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

Forced-air evaporative cooling chamber.

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

Feed the Future | Agrilinks
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

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

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Video | May 17, 2023 | Eric Verploegen

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Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

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