Cylindrical colloidal-silver-impregnated ceramic filters for household (point-of-use) water treatment were manufactured and tested for performance in the laboratory with respect to flow rate and bacteria transport. Filters were manufactured by combining clay-rich soil with water, grog (previously fired clay), and flour, pressing them into cylinders, and firing them at 900 degrees C for 8 h. The...

In 2012 more than 4 million people used a ceramic pot filter (CPF) as household water treatment system for their daily drinking water needs. In the normal production protocol most low cost filters are impregnated with a silver solution to enhance the microbial removal efficiency. The aim of this study was to determine the role of silver during the filtration and subsequent storage. Twenty-two C...

Potters for Peace is a US-based NGO that manufactures colloidal silver-impregnated ceramic filters in developing countries, and partners with local NGOs who independently implement safe water programs. This study investigated the intrinsic effectiveness and field performance of the PFP filter by administering a survey to families using the filter, completing water quality analyses of preand pos...

This paper presents a compact bandpass filter with stopband and high attenuation by using multilayer folded broadside-coupled quarter-wavelength stripline resonators in a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate. The proposed bandpass filter centered at 1.1 GHz with a fractional bandwith of 4.5 % shows the first spurious frequency at 3.8 times the center frequency. In comparison to the...

Bearings are one of the most critical components in many industrial machines. Predicting remaining useful life (RUL) of bearings has been an important task for condition-based maintenance of industrial machines. One critical challenge for performing such tasks in the era of the Internet of Things and Industrial 4.0, is to automatically process massive amounts of data and accurately predict the ...

For V-band applications, this paper presents a fully embedded multi-layer dielectric waveguide filter (DWGF) with very low insertion loss and small size, which does not need any more assemblies such as flip-chip bonding and bond wires. The top and bottom plane are grounded, and therefore, although we make a metal housing, there will be no resonance occurrences. Especially, the proposed structur...

A randomized, controlled intervention trial of two household-scale drinking water filters was conducted in a rural village in Cambodia. After collecting four weeks of baseline data on household water quality, diarrheal disease, and other data related to water use and handling practices, households were randomly assigned to one of three groups of 60 households: those receiving a ceramic water pu...

The design procedure of a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) stepped impedance resonator (SIR) low pass filter (LPF), is presented in this paper. A SIR LPF with 15.5 GHz cutoff frequency miniaturized by meander line technique is designed and it is shown that offsetting the stepped impedance resonators, as well as indenting the tap location greatly improve rejection bandwidth. By cascading multiple fi...

A novel double-folded quarter mode substrate integrated waveguide (DFQMSIW) filter is designed in low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC). This filter consists of multi-layer substrate integrated waveguide. More than 93.75% of the filter’s area is effectively decreased compared with original substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filter for the technologies of Half-Mode and Folded are applied. Me...