Biography
Biography: Maryam Jabara
Abstract
This is a design based report which looks at the various and different waste-to-energy plants thathave been put into place in some major countries in Africa, from the Bill Gates funded JanickiOmni-processor in Senegal to the small-scale portable toilet, the “Blue Box”, in Kenya, and all theway to the different designs created by the Swedish company, Aquatron. It also highlights the major issues countries, especially developing ones, are suffering from and howthe urge to solve these problems brought about a greater interest in designing and developing morewaste management organisations with the key purpose of producing a cleaner, more sustainablesource of energy from the most unpredictable resource, human faeces.The challenges faced with turning waste into energy, whether faeces are in fact likely to be moreconstantly used later on as a fuel around the world, and a smaller scale proposed design system thatis cheap, easy and practical to use and that could potentially reduce any present complications, areall the aspects broadly accounted for in the main body to follow. Finally, all the reasons behind thedesign including the advantages of solid-liquid waste separation and how this increases theefficiency of the process are predominately touched upon.