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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

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

On the weekend of 17 & 18 April, it was time for us to get away from our desks and get to work with the jigsaw! Our goal for the weekend was to build two new facilities on our test field at the Lichtwiese in Darmstadt. The planning Already at the beginning of the year,… Continue reading SoWaDi construction weekend: DE02 and DE03 are ready for use

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

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

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

Hello everybody! As already announced in the previous blog entry, we had the possibility to give an online talk for SoWaDi supporters on 29.10.2020. The presentation, which we are now able to provide in form of a video, gives an overview of the idea and the history of our research project, as well as of… Continue reading Video of our presentation “Introduction to SoWaDi”