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ENDING RURAL POVERTY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE, RENEWABLE, RELIABLE WATER AND ENERGY

KUDURA | Rural Village Energy Hub

POTABLE DRINKING WATER

On demand water purication systembased on market leading ultralter

technology. Average waterltration rate o up to

1,200l/h; internal1000l tank orpre-treatmento raw water.

SOLAR ELECTRICITY

230VAC electricity or up to 20 homeson a rural mini-grid; limited electronically

to 55W per home, providingenough power or two CFL

lamps, charging mobilephones and poweringa radio or smalltelevision.

ORGANIC FERTILISER

Efuent as organic ertiliser or the

rejuvenation o over-tilled agriculturalsoils. Enabling over themedium term increased

crop output, quality,and quantity.

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LIFE CHANGING BENEFITS

The benets to rural lie and the environment in general, are many:

+ improved health due to reduction o raw water consumption and inhalationo umes rom open re cooking and kerosene lamps

+ decreased use o and dependency on kerosene, wood, and coal

+ clean energy generated rom renewable resources

+ improved agricultural output

+ reduced deorestation and carbon emissions as dependance on wood

and coal decreases

 Access to these services creates an impetus or increasing time availab

or productive, income generating tasks and increasing wealth over tim

Only in this way can we enable communities to reduce poverty.

BIOGAS

Two stage, batch-ed, anaerobicdigester employing thermophilic

process. Capacity or 10homes at 3 hours cooking

time per amily per day.

The Kudura rural village energy hub is a custom designed,

or-purpose solution that addresses some o the key causes o

rural poverty. Incorporating quality technology components rom

the world’s leading manuacturers, it is designed and built or

maximum quality and reliability, setting the standard or decentralise

o-grid rural village energy solutions.

Product Brie

The Rural Village Energy hub (RVE) delivers a triple bottom line benef

humanitarian services, reduction in planetary stress, and proftability.

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Raw Water

The Kudura rural village energy solution takes as

input raw water, solar energy and animal manure.

These are transormed into potable water ordrinking, electricity or internal use and or

provision to rural consumers, biogas or cooking,

and organic ertiliser or agriculture. These

services are distributed locally to meet consumer

demand on a “pre-pay-or-service” basis.

ELECTRICITY

The RVE’s solar photovoltaic (PV) plant captures

825Wp o solar energy during the day; this energy

charges a no maintenance battery bank rated

at 800Ah which provides power at night. An

inverter provides AC electricity or up to 20 homes

concurrently – power is limited electronically at

between 55W and 120W per home, providing

enough power or two CFL lamps, mobile phone

charging and powering a radio or small TV. This

may seem very little power to those o us living

in the developed world, but independent studies

show that providing enough power to cover basic

energy needs as a start, accelerates GDP and

changes rural lie orever.

 As a power backup solution and to support

higher power demand situations, a 5kVA

sel-start diesel generator is provided.

BIOGAS

RVE’s Biogas generation plant consists o

a custom-designed two stage, batch-ed,

temperature monitored anaerobic digester

in which thermophilic digestion takes place.

By creating an optimal environment

(temperature and eedstock) or these bacteria

to fourish, we generate increased quantities

o biogas. Biogas is a natural gas, which

when burned releases heat.

Fully automated, the system is designed

or ease-o-use and low maintenance in rural

areas. It is dimensioned to provide up to 4000l

o biogas daily, with minimum methane content

o 65%. A hydrogen sulphide (H2S) scrubber

removes the corrosive H2S beore the gas

is provisioned or lling containers or use

at home to cook. At a burn-rate o 125l/hour,

we provide enough daily biogas or 10 amilies

to cook or three hours a day.

WATER

The RVE’s water purication system is an

on-demand, orce-ed ultralter system

oering a 16m2 lter area and a ltration rate o

up to 1,200l/h. An internal 1000l buer stores

and pre-treats raw water with ultra-violet light. Via the operator panel the vendor is able

to dispense 5, 10 or 20 litres at a time,

on-demand and in less than 80 seconds.

The RVE can provide enough drinking water

or 200 people per day under normal use.

The ultralter provides removal characteristics

that meet and exceed regulatory requirements

or application o membrane ltration in

drinking water treatment. The system has

been proven to ully remove viruses, cysts,

bacteria and parasites with greater than

99.99% eectiveness.

REMOTE TELEMETRY

 A central monitoring system monitors system

unction and provides remote management to

the owner and our centralised remote monitor

via a wireless data connection. Real time data

access allows RVE.SOL to monitor all deployed

systems remotely and track system perormance

over time. Predictive ault analysis techniques

allow us to deploy maintenance proactively

to ensure continued “quality o service” to

our consumers.

PRODUCT FEATURES

To reliably providepotable water, electricity,

biogas and ertiliser to rural

communities, the RVE relies ona number o discrete systems:

+ Solar photovoltaic plant togenerate electricity during theday and store it or use at night

+ Anaerobic biogas plant

+ Water purication plant

+ Control and telemetry systemand remote database

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 Animal & Bio WasteSolar Energy

System Input

System Output

RVE System

Biogas PlantSolar PV PlantWater PurifcationPlant

Rural Village Specic Inplementation

Consumption Metering & Management

Service Distribution & Payment

Rural Village Specic Implementation

 As raw input, locally collected cow manure, raw water, and energy in the orm o

solar radiation are converted to potable water, electricity stored in a high capacit

battery bank, biogas stored in a large central reservoir and organic ertiliser.

Payment or these services is on a “pre-pay-or-service” basis, usually via a mob

phone system. The availability o these basic services creates impetus or chang

in rural community behaviour with more time available or productive, income

generating tasks. Ultimately, poverty is reduced as wealth increases.

Changing Rural Lie Forever