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(Book) Chimney Stoves and Smoke Hoods
Nearly half the world cooks on three-stone fires or basic stoves causing indoor air pollution. This brief looks at ways to reduce the pollution by using chimney stoves and smoke hoods to let the smokey air escape outdoors.
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(Book) Serpentine Solar Water Heating Design Manual
The Serpentine is a solar thermal collector developed as part of a low cost water heating system by the AIDG for households in Xela, Guatemala.
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(Book) Home Composting Bins
Composting is encouraged as a means of dealing with organic waste and can offer many benefits such as enhanced soil fertility.
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(Book) Quality Control in Food Processing
An essential component of any food processing business, quality control protects customers and business whilst ensuring food law compliance.
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(Book) Hydraulic Ram Pumps
The technical brief contains the detailed information on hydraulic ram pumps that can be used by communities around the world allowing access to water where the source of water is lower than the compound.
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(Book) How to Measure the Energy Used to Fire Clay Bricks
What defines an energy-efficient brick-firing technology and how does it compare to other technologies?
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(Book) The Donkey Cart
Dimensions for The Donkey Cart are provided in this engineering drawing.
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(Book) Rainwater Harvesting During Reconstruction
Overview of rainwater harvesting technologies and how they can be considered in the reconstruction process.
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(Book) Methods for Testing Lime in the Field
The acknowledged standard test for available lime is the ASTM Rapid Sugar Test, which uses relatively simple, portable laboratory glassware and common reagents.
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(Book) A Case Study In Lime Production
A case study in lime production, looking at traditional batch techniques in Chenkumbi, Malawi
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(Book) Training Manual for Eco-Toilet Construction
A manual covering the different designs of eco san toilet from Bangladesh.
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(Book) Roofing Options: Filler Slabs
Filler slabs, consume less concrete and steel as compared to conventional slabs, due to the use of less-heavy, low-cost filler material such as rejected Calicut tiles, clay pots and broken pieces of cement blocks. This technical brief describe the technology of filler slab.
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(Book) Stoves for Institutional Kitchens
Institutional stoves are used where large amounts of food need to be cooked. Typical examples are schools, hospitals, prisons and refugee camps.
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(Book) Serpentine Solar Water Heating Build Manual
Manual for building serpentine solar water heating system with the basic of installation guides and a list of component materials.
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(Book) Dry Stone Causeway
Causeways are a strong, low-cost means of river crossing.
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(Book) Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice
Flash flood due to intensive rainfall and river overflow damages rice crop every year in flood plains of Nepal and other countries with similar topography.
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(Book) Small-scale Oilseed Processing
Discusses refining oilseed on a small-scale; topics include raw materials, health and safety and processing.
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(Book) Foundations Using Dry Rubble Packing Technology
Dry rubble packing can be used for constructing foundations on good soil which has a high bearing capacity. This technical brief describes this technology in detail.
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(Book) Real-time Monitoring, Control and Payment Technologies for Mini-grids
This brief discusses the factors of mini-grid economic viability revenue, tariffs and costs - and introduces technologies and approaches for enhancing viability through real-time monitoring, control and payments. It introduces the benefits of integrated monitoring, control and payment systems and pr...
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(Book) Home Composting Systems
This technical brief describes about different home composting methods and use of home composting bins in detail.