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** Microhydro Power | ** Microhydro Power | ||
* Agricultural Gear | * Agricultural Gear | ||
| − | ** | + | ** Soil Limer Maker - Zambia has very acidic soil and it must be limed for agriculture. Local limestone deposits can be harvested for lime. Need to make a low-energy and low-resources input device that can make lime from limestone. |
| − | *** 9/13/10 - [[User:Gregabyte|Gregabyte]] & [[User:Preauxphoto|Preauxphoto]] - Propose building a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_mill ball mill] from a crank and 55-gallon steel drum. Gregabyte has plans for a mill. | + | *** 9/13/10 - [[User:Gregabyte|Gregabyte]] & [[User:Preauxphoto|Preauxphoto]] - Propose building a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_mill ball mill] from a crank and 55-gallon steel drum to crush limestone. Gregabyte has plans for a mill. |
| − | *** [[Appropriate Technologies Lab/Soil ph]] | + | *** 9/13/10 - Gregabyte's observation [[Appropriate Technologies Lab/Soil ph]]. Can make Slaked Lime by a burning and hydration process. Less labor-intensive than a limestone crusher and you get a more effective product. |
** Cultivator - Tools to help cultivate fields quickly with only human power. There is an example at the agricultural center that is made from an old bike attached to a cultivator tool head. It reduces the time of cultivation of a field from several days to two hours. | ** Cultivator - Tools to help cultivate fields quickly with only human power. There is an example at the agricultural center that is made from an old bike attached to a cultivator tool head. It reduces the time of cultivation of a field from several days to two hours. | ||
** Solar Food Dryer - Need one with a drying capacity of 100-200 lbs of produce per day. Currently have a test prototype to learn about solar food drying. | ** Solar Food Dryer - Need one with a drying capacity of 100-200 lbs of produce per day. Currently have a test prototype to learn about solar food drying. | ||
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[[Category:Collaboration]] | [[Category:Collaboration]] | ||
Revision as of 22:20, 13 September 2010
Contents
[hide]Overview
This page is for the Appropriate Technologies Lab's (ATL) collaboration projects with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - UAH & Engineers Without Borders - Huntsville Professionals (EWB - UAH-HSV Google Group). The ATL will operate in support of EWB's projects for the community of the Kanyama Chiefdom of NorthWestern Province, Zambia.
Calendar
- Every Friday, 12pm - 1pm: Engineers Without Borders Joint Student-Professional Meeting, UAH campus, Madison Hall Rm 133.
- First Thursday of Every Month, 7pm-8pm: Engineers Without Borders Professional Meeting, UAH in the MAE library on the second floor of Olin B. King Technology Hall
Projects & Status
- Water Delivery & Purification
- Water Hippo Hack
- Hydraulic Ram Pump
- Power
- Microhydro Power
- Agricultural Gear
- Soil Limer Maker - Zambia has very acidic soil and it must be limed for agriculture. Local limestone deposits can be harvested for lime. Need to make a low-energy and low-resources input device that can make lime from limestone.
- 9/13/10 - Gregabyte & Preauxphoto - Propose building a ball mill from a crank and 55-gallon steel drum to crush limestone. Gregabyte has plans for a mill.
- 9/13/10 - Gregabyte's observation Appropriate Technologies Lab/Soil ph. Can make Slaked Lime by a burning and hydration process. Less labor-intensive than a limestone crusher and you get a more effective product.
- Cultivator - Tools to help cultivate fields quickly with only human power. There is an example at the agricultural center that is made from an old bike attached to a cultivator tool head. It reduces the time of cultivation of a field from several days to two hours.
- Solar Food Dryer - Need one with a drying capacity of 100-200 lbs of produce per day. Currently have a test prototype to learn about solar food drying.
- Soil Limer Maker - Zambia has very acidic soil and it must be limed for agriculture. Local limestone deposits can be harvested for lime. Need to make a low-energy and low-resources input device that can make lime from limestone.
