College Engineering

The Arial Foundation is interested in working with any college students or teams of students who wish to participate in our Humanitarian Engineering projects.   Funding will be made available for approved projects.  In particular, The Arial Foundation would like to work with Engineers Without Borders teams from multiple Universities.

The Arial Home Initiative team is currently working on these solar energy (and related) projects:

1)  A relatively low cost, intelligent, micro-processor controlled solar hot water heating system for washing and home heating

2)  Affordable solar photovoltaic panels charging a battery for electricity where there is no access to an electric utility

3)   Affordable solar stills to produce clean, safe drinkable water from any source

4)  Rainwater collection and purification for drinking and washing

5)  Rocket Stoves to make more efficient use of limited organic fuel supplies for cooking and simultaneously heat water for washing and home heating

6)  Briquette production from trash, waste materials and unused organic material for low cost cooking fuel

 Some of the products are further along than others.  Various Arial teams have worked in each of the six areas and they all seem promising in terms of improving the lives of low income families around the world.

 Any individual or team of students are welcome to actively participate in these design and development projects.  Funds can be made available for purchase of materials for worthwhile ideas.  Please contact us for more information.

 Here are some related web sites;

http://www.woodgas-stove.com/

http://www.harvesth2o.com/

http://www.rainfilters.com/

To help determine the position of the sun on any day at any time, this is one of the best calculators on the Web:

http://www.gcstudio.com/suncalc.html

The first solar still we purchased to assess its performance in Mexico:

http://solaqua.stores.yahoo.net/solstils1.html