Fit for the future

Mid-October our SoWaDi project group held a workshop to review the goals we set ourselves last year. The meeting was organized in a hybrid form so that project members could participate in presence or virtually via Zoom, in compliance with the current hygiene regulations.  As in any other project, it is important for SoWaDi to regularly  check whether the measures introduced… Continue reading Fit for the future

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Video about our test facilities

Our two test systems DE02 and DE03, which were built in April by our SoWaDi project group on the experimental field of the TU Darmstadt, have recently been running. SoWaDi stands for solar water disinfection: the system we developed boils water with the help of solar energy and thus reliably removes microbiological impurities. The parallel… Continue reading Video about our test facilities

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Mr. Mrema’s experience with a SoWaDi system after one year of use

Mr. Mrema und das Team der KCF an der SoWaDi-Anlage.

In 2020, a team from our project group travelled to Tanzania to build new SoWaDi plants together with our project partner Kilimanjaro Childlight Foundation (KCF) and future users.  One year after the construction of the devices, Sam, project manager at KCF, talked to Leonard Makala Mrema about his experiences with the SoWaDi plant and the… Continue reading Mr. Mrema’s experience with a SoWaDi system after one year of use

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Virtual SoWaDi Weekend

Virtuelles Treffen der Projektgruppe über Zoom

We used the last weekend in March to meet for a SoWaDi project weekend and work together on current work packages of the thematic groups, but also to make progress on tasks for which there is often no time in the daily project routine. For example, we finally found time to sift through and re-sort… Continue reading Virtual SoWaDi Weekend

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Test plant DE01 in winter break

Our test plant DE01 is located on the experimental field of the TU Darmstadt. After successfully developing and testing a measuring system here in summer 2020, which will provide us with important data on the performance of the plant in the coming summers, the plant has now been sent into winter break: Different to our… Continue reading Test plant DE01 in winter break

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Developement of a measuring system for efficiency determination

From May to August 2020 the students Steffen Bißwanger, Leon Dungs, Sara Konrad, Nikola Milenkovski and Alexander Zinn  carried out a project as part of their studies at the TU Darmstadt in cooperation with our project SoWaDi. The goal was the development of a self-sufficient measurement system, which allows the determination of SoWaDi units efficiencies… Continue reading Developement of a measuring system for efficiency determination

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Invitation to our SoWaDi online event

Access to safe water has been recognized worldwide as a human right since 2010. However, contaminated water continues to be a major problem for the health of the local population in many parts of the world. Therefore we develop SoWaDi. SoWaDi stands for Solar Water Disinfection: The solar water disinfection systems developed and researched in… Continue reading Invitation to our SoWaDi online event

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