Evaporative cooling
Practical Action
Cooling without Power, Food Chain, Number 12 July 1994, Practical Action
Keep it Cool: Quality Maintenance of Vegetables and Fruit During Storage, AT Source
Volume 19 Number 2
Village-level Technology for Better Life & Higher Income, UNICEF has two pages
describing an evaporative charcoal cooler
Appropriate Village Technology for Basic Services, UNICEF
Tomato and Fruit Processing, Preserving and Packaging, An example of a village factory,
Guus de Klein, TOOL. There is a description of a charcoal evaporative cooling room in this
book.
The Centre for Alternative Technology has a leaflet entitled Green Refrigeration. This
provides useful information on the best designs of standard refrigerators.
Changing Villages: Rural News and Views Vol. 14, No 2 April-June 1995, Consortium on
Rural Technology (CORT)
Useful contacts
Mr. Mohammed Bah Abba
Jigawa State Polytechnic Collage of Business and Management Studies
Sani Abacha Way
P.M.B 7040
Dutse
Jigawa State
Nigeria
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Pusa Campus
New Delhi - 110 012
India
Tel: 91-11-25733375, 91-11-25733367
Fax: 91-11-25766420, 91-11-25851719
E-mail: bic@iari.res.in
Website: http://www.iaripusa.org/
This technical brief was compiled by Neil Noble for Practical Action
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