this ppt is about desalination of water through various techniques,describing the procedure of desalition and analysing wjhich meathod will be more useful
Desalination is a process that removes salt from seawater to produce fresh water. It involves reverse osmosis, where high pressure is used to force seawater through a semi-permeable membrane that allows water molecules but not salt molecules to pass through. This process will be used at Victoria's new desalination plant to produce fresh water for Melbourne and surrounding areas, providing a reliable source of drinking water even during drought conditions. The plant intakes seawater, filters it, and uses reverse osmosis membranes to separate fresh water from salt water concentrate, which is returned to the ocean.
Desalination is a process that removes salt from seawater or brackish water to obtain fresh water. It has the potential to address increasing global freshwater demand but also has disadvantages. Over 21,000 desalination plants currently operate worldwide using methods like reverse osmosis or thermal distillation. Low Temperature Thermal Desalination is a promising new technique being developed in India that uses temperature differences in seawater to flash evaporate water with low energy use and minimal environmental impact compared to other methods. However, desalination also produces briny wastewater and uses significant energy, presenting challenges to widespread adoption.
Desalination can be defined as any process that removes salts from water. Desalination processes may be used in municipal, industrial, or commercial applications. With improvements in technology. Today there are two main types of desalination technologies – membrane (RO) and thermal (MED, MVC and MSF) desalination.
Purification anf disinfection of watertJasmine John
Water purification involves removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, and gases from contaminated water to produce water suitable for drinking or other purposes. Key steps in water purification treatment include physical processes like filtration and sedimentation, chemical processes like flocculation and chlorination, and biological processes like slow sand filters. Standards for drinking water quality are set by governments and international organizations and treatment methods vary depending on the source and quality of the water.
This document discusses various methods of desalination and water purification. It begins by providing background on saltwater and freshwater distribution. It then discusses different desalination procedures like reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, solar desalination, and carbon nanotube membrane desalination. Reverse osmosis and electrodialysis are explained in more detail. The document concludes that desalination provides clean water, filters out bacteria and viruses, and can be implemented through cheaper and faster methods like carbon nanotube membranes.
Desalination: A Solution to the Global Water Crisis
Desalination is the process of removing salt and minerals from seawater to make it drinkable. For countries facing water scarcity, desalination offers a promising solution to provide clean water access for communities.
An Abundant Source
Seawater is an abundant resource, covering about 70% of the Earth's surface. Desalination taps into this vast supply and converts it into freshwater suitable for drinking and irrigation. Some arid regions of the world, like the Middle East, already rely heavily on desalination to meet their water needs.
Improving Technologies
Desalination technologies, like reverse osmosis, are becoming more efficient and affordable. Reverse osmosis uses membranes to filter out salt and contaminants. Improvements in membrane materials and energy recovery systems have cut costs and energy usage in half over the past 20 years. Some companies are also exploring renewable energy, like solar power, to run desalination plants in an environmentally sustainable way.
This document provides information about the Narmada Bachao Andolan movement. It summarizes that the movement was started in 1985 against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River, including the Sardar Sarovar Dam, which would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the Narmada Bachao Andolan mobilized local people, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists to peacefully protest the dams. The movement gained international support and pressured the World Bank to withdraw funding for the dam projects.
This document provides information about Narmada Bachao Andolan, a movement against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River in India. It discusses how the movement was started in 1985 to protest the Sardar Sarovar Dam and other projects that would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the movement mobilized local communities, farmers, environmentalists and others against the dams. It argues the dams will damage livelihoods and biodiversity while alternatives exist to provide water and energy. The movement has gained international support through peaceful protests, hunger strikes and media coverage, bringing attention to the issue.
Desalination is a process that removes salt from seawater to produce fresh water. It involves reverse osmosis, where high pressure is used to force seawater through a semi-permeable membrane that allows water molecules but not salt molecules to pass through. This process will be used at Victoria's new desalination plant to produce fresh water for Melbourne and surrounding areas, providing a reliable source of drinking water even during drought conditions. The plant intakes seawater, filters it, and uses reverse osmosis membranes to separate fresh water from salt water concentrate, which is returned to the ocean.
