I’m really proud of my little sister Lucia!<\/p>\n
Lucia has been a researcher for many years at the University of Pavia, and in the past she was part of a team that studied a wonderful machine that can produce water by condensing air moisture. Today, Lucia is employed as the R&D manager by Seas SA<\/a>, a Swiss company that is actually manufacturing and selling such a machine, the AWA Modula<\/a>. Yesterday, Seas showed their work within an Expo 2015 Event at the Swiss pavilion.<\/p>\n In a world where about 800 million people lack access to safe water it’s easy to understand how beneficial such a technology could be. The AWA Modula can produce water without any need of a primary source, because it works just like an air-conditioner especially optimized for water production (it only needs electrical power that can come from any source, including renewable ones). Just imagine: place it even in the desert, couple it with some solar panels and – voila’ – you have free, drinking water wherever you want!<\/p>\n Oh, and by the way, I’d like to say that I gave my little contribution to the project; I designed and wrote the simulation software (ATWsim, Air-To-Water sim) that Seas is currently using. The ATWsim software is a real-time simulation of the whole AWA Modula hardware inner thermodynamics processes, it can predict the actual behavior of the machine given the real-time conditions of the environment (ie water produced, energy consumption, etc.) or can be used to quickly prototype different configurations or enhancements of the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m really proud of my little sister Lucia! Lucia has been a researcher for many years at the University of Pavia, and in the past she was part of a team that studied a wonderful machine that can produce water by condensing air moisture. Today, Lucia is employed as the R&D manager by Seas SA, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}