USE HUMAN FECES FOR BIO GAS FOR BRICK INDUSTRIES

Use human feces for brick and other industries. 

 - Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash

Many industries all over the world use massive amount of power,  electricity and fuel. Often these fuels come from forests and resources that is also needed for other important things. In third world countries and many other countries industries such as brick and pottery still heavily depends on the woods brought from the forest resulting in heavy deforestation. This again results in environmental pollution due to all the emitted smoke and ashes, also gradual decrease in the numbers of trees.

Aftermathof the forest destruction!

Dust, smoke and ashes being emitted by the factories and brick kilns seriously effecting people's health. Not to mention the amount of trees need to be cut down for their fuels is simply devastating.

It was even questioned that weither these factories should exist or not, but we still need bricks right, so we need alternative solutions.

If this keeps up, the after effects in global scale is disastrous. We are in need of an ulternative fuel to save the forest and fuel and electricity.
Solution, we go to the toilet!

There are an estimated 7.4 billion people living all over the world producing significant amounts of feces every day and struggle to get rid of the daily wastes. Everyone hopes to have a good quality sanitary toilet in their home. But imagine if all that could be made into bio gas for industries then so many trees and so much fuel and electricity could be saved.

The system will something be like this -

The toilet outlet pipes coming from each house will gather into the large underground pipes. These pipes will in turn gather in to specialised underground tunnel. With each flush all the feces will be run down the drain into the tunnel and then the tunnels shall bring all the materials into a huge bio gas plant. These tunnels and drainage systems will be made specially with multiple layered wall to prevent bio hazards.

Simple diagram showing how wasted materials / rain water / human feces can be collected from the city into a large tank outside the city for various purpose, e.g. pure rain water can be collected for drinking water project.

A while ago, I read an article that said that making bio gas with human feces was proposed once, but since that was for cooking the offer was quickly let down as any person would say no to bringing poop gas into the kitchen. But hey that doesn't mean that we can't use that poop gas for other works as burning bricks / sterilisation of tools and instruments.

For edditional bio gas we may bring dung from Dairy and poultry farms,

and maybe even from the zoo,

Large animals in the zoo such as the elephants, Rhinoceros, Hippos, Buffaloes and Giraffes produce tons of dungs each; while the animals living in herds in large numbers such as antelopes, zebras and wild asses will produce huge amount of dung together.

Bet you wish jurassic park was real right now.

Gas maybe needed in smaller amount for smaller industries, in that case 

Specialised compressors will purify and fill up portable cylinders with bio gas to be transported to small factories e.g. for pottery and metal smith works.

Natural gas is used to produce electricity. What if we could use bio gas made from human feces for producing electricity.

Idea of bio gas production from human feces may not be very appealing for cooking, but if that gas can be used for producing electricity then we mayactually solve the electricity problems.

Scientists are working hard day and night to find new and echo friendly fuel for cars and other such subjects. 

What if we even had a car that could run on bio gas. We could save so much on fossil fuels every day.

So if only we could get all the human waste to produce bio gas to be used for producing electricity and for industries requiring lots of fuels e.g. brick kilns. Just imagine how many trees and how much of the environment we may save if we could use bio gas for brick kilns. 

Before finishing a poem on behalf of trees....

   খতম করার আগে, dear মেসো মসাই খতম করার আগে,

আমাদেরকে মারবেন না,

লাকড়ি কেটে জ্বালিয়ে আগুন,

বায়ো গ্যাসে রাঁধুন, বেশি করে খান

আর বেশি করে হাগুন! ...........

The Taxi/Rickshaw retrievers and passenger tracking device,

The Taxi/Rickshaw retrievers and passenger tracking device,

- Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash;

- Khoundkar Latifa Yasmin;

Finding a taxi or an auto rickshaw can be pretty hard in Bangladesh. Particularly in a country like Bangladesh where people depend exclusively on rickshaw and auto rickshaws to travel , this could be a problem of serious magnitude. Sometimes your just too afraid to get out of the bed because your too afraid you won't find a rickshaw when you're out on the road tomorrow!!!

If a specialised communication and tracking system is developed just for the taxi and auto rickshaw drivers, these problems of finding a rickshaw just might solve.

At first of all, Auto rickshaw and Taxi Stands/Stations will be put within walking distances from each other all over the city, so people may reach them easily.
Here's anexample of the system with the map of Banani , Dhaka.

Red circles show the position of the stations.

On each of these stations there will be a special device,

one of the two device connected to the electronic digital network system with the other one being installed within the taxi/auto rickshaw.
 The station device shall be something like this -

This device will contain a series of buttons with the names of the the stations all over the city.

The passenger shall press the button with the name of the Area that is his destination. For ease of finding there may also be a city map with name, details and distance of the of the destination station and maybe even possible Taxi/Rickshaw fare.

