The design and usage of a portable incubator for inexpensive in-field water analysis

The design and usage of a portable incubator for inexpensive in-field water analysis

Humanitarian engineers need an inexpensive, fast, visually compelling way to assess bacterial water quality in remote locations. One way to do this is with 3M Petrifilm E. coli/Coliform (EC) Count Plates to detect E. coli in water samples. These require incubation at close to body temperature. To m...

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Main Authors: Brian T. Heligman, Alice Zhao, Evan Bartilson, Abhay Gupta, Joshua Hannan, Maimouna Diop, Robert L. Read
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Engineers Without Borders Australia 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Humanitarian Engineering
Subjects:
Bacterial analysis
off-grid functionality
Petrifilm
water quality
portable instrumentation
E. coli
Online Access:http://jhe.ewb.org.au/index.php/jhe/article/view/127

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