Performance Investigation of Mitticool Refrigerator

Patel, Nishigandha; Mindhe, O.; Lonkar, M.; Naikare, D.; Pawar, Sachin; Bhojwani, Virendra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69925-3_100

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“…For instance, Shi et al (2022) showed that upcyclers have benevolent motivations of contributing to their vision of a common good. Likewise, Clarke (2016) found craftivism to be driven by vision of a more just society, similar to that which is defended by the low-tech movement (Cybulski et al, 2014;Patel et al, 2021). However, more empirical research is needed to explore the values, vision of a common good, and psychological processes implied in such practices.…”

Section: Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Mansukh Prajapati provides another example of low-tech, in the form of the Mitticool, a type of clay-made refrigerator that can keep food at 15–20° lower than the outside temperature. Designed to help Indians become more resilient in an increasingly warming climate, Mitticool functions on the principle of evaporative cooling, and works without electricity (Patel et al, 2021). All these low-tech examples are convivial and inclusive practices that, at their core, think about caring for others.…”

Section: Low-techmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative Preservation: A Framework of Creativity in Support of Degrowth

Verger,

Duymedjian,

Wegener

et al. 2024

Review of General Psychology

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Against the backdrop of the increasing depletion of the planet’s ecological ‘resources’ and endemic environmental problems, the view of creativity as servicing the ideal of infinite economic growth has become problematic. We need, instead, to explore how creativity can contribute to grounding our intentions and actions within an ongoing and mutually shaping engagement and cohabitation between people and things-in-the-world. To explore this issue, we introduce the creative preservation framework. It allows to study practices which have received little attention in the literature to date, despite ensuring continuity, preventing deterioration, and valuing what already exists. Our working definition of creative preservation refers to practices of creation that prevent the decay of existing materials and ideas by updating and adapting them, or re-expressing them in another way through the exploration of their affordances. We examine four practices that reflect non-exhaustive forms of creative preservation practices: upcycling, bricolage, low-tech, and craft. The article opens with an ethos of creative preservation in the context of degrowth. It marks a first step towards creative practices that, rather than viewing us as occupants of the world, make us inhabitants of it, thereby contributing to reimagining new modes of relationality.

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Creative Preservation: A Framework of Creativity in Support of Degrowth

Verger,

Duymedjian,

Wegener

et al. 2024

Review of General Psychology

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“…Active and passive cooler types exist, where active coolers apply forced airflow generation to evaporate water from a cooling medium. A lot of work has already been done on evaporative cooling (Anyanwu, 2004;Mittal et al, 2006;Dadhich et al, 2008;Getinet et al, 2008;Vanndy et al, 2008;Olosunde et al, 2016;Olosunde et al, 2009;Chinenye, 2011;Mogaji and Fapetu, 2011;Shitanda et al, 2011;Manuwa and Odey, 2012;Chinenye et al, 2013;Mogaji et al, 2013;Samira et al, 2013;Deoraj et al, 2015;Ogbuagu et al, 2016;Zakari et al, 2016;Alam et al, 2017;Ambuko et al, 2017;Korir et al, 2017;Poku et al, 2017;Nkolisa et al, 2018;Adekanye et al, 2019;Sibanda and Workneh, 2019;Abaranji et al, 2021;Patel et al, 2021;Raza et al, 2021;Sibanda and Seyoum Workneh, 2021). Based on this literature, postharvest storage us usually done using active (~50%) and passive (~30%) direct coolers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Passive evaporative coolers for postharvest storage of fruit and vegetables: Where to best deploy them and how well do they perform

Defraeye

Shoji

Schudel

et al. 2023

Front. Food. Sci. Technol.

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Passive evaporative coolers have a huge potential to help smallholder farmers to preserve their fresh fruit and vegetables longer after harvest. However, we could benefit from more transparent information on where evaporative coolers perform sufficiently well to extend the postharvest life of the fresh produce significantly. Unsatisfactory evaporative cooler performance is a potential cause for farmers' limited adoption of this technology to reduce food losses. Our objective is to present easy-to-use tools that help to better scope regions with the best potential for direct passive evaporative coolers and for effectively deploying it. This information should help avoid installing evaporative coolers in areas with environmental conditions that only induce a temperature depression of a few degrees Celsius. Concretely, we developed design charts of the achievable temperature depression by evaporative cooling based on the local air temperature and humidity. We quantified for apple, banana, mango, and tomato the resulting additional days in postharvest life gained by storing the produce in an evaporative cooler. For these fruits, the gain in postharvest life using passive cooling is roughly 2–15 days for temperate climates with an ambient temperature of 20°C and a humidity of 50%. We present geographical maps of India, Nigeria, and the entire world at a 30 km resolution that answer how much evaporative cooling can maximally decrease the produce temperature and extend postharvest life for banana fruit. We found that passive evaporative cooling could induce up to a 7-day gain in postharvest life. We make these maps available online. We also quantify how well evaporative coolers perform concerning reducing the temperature and how they should be sized. Our results will facilitate installing evaporative coolers only in suitable regions. Our data also show in which months the cooler can be operated with the best performance. We thereby help avoid disillusion and loss of trust in the technology with smallholder farmers, policymakers, farmers, or farmer cooperatives. Further catalyzing the implementation of small-scale evaporative coolers can bring farmers significant gains in postharvest life, reduce food losses, and increase revenues.

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“…These innovation practices -to be found in both low-income and high-income settings across the globe -have so far largely remained 'below the radar' of mainstream innovation studies (Kaplinsky, 2011), but with a frugal innovation lens, they increasingly attract attention (Bhaduri, 2016;Badhuri and Talat, 2020;Leliveld and Knorringa, 2018). One example is a clay fridge, the Mitticool, invented by school dropout Mansukhbhai Prajapati from Gurajat, India (Patel et al, 2021). The fridge does not need electricity and naturally keeps food items fresh for several days.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Leliveld,

Bhaduri,

Knorringa

et al. 2023

Handbook on Frugal Innovation

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Performance Investigation of Mitticool Refrigerator

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Creative Preservation: A Framework of Creativity in Support of Degrowth

Creative Preservation: A Framework of Creativity in Support of Degrowth

Passive evaporative coolers for postharvest storage of fruit and vegetables: Where to best deploy them and how well do they perform

Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

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