The ‘Independent’ on the Seawater Greenhouse – 11 November 2006
The UK
newspaper The Independent has a piece about green engineering which starts by
describing the Seawater Greenhouse.
http://education.independent.co.uk/careers_advice/engineering/article1946245.ece
The ‘Guardian’ on the Seawater Greenhouse – 29 August 2006
The UK newspaper The Guardian has an article about "Giant wind turbines based on
a seed, and a desalination plant that mimics a beetle", which mentions both the
Seawater Greenhouse and the Grimshaw/ Paton theatre desalination plant.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,1860250,00.html
The Royal Society makes Philip Davies a Industrial Fellow – 2003?
Dr. Philip Davies, Principal Engineer at Seawater Greenhouse was today awarded a two year Industrial Fellowship at the Royal Society. Philip will be working at the University of Warwick to among other things improve the greenhouse design through computational fluid dynamic modelling. Read the Royal Society profile of Dr. Davies.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1496
Food for thought and a glass of water - 28 March 2003
Tim Harper, the founder of CMP Clentifica, writes: “I recently met a man who builds greenhouses in the desert. Not normal greenhouses though - they don't just grow tomatoes. These ones also use solar energy and mundane materials such as polythene and cardboard to extract pure water from seawater.” Read more…
http://www.nanotechweb.org/articles/column/2/3/2/1
His Majesty’s Strategic Research Projects – 2003
A Seawater Greenhouse project has been funded by the His Majesty’s Research fund at the College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos Unviersity, Oman.
http://www.squ.edu.om/agr/depts/do/research/res-hmprojects2003.html
NewScientist has a multi page article on the Seawater Greenhouse – 26 January 2002
“Growing vegetables in the desert is a cinch with the help of a giant solar still that turns water from the sea into fresh water and cool air. Fred Pearce steps inside the seawater greenhouse”
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg17323274.600
The Seawater Greenhouse wins award from Galvanizer association – Autumn 2001
“A special environmental award was made for the Seawater Greenhouse, which [distils] seawater for use [in agriculture] in arid climates.”
http://www.hdg-online.net/index.php?SID=&MID=33&LANG=en&MODE=show&gid=870
Mathworks has a story about the Seawater Greenhouse – January 2001
http://www.mathworks.com/applications/controldesign/userstories.html?file=2347
London Design Museum awards the Seawater Greenhouse – October 1999
London's Design Museum presented its first Design Sense Award to Charlie Paton of Light Works, Ltd. Paton received a £40,000 prize for his work on the Seawater Greenhouse. The judges felt the Seawater Greenhouse building offered great potential to other arid areas in the world facing problems of fresh water and food supply.
P. A. Davies and C. Paton: The Seawater Greenhouse in the United Arab Emirates: thermal modeling and evaluation of design options, Desalination 173, 2, 103–111 (2005) in press.
P. A. Davies and C. Paton: The Seawater Greenhouse and the Watermaker Condenser, 3rd Int. Heat Powered Cycles Conference, Larnaca, Cyprus (2004).
Goosen, M.F.A., S.S. Sablani, C. Paton, J. Perret, A. Al-Nuaimi, I. Haffar, H. Al-Hinai, and W.H. Shayya. 2003. Solar energy desalination for arid coastal regions: Development of a humidification-dehumidification seawater greenhouse. Solar Energy Journal 75:413-419.
Goosen, M.F.A., S.S. Sablani, C. Paton, J. Perret, A. Al-Nuaimi, I. Haffar, H. Al-Hinai, and W.H. Shayya. 2003. Solar energy desalination for arid coastal regions: Development of a humidification-dehumidification seawater greenhouse. Solar Energy Journal 75:413-419
Charlie Paton, Novermber 2001, Seawater Greenhouse Development for Oman: Thermodynamic Modelling and Economic Analysis, MEDRC Series of R&D Reports, MEDRC Project: 97-AS-005b
Goosen, M.F.A., S. Sablani, W.H. Shayya, C. Paton, and H. Al-Hinai. 2000. Thermodynamic and economic considerations in solar desalination. Desalination 129(1):63-89.
P. A. Davies and C. Paton: The Seawater Greenhouse: a case study based on Morocco, Sustainable Development International, 2nd Edition, 99-103 (2000). ICG Publishing Ltd.
Performance aspects of a seawater greenhouse - 23rd WEDC Conference
Durban, South Africa, 1997 by A. Raoueche and B.J. Bailey
http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/publications/pdfs/23/raoueche.pdf
P. A. Davies, K. Turner and C. Paton: Potential of the Seawater Greenhouse in Middle Eastern climates, International Engineering Conference Mutah 2004, Mutah, Jordan, 523–540 (2004).
Sensitivity analysis of the seawater greenhouse - 22nd WEDC Conference, New Delhi, India, 1996 by A. Raoueche, B. Bailey and B. Stenning
http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/publications/pdfs/22/raoueche.pdf
C. Paton and P. A. Davies: The Seawater Greenhouse for Arid Lands, Mediterranean Conference on Renewable Energy Sources for Water Production, Santorini, 163–166 (1996).