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Title: Dr' Mark Bryden, Nathan Johnson


1
MaliRural lighting, stoves, clean water, power,
and health
  • Dr. Mark Bryden, Nathan Johnson
  • Iowa State University

2
Project Details
  • Director Dr. Mark Bryden, Interim Chair and
    Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering
  • Assistant Director Nathan Johnson, PhD Candidate
    Mechanical Engineering
  • Location Nana Keneiba, 90 miles SW of Bamako,
    Mali
  • Project involvement four years 3-4 trips per
    year
  • Length of excursion 2-4 weeks months if
    project requires
  • Cost per individual 2,800 - 3,500 (airfare
    2,000)

3
Site Location
Image courtesy of Google Earth
4
Conditions in Nana Keneiba
  • Rural 8000 in primary site location
    subsistence farming
  • Public health is central issue for welfare
  • Illness transferred via food, water (worms)
    insects (malaria)
  • Lack of latrines
  • Personal hygiene (unclean hands / clothes, no
    shoes, dental care, infections)
  • Gender disparity little opportunity for
    children education

5
People and Living
6
Current Projects
  • Collaboration with Medicine for Mali, Inc.
    Dr. Steve DeVore, D.O., FAAFP Des Moines
    University
  • Clean water, food preservation
  • Household lighting
  • Stoves
  • Brick building
  • Micro-hydro facility
  • Medical facility training center
  • Communication

7
The Basics Clean Water/Food
  • Disease illness prevent work in fields, sole
    means for food and primary occupation
  • Deep wells access clean water pumps with solar
    energy
  • Maintenance of towers, piping, values, solar
    panels
  • De-worming medication
  • Making refrigeration a reality

8
Household Lighting
  • Need for household lighting
  • Coal / wood indoor fires most of night toxic CO
    release
  • Deadly snakes enter at night
  • Evening education
  • Students developed four alternative designs in
    coursework implementation and testing this
    spring, adaptation
  • LED clusters powered by thermopiles / solar
    energy

9
Stoves
  • Indoor / outdoor cooking
  • Wood for food charcoal for warming tea
  • Inefficient charcoal production, ship to cities,
    trees not replaced
  • Replace three-stone fires with stoves over next
    9-12 months
  • Test and adapt methods revisit

10
Brick Building
  • Buildings repaired every few months stronger
    bricks and construction needed
  • Available materials (plastic bottles, sand, clay,
    ...) build bottle shredder and brick press
    test composition

11
Micro-hydro Facility
  • Potential to generate nominal 25 kW for 8 months
    of year
  • Provide electricity to school, regional hospital,
    wood mill, and international training center for
    medical doctors
  • Second phase of planning gathering final flow
    rates, establishing supply chain, outline civil
    works, turbine / generator sizing, power storage
    capabilities

12
Hospital and Medical Training
  • Provide technical support for doctor needs
  • Adapt Western technologies for use with available
    power supply and frequency
  • Design energy systems for heating and cooling of
    buildings / living space
  • Efficient refrigeration for storing vaccines and
    other perishable medical supplies

13
Information and Communications Technology
  • Establish wireless communication using N-band
    technology and repeaters to nearest town
  • Build reliable, low-power use computers for
    school education and medical assessment support
  • Data processing and compression for transmitting
    medical imagery with limited bandwidth
  • Retrieval of weather information for crop care
    and modification of flow in hydro-electric
    facility

14
Service as Education
  • Study abroad program for 6 students at Iowa State
    University
  • 3-week experience, applies as credit towards
    graduation
  • Solution formulation and decision-making to meet
    basic needs
  • Engineering problem solving in diverse cultural,
    natural environment
  • Interact with professors from multiple
    disciplines
  • Collaboration with university in Bamako
  • Intercultural dialogue technical development and
    advancement
  • Students / professors on the ground year-long to
    evaluate methods
  • Promotion of service learning, student exchange
    program growth
  • Discussion and problem solving / status via Wiki
    and online videos

15
Future Outlook and Development
  • Test lighting and stove solutions
  • Develop supply chain for hydro facility
    equipment, contractors
  • Establish maintenance program for clean water
    systems
  • Examine potential for agricultural improvement,
    sustainability
  • Assist medical doctors with technical needs
  • Installation of wireless communication
  • Examine social / cultural impacts of technical
    advancement

16
Questions and Interest?
  • Please contact Nathan Johnson with questions
  • atlas_at_iastate.edu
  • (515) 294-5311
  • or check out the website
  • www.vrac.iastate.edu/kmbryden/studyabroad
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