Sustainable sanitation:
Sign welcoming visitors to the Excrevator exhibit
Sustainable sanitation:
The team from North Carolina State demonstrating their modified power screw auger for emptying pits.
Sustainable sanitation:
Close up of the Excrevator removing material from a pit below the platform and depositing it in the white drum.
Sustainable sanitation:
Sign explaining how the Pit Excrevator works
Sustainable sanitation:
Engine used for the Excrevator
Sustainable sanitation:
Shipping container containing community-scale pyrolysis reactor (the blue shipping container houses the drying unit). Odour control units (filled with biochar) at the top of the container.
Sustainable sanitation:
The pyrolysis reactor on display, just outside of the blue shipping container which houses the drying unit.
Sustainable sanitation:
Climate Foundation team and pieces of the pyrolysis reactor on display - and Indian security guards
Sustainable sanitation:
Pyrolysis reactor on display
Sustainable sanitation:
Urinal that converts urine into electricity for mobile phone charging
Sustainable sanitation:
Microbial fuel cell stack that converts urine into electricity
Sustainable sanitation:
Poster showing research results related to electricity generation from urine using MFCs
Sustainable sanitation:
Poster describing electricity generation using MFCs
Sustainable sanitation:
Blue Diversion Toilet Prototype
Sustainable sanitation:
Blue Diversion team explains the toilet design and components to visitors
Sustainable sanitation:
The Blue Diversion exhibit at the Toilet Fair
Sustainable sanitation:
Sol-Char exhibit including both waste collection and treatment units
Sustainable sanitation:
Solar energy concentrators used to heat and treat waste (energy transmitted via fibre optics cables)
Sustainable sanitation:
Sol-char reaction vessel where faeces is converted to biochar
Sustainable sanitation:
Exhaust filter using biochar produced by the system to absorb odors
Sustainable sanitation:
Vessels (pyrolysis reactors) that can be rotated to switch from collection to reaction
Sustainable sanitation:
Pyrolysis reaction vessel (left) and collection vessel (right)
Sustainable sanitation:
Biochar produced from artificial faeces by the Sol-Char System
Sustainable sanitation:
Biochar briquettes produced from artificial faeces by the Sol-Char System
Sustainable sanitation:
Biochar briquettes produced from artificial faeces by the Sol-Char System
Sustainable sanitation:
Poster explaining the Sol-Char System
Sustainable sanitation:
Poster explaining future plans for development of the Sol-Char System
Sustainable sanitation:
Sign welcoming visitors to the Nano Membrane Toilet exhibit
Sustainable sanitation:
The vision of a toilet that is small - and pleasant - enough to fit inside someone's home (prototype but not fully functional)
Sustainable sanitation:
Photo showing the toilet bowl that rotates when flushed to empty the waste and provide an odour barrier