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Rainwater Harvesting System Analysis for Semi-Arid Climate: A Daily Linear Programming Model
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2024-09-01
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Ruso, Mustafa
AKINTUĞ, BERTUĞ
Kentel Erdoğan, Elçin
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Rainwater harvesting has proven to be an alternative water supply scheme for sustainable water management of regions with limited water resources. In this paper, a linear programming (LP) model with daily time steps, which minimizes a rooftop rainwater harvesting system (RWHS) cost, is developed and used to calculate the optimum RWH tank size. The developed LP model is applied to the semi-arid Northern Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean. The analysis is carried out for 33 sites which receive average annual rainfall ranging from 292 mm to 548 mm to evaluate the spatial effect of rainfall characteristic and the water cost on the financial feasibility and performance of the RWHS. At 29 out of 33 sites, RWHS investments are found to be financially feasible with discounted payback periods ranging from 12 to 28 years. The optimum RWH tank sizes are determined to be between 2 m3 and 6 m3 resulting in up to 20 % reliability with more than 50 m3 of average annual water savings per house. It is observed that the cost of water is a critical factor that affects the financial feasibility and water savings of a RWHS, especially in regions with limited rainfall. The comparison of the developed daily LP model with an LP model with monthly time steps demonstrates that the financial feasibility and the optimum tank size can only be assessed realistically when daily time steps are used. Finally, the sensitivity analysis shows that the discounted payback period is highly sensitive to the collector area.
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Northern Cyprus
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optimum tank size
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rainwater harvesting
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semi-arid climate
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spatial analysis
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Sustainable water use
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111260
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Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.18400/tjce.1326198
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M. Ruso, B. AKINTUĞ, and E. Kentel Erdoğan, “Rainwater Harvesting System Analysis for Semi-Arid Climate: A Daily Linear Programming Model,”
Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering
, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1–28, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111260.