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Research: Vision :
A Potential for Paperclay Water Filters: An Artist’s View
By Rosette Gault M.F. A.
Abstract
The potential for porous ceramic paperclay to lower costs of domestic water filtration in developing countries is discussed, with an artist’s view toward filters that are as easy to use, and to look at, as they are multi-purpose and eco-friendly.
Will a change in burnout material in pot ceramic water filters save money if reclaimed paper is used? A paperclay process has the potential to trim the production time and could, in due course, reduce airborne dusts, noise, power, and carbon fuel use. Also, a paperclay system allows ways to design and produce filters in developing regions that have not been technically feasible or practical with traditional ceramic.
In 2006, at a Filtron factory in Nicaragua, paperclay water filter pots of local terra cotta clay and pulp from recycled Managua newspaper were tested in production. Best practices for ceramic filter manufacture in developing regions are discussed within the context of improvements that the paperclay methods have potential to offer.
Ways that the pulp making reclaim process can be set up and complement the pot manufacture process are shown. Practical directions for further research, art, and design for a sustainable society will be discussed.
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A synopsis of this 30 page paper above was presented at Ceramic Art Design and Systainability Symposium in Gothenberg, Sweden March 7, 2011
Find a series of articles related to this information will appear in forthcoming issues of Ceramics Art and Perception: Technical (an international journal) May June 2011, Fall 2011 and late spring 2012.
See display now on view at Seattle Tacoma International Airport Concourse A Gate One - some models- for potters and handbuilders- low tech fast hand making is possible with the most simple local materials.
