Francesca O’Hanlon, Blue Tap founder, was interviewed by UN Environment and spoke about her work and what it takes to be an environmental entrepreneur:
What inspired you to start Blue Tap?
I was building a chlorine injector for Engineers Without Borders in Mexico. They found that their customers were not drinking the water as much as the organization wanted to, because the chlorine tablets would not disperse properly, meaning that some cups of water were highly chlorinated, and others not at all. My task was to work on designing a chlorine injector. I then set the project aside and went back to university to study for a master’s degree. After that, I worked with Doctors Without Borders, where I spent one year working in South Sudan and six months in Central Africa Republic, providing water and sanitation to displaced populations. I was responsible for ordering a chlorine injector, but the cost was extortionate – around US$1,600. When I started studying for my PhD, I started exploring the idea of developing a low-cost chlorine injector using 3D printing.
Read the full interview here.
Großindustrielle Phosphorrückgewinnung wird Wirklichkeit
Partner des EU-Projekts FlashPhos haben mit der Fertigstellung der Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)-Studie einen wichtigen Schritt zur industriellen Umsetzung der Phosphorrückgewinnung aus Klärschlamm in Europa erreicht. Die Studie definiert ein industrielles Anlagenkonzept, das Effizienz, Sicherheit, Umwelt und Wirtschaftlichkeit berücksichtigt und die Grundlage für weitere Investitionsentscheidungen bildet.
