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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1999, p. 859-861, Vol. 65, No. 2
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Enhancement of Solar Water Pasteurization with Reflectors

Negar Safapourdagger and Robert H. Metcalf*

Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, California 95819-6077

Received 13 July 1998/Accepted 3 November 1998

A simple and reliable method that could be used in developing countries to pasteurize milk and water with solar energy is described. A cardboard reflector directs sunshine onto a black jar, heating water to pasteurizing temperatures in several hours. A reusable water pasteurization indicator verifies that pasteurization temperatures have been reached.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95819-6077. Phone: (916) 278-6438. Fax: (916) 456-2708. E-mail: rmetcalf{at}csus.edu.

dagger Present address: 2821 S.W. 73rd Way, Apt. 1809, Davie, FL 33314.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1999, p. 859-861, Vol. 65, No. 2
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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