Dr' Mark Bryden, Nathan Johnson

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MaliRural lighting, stoves, clean water, power,
and health

• Dr. Mark Bryden, Nathan Johnson
• Iowa State University

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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)

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Site Location
Image courtesy of Google Earth
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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

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People and Living
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Questions and Interest?

• Please contact Nathan Johnson with questions
• atlas_at_iastate.edu
• [phone]
• or check out the website
• www.vrac.iastate.edu/kmbryden/studyabroad