Desalination is a process that removes salt from seawater or brackish water to obtain fresh water. It has the potential to address increasing global freshwater demand but also has disadvantages. Over 21,000 desalination plants currently operate worldwide using methods like reverse osmosis or thermal distillation. Low Temperature Thermal Desalination is a promising new technique being developed in India that uses temperature differences in seawater to flash evaporate water with low energy use and minimal environmental impact compared to other methods. However, desalination also produces briny wastewater and uses significant energy, presenting challenges to widespread adoption.
Desalination can be defined as any process that removes salts from water. Desalination processes may be used in municipal, industrial, or commercial applications. With improvements in technology. Today there are two main types of desalination technologies – membrane (RO) and thermal (MED, MVC and MSF) desalination.
Purification anf disinfection of watertJasmine John
Water purification involves removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, and gases from contaminated water to produce water suitable for drinking or other purposes. Key steps in water purification treatment include physical processes like filtration and sedimentation, chemical processes like flocculation and chlorination, and biological processes like slow sand filters. Standards for drinking water quality are set by governments and international organizations and treatment methods vary depending on the source and quality of the water.
This document discusses various methods of desalination and water purification. It begins by providing background on saltwater and freshwater distribution. It then discusses different desalination procedures like reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, solar desalination, and carbon nanotube membrane desalination. Reverse osmosis and electrodialysis are explained in more detail. The document concludes that desalination provides clean water, filters out bacteria and viruses, and can be implemented through cheaper and faster methods like carbon nanotube membranes.
Desalination: A Solution to the Global Water Crisis
Desalination is the process of removing salt and minerals from seawater to make it drinkable. For countries facing water scarcity, desalination offers a promising solution to provide clean water access for communities.
An Abundant Source
Seawater is an abundant resource, covering about 70% of the Earth's surface. Desalination taps into this vast supply and converts it into freshwater suitable for drinking and irrigation. Some arid regions of the world, like the Middle East, already rely heavily on desalination to meet their water needs.
Improving Technologies
Desalination technologies, like reverse osmosis, are becoming more efficient and affordable. Reverse osmosis uses membranes to filter out salt and contaminants. Improvements in membrane materials and energy recovery systems have cut costs and energy usage in half over the past 20 years. Some companies are also exploring renewable energy, like solar power, to run desalination plants in an environmentally sustainable way.
This document provides information about the Narmada Bachao Andolan movement. It summarizes that the movement was started in 1985 against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River, including the Sardar Sarovar Dam, which would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the Narmada Bachao Andolan mobilized local people, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists to peacefully protest the dams. The movement gained international support and pressured the World Bank to withdraw funding for the dam projects.
This document provides information about Narmada Bachao Andolan, a movement against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River in India. It discusses how the movement was started in 1985 to protest the Sardar Sarovar Dam and other projects that would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the movement mobilized local communities, farmers, environmentalists and others against the dams. It argues the dams will damage livelihoods and biodiversity while alternatives exist to provide water and energy. The movement has gained international support through peaceful protests, hunger strikes and media coverage, bringing attention to the issue.
This document provides information about Narmada Bachao Andolan, a movement against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River in India. It discusses how the movement was started in 1985 to protest the Sardar Sarovar Dam and other projects that would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the movement mobilized local communities, farmers, environmentalists and others against the dams. It gained international support and used non-violent protests, hunger strikes and media coverage to pressure officials.
All living things require clean, uncontaminated water as the most crucial compound for life on Earth
Ideally, drinking water should be clear, colorless, and well aerated, with no unpalatable taste or odor, and it should contain no suspended matter, harmful chemical substances, or pathogenic microorganisms.
Wastewater discharge from industries, agricultural pollution, municipal wastewater, and poor environmental sanitation are the main sources of water contamination
This document discusses water structure, properties, scarcity, pollution, and quality management. It provides details on water treatment processes for wastewater, drinking water, and groundwater. Water structure is explained, noting water is made of polar H2O molecules that form hydrogen bonds. Scarcity of fresh water is addressed, with over 1 billion people lacking access. Water pollution from various human and natural sources contaminates supplies. Treatment methods like screening, sedimentation, and disinfection aim to remove solids and pathogens before water is returned safely to the environment or for drinking. Ongoing water quality management is needed through monitoring and adaptive practices.
