainwater tank ,020209 energy ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Environmental engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Rainwater harvesting ,Fresh water ,visual_art ,050501 criminology ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,Environmental science ,Shanghai china ,Tile ,Turbidity ,Weather patterns ,Roof ,0505 law ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
As the supplementary of domestic water and even as potable water, roof harvested rainwater seems increasingly probable worldwide due to the shortage of fresh water resource. In this study, we compared the quality of harvested rainwater under different meteorological conditions and roofing materials (i.e., galvanized metal, ceramic tile, concrete and asphalt). Results showed that the quality of roof harvested rainwater in the rainwater tank was superior to the first-flush tank, but reusing directly without diversion was not recommended. Compared with other three roof types, ceramic tile was ideally qualified for roof rainwater harvesting, which achieved the highest quality of recycled rainwater (e.g., turbidity (5.03 ± 1.73 NTU), TOC
- Published
- 2021