The air around us holds water at all times. Our systems cool it below its dew point, collect what condenses, and treat it until it is safe to drink. The physics is not new. What we bring is the discipline to run it on sites that have no alternative.
Each stage answers a specific constraint. None is optional: the final quality of the water depends as much on treatment as on condensation itself.
Production varies with humidity and temperature. The on-site reservoir absorbs that variation, so consumption stays steady even when output does not.
The physics in one lineAt 25 °C and 60 % relative humidity, one cubic metre of air holds about 14 grams of water. The process does not create water. It collects what is already there.
Condensate starts cleaner than groundwater and ends up needing more work. Both halves of that sentence matter.
Condensate has never been in contact with soil. That is its main advantage over a borehole.
Raw condensate is close to distilled water: pure, and unfit for sustained consumption as it is.
The result is a water that meets the applicable drinking-water standard and is acceptable in taste.
An installation nobody tests six months after commissioning is an installation that will end up switched off. Compliance parameters, testing frequency and the reference laboratory are set per site and stated in the operating contract.
An autonomous installation has to get through the night. The question is not whether to store, but what to store: electricity, which degrades, or water, which does not.
Either an extension of the array already installed on site, or dedicated modules supplied with the system. The choice depends on what exists and on the volume to be produced; both cases are sized during the site study.
A buffer holds the supply steady while the system runs: it absorbs cloud transients, carries compressor start-up currents and keeps the unit at its rated output. It is sized for stability, not for night-time autonomy.
Continuity of service comes from the closed reservoir, not from the battery. The system produces when energy is available; the site draws water around the clock.
A battery bank sized to run a machine through the night is the single component most likely to fail, and the one that has to be replaced several times over the life of an installation. Sizing the battery for stability rather than for autonomy reduces it by roughly a factor of five, and takes the replacement cycle off the critical path.
What carries the night is the water already produced during the day.
The split between array size, buffer capacity and reservoir volume depends on the daily volume required, the local sun hours and the demand profile. There is no standard configuration: it is established during the site study, and the guarantee covers the system at its rated output.
A water project that does not state its limits loses the trust of the very people who have already seen such projects fail. So here they are, first.
Where a connection is possible and planned, it remains the better option, technically and economically. We have no interest in equipping a site that will be connected in two years.
Below a certain humidity level, the water available in the air no longer justifies the energy spent recovering it. That is a limit of physics, not of engineering.
It depends on humidity and temperature, therefore on season and time of day. Sizing accounts for it, and the on-site reservoir absorbs the gap.
The volumes involved cover drinking water and sanitary use on a site. They bear no relation to agricultural demand.
We install, we train the site team, and we stay responsible for the water.
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