Kweku Anno
Kweku Anno is a Ghanaian engineer and inventor who has worked on reducing organic waste pollution in Ghana.
In 2004, Kweku Anno began experiments with a "digester box" vermifilter that uses earthworms for decomposing fecal material, similar to vermifilters being produced in Australia and New Zealand, but using a porous concrete filter (PCF) as the filtration substrate.[1] As of 2006, he was selling Biofil Digesters.[2][3] In 2008 he launched his current company, Biological Filters and Composters, Ltd (Biofilcom). As of July 2013, his company had installed over 4,000 Biofil Digesters.[4]
In 2014 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grant to scale up the construction of the biofil toilets that Anno had invented.[4]
Anno holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and began his career working for Volta Aluminium Company then State Construction, before launching his own engineering company.[citation needed] He is currently the managing director of K. A. Anno Engineering Ltd.[5] and of Biological Filters and Composters Ltd.[6] Anno is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and has served as a counselor in the presidency of the Accra Ghana Lartebiokorshie Stake and as bishop of the Odorkor 1st Ward.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Peter Owusu-Antwi; et al. (December 2015). "The Potential of Subsurface Infiltration for the Treatment of Biofil Toilet Technology Effluent" (PDF). Management Studies. 3 (11–12): 281–299. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ "Engineer Invents Revolutionary Sanitation System".
- ↑ Marinov, A. M.; Brebbia, C. A. (15 August 2017). "Ecosystems and Sustainable Development IX". WIT Press – via Google Books.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians". mobile.ghanaweb.com.
- ↑ WASHplus (21 August 2008). "Ghana – Engineer Invents Revolutionary Sanitation System".
- ↑ "Management". www.biofilcom.net.
- ↑ "LDS Church News - Pure religion: 'Help yourself'". 15 May 2014.
- ↑ "LDS Church News - New stake presidents". Church News.
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