The Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) has developed an Indian Standard, IS 17693: 2022 for a ‘non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay’ named \u201cMitticool refrigerator\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Mitticool Refrigerator is a non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay.<\/span><\/p>\n Developed by:<\/b>\u00a0 Shri Mansukh Bhai Prajapati from Gujarat<\/span><\/p>\n Technology: <\/b>The refrigerator operates on the principle of evaporative cooling.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Evaporative cooling, otherwise known as adiabatic cooling, works on the principle of water evaporation through which the air is cooled down to a comfortable temperature. It is a cooling and ventilation technique that uses water as its refrigerant.<\/span><\/p>\n Uses of Refrigerator<\/b>: It is a natural refrigerator made primarily from clay to store vegetables, fruits, milk, and also for cooling water. It provides natural coolness to foodstuffs stored in it without requiring any electricity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of this Refrigerator: <\/b>It can play an influential role in 1)<\/strong> Reviving the pottery culture, tradition, and heritage, 2)<\/strong> Connecting people back to roots in better healthier ways, 3)<\/strong> Promoting sustainable consumption, 4)<\/strong> Economically empowering the indigent community, 5)<\/strong> Working towards green and cool earth, economic development and employment generation and 6)<\/strong> Contributing towards rural women upliftment and making them financially independent.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Mitticool Refrigerator\u2019 was presented at the 4th batch of <\/span>Innovations Scholars In-residence Programme. <\/b>This programme was held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in 2017 in partnership with the National Innovation Foundation (NIF).<\/span><\/p>\n Objective<\/b>: The programme supports grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) develops an Indian Standard for Non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on 16th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) has developed an Indian Standard, IS 17693: 2022 for a ‘non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay’ named \u201cMitticool refrigerator\u201d. What is the Mitticool refrigerator? Mitticool Refrigerator is a non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay. Developed by:\u00a0 Shri Mansukh Bhai Prajapati from Gujarat Technology: The refrigerator operates… Continue reading Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) develops an Indian Standard for ‘Non-electric cooling cabinet made of clay’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-191027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":28,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702060769},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Mitticool refrigerator?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How has the Government helped in promoting this innovation?<\/b><\/h5>\n