The document discusses solar water distillation as a method for purifying water. It begins by noting that over 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. It then explains that solar distillation works by evaporating water using sunlight, with the vapor condensing as pure water. Key factors that affect evaporation rates are identified. Applications of solar distillation include use in industries, hospitals, laboratories, and for obtaining fresh water in coastal or marshy areas. Advantages include not requiring fuel, being scalable locally, and ability to purify saline water. Disadvantages include lower production capacity and dependence on weather. The conclusion discusses designing a scalable dual stage system for physical and UV purification of water to help those without access to
Ground water distillation by basin type solar still for different basin water...IJERA Editor
Adequate quality and reliability of drinking water supply is a fundamental need. Without potable water or
drinking water (less than about 500 ppm of salt) human life is not possible. Only 1% of Earth's water is in a
fresh, liquid state, and nearly all of this is polluted by both diseases and toxic chemicals. For this reason,
purification of water supplies is extremely important.
Keeping these things in mind, we have devised a model which will convert the saline ground water into pure
and potable water using the renewable source of energy (i.e. solar energy). Solar energy is an abundant, never
lasting, and available on site and pollution free energy.Solar Energy is freely available and can be used as a very
cheap option to convert saline ground Water through Solar Distillation, by using Solar Stills. The conventional
single basin and single slop Passive Solar Still can be used to purify water but the main problem is that the per
square meter distillate output is less. So it is need to modify the design of solar still for high output of solar
distillate
Solar still is easy to construct, can be done by local people from locally available materials, simple in
operation by unskilled Personnel, no hard maintenance requirements and almost no operation cost. Simplest
basin type models of solar still in earlier days, researchers have progressed a lot to increase its efficiency.
Suitable modification of solar still can produce high output using minimum areas of land and even in cloudy
days. Experimental study is done at Rewa M.P. on two different basin water depth solar stills. Low water depth
solar water still is produced more distillate than high water depth still by the experiment.
1. The document discusses the water treatment process at the Durgapur Municipal Corporation water treatment plant in Angadpur. It involves 7 stages: screening, prechlorination, aeration, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection.
2. Key steps include adding aluminum sulfate and polyelectrolyte to form flocs, sedimentation to remove flocs, sand filtration, and chlorination for disinfection. Additional steps are aeration, pH adjustment with lime, and post-chlorination before distribution.
3. The water treatment plant, pumping stations, and distribution network were installed in two phases to supply water to Durgapur town.
Melbourne Water supplies potable water to Melbourne through a treatment process and distribution system. It treats water from protected catchment areas with disinfection only, while water from open catchment areas requires additional filtration due to public access. Melbourne Water owns reservoirs that store treated water before gravity or pumping distributes it through pipes. As an alternative source, desalinated seawater undergoes reverse osmosis before mixing with reservoir water.
This document discusses sea water desalination processes. It describes the basic principle of desalination, which removes mineral components from saline water. The major processes used are reverse osmosis and thermal distillation. Reverse osmosis is most common due to its lower costs. The document outlines the treatment process, including pretreatment, desalination via reverse osmosis, and post-treatment. It discusses trends in desalination, such as increasing water scarcity due to climate change driving more projects, and technological innovations and renewable energy reducing costs and environmental impacts. The future of desalination is promising with expectations that technology advances will significantly reduce water costs over the next 20 years.
This document discusses sea water desalination processes. It describes the basic principle of desalination, which removes mineral components from saline water. The major processes used are reverse osmosis and thermal distillation. Reverse osmosis is most common due to its lower operational costs. The document outlines the treatment process, including pretreatment, desalination via reverse osmosis, and post-treatment. It also discusses trends in desalination, such as increasing water scarcity due to climate change driving more projects, technological innovations improving efficiency and lowering costs, and greater use of renewable energy. The future of desalination is promising with continued technology advances expected to significantly reduce water costs over the next 20 years.
The document provides information about domestic water treatment systems. It discusses the standard water treatment process, which includes coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. It also describes different types of domestic water treatment systems like water softeners, reverse osmosis filters, and ultraviolet filters. The installation process for domestic water filters is outlined in 5 steps. Common issues with domestic water systems like aging equipment and chemical contamination are also discussed along with potential solutions.