There will also be button withchoice of vehicles, so passengers may summon the vehicle of his choice e.g. taxi/rickshaw or micro bus for rent etc.

When the passengers press the button on the device, it will give signal to all the rickshaw/taxi or rent a car services within close proximity (according to the passenger's choise).
The rickshaw / taxi driver or the rent a car services will get a signal on their version of the device.

The device installed on Taxi/Auto Rickshaw will have lcd maps displaying the location of the passengers waiting for the taxi and also the location of their destination point and a list of the name of the stations around the city. If the Rickshaw/Taxi driver is ready to go there he will press a button similar to a cellphone answer button and consult with the passengers.

Taxi driver may press a button from the list of the names of the stations to see the map of that location for navigation purpose.

Here's an example of a man in West Bengal Howrah in India trying to reach his destination in Balligaunge:-

Passenger needs to go to station near Kasturi restaurant in Balligaunge, so he press the button.

The device installed on Taxi / Auto Rickshaw will give the driver a signal alerting him of the passengers location (at Lake Land club Howrah, in this example). The diver receives the call of passenger and the passenger tells the driver his location and details of his destination(Kasturi restaurant Balligaunge, in this example). The driver analyses the digital map learns about his would be passenger and the route (eg. Passenger'slocation at Lake Land Club Howrah and his destination at Kasturi restaurant in Anil Maitra road at Balligaunge will be highlighted on the digital maps).

Taxi / Auto Rickshaw driver then confirm to the passengers that he will take them to there.

Light mobile apps that will run on all smart phones may also be launched that connects to the system online. For android and also java users may use these apps to call rickshaws prior to their journey.

This app shall allow people to choose his destination and vehicle of choice, a message will be sent to the taxi driver, and if any driver is ready to take him they will be able to call him using the device installed on Taxi / Auto Rickshaw and inform the passengers.

If such a device and a mobile app is made, people'slives would be so much easier, and there won't be any more problems getting around the city!

Hanging Carts as public transport to relieve pressure from on the traffic

Hanging Carts as public transport to relieve pressure from on the traffic 
- Khoundkar Latifa Yasmin 
- Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash

In the developing countries like Bangladesh, India etc etc. traffic jam can be a serious problem for the people. Social, religious and political programmes being held in the streets and construction works in the streets adds up extra trouble.

Heavy traffic jams in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Picture shows large number of busses including official ones stuck in very heavy (seemingly impossible to come out of) traffic, costing people their valuable work time and also oil and gas being wasted in large quantities every day by each vehicle stuck in the traffic.

Haphazard driving in zigzag patterns usually causes most of the traffic jams.

Constitution machine and materials blocking up over 80% of the width of the road, seriously causing hardship for the people.

An ambulance carrying emergency patientto the hospital, stuck in traffic.

Sometimes you just wish some super hero in a flying robot armour would come down and give you a lift and save the day. ... seriously!

If only there was a way to get around this, so much work time and fuel could be saved. What if we could go over it then??

Hanging Carts going over the main roads serving as new public transport may relieve the traffic problem to some extent.

Large tall pillars with strong foundation reinforced with steel tendons will be made to hold up the tracks. Large steel alloy pipes may be used as hanging tracks just like roller coasters. 

These pipes will be held fastened with strong with bridge engineering and held with arches and steel tendons. This may reduce the traffic jams as construction of train bridge/hanging cart tracks may take less than constructing an entire bridge. As the rail bridge parts may be construed else where and pieces can be just brought and assembled at the site.

Also building pillars and assembling parts constructed elsewhere would block less space on the road during construction works.

Ultra light materials such as aluminium alloys, carbon fibre and fibre glass materials would be used to construct the Carts so they maybe light enough to safety travel over the rail tracks of the bridge. The entire vehicle system shall be like a combination of that of a roller coaster seen in the amusement park and cable carts in tourist spots.

There will be pillars at regular intervals. They will be as close to each other as possible for safety reasons. There will be as many pillars as possible. And there will be strong platforms as a safety precaution.

There will be bus stops at regular intervals so people may get on and off where they need. People will come and wait under the overpass at the bus stop and wait for the bus. A ticket collector shall be present at the station to help them get on the bus. When the bus arives, people will climb up the stairs and get to the platform from where they'll get on the bus/cart.

There willbe two lanes side by side, for the carts/buses to be going the opposite ways.

These vehicle system shall be created over the most important and most used routes, over highways and main roads.

Alternative Ambulance Service

Alternative ambulance service 
-Khoundkar Latifa Yasmin,
-Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash,

Traffic jam in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

In the developing countries like Bangladesh, India etc etc. traffic jam can be a serious problem for the people. Social, religious and political programmes being held in the streets can make things worse. These particularly causes problems for the ambulance service. Often because of traffic and sometimes because of bad road conditions and harder to get to a place, ambulances can't reach to the patient's house and take them to the hospital in time. Sometimes the patient's family members give their best and yet they fail to bring them to the hospital in time. Last year a neighbour and a very good friend of mine died of heart attack, despite of the best efforts of his family they could not take him to the hospital in time because the ambulance could not be brought to the door step.

