Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Pot-in-pot refrigerator

The pot-in-pot refrigerator or zeer (Arabic: الزير‎) is a algidity accessory which keeps aliment air-conditioned after electricity by application evaporative cooling. A absorptive alien ceramics pot, lined with wet sand, contains an close pot (which can be anesthetized to anticipate assimilation by the liquid) aural which the aliment is placed. The dehydration of the alien aqueous draws calefaction from the close pot.

Although the assumption abaft the accessory has been accepted for centuries, one avant-garde accessory was developed by academician Mohammed Bah Abba for use in avant-garde Nigeria and broadcast by his company, Mobah Rural Horizons.1 The accessory was reinvented by English artist Emily Cummins in 2006, for which she won a Female Innovator of the Year for 2007 from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network2 as able-bodied as a £12,000 advocacy from NESTA.34

The accessories can be complete with simple apparatus and are benign for areas of the developing apple area electricity is capricious or non-existent.56

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