[Stoves] A simple water sterilization technique

[nari phaltan]

Thanks for your message. The heating of water is done in our lanstove.
www.nariphaltan.org/kerolanstove.pdf

Cheers.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Charlie Sellers <csellers42 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thank you for that great reference on improved investigations into this
> simple approach!  We looked into the use of sari cloth filtration when we
> explored methods to use when constructing slow sand filters for an EWB
> project, where we needed to effectively sieve the media so that it had the
> right particle size distribution.  The information we had available to us
> concerned just mechanical filtration aspects:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27sari.html?_r=0
> and as a materials scientist I especially liked their electron microscope
> images, showing the differences between new and used sari materials
> (showing openings on the order of ~20 microns):
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC298724/?tool=pmcentrez
>
> But the bottom line is that locally available materials/methods worked for
> them in Bangladesh, and now the addition of heating the water afterwards
> can lead to even further improvements in the approach's efficacy.
>
>
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* nari phaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com>
> *To:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <
> stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 8, 2013 4:20 PM
> *Subject:* [Stoves] A simple water sterilization technique
>
> Hello stovers,
>
> One of the major problems of rural areas is unavailability of clean
> drinking water. A simple method of filtration and heating it to 55-60
> degrees Celsius can remove all bacteria. The paper is at;
> http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/forthcoming/RC494.pdf
>
> And the news item is at;
> http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/sari-sun-combo-can-sterilise-dirty-water-619304.html?utm_source=fwire&utm_medium=hp
>
> Cheers.
>
> Anil
>
>
>
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