![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Our team has developed a robust bio-inspired, liquid, sludge- and bacteria-repellent coating that can essentially make a toilet self-cleaning,” Tak-Sing Wong, senior author and Wormley Early Career Professor of Engineering and associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at Penn State, says in a Penn State press release. The researchers’ super slippery spray-on coating prevents waste-particularly solid waste-from sticking to the toilet bowl’s surfaces, allowing toilets to use less water to flush clean with each use. developed a coating for toilets that could potentially reduce toilet water use by 50%, potentially saving billions of liters of water around the world every single day. Which is precisely why a team of researchers at The Pennsylvania State University and their colleagues at the Centre for Competitive Creative Design at Cranfield University in the U.K. And because about half of that water is used just to help wash down the bowl after use (the other half is used to actually flush contents down the pipe), toilet efficiency represents an area with huge potential impact on water use around the globe. More than 141 billion liters of fresh water are estimated to be literally flushed down pipes around the world on a daily basis. And in addition to the positive impact of modern plumbing and sanitation on human health, toilets are an important sustainability consideration when it comes to worldwide water use. Here’s a handy tip: One topic that is always appropriate to bring up is what you have read in a recent issue of the ACerS Bulletin-such as the many diverse ways ceramic and glass materials contribute to the incredible $4.17 trillion residential building market.Īlthough porcelain toilets are most definitely part of that market, other bathroom-related topics often firmly fall under the purview of taboo topics at many tables.īut taboo table talk topic or not, toilets are a significant ( and amusing) component of our modern world. Take table talk for example-what’s appropriate and what’s off limits? With Thanksgiving under our (one notch bigger) belts, the end-of-year holiday season is officially in full swing, which for many people means gathering to share meals with family and friends, give thanks, and enjoy one another’s company.īut, depending on your company, surviving the holidays can be tricky. Could a spray-on coating help save more than 70 billion liters of fresh water that are flushed daily? Credit: Wong Laboratory for Nature Inspired Engineering Penn State News ![]()
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