News Designing off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya

Oona Gaffney MIT News October 16, 2020

Thanks to J-WAFS seed funding, MIT D-Lab research engineer Eric Verploegen has teamed up with MechE Professors Dan Frey and Leon Glicksman to design a cost-effective large-scale cooperative crop storage facility that uses the evaporative cooling properties of water to keep harvests fresher, longer.