Ambulances stuck in traffic

If there was a separate way for ambulance and hospital going people, the life of people would have been so better, so many patients life could be saved.

For these ambulance lane needs to be separate, inaccessible to general vehicles.

A system like the elevated express may solve the problem.

There will be a elevated way just like an overpass, positioned longitudinally parallel to the main road. There will be two lanes side by side, for going the opposite ways.

Large pillars raising from the island/decides shall held the bridge like overpasses up.

Over passes will be made like footover bridges, lightlybuilt but song and reinforced by steel tendons, strong steel framework and arches.

The ambulances will be light and smaller than average ambulance, so they can be driven over the bridge safely.

They will be built like the electric auto rickshaws, small with an echo friendly engine, powerful enough to pull the cargo. Also it shall have a strong framework with a light body and small enough to get around the narrow roads.

There maybe three types of vehicles for these way,

1, Ambulances for emergency patientsonly. These will be lightly built with light materials, e.g. aluminium alloys, carbon fibre ior glass fibre. It will have double layered wall with a layer of  Styrofoam/polyurethane/spacialised foam/sponge sandwiched between the two layers of the walls. This will make the vehicle noise proof and buffer the temperature to keep the patient comfortable. There will be air conditioning, compartments for emergency medicine supplies and oxygen cylinder installed inside the ambulance.

2, 2nd type of emergency vehicles will be for the doctors, as an emergency transport for the doctors only. These ones will be small, for 2-3passengers only and doctors who need to reach a hospital for emergency shall use it. Also these vehicles may be used by the pharmaceutical industry to deliver the necessary drugs when there's an emergency need for them

to be provided.

3, the 3rd type vehicle will be like a common bus/coach/covered van, with capacity of carrying up to 6-10 people. Built simply, light body with a strong framework with may be even a canvas canopy like an auto rickshaw/tempoo, may have a table fan or two installed inside. These vehicleswill be for the hospital staffs, medical students and juniour and internship doctors. Also petient relatives who has to attend a patient for emergency reasons may also use this facility.

All three types of vehicles shall be driven by well trained drivers with an engineer always available to help with any problem.

On the overpass, there will be electricity supply via special wires incase any of the vehicle runs on electricity and needs recharging. These wires will be like those that run over electric trains and busses. Wires will be kept at safe distance and will be properly insulated, also walls of the vehicles will be coated with thick insulating rubber/plastic materials for safety reasons.

For the emergency vehicles, there will be systems so they may get off the overpasses and come down on the road bellow, so that the vehicles may reach the patient's/doctor's house all the way to their doorstep to pick them up and bring them to the hospitals. On the left(blue side) of this picture is depicted a powerful heavy duty cargo lift that will take the ambulance down to the road and up on to the overpass; and on the right(red side) a ramp like that of a bridge or overpass for vehicles to ascend or descend between the overpass and the road bellow. These ramps and lifts will be placed at regular intervals at suitable places.

For the places where there is plenty of space, ramps will be made for the emergency vehicles to ascend and descend between the overpass and the street below.

For the places where there isn't enough space for a ramp to be built but ambulance needs to come down, there will be powerful and heavy duty cargo lifts that will lift the ambulances up and down. Special computer operated gates and traffic lights will close the way when a vehicle is using the lift to avoid accidental collusion between a vehicle inside the lift and one on the overpass or one on the ground/road.

For the simple bus/coach for staffs, students and visitors, it won't come off the overpass for keeping the traffic light on the streets. Instead people will come and wait under the overpass at the bus stop, and get on the stairs to get on the bus that will take them to their destination when it arrives. A ticket collector shall be present at the station to help them get on the right bus.

There will be garages solely for the vehicles of these classes in every area, as many as possible. For ease of travelling, the garage will actually on the first or second floor so that they may get directly on the overpass without the aid of or necessity for a space consuming ramp. There will be turns and gaps in the dividers for the vehicles to turn and get in and out of hospitals and garages.

Special turns on the overpass and gaps in the road dividers on the overpass will allow the vehicles to go to and from the inside of the hospitals and garages and on to the overpass. The vehicles will enter the hospitals and the garages on the second or first floor, eliminating the need of a space consuming ramp. Smart computarised traffic lights and gates shall control and give signals to the vehicles to help them avoid any collusion on the overpass. Again an expert engineer shall monitor the system regularly.

I believe if a system like this is created then many people shall be greatly helped, many lives be saved and the crisis of ambulances stuck in the traffic may be solved.