Affordable cooling for long-lasting fruits and vegetables
CoolVeg develops and deploys fruit and vegetable storage solutions that reduce food loss, improve nutrition, and save households and businesses time and money.​​
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With a relentless focus on practicality and affordability, CoolVeg's innovations are poised to benefit millions of low-income families and businesses in rural off-grid regions.
Evaporative Cooling Technologies
Ranging from clay pot coolers for household use to forced-air evaporative cooling chambers for farmers and vendors, these solutions based on evaporative cooling provide significant shelf-life improvements for fruits and vegetables in hot and dry regions.
Clay pot coolers and CoolVeg's cooling chambers function through evaporative cooling and they provide the most value in hot and dry regions.
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While fruits and vegetables spoil quickly in these conditions, dry air allows for water to evaporate quickly, creating a cooling effect and increasing the humidity inside the storage chamber.
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In humid weather, water does not evaporate quickly reducing the cooling effect and limiting the benefits that the devices can provide.
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The map to the right shows the areas in Africa where these technologies will and will not work well. These technologies also work well in many parts of Western and South Asia.
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Contact us if you are interested in working with us to deploy solutions for improved postharvest storage of fruits and vegetables.
CoolVeg Foundation Inc.