Project database
Total results: 526
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2011 - 2012
Retina Pharma Inc
Lotus throne: A self-cleaning solution to sanitation
Testing UV-resistant super-water-repellent silica as a coating for toilets, which could reduce the amount of water needed to clean the toilets after use and improve the surface sanitation of the toilets.
2011 - 2012
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Lego-like bricks made of bio-composites for pit latrines
Development of a fully biodegradable brick in the “Lego-like” shape for building pit latrines. Large-scale tests are being conducted in Brazil and Ethiopia.
2011 - 2012
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Latrine training mat
To design a children’s latrine training mat made from easy-to-clean plastic that fits over an existing latrine hole in an effort to promote good sanitation practices and foster a life-long habit of latrine use.
2011 - 2012
AI3D (Alianza para la innovación en integridad de infraestructura y ductos A.C)
Mobile waste to liquid fuels conversion plants
The goal of this project is to design and construct a small-scale waste treatment plant for faecal sludge and municipal solid waste mixtures based on plasma gasification
2011 - 2012
Texas A&M University
Hybrid microbial-electrochemical system for waste utilization
A self-sustainable system for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity/biogas generation. A microbial fuel cell (MFC) generates electricity to power a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) system to produce biogas.
2010 - 2012
Southern Illinois University
Decentralized next generation sanitation for diarrheal pathogens: Windmill-driven ATAD (Autothermal, thermophilic aerobic digester) for increased pathogen removal
To test an air-pumping windmill sanitation system using normal, existing flush toilets in actual variable weather conditions for its ability to raise and maintain temperatures in an insulated container for wet composting.
2011 - 2012
RTI International
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Cocopeat for treating septic tank effluent
To test and commercialize an innovative biofilter medium harvested from crushed coconut shells. Cocopeat, the dust that remains after the coir (fibers) are removed, is proving to be an effective medium for treating wastewater.
2011 - 2012
Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences (RCEES)
Decentralized sanitation system based on vacuum collection and reuse of excreta and kitchen waste
To build up a more affordable and sustainable sanitation mode which bases principally on vacuum collection of domestic wastes (excrements and kitchen wastes) and reuse them as fertilizer in China.
2011 - 2012
Livvon LLC
High efficiency, sanitary toilet with sewage treatment
To develop and test a simple toilet with integrated waste treatment that dewaters fecal sludge and decontaminates it of bacteria and helminth eggs, turning it into safe, dry, odorless pellets that can be used for fertilizer or fuel.
2011 - 2012
Washington University in St. Louis
Conversion of fecal waste to biofuels by engineered microbes; integration of sewage sludge digestion with advanced biofuel synthesis
Demonstrating a potential path that combines fungus or engineered bacterium with anaerobic digestion to achieve simultaneous organic waste treatment and advanced biofuel production.
2011 - 2012
Frontier Environmental Technology
Biogas generator powered by self-sustaining mixing mechanism
To develop a stand-alone high-rate biogas generator to provide fuel for daily cooking, reduce waste discharge, improve hygiene and eventually, improve the quality of life for the people who live in developing countries.
2012 - 2013
RAND Corporation
Increased Uptake and the Use of Safe Water Filters at Scale - Testing Mobile Phone-based Sales to Increase Use of Safe Water Filters in Kenya
RAND Corporation proposes to extend a sales contract to safe water filters – the Chujio ceramic filter - and to use mobile banking to collect payments in a scalable design. A larger pilot study will be performed in Kisumu (western Kenya)
2012 - 2013
IDEO.org
Testing a Digital Platform’s Ability to Recreate the Success of Rural Community-Led Total Sanitation in Urban Communities
IDEO.org and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) will design and test the hypothesis that a digital platform can recreate the success of ClTS, a method for stimulating improved sanitation demand through the use of social pressure.
2011 - 2013
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Evaluating the Impact of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Programs in Mali
To improve the evidence of the effectiveness of Community Led Total Sanitation Programs on health and behavioral outcomes.
2011 - 2013
Wetlands Work!
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Floating community wastewater treatment in Asia
To design and field-test at village scale a simple cost-effective wastewater treatment system for floating communities in Southeast Asia. Floating “Pods” that use the microbial activity on aquatic plant roots are installed under the toilet of houseboats.
2011 - 2013
University College London
Modelling the next generation of sanitation systems
To develop an easy-to-apply simulation tool set up to enable local city managers to assess the implications of adopting alternative sanitation strategies at scale.
2011 - 2013
Stanford University
Integrated mobile sanitation solutions in peri-urban setting
To develop a portable, low-cost household toilet and entrepreneurial service model to deliver a safe, dignified sanitation service in urban slums (the toilet is portable, with removable containers to collect and transport wastes safely from the community)
2011 - 2013
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Electrically reducing adhesion of sludge to a tank
To test the ability of electricity to change the consistency and adhesive properties of dense solids at the bottom of septic tanks.
2011 - 2013
University of Durham
Turning latrines into fly traps
To design traps that attract, capture and kill flies in latrines in an effort to reduce fly-transmitted diarrheal diseases.
2011 - 2013
Brighton Development LLC
Self-sterilizing easy clean latrine mat and casting form
To develop a latrine mat made from self-sterilizing plastic that can be filled with concrete and set in place to provide a permanent antimicrobial surface for traditional squat latrines
2011 - 2013
University of Texas - Pan American
Novel spray paints for self-decontaminating latrine coatings
To develop spray paints that will exhibit synergic properties by integrating the individual nanocomponents, realizing full potential of latrine coatings in terms of self-decontaminating performance.
2011 - 2013
IResI
Sewage containment and mineralization device (SeCoM)
To develop a fully autonomous, low maintenance, micro-sanitation and water re-purification system that will mineralize the organic matter from a single defecation and repurify the urine and flush water by entirely physical (non-microbial) processes.
2011 - 2013
New Life International
Overcoming a strategic roadblock to idealized sanitation
The project works with Injection Molding Techniques. It will create an inherently low friction
2011 - 2013
University of California Santa Barbara
Microorganisms with semiconducting membranes
Introducing artificial molecular wires into the membranes of microbes within a waste treatment system as a way to break down organic contaminants and catalytically convert the metabolic energy in those microbes into electrical energy.
2011 - 2013
Duke University
Effective sewage sanitation with low CO2 footprint
Provide proof of concept of anaerobic digestion coupled with heat sterilization for a self-sanitizing system for developing communities.
