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Dirt floors make children across rural Africa sick, and 1.4 billion people live and sleep on a dirt floor. Replacing a dirt floor with a concrete floor reduces diarrhea and parasitic infections, but concrete is both environmentally destructive and unaffordable to the world’s poor. Earth Enable is a Research & Development partnership and addresses this problem by installing sustainable and affordable earthen floors that have fewer carbon emissions than concrete, and are also a third of the price of concrete. While our product has found a huge market of families who are eager to upgrade their homes, we have significant challenges that we are eager to partner with teams of students to address! You can work on subjects like: floor color, resin curing, resin hardness, and stabilization of the floor.
| Project | Startdatum | Einddatum | Samenvatting |
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| Floor Color | 1 februari 2019 | 30 juni 2019 | Experimenting with ways to color the varnish using environmentally sustainable materials or making more environmentally sustainable floor paints. |
| Resin Curing Time | 1 februari 2019 | 30 juni 2019 | Trying to accelerate the curing time of our varnish through adding additional chemicals, experimenting with the base oil or experimenting with our manufacturing process. |
| Resin Hardness | 1 februari 2019 | 30 juni 2019 | Improve the hardness of the floor’s varnish layer through experimenting with adding hardeners and cross-linkers, different base oils, or a different manufacturing process. |
| Stabilization of the floor | 1 februari 2019 | 30 juni 2019 | Researching and experimenting with various natural and affordable materials that will improve the stability of the backfill and/or laterite layers of the floors. |
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