Press release

The sun as cooling agent: Solar refrigerator for medicine to manage without socket

Osnabrück (ots) -

Cooler for medicine and vaccines to meet WHO standards - health
   and environmental protection - DBU promotes with approximately  
   50.000 EUR

Medicine is a "sensitive plant": it dislikes high temperatures.
Vaccines are similarly sensitive. Both is difficult on longer
transports in developing countries where electricity is not
constantly available. Now the company va-Q-tec from Würzburg takes a
first step towards solving the problem: developing a vacuum-insulated
refrigerator for medicine using solar energy as cooling agent
-supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU and in
co-operation with the Baden-Württemberg company Phocos. Objective: A
solar cooler that meets the demands of the World Health Organisation
(WHO). "The safe transport of medicine is vital. This project goes a
step further and combines health- and environmental protection", says
DBU Secretary General Dr. Fritz Brickwedde. The DBU promotes the
project with 50.000 Euro.

Basis of the new refrigerator is a very efficient insulation
developed by va-Q-tec and working by means of a vacuum. "We use
fine-porous quartz powder which is pressed to plates and then wrapped
with an aluminium foil," says the physicist Dr. Joachim Kuhn from
va-Q-tec. "Finally all air is sucked out." The result: an ideal
insulation. Now, the fiddlers from va-O-tec and Phocos want to
construct a cooler using that excellent insulation which can be
supplied by solar energy.

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ots Original Text Service: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
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Contact:

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
Franz-Georg Elpers (Pressesprecher)
An der Bornau 2
49090 Osnabrück
Telefon: 0541/9633-521
Fax: 0541/9633-198
E-Mail: presse@dbu.de
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