Eric Verploegen | MIT D-Lab

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Former MIT D-Lab Research Engineer Eric Verploegen (center rear) with D-Lab students and community members in Nairobi, Kenya during MIT's Independent Activities Period in 2022. The team was exploring new evaporative cooler designs that use more sustainable materials, while improving performance and usability. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

News | Oct 02, 2024 | Carolyn Blais | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

Technical Report: Forced-air evaporative cooling chamber for postharvest fruit and vegetable pre-cooling and storage

Publication | Jan 15, 2024 | Eric Verploegen, Leon Glicksman

Technical Report: Forced-air evaporative cooling chamber for postharvest fruit and vegetable pre-cooling and storage

Increasing access to fresh fruit and vegetables with forced-air evaporative cooling chamber

Forced-air evaporative cooling chamber powered by solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Kibwezi, Kenya.

Blog | Sep 27, 2023 | Eric Verploegen, Leon Glicksman

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Increasing access to fresh fruit and vegetables with forced-air evaporative cooling chamber

Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

A team from MIT D-Lab and Kenyan community partner Solar Freeze celebrate the completion of the first solar-powered iteration of the forced-air evaporative cooling chamber. Using one-quarter of the energy of refrigerated cold rooms and at half the cost to build, the cooling chamber helps smallhold farmers in arid regions preserve and store freshly harvested produce. Credits: Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | Jul 19, 2023 | Nancy Adams | MIT D-Lab

MIT News

Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Video | May 17, 2023 | Eric Verploegen

MIT D-Lab

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Reducing Household Food Waste and Improving Nutrition with Simple Technologies

Clay pot-in-dish cooler, and impacts seen by users on food waste and nutrition. Images: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Sep 29, 2022 | Eric Verploegen

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Reducing Household Food Waste and Improving Nutrition with Simple Technologies

Clay Pot Cooler Training in Mali: Outcomes & Impacts

Publication | Oct 17, 2022 | Laura Mogannam, Fatimata Cissé, Kola Sidiki Cissé, Kukom Edoh Ognakossan, and Eric Verploegen

Clay Pot Cooler Training in Mali: Outcomes & Impacts

Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

Image shows the finished chamber (solar panel and water tank shown!) along with members of the team that worked on bringing the chamber to reality. Blog author Gaby is center rear. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Aug 19, 2022 | Gaby Alvarez Perez '22

MIT D-Lab

Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

Evaporative Cooling for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation in Turkana

This is our second experimental setup to test different structures and configurations for the cooler. All of the designs use locally available materials so that people could make the cooler themselves. Photo: MIT D-Lab/Christin Tang

Blog | Jul 15, 2022 | Ava Dijstelbloem and Christine Tang

MIT D-Lab

Evaporative Cooling for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation in Turkana

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.

News | Jun 24, 2022 | Summer Weidman | J-WAFS

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.