Seawater Desalination and Water Supply ReliabilityM. Ahmad
This document discusses various desalination techniques to produce fresh water from seawater. It introduces multi-stage flash distillation, which produces 60% of desalinated water worldwide using a heat exchange process. Reverse osmosis is also discussed, using pressure to force water through a semi-permeable membrane to remove ions. Freezing desalination removes fresh water as ice when seawater freezes due to its lower freezing point. Geothermal desalination uses heat from the earth as its energy source. Solar desalination employs either solar humidification–dehumidification or multiple-effect humidification using evaporation and condensation cycles. Population growth, industrialization, and irrigation needs are increasing global
Removing dissolved minerals from seawater through desalination could help address freshwater shortages but faces challenges. Over 15,000 desalination plants operate worldwide using methods like reverse osmosis or thermal distillation. However, desalination is energy intensive and produces toxic brine waste. New technologies aim to reduce energy usage and better handle brine, but challenges around cost and environmental impact remain.
DESIGN, FABRICATION AND TESTING OF SOLAR WATER FILTERAnmol Mangat
B.tech final year project on designing solar still solar water still to filter out water by distillation and further adding minerals to make the water drinkable.
Desalination methods of purification of waterNalini Badola
Desalination removes minerals from saline water to produce fresh water. Common methods include vacuum distillation, which boils water at low pressure, and reverse osmosis using semipermeable membranes. Water treatment plants follow several steps: suspended solids removal, chlorination for disinfection, aeration, flocculation using aluminum sulfate and polymers, sedimentation, filtration, and additional chlorination before distribution. Desalination remains energy intensive but costs have decreased with membrane technology.
This document provides biographical information about Reeti Bhattacharyya, a class 10 student, including her name, class, roll number, and school details. It then lists the various science and social science topics she has studied that relate to water, including chemistry, biology, physics, geography, political development, and economic development. The document proceeds to provide more details on several of these topics, including hardness of water, recycling water, water as a source of energy, water as a resource, and sustainability. It also discusses various water-related movements in India such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
This document provides information about Guangzhou KangYang Seawater Desalination Equipment Co., Ltd., including their address, contact information, and answers to frequently asked questions about reverse osmosis water treatment systems. Reverse osmosis systems can treat various water sources, including tap water, groundwater, and seawater. Pretreatment is necessary to protect the reverse osmosis membranes and proper water analysis is required to determine the appropriate pretreatments. Reverse osmosis systems have many commercial and industrial applications wherever high-purity water is needed.
Desalination is the procedure used to eliminate the dissolved mineral salts from water. Currently, one of the most popular methods for obtaining pure water for use in agriculture or human consumption when applied to seawater. The issue is that it takes a lot of electricity to desalinate water. When salt is dissolved in water, it forms strong chemical bonds that are challenging to separate. Desalinating water can be quite pricey because both the energy and the technology required are pricy.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
This document provides information about Narmada Bachao Andolan, a movement against the construction of large dams on the Narmada River in India. It discusses how the movement was started in 1985 to protest the Sardar Sarovar Dam and other projects that would displace over 250,000 people. Led by activist Medha Patkar, the movement mobilized local communities, farmers, environmentalists and others against the dams. It gained international support and used non-violent protests, hunger strikes and media coverage to pressure officials.
All living things require clean, uncontaminated water as the most crucial compound for life on Earth
Ideally, drinking water should be clear, colorless, and well aerated, with no unpalatable taste or odor, and it should contain no suspended matter, harmful chemical substances, or pathogenic microorganisms.
Wastewater discharge from industries, agricultural pollution, municipal wastewater, and poor environmental sanitation are the main sources of water contamination
This document discusses water structure, properties, scarcity, pollution, and quality management. It provides details on water treatment processes for wastewater, drinking water, and groundwater. Water structure is explained, noting water is made of polar H2O molecules that form hydrogen bonds. Scarcity of fresh water is addressed, with over 1 billion people lacking access. Water pollution from various human and natural sources contaminates supplies. Treatment methods like screening, sedimentation, and disinfection aim to remove solids and pathogens before water is returned safely to the environment or for drinking. Ongoing water quality management is needed through monitoring and adaptive practices.
