Yearly archive for 2010

2010 ECAR Field Trial in West Bengal is a success

In Nov – Dec 2010, the ECAR team transported a 100 Liter ECAR prototype to West Bengal and conducted a successful 6-week field trial (2 […]

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“A novel technology to remove arsenic from drinking water for Bangladesh tubewells”. Gadgil et al., 2010. Proceedings of the 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT

Bangladesh and neighboring areas face large health threats from drinking arsenic- contaminated ground water. Arsenic levels in Bangladesh ground water are typically several hundred μg/L […]

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“Arsenic remediation of drinking water using iron-oxide coated coal bottom ash”. Mathieu et al., 2010. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A.

We describe laboratory and field results of a novel arsenic removal adsorbent called ‘Arsenic Removal Using Bottom Ash’ (ARUBA). ARUBA is prepared by coating particles […]

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“Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions From a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove”. Kirchstetter et al., 2010. LBNL report: LBNL-6062E

"Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions From a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove". Kirchstetter et al., 2010. LBNL report: LBNL-6062E

Kirchstetter Thomas, Chelsea Preble, Odelle Hadley, and Ashok Gadgil. 2010. Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions From a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove. LBNL report: […]

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“Cookstove dissemination in Haiti: Improving collaboration and information-sharing”. Gadgil and Booker, 2010. Boiling Point

In April 2010, a Berkeley-based team visited Haiti on a fact-finding mission. The team encountered a high level of interest in cookstove projects, in part […]

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One in five deaths in Bangladesh cause by arsenic (June 2010)

One in five deaths in Bangladesh cause by arsenic (June 2010)

A 10 year study entitled “Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all-cause and chronic-disease mortalities in Bangladesh (HEALS): a prospective cohort study” details the harsh […]

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ECAR presents at annual EPA P3 Expo in Washington, DC (April 2010)

Having been awarded the prestigious EPA P3 award in 2008, ECAR attended the 6th Annual National Sustainability Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, […]

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Case awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2010)

Case awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2010)

Case van Genuchten, a member of the ECAR team, was recently awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship, allow him to continue his […]

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ECAR highlighted at LAUNCH: Water 2010 (March 2010)

LAUNCH – a consortium started by NASA, Nike, and USAID – chose ECAR as one of the top 10 water projects from around the world […]

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ECAR waste safely disposed in concrete (Spring 2010)

A group of 5 graduate and undergraduate students join our team for one semester as part of the graduate course “Design for Sustainable Communities”. The […]

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