Treatment Category Posts
Bamboo Truss
We had been “underground” in Harsar trying to finish the work at for CareNepal. Here is the first installation of our truss. This is just a training for bamboo connection to the local craftsmen. The real thing is yet to come!! The current unrest has put a hold in the progress, lets pray that the work will resume soon.
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Treatment Article
Here is a full article on our treatment process.
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Bamboo Treatment
Here is a picture of our low cost, high efficient bamboo treatment plant. Our focus has been, apart from using bamboo as a modern building material, to teach local people, especially women and marginalized people, about our technology so that they can use it themselves. Our patent pending, revolutionary small treatment plant has successfully treated more then 1200 bamboo in a month.
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Smoked Bamboo Treatment
These traditional bamboo beams have overcome the test of time. They have been there for ever. In the traditional houses, people still use wood or dried cow dung for cooking. These traditional stoves produce lots of smoke, which then accumulate on the bamboo beams. These unintended accumulation of smoke on the beams act as a protection against termite and give them a beautiful texture as well.
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Soaking
We have tried three different methods of treatment. The first one shown above is the traditional treatment method where bamboo are soaked for 4-12 weeks on a running or muddy stagnant water. Bamboo contains starch solution which is suceptible to bacteria, but since starch is soluble in water, it gets diluted or washed out with this method. Many argue this process does not totally work because the vascular bundles (through which starch travel) is axial the outer layer of bamboo has a thick impegranable silica layer, thus water can not get to the inner cells of bamboo. Nevertheless, this is the one of the most prominent traditional methods of treatment.
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Life of a bamboo
Our plant is portable, sleek, inexpensive and available. With this method we have exponentially increased the life of a bamboo.Stay informed by subscribing to our RSS Feed!
Boucherie Revolution in Nepal
Our bamboo plant at work. It is simple. It can be carried by one person. It is environmentally benign, low cost, manually operated and most importantly locally produced. It is Abari's another brain child. All thanks to our research expert Nripal and Ramkrishna (shown in the picture). Once a few technical problems are sorted out, the system will be ready to market soon. This is the first time in Nepal, a low cost treatment plant is developed. Just like the success of biogas plants in Nepal, Abari team is hoping, this plant also will gain prominence. Good bye to timber, steel and iron. Bamboo is here to stay.Stay informed by subscribing to our RSS Feed!
Bamboo Treatment
These days, we have been very busy starting our new bamboo treatment plant. We had to wait till the new moon (aaunsi) to cut the bamboo. We first tried the Vertical Soaking Method. In this method, bamboo were made completely hollow by penetrating the diaphrams (the inner portion of the nodes), except the last one, with a metal rod, which was then filled with a Boron solution. The solution was left in the bamboo for 13 days after which bamboo were supposed to be bugs free.
During this process, we encountered two problems.
First, the bamboo were relatively easier to penetrate when they were straight, but the curved ones were almost impossible.
Secondly a bamboo required 6 liters of chemical, thus 200 bamboo would require 3600 liters, which would cost 36,000Rs. (480$) alone for the chemical. Due to this exuberant price we have stopped the project.
We are now working on a more cost effective method, also known as Boucherie Modified Method. We will keep you updated on that as we progress.
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