The document discusses solar water distillation as a method for purifying water. It begins by noting that over 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. It then explains that solar distillation works by evaporating water using sunlight, with the vapor condensing as pure water. Key factors that affect evaporation rates are identified. Applications of solar distillation include use in industries, hospitals, laboratories, and for obtaining fresh water in coastal or marshy areas. Advantages include not requiring fuel, being scalable locally, and ability to purify saline water. Disadvantages include lower production capacity and dependence on weather. The conclusion discusses designing a scalable dual stage system for physical and UV purification of water to help those without access to
Ground water distillation by basin type solar still for different basin water...IJERA Editor
Adequate quality and reliability of drinking water supply is a fundamental need. Without potable water or
drinking water (less than about 500 ppm of salt) human life is not possible. Only 1% of Earth's water is in a
fresh, liquid state, and nearly all of this is polluted by both diseases and toxic chemicals. For this reason,
purification of water supplies is extremely important.
Keeping these things in mind, we have devised a model which will convert the saline ground water into pure
and potable water using the renewable source of energy (i.e. solar energy). Solar energy is an abundant, never
lasting, and available on site and pollution free energy.Solar Energy is freely available and can be used as a very
cheap option to convert saline ground Water through Solar Distillation, by using Solar Stills. The conventional
single basin and single slop Passive Solar Still can be used to purify water but the main problem is that the per
square meter distillate output is less. So it is need to modify the design of solar still for high output of solar
distillate
Solar still is easy to construct, can be done by local people from locally available materials, simple in
operation by unskilled Personnel, no hard maintenance requirements and almost no operation cost. Simplest
basin type models of solar still in earlier days, researchers have progressed a lot to increase its efficiency.
Suitable modification of solar still can produce high output using minimum areas of land and even in cloudy
days. Experimental study is done at Rewa M.P. on two different basin water depth solar stills. Low water depth
solar water still is produced more distillate than high water depth still by the experiment.
1. The document discusses the water treatment process at the Durgapur Municipal Corporation water treatment plant in Angadpur. It involves 7 stages: screening, prechlorination, aeration, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection.
2. Key steps include adding aluminum sulfate and polyelectrolyte to form flocs, sedimentation to remove flocs, sand filtration, and chlorination for disinfection. Additional steps are aeration, pH adjustment with lime, and post-chlorination before distribution.
3. The water treatment plant, pumping stations, and distribution network were installed in two phases to supply water to Durgapur town.
Melbourne Water supplies potable water to Melbourne through a treatment process and distribution system. It treats water from protected catchment areas with disinfection only, while water from open catchment areas requires additional filtration due to public access. Melbourne Water owns reservoirs that store treated water before gravity or pumping distributes it through pipes. As an alternative source, desalinated seawater undergoes reverse osmosis before mixing with reservoir water.
This document discusses sea water desalination processes. It describes the basic principle of desalination, which removes mineral components from saline water. The major processes used are reverse osmosis and thermal distillation. Reverse osmosis is most common due to its lower costs. The document outlines the treatment process, including pretreatment, desalination via reverse osmosis, and post-treatment. It discusses trends in desalination, such as increasing water scarcity due to climate change driving more projects, and technological innovations and renewable energy reducing costs and environmental impacts. The future of desalination is promising with expectations that technology advances will significantly reduce water costs over the next 20 years.
This document discusses sea water desalination processes. It describes the basic principle of desalination, which removes mineral components from saline water. The major processes used are reverse osmosis and thermal distillation. Reverse osmosis is most common due to its lower operational costs. The document outlines the treatment process, including pretreatment, desalination via reverse osmosis, and post-treatment. It also discusses trends in desalination, such as increasing water scarcity due to climate change driving more projects, technological innovations improving efficiency and lowering costs, and greater use of renewable energy. The future of desalination is promising with continued technology advances expected to significantly reduce water costs over the next 20 years.
The document provides information about domestic water treatment systems. It discusses the standard water treatment process, which includes coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. It also describes different types of domestic water treatment systems like water softeners, reverse osmosis filters, and ultraviolet filters. The installation process for domestic water filters is outlined in 5 steps. Common issues with domestic water systems like aging equipment and chemical contamination are also discussed along with potential solutions.
Seawater Desalination and Water Supply ReliabilityM. Ahmad
This document discusses various desalination techniques to produce fresh water from seawater. It introduces multi-stage flash distillation, which produces 60% of desalinated water worldwide using a heat exchange process. Reverse osmosis is also discussed, using pressure to force water through a semi-permeable membrane to remove ions. Freezing desalination removes fresh water as ice when seawater freezes due to its lower freezing point. Geothermal desalination uses heat from the earth as its energy source. Solar desalination employs either solar humidification–dehumidification or multiple-effect humidification using evaporation and condensation cycles. Population growth, industrialization, and irrigation needs are increasing global
Removing dissolved minerals from seawater through desalination could help address freshwater shortages but faces challenges. Over 15,000 desalination plants operate worldwide using methods like reverse osmosis or thermal distillation. However, desalination is energy intensive and produces toxic brine waste. New technologies aim to reduce energy usage and better handle brine, but challenges around cost and environmental impact remain.
DESIGN, FABRICATION AND TESTING OF SOLAR WATER FILTERAnmol Mangat
B.tech final year project on designing solar still solar water still to filter out water by distillation and further adding minerals to make the water drinkable.
Desalination methods of purification of waterNalini Badola
Desalination removes minerals from saline water to produce fresh water. Common methods include vacuum distillation, which boils water at low pressure, and reverse osmosis using semipermeable membranes. Water treatment plants follow several steps: suspended solids removal, chlorination for disinfection, aeration, flocculation using aluminum sulfate and polymers, sedimentation, filtration, and additional chlorination before distribution. Desalination remains energy intensive but costs have decreased with membrane technology.
This document provides biographical information about Reeti Bhattacharyya, a class 10 student, including her name, class, roll number, and school details. It then lists the various science and social science topics she has studied that relate to water, including chemistry, biology, physics, geography, political development, and economic development. The document proceeds to provide more details on several of these topics, including hardness of water, recycling water, water as a source of energy, water as a resource, and sustainability. It also discusses various water-related movements in India such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
This document provides information about Guangzhou KangYang Seawater Desalination Equipment Co., Ltd., including their address, contact information, and answers to frequently asked questions about reverse osmosis water treatment systems. Reverse osmosis systems can treat various water sources, including tap water, groundwater, and seawater. Pretreatment is necessary to protect the reverse osmosis membranes and proper water analysis is required to determine the appropriate pretreatments. Reverse osmosis systems have many commercial and industrial applications wherever high-purity water is needed.
Desalination is the procedure used to eliminate the dissolved mineral salts from water. Currently, one of the most popular methods for obtaining pure water for use in agriculture or human consumption when applied to seawater. The issue is that it takes a lot of electricity to desalinate water. When salt is dissolved in water, it forms strong chemical bonds that are challenging to separate. Desalinating water can be quite pricey because both the energy and the technology required are pricy.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
3. Introduction
The process of removing mineral components & salts from saline water
Saline Water : The water that contains dissolved salts.
Desalination involves either treating sea or blackish water to produce
fresh water.
Desalination plants involve multiple technologies, from pre treatment to
pumps and membranes.
It is used mainly in the middle east and North Africa.
Brine is a high concentrated solution of NaCl in water. It is a byproduct
formed in the process of desalination.
4. 97.50 %
2.00 %
0.50 %
Need of
Desalination
Existence of Water on Earth
Ocean Water – 97.50 %
Frozen Water – 2.00 %
Fresh Water – 0.50 %
5. This process offer fresh water in areas
lacking natural ground water or surface
water supplies or arid areas.
It provides a climate independent source of
water.
It is also used by many civilizations on ships
to convert sea water into drinking water.
The fresh water obtained in this process can
also be used for irrigation and for other
needs.
Importance
6. Desalination is not a modern science. It is
one of earliest forms of water treatment.
Aristotle mentioned in his work
meteorology.
The major land based desalination plant –
Tunisia
The first commercial reverse osmasis.
Alexander – Patent (1964)
Desalination plant – California (1965)
Now more than 20K plants are there around
the world.
History
14. Electro Dialysis
By applying electric charge through
the solution.
Metal Ions – Positive plate
Other Ions – Negative Plate
15. o Sea water is unlimited source.
o It is useful in arid areas.
o Saline water can be reused with this
process.
o This process is useful for marine staff.
o Provides drinking water, for irrigation
etc.
o It involves high investments and
operational costs.
o Brine is the harmful component for the
environment which is a by product of
desalination.
Advantages Disadvantages
Conclusion :
Can Desalination Save The World From Water Crisis ?
Is This A Permanent